Sentences with phrase «end neighborhood school»

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has chosen Clark, a North End neighborhood school that has struggled with low test scores and chronic absenteeism, as a candidate to enter the state Commissioner's Network after this academic year.

Not exact matches

In the end we went with the public school that is also our neighborhood school and he got a lottery spot in the full - day program.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

Lunch Line follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch — and end up at the White House.

In the film, six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House.

To that end, he supports the city's universal pre-K plan, but also said schools in low - income neighborhoods need additional resources and better management, as well as better parent - teacher interaction.

Gone are the days when kids had an hour of P.E. in school, and were able to safely run around their neighborhood for hours on end.

Now, as the end of school approaches, the ice cream truck screams through our neighborhood, announcing the arrival of overpriced individually packaged treats.

Then and Now: Children play at recess outside of Hays - Porter Elementary School in Cincinnati's West End neighborhood.

If, for example, drug - market activity is concentrated within a few schools, we might expect large differences in criminality in the high school years that diminish as enrollment in the chosen school ends and lottery winners and losers return to the same neighborhoods.

He opened his school in 2002 in a renovated public school building (for which BCCS won a preservation award) on the edge of Albany's tough Arbor Hill and West End neighborhoods.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

And at the other end of the age spectrum, diverse high schools located in far - flung parts of Philadelphia hope to have students embark on a walk originating in their own schools and converging at a midpoint in a historic neighborhood.

About the Report This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 Dowell decision, which allowed school districts to declare themselves unitary, end their desegregation plans, and to return to neighborhood school plans that produce intense segregation and inequality clearly visible in educational opportunities and outcomes.

I eventually ended up in the classroom by volunteering my time as a gardener at a neighborhood school in inner - city Houston.

The white parents were surprised to discover that not only is the authoritarian end of the schooling spectrum alive, which would be tolerable if not ideal, but also that their gentrifying neighborhood schools exhibit what these parents perceive to be an extreme and outdated education environment, characterized by strict discipline with yelling adults.

It's a warm afternoon in May in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, and as the bell signals the end of the school day at the Smith Leadership Academy School, kids flood into the halls and burst through the doors ouschool day at the Smith Leadership Academy School, kids flood into the halls and burst through the doors ouSchool, kids flood into the halls and burst through the doors outside.

The study compares the experiences of students who lived in the same neighborhoods — potentially just across the street from one another — but ended up at schools with different racial mixes as a result of the zoning change.

Deming, in fact, found very similar results in his 2002 study of charter schools in North Carolina, comparing students who got into a charter via lottery to those who ended up attended a neighborhood school instead because they lost the lottery.

A team of a dozen or so educators, including teachers at KIPP and Achievement First, are working on our product to ensure that it meets the needs of our targeted end - users: teachers who work in schools in impoverished neighborhoods and the low - income students they serve.

Expanding charter schools and passing school - voucher legislation, as being voted on right now in Harrisburg, will end the public school monopoly that has failed low - income neighborhoods.

«The bill charts a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them, paving the way for struggling schools to be converted to privately run charter schools unanswerable to locally elected school boards and taxpayers,» she said.

Nope, these unwanted teachers will end up in the public schools in my neighborhood,» said Crown Heights Public School Parent Monell Birkett.

Although the NYC DOE refuses to share details of its plan, ATR teachers will most likely end up in schools with high numbers of teacher vacancies, located mainly in low - income neighborhoods.

At one end of the spectrum are the schools in suburban neighborhoods where most students graduate and go on to college.

Nope, these unwanted teachers will end up in the public schools in my neighborhood,» said

For parents who reside in the low - income neighborhoods GPSN will focus on, they say it's time for the conflict between traditional public schools and charter schools to end.

«If you actually look at where parents are ending up, they're ending up in their neighborhood charter school,» says Berends, adding that the same was true even when the nearest charter wasn't meeting accountability standards.

The change in facility plans, announced by Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, comes after public hearings where residents and community activists criticized the proposal to close all four schools in the Englewood neighborhood at the end of this academiSchools CEO Janice Jackson, comes after public hearings where residents and community activists criticized the proposal to close all four schools in the Englewood neighborhood at the end of this academischools in the Englewood neighborhood at the end of this academic term.

The problem is that its not reform, but privatization, and its end game that will put profits ahead of student needs, skim - off the better students and leave neighborhood schools under funded.

Our free public charter schools are open to all students and are located in the educationally underserved neighborhoods of West End, Southeast Atlanta, and East Point.

Suggesting, as the manifesto does at the end, that failing schools in the poorest of neighborhoods can close and those children can find charter schools is a cop out by those whose job it is to find good solutions for public schools.

When Canada finally agrees to shrink the middle school to two grades at the end of the 2007 — 07 school year, forcing the 8th graders to return to appalling neighborhood schools, his anguish is vivid.

I believed the end goal was to accelerate the development of great schools (be it traditional or charter) in every neighborhood.

The back story is that when AF was approached by Hartford to open a school in town, it was the CITY which required that the school be set up to serve one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the North End.

So now we have a full - blown greed - driven, politically motivated power struggle pitting those wishing to end neighborhood public schools, as we have known them, against those wanting to preserve and improve them.

What's in all of this for the students who lose Hiawatha's lottery and end up in struggling neighborhood schools?

Neighborhood residents and Audubon Charter School parents got a first look Tuesday night at plans for the school's proposed temporary campus in the Lower Garden District and began voicing concerns about the safety of the neighborhood, before a sudden downpour flooded the area and forced an early end to the meSchool parents got a first look Tuesday night at plans for the school's proposed temporary campus in the Lower Garden District and began voicing concerns about the safety of the neighborhood, before a sudden downpour flooded the area and forced an early end to the meschool's proposed temporary campus in the Lower Garden District and began voicing concerns about the safety of the neighborhood, before a sudden downpour flooded the area and forced an early end to the meeting.

Communities across the country demand real action from leaders to end gun violence in our schools and neighborhoods.

The non - magnet / non-charter school was in one of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Hartford's North End.

But the end result in both cases is that many of the more motivated and engaged parents jump ship, ultimately leaving the neighborhood schools with a higher concentration of the most challenging students.

When busing ended I had the sense that many in Denver felt that the district could get back to business as usual, maintaining traditional neighborhood schools and creating magnets seemingly designed to keep white middle class kids in the district.

Superintendent Christina Kishimoto — whose employment in this capacity with the Hartford Public Schools is over at the end of this school year and who has had her request to no longer be evaluated by the Board of Education granted — has angered a number of parents at the Clark School in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter sschool year and who has had her request to no longer be evaluated by the Board of Education granted — has angered a number of parents at the Clark School in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter sSchool in the city's North East neighborhood with the proposal that this preK - 8 school be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter sschool be phased out and replaced by an Achievement First charter schoolschool.

While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

In places where magnet schools only allow mobility within the district, students may end up going to magnet schools that are as segregated as the neighborhood schools these students would have otherwise attended.

Conversely, it could result in magnet schools being discouraged from trying to achieve racial integration and ending up being schools that are as racially segregated as neighborhood schools.

«We will also end the crazy drive to privatization, which does things like keep our schools filthy, where principals are complaining about a lack of attention when teachers can't teach because there aren't basic things in those classrooms such as computers and textbooks and the support personnel in each of those neighborhoods.

Brandyn was raised in St. Louis» Central West End neighborhood, attended John Burroughs School, and received her BA in Art History from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

We might envision a culture of strengths where if you walk into a store, a school, a youth club, or a fitness center in any of Cincinnati's neighborhoods, you hear people discussing one another's character strengths; where if you conducted a ratio of strength words heard to problem / blaming words heard as you walk the streets, the scale would be far tipped on the strengths end; or if you ask any person in a school, business, healthcare clinic, government agency, or youth organization — what are you top strengths and do you use them each day?

Adolescents were recruited from three inner - city urban middle schools in predominantly Hispanic, low - income neighborhoods of Miami - Dade County at the end of their seventh grade academic school year.