Sentences with phrase «attract neighborhood children»

- Many park employees do little or nothing to advertise or promote their programs in the community, or to attract neighborhood children to the parks.

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From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

But, like its West Coast counterpart, the William Monroe Trotter School, in Beantown's poor Roxbury section, was built as «a showcase for new methods of teaching» — enough of a showcase, it was hoped, to attract white children to a black neighborhood for their schooling.

The idea was to create a themed curriculum that attracted children from outside a school's immediate neighborhood to reduce the isolation of one minority group.

Its record of achievement has continued to attract a diverse cross section of students, including families from each of the city's 32 school districts representing children zoned for 576 different elementary schools in both low - income and mixed - income neighborhoods.

A charter school often becomes the nexus around which a neighborhood is revitalized and transformed by providing a cornerstone that creates jobs for local residents and opportunities for children, while attracting additional investment for surrounding economic development.

How best to help 77,000 children at perpetually failing K - 12 public schools sharply divided the Florida House on Thursday, as the chamber's Republican majority pushed through a controversial $ 200 million spending plan to attract specialized, high - performing charter schools to Florida that would offer an alternative to — and potentially supplant the role of — struggling neighborhood schools.