Sentences with phrase «bad school areas»

«Single family homes are out of my price range unless I venture into high crime, bad school areas which I want to stay away from.»

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The roads are so bad that schools in the area have suspended bus service.

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

Any such measures would overwhelmingly help good state grammar, faith and other schools in rich areas and not those pupils from genuinely worse social backgrounds.

«In areas where schools are performing badly, the councils should have no power to stop such a move, a Tory policy review will recommend this week.

The only major common market was barricaded, the dilapidated primary and secondary schools are no go areas, and the only bad road linking the communities to the two States has been blocked by the» merchants of war».

where school are getting better funded then the public school the bad areas get.

Speaking to the president of the foundation, Mr. Adomako Fred Williams he said that the foundation is made up of young Ghanaians who believe that bringing together the little energies of all the people in various areas where schools in bad conditions not conducive for learning can help compliment the efforts of Central government in our quest to win the war against «schools under trees» as a nation.Ghanapoliticsonline.com

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

Scientific research has shown that low - income and minority children who grow up in segregated neighborhoods and attend segregated schools have worse educational and economic outcomes than children in more integrated areas.

Just after graduating high school I switched because of various strange health issues — one of which landed me in the ER with fears of heart problems and / or severe lung problems (never smoked in my life), which is strange having just entered adulthood, but thankfully turned out to be extremely bad acid reflux mixed with the flu — and I got all these strange illnesses and severe sharp stomach pains (which I was terrified could be appendicitis developing, as the location was always that area) despite being in great physical shape my whole life and generally avoiding junk food.

Commenting on the findings, Simmons said: «Pupils on free school meals in Reading get the worst GCSE results of any area in the south east.

This, together with the major problem of recruiting teachers, which has been particularly bad in areas where housing costs are high, is forcing schools to look at different models for teaching and learning.

«Each year, more children leave primary school overweight or obese and our most deprived areas are the worst affected.

The worst area for schooling in the North East was Bradford, where 24 % of schools inspected didn't meet Ofsted expectations.

London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, has announced the first of 50 air quality audits for primary schools in the worst polluted areas in the capital in a bid to protect children from toxic air.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

In October, some high schools in the Washington area took a new look at their policies on the subject after one student was killed and another was badly hurt after a lunchtime crash in Germantown, Md., a suburb of Washington.

The bad schools tended to be in poor areas because the poor lack political clout and possess fewer alternatives, such as sending their children to private schools, than the privileged.

«They show that kids from poorer families in poorer schools in remote and regional areas are doing worst of all.

He also urged the government to scrap tuition fees for teacher training, as well as offering housing support for teachers who work in the worst schools in disadvantaged areas.

In contrast, schools in economically worse - off areas were found to be charging as little as $ 92 — the result of hardship policies implemented to ensure children are not disadvantaged regardless of their parents» ability to pay fees.

Private schools in my area do «cherry pick» the best students or, at least, get rid of the worst ones, most of who end up back in public schools.

Growing up in low - income communities in some of the worst schools of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area, she became used to not sharing her voice.

Blaming a lack of improvement in the worst - performing areas of the country on a «lack of political will», Sir Michael will say there is «urgent need» for a London challenge - style approach by MPs, council bosses and headteachers «to raise secondary school standards in towns across the north and midlands».

Suzanne Graham, professor of language and education at the University of Reading, said MFL subjects were perceived to be «academically difficult», particularly in poorer areas of the country, and were often avoided by schools who were fearful of bad results.

The government has also acknowledged how some schools are being pushed to the brink under hefty PFI contracts — and said schools in the worst PFI areas will be some of the biggest winners.

For a typical secondary school of 920 students, this equated to a budget difference of # 1.9 m between the best and worst - funded areas, enough to pay the total costs - salaries and pension contributions - of 40 full - time teachers, he said.

While the OSA is not the «magic pill» that will solve New Jersey's education crisis in areas of concentrated poverty, it allows students to escape failing schools and implicitly asserts that more money alone will not help those students currently attending the state's worst performing schools.

It says the current school funding rules are arbitrary and unfair and see the worst - funded areas receive on average # 2,000 less per pupil than the best - funded each year.

Although many elementary report cards have areas for assessing life skills and behavior, the opportunity for teachers to address these skill areas drops considerably on middle school and high school report cards — often to perfunctory levels or worse.

He found in this piece of research that children from prosperous families in Kent (the biggest area for selective schools in England) are more likely to get into grammar schools and also that in selective areas, poorer children overall get relatively worse GCSE results than they do in comprehensive areas.

Local authorities say not enough new schools are being built and the worst - hit areas could face a shortfall of 20 %.

We know that children living in disadvantage do worse than those from affluent areas, not because the schools are poorer, but in fact because of a combination of a number of factors.

He said Tower Hamlets was one of the worst areas for child poverty and the school, opening next year, aimed to tackle «social disadvantage and challenge the status quo».

They were established by the Labour government, seen as a way of turning around the worst - performing schools and schools in disadvantaged areas.

The government says the new formula is needed to tackle uneven levels of funding across England, with the best funded areas getting more than # 6,300 per pupil per year, while the worst - funded averaging just # 4,200 - but there are concerns that while some schools will benefit, a new formula could mean some schools in areas of need facing budget cuts.

The town is already the 10th worst funded area in the country for education and under the government's new plans, the situation would become even worse for most schools.

In our area, the mantra of «let the market rule» has resulted in a bankrupt public school system and charters that perform just as badly, but earn big profits for the owners.

Schools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - PiSchools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pischools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pischools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Picayune.

Conversely, Belmont Teacher Prep (a LAUSD school) is constantly the worst school in the area, and LA Academy of Arts and Enterprise (a charter) hasn't performed well either.

Head over to the School Cuts website, put in your postcode and see exactly how badly schools in your area will be affected.

Of the types of academy, sponsored academies performed the worst across all areas, while free schools were the best - performing.

The second objection, to which the former Secretary of State just alluded, is that non-selective schools do worse in selective areas because the selective schools have in some way creamed off the best pupils.

It is believed the new schools will be required to set aside a defined proportion of places to children from low - income families to tackle evidence showing that poorer pupils fare worse in areas with selective schools.

Cities in New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania generally feel the worst financial squeeze, according to the Education Law Center's school funding fairness report, because their local funding sources favor wealthier school districts over needier areas — and because they sometimes spend more money than necessary in affluent suburbs.

We know what works — we know it worked in London — and we need to see the London Challenge rolled out to the 10 worst areas where we know that most disadvantaged children are not getting the schooling they need.

New research shows disadvantaged children living in rural areas do worse at school than their city counterparts.

If a genie popped out of my bedside lamp, I would wish for these three things: my mom to be alive, nothing bad or sad to ever happen again, and to be a member of the Martin Van Buren High School Damsels, the best drill team in the tristate area.

The local agent is the local real estate expert so it makes good sense to utilize their expertise by getting their opinion about the area, crime, schools, each home you visit, specific pricing options, whether the property appears to be a good or bad deal, neighborhood nuances, and anything else that comes to mind.