Sentences with phrase «because children in these neighborhoods»

More children are living in high - poverty neighborhoods following the Great Recession — a troubling shift because children in these neighborhoods are a year behind academically, according to new research from researchers at Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin.

Not exact matches

To some observers, it appears to justify the routine sequestration of these children in the tightly segregated neighborhoods in which they dwell, because this sequestration makes it possible to localize the «special» services that are believed to be appropriate to children who are seen as being absolutely and entirely different from our own.

Residents said the facility will affect their neighborhood regardless of the parking accommodations, because visitors often park or drop off children in a residential cul - de-sac just north of the park.

So not only are the rules of the game screwed up, but in low - income neighborhoods, foodservice directors are fighting an uphill battle of child preferences because of what they kids are eating at home.

«You go back to him because he gets right to the point,» said Donnelly, a schoolteacher who lives in the South Shore neighborhood and has three children, ages 21, 6 and 16 months.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

Regardless, the results are worrying, she said, because children who live in poor neighborhoods are, on average, a year behind academically, according to standardized math, reading and writing assessment tests of the students.

A successful family man worries that his four children are losing touch with black culture because they are growing up in an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.

I cried, because it seemed nobody cared about the children in my neighborhood.

A spokesperson for Dayton Public explained that because the district doesn't necessarily assign children to a neighborhood school and families are allowed to choose where they send their children, parents have to register in order to obtain a school assignment that would allow them to qualify for a voucher.

Maybe this was because they wanted to stay in the neighborhood, or were concerned about how their child could safely get to another school, or didn't know there were open slots at good schools.

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

The disparities in child - care supply across rich and poor communities are not as stark in Massachusetts as they are nationally, Fuller said, because national and state child - care subsidies in the Commonwealth have been targeted to increase the supply in poor neighborhoods.

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

We raise money because we believe every child deserves access to a high - quality public school in their neighborhood that prepares them for college.

I didn't want to go to a charter school because I thought they were creaming off top students and I do believe that children have the right to go to high - performing schools with high - quality instruction right in their own neighborhood.

Canada dared because he was fed up with the «superhero» model, a menu of fragmented programs that help a few children in vast, blighted neighborhoods, leaving the blight intact.

Emily became the principal of a neighborhood school because she believes passionately that every child deserves access to a quality, equitable education, and she wanted to provide that to the students in her community.

The Orinda case drew special attention when it became public last fall, in part because the district had hired a private investigator to visit the child's other, less affluent neighborhood about 20 miles away.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Our current system of school districting often punishes economically disadvantaged families because, if they can not afford to move to a more affluent neighborhood, their children can be stuck in underperforming or failing schools.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

Many emphasized that Seven Oaks would offer a choice, because their children were restricted to the school in the neighborhood where they lived and paying for a private education is too expensive.

There, it was argued that firing teachers solely based on the amount of time that they've spent in the system was wrong because it gutted schools in poorer neighborhoods, thus denying the children there the right of a stable education, or some such.

The poor mother dog's efforts were of no use because the next morning some neighborhood children found the ten dead puppies frozen in the shallow frozen hole.

-- less than 40 pounds — low - shed, because of children's allergies (there is no such thing as a non-shedding dog)-- playful and fun — good with kids — will want cuddling and petting — medium exercise needs (able to be fulfilled in a fenced yard and with neighborhood walks for the most part)

Parents in the neighborhood would keep their children from playing outside because of the overwhelming pollution.

Stepfamily formation is stressful for many children because it often involves moving (generally to a different neighborhood or town), adapting to new people in the household, and learning new rules and routines.

Our findings are even more sobering because the prevalence of psychosocial problems among youth seems to be increasing.110, 111 The US Surgeon General reports that the unmet need for services is as high now as it was 20 years ago.112 Even youth who are insured often can not obtain treatment because few child and adolescent psychiatrists practice in poor and minority neighborhoods.113, 114

The Effects of Parental Acculturation and Parenting Practices on the Substance Use of Mexican - Heritage Adolescents from Southwestern Mexican Neighborhoods Castro, Marsiglia, Nagoshi, & Parsai (2014) Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 13 (3) Reports the results of a study of Mexican and Mexican - American adolescents, examining the effects of parental reports of their communications with their child, their involvement with this child, and their positive parenting because these factors affect their child's substance use behaviors.

Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of - home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence, birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families

The campaign begins with «A Zip Code Should Not Determine a Child's Future,» a PSA ad that features children of different ethnicities looking toward a bright future because they have the chance to live in neighborhoods filled with opportunity.