Sentences with phrase «benefited local elementary schools»

Participated in community based service projects, including helping a small business spread at Vinton Dogwood Festival, canned food drive, and cell phone donation program that benefited local elementary schools.

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My wife recently graduated with a degree in elementary education and the blessings of GCU, the love of Christ, and the benefits of servant leadership are now being transferred to her sixth grade students in a local Christian School in the Phoenix area.

Best of all, proceeds benefit the Little Artist BIG ARTIST arts mentoring program that pairs East Austin elementary school students with local professional artists.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

I explore three broad hypotheses for why African Americans might not have benefited as much as whites from the funding initiatives: 1) kindergarten funding disproportionately drew African Americans out of higher - quality education settings; 2) instead of raising additional revenue to fund local kindergarten programs fully, school districts offered lower - quality kindergarten programs to African Americans or moved funds from existing school programs from which African Americans may have disproportionately benefited; and 3) African Americans were more adversely affected by any subsequent «upgrading» of school curricula as more students entered elementary grades having attended kindergarten.

«Contrary to the lower court's view, Connecticut and its school districts may not choose to provide special education and related services only for those students whom local educators believe may ostensibly benefit more from a traditional, elementary or secondary academic program,» Ryder wrote.