Sentences with phrase «by their neighborhood school»

Some are way behind and have not been well served by their neighborhood school.

For kids who need services that can't be provided by their neighborhood school, the district may a different school in mind.

Not exact matches

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

I can only imagine how many people on that career fair floor came from failing schools in neighborhoods left behind by the powers - that - be.

A study by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote found that family income and neighborhood income have no effect on adoptee's success in school and work.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

Although private schools in the real Belmont and other neighborhoods populated by the affluent teach well - to - do teenagers to be nonjudgmental, tolerant, and inclusive, the social environment is still safely bourgeois.

One of the reasons children in Gaza were dying is that Palestinian terrorists deliberately put them at risk by locating their rocket launchers next to schools and residential neighborhoods.

Visualize a city with a network of growth groups in each neighborhood available to people of all ages and sponsored by schools, churches, and community agencies as well as corporations unions, professional associations, and fraternal groups.

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

The neighborhoods around a parish were occupied by parishioners; the schools (even the public ones), and the shops were often in the hands of parishioners.

Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or better facilities than those available at schools in their own neighborhoods.

We've just made the decision as a family to take a financial detour by enrolling our kids in the neighborhood Catholic school when they reach school age (already made a deposit for NEXT year, actually, since spots are scarce).

The $ 2 million field, which is being funded in part by the private Latin School in exchange for priority use of the property, has become a source of rancorous debate in the North Side neighborhood.

Dozens of neighborhoods throughout the city will see their local school yards transformed from unsightly, asphalt patches with weeds growing through the cracks into grassy, park - like areas under capital improvement plans unveiled by the Chicago Park District.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

A child hunger study released by the food depository last year identified Brighton Park as one of the area's most underserved neighborhoods in terms of food services available outside of school, Dolgan said.

Models of city neighborhoods created by Buffalo public school students are currently on display at the CEPA Gallery.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Albany, NY — Alan is joined by New York State Senator Bill Perkins, who is challenging charter school funding and questioning whether public schools are being left behind in some of the state's poorer neighborhoods.

LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

Parents have long argued that five middle schools aren't enough, saying that overcrowding has been exacerbated by the recent addition of three new elementary schools in the neighborhood.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

But she also has experience with failing schools in poor neighborhoods — similar to those currently called «community schools» — by providing social services like mental health and eye checkups.

In New York, under close public supervision, they admit students by lottery and have outperformed traditional neighborhood schools.

Basically, school quality varies because schools predominantly draw from quite narrow geographic areas and neighborhoods are extremely segregated by education, income, race and other demographic factors, by design.

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.

The commission would also look into the segregation in New York cities by housing costs, which he said leads to underperforming schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Currently, by funding schools through property tax, people in wealthy neighborhoods often get better schools, she said.

By increasing the number of gifted and talented programs in our neighborhoods and increasing the number of public charter school seats to 200,000 citywide, we can give thousands more kids in the Bronx the chance to participate in a program or attend a school that could change their lives.

An April report by Stringer found students in low - income neighborhoods, particularly the South Bronx and central Brookyn, lacked access to arts education in school.

«It's important that the [26 Broadway] space be used by a school serving local [students], rather than children from other neighborhoods,» said Silver, who has strongly advocated for Millennium to expand.

I'd like to begin by thanking Daniel Dromm and the Education Committee for holding this hearing and ensuring that important budget issues involving our neighborhood public schools get the attention they deserve.

And $ 250,000 will go to expand an existing program operated by the Brooklyn Technical High School Alumni Foundation that recruits kids from middle schools in under - represented neighborhoods.

Reports arose on Sunday that an officer from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services — part of the Department of Homeland Security — stopped by P.S. 58 School of Heroes in the neighborhood of Maspeth last Thursday, without a warrant, and sought to talk to a fourth - grade student.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

While two of four elementary schools — P.S. 261 and P.S. 287 — are currently under capacity, by 2017 the neighborhood is expected to absorb more than 4,000 newly occupied apartments and 1,164 new students, leaders said.

In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

The school was nearly a 4 - hour roundtrip commute by bus and subway from his home in the working - class neighborhood of Howard Beach.

She found that, among families with children, neighborhood income segregation is driven by increased income inequality in combination with a previously overlooked factor: school district options.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.

Every September, people work together to improve their neighborhoods by volunteering at schools, parks, food banks, and other nonprofits.

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At one point, he appears on television, in the wake of the massacre of school children and their teachers in Newtown, Conn. «These neighborhoods are our neighborhoods,» he says, referring to the places that have been devastated by gun violence.

Our hero is Malcolm (Shameik Moore), a high school senior in The Bottoms, a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood where having your sneakers stolen is as much a possibility for a geek as being killed by a stray bullet, and the putatively smart options are confined to having a gang affiliation or to selling drugs.