Sentences with phrase «children in our neighborhood public»

Over $ 1 billion could have provided more opportunities and more one - on - one attention to children in our neighborhood public schools, but instead it is being used to pay back voucher lobbyists.

Not exact matches

His definition started with the negative: it is not broken - down public housing; not neighborhoods where children and 73 - year - olds are on their own; not decision - making in which planners, city officials or federal bureaucrats — everyone but the people call the tune.

So that children in neighborhoods that had no resources in poor public schools were able to still get a quality education.

Little Groove also does a lot of free programs at the public libraries, classes in different neighborhoods including a weekend class in Back Bay, and two classes a week at the Children's Museum.

While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

«William Walsh will be remembered for his integrity and his passion for public service, values he instilled in his children and grandchildren, including deputy commissioner of neighborhood and business development Ben Walsh (his grandson),» Miner said in a statement.

The public - service novice, who has spent her entire career in media and publishing, also dropped jaws at the meeting by likening her task of satisfying space - crunch concerns in every neighborhood to making «many Sophie's Choices» — a reference to the book in which a mother in the Auschwitz death camp is forced to decide which of her two children will live.

Among the concessions to neighbors would be greater access to the school's athletic events, scholarships for neighborhood children to participate in sports camps and a public dock at the waterfront.

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.»

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.

Black children exhibited the familiar effect of an initial boost in test scores that faded away, leading the researchers to attribute the lack of sustained gains to the abysmal public schools in disadvantaged black neighborhoods.

Public education traditionally assigns children to schools based on where they live, and children live in vastly different neighborhoods.

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.

More than 80 percent of parents surveyed support allowing parents to choose their child's public school, and more than 70 percent favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

One in four school children in the United States no longer attends his neighborhood school; fully 15 percent of all kids (more than 7 million) now participate in a public alternative school.

Nearly 80 percent of parents of school - aged children support allowing parents to choose which public schools their child should attend and more than 70 percent of parents surveyed favor having a charter school open in their neighborhood.

Today, public schools are often the safest places for children in tough neighborhoods.

Left - wing policy supports neighborhood - based public schools, opposes any methods to measure or differentiate the performance of teachers or schools, and argues instead for alternatives to school reform like increased anti-poverty spending or urging middle - class parents to enroll their children in high - poverty schools.

That experience left an indelible mark, convincing me that giving every child a quality public education starts with ensuring parents have access to a high quality public school in their neighborhood.

He estimates that 12,000 children in poor neighborhoods still lack any access to a public pre-K program.

They only care whether there are enough choices available in their city or neighborhood so that their child — and every child — can find a strong fit and receive an excellent public education.

Teen - parent centers will be set up in each of the city's 22 neighborhood high schools to serve the young children of public school students.

«In the neighborhood where I live in Brooklyn, there was a school that was considered a bad public school and it enrolled many children from a local public housing project,» she sayIn the neighborhood where I live in Brooklyn, there was a school that was considered a bad public school and it enrolled many children from a local public housing project,» she sayin Brooklyn, there was a school that was considered a bad public school and it enrolled many children from a local public housing project,» she says.

«If Dan Patrick and his followers wanted to give all students and their parents a meaningful educational choice, they would more adequately fund public education, so that children of all economic backgrounds would have a full menu of academic offerings and electives in their neighborhood public schools,» said Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria.

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

«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

Meanwhile, choice has had the effect of producing many competing schools while destroying what ought to be the bedrock of early education, the solid, well - run neighborhood public school with its coherent and clear ideas of what children need to know to be responsible citizens in a democracy.

Parents Will Risk Jail Time For Their Children's Education December 7, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Two Washington D.C. police officers are the latest to face jail time for committing residency fraud in an effort to ensure their children receive a quality education that was not available in their assigned neighborhood publicChildren's Education December 7, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Two Washington D.C. police officers are the latest to face jail time for committing residency fraud in an effort to ensure their children receive a quality education that was not available in their assigned neighborhood publicchildren receive a quality education that was not available in their assigned neighborhood public school.

«I Just Couldn't Sit Back And Let Max Fail» November 19, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Joshua and Amanda Felder purchased their home in the working - class Lakeview neighborhood of Clinton for one primary reason: a highly - rated public school system for their children, Mia and Max.

In a particularly cringe - inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charterIn a particularly cringe - inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charterin Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charter).

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

At the Charlestown community meeting on school choice options that was held last week by Boston Public School (BPS) officials, two goals that will affect the children in our neighborhood who attend or might attend the public schools were brought to Public School (BPS) officials, two goals that will affect the children in our neighborhood who attend or might attend the public schools were brought to public schools were brought to light.

In South Texas, for example, the first PTA Comunitario in the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolIn South Texas, for example, the first PTA Comunitario in the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schoolin their neighborhood public schools.

The findings highlight schools that enroll a higher or lower proportion of in - boundary students compared to schools in neighborhoods with similar characteristics, and identifies neighborhood characteristics of areas where families are most likely to send their children to public charter schools.

School choice also includes open enrollment — allowing students to attend public schools outside their neighborhood boundaries — and distance learning options that can help connect children in rural communities.

The menu of options presented to the public includes out - of - boundary «set - asides» for low - income students and a version of «controlled choice» that would replace neighborhood school assignments with a lottery system to place children in one of a cluster of nearby schools.

in the 1970's, public schools known as magnets offered enrichment programs as an incentive to pull children from neighborhood schools.

For some children, their classroom might be in their neighborhood public school.

Parents and their supporters have vowed to defend their children's school — and the public's right to neighborhood public education — in their scheduled meetings with board members.

As a start - up public charter school sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school copublic charter school sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school coPublic Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school concept.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

The Charter School Accountability Agenda lays out tangible steps we need to take to guarantee that every child gets a high - quality public education, whether that child is in a neighborhood school or a publicly funded charter school.

Suggesting, as the manifesto does at the end, that failing schools in the poorest of neighborhoods can close and those children can find charter schools is a cop out by those whose job it is to find good solutions for public schools.

«It was not designed to punish parents of children who choose to remain in neighborhood public schools.»

At the same time, parents in many neighborhoods still do not have viable options for sending their children to a school that provides a world - class education, whether it is a public, neighborhood, magnet, selective enrollment, charter or specialized school.

Sanders, who attended both public and private schools while growing up in East Nashville, has chosen, along with his wife, to send their children to their neighborhood public school, Inglewood Elementary.

Over the past four years Austin Voices has convened hundreds of people to weigh in on the education issues that affect them — from the neighborhood level with public housing «community conferences» to the national level with hearings on No Child Left Behind.

As schools of choice, charters, like magnet schools, could be accessible to students from across a geographic area, rather than limiting enrollment based on what neighborhood a child's family could afford to live in, the way many traditional public schools do.

The recent election showed there is strong public support for improving district accountability, creating better educational outcomes, supporting students beyond the classroom, and making sure every child in every neighborhood has access to a great school.