Sentences with phrase «children in their neighborhood school»

The coordinators said in all the programs parents who opted for a «choice school» over a neighborhood school were better educated and supervised their children's schoolwork more closely, compared to parents who kept their children in the neighborhood school.

If a family chooses to enroll their children in their neighborhood school, they should be able to.

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In 2014, administrators transferred Cruz to an alternative school for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities — only to change course two years later and return him to a traditional neighborhood school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Sschool for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities — only to change course two years later and return him to a traditional neighborhood school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Sschool, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High SchoolSchool.

Busing of school children to promote racial balance in classrooms removes children from their neighborhood schools and destroys a sense of community.

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.

It strikes me as a dangerous exaggeration that may seem to justify a differentiation in the pedagogies and the social policies that are enacted or applied within such neighborhoods, with greater emphasis on rigid discipline than on the informality and intellectual expansiveness that are familiar in the better schools that educate the children of rich people.

Suppose, as was the case, that some black parents preferred that their children remain in their neighborhood school, without regard to its racial make - up.

Unemployment in the South Bronx was at 45 percent; of the 1,900 to 2,000 children enrolled at Morris High School, only about 65 graduated each year; and, many of the children were afflicted with asthma, something Kozol associated with the neighborhood's incinerators for discarded medical supplies.

But what a difference when our «African brother» no longer rolls in the sand in a country far over the sea, but moves into our neighborhood, does business on our street, becomes a servant in our home, and sends his children to our school.

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

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

Children were much more likely to be active when they were outdoors near their homes or schools, according to the study, but they did not spend a lot of time outside in their neighborhood.

Get other kids in the neighborhood or from your child's school involved.

Help your tween develop possible conversation starters, and encourage your child to approach children who are new at school or in the neighborhood.

Classrooms in the neighborhood schools here in Logan Square are so overcrowded that children are taught in supply closets and hallways and under stairwells.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

So we are trying a new charter school in the area for next year for my oldest while my next child will stay at the neighborhood school.

And so he has created, in the Harlem Children's Zone, an integrated set of programs that support the neighborhood's children from cradle to college, in school and out ofChildren's Zone, an integrated set of programs that support the neighborhood's children from cradle to college, in school and out ofchildren from cradle to college, in school and out of school.

Parents often worry about whether or not their child will be bullied at school, on the sports field, or in the neighborhood.

As a result, you should encourage your child to cast a wide net and seek out friendships in their neighborhood, at school, on a team, through a club, and at church.

Judges strongly favor keeping a child in an arrangement that the child is familiar with, such as allowing a child to remain in the same school or neighborhood.

Your child may have friends at school or in the neighborhood but do they have a few really solid friendships?

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.

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.

If you don't live in a diverse neighborhood and your child doesn't go to a school with kids of other races, surround her with children's books and artwork featuring people of different races.

All kids grow at different paces, so you can't determine whether your child will be short or tall just from comparing her to other kids at school or in the neighborhood.

«Wadleigh Middle School is part of Harlem's integrity; it's part of Harlem's culture,» he remarked of the school, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused educSchool is part of Harlem's integrity; it's part of Harlem's culture,» he remarked of the school, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused educschool, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused education.

Residents are more engaged, children are attending their neighborhood school, and people are proud to live in JOSANA.»

The various infrastructure development in the state are to further enhance the welfare of government workers in particular: quality and affordable schools for their children, affordable medicare, good neighborhoods to live in, good roads to drive on without the frequent wear and tear on their vehicles.

She has two children in CREC magnet schools, but it is the state of the city neighborhood schools that pushed her to have a say.

The airport is architecturally impressive but inconvenient.The people speak her language, but they are always judging and comparing, evaluating the clothes she wears, the home and neighborhood she lives in, the school her children will attend.

Now we're able to send our children to a middle school in our neighborhood,» Debra Millman, who has a 7 - year - old at nearby P.S. 59, told DNAinfo.com New York.

With 46 schools across Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, Success Academy enrolls 15,500 students, primarily low - income children of color in disadvantaged neighborhoods: 75 % of students receive free or reduced - price lunch, 87 % are children of color, 16 % are children with disabilities, and 8 % are English language learners.

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.

c) in fact has worked in many instances to obstruct, delay and otherwise frustrate elements of the reform agenda including the use of neighborhood schools, charter schools and all other available vehicles and opportunities to provide seats in performing schools to all children in the BPS,

«In Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer saiIn Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer saiin a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer saiin the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer said.

In District 3's Harlem neighborhoods, just 36 city blocks, parents send their children to more than 60 different school options inside and outside of the district.

Across the city, zoned schools in heavily chartered neighborhoods have higher percentages of high - needs children than a decade ago; far higher, in fact, than the surrounding charter schools.

The DOE developed the new rezoning plan after parents panned the city's first proposal, which sent some TriBeCa children to P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village rather than to TriBeCa's P.S. 234 and also displaced students in the Village and Chelsea from their neighborhood schools.

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.

WBFO Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley talks with Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes, who for months has been tracking city school children facing the tragic issue of living in violent neighborhoods.

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.»

Many longtime Independence Plaza residents recalled moving to the neighborhood in the 1970s, when they had to trek up to Chinatown to do their grocery shopping and take their children to school.

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.

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.

«If segregation were not occurring, then all children would live in neighborhoods and attend school in districts with this majority Latino, minority white ratio,» Owens said.

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.

White families with children continue to live in predominantly white neighborhoods, in part to send their children to predominantly white schools, according to a new study on racial segregation in 100 metropolitan areas.