Sentences with phrase «children out of their neighborhood»

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

Critics say that solution falls short because it wouldn't cover parents who work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and would require some parents to take their children out of the neighborhood for daycare.

When parents feel compelled to send their children out of their neighborhood, that damages the glue that holds communities together.

Mother of 3, desperate to get her children out of the neighborhood public school and into a private school where they will be challenged and encouraged to succeed.

At a June 14 hearing she said, «I don't support any option that would force children out of their neighborhood schools.»

Not exact matches

As I turned the corner onto Plantation Drive — the street that would usually take us out of the neighborhood — what I saw startled me: a small black sedan, like a child's toy in the bathtub, bobbing up and down on the swollen waters that blocked our way out to safety.

But somewhere out there is the «least» person in this neighborhood of the Kingdom — someone entering the Kingdom like a child or a slave, with NO authority.

Children are dragged out of their neighborhoods.

I'd read Yvonne Thornton's Ditchdigger's Daughters, and if that dad in a crime - ridden neighborhood could produce highly educated children by forcing them to practice music, then surely music lessons could help my suburban kids stay out of trouble.

And as Safe Routes to School points out, active commuting helps both parents and children «build a sense of neighborhood.»

As a result, in a neighborhood with an intense concentration of deep disadvantage, like Roseland, it is next to impossible for large numbers of children to get the kind of help they need to make it out of there and to make it to a really successful adulthood.

All help out in small ways, but no one is taking ultimate responsibility for the fate of all the children in the neighborhood.

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.

And above all, I can not for the life of me figure out why our dogs can have food without added soy products, preservatives, and artificial food coloring, but I can't take my youngest child to our trendy neighborhood cupcake shop because there's not a flavor there without food dyes (never mind what's on offer at the groceries and convenience stores along the same street).

The parents of 59 percent of black New York City elementary - school children opt out of their neighborhood school, aiming for a better one.

In terms of available park space, city officials rank Jackson Heights 50th out of 51 community districts, which means local children have little open space to play in the neighborhood.

«New York City needs more supportive housing in every neighborhood to get more than 40,000 parents and children out of shelters and into permanent housing,» said Councilmember Ben Kallos.

But the movie implies Connolly is acting out something other than a repressed crush: It's the need of a bullied child in a tough neighborhood who looks to the biggest, meanest kid to protect and define him.

We are FAR more diverse than the neighborhood school I pulled my oldest child out of 10 years ago.

After completing 12 hours of training with their husbands and children at their neighborhood school, the two Tristan families were allowed to check out microcomputers and educational software for use in their homes for up to three weeks at a time.

Yet the decision by a small number of children to opt out of neighborhood schools may adversely affect the academic and social environment in those schools, as the remaining children are likely to have less - involved families on average.

A number of mothers took advantage of MTO vouchers to move out of their old city neighborhoods as part of a plan to stay «clean» and protect their children.

Gyllenhaal plays the mother of a dyslexic child desperate for a way out of her struggling neighborhood school, and Davis the once - great teacher who joins Gyllenhaal's trigger campaign.

Lewis - Carter remembers looking out over a sea of children dressed in uniforms of the various neighborhood schools they had attended pre-Katrina.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

Diggs said that, as a child, it would have been nice to have books that helped him out, especially with the isolation of being the only black child in the neighborhood.

The parents I interviewed who were taking their children out of their gentrifying neighborhood's school shared stories of cultural dissonance that were minor affairs, but that crystallized for them the discomfort they felt as newcomers, and their inability to find a niche.

In one case, a volunteer tutor lived in the same neighborhood as one of the second graders being tutored, and the volunteer saw the child out at night, drinking, DeVita said.

«Democrats amended the platform to: support community schools with wraparound services in struggling neighborhoods; implement restorative justice and alternative discipline practices; invest in engaging STEM curricula; explicitly oppose high - stakes testing as a means to close schools or evaluate educators; support a parents» right to opt their children out of tests; and support and respect all educators and school employees.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

Lower income families and students get pushed out of neighborhoods they once occupied and pushed directly into schools with lower resources and money, a cycle some parents seem to be fine with just as long as their child is being served.

It aimed to strengthen academics and help lift children in one of Newark's toughest neighborhoods out of poverty.

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.

At the beginning of that school year, we felt so fortunate to have found a way to get our children out of our failing neighborhood public school and into a Blue Ribbon 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.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantagesChildren whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantageschildren without these educationally relevant advantages.»

The neighborhood felt unsafe to many of the young children who had to walk themselves to school so grandparents of one child created a «walking bus», stopping at houses along the way so children could come out and walk with them.

Wealthy parents in Reseda can look into their children's educational career and see two options: Send their kids out of their own neighborhood to schools that have pretty low scores OR they can choose to send their kids to one of the several affordable private schools in the area.

For example, Terrasi and de Galarce (2017) describe a case of PTSD in a 2nd - grade student who previously got along well with his friends and was succeeding in school but who, after witnessing his mother being hit in the arm by a stray bullet while they were walking together in their neighborhood, became «defiant with his teachers... often hiding under a desk, knocking things down, hitting other children, and running out of the classroom» (p. 35).

Replacing struggling neighborhood schools with charter schools leaves too many children behind; we have documented the punitive, often financially burdensome discipline and push - out policies of some of the most heavily promoted charter schools.

o Ensure that teachers take children out of school to explore the community and to visit neighborhood institutions.

The fate of neighborhood schools in big - city school districts is perhaps the most sensitive education topic out there, given their historic role in disadvantaged communities, their struggle to educate children to high academic levels, and the process of gentrification and the disruption of the traditional education system via charter schools.

On lazy summer nights, my father loved nothing more than loading his children and all of our neighborhood friends — there could be twenty kids or more — into the dilapidated yellow school bus that he had purchased at a junkyard for such outings.

The 2011 National Survey of Children's Health checked out how likely children were to live in a neighborhood with a park, recreation center, sidewalk or Children's Health checked out how likely children were to live in a neighborhood with a park, recreation center, sidewalk or children were to live in a neighborhood with a park, recreation center, sidewalk or library.

I'd also pull my child out of private school unless there is really no public option, which based upon your refusal to consider selling your house, I image there's a decent public school near your neighborhood.

We are more cautious driving down the street when children are out playing, we are aware of people in the neighborhood we do not recognize, we even join local watch groups to keep our living areas safe and clean.

He is NOT suitable for a home where neighborhood children come in and out of the yard or home.

Whether bringing home a new dog or walking a dog out in the neighborhood, caution needs to be taken to ensure the safety of both the dog and the children.

One study found that in African American families (but not European American families), children who lived with stepfathers were less likely to drop out of high school or (among daughters) have a nonmarital birth.41 Similarly, a study of African Americans living in high - poverty neighborhoods found that girls living with their mothers and stepfathers were less likely than girls living with single mothers to become sexually active or pregnant.

• Post the Colorado early learning and development guideline videos to your social media channels earlylearningco.org • Raise awareness of child safety issues and helpful childproofing information • Organize a moms» or dads» night out • Put children's books in your lobby and waiting areas • Schedule family events at different times of the day and on different days of the week so that more families can participate • Add information about family - friendly resources on neighborhood websites like Nextdoor • Remind people it's okay to ask for help • Host a play group at a local recreation or community center • Collaborate with childcare centers and schools by joining PTOs, volunteering in classrooms, participating in fundraising and more • Recognize a child or family in distress and offer assistance • Provide parenting education classes for parents and for students before they become parents • Connect parents to one another and to important resources for support