Sentences with phrase «city children»

The «choice» experiment has had 25 years to «improve» the academic success of inner city children.

A large majority of inner - city children live in single - parent homes.

Even more troubling is the increase in the number of city children who recently tested positive for higher amounts of lead that require some form of intervention by health officials.

The most alarming fact is that many city children attend schools that are in such horrendous condition that their physical safety routinely is threatened.

At 14, he founded a nonprofit aimed at helping inner - city children gain better educational opportunities.

I actually work with a man who heads up a charity that helps young inner city children get free screenings for heart disorders and he is an atheist.

As to the children in the mountains, they were certainly city children they took up there.

The money was distributed after a 2007 court decision said city children were being denied a decent education.

6,000 additional city children are enrolled in high performing charter schools on a new trajectory in life.

In 2009, she founded a mindfulness - based non-profit primarily for inner city children.

And many got outstanding results: Today there are hundreds of thousands of inner - city children in high - performing, high - poverty charter schools.

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May 3, 2017 — While visiting Farms for City Children in Gloucestershire, Kate wore a khaki jacket with her trusty Penelope Chilvers boots and a pair of Zara jeans that you may recognize from her 2016 trip to India with Prince William.

Frankenthaler was a New York City child of privilege; she graduated from the Dalton School and, in 1949, from Bennington College.

The location features the Outagamie Museum and the Houdini Historical Center as well as Fox Cities Children's Museum.

Though we are advocates of the desegregation program we, along with other suburban schools, will be forced to make a tough decision: keep St. Louis city children at our expense or send them back to a system that is clearly fragile and ailing.

Concurrent with his solo exhibition, Hyder will be participating in the Big Egg Hunt New York, a charitable endeavor benefiting New York City children through the Studio in a School initiative and endangered Asian elephants through the Elephant Family organization.

Most New York City children don't graduate high school ready for college or the workplace.

Farm academy Over the coming year and a half, the Soil Association will be working with 10 schools across London (both primary and secondary) in the Farm Academy Programme, an exciting new innovation which helps teach inner city children about where their food comes from through farm visits and the establishment of school farmers markets that are organised entirely by the pupils.

De Blasio's central campaign pledge — to fund full - day pre-kindergarten for all New York City children by taxing the city's highest earners — is both tricky and ambitious.

Albany leaders reached an agreement on dramatic reforms to day care oversight in response to a Daily News series on hidden dangers in city child care facilities.

Bassett added that lead exposure rates among city children fallen 87 % since 2005 and are even lower among kids in public housing.

«The Gracie Point Organic Farm and Compost Center would support Mayor Bloomberg's desire to leave a green legacy on the city and serve to educate city children on healthy eating and the principals of reduce, reuse and recycle,» she wrote.

New York City children exposed in the womb to high levels of pollutants in vehicle exhaust had a five times higher risk of attention problems at age 9, according to new research

Researchers found that more than 87,000 New York City children from kindergarten through third grade missed 10 percent or more of the school year in 2012 - 13.

For more than a decade, he jousted with the New York City child welfare bureaucracy, trying to apply his ideas about family systems to reforming the foster care system.

She is quick to point out the «magnificence «of other city children «s choruses — especially the Chicago Children «s Choir and Harriet Ziegenhall «s

Developed by a local high school culinary student in partnership with Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, El Fenix's Kids Fit Menu allows kids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple juice.

After a delicous breakfast meal at The Broken Yolk she wanted to visit Pretend City Children's Musuem.

Geoffrey Canada has devoted his life to help change the quality of life of inner city children across the United States.

BASC training officer, Jane Matthews, said: «This event is a wonderful opportunity to introduce city children to aspects of the countryside that they may otherwise never have experienced.

In the weeks prior to the deal, advocates for mayoral control painted a bleak picture of what would befall New York City children if Albany failed to extend it.

New York City children deserve it.

In 2015, less than 20 percent of New York City children aged six to 12 ate more than five items of fruits and vegetables a day, and one in every three children nationwide is now either overweight or obese, the lawmakers said.

Dana Barr of Emory University, an expert in chemical exposure and a co-author of the new study, said chlorpyrifos exposure in the New York City children apparently has declined.

He took a train to the east coast by himself and was immediately floored by the sophisticated city children he met.

Joining the program were Joan Luby, a doctor and professor of child psychiatry with the Washington University School of Medicine and Stephen Zwolak, the executive director the University City Children's Center.

More than just tweaking the curriculum, schools should seek to exemplify the democratic process that most inner - city children rarely have the opportunity to witness firsthand.

Included: Teachers, students, and administrators talk about effective ways to help city children achieve success.

Prior to joining the Chicago Public Schools, from 1992 to 1998, Duncan ran the nonprofit education foundation Ariel Education Initiative, which helped fund a college education for a class of inner - city children under the I Have A Dream program.

Of course, we will be told that inner city children need such firm discipline, but this is only begging the question, as even in the youngest grades school suspensions and the like are abnormally high in charter schools.

Thousands of New York City children face potential «educational homelessness.»

The Scholarship Fund for Inner - City Children provides children in need with the opportunity to receive a high quality, values - based education in a nurturing and safe environment.

Profile On... Terry and Polly O'Toole, generous supporters of The Scholarship Fund for Inner - City Children via The O'Toole Family scholarship, committed $ 10 million to Villanova University to establish a Presidential Scholarship for students from the Archdiocese of Newark.

Nearly 50,000 New York City children languish on charter wait lists and 16,000 more children risk of losing their school if pending co-locations are rescinded.