Sentences with phrase «city elementary school children»

• Habitat for Humanity — Building homes for those less fortunate, 1995 — 2009 • Youth Friends — Mentor for three inner - city elementary school children, 1998 — 2000 • The Kansas City Free Health Clinic — Health Care Provider, 1998 — 2000

In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New York City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.

A state senator is planning to introduce legislation Tuesday that would require city elementary school children to be tested for lead exposure.

Brooklyn Sen. Jesse Hamilton is planning to introduce legislation today that would require city elementary school children to be tested for lead exposure.

Not exact matches

There are more than 20 elementary and middle schools in the city, which serve almost 20,000 school - aged children and their families.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

In the Greeley and Gresham schools and others we visited and in most of the elementary school lunchrooms throughout the city, children pick up their trays and file along a short cafeteria line that offers a serving of meat or an alternative, a vegetable, bread, fruit and milk.

The experiment took place in an inner city elementary school with 297 children in grades Kindergarten through 6.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says 83 % of the city's public elementary schools are not fully accessible to children with disabilities.

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 New York City, nearly half of elementary school children are overweight.

Free all - day programs can also be a lifeline to parents struggling with sky - high child care costs, points out Brian Jones, a former New York City elementary school teacher, current Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State, and parent of a young child approaching preschool age.

The City Council last week overwhelmingly passed Avonte's Law, a bill that will require the city Department of Education to install door alarms in schools that accommodate elementary school childCity Council last week overwhelmingly passed Avonte's Law, a bill that will require the city Department of Education to install door alarms in schools that accommodate elementary school childcity Department of Education to install door alarms in schools that accommodate elementary school children.

In the past, families who live in Community Board 1 — which includes TriBeCa, Battery Park City and the Financial District — have been reluctant to send their children to elementary school outside of that immediate area.

In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who attended eight high - poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.

Our neighborhood school went from «I'm never, ever sending my child there» to one of the best and most desirable elementary schools in the city.

New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York City public school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early elementary years.

The city's charter board calls Hope «mid-performing» — about 40 percent of its elementary - school children and 60 percent of its middle schoolers are considered proficient in math and English.

Two waves of developmental data (fall and spring) were analyzed from the first year of the evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), which includes 5053 children from grades 2 - 6 from 11 elementary schools in New York City.

In a growing number of simulations, ranging from the off - the - shelf SimCity and to Muzzy Lane's Making History to MIT's experimental Revolution and Supercharged, students — even elementary school children — can now manipulate whole virtual systems, from cities to countries to refineries, rather than just handling manipulatives.

Four waves of data on features of children's social - emotional development known to predict aggression / violence were collected in the fall and spring over two years for a highly representative sample of children in grades 1 - 6 from New York City public elementary schools (N = 11,160).

Their analysis of student achievement in New York City middle schools confirms parents» conclusion that children learn more if they stay in an elementary - school setting through grade 8 than if they move to a stand - alone middle school.

In a randomized control - group study, researchers from New York University, Fordham University, and Columbia University tracked the development of students in nine New York City elementary schools that implemented The 4Rs Program compared with children in nine control schools over three years.

This report followed the release of new data showing that Success Academy suspends elementary school students at seven times the rate of New York City's public elementary schools including many children in kindergarten.

Its record of achievement has continued to attract a diverse cross section of students, including families from each of the city's 32 school districts representing children zoned for 576 different elementary schools in both low - income and mixed - income neighborhoods.

When Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children A recent episode at a Salt Lake City elementary school highlights a common, hard - to - solve problem: What should schools do when students can't pay forSchools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children A recent episode at a Salt Lake City elementary school highlights a common, hard - to - solve problem: What should schools do when students can't pay forschools do when students can't pay for lunch?

If the current homeless rate among families continues in New York City, one in seven school - aged children will be homeless at some point during elementary school.

Even the Advantage school in Rocky Mount, N.C., that Mayor Schundler says is so well equipped to serve Jersey City's poor, is skimming; 38 percent of its children qualify for free lunches versus 49 percent for Rocky Mount elementary schools.

The suspension rate for elementary students at Success Academy charter schools is seven times the rate of New York City's public elementary schools and, like Achievement First, Inc. the charter school was targeting and abusing children as young as kindergarten.

And in New York, a city audit found that only 6 percent of the city's schools came anywhere near to offering the required two hours of physical education, or PE, for elementary - age children each week.

In a three - year pilot study at 20 elementary schools in New York City with a diverse population of children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar schools.

A new musical from the Rochester Children's Theatre is now making the rounds at elementary schools in the city school district.

This, in spite of the fact that the District decided to slash the offerings for those very children by eliminating all of the 27 elementary art, music and PE positions in the Lansing schools over a year ago, leaving the city's students with only 2 music, art and PE classes per semester, while their peers in neighboring school systems often receive these classes twice per week.

With an art degree from Rhode Island School of Design on his office wall, two union cards - stagehands and scenic artists - in his wallet, five able - bodied children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party - a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York City and as near as our local elementary sSchool of Design on his office wall, two union cards - stagehands and scenic artists - in his wallet, five able - bodied children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party - a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York City and as near as our local elementary schoolschool.

Here are the top five schools for each category (elementary and secondary school) for the top 10 cities to raise a child.

New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York City public school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early elementary years.

New York, NY About Blog The GO Project shapes the futures of low - income New York City public school children by providing critical academic, social and emotional support starting in the early elementary years.

As well as being a nanny and working at a local elementary school, I volunteer as the Assistant Children's Director at Elevate City Church.

Pleasant Valley / Cumberland Valley School District, City • PA 2002 — 2007 Volunteer Provided essential tutoring of elementary school children in all subjects to further the scholastic educational success and to move students forward toward their educational suSchool District, City • PA 2002 — 2007 Volunteer Provided essential tutoring of elementary school children in all subjects to further the scholastic educational success and to move students forward toward their educational suschool children in all subjects to further the scholastic educational success and to move students forward toward their educational success.

Currently Ms. Richardson - Gibbs works for the El Monte City School District providing inclusion support to preschool and early elementary age children with disabilities.

In a randomized control - group study, researchers from New York University, Fordham University, and Columbia University tracked the development of students in nine New York City elementary schools that implemented The 4Rs Program compared with children in nine control schools over three years.

The investigation reporting the outlier prevalence rate of 26 % examined the smallest sample of children, and all children in that investigation were from a single, inner - city elementary school.11 These methodological limitations may have contributed to a spuriously inflated estimate for the prevalence of ADHD in the general population.

These range from working with victims of domestic violence, including children, to feeding and clothing the impoverished families in the heart of the city, working with Chicago's overnight homeless women's shelters, teaching at - risk high school students in Chicago Public Schools and also working in other elementary school settings.

Four waves of data on features of children's social - emotional development known to predict aggression / violence were collected in the fall and spring over two years for a highly representative sample of children in grades 1 - 6 from New York City public elementary schools (N = 11,160).

Two waves of developmental data (fall and spring) were analyzed from the first year of the evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), which includes 5053 children from grades 2 - 6 from 11 elementary schools in New York City.