Sentences with phrase «done at my neighborhood school»

I have to admit, their success is a big source of pride for me because it has grown out of the incredible work done at my neighborhood school, Glencliff High School.

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«For example, we don't let them treat the school custodians or waitresses at a neighborhood restaurant as invisible.

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

He also spoke of a need for unity in New York City, where the privileged and disadvantaged alike are given a fair shot at economic success, good schools, affordable housing, and safe neighborhoods, and where people «don't have to worry about being stopped and frisked because you happen to be the wrong color.»

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

But principal Michelle Tubbs, a veteran of the classroom who holds a doctorate in education technology, had conducted a pilot program with blended learning at an Alliance school in the city's Watts neighborhood, where the average freshman read and did math at the 4th - grade level.

I didn't know it was integration at 6 years old, but I did notice that all the kids who got off the buses were black and all the kids at school where white, and when I went back to my neighborhood, everyone was black again.

Maybe this was because they wanted to stay in the neighborhood, or were concerned about how their child could safely get to another school, or didn't know there were open slots at good schools.

Families, friends, and neighborhoods also exert an influence so that looking just at the overall level of a student's achievement does not capture the school's contribution to learning.

Vargas says while the plan presented Tuesday includes year - long programs at the new school, more neighborhood students, and stronger family engagement, he doesn't want this option to be the final plan submitted to the state.

While the school is not a boundary school, where students are granted priority spot if they live in a certain place, the school does hold a preference for students that attend the preschool, students who live in The Villages of East Lake and East Lake and Kirkwood neighborhoods, and students with siblings at the school, which means regardless of the demand for seats from surrounding communities, the school will continue to primarily serve low - income families in the East Lake community.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is a program targeted at late elementary, middle and high school students who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they do not have the opportunity to develop their talents.

How does this gentrification of urban landscapes, as it's commonly referred to, alter not only individual neighborhoods and schools, but the public education system at large?

At a Friday morning press conference held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others at a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availabilitAt a Friday morning press conference held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others at a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availabilitat a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availability.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

In D.C., enrollment at in - boundary schools is geographically concentrated in one area, but typical neighborhood characteristics do not explain this trend.

Robinson, a transplant from Georgia in his second year at Lester, a high - poverty school in the Binghampton neighborhood where 97 percent of students are black, muttered that he did.

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.

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.

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 advantages.»

The study also does not make comparisons at the neighborhood level; because the City has rightly directed more resources to district schools in high needs neighborhoods, the gap for charter schools in those same neighborhoods is much wider - showing that charter schools do in fact do more for less.

I worked at a charter school for 5 years and heard all sorts of hoopla from people about the way that charter schools do not represent the rest of the neighborhood.

-- compared the performance of students who won a spot at a charter school in an annual lottery and those who did not and had to stay in their traditional neighborhood school.

These are students who can not believe in the American dream, because they do not see it reflected in their neighborhoods, homes, or the physical facilities at their schools.

Generally, DCPS doesn't guarantee families preschool slots at their neighborhood schools, and many preschool programs at schools near Van Ness have long waitlists.

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

Additionally, many of these parents do not have the same privilege of moving outside of their neighborhoods if their public schools are not performing at a level deemed to be «good» nor do they have the networks, resources, or time that many middle and upper - class families have to research better choices that are available to them (Hannah - Jones 2016).

I'm not a mommy, but I remember my own parents (many years ago) loving back - to - school time because a) they didn't have to pay for all - day childcare during the school year; and b) they knew we were occupied with constructive activities, and no longer needed to worry about any shenanigans we were getting into involving a neighborhood cat (well... at least until 3:30).

Located at 1379 S Voss Rd, Dr. Anderson says «while raising my four kids in this school district, it was always a dream once they were all gone, to open my own clinic and do what I love to do in my neighborhood.»

After three years at the University of San Francisco School of Law, I did as planned: I founded Bayview Hunters Point Community Legal, the first nonprofit in the country to guarantee the ability to access legal representation for everyone living in a single neighborhood.

Some children have difficulty with all types of social relationships, while others do well in their neighborhoods or in one - on - one friendships but experience problems with the peer group at school.

SO we decided to do it again on future family home for ourselves, it is a far nicer location, better schools, rare rental opportunity in this neighborhood... no real comps both for rental or purchases from the last 12 months (market is explosive at 10 % increases the last 2 years in row)... it is rare homes in this area go on sale and when they do are gone in days.