Sentences with phrase «enrolling neighborhood children»

Moskowitz and Lavinia reveal how a charter school in the middle of Harlem, enrolling neighborhood children selected at random, emerged as one of the top schools in New York City and State within three years.

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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.

The mayor also touted his accomplishments such as the more than 70,000 children enrolled in full - day pre-kindergarten, Police Commissioner James O'Neill's neighborhood policing program and his push for more affordable housing, reminding the audience that the city needs to be inclusive of people of all socioeconomic statuses.

«In the neighborhood where I live in Brooklyn, there was a school that was considered a bad public school and it enrolled many children from a local public housing project,» she says.

And although she is wary of the neighborhood schools, she enrolled her younger children in Educare, a reputable early - education center recruited to the neighborhood.

But these children, up to that point, were presumably enrolled in their neighborhood schools, where they would arrive just like any other child.