Sentences with phrase «few nearby schools»

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Hold infants at your local church nursery while the parents attend service; participate in a house build with Habitat for Humanity; mentor a student at a nearby school a few times a month; sponsor a missionary overseas; give wildly beyond the tithe.

Each family can decide what «babysitting» means for a school - age child: One family might want their 9 - year - old to be in charge of reading or playing games with a younger sibling while a grown - up is nearby, while another family might decide it's okay to leave 10 - year - old with a 7 - year - old sibling while the parent runs to the store for a few minutes.

«They must not be the preserve of the privileged few - creaming off the best pupils while leaving the rest to fend for themselves, causing problems for and draining resources from other nearby schools.

«There are very few good options in school nutrition, and most schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food schools serve their kids lousy food that is unappealing,» says Bob Nardo, managing director of operations for KIPP TEAM Charter Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food Schools in Newark, N.J. «This is a problem everywhere, but particularly in low - income areas that are considered food deserts, where you can't get adequate, nutritious food nearby.

Gilbert is outreach manager at Guide Dogs for the Blind, based in nearby San Rafael, and, a few months before her visit to Bacich with her German shepherd guide, Hedda, she teamed up with the school's third - grade teachers, and with the Marin County Office of Education, to help introduce materials from Guide Dogs for the Blind — and from the National Federation for the Blind's Braille Is Beautiful program — into school curriculum.

Although the school has few Muslim students, accounts of violence and racism against Muslim students abound in a nearby school.

Adequate, fair funding: University of Arkansas analysts report that the typical charter gets 28 percent less funding per pupil than nearby district schools, in large part because few charters share in the locally generated portion of K — 12 funding.

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

Specifically, we look to see whether test scores showed greater improvement in the wake of the new policy for students attending public schools with more (or more varied) nearby private options that suddenly became more affordable for low - income students than did scores for students attending schools with fewer (or less varied) potential competitors.

The average Florida public school had roughly 14 private schools nearby, but more than 30 percent of schools had fewer than 2 or more than 30.

«Therefore I'm delighted to see fewer cars around participating schools, slower speeds in nearby streets and more children walking in every day, contributing to a more welcoming environment for all.

A decision by the East Lansing Public Schools to recruit additional students, for example, may mean fewer students and less revenue for nearby public, private, or charter sSchools to recruit additional students, for example, may mean fewer students and less revenue for nearby public, private, or charter schoolsschools.

But although its campuses typically outscore nearby traditional schools, fewer than 5 % of students at several of its campuses scored at the «proficient» level in math last year.

Mr Clegg added that free schools «must not be the preserve of the privileged few - creaming off the best pupils while leaving the rest to fend for themselves, causing problems for and draining resources from other nearby schools».

Although she had been interested in modern and tribal art, by the time I started going to school in the mid-1940's she had fallen in love with the Hudson River School of landscape painters of the 19th Century whose paintings were auctioned off for a few dollars, literally, then at the various auction houses where we spent most Saturdays on University Place like Kalisky and Gabay and Lawners, and the nearby Astor over on Broschool in the mid-1940's she had fallen in love with the Hudson River School of landscape painters of the 19th Century whose paintings were auctioned off for a few dollars, literally, then at the various auction houses where we spent most Saturdays on University Place like Kalisky and Gabay and Lawners, and the nearby Astor over on BroSchool of landscape painters of the 19th Century whose paintings were auctioned off for a few dollars, literally, then at the various auction houses where we spent most Saturdays on University Place like Kalisky and Gabay and Lawners, and the nearby Astor over on Broadway.

The Derry Township public schools are well - respected, and if you prefer a different sort of education for your child there are several private and a few religious schools nearby.

Most Glenbrook South students and a few other nearby high school

Her only nearby family lives on the other end of the state, and anyone who's ever been to New Jersey knows that driving the length of the state every morning and night to get yourself to work and your kids to school is just not a practical solution, not even for a few days.

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Central High School, Medlin Middle School, and Shady Grove Elementary School are a few of the schools nearby.