Sentences with phrase «few white kids»

Why so few white kids land in CPS — and why it matters.

When I and others (friend and collaborator Alan Gottlieb) have raised these issues over the last decade, many district leaders and school board members told us that these issues were too intractable to tackle.Housing patterns are hard to overcome, transportation too expensive, or that there were too few white kids in Denver to make it work.

And we even had a few white kids.

We debate right to bear arms and to restrict that we take rights away from everyone becasue a few white kids sitting in their darkened rooms playing computer games go off the wall.

Not exact matches

A kids bowl with half white rice, half purple rice, potato, a few sprouts, black beans, double steak ($ 1.75 extra), with all of the toppings, including double egg (for the added protein).

This is one of the few things required for the holiday, I think — American flag dessert, fireworks, and little kids in ridiculous red white and blue outfits.

What is even more sad is so few kids come through the youth academies because players arrive from all over the world desperate to get their hands, not on the iconic red and white jersey, but the salary that comes with being a pro footballer in the prem.

I, a white kid from Woodstock, loved them; a few times I drove my Oldsmobile through the Louisville expressways for no other purpose than to play Aquemini all the way through, and as loud as I could.

I'd love clean white walls with a few inspirational quotes and gorgeous canvas prints of the kids, but of course the most important part would be that we and the kids were happy and together.

A few dabs will help to save your kids clothes or even your white carpet.

Obama gave a shout - out to a few notable examples from among the 100 kids that his staff invited to take part, last week, in the third White House Science Fair.

The authors suggest that wealthy black parents are less able to transfer wealth to their kids than their white counterparts, perhaps, due in part to having fewer liquid assets such as stocks, bonds and savings, which can be passed down more easily to the next generation.

it is really great styling and its so nice that you give few shopping options for it, i could never wear all white, my kids will always mass it up some way, who am i kidding I would ruin it myself with the first drink out:)

Things aren't great at the new, much smaller school, and White chooses to switch sports and coach a young group of Latino kids in cross-country running, after seeing the potential in a few of them as they balance a troubled home life, a near - full time job picking fruit in the surrounding fields, and getting an education.

A few years ago, Jesse Eisenberg was regarded by many (especially in the mainstream) as a less famous alternative to Michael Cera, the other squeaky - voiced, wimpy white kid taking over theaters

Meanwhile it allowed states such as Virginia, Florida, and Tennessee to define proficiency down for poor and minority kids by setting Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that only require districts to ensure that fewer black and Latino kids are learning at proficient levels than their white and Asian counterparts.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

Few senators seem concerned with the fact that the administration's gambit takes away real data on school performance (making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and making it more difficult for researchers to do their work), and lets states and mediocre districts off the hook for poorly educating black, Latino, Native and poor white and Asian kids in their care.

The claim raised a few eyebrows, given that white kids are on the rise in DCPS, private school enrollment has been declining, and DCPS had to start a fraud unit because suburban parents were faking residence to get their kids into district schools.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

The sisters of the Missionary of Charity ran St. Rita's, and a few times every summer they'd take a van out to the suburbs, in New Jersey or Connecticut or Westchester, where some friendly white people would welcome the city kids into their house.

Sibuan, a white - sand piece of paradise, accommodates a few Bajau huts, and kids offer coconuts for sale.

You may feel like a kid on a playground, but be sure to take time to relax, take a walk along the beach with your loved one and simply be... from the white sand of Icacos be sure to take a few minutes to receive the benefits of color therapy by the shades of the Caribbean Sea.

I just told my hubby the same thing a few days ago regarding our white slipcovers and dogs / kids.

Since they are so inexpensive, I have gotten in the habit of replacing them every year and I wash them every few months as I also have white and with kids they do get dirty!

I think if we lived next to each other, we would be great friends - your story about your furniture sounds like what I do - here's a little silly - I did the same thing when we were first married and bought a sofa -LCB- mauve, have you -RCB- that we couldn't afford, but had to have it - the darn thing never worn out - it has been pasted around through all five kids - it finally meet it's end this year - 30 years later =) I just picked up a few things last week at a consignment store - and I'm so looking for a white slip covered sofa too!