Sentences with phrase «for students in our neighborhood»

We will continue to fight for the students in our neighborhood and their right to a high - quality public education.

«We're talking about diminished resources for students in our neighborhood public schools while private voucher schools essentially get a blank check at taxpayer expense with zero accountability.»

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It was easy at the beginning to blame the miscalculations on the lack of awareness in the neighborhood, the weather or students being home for holidays.

The school in his neighborhood has a poverty rate of 62 % (62 % of students qualify for free or reduced - fee lunch), and is overcrowded because the governor doesn't think small class sizes are important.

Jodi Houge was a student at Luther Seminary when she invited people to gather for worship in a neighborhood coffee shop.

Thus, although it should be easier to teach Western students about Islam than about Hinduism or Buddhism, for there is much in common, the burden of our neighborhood quarrels — not always impartially recorded — and the subtle differences of interpretation make Islam the most difficult religion to present fairly.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

When Nick is «Nick» and not «Hot Mustard,» he is the Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager for the nonprofit Horizons for Youth, providing mentoring, scholarship, tutoring, and social services to students and their families in low - resource Chicago neighborhoods.

More than 100 police officers, some heavily armed in camouflage uniforms, searched neighborhoods near Central Michigan University on Friday for a 19 - year - old student suspected of killing his parents at a dormitory and then running from campus.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Jackson Heights, the neighborhood most starved for park space in Queens, last week to celebrate the upcoming opening of PS 69's student - designed playground, which comes complete with a human sundial and rock wall with «fossils.»

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyein public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman SpeyeIn 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

Our Community Schools partner network is working to expand the school day in our community schools and to integrate social - emotional, medical, dental, and nutritional services for students and families in our neighborhoods.

As the father to Danielle and Diamond, and president of the Brownsville chapter of StudentsFirstNY, I understand how failing schools in our neighborhood are a detriment to our students» safety and potential for success.

Samir Tawil has applied to the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency for tax exemptions for a planned 166 - unit student housing complex in Syracuse's Outer Comstock neighborhood.

«For months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statemeFor months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statemefor Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statement.

Classes will begin in September, and run every Wednesday for 12 weeks, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Students will learn the fundamentals of writing, reporting, and photojournalism through classroom instruction, and through hands - on reporting in their own neighborhoods.

The new traffic light will be installed at Beekman and William streets — a popular crossing for the neighborhood's elementary students — by the end of July, replacing a stop sign there, Department of Transportation officials said in a letter to State Sen. Daniel Squadron.

Success students sporting orange ties and pleated skirts flood Harlem and Bedford - Stuyvesant every weekday and more Success schools crop up each fall in neighborhoods not known for having charter schools, like the Upper West Side and Jamaica.

Together, they called on Mayor de Blasio, Schools Commissioner Fariña, and other officials across the City and the State to deliver on the promise of a quality education and great teachers for all students, regardless of the school they attend or the neighborhood they live in.

At Success Academy Charter Schools, for example, students who are mainly black and Latino, and who are from many of the city's lowest - income neighborhoods, tested in the top 1 % in math and 3 % in English of all schools in New York State last year.

Congressman Adriano Espaillat, noting the school's specialized curriculum that helps prepare students for health careers, said closing it would amount to «a horrible action» in a neighborhood that contains New York - Presbyterian Hospital (NYP), Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and Isabella Geriatric Center.

They analyzed nearly 70,000 school records for students in district - based traditional public kindergarten in New York City in 2009, and linked the records to demographic information and neighborhood characteristics.

In Old Delhi, a neighborhood dating to the 1600s Describes programs for students, educators, and professionals, with information on consulting services and publications.

Special citation for most honest movie about teenagers: Rick Famuyiwa's «Dope,» about a nerdy high school student in a dangerous neighborhood.

Once Journey North officials report sightings in the southeastern United States, Koontz and her students are on high alert looking for the butterflies in their own neighborhood.

When Alabama school counselor Angie Johnson discovered that some of her middle school students had seen methamphetamines in their neighborhood, she went to the Internet for lessons to help her explain the dangerous chemicals the drug contains and what they would do to students» bodies.

As more schools began to locate in district facilities, Boasberg requested that some of them prioritize enrollment for students living in the neighborhood.

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

Rather than simply providing an alternative to neighborhood public schools for a handful of students, the theory says, school choice programs actually benefit students remaining in their neighborhood schools, too.

Some charter schools, such as KIPP DC, have been successful working in racially isolated schools in poor neighborhoods, developing specialized teaching strategies and support for students who come to school years behind.

Nor is chronic absenteeism just a high school problem in Washington's impoverished neighborhoods; even many elementary students are absent for weeks, putting them on a path to failure.

Extension schools can also be a bridge, said Wayne Smutz, dean of continuing education at UCLA, which is trying to raise scholarship money for this purpose and is designing pop - up classrooms to operate in neighborhoods where low - income students live.

Ms. Hayre has offered to pay for the college education of 119 elementary students from two schools in low - income neighborhoods of the city.

At a March 29 meeting, the students outlined their methodology and preliminary findings — based on data gleaned from building permits, real estate transactions, national change - of - address data, census statistics, and comprehensive field survey data of every property in Broadmoor — for residents, who asked frequent and detailed questions, reflecting that lives and livelihoods depend on connecting the data with the health and progress of the neighborhood.

Let's put aside for a moment the appalling and untested assumption that teachers aren't safe in students» neighborhoods.

Scads of K — 3 students in low - income neighborhoods aren't even taking entrance exams for gifted programs.

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

Leaders of the 63,000 - student district were looking to rein in costs on an expensive busing program, and respond to some parents» wishes for more neighborhood schools, when they convened a task force of parents,...

Specifically, I examine whether the results change when I adjust my results to account for differences in student characteristics, including prior (age 7) test scores; gender; eligibility for free lunch; special education needs; month of birth; whether first language is English; ethnic background; and census information on the home neighborhood deprivation index.

Ready to take your students or for a winter flora and fauna walk in your own neighborhood?

In order to disentangle the influences of poverty from childhood maltreatment, we conducted statistical analyses to control for student demographics as well as school and neighborhood factors.

While giving students experience working for such employers as law firms and advertising agencies, the arrangement also puts a private school education within the reach of many families in the predominantly Hispanic, low - income Pilsen neighborhood...

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: • Country / Region: Spain: general description and main regions • Vocabulary Themes: my home and my neighborhood; numbers 11 to 100; cognates • Grammar Themes: subject pronouns and articles • Culture Theme: Spain and Spanish culture An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

Education World explores the strategies educators at KIPP Academy Charter School, Mother Hale Academy, and Crossroads School are using to break the cycle of failure for students living in some of New York City's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

For example, many of my students live in poor, heavily polluted areas, so when we study intermolecular properties and precipitation reactions, we examine the air and water quality in their neighborhoods.

In an Edutopia.org interview, teacher Marco Torres describes the benefits of multimedia projects for high school students growing up in a high - poverty neighborhood near Los AngeleIn an Edutopia.org interview, teacher Marco Torres describes the benefits of multimedia projects for high school students growing up in a high - poverty neighborhood near Los Angelein a high - poverty neighborhood near Los Angeles.

The implications of those policies for schools and teachers, he says, can be seen in the achievement gap that isolates disadvantaged students, often students of color, in poor neighborhoods.