Sentences with phrase «income neighborhoods do»

«If kids living in low - income neighborhoods don't have access to healthy food and safe places to play, what are we setting them up for?

Districts equalize the numbers of teachers working in schools, so the schools in low - income neighborhoods don't get extra slots to compensate for the inexperience of their teachers.

Many low income neighborhoods don't have access to stores that sell fresh healthy food and this is something that we need to change in order to fight obesity.

Not exact matches

What do you think of the plan to open these stores in lower income neighborhoods?

I did nt see my last comment, I post again: Do nt forget — you can target niche markets — Working Class neighborhoods are untapped (which is why I can purchase them under 30k), and full of 2 income tenants!

viewers in every education, age, income, sex, newspaper reading and neighborhood category express a greater sense of insecurity and apprehension than do light Most heavy viewers...

Most heavy viewers in every education, age, income, sex, newspaper reading and neighborhood category express a greater sense of insecurity and apprehension than do light viewers...

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

He grew up in a low - income neighborhood, he has siblings who've spent time in prison, and he doesn't do great on traditional tests of cognitive ability.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«Our ability to do the kind of mixed - income building and neighborhood planning that's a sort of tent of our Housing New York plan is definitely at risk.»

Where does this leave median - income neighborhoods?

When the pressures of having no income pile up and the stream of judgement from his wealthy father - in - law roll over him, he finds himself taking his gun out of his safe and wandering out into the desert outside his Albuquerque suburban neighborhood to potentially do something drastic.

All black and Latino students don't come from low - income, urban neighborhoods.

But the talented, low - income child often pays the price, depending as she does on whatever supports her neighborhood school has to offer.

They consist of four public and six private schools, all in well - to - do suburban neighborhoods in California (median household income of $ 90,000).

Nearly two decades after they attended an experimental preschool program in a low - income neighborhood in Ypsilanti, Mich., the small group of young people monitored in a now - well - known study continue to fare better as students, workers, and citizens than children from the same neighborhood who did not attend the preschool.

Nearly two decades later, I'm still chastened by the book's central lesson: A government policy developed by mostly benevolent leaders hoping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged — in this case, by razing old, low - income, ostensibly decaying neighborhoods in favor of gigantic public - housing skyscrapers — did incalculable harm to those it was designed to help.

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

And handing the schools in low - income neighborhoods over to entrepreneurs does not, in itself, improve them.

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.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

Creating mixed income housing in ways that displace low - income residents may improve outcomes for that particular neighborhood, but it doesn't improve the outcomes of displaced families.

Few Denver schools provide a high - quality education to low - income kids, and the ones that do are concentrated in particular neighborhoods.

She also notices that these schools are springing up only in low - income neighborhoods, and that Rocketship's Silicon Valley investors do not send their own children to these «bare - bones Model - T schools.»

Many civil rights leaders and teachers called for leniency, and some wondered why black teachers in low - income neighborhoods faced racketeering charges when white Wall Street workers who were implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis did not.

«I thought comparing people at exactly the same income level would get rid of more of the neighborhood differences than it did.»

«We did the due diligence, working with low - income neighborhoods that wanted to rebuild football fields that were in disrepair and needed maintenance over time.»

Furthermore, in the schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.

While families with greater means can move to neighborhoods with public schools they like, or pay twice for education by opting for a private school, lower - income families often don't have those options.

Many low - income families rely on school transportation, which private schools that are typically far from poor neighborhoods, do not offer.

Don't assume that just because you and your friend live in similar homes in the same neighborhood and make similar incomes that you will automatically be approved for a refinance just because he was approved.

Teacher student debts can be forgiven by teaching in specific types of schools for a period of time, we don't mean in some easy school either, you must enter into a school in a low - income neighborhood, these are some of the most stressful and frustrating jobs that one can get.

Not only do they need to cover the social security income stream, they need to pay for health care, which is very expensive, running in the neighborhood of $ 10000 per year in later years.

So long as you don't hate what you are doing, I'd say the price is somewhere in the neighborhood of $ 100 - 200 year of income to be worth the bookkeeping.

For years, Emancipet offered low cost and free spay / neuter in low income neighborhoods and thought we were doing everything that we possibly could.

For years, Emancipet offered low cost and free spay / neuter in low income neighborhoods and thought we were doing everything that -LSB-...]

As an example, you would be hard pressed to find a Drug Dealer in south Florida who doesn't own a pitbull, and the dog is equally popular with people who live in low income housing in poor neighborhoods.

Mike also earns a small income doing handyman services around the neighborhood.

A contributing life — where they have someone to love, somewhere secure to live, something to do, work, a decent income, something to look forward to and connections to their neighborhoods, culture and community.

Research does suggest that growing up in a single - parent home has a negative impact on children.49 — 51 Factors, such as parental education, family income, and neighborhood resources, may buffer children from the negative effects of single - parent families, 52,53 but often are not present in the economically distressed communities in which our participants grew up.

We simply can not afford to endanger the futures of the millions of low - income children who don't have the chance to experience high - quality early childhood programs and the thriving neighborhoods that higher - income families take for granted.»

I don't buy war zone, I do have a number in some low income neighborhoods.

«Many upper - income buyers don't want to limit their shopping to Potomac,» says Crago, referring to a neighborhood in Montgomery County, Md., that borders the Potomac River.

So someone investing in the lower class area to make extra income can do so and than later on not only have 100 % equity on a multitude of properties the neighborhood could be the next bushwick or alphabet city.....

I do have to say that Pittsburgh is a low - income neighborhood and can be labor intensive.

Now this is purely anecdotal, and my lower priced homes have done reasonably well (besides they are in great neighborhoods with great schools), so they are not by any means a drag on my income earning prospects.

@Javier Francois - I don't personally look at rentometer for low income neighborhoods.

Just because our family and income grew and we no longer want to live there, doesn't mean that starter home neighborhoods should be avoided.