Sentences with phrase «inner city systems»

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Inner cities throughout the nation are saturated with despair and broken systems that tragically limit the human potential within them.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

As Harvard professor Paul E. Peterson notes, one «attraction of inner - city school choice is the possibility that a choice - based system could reduce the racial isolation within the central city.»

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

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Delivering to high - density areas such as the inner city was much lower cost and helped to subsidise these deliveries — but by allowing these customers to «cherry pick» between Royal Mail and their competitors the system was unsustainable.

The city and county have used this system with Destiny USA and the Inner Harbor.

Failing schools in the inner city are a major problem and frankly, I'd quite like someone who had direct experience of the issues in the system developing policy.

In 1994, her daughter, Pamela Corley, set up a nonprofit at the family home called the Parents Information Network «to disseminate information to parents and others regarding the inner workings of the New York City public - school system.»

The researchers found that relatively cool accretion discs around young stars, whose inner edges can be several times the size of the Sun, show the same behaviour as the hot, violent accretion discs around planet - sized white dwarfs, city - sized black holes and supermassive black holes as large as the entire Solar system, supporting the universality of accretion physics.

Think of mucus in the respiratory system as «a film that protects the important parts of the inner nose and lungs,» says allergist and internist Tania Elliott, MD, chief medical officer at EHE, a New York City - based healthcare company specializing in preventive medicine.

These teachings have been integrated into mainstream medicine, medical and professional education, corporations, school systems, athletics, inner city and correctional institutions.

Truth be told, the only thing Colin was guilty of was being born poor and black in the inner - city, which meant he was very vulnerable to a criminal justice system totally indifferent to the plight of an innocent, indigent, African - American defendant.

Nonetheless, Hyde schools are now flourishing in Woodstock, Connecticut, and in the inner - city systems of New Haven, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C..

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

While Los Angeles too claims to be decentralized, the principal of one of the inner city's most successful schools says angrily, «There is no belief system in the district now that schools can make decisions for themselves - and it's only gotten worse.»

We claim, for example, that Catholic schools are disappearing because of inner city poverty, forgetting that the people who built the Catholic education system were impoverished immigrants.

«For large rural states like Montana, and for inner - city school systems struggling with limited resources, the impact on education could be dramatic,» according to Mr. Burns.

And they can cater to constituencies — students who are gifted, live in rural or inner city areas, need extra credits for graduation, and so on — that are underserved by the current system.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Syscity high school in the Oklahoma City Public School SysCity Public School System.

A religious charter - school system would serve the same educational and spiritual needs in America's inner cities — and it would have the added benefit of holding the schools accountable for their results.

• Minority parents are increasingly angry and disenchanted with failing inner - city school systems and are less willing to listen to promises that things will get better if they continue to trust the system and drench it with resources.

Here his argument is unpersuasive, simply because those most critical of the current public education system — Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, inner - city African - Americans, and home schoolers — don't disavow basic moral and civic education.

The Chicago Public Schools operate a «two - tiered» high - school system that concentrates students with a high probability of dropping out in inner - city schools, according to a recent study.

So far as one can tell, the big choice program sketched during the campaign was intended to signal that Trump, like Republican candidates before him, cared about inner - city kids and was willing to disrupt an education system rigged against them.

Led by Domenic Grignano, the school's ever - energized, ever - focused technology facilitator / systems engineer, laptop use has become a way of life at the inner - city school.

It claims that academically adept students were encouraged to enroll in the system's «elite or selective schools,» while inner - city youths «were...

It is the teachers unions - the NEA and the AFT - that are largely responsible for a system that is failing far too many of our children, especially those trapped in the inner cities...

In our experience, strong independent schools and effective inner - city academies tend to have complementary strengths: the depth of subject knowledge and extensive co-curricular programmes in independent schools; the pedagogical skill and highly efficient systems for tracking and monitoring progress in academies.

Inner - city urban environments pose special challenges to school systems and communities in how to best deal with the issues of upgrading and renovating school facilities.

Having worked to improve inner - city schools since teaching in South Central, LA, I am thrilled to see this collective awareness emerging around the need to reach a broader audience with the stark realities of, and myths surrounding, our education system.

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

Superior teachers of inner - city minority children quit because anyone who chose to teach in those schools was more likely than other teachers to be fired under the new system.

The best examples of charter schools that make the development of character and self - discipline an important part of students» education are systems such as the Knowledge Is Power Program (or KIPP), a national network of 99 schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, an organization that runs 19 inner - city high schools in Los Angeles and New York.

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Never mind staggering levels of unemployment in the inner cities or a system in which more and more of the nation's wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands; just place the blame on individuals whose characters are deficient.

But instead of discussing those, we're witnessing a coordinated effort to mislead Connecticut's citizens about what tenure is and a rush to throw out the valid, important and historic tenure system as way to pander to those who blame teachers for the incredibly difficult challenges that face our society, especially those in our inner cities.

It is not hard to see how the poor inner - city students will be totally short - changed under this system.

Here's a realist message that you can send back to whomever you were delivering that clearly partisan message from: As of right now, Odyssey or any other online learning software / virtual system does not work with non-intentional learners, poor inner - city learners, poor readers, and limited English learners.

Adrienne Hill is a public education administrator with nearly 20 years of experience in both inner city and affluent school systems on the east coast.

In the short run, we must bring vast pressure to bear on the U.S. president to implement a system of incentives like the one that I've described, or any other strategy he may contrive, to give the children of the inner - city poor the same full opportunity for first - rate integrated schooling that he himself enjoyed and is now providing his own children.

He told the audience of more than 50 people that public school systems across the United States have, for various reasons, failed to keep pace with advances in technology and the changing social and educational needs of youth, especially in inner - city neighborhoods.

Fed a minimum diet of RON 95 unleaded and taking advantage of an idle stop system at the lights, fuel economy was as high as 9.0 L / 100 km around the inner city, dropping down to 7.0 L / 100 km once some freeway runs were thrown into the mix.

For such trips or inner - city navigation, Porsche's maps system was spot - on.

At the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans, like many large cities in the U.S., had been mired for years in a school system broken by financial woes, inner - city crime, student discipline problems and low graduation rates.

The usually central location makes it easy to explore Sydney - either on foot or by taking advantage of Sydneys effective inner - city public transport system which includes public busses, trains and Harbour ferries.

MUNI is the slower central city subway & streetcar system used frequently (and frequently derided) by inner city residents.

RICHMOND VCUARTS HOUSING Richmond, the capital of Virginia, is a diverse cultural city, surrounded by historic neighborhoods, parks and the James River — home to one of the largest inner city park systems in the country.