Sentences with phrase «lower education neighborhoods»
Another panelist wrote: «Though e-books are important, we must keep an emphasis on our physical libraries as a community space and option for lower income and lower education neighborhoods who may not have access or knowledge of e-book devices and e-book use.»
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The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.
Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal choices.
Maybe I'm guilty of stereotyping, but in a low income neighborhood, it may be that parents are absent or working or lacking the education to feed their children well.
LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.
An April report by Stringer found students in low - income neighborhoods, particularly the South Bronx and central Brookyn, lacked access to arts education in school.
The task force, a group of principals, parents, community board members, elected officials and Department of Education representatives, has met regularly over the years, advocating for new schools and educational space in the increasingly family - filled lower Manhattan neighborhoods.
However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).
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.
The People's Grocery links gardening, nutrition education, and after - school learning in a low - income neighborhood badly needing all three.
There can be little doubt that education shortcomings in the United States spread well beyond the corridors of the inner city or the confines of low - income neighborhoods where many parents lack a high school diploma.
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...
Availability of job opportunities that do not require formal schooling, unsafe neighborhoods, low compulsory education requirements, lack of social and education support services
While Mayor Bill de Blasio has made community schools a central part of his education agenda, critics have said there is mixed research on whether the community school model actually improves academic achievement in low - income neighborhoods.
With a voucher in hand to shop for a school beyond their neighborhood boundary, lower - income families» voices begin to shape the delivery of education, and they become consumers.
The school, located in a recreation center in a low - income neighborhood, offers a year - round education to students who have either dropped out of or were asked to leave other schools.
Indeed, high - stakes testing, in tandem with «zero tolerance,» militarized security and sadistic underfunding, has succeeded in warping public education beyond recognition, especially in low - income, zero - political - clout neighborhoods.
For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.
Maria Ruiz worried about her three sons» education in Boyle Heights, a low - income Los Angeles neighborhood...
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.»
Maria Ruiz worried about her three sons» education in Boyle Heights, a low - income Los Angeles neighborhood where she felt the public schools were dangerous and neglected.
But without the power to change their neighborhood schools, low - income and minority parents consistently find themselves in essentially a «no - choice» scenario, forced to decide between financial security and a great education for their kids.
ENN submits testimony on SB 390, in support of the expansion of the successful ZOOM school program as a way to ensure an equitable education for our most vulnerable students - those in low - income neighborhoods and in one - and two - star schools.
Few Denver schools provide a high - quality education to low - income kids, and the ones that do are concentrated in particular neighborhoods.
They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.
Sustaining our democratic values and improving our education system call for a host of more coordinated and widespread education, economic, and housing policies — including policies to raise curricular standards, tackle insufficient funding for schools with a large share of low - income students, promote access to education resources from early childhood to college, improve dual language programs, provide economic support for families, and create more integrated schools and neighborhoods.
For example, a 2010 New York state charter school law requiring charter schools to mimic the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood — implemented to address gaps in English language learner and special education enrollment at charter schools — might mean, if enforced, that a school in upper Manhattan's District 6 would need to enroll a student population in which 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a commonly used measure of low - income status.64
If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.
In some neighborhoods, families have a choice of sending their children to high - performing district schools or affording a private or parochial education; meanwhile, many families in low - performing districts who can not afford to pay tuition have no high - quality choices — or can't gain access to the handful that do exist.
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.
Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has chosen Clark, a North End neighborhood school that has struggled with low test scores and chronic absenteeism, as a candidate to enter the state Commissioner's Network after this academic year.
My education experience (not as a classroom teacher, but often in classes with teachers) is that in the lower income neighborhoods the children out behaviorally more than in calmer neighborhoods.
Forty - three years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled in the landmark San Antonio v. Rodriguez school - funding case that education was not a constitutional right and that the disparate spending on education for students from low - income neighborhoods was not a violation of the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Children from the poorest and lowest performing schools deserve the same options and education that children in wealthier neighborhoods have access to.
Specifically, the reality of lower earning - power across every level of education (a problem that by the way is also shared by all women in this society but particularly among women of color), the lack of assets from which one can draw upon in case of any type of disruption in earnings, and poor access to credible financial institutions within the neighborhoods where they live, make African Americans particularly vulnerable to falling behind, and staying behind, thus significantly hampering the possibility of establishing a positive credit history.
The DCAP Dallas Pets For Life program (PFL) goes directly into low income Dallas neighborhoods with pets in need, offering education and resources to help people better care for their pets.
PFL provides ongoing neighborhood outreach, plans community - wide events, and offers free or very low cost services, such as dog training, humane education, spay / neuter surgeries, and wellness care.
Since its founding in 1993, PRH has served as a vital anchor for what had been a fast - eroding neighborhood, providing arts education programs for youth, exhibition spaces and studio residencies for emerging and established artists, a residential mentorship program for young mothers, an organic gardening program, and an incubator for historically appropriate designs for low - income housing on land surrounding the original row houses.
The City of Philadelphia, which launched its Indego bike share system in April 2015, used this funding to install 20 stations in underserved neighborhoods, develop a cash payment option, create a discounted pass program, and implement marketing, education and outreach programs focusing on low income Philadelphians.
/ week) 2004 — 2005 Jumpstart is a national education organization that assists children from low - income neighborhoods at a greater risk of school failure, develop the language and literacy skills they need to be successful in school.
All subjects resided in the same geographical locale (i.e., lower socioeconomic status neighborhoods), and none participated in any formal lifestyle programs during the intervention period, besides school sports and / or physical education.
These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.