Sentences with phrase «neighborhood public elementary school»

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

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Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

In Novato, parents are assigned a neighborhood school but can also apply for a transfer to one of the seven other public elementary schools in town.

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.

In Philadelphia, Kevin and Nancy Peter have long been boosters of public education and their neighborhood elementary school, C.W. Henry Elementary School, which their son attended when he was in grades school, C.W. Henry Elementary School, which their son attended when he was in grades School, which their son attended when he was in grades K - 4.

Ever since my visit to St. Luke's School, an elementary school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public scSchool, an elementary school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public scschool in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public schools.

And no one wants to send elementary school children on public transportation by themselves through crime - ridden neighborhoods.

This week, a new partnership was announced [THURSDAY 11/6/2014] to do just that in 34 public neighborhood elementary schools across Chicago's South and West Sides.

Generally, within a 2.5 radius of St. Richard School there are a total of 21 neighborhood public schools serving elementary grades (Chicago Public Schools, 2public schools serving elementary grades (Chicago Public Schools, schools serving elementary grades (Chicago Public Schools, 2Public Schools, Schools, 2016g).

Camilleri and Jackson describe how the Arts and Technology Academy, a public charter school, nurtures both academic achievement and social / emotional learning for 620 elementary students (pre — K to 6th grade) in an urban neighborhood of Washington, D.C..

Self - reports of satisfaction with life, optimism, and ecological assets in the school (school connectedness), neighborhood (perceived neighborhood support), family (perceived parental support), and peer group (positive peer relationships) were assessed in a sample of 1,402 4th to 7th graders (47 % female) from 25 public elementary schools.