Sentences with phrase «neighborhood school based»

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Calculated based on presence of neighborhood amenities like Restaurants, Schools, Hospitals, Public transportation and others

Niche.com is a Pittsburgh - based website that helps users select K - 12 schools, colleges and neighborhoods.

Start locally - helping out an elderly neighbor with some chores, volunteering at a rescue shelter, helping out the neighborhood school, being involved in a kids program at the local park, helping out at a local hospital, visiting a juvenile detention center on a regular basis.

Meals and snacks are served at sites that can be located at schools, community centers, faith - based organizations, local libraries, recreation centers, and other places in neighborhoods across the Commonwealth.

The program includes neighborhood - based after - school and evening workshops for children and their families and facilitated museum visits.

Skill - based relationship education that may be generalized to parenting, workplace, school, neighborhood, and civic relationships.

Ackerman, on the other hand, called the new NY - 6 «fantastic,» noting it included the neighborhoods where he «grew up, went to public school and college, and started my family and my business,» adding: «It contains my political base and longtime roots, and I have had the privilege of representing approximately 90 percent of it during my 34 years in the state Senate and U.S. Congress.»

«In Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer said.

Any rezoning in East Harlem needs to address the full range of neighborhood issues like housing preservation, schools, and community - based small business.»

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.

The Supreme Court based its decision on a lower court's findings that the re-segregated neighborhood elementary schools in Oklahoma City had increased achievement, parent and community involvement, while maintaining equity and integration in the city's schools.

Schools that decided to convert to charter schools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upSchools that decided to convert to charter schools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upschools did so based on a number of unique criteria, including percentage of non-Catholic students they already taught, whether the neighborhood had fewer Catholic families, and whether the school needed more resources and facility upgrades.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oSchool District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oschool districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

CMS conducted an extensive outreach campaign to ensure that choice was broad - based, and 95 percent of parents submitted at least one preferred school; parents could submit up to three (not including their neighborhood school).

Differ from other neighborhood public schools in that students are not assigned to them based on address.

Our analysis compares the performance of students who win the lottery and attend one of the G&T magnet programs to those who lose the lottery and either attend a neighborhood G&T program in the district, a magnet school based on a different specialty, or a charter school.

He recommends adjusting the expectations for the schools located within a given neighborhood based on the area's average income.

BASIS is a charter school that has struggled through neighborhood protests and funding cuts, plus the usual resistance that charter schools face, but its success speaks for itself.

Public education traditionally assigns children to schools based on where they live, and children live in vastly different neighborhoods.

If every neighborhood were integrated and there were no relationship between the local tax base and a person's income, then low - income families would not be disadvantaged by local financing of schools.

By the middle of year three, the district had pressured the school to begin using its core curriculum and, like other neighborhood high schools, administer biweekly benchmark tests based on it.

This article explores how the disparate cultures found in gentrifying neighborhoods clash in schools, and the pivotal role school leaders play in determining whether integration succeeds or fails, based on their ability and willingness to bridge the two worlds.

Through EGO, City Schools could opt to close or reconfigure school programs, based on their performance, enrollment trends, and facilities needs in neighborhoods and across the city.

The two BASIS charter schools in San Antonio, along with a Great Hearts Academies charter, are part of an effort to lure top charter schools into the city, and not just into the low - income neighborhoods where charters are traditionally found.

Moreover, reform advocates note, basing admissions on geographical boundaries is an exclusionary practice, all too redolent of the days when low - income students of minority background desperately sought to escape from «slum» or «ghetto» schools and gain access to the generally superior schools in «good» neighborhoods from which they had been barred.

Los Angeles — based Citizens of the World has been approved to open a school in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, along with two Brooklyn Success Academy schools.

The number of students who are aware of school cliques based on any of the following: academic ability, athletic ability, beliefs, ethnicity, family income, gender, hobbies / interests, home neighborhood, primary language spoken, musical interest, personal appearance, race, sexual orientation, and / or style.

Traditional zoned - based assignments may be less able to match family preferences than the OneApp, especially for those who don't have the means to purchase or rent a home in a neighborhood with desirable public schools.

Because of the entrenched practice of assigning students to public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged students in schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.

Elementary schools can allocate up to 50 percent of seats to students within a defined neighborhood, while high schools have no geographic boundaries; all open - enrollment schools with available seats must admit students at any time of the year; selective schools can employ test - based admissions; and expulsion policies (but not all discipline policies) are standardized.

It is worth considering, however, that suburban parents may well have already exercised school choice as part of their house - hunting process, by choosing their neighborhood based in part on where their child or future children would be assigned to go to school.

Well, residential segregation combined with neighborhood - based schooling is the main reason we have such inequitable & segregated schools and school systems (and charter networks, too).

Based on a review of existing literature, it argues that the best way to address rising school segregation is to decouple school assignment from neighborhoods through universal school choice.

BTR operates within our two neighborhood based Teaching Academies, schools that provide a world class education for all students while preparing outstanding new teachers for successful, sustainable careers as urban educators.

Left - wing policy supports neighborhood - based public schools, opposes any methods to measure or differentiate the performance of teachers or schools, and argues instead for alternatives to school reform like increased anti-poverty spending or urging middle - class parents to enroll their children in high - poverty schools.

Kemple followed a matched group of eighth - graders who, based on their middle schools and their neighborhoods, would have been expected to attend one of the closed schools.

We reviewed the data to determine if the impacts of attending Noble varied based on students» gender, middle school quality, and neighborhood poverty rate.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

In 2007 we interviewed a random sample of parents of MPCP students in grades 3 — 8, all the parents of MPCP 9th graders, and a sample of parents of MPS students who were matched to the sample of MPCP students based on their grade in school, neighborhood of residence, ethnicity, test - score performance, and other characteristics.

Schools in low - wealth neighborhoods raise smaller amounts of local revenue due to the weaker tax base.

«Charters, based on... being freed from restrictions of bureaucracy, should be knocking the socks off neighborhood schools.

In New York City, the Harlem - based Success Academy Charter Schools, headed by former city council member Eva Moskowitz, attracted opposition when it opened charter schools in affluent neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan's Upper WesSchools, headed by former city council member Eva Moskowitz, attracted opposition when it opened charter schools in affluent neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan's Upper Wesschools in affluent neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan's Upper West Side.

After making these determinations, the Superintendent shall identify one (1) neighborhood school as a potential Lighthouse School, based on whether the school has the potential to meet the Lighthouse school school as a potential Lighthouse School, based on whether the school has the potential to meet the Lighthouse school School, based on whether the school has the potential to meet the Lighthouse school school has the potential to meet the Lighthouse school school goals.

Few public schools (district - run or charter) serving low - income neighborhoods have successfully implemented a project - based STEAM program coupled with in - and after - school enrichment that include sports (no football though), arts, and extracurricular clubs.

Critics charge that charter schools can not adequately replace traditional neighborhood - based public schools.

Wealthier neighborhoods hoard wealth and maintain a racially separate school system through a financial structure based on property taxes.

When a neighborhood - based public school closes, children must travel farther away, increasing commute times and complicating logistics.

Buffeted by declining enrollment, lagging performance and an education reform movement obsessed with choice, many traditional neighborhood - based public schools are being closed.

In South Texas, for example, the first PTA Comunitario in the nation was begun with IDRA support by the women leaders of ARISE, a community - based organization in the colonias working to make sure their children get a good education in their neighborhood public schools.