Sentences with phrase «neighborhood school closings»

They also are protesting neighborhood school closings that could result in scores of teacher layoffs; they want a guarantee that the laid - off teachers would be tapped for other district jobs.

Toews opposed voucher programs, saying neighborhood schools close when students leave and take public money to a private institution.

When a neighborhood school closes, the community loses open access to a critical institution, and sometimes the only source of family support services.

Not exact matches

The prime location in Manhattan's Gramercy neighborhood also means the stores are close to corporate professionals and students — the school of Visual Arts and Baruch College are a block away.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

I bought a home in a rich neighborhood because it is close to my work place, but I think other school districts would benefit more from my money.

Buffalo's Common Council is moving closer to making the Michigan Street Baptist Church and what is now I - Prep at Grover Cleveland High School official landmarks, not just landmarks in their neighborhood and in history.

Located twenty minutes Southeast of downtown Buffalo, NY, the Town and Village of Orchard Park comprise an upscale community that combines quiet neighborhoods, close - knit residents, diverse houses of worship, and excellent schools with extensive retail, commercial, and industrial zones and easy access to the NYS Thruway system.

In New York, under close public supervision, they admit students by lottery and have outperformed traditional neighborhood schools.

The Council plans to introduce resolutions that would allow schools to close in neighborhoods with large concentrations of Asian students.

Congressman Adriano Espaillat, noting the school's specialized curriculum that helps prepare students for health careers, said closing it would amount to «a horrible action» in a neighborhood that contains New York - Presbyterian Hospital (NYP), Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and Isabella Geriatric Center.

Neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York had been keenly aware of the Holocaust since her childhood in a close - knit Jewish neighborhood in Cleveland.

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

«This represents a further disinvestment in neighborhood public schools and confirms parents» belief that CPS has a larger plan to close neighborhood schools or turn them over to a private operator and privatize public education in Chicago's African American and Latino communities.»

I wore this all white look out to dinner at Home Bistro in the Boystown neighborhood with one of my close friends from high school.

The high school is closed, and Marty's neighborhood, an otherwise perceptibly middle class compilation of front porches and two - car garages, has become some sort of ghetto.

Take a Learning Expedition: Expeditionary Learning schools take students on authentic learning expeditions, often in neighborhoods close to home.

If the EdChoice program is ever eliminated, Joseph said, «I can see four schools — including ours — in our neighborhood closing....

Even the lesser aim of dispersing a broader variety of services to neighborhood schools that are convenient to families and often underused outside school hours — and sometimes during them, in cities where enrollments are falling faster than school boards can marshal the political capital to close almost - empty schools — is problematic.

Their neighborhood elementary school wasn't an option; it had closed several years earlier.

In cities where school - board members are elected at large, subdistricts are proposed as ways of making board members closer to families and neighborhoods.

For instance, while black schools had to be closed (leading to demotions or the loss of jobs for black teachers and administrators), whites were given access to specialty schools or allowed to remain in their neighborhood schools.

In Baltimore, we had protocols around the decision to open and close schools in relationship to a set of potential events — whether it was ice on the streets, snow, buildings that were too hot or too cold, a potential hazmat situation in a school, a lockdown of a neighborhood because of crime, or what have you.

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

So one has a chain of statistical arguments: which schools close depends on the pastor, not only on the social conditions in the parish, and the neighborhoods of schools that close suffer a loss of social capital.

The next closest school mirrored their neighborhood school's large size and racial demographics but to a more significant degree.

In Chicago, residents of neighborhoods where Catholic schools closed had «less cohesive and more disorderly communities than residents of neighborhoods with open Catholic schools.»

As a current example of ever - larger traditional public schools, the Chicago Board of Education is closing fifty traditional schools at one time and sending their students out of their neighborhoods to ever - larger schools against continuing parent protests.

Since 2005, dozens of Chicago's public schools have been closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods — and often across gang lines — as part of Renaissance 2010, a program launched by Mayor Richard Daley when Duncan was Chicago Public Schoolsschools have been closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods — and often across gang lines — as part of Renaissance 2010, a program launched by Mayor Richard Daley when Duncan was Chicago Public SchoolsSchools chief.

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.

That these schools and their magnet programs tend to have a racial composition closer to that of the neighborhood — majority minority — only reduces their attractiveness to whites.

It is unfortunate that Catholic schools are closing in those neighborhoods where many children have only one parent in the home, despite the fact that these schools are especially valuable under these circumstances.

Each with approximately 100 students per grade in grades 9 through 12, these schools were created to serve some of the district's most disadvantaged students and are located mainly in neighborhoods where large failing high schools had been closed.

In the middle of writing the application for the charter school they wanted to open, Arne Duncan asked them to take over a public school he was closing in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

It was started by a group of parents whose neighborhood school had closed.

Looking at data from students who lived in the HCZ neighborhood and attended a Promise Academy charter school there, and others who only attended Promise, Fryer and Dobbie found that by eighth grade, both groups had closed the achievement gap in math.

Open to students at all levels of academic achievement and located in historically disadvantaged communities, SSCs were intended to be viable alternatives to the neighborhood high schools that were closing.

In a raucous meeting, parents, community organizers and students from as far away as California detailed how school closings are disrupting lives and destabilizing neighborhoods.

Many took Coleman's findings as implying that schools alone would never close the achievement gap, without dramatic societal changes, requiring transforming neighborhoods and family structure.

It's about our shared belief that every family in the Commonwealth deserves a quality public school in their neighborhood — no matter their economic circumstance, ethnic background or zip code; it's about opening currently closed doors and giving more Massachusetts students a seat at the table.

Parent Tawanda Sheard describes the journey her fourth - grade daughter would take to attend the closest district school: «Abandoned houses, liquor stores, guys on the corner» — and a jaunt over Interstate 78, which bisects the neighborhood.

In several cities, we're working together to fix, not close, struggling schools and to wrap services around those schools — because we know this helps kids and ensures that neighborhoods are not hollowed out.

The Social Justice Humanitas Academy is one of a handful of community schools that have been dramatically closing opportunity and achievement gaps in some of Los Angeles» toughest neighborhoods.

SJHA is just one of a handful of community schools that have been dramatically closing opportunity and achievement gaps in some of Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) toughest and most reform - resistant, high - poverty neighborhoods.

Unbowed, Mr. Klein said the new test results reinforced some of his beliefs and policies: he said he would continue to close low - performing schools, for example, and would keep pushing to pay more to teachers who work in hard - to - staff neighborhoods or subjects, which the teachers» union has resisted.

«Democrats amended the platform to: support community schools with wraparound services in struggling neighborhoods; implement restorative justice and alternative discipline practices; invest in engaging STEM curricula; explicitly oppose high - stakes testing as a means to close schools or evaluate educators; support a parents» right to opt their children out of tests; and support and respect all educators and school employees.

For each new charter school that opens, a neighborhood school must close, a process that has proven excruciating in other parts of the.

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.

And although charters enroll only 5 percent of America's K - 12 students, to the cash - strapped, high - poverty urban districts that have been targeted for charter expansions, that number represents a shift of roughly $ 38.7 billion per year in lost tax dollars and mass closings of neighborhood schools.

In the District, Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced this month that she is closing 15 schools, all of them east of Rock Creek Park and many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.