Sentences with phrase «neighborhood school where»

He attends a struggling neighborhood school where 43 percent of the students are reading and writing at grade level.

The neighborhood school where we opened was failing when she was growing up and her mom figured out how to get her to a different school.

Schools in the Los Angeles School District have moved a vast majority of their students out of their special education centers within the last three years and into neighborhood schools where they are fully integrated into elective classes like physical education, gardening and cooking.

Baltimore is not alone among large urban districts in essentially having two tiers of high schools: a handful of selective enrollment high schools and a larger group of lottery - admission or neighborhood schools where fewer graduates go on to college.

«We need to create quality neighborhood schools where we can continue to keep our students in the same classroom while improving the conditions around them, from better facilities to specially trained principals and teachers to updated curriculum.

Not exact matches

After all, the JRW Little League is rooted in the midst of several challenging Chicago neighborhoods, where crime, poverty, underperforming schools, drug dealing and other societal ills can make everyday living nothing short of a treacherous human struggle.

Long before she passed through the Golden Door, Barbara — who was then a Heilman — went to small neighborhood Quaker schools in Moorestown, N.J. and Philadelphia suburbs, where she grew up, daughter of a senior vice-president of the Insurance Company of North America.

For 10 yearsthey'd been telling the same stories — at Immaculata High School in Somerville, N.J., where the legend bookended a grand slam in his first at bat as a freshmanwith a blast in his last at bat as a senior; at the neighborhood diner Jerry «sPlace, where the legend's photo hangs next to one of Mickey Mantle; and here atthis warehouse turned hitting complex, where the legend's newspaper clippingsand old jerseys line the walls.

Beyond the school successes, do you see differences between the parts of the city within the Children's Zone and nearby neighborhoods where the program hasn't expanded yet?

School police are a presence in many schools, particularly those in low - income neighborhoods where many students of color live.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

The participating schools, more than a dozen altogether, serve some of Dallas» neediest neighborhoods, where holiday stress leaves parents wondering how they'll afford groceries, heat, warm clothing and gifts for the kids.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

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.»

He also spoke of a need for unity in New York City, where the privileged and disadvantaged alike are given a fair shot at economic success, good schools, affordable housing, and safe neighborhoods, and where people «don't have to worry about being stopped and frisked because you happen to be the wrong color.»

At 9 a.m., De Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina kick off a «Day of Action» where staff will be preparing for an annual outreach drive to make parents aware of pre-K options in their neighborhoods, Tweed Courthouse — Rotunda, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.

Capping charters in a certain neighborhood, for instance, is a shot aimed directly at parents in Harlem — where a proliferation of charters is starting to offer real alternatives to failing district schools.

«The newer teachers who've been willing to go to those schools with the greatest pedagogical problems, which are typically poor neighborhoods — that's where the greatest carnage would be and it would be in the elementary school level,» Bloomberg said.

Anthony Weiner and John Liu said the mayor should be able to mediate disputes in neighborhoods where charter schools are divisive issues.

Those layoffs would be felt heavily in the city's poorest neighborhoods, where schools tend to have the newest teachers,» Bloomberg testified at a state budget hearing this week.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is a program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they may not have the opportunity to develop their talent.

You know, usually pollution falls most heavily upon the poor, but it turns out that the University of Texas at El Paso was right beside the smelter and so there was a neighborhood where a lot of university professors lived, and that's where the nursery school was located.

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.

I tend to scoff at this argument mainly because I went to graduate school in Baltimore, Maryland, where my small stipend allowed me to live in a neighborhood where a gun to one's head was a regular occurrence.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

Many of the programs build full - time bands in neighborhoods where the students live and the students agree to commit to the program from elementary school through high school, she said.

On the piece, I can see the block my elementary school was on, the location of the neighborhood market where I worked for one week before getting a job at a jewelry store, and the spot of my grade school bestie's house.

Take your date on a walking tour of the neighborhood where you grew up showing off your elementary school and local haunts along the way.

Our hero is Malcolm (Shameik Moore), a high school senior in The Bottoms, a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood where having your sneakers stolen is as much a possibility for a geek as being killed by a stray bullet, and the putatively smart options are confined to having a gang affiliation or to selling drugs.

He also visits a museum on the topic and the California neighborhoods and schools where he went next, including UCLA.

It's an old - school story told in an old - school way: Saoirse Ronan plays Eilis, a young Irish woman who leaves her small town for New York, where she finds a new home and a new love with an Italian man (a sigh - inducing Emory Cohen) in her new neighborhood.

Hogg is a cavernous old school in a lush, gentrified Houston neighborhood called the Heights, where many of the local children go to private or magnet middle schools.

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.

A spokesperson for Dayton Public explained that because the district doesn't necessarily assign children to a neighborhood school and families are allowed to choose where they send their children, parents have to register in order to obtain a school assignment that would allow them to qualify for a voucher.

For the prototype phase, Intrinsic staged two pilots during school holidays, borrowing the multipurpose areas of neighborhood schools, where teachers could interact with students who volunteered to participate.

Excellence must begin in our homes and neighborhood schools, where it's the responsibility of every parent and teacher and the right of every child.

In fall 2006, James O'Brien, a former teacher and first - time principal, started the Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertySchool, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertyschool in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty line.

BAA is Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, where students come from every neighborhood to explore their passion while also receiving a full college preparatory education.

But principal Michelle Tubbs, a veteran of the classroom who holds a doctorate in education technology, had conducted a pilot program with blended learning at an Alliance school in the city's Watts neighborhood, where the average freshman read and did math at the 4th - grade level.

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.

The result: five «choice» schools where Gainesville families can opt to send their children, regardless of neighborhood boundaries.

That school's going to get better and better, and people from the city, even people in affluent neighborhoods like where I live, are going to look at that and say, «I want a school like that.

I didn't know it was integration at 6 years old, but I did notice that all the kids who got off the buses were black and all the kids at school where white, and when I went back to my neighborhood, everyone was black again.

Rather than being located predominantly in residential neighborhoods, many schools will migrate to commercial streets, where they can capitalize on transportation networks.

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

They were given the freedom to try different things - in Paige's case, a centralized reading curriculum for low - performing schools, charters and vouchers in neighborhoods where the conventional schools would not improve, and outsourcing noninstructional services such as food and transportation to save money.

Such families are apt to hunt for schools (and maybe neighborhoods) where options of that sort exist.

Until my freshman year of high school, I attended «integrated» schools where I shouldered the dual burdens of learning a new culture while keeping up my «skills» in the neighborhood.

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