Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods where»

The real questions in Arizona public education today involve how we will best utilize scarce resources in order to provide a quality education for EVERY student; the most effective ways to replicate successful, innovative schools; and the fastest means to develop these schools in the neighborhoods where they are needed most.

To explore the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and school participation rates, we compare the characteristics of neighborhoods where in - boundary schools draw the highest proportions of students (e.g., those with boundary participation rates above the 75th percentile) to other school neighborhoods.

And then there are charter schools that are a welcome breath of fresh air to parents who, perhaps like me not too long ago, can only afford to live in neighborhoods where the traditional schools in that community are not of the highest quality, but desire a high level of education, nonetheless, for their children.

At one end of the spectrum are the schools in suburban neighborhoods where most students graduate and go on to college.

The decision to close a school is frequently met with fierce resistance from the community, as closings have big impacts on neighborhoods where school buildings are important community resources and sources of neighborhood stability; where public schools are significant employers; and where distances to other schools can be substantial.

Trump won just 18 percent of the vote in New York City, and fared particularly poorly in neighborhoods where Success draws many of its disproportionately black and Latino students, ruffling feathers among some Success parents.

Parents who were able to do so moved to the neighborhoods where the schools they wanted to utilize were located.

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

And then there are charter schools that are a welcome breath of fresh air to parents who, perhaps like me not too long ago, can only afford to live in neighborhoods where the traditional schools in that community are not of the highest quality, but desire a high level of education, nonetheless, for their child (ren).

A plan unveiled today by Great Public Schools Now identifies 10 low - income neighborhoods where the nonprofit will focus its efforts on expanding access to high - performing schools for kids close to where they live.

It also says the vouchers are designed to give low - income families in neighborhoods where schools need improvement the chance to send their children to «higher - performing schools.»

Map of 10 neighborhoods where Great Public Schools Now will focus its efforts.

This, she suggests, fosters out - of - control toddlers and may lead to serious problems down the road, particularly for kids growing up in neighborhoods where community bonds have frayed.

Finally, small schools of choice can help to build a strong sense of community, which could particularly benefit inner - city neighborhoods where traditional institutions have been disintegrating.

«Interest groups do all they can to keep new schools from opening up in neighborhoods where there are other schools existing — not because of what's best for kids, but because of what they perceive is best for adults.»

Rocketship schools serve primarily low - income students in neighborhoods where access to excellent schools is limited.

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

Such funding would give affluent neighborhoods an unfair advantage over poorer neighborhoods where parents can not afford to raise such large sums.

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.

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.

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.

The charter schools we study are all located in neighborhoods where the population is disproportionately minority and poor, but the schools are not alike.

But less affluent families» choices are too often limited to the schools in the high - poverty neighborhoods where they can afford to live.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

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

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.

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.

In this period, in addition to Güzeltepe, working class neighborhoods such as Gülsuyu, Gazi, Armutlu, 1 Mayıs Mahallesi, Okmeydanı largely populated by an urban Alevi and leftist population also transformed into neighborhoods where there was constant police surveillance.

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.

Mass transit connects neighborhoods where critters keep to their own kind — or genus.

One of the main reasons Fruitvale Station has touched a nerve with audiences across the world is the pervading air of authenticity: Like Oscar Grant, the film's slain inspiration, director Ryan Coogler is a Bay Area native, and it was imperative to him that he shoot the film exclusively in the neighborhoods where Oscar lived his life.

But Coogler got to the heart of the city, featuring both New Philadelphia and the neighborhoods where boxing gyms still turn out prize fighters that will always have a little dirt under their fingernails.

There are entire neighborhoods where the corrupt LA cops do not dare stray because «that is Mickey Cohen territory.»

A dangerous quest for a stolen pair of shoes becomes an odyssey through ravaged California minority neighborhoods where drugs are omnipresent and violence is never far away.

If you live in a big city, you will find there are neighborhoods where gays, lesbians and bisexuals are prevalent.

Perhaps you can't afford to dine in an expensive restaurant, but you can probably have your morning coffee at one of the coffee houses in the upscale neighborhoods where wealthy people live.

Cockroach, cat and mouse allergens were substantially higher in homes situated in neighborhoods where asthma is more prevalent and that children living in these homes were more likely have cockroach antigen sensitization.

Florida health officials said they were capturing and testing mosquitoes in the neighborhoods where the two unidentified patients live.

Every location and family has different circumstances, but most of us should be able to find places in our yards or neighborhoods where children can play freely without supervision (or with minimal supervision).

August 2, 2006 Heat waves kill in areas without business to draw out elderly Severe heat waves kill more people in neighborhoods where there are few inviting businesses to draw older people out of their apartments, new research suggests.

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.

Both Latino and white children in Miami in 2010 lived in neighborhoods where, on average, more than 60 percent of the children were Latino.

Such a solution would make it possible for utility companies to keep the lights on in neighborhoods where the parrots live, without the cost of repeated nest removals and the damages that result when nests catch fire.

In 2010, Latino children, on average, lived in Los Angeles neighborhoods where 75 percent of the children in their neighborhood were also Latino and 9 percent were white.

White children lived in Los Angeles neighborhoods where, on average, 32 percent of the children in their neighborhood were Latino and 46 percent were white.

He emphasized that the results of the study did not find that the vast majority of MOOC users live in neighborhoods where everyone is well - educated and high - earning — just that the probability of enrolling increases with higher socioeconomic status.

Venus» flytraps evolved in rough neighborhoods where soil didn't always provide enough nutrients.

Thus it appears that something about the neighborhoods where the low - birth - weight children live, regardless of their race, is causing them to develop asthma.

«Problem is, at Jupiter, looking for the kind of data Juno is looking for, you have to go in the kind of neighborhoods where you could find trouble pretty quick.»