Sentences with phrase «one's neighborhood elementary school»

They go to the same neighborhood elementary school and sit in classrooms right next to each other.

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.

In Crystal Lake, the city, Park District and local schools have created a program that allows some middle - school students to act as helpers at neighborhood elementary schools.

CORONA — Parents and elected officials are pushing for the expansion of an overcrowded neighborhood elementary school which is nearly double its capacity and where hundreds of students are being forced to learn out of trailers.

The proportion of black students in the majority - black elementary schools has remained consistently high, at 96.7 percent black (as compared with 98.8 percent black in 1985, the first year the district returned to segregated neighborhood elementary schools).

This evidence strongly suggests that the return to neighborhood schools was not the underlying cause behind the increase in parent involvement at the time neighborhood elementary schools were re-established; rather, the increased effort of school officials at getting parents involved appear to be the source of the increase, an effort that benefited the schools undergoing busing for integration even more than the resegregated neighborhood schools.

The return to resegregated neighborhood elementary schools in Oklahoma City, after 13 years of busing for integration, has not led to the gains in achievement, parent involvement, and equity the school district had claimed, according to a report released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

From downtown district offices to aging neighborhood elementary schools to graffiti - sprayed secondary schools, phrases such as «socializing intelligence» and «accountable talk» are rolling off the lips of teachers, principals, and district administrators alike.

The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

When the Hartford Board of Education rejected Steve Perry's plan to transfer Hartford's Capital Preparatory Magnet School and a nearby neighborhood elementary school over to his private charter school company last year, Perry took to Twitter saying;

The only neighborhood elementary school that would be left in the city's northeast section would be Wish School.

One attends a charter high school, and the other attends our Los Angeles neighborhood elementary school.

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.

(Last October, the Sun Times found that for the top 10 suburban neighborhood elementary schools, the school day was one hour less than CPS» proposed 7.5 hours.

I want to draw attention to one nimble little organization helping feed hungry kids at my neighborhood elementary school, the

I want to draw attention to one nimble little organization helping feed hungry kids at my neighborhood elementary school, the Cecilia Rawlins Fund.

When she entered 4th grade at the neighborhood elementary school she started to eat the lunch provided in the cafeteria.

The Glens Falls City School District operates Glens Falls High School, a middle school and four neighborhood elementary schools (Sanford Street School, Big Cross School, Jackson Heights School and Kensington Road Elementary School).

I went to the neighborhood elementary school around the corner from my house, and my parents were very clear from the time my brother and I were little that school was our number one priority.

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

Worried about his transition to kindergarten, the Laidleys kept their son in preschool for an extra year before sending him to his neighborhood elementary school.

Two years ago, Latoya Allen picked up her 4 - year - old son at their neighborhood elementary school in Syracuse, New York, and his prekindergarten teacher pulled her aside.

Now a health and safety coordinator at the University of Hawaii, Nielsen began a much more extensive process looking at schools with his wife after learning that their neighborhood elementary school was low performing.

But the neighborhood elementary school, historically on the district's list of lowest performing schools, hasn't changed as quickly.

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 K - 4.

And its success helped pave the way for the superintendent's more ambitious proposals for ensuring Meriden's students would get more learning time: full - day kindergarten and expanded days at three neighborhood elementary schools.

TUALATIN, OR — Karen Irving describes her oldest child as dreamy and quiet, a bright kid who wasn't getting the attention he needed in his neighborhood elementary school.

Goudy Technology Academy is a neighborhood elementary school situated between the historic neighborhoods of Uptown and Edgewater in Chicago.

In Ward 4, where my children attend a neighborhood elementary school, parents are pushing DCPS to reopen MacFarland Middle School (under a new name).

While small, neighborhood elementary schools are not only allowed but encouraged for urban and suburban districts, Malloy's bill will force small towns to regionalize their elementary schools or face losing their state education funding.

In just two years, school counselor Kirsten Perry has served as a catalyst for transforming North Lawndale Community Academy, a neighborhood elementary school in one...

«DC has created so many escape hatches — you don't have to invest,» one mother told the Washington Post as she was about to switch her four - year - old from her neighborhood elementary school in Logan Circle to a sought - after bilingual charter.

My siblings were homeschooled after my mother pulled them out of the neighborhood elementary school that would, over 20 years later, become a charter school.

Under the SAFE plan, neighborhood elementary schools are transformed into receiving centers where families and residents can gather after an event such as an earthquake.

«I am not convinced that forcing students to move from their neighborhood elementary school is the best strategy for improving academic outcomes, especially in a district where students attend integrated schools from 6th through 12th grade.»

Stokes donated all of the $ 2,500 from ticket sales to the neighborhood elementary school.