Sentences with phrase «other neighborhood high»

The basic problem is that Wilson has too many students, while other neighborhood high schools are underenrolled.

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.

Not exact matches

Rascoff: I still remember we were in this high - rise at 2 Union St., in downtown Seattle, and we're looking at Queen Anne, which is this neighborhood on a hill that looks at downtown on one side and Puget Sound on the other.

As the demand for housing has grown to far exceed the existing supply, many urban neighborhoods that have long served as a home for mostly low - and moderate - income households are now seeing an influx of higher - income households; in other words, they are experiencing gentrification.

In the traditionally middle - class black neighborhood of Chatham, for example, the decline in high - paying industrial jobs has important ramifications for Carter Temple (Christian Methodist Episcopal) and the other thriving African - American churches.

On the other side of the ball for Fremont HS, a school that is located in East Oakland off East 14th (International Blvd) and High St in a heavy Tongan, Latino and Black neighborhood.

Although the food depository's truck started its tour in Skokie, it will usually head to other sections of Cook County with a high concentration of poverty, including the Chicago neighborhoods of Chatham, Chicago Lawn, Fuller Park, Kenwood and Uptown, Dolgan said.

In a dramatic turnaround from the bribery and fraud charges leveled three years ago, a former high - ranking NYPD police chief pleaded guilty in federal court to dispatching police resources without permission for the benefit of a mayoral donor and other residents of Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood.

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.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday that its latest air monitoring program near the Peace Bridge shows the air people breathe in adjacent neighborhoods beset by high asthma rates is comparable to other similarly sized cities and high - traffic urban areas.

The DEC's study did not address health impacts, although other independent studies conducted at the Peace Bridge made a strong link between Peace Bridge pollution, especially truck diesel fumes, and high asthma rates in the nearby neighborhood.

We had a very good summer in this city due to the significant amount of overtime that allowed me to put thousands of additional police officers» in public housing and other high crime neighborhoods, Bratton said.

«With this initial round of funding, we are investing in high - quality, locally led projects that will enhance open space, green neighborhoods, foster education and stewardship, and address other environmental improvement priorities of the community,» said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office is overseeing the fund, in a statement.

Those studies — the most recent in 2006 — found a link between bridge traffic, particularly diesel truck fumes, and high rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses in neighborhood residents.

It found that adults in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed - Stuy and East New York had higher rates of emergency room visits for asthma than other neighborhoods.

Colleagues showered praise on Councilman Rafael Espinal, who represents the majority of the area slated for rezoning, saying he set an «historic» model and a «very high bar» for other neighborhoods with the capital funding commitments secured for his community.

With 27 percent of tenants covered already, Levine said that number would climb even higher when all the city's new programs were online and with other help pledged for those in neighborhoods being up - zoned through the mayor's affordable housing plan.

The neighborhoods have recently outperformed other areas of the city in terms of job and business growth, but still maintain higher rates of unemployment and lower average income than the citywide average, the report found.

As previously reported, start - up technology firms continue to set up shop all over Union Square, despite rents in the area remaining significantly higher than in other neighborhoods, such as the Financial District.

Some neighborhoods with very, very high tree canopy, and others woefully underserved.»

For example, neighborhoods that have a high degree of poverty and residential instability tend to have fewer social institutions like synagogues, churches and community organizations — and this can make it difficult for residents to get to know each other.

Kimbro said she and her fellow authors are uncertain whether this shift is because higher - income families moved into high - poverty neighborhoods due to home foreclosure or other factors, or families within moderate - poverty neighborhoods losing income and becoming poorer (thus increasing the number of poor residents).

Another 2 to 7 feet of sea level rise is forecast this century, jeoparizing the homes and neighborhoods of the 5 million Americans who live less than 4 feet above high tide, as well as those of the hundreds of millions living along coastlines in other countries.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

«The United States continues to be highly racially segregated,» Currie said, «with African - American neighborhoods suffering higher poverty, lower average educational attainments, higher unemployment, higher exposure to pollution, and other ills.»

It's a common scenario in cities nationwide: Due to high housing costs and historical discrimination, low - income and minority neighborhoods are clustered around industrial sites, truck routes, ports and other air pollution hotspots.

So when I stopped by my neighborhood American Apparel the other day, I decided I was going to try out some «out of the box» items like these linen pleated pants (Calvary Twill High - Waist Pleated Pant).

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»

Others, like my two older brothers, graduated from neighborhood comprehensive or vocational high schools, returned from Vietnam, took blue - collar jobs, and began the social and economic trek from Harlem to homes in the suburbs.

And at the other end of the age spectrum, diverse high schools located in far - flung parts of Philadelphia hope to have students embark on a walk originating in their own schools and converging at a midpoint in a historic neighborhood.

For instance, such students may «pave the way» to selective colleges for other students from their high schools or neighborhoods.

Others are attracted because they are looking for a different, safer, or higher quality alternative to the public school in their neighborhood.

Both sought to achieve these objectives while preserving their commitment to other educational goals, e.g., districtwide commitment to high quality public schools, increased pupil assignment to neighborhood schools, diminished use of busing, greater student choice, reduced risk of white flight, and so forth.

Other high - performing charters were seen as laboratories of educational practices as they competed with neighborhood schools.

While the upcoming round of closures has provoked the usual complaints, the reality is that many students already opt for something other than their neighborhood public school — and charter enrollment is highest in some of the city's neediest neighborhoods.

This usually occurs through a variety of loopholes (some schools maintaining neighborhood, sibling, or other preferential treatment), lack of equal access in the stratification by race and class in terms of access to higher performing schools.»

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Instead, location within the feeder pattern for Wilson HS, D.C.'s top - performing in - boundary high school, outweighs other neighborhood aspects in explaining the tendency to enroll at in - boundary schools.

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.

This would mean a change of 84 percentage points in the population that is African American, for example, which is larger than the average difference between the most in - boundary neighborhoods with the highest boundary participation rates and others.

Other states would follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit, shutting down schools in black neighborhoods instead of providing what was then considered to be high - quality education.

Looking at other characteristics that may influence school choice, we find that the most important differentiator between high and low boundary participation neighborhoods is the presence of charter schools in the neighborhood.

This shows the importance of a feeder pattern through high school over demographics and other neighborhood characteristics in many families» enrollment patterns.

This implies that if all included neighborhood characteristics are the same, an elementary school boundary neighborhood in the Wilson HS boundary would have a boundary participation rate that is 24 percent percentage points higher than others with similar characteristics.

In the full middle and high school model that accounts for Wilson HS and its feeder middle schools, no other neighborhood factors are significant other than location in the Wilson HS boundary.

This could be because middle and high school boundary neighborhoods are much larger and less different from each other than elementary school neighborhoods, which are smaller and more differentiated.

«We support great neighborhood public schools and high - quality public charter schools, and we will help them disseminate best practices to other school leaders and educators.»

The report finds that living in the feeder pattern for Wilson High School outweighs all other neighborhood aspects in explaining the differences in boundary participation rates across neighborhoods.

Aspire's mission is to open and operate small, high - quality charter schools in low - income neighborhoods, in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward - thinking educators, and to catalyze change in public schools.