Sentences with phrase «out of their neighborhood schools»

The parents of 59 percent of black New York City elementary - school children opt out of their neighborhood school, aiming for a better one.

Yet the decision by a small number of children to opt out of neighborhood schools may adversely affect the academic and social environment in those schools, as the remaining children are likely to have less - involved families on average.

But we also understand that the weakened status of public schools is a personal dilemma for many families, and we sympathize completely with parents who choose to opt out of their neighborhood school.

Because we draw families out of their neighborhood schools, we have forged our own close - knit community of teachers, students, families and friends.

Opponents of the law say that method strips the democracy out of a neighborhood school by letting a small number of parents decide its fate for generations to come.

Non-stop bullying left Valentin so hopeless, he dropped out of his neighborhood school in sixth grade and moved to Nicaragua to be with his father.

All of that started to change when Camron's adoptive parents took him out of his neighborhood school in Bushnell and enrolled him in a private school with a school choice scholarship.

The ability to opt out of a neighborhood school increases the likelihood that a black or Hispanic neighborhood will see an influx of wealthier residents.

At a June 14 hearing she said, «I don't support any option that would force children out of their neighborhood schools.»

Not exact matches

Employees of the Danish customer service firm Zendesk fan out into the poverty - stricken Tenderloin neighborhood to help in area schools and work in food kitchens, though it's part of a deal with the city that earns the company a break in payroll taxes.

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

Most parents, black or white, were reluctant to send their children out of their neighborhoods to attend distant schools, especially when those schools were perceived, often correctly, as educationally inferior or even physically unsafe.

As the country becomes more ethnically and religiously diverse, there will be those who say the Church can only survive if we fight to the death to preserve our civic religion — keeping prayer in public schools, keeping the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and keeping mosques out of our neighborhoods.

But we have followed Jesus in here, we have gathered together to be renewed, so that every week we can follow Jesus out of here — out to the school and the hospital and the bank and the office and the neighborhoods.

Get the dealers out of your schools and neighborhoods.

And as Safe Routes to School points out, active commuting helps both parents and children «build a sense of neighborhood.»

And so he has created, in the Harlem Children's Zone, an integrated set of programs that support the neighborhood's children from cradle to college, in school and out of school.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

• Perhaps kids living in dangerous, disadvantaged neighborhoods are less likely to run afoul of authority figures — in and out of school — when they are taught unquestioning obedience.

Lunch Line follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch — and end up at the White House.

In the film, six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House.

Along with continuing the work of appreciating the beauty of all races, through open dialogue about the importance of diversity in your school and / or neighborhood, it is critical to seek out media that features main characters of color.

But I don't buy that — activists are activists, and most are looking for an outlet, whether they're trying to keep a smelter out of their neighborhood or put a Christian home - schooler on the local school board.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

He doesn't give a shit that you're getting priced out of your NYC neighborhood or that your neighborhood schools in Rochester are falling apart.

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.

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.

She desperately wants to get out of the Valley and into the neighborhoods, social circles, and schools of the true Hollywood elite, even though this South Boston woman often feels out of her league.

Okay, okay, Martin's a bit out of the high school range to play Marvel's friendly neighborhood Spider - Man.

Wahlberg grew up in a working - class neighborhood in Dorchester, Mass., and dropped out of high school; he just completed his high school diploma online last year at age 42.

We are FAR more diverse than the neighborhood school I pulled my oldest child out of 10 years ago.

After completing 12 hours of training with their husbands and children at their neighborhood school, the two Tristan families were allowed to check out microcomputers and educational software for use in their homes for up to three weeks at a time.

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 cSchools 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 cschools where they are fully integrated into elective classes like physical education, gardening and cooking.

So we quickly ruled out using an existing school facility and focused our search on former industrial sites, most of which were located adjacent to highly populated neighborhoods.

Contact the National College Access Network to see who is in your neighborhood and to find out how your school can become a feeder to some of the work they are doing.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

Districts have also strictly limited families» choices, often by imposing strict limitations on out - of - neighborhood transfers and by resisting the creation of new schools to compete with existing ones.

As a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of schools west of the park and unable to afford private schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary school down the street or a diverse charter school nearby.

Gyllenhaal plays the mother of a dyslexic child desperate for a way out of her struggling neighborhood school, and Davis the once - great teacher who joins Gyllenhaal's trigger campaign.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

Lewis - Carter remembers looking out over a sea of children dressed in uniforms of the various neighborhood schools they had attended pre-Katrina.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

Yet neither school faces media charges of poaching the best students, private contributions creating an uneven playing field, screening out low performers, having a demographic that doesn't match the surrounding neighborhood, or creating an obsession with testing.

This would be a neighborhood school, in the heart of impoverished urban America, committed to educating all students, not to weeding out the most challenging.

The parents I interviewed who were taking their children out of their gentrifying neighborhood's school shared stories of cultural dissonance that were minor affairs, but that crystallized for them the discomfort they felt as newcomers, and their inability to find a niche.

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.

«It's a lot harder to cut a program in seventy - five schools than a program in three schools,» says Gina Jacquart Thorsen, vice president of research and program development for Big Thought, the nonprofit organization that coordinates ArtsPartners and Thriving Minds, an expanded initiative to infuse creative learning into the curriculum, after - school and out - of - school programs, libraries, and neighborhood cultural centers.

And neighborhood schools take on a permanence that is out of keeping with the charter model.

Next come zoning laws that keep the poor and poorly educated out of well - off neighborhoods and excellent schools.