Sentences with phrase «over neighborhood children»

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Over the years, this neighborhood has been home to such notable people as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Graham Bell, John F. Kennedy, and Julia Child.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

But what a difference when our «African brother» no longer rolls in the sand in a country far over the sea, but moves into our neighborhood, does business on our street, becomes a servant in our home, and sends his children to our school.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

The three additional neighborhood stops will serve about 150 children who would otherwise go without these meals over the summer.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

Ognibene also criticized Crowley over the Council's approval of a new high school for Maspeth without concessions for neighborhood children and a curb cut for buses, suggesting she could have won the concessions from the city School Construction Authority if she had consulted more Council members behind the scenes before the vote.

«Over the past seven years, the Buffalo Promise Neighborhood initiative has been a positive and empowering force in the lives of so many children and families in our city,» said Brown, while hailing the city's $ 50 million investment in the neighborhood during his years in City Hall.

For over 117 years, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ) has been providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, and currently offers 160 - plus programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, those with developmental disabilities, and those struggling with mental illness.

And while P.S. 234 did not have room for the eight additional kindergartners who moved to the neighborhood over the summer and tried to register at the last minute, even those children will not have to go to P.S. 130, Ripperger said.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

With (really) offbeat humor, the story centers on man - child «Clinton» (Fran Kranz) who still lives with his mother «Edie» (Blythe Danner) at age thirty - something, lazily watches television in a dirty robe, and fights with neighborhood kids over action figures at his own makeshift yard sale.

The casting of local children from the troubled neighborhood was modeled after Jonathan Kaplan's 1979 film «Over the Edge.»

Using segments from Roger Ebert's autobiography as voice - over, director Steve James recounts the critic's passion for journalism, when as a child Ebert wrote a newsletter about his Urbana, Ill., neighborhood.

When his hard - living mother is arrested, a 13 - year - old boy in the Brooklyn projects must fend for himself, watch over a 9 - year - old kid, and dodge both neighborhood trouble and Child Services.

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

President Obama launched the Promise Neighborhoods in 2010 and now over 50 communities are planning or implementing results - focused data - driven Promise Neighborhoods, scaling up to serve 200,000 children nationwide.

The coordinators said in all the programs parents who opted for a «choice school» over a neighborhood school were better educated and supervised their children's schoolwork more closely, compared to parents who kept their children in the neighborhood school.

«Parents feel their children are safer at school than at play in their own neighborhood, but recent acts of school violence have ignited debate over school safety.

Over $ 1 billion could have provided more opportunities and more one - on - one attention to children in our neighborhood public schools, but instead it is being used to pay back voucher lobbyists.

Over the past four years Austin Voices has convened hundreds of people to weigh in on the education issues that affect them — from the neighborhood level with public housing «community conferences» to the national level with hearings on No Child Left Behind.

The change was controversial: Some PS 307 parents worried that a community institution that has long nurtured black and Latino families would be «taken over» by outsiders from the gentrifying neighborhood of DUMBO, while some DUMBO families worried that the school's low test scores mean their children might not be challenged.

Just as Mrs. Thompson was told over 60 years ago, that she could not have access to a school within walking distance of her home, black children are denied access to public schools in their neighborhoods today; some traveling more than 3 miles to attend school.

Invite friends, and neighborhood children over to sit down on the floor and hand - feed your new puppy, this is a wonderful way to expose your dog to strangers, and the little hands of children.

The Malamute is a physically tough breed with enormous strength that can easily knock over a child during play or drag its owner around the neighborhood unless it is properly trained and has learned its own strength.

we also have one child, another in the works and have many kids in the neighborhood as well as running a parenting group witch has kids over a lot.

The walkie - talkies let you communicate over a range of four miles — more than enough if your child is playing in the neighborhood or if you become separated at the supermarket.

Fulfilling Careers Close to Home We provide exceptional and compassionate care for more than 4.5 million men, women and children in 12 hospitals, over 150 outpatient facilities, 27 senior care locations and dozens of doctors» offices right in your neighborhood.

Fluff — Studies reveal that even in high - crime, inner - city neighborhoods, well over 90 percent of children from safe, stable, two - parent homes do not become delinquents.

The number of children living in high - poverty neighborhoods more than doubled over the past decade, increasing from 76,000 in 2000 to 212,000 during the current data year.

Over 50 percent of respondents strongly agree that homeownership helps build safe and secure neighborhoods and provides a stable and safe environment for children and family members.

If you have school - age kids, you'll likely be on the lookout for a tight - knit neighborhood of families with same - age children over a neighborhood full of empty nesters.

Have the neighborhood kids over to play with your children?