Sentences with phrase «parent in a better neighborhood»

if that parent moves into a dangerous neighborhood and you can prove this, there have been cases where the parent in a better neighborhood was awarded primary custody.

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I've addressed the importance of geographic mobility in supporting income mobility from the perspective of providing parents options for better neighborhoods in which to raise their children.

By offering a variety of subject areas to parents in your neighborhood, you'll quickly build a client base eager to pay you for your help in achieving the best possible academic results.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

The reader - driven awards program, in its third year, recognizes the best parenting brands, products, and neighborhood services and resources for families with children ages 0 - 10.

We love it for quick strolls around the neighborhood as well as to store in the car, as it takes up very little room and provides an option for parents on the go.

She said families in her neighborhood had been disrupted by previous boundary changes made when Andrew was built, and said other parents should now accept the changes for the overall good of the district.

Sarah's book about the experience, Fed Up With Lunch, contains a «Guide to Quiet Revolution,» which parents, teachers, kids and teenagers, as well as community members can use as a road map to make health and wellness a priority in neighborhood schools.

They will have the opportunity to connect with other special needs parents as well as with more than 80 exhibitors located in the Chicago - area, from the neighborhoods in the city to the Chicago suburbs.

Maybe I'm guilty of stereotyping, but in a low income neighborhood, it may be that parents are absent or working or lacking the education to feed their children well.

«For months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statement.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

There are so many Buffalo public school parents that know it's a good old boy neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and the money makes a difference.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

«Like me and so many others in our community, Grace Meng is a parent who wakes up every day with a mission to better the neighborhoods where we raise our families,» Vallone said.

To that end, he supports the city's universal pre-K plan, but also said schools in low - income neighborhoods need additional resources and better management, as well as better parent - teacher interaction.

Good Morning (The Criterion Collection), set in a suburban Tokyo housing complex in the late 1950s, is one of director Yasujiro Ozu's lighter films, telling the story of how two schoolboys disrupt their entire neighborhood by going on a silence strike because their parents refuse to buy a television.

WINGS organizers believe that good social and emotional skills will enable the children to overcome the hardships in this low - income neighborhood, learn more in school and, ultimately, become better workers, friends, spouses, and parents.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

But one suspects that the effect of the Catholic school on its neighborhood is unique, as the commitments between school, teachers, administrators, parents, and students are strengthened by residence in the same neighborhood, as well as the tie of a common religion binding many of them.

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.

What about parents who are committed to staying in our chosen school — typically the traditional public school in our neighborhood — but want to help it get better?

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.

A Parent Engagement Model That Works Parent engagement efforts have resulted in the formation of school / community gardens, increased affordable housing opportunities, safer neighborhoods, better economic opportunities, and increased student achievement.

It is worth considering, however, that suburban parents may well have already exercised school choice as part of their house - hunting process, by choosing their neighborhood based in part on where their child or future children would be assigned to go to school.

That's persistent demand stoked by parents and students seeking a better education than children are receiving in neighborhood schools.

As with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents with greater financial resources can identify communities with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where good schools are likely to be.

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

Parent Llury Garcia at Weigand Elementary in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles — where the principal has been ousted and 21 teachers subsequently asked for transfers — hopes her 8 - year - old daughter will become a better reader and be held to higher standards.

These parents are tired of organizations coming into their neighborhoods and telling them what's in their best interest — and the folks claiming to speak for them aren't even from there!

LOS ANGELES, CA - On Saturday, Feb. 4, well over 5,000 parents, students and teachers from across Los Angeles joined education officials and leaders for the «Schools We Can Believe In» rally at Exposition Park, to demand high - quality public schools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school studentIn» rally at Exposition Park, to demand high - quality public schools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school studentin every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school students.

«In the absence of a summative rating for a school, it becomes very difficult for families to hold schools accountable for what happens within the walls,» said Seth Litt, executive director of Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing schoolIn the absence of a summative rating for a school, it becomes very difficult for families to hold schools accountable for what happens within the walls,» said Seth Litt, executive director of Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing scParent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing schoolin their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing scparent trigger» law to take over low - performing schools.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

Year after year, our goal is to meet thousands of parents from disadvantaged inner - city neighborhoods as well as those living in the often forgotten rural communities.

«It makes it more objective than what it's been in the past,» Howard said, adding the report cards will help parents and neighborhoods better advocate for what their schools need to improve.

Key Issues To ensure charter schools and neighborhood public schools function in the best interests of students, parents and community members, we believe that, like all public institutions, they must be guided by six basic principles of a democratic society: transparency, accountability, quality, oversight, equity and public control.

School choice proponents say that charter schools and vouchers offer parents important options for their children's education — allowing them to leave their neighborhood schools in search of something better — and that traditional public schools have failed in many places.

It is starting to mirror the opt - out movement, which was mostly driven by well - off white parents concluding that the «poor kids» tests meant to spark more accountability in poor neighborhoods did little for their kids.

We hope to work with parents from ANY school in all neighborhoods, as well as community members, who want to make a difference for the city's most vulnerable students.

For example, Sarah Judd, a lawyer with the Vermont Forum on Sprawl who developed the Healthy Kids, Healthy Neighborhoods Program, benefits by understanding what's important in the education world — it's good for the community to understand what schools are dealing with, what the responsibilities of an educator are, and how teachers are expected to «raise 25 kids» to be responsible adults — often because their parents aren't able to fill that role, working too hard to make a living.»

Earlier investments of nearly $ 3 million in this personalized learning portfolio include Rocketship, a national network of blended learning schools seeking to eliminate the achievement gap in low - income neighborhoods, New York City's School of One blending learning model upon which New Classrooms is based, and CFY, a national nonprofit organization that runs the acclaimed online learning platform, PowerMyLearning.com, which provides students, teachers, parents and school leaders with free online access to pre-screened digital learning activities produced by third parties, as well as consumer ratings.

The fact that parents may have worked hard, saved responsibly, and then bought a house in order to ensure their child a seat in a good neighborhood school is often treated as suspect.

Moreover, in transient neighborhoods, parents find it difficult to share reassuring information with one another about their good experiences with teachers; lacking such personal communication, parents who are new to a school community may fall back on predispositions to distrust, especially if many of their social encounters outside of the school tend to reinforce this worldview.

What you do then is come out with a statement, avowing that your main priorities are kids, parents and their neighborhoods, and bolster your case by spouting a bunch of good - sounding half - truths in an attempt to make yourself sound believable.

I have analyzed the ways in which families look for resources and visibility from their schools and neighborhoods alike, as well as presented tensions between parents and students in their understandings of how schools can meet their particular educational needs.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will becomIn scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will becomin search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will becomin the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

We can feel confident in other areas of our lives: maybe we know we're parenting well, or we have other jobs we get kudos for, or we can make a mean mac and cheese or are the Grillmaster of the neighborhood.

We love it for quick strolls around the neighborhood as well as to store in the car, as it takes up very little room and provides an option for parents on the go.