Sentences with phrase «parent in the city»

This report examines the experience of parents in cities with multiple public school options to answer the question, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families?

So one might have grown up with professional parents in the city, so he knows about computers.

Other parents in the city advocate for charters because they have autonomy to select teachers and set their curriculum.

You can follow their adventures in slow living and slow parenting in the city of San Francisco at Slow Living in the City.

I look for sanity, especially as I spend more and more time with parents in cities like Camden and Newark where public school choice and accountability provide the only mechanisms for hope.

The perfect combination of functionality and convenience makes this lightweight, maneuverable buggy a perfect companion for parents in the city.

Neighborhood Parent Network Neighborhood Parents Network is a non-profit that connects a diverse community of families with the resources they need to navigate parenting in the city.

Prisco's concerns echo the concerns of parents who have blasted Bloomberg's failure to include parents in the city's public schools since winning mayoral control over the Education Department in 2002.

F.E.S. organized about a dozen charter school parents in the City Hall lobby on Tuesday, several of whom gave speeches about the lack of school options in their neighborhoods.

Approximately one quarter of Edinburgh's population live in single - adult households, and there is a relatively low proportion of single parents in the city.

«There is a small number of parents in any city who are attracted to citywide school issues,» said Marcia Klenbort, director of apple Corps in Atlanta.

A state judge in Hartford, Conn., last week dismissed charges against four parents in the city accused of «stealing an education» by enrolling their children illegally in the suburban Bloomfield school system.

The Los Angeles Times reported (Jan. 13, 2012) on Parent Revolution's involvement in the Adelanto parent trigger (this version of the Times article posted on the Parent Revolution website): In Adelanto, the process has been transparent and fair, said Gabe Rose of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles educational reform group that helped train and organize parents in both cities.

After just one full year, charter schools already make up nearly 10 percent of Jackson's public school enrollment in the three grades that charter schools currently serve showing the high demand from parents in the city.

New York was one of the first states to use Common Core - aligned tests, and as students» scores plummeted under the new tests, a small army of mostly white, middle - class parents in the city's suburbs began to loudly oppose the exams.

However, parents in cities like New York and San Francisco report higher costs, as high as $ 2,000 a month for infant care.

The lightweight aluminium frame and the 21.8 - inch width makes the Motion a perfect everyday stroller for parents in the city.

Parents in the city of West Sacramento reached out to hundreds of other parents, organizing multiple community gardens at school sites that provided food to families, supplementary ingredients for school lunches, and opportunities for science instruction.

No parent in this city wants someone with these problems to interact with their daughters or be an example for their sons.»

The Colorado Court of Appeals on Feb. 3 upheld a state trial court's dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Denver Parents Association on behalf of 3,400 parents in the city.

The school in Norwich was formed by a group of teachers and parents in the city and received business plan approval from Education Secretary Michael Gove at the end of last month.

She joined First Five of Contra Costa County and founded the West County Regional Group to help bring more information and leadership to the parents in her city.

«There had always been this underlying concern in the community, especially among the parents in the city school district, that there would be such a fearful reaction to consolidation that there would be white flight where you end up with public schools that are all black and private schools that are all white,» said Buffington, who served on the consolidation committee.