Sentences with phrase «poor quality neighborhood»

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More congregations are becoming involved in the search for solutions to problems that affect the quality of life in poor neighborhoods.

So that children in neighborhoods that had no resources in poor public schools were able to still get a quality education.

Not only was it cancer, it was mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer that is little researched or understood but just happens to disproportionately affect Silver's lower Manhattan district which saw a spike in these cases post 9/11 due to poor air quality in the neighborhood.

Previous studies have linked poor neighborhood quality to a higher risk of these behaviors, she adds.

This increase has led to the densification of informal neighborhoods in Colombia, where homes are built and expanded using poor - quality materials, often without professional design or supervision; this leaves families particularly vulnerable to seismic risk.

Running outside can be a better option but it can also present some problems, like poor air quality depending on your neighborhood, safety concerns, or not being able to leave your children alone with no one to watch them.

For example, many of my students live in poor, heavily polluted areas, so when we study intermolecular properties and precipitation reactions, we examine the air and water quality in their neighborhoods.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

It was a mother, Virginia Walden Ford, whose activism forced the reforms that are slowly improving D.C.'s traditional public school system and bringing high - quality options into the poorest neighborhoods.

But unless public dollars are focused on high - quality programs for poor families — while bolstering the neighborhood organizations that serve them — good intentions will turn into dashed hopes.

Poor children are not given the same high - quality education that children from affluent neighborhoods are given, and certainly not ever without a struggle from parents.

I just hope that the they don't let the quality of the school inhibit their own efforts to be good teachers, because an incredible teacher can change lives even in a bad neighborhood or a poor school system.

Their poorest neighborhoods have over a dozen high - quality «Tier 1» schools (a marker of quality in the DC community) and more students in Washington, D.C. attend these schools than ever before.

With all of the negative aspects of the teaching profession (low pay, working in dangerous neighborhoods, etc...) it may soon come to pass that no one will want to become a teacher, and then we'll be stuck with only poor quality teachers.

Our previously featured Argentine architect Carlos Levinton has just finished his latest project: a construction and home improvements project to reduce energy consume and improve the life quality of a number of families in a poor neighborhood in

My research suggests that most Turkey companies buy some junky foreclosure for pennies in a B -(or worse) neighborhood, do a poor quality rehab project (because hey, after all, it only has to look good to the out - of - state buyer, who'll likely never know that the drywall is from China and is spewing fumes, along with the cheap laminate which offgases enough formaldehyde to start your own chemical factory...) and THEN the Turkey co. says, wow - all I have to do is price this over retail and promise easy returns, and some out of state buyer will fall for it.