Sentences with phrase «poorest neighborhoods»

Food deserts tend to occur in a city's poorest neighborhoods.

Main Street Power in Boulder, Colorado is getting creative when it comes to finding ways to finance solar energy projects in some of the poorest neighborhoods in Denver and Pueblo, Colorado.

This organization not only assists with medical care and education in some of the poorest neighborhoods of Dakar and in isolated regions of Senegal not far from the border of Mali, but recently created Thread, a cultural center with artists» residencies in the village of Sinthian.

BRIDGING THE GAP Before receiving funding in 2010 to open a small public middle school in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City, principal Nadia Lopez envisioned her students crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.

In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge.

Running in parallel with King's own quest for justice is the case of a Black radical journalist accused of killing two on - duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and women within the city's poorest neighborhoods.

During my breaks, I worked as an intern at summer learning programs in two of the poorest neighborhoods in their respective states; the first in East Palo Alto, California and the second in Reynoldstown in Atlanta, Georgia.

But Bloomberg renewed his pitch, saying that the current round of layoffs would triage schools in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

But Rosenstock thinks he can prove his system works with even the toughest cases, so he's sending his students to go recruit others in churches and community centers in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

In some of the poorest neighborhoods in Grand Rapids, in places inured to academic failure, children are grasping at a chance to defy the odds.

Before joining the Partnership, Tuck was the president of the nonprofit Green Dot Public Schools, where he helped create 10 new public charter high schools in some of LA's poorest neighborhoods.

Much of our work was with students who were four to seven years behind academically — often from some of our nation's poorest neighborhoods.

Good Morning We begin the new year with an inspiring video from The Daily Signal about the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and how it is helping two brothers from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the nation's capital succeed in school and in life.

When students in our poorest neighborhoods receive a substandard education, it's not because hordes of «bad teachers» are being protected at their expense.

Fifteen years ago, Alex Kajitani was a struggling new teacher in one of California's poorest neighborhoods.

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.

Students in Clark County's poorest neighborhoods made mostly positive gains in English and math after state lawmakers last year approved the injection of nearly $ 21 million to boost achievement.

Our neediest schools in the poorest neighborhoods are being shut down and evangelized with «choice» offered by charter schools, many of which are cold business enterprises.

Ever since my visit to St. Luke's School, an elementary school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the South Bronx, N.Y., in the 1970s, I have wondered why one of the best ideas in education — peer tutoring — has been so seldom adopted in American public schools.

For instance, at Cleveland's George Washington Carver Elementary School, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district average.

CINCINNATI — In search of a cure for ailing schools, educators and politicians from around the world have descended on this city's poorest neighborhoods, hearing of a renaissance.

Take Westinghouse High, located in one of Pittsburgh's poorest neighborhoods.

But two neighboring school districts declined to take the students before a third, Pittsburgh Public Schools, found room at one of the city's lowest - performing high schools, located in one of its poorest neighborhoods.

All 15 schools marked for closure are east of Rock Creek Park, many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, and all had below - average test scores.

As President of Green Dot Public Schools, he helped open 10 new public charter schools in some of LA's poorest neighborhoods.

Why should children in some of Washington's poorest neighborhoods be deprived of such an opportunity?

The school serves some of the city's poorest 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.

By middle school, many low - income students of color in San Jose's poorest neighborhoods have been tracked into a vicious cycle of failure, having fallen well below grade level and lacking the support they need to overcome their disconnect from school.

In the District, Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced this month that she is closing 15 schools, all of them east of Rock Creek Park and many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

(Ironically, political leaders in the poorest neighborhoods themselves are asking for more schools for the gifted and talented.)

The school sits in the midst of one of New York City's toughest and poorest neighborhoods, the same neighborhood where former principal Patrick F. Daly was killed in the crossfire of a drug - related gun battle in 1992.

The New Jersey Department of Higher Education has awarded a $ 1.6 million planning grant to Rutgers University to create an innovative community center housing a laboratory school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the nation's poorest cities.

During Bloomberg's administration, more than 120 small, non-selective high schools replaced large high schools in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Similarly, those students coming from the poorest neighborhoods had high rates of involvement compared to neighborhoods of medium and high wealth.

We are sitting in a small conference room of North Star Academy Vailsburg Middle School, in Newark's West Ward, one of this poor city's poorest neighborhoods.

Plopped between two public housing projects in one of the roughest and poorest neighborhoods in Austin, Texas, the school scraped bottom on virtually every measure of student achievement.

The Young Women's Leadership School (known to everyone as TYWLS, or «twills») is a big city school, located on the top five floors of an 11 - story office building on busy East 106th Street in Manhattan, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York.

July 30, 2016 • Anti-poverty activists organized a tent city in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods to protest the Democratic National Convention.

Some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods are expected to see the greatest demand for additional primary care doctors in 2014, as the Affordable Care Act boosts the number of newly insured patients seeking medical services, a new study has found.

«For too long, schools serving children from the poorest neighborhoods have been shortchanged,» said de Blasio spokesman Austin Finan.

A brand new preschool will be opening next year in one of Buffalo's poorest neighborhoods.

She chose a church in Brownsville, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

Those layoffs would be felt heavily in the city's poorest neighborhoods, where schools tend to have the newest teachers,» Bloomberg testified at a state budget hearing this week.

Mr. Cabrera, who also serves as senior pastor of New Life Outreach International, accused Mr. Rivera of failing to secure enough resources for the district, which includes some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Deshone Moise is a third - grader excelling at the Achievement First Apollo charter school in Brooklyn's East New York, one of New York's poorest neighborhoods.

She worked as a bilingual teacher and served as principal of IS 218 in Washington Heights, and was later named superintendent of School District 8 in the Bronx, which includes some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has joined the fight to keep flood insurance bills from skyrocketing in one of Syracuse's poorest neighborhoods.

The city of Syracuse will file a challenge to maps proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency which, if approved, would drive up flood insurance costs dramatically for homeowners in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

City officials say the money would have helped remove the lead hazard from about 250 homes per year in some of Syracuse's poorest neighborhoods.