Sentences with phrase «public schools in areas with»

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Public schools are continually reducing their commitment to art and music classes for students, so you can try to work with the public school system to supplement their efforts in those Public schools are continually reducing their commitment to art and music classes for students, so you can try to work with the public school system to supplement their efforts in those public school system to supplement their efforts in those areas.

If you have kids or are planning on starting a family, you've likely thought about how you can position yourself in an area with excellent public schools.

In some areas delinquent behavior by blacks in the corridors, toilets and classrooms of the public schools is approaching destructive proportions, with the result that the quality of education is in jeopardIn some areas delinquent behavior by blacks in the corridors, toilets and classrooms of the public schools is approaching destructive proportions, with the result that the quality of education is in jeopardin the corridors, toilets and classrooms of the public schools is approaching destructive proportions, with the result that the quality of education is in jeopardin jeopardy.

In areas with a predominantly Jewish population, Protestant youths resented their own minority status in the public schoolIn areas with a predominantly Jewish population, Protestant youths resented their own minority status in the public schoolin the public schools.

All except Public School 612 are aptly named with a local area code to establish roots in each community.

A handful of JRW players had received public congratulations from a congresswoman, a suburban mayor and others who hailed from outside JRW's boundaries, with each specifically noting that players lived or went to school in their locales, outside the area served by JRW.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

In partnership with Chicago Public Schools, the company offers free tickets to more than 5,000 Chicago - area low - income students each season.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field school events and field trips.

Several schools and hospitals in the Chicago area use sensory equipment to help people with disabilities regulate their emotions or stimulate their senses but the equipment is rarer in public recreational settings like a park district, said local occupational therapists and a representative from Flaghouse, the company that sold the sensory equipment to SEASPAR and other Chicago organizations.

In my area the Labour Council has actively connived, away from public view, with religious groups to found new faith schools thinking that it will prop up its gradually declining support from minority ethnic groups.

Traditionally, everyone had one public school to which they were assigned on the basis of where they lived with elementary schools being more numerous and in smaller geographic catchment areas than middle schools than high schools.

«When I arrived in Buffalo, I was pleased to learn of Buffalo State's impressive record of collaboration with the Buffalo Public Schools in several areas, including many STEM initiatives,» said Buffalo State President Katherine Conway - Turner.

«We have been assured that no proposal will be considered unless there is a suitable relocation facility in our [area], that our school will be kept together, that there will be extensive discussions with us and that any proposal will go through ULURP which ensures adequate public and Community Board input and eventual City Council approval,» Shuffler wrote in an email.

Eric Rubin, a microbiologist at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, says that although the probe still requires clinical testing, «a diagnostic based on this principle could make a big impact both in drug development and in controlling disease, especially in areas with limited access to technology».

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»

The study is the first of its kind to examine the effect of Experience Corps, a national volunteer service program that trains seniors to help children in urban public schools with reading and academic success in other areas.

For example, we might share with a Mentor that the student with whom he is working is a 7th - grade student at a public school in an underserved urban area in a large east coast city.

She has been sharing yoga and mindfulness practices with children, teens and adults in studio, childcare, preschool, public school, and homeschool settings, as well as teaching athletes, coaches and educators at area universities and school districts, for over 17 years.

Traditional public schools and charter schools located in areas with significant Hispanic populations provide the same level of Spanish - language translation for school materials.

[5] This central finding, together with our study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public schools alike.

He consulted for the Education Commission of the States (ECS) in its 1999 report, Governing America's Schools: Changing the Rules, which described a «public schools real estate trust» as follows: «In any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficient spacin its 1999 report, Governing America's Schools: Changing the Rules, which described a «public schools real estate trust» as follows: «In any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficientSchools: Changing the Rules, which described a «public schools real estate trust» as follows: «In any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficientschools real estate trust» as follows: «In any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficient spacIn any locality, one or more real - estate trusts assume ownership of a community's public school buildings, sell the surplus buildings, and build or lease additional facilities in areas with insufficient spacin areas with insufficient space.

The Academy's multiyear Careers in Science (CIS) internship programs, launched in 1996, have so far brought 144 Bay Area public high school students into collaborations with Academy scientists.

Compared with 2015, the public prefers a smaller role in education for the federal government and a larger role for local governments in three policy areas: setting standards, identifying failing schools, and fixing failing school.

It yields a lower bound, understating the potential impact of portability on federal funding for public schools, and showing how portability would matter even in areas with little private school presence.

The focal measures in this table are shown in the last two columns, where the authors present the percentage of charter school students (from the entire metropolitan area) in schools with greater than 90 percent minority students alongside the similar figure for traditional public schools.

Currently, she is focusing her efforts on improving middle - school literacy outcomes in partnership with other Boston area researchers and the Boston Public Schools.

With [public] schools, I have made contributions, but it's a more complex area in terms of where philanthropy comes in.

As charter schools across the country struggle to keep up with demand, a new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

If charter schools were primarily established in response to dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, they would tend to be located in areas with low - quality traditional public schools where students would tend to make below - average test - score gains.

Public school teachers who teach in their areas of certification earn a substantial wage premium, 9 percent, compared with a premium that is not meaningfully different from zero for charter teachers and a 2 percent premium for private school teachers.

After controlling for all these factors, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among public schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

Many schools in multicultural areas have used their kitchen garden programs to help bring together diverse communities with a common love of growing food, such as Hebersham Public School in Western Sydney which has many students of Pacific and Maori backgrounds.

In this post, I share excerpts from a recent interview with Megan Toyama, a blended - learning teacher who teaches AP US history and 10th - grade modern world history at Summit Tahoma, a high school that is part of the Summit Public Schools charter network in the San Francisco Bay AreIn this post, I share excerpts from a recent interview with Megan Toyama, a blended - learning teacher who teaches AP US history and 10th - grade modern world history at Summit Tahoma, a high school that is part of the Summit Public Schools charter network in the San Francisco Bay Arein the San Francisco Bay Area.

I am an Instructional Coach with seven years of experience teaching World History to Emergent Bilingual students in public schools in the Bay Area.

For example, the Civil Rights Project reports that, in the metropolitan area surrounding the District of Columbia, 91.2 percent of charter students are in segregated schools, compared with just 20.9 percent of students in traditional public schools.

Fifty percent of voucher students attended racially isolated schools, compared with 61 percent of public - school students in the Cleveland metropolitan area.

The program promotes individual achievement while supporting the academic agenda in the Savannah - Chatham County Public Schools with 22 - week project - learning programs in four subject areas: the performing arts, film, music production, and information technology.

At a time when charter schools account for 10, 25, even 45 percent of public school enrollment in urban areas, this represents thousands of students across the country who won't start the school year with the teachers they need.

And in numerous experimental studies, voucher parents express far more satisfaction with their child's education than do their public - school counterparts — particularly in areas such as discipline and safety.

The Summit Public Schools network now includes eight middle and high schools in the Bay Area and two high schools in Washington State, with a middle / high school slated to open in Seattle in falSchools network now includes eight middle and high schools in the Bay Area and two high schools in Washington State, with a middle / high school slated to open in Seattle in falschools in the Bay Area and two high schools in Washington State, with a middle / high school slated to open in Seattle in falschools in Washington State, with a middle / high school slated to open in Seattle in fall 2017.

A new federal tax incentive could hold the key to spurring billions of dollars in investment in low - income areas with limited access to quality public charter school options.

The PZ Reach Scholarship aims to support educators working in underserved settings — for example, Title I public schools, areas with high rates of identity - based violence, or communities with large numbers of families impacted by immigration and / or displacement — to attend Project Zero Classroom.

And in New Mexico, public officials are following the lead of other states and looking to support bulk purchasing of school bandwidth, possibly via new regional hubs that would make it easier for more providers to reach rural and remote areas with affordable Internet service.

As we continue to gather information about how charter schools innovate in both of these areas, it is important to share this knowledge with the larger public - education system.

Public schools in areas of increasing property values and other living costs can not simply relocate teachers to areas with reasonable property values and short commutes.

Providence was fortuitously already engaged in expanding each area of the Lab's focus: the mayor's office had recently convened a Summer Learning Task Force, the Providence Public School District (PPSD) was already finding success with expanding personalized learning models, and both the city and schools had an interest in expanding social - emotional learning (SEL) support for children.

Our growing network of 31 schools uniquely encompasses 24 open - enrollment public charter schools in Arizona, Texas, and Washington, D.C., with new schools in Arizona and Texas, plus our first campus in Louisiana, opening in autumn 2018; five domestic private schools in major metropolitan areas including New York City, Silicon Valley, and Northern Virginia / metro D.C.; and two private international schools in China, with two more schools in China plus a school for early learners in the Czech Republic opening in fall 2018, and a new school in Bangkok, Thailand in autumn 2019.