Sentences with phrase «schools around the neighborhood»

We visited elementary schools around the neighborhood and presented to various classrooms, as well as principals, teachers and guidance counselors.

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Beachside schools and schools in more open areas would likely be the most vulnerable, he added, explaining that a school with nothing around it would receive the full impact of winds, whereas a school tucked in a neighborhood would not.

The neighborhoods around a parish were occupied by parishioners; the schools (even the public ones), and the shops were often in the hands of parishioners.

Growing up we would often eat frozen popsicles as we walked around our neighborhood or on our way to the local high school football / baseball field to play.

They would surely enjoy riding this bike around the neighborhood or to the school.

Chances are your son or daughter has heard quite a few curse words on the bus, at school, or around the neighborhood.

- about whether is it what happens in school or what happens around the school that's most important in determining whether kids from poor neighborhoods achieve, right?

I just think of all the kids running around our neighborhood elementary school every day and wow... one in 100 is a lot of kids I know.

Daddy is the one who walks sister to school, strolls baby around the neighborhood and brings him to the library for story time and plays with him at the park.

You might also consider taking a walk around the neighborhood to familiarize your child with his new school surroundings.

Update: I told the school counselor that I had seen B wandering around the neighborhood after school.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Gone are the days when kids had an hour of P.E. in school, and were able to safely run around their neighborhood for hours on end.

It is also perfect for a more sporty look with sneakers and a ball cap that you can wear for a walk around the neighborhood or a school drop off.

I went to the neighborhood elementary school around the corner from my house, and my parents were very clear from the time my brother and I were little that school was our number one priority.

In Philadelphia, charter schools are actively engaged with the district to turn around low - performing schools in specific neighborhoods.

Every sixth Saturday, the teens help teachers organize community events and outreach activities for the neighborhoods around the school.

The school is open to any child in New York City, but most of WHEELS» 806 students come from Washington Heights, the predominantly low - income, Latino neighborhood around the school.

How can we bring together people in communities who care about their schools with teachers who care about what's happening in the neighborhoods around their schools?

In addition, we have obtained historical data on reported criminal incidents in Mecklenburg County that is geocoded to the exact address of the crime, which allows us to measure variation in crime in and around particular schools and neighborhoods.

A sweeping and ambitious turnaround plan for schools in the newer neighborhoods around Denver International Airport led to a failed recall effort against the school board president this spring.

In Baltimore, we had protocols around the decision to open and close schools in relationship to a set of potential events — whether it was ice on the streets, snow, buildings that were too hot or too cold, a potential hazmat situation in a school, a lockdown of a neighborhood because of crime, or what have you.

During the 1980s, the Chilean government decentralized the administration of schools, transferring responsibility for public school management from the Ministry of Education to municipalities (recognized neighborhoods in Chile around which municipal services are organized).

Inspired by the successful Harlem Children's Zone model, the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink supports Promise Neighborhoods — communities of opportunity centered around strong schools — to wrap children in education, health, and social supports from cradle to career.

In Washington, DC, seven full - time truancy patrols made up of 2 police officers regularly sweep neighborhoods around schools for truants.

Legislatures around the country have enacted various forms of school choice with the intent of improving student achievement throughout the education system, seeking innovative methods of instruction and school governance, and providing parents with an alternative to neighborhood schools.

In several cities, we're working together to fix, not close, struggling schools and to wrap services around those schools — because we know this helps kids and ensures that neighborhoods are not hollowed out.

And while the problem is most serious in poor neighborhoods, the awards day snapshot offered up by the upper - income Pearl Creek Elementary is mirrored in middle - and upper - middle - income schools around the country.

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

And if those skills can help children play chess or find their way around the neighborhood or read a book, might they also help children do better in school?

The school, at North Kingshighway and Natural Bridge Avenue, plans to enroll no more than 270 through fifth grade — and only students from the neighborhood around it.

The school has been around since the first days of the 20th century, just when the South Ozone Park neighborhood was transitioning from farming into one of the earliest New York City suburbs; there is a plaque dedicated to World War I veterans who attended the school right at its front door.

The letter sent to Lusher Charter School parents from its PTSA, proclaimed to want to ensure that all teachers» voices are heard but opposed the United Teachers of Lusher from forming.The PTSA placed signs around the neighborhood displaying its opposition.

Case in point, the high school juniors recently explored a series of questions around what drives poverty and how their class could begin to combat poverty in neighborhoods near the school; the students decided to build public street libraries in their fabrication labs and install them on targeted blocks.

A charter school often becomes the nexus around which a neighborhood is revitalized and transformed by providing a cornerstone that creates jobs for local residents and opportunities for children, while attracting additional investment for surrounding economic development.

Dr. Franklin has been instrumental in turning around schools in high poverty neighborhoods with high levels of English Language Learners.

Also missing from the bill, Duncan said, is a commitment to programs that encourage innovation, like Promise Neighborhoods, a program that replicated ideas from the Harlem Children's Zone in school districts around the country, or the Investing in Innovation i3 grant.

Studies have shown that blacks who attend public schools support school choice, but there's always rancor around the loss of the neighborhood school.

Schools in the Neighborhood constructs 109 neighborhoods around each DCPS in - boundary school, and assembles a profile of neighborhood characteristics and boundary participation rates for each in - boundary school.

As two middle school girls lead a visitor around their school — describing its extracurriculars, teachers, and students with evident pride — one explains that although they live in different neighborhoods in New York City, «now we're best friends!»

Nearly half of those charter schools are located in the greater South L.A. neighborhood, and in the area directly around USC, there are 27 charter schools.

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

The findings in this study are based on an analysis of demographic, economic, and other characteristics of 109 neighborhoods around each DCPS in - boundary school and their relation to patterns of enrollment at in - boundary schools, out - of - boundary schools, and public charter schools.

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.

As someone who falls under one of those three groups and lives in South Los Angeles, I know that the schools in and around my neighborhood need a lot of help.

Between 1984 and 2004, the percentage of the student population speaking English as a second language increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; the percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch soared to 91 percent; and the once - stable neighborhood around the school turned into a community with a 60 percent mobility rate for families with school - age children.

«We need to create quality neighborhood schools where we can continue to keep our students in the same classroom while improving the conditions around them, from better facilities to specially trained principals and teachers to updated curriculum.

«So, everything in terms of the environment and safety and crime and things that are happening in the neighborhoods... thinking about economic development, the fact that we have very high poverty rates, very high segregation rates around race and class and so all of those things play a factor when you're talking about our lowest performing schools,» Driver says.