Sentences with phrase «schools in better neighborhoods»

For instance, although he cites one successful example of an effort to move poor kids into schools in better neighborhoods, the Moving to Opportunity program — a randomized, controlled trial of this approach — has not had much success in boosting school achievement among poor kids.

As soon as teachers had enough experience, they often transferred to a school in a better neighborhood.

Not exact matches

So if you're in love with a house in a «less good» neighborhood or within a «less good» school district, before you write it off as an option, do a little more digging.

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

«Family members are good but independent persons are even better, [like] a school teacher, a grocery store owner he may have come into contact with, someone in the neighborhood,» says Ms. Warburton in an interview.

To earn some spending money while attending Thomas Jefferson High School in his Brooklyn neighborhood, Blankfein worked as a lifeguard and got himself into better shape, after years of struggling with his weight.

Another story in The Sun, about racial covenants in Rodgers Forge («Residents of Towson neighborhood confront racist legacy of covenants,» Sept. 10) was significant because, repeatedly, new residents remark that they moved to the neighborhood because of good schools and because taxes are lower than in Baltimore City.

Educating the kids in a better school district means either private school tuition or a better neighborhood with astronomical mortgage and property tax.

The starter home price in the Detroit area is $ 17,950, but a house in a safer neighborhood with better schools could cost quite a bit more.

Although private schools in the real Belmont and other neighborhoods populated by the affluent teach well - to - do teenagers to be nonjudgmental, tolerant, and inclusive, the social environment is still safely bourgeois.

It strikes me as a dangerous exaggeration that may seem to justify a differentiation in the pedagogies and the social policies that are enacted or applied within such neighborhoods, with greater emphasis on rigid discipline than on the informality and intellectual expansiveness that are familiar in the better schools that educate the children of rich people.

Visualize a city with a network of growth groups in each neighborhood available to people of all ages and sponsored by schools, churches, and community agencies as well as corporations unions, professional associations, and fraternal groups.

Both Boston's blacks and Jews had hoped to create a stable, integrated environment of good schools, busy stores, and safe streets in these contiguous neighborhoods.

Having lived in a number of neighborhoods and gone to a good many schools, he has found coasters a stabilizing force.

Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or better facilities than those available at schools in their own neighborhoods.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboSchools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

In the neighborhood: The Book Stall owners love planning in - store book fairs and fundraising events, as well as sending top authors to local schoolIn the neighborhood: The Book Stall owners love planning in - store book fairs and fundraising events, as well as sending top authors to local schoolin - store book fairs and fundraising events, as well as sending top authors to local schools.

Giving them the best opportunities we can in our neighborhoods and school systems, helping them to achieve the goals they want, the list goes on.

Sarah's book about the experience, Fed Up With Lunch, contains a «Guide to Quiet Revolution,» which parents, teachers, kids and teenagers, as well as community members can use as a road map to make health and wellness a priority in neighborhood schools.

While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

In the 7th Council District Mark has fought for safer streets, faster bus service, better schools, cleaner parks, more affordable housing, and development which fits the scale and context of the neighborhood.

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.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

The various infrastructure development in the state are to further enhance the welfare of government workers in particular: quality and affordable schools for their children, affordable medicare, good neighborhoods to live in, good roads to drive on without the frequent wear and tear on their vehicles.

Eileen exchanged emails with two lawyers in the office, who offered the Cavers extensive advice on the best neighborhoods and schools in Syracuse.

He also spoke of a need for unity in New York City, where the privileged and disadvantaged alike are given a fair shot at economic success, good schools, affordable housing, and safe neighborhoods, and where people «don't have to worry about being stopped and frisked because you happen to be the wrong color.»

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

«Mayor de Blasio claims he's making schools better, but I'm just not seeing that in my neighborhood.

He will be a strong partner in Albany fighting to make our streets safer, our schools better and to preserve and improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

Walsh's best friend was a neighborhood buddy, the late Peter Carolin, a janitor at the Elmwood School in Syracuse, said Walsh's son Jim, the former congressman.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Some community leaders in Chinatown say Silver has worked hard for their neighborhood as well, and credit him with helping to get the Lunar New Year approved as a potential school holiday in the city.

There are so many Buffalo public school parents that know it's a good old boy neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and the money makes a difference.

In the last four years, our neighborhoods have not gotten safer, our schools have not performed better and our fiscal strength has not increased.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

Currently, by funding schools through property tax, people in wealthy neighborhoods often get better schools, she said.

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

The city has also set aside $ 189 million for parks, open space and businesses in the Bronx neighborhood, and it has pledged to open a pair of new schools as well.

For the great number of Long Island residents who no longer have use for the schools, who are underwater with their mortgages, and who are living in neighborhoods that look a lot different than they used to — well, they're not sure what they're paying for anymore.

We need better schools with more accountability, public safety, and improved quality of life in the neighborhoods.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

To that end, he supports the city's universal pre-K plan, but also said schools in low - income neighborhoods need additional resources and better management, as well as better parent - teacher interaction.

Cleaning and greening vacant lots might be just enough of a change, Kaplan says, to help build a sense of ownership and neighborhood identity in the affected communities so they can come together and push for larger improvements like better schools and sanitation — and remain in the neighborhood to enjoy them.

I think it's a combination of not having good role models, not having daily physical education in the schools, and having unsafe neighborhoods.

Our neighborhood school went from «I'm never, ever sending my child there» to one of the best and most desirable elementary schools in the city.

WINGS organizers believe that good social and emotional skills will enable the children to overcome the hardships in this low - income neighborhood, learn more in school and, ultimately, become better workers, friends, spouses, and parents.

Most of the seven hundred or so children who attend this K - 12 institution located in a tough neighborhood in Northeast Washington enter scoring well below their grade level in reading and math; the school is overwhelmingly black and largely poor or working - class.