Sentences with phrase «schools in every zip»

Students Matter created the Policy Pillars to demonstrate that equal access to effective teaching — in every school in every zip code in the state — is an achievable goal.

What they should be demanding is a moratorium for failing schools in every zip code.

Which candidate will fight the hardest for excellent schools in every zip code?

Find A Driving School... Find A Driving School In A ZIP Code.

A recent study by ATTOM Data Solutions found that the average estimated home value for homes with at least one good school in their zip code is 77 percent higher than the average value of homes in zip codes that lack high - performing elementary schools.

Not exact matches

To illustrate his point, Gladwell zips across continents and decades, telling tales from Nazi - occupied France, elementary schools in Connecticut, and the first exhibition of the impressionists.

I seriously have 3 gallon zip lock bags of these in my freezer to help me with early morning breakfasts for school!!

Keep cut up veggies in single - serve zip - top baggies for on - the - go grabbing — I also love to make mini veggie dip cups to serve the kids after school (great for a party too).

Would I be able to make the salt - dough ahead of time and keep it in zip locked bags for the kids to have at school?

In the four zip codes the school intends to serve (80010, 80011, 80012, and 80239), there were 351 teen births (ages 14 — 18) over the past two years for which there is data through CDPHE (2012 and 2013).

Federal nutrition programs that already operate in schools can make sure kids have access to food when they need it, regardless of zip code, age, time of year or time of day.

To find out if your teacher has a project, visit the DonorsChoose.org site and use the search boxes to type in your teacher's and name of your school along with your zip code.

I typed in my zip code, and there are no schools there yet.

We could end the school to prison pipeline, and level the playing field for students in every part of the state, regardless of the color of their skin or their zip code.

«If you happen to be born in the wrong zip code and go to a failing public school, you can get left behind and never catch up.

The prevention program will be brought into city schools and will concentrate on specific city zip codes in Erie County.

«I've come here with organizers and public school parents and students from across the state to demand public schools in every district get the resources they need regardless of the students» zip code, regardless of the students» skin color.»

The high tech devices capture car license plates as drivers zip by intersections in school zones.

«The DNC is committed to electing Democratic candidates in every zip code and in every office, from the school board to the Oval Office,» Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement Monday morning.

On March 22nd, 2018, HOPE Buffalo will host their Annual Awards Ceremony to recognize youth, key community stakeholders and partners, health care providers, and representatives from the Buffalo Public School District and the Buffalo School Board of Education for their efforts in promoting adolescent health and wellness for teens in nine selected zip code areas in Buffalo (14201, 14204, 14206, 14207, 14208, 14209, 14211, 14213 & 14215).

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5.

Uninsured patients were also more likely to reside in ZIP codes with the lowest median income, as well as in ZIP codes with the highest percentage of residents without a high school diploma.

Some schools ban sleeveless tops — but student Tessa Wisloh was sent home from Springstead High School in Hernando County, Florida for wearing a sleeveless top under her long - sleeved zip - up jacket.

In Trinidad Garza Early College High School's Dallas, Texas zip code, 59 % of the population have not graduated from high school, and only 10 % have a college dSchool's Dallas, Texas zip code, 59 % of the population have not graduated from high school, and only 10 % have a college dschool, and only 10 % have a college degree.

Those are high schools similar to the suburban high school in which I served as principal for 20 years; they are good schools by virtue of their zip codes.

A school he attended on a scholarship without regard for the ZIP code in which he lived.

Undergirding the potential benefits of MOOCs in K — 12 schools is an access and equity agenda: extending access to all students, regardless of zip code or SAT scores, to the «best» from the nation's education system.

The findings from the Education Next — PEPG survey reported in this essay are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of approximately 550 adults (age 18 years and older) and representative oversamples of roughly 350 members of the following subgroups: the affluent (as defined below), public school teachers, parents of school - aged children, residents of zip codes in which a charter school was located during the 2009 — 10 school year, African Americans, and Hispanics.

To see whether the presence of a charter school within a neighborhood is correlated with public opinion — either favorable or unfavorable — we surveyed a representative sample of residents living in zip codes in which at least one charter school is located.

As part of the larger project, I gathered data on the names and zip codes of school district employees in a stratified sample of 70 California school districts, all of them unionized, and I matched these names to county voter files to get each employee's voting history.

Some schools teach coding through supplemental programs or advanced computing classes, but this skill should not be a perk for some students in affluent zip codes; it must be available to everyone, starting young, despite geography or socioeconomic status.

The main findings from the Education Next — PEPG survey reported in this essay are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of 1,184 adults (age 18 years and older) and oversamples of 684 public school teachers and 908 residents of zip codes in which a charter school was located during the 2009 — 10 school year.

Does school choice also have a place in these «super zip codes»?

Access to good schools depends on what zip code a family can afford to live in.

Much of the argument for parental choice in education has focused on the urgent needs of disadvantaged students, who are often trapped in unsafe and failing schools because of the system of zip - code assignment.

It's about our shared belief that every family in the Commonwealth deserves a quality public school in their neighborhood — no matter their economic circumstance, ethnic background or zip code; it's about opening currently closed doors and giving more Massachusetts students a seat at the table.

Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that assign students to public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»

Traditional public schools have their own built - in barriers to admission, starting with zip code: You don't have to write an essay to get into a high - performing suburban school, but you do have to belong to a household with the means to buy or rent in that neighborhood.

«Governor Corbett remains committed to ensuring that all Pennsylvania public school students - regardless of zip code - have access to a quality education,» Eller said in an e-mail.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

AB 2548, sponsored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber in response to California's overhaul of its public school accountability system, would have helped to ensure that our public schools are providing all students — regardless of zip code or background — with the quality education they need to succeed academically and in the future.

The ceremony was for Senate Bill 432, which allocates millions of dollars for for low performing schools in the 20 poorest zip codes in Nevada.

And online courses have the potential to liberate the quality of education from a student's zip code by, for example, allowing rural and low - income urban students access to AP classes now clustered in suburban schools.

The findings are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of 1,184 U.S. adults (age 18 years and older) and oversamples of 684 teachers and 908 residents in zip codes with at least one charter school in the year 2009 - 10.

The notion is to eliminate a «property right» to the school closest to your house (what some choice advocates call Zip Code Education), while guaranteeing a school in reasonable proximity.

In other words, compared with districts that still practice zip code assignment of students to schools, are districts with public school choice systems more or less likely to have schools that over represent black students and under represent white students (or vice-versa) relative to the surrounding neighborhoods?

For example, those arguing for a return to zip code assignment of students to schools because such schools are somewhat more likely to be racially balanced than schools of choice have to discount: 1) the strong preference of parents to choose their children's schools, 2) the likelihood in some districts that a voluntarily segregated school of choice will provide a much better education than a child's marginally less segregated neighborhood school, and 3) the impacts of the competition among education providers that occurs when school enrollment is determined by choice.

So why are there only two charter schools (one elementary and one high school) with 600 openings in my zip code?

«However, even with these important, positive policy steps, investments in North Carolina schools still vary dramatically by zip code.»

They lived in the right zip codes and got to attend really good schools.