Sentences with phrase «serving children in neighborhoods»

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The Club, located in Lincoln Heights, not only serves children in the immediate community but also surrounding neighborhoods including Highland Park, Montecito Heights, Boyle Heights, Echo Park, Chinatown, and downtown Los Angeles.

Dressing up in a child - sized bunad for Syttende Mai parades in the Scandinavian - rich neighborhood of Ballard, eating the traditional feasts my grandparents would serve us on holidays, listening to the heavy and melodic accent that wove its way through my relatives» speech — this was my upbringing and I loved it.

«In Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer saiIn Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer saiin a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer saiin the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer said.

The schools would serve no more than 50 children in each neighborhood, according to the mayor, who was responding to an idea proposed by the school board.

President Obama launched the Promise Neighborhoods in 2010 and now over 50 communities are planning or implementing results - focused data - driven Promise Neighborhoods, scaling up to serve 200,000 children nationwide.

Teen - parent centers will be set up in each of the city's 22 neighborhood high schools to serve the young children of public school students.

Many community schools operate year round and serve both children and adults in low - income neighborhoods as well as other areas.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

Ash believes deeply in the power and potential of neighborhood schools and the children they serve.

As a start - up public charter school sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school concept.

These social - emotional competencies are especially critical for the vulnerable children that WINGS serves, many of whom live in low - income neighborhoods and face significant challenges in their home lives.

Located in Vinegar Hill, a gentrifying neighborhood between the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO, PS 307 has long served children who live in the Farragut public housing development across the street.

These social emotional competencies are especially critical for the at - risk children that WINGS serves, many of whom live in low - income neighborhoods and face significant challenges outside of school.

Our current location's bigger and brighter classrooms allow us to serve more children in the neighborhood, and create a positive and comfortable learning environment for all of our students.

We are in every neighborhood in Fort Wayne, and we serve nearly 30,000 children every year.

«The facts of the mailer in question are indisputable and serve as a public service announcement to Latino families whose children have as much right to attend quality schools in any neighborhood they choose as anyone else.»

The new formula will send more money to many schools in high - poverty neighborhoods, enabling principals to pay for psychologists, tutoring services or other tools that could better serve children in need.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

The bottom line, however, is that there are far too few seats in high - quality charter schools to serve every disadvantaged child in Washington, and those left behind at neighborhood public schools continue to be shortchanged.

In a million - person - plus metropolitan area with tens of thousands of secondary students, only about 8,000 were unable to exercise their choice and were thus left behind in these schools that tend to serve our relatively few neighborhoods that have exceptional numbers of homeless families, foster children, incarcerated parents and low levels of social capital and relational trusIn a million - person - plus metropolitan area with tens of thousands of secondary students, only about 8,000 were unable to exercise their choice and were thus left behind in these schools that tend to serve our relatively few neighborhoods that have exceptional numbers of homeless families, foster children, incarcerated parents and low levels of social capital and relational trusin these schools that tend to serve our relatively few neighborhoods that have exceptional numbers of homeless families, foster children, incarcerated parents and low levels of social capital and relational trust.

In this example, white citizens based their decision about where to live on the school districts that served the area, using test scores to select school districts in which they wanted their children, and therefore which neighborhoods to which they wanted to movIn this example, white citizens based their decision about where to live on the school districts that served the area, using test scores to select school districts in which they wanted their children, and therefore which neighborhoods to which they wanted to movin which they wanted their children, and therefore which neighborhoods to which they wanted to move.

Serve as the liaison between the University and the Edmonton Heights Family Life Center (EHFLC) in facilitating housing and neighborhood development activities concerning low - income families, their children and their educational enrichment.

The investigators chose schools for this study that serve substantial proportions of children from poor families who live in high - crime neighborhoods.

The Little Folks School, Inc. is a small independent Nursery School located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, this unique program serves 40 children, ages two and a half through age five.

Most low performing schools serve poor children who live in neglected neighborhoods and we pay a price for our communal neglect.

All of the proceeds benefit the local chapter of the Windermere Foundation, which provides funds to charities that support low - income children and families in the neighborhoods we serve.