Sentences with phrase «smaller neighborhood schools»

But Ziesler said many are worried that the four - grade Ecker Hill campus would be transformed into essentially the largest middle school in the state, at a time when many places in the country are shifting to smaller neighborhood schools for quality of life and safety reasons.

I secured funds to reduce overcrowding and improve the quality of education by upgrading outdated classrooms and science labs, repairing deteriorating schools to improve student safety, and creating new, smaller neighborhood schools so students are better prepared for college and to get the job skills they need to work in a 21st Century economy.

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In February, according to the BSO report released last week, a neighborhood kid reported Cruz had threatened on Instagram to shoot up the school and attached a photo of a small arsenal of firearms.

The school in his neighborhood has a poverty rate of 62 % (62 % of students qualify for free or reduced - fee lunch), and is overcrowded because the governor doesn't think small class sizes are important.

Long before she passed through the Golden Door, Barbara — who was then a Heilman — went to small neighborhood Quaker schools in Moorestown, N.J. and Philadelphia suburbs, where she grew up, daughter of a senior vice-president of the Insurance Company of North America.

Now located in Sacramento's Pocket neighborhood, Camellia Waldorf School offers small class sizes, an outstanding academic program, outdoor education, music instruction, field trips, athletics, Spanish starting in 1st grade, summer camps, and festivals.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

BRONX — A small but growing number of educators believe they have found the key to helping struggling schools in low - income neighborhoods.

Any rezoning in East Harlem needs to address the full range of neighborhood issues like housing preservation, schools, and community - based small business.»

I tend to scoff at this argument mainly because I went to graduate school in Baltimore, Maryland, where my small stipend allowed me to live in a neighborhood where a gun to one's head was a regular occurrence.

Compared to typical get - out - the - vote activities, having a failing school in the neighborhood had a smaller effect on turnout than face - to - face contact, but a noticeably larger effect than campaign phone calls and mailers.

It's an old - school story told in an old - school way: Saoirse Ronan plays Eilis, a young Irish woman who leaves her small town for New York, where she finds a new home and a new love with an Italian man (a sigh - inducing Emory Cohen) in her new neighborhood.

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

Yet the decision by a small number of children to opt out of neighborhood schools may adversely affect the academic and social environment in those schools, as the remaining children are likely to have less - involved families on average.

In fall 2006, James O'Brien, a former teacher and first - time principal, started the Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertySchool, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertyschool in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty line.

We are sitting in a small conference room of North Star Academy Vailsburg Middle School, in Newark's West Ward, one of this poor city's poorest neighborhoods.

To students like me, integration came to mean sending a small phalanx of mostly poor black and Latino children to attend schools in white neighborhoods.

Heisler consulted with neighborhood groups and with the whole Pie Ranch community, now including several teachers at Mission and dozens of kids, before she sold her house and purchased a building at 25th Street and Mission, just a few blocks from the high school, and turned a small downstairs apartment into a café.

The children sometimes are surprised to learn that other people in their neighborhood, or even the school building, don't respond to conflict the way they do, but Connections teachers think the training can pass from their students into the smaller and larger worlds in which they circulate.

Of course a 50 percent placement rate for aspiring principals is no small accomplishment, and there has been undeniable progress in getting fellows hired at neighborhood schools.

Incremental declines in total enrollment were just one part of the story: demographic shifts and the appeal of charter schools to African American families both contributed to half - empty buildings being clustered in a small number of neighborhoods.

During Bloomberg's administration, more than 120 small, non-selective high schools replaced large high schools in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Green Dot had already established some small charter high schools, which were attracting the better students of the neighborhood, a source of frustration to Wells.

Trump made his remarks at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, a small school located in a predominantly African - American neighborhood of the city.

But while everyone agrees that public schools are struggling to keep up with new growth, skeptics argue that Nevada has a very small private school sector that is heavily tilted toward wealthy neighborhoods.

Finally, small schools of choice can help to build a strong sense of community, which could particularly benefit inner - city neighborhoods where traditional institutions have been disintegrating.

But if the spillover effects of urban charter schools on district schools are confined to relatively small neighborhoods, then findings from prior analyses may well be underestimates.

Schools in low - wealth neighborhoods raise smaller amounts of local revenue due to the weaker tax base.

Most parents want to see their neighborhood public schools strengthened, with small classes and less emphasis on standardized testing.

That number sounds small, but if you could calculate which of the three school leaders is most responsible for boosting the number of college - ready D.C. students from tough neighborhoods, my money would be on Schaeffler.

The task of creating a high - achieving school in a low - income neighborhood has puzzled many educators, but the two administrators have seemed to find the right pieces for success at their small public charter school.

Program Focus Kagel offers students a small, neighborhood school environment with the option of a bilingual program to prepare for an increasingly global society.

One concern is that districts receiving the minimum amount, such as KPS, which serves high - poverty neighborhoods, won't get the resources they need for the challenges they face, and that smaller, lower - funded charter and cyber schools will receive more than they need.

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Opponents of the law say that method strips the democracy out of a neighborhood school by letting a small number of parents decide its fate for generations to come.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

The relatively smaller size of Census Block Groups (compared to tracts) allows us to most closely match school boundary neighborhoods.

It would start small — just five schools — but they would be created in the neighborhoods that most desperately need better school options.

[27] About 20 percent of all public school students do not appear in the dataset because the group who live in a neighborhood and attend one school is smaller than 10 students.

The small schools and high density of students creates neighborhood traffic nightmares.

ARISE High School is a small public charter school in Oakland's Fruitvale neighboSchool is a small public charter school in Oakland's Fruitvale neighboschool in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood.

Typically located in small neighborhood shopfronts, each school serves 20 to 30 students across one or two classrooms.

This could be because middle and high school boundary neighborhoods are much larger and less different from each other than elementary school neighborhoods, which are smaller and more differentiated.

Aspire's mission is to open and operate small, high - quality charter schools in low - income neighborhoods, in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward - thinking educators, and to catalyze change in public schools.

Then comes the mother of a boy with special needs to discuss whether Hancock — a spunky neighborhood school in a yellow brick building that towers over the small square houses surrounding it — will still be the right placement for him as a fifth - year senior.

It said Caputo - Pearl and his new team of officers are «hitting the ground running» on policy initiatives, which include «organizing members school - by - school, neighborhood - by - neighborhood, and area - by - area to a place where we can strike if we feel it is necessary» to achieve other gains, such as smaller classes, pay increases, additional school staffing and elimination of «gotcha» evaluations and «teacher jail.»

By contrast, the new smaller high schools, typically in black or Hispanic neighborhoods, serve about 100 students per grade.

We seldom see the neighborhood school in an urban district as being as vital to a community as the school to a small town.

And while small schools did bump up graduation rates, in some neighborhoods the needs were so immense, and the schools so dysfunctional, that reformers hit a wall.

Among those who support this idea are Jenna Tomasello and Chris Suarez, who have started Learn Together, Live Together, a small but promising Washington - based startup that hopes to encourage families nationwide to pursue more diverse schools for their children and neighborhoods.