Sentences with phrase «so neighborhood children»

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Our partnership with SHA will be in collaboration with a pilot program in Seattle to supplement housing vouchers to get families into better neighborhoods so that their children can experience more long - term success.

This was all so that my best friend and I could spend some time traveling in Europe where we would meet irresistibly handsome and rich identical twins with Australian accents (we had a thing for the, «G'Day, Mate,»), get married on Regis and Kathy Lee at Cinderella's Castle in Disney World, and then live next to each other, raising adorable little children in our idyllic neighborhood.

Walk around the neighborhood with them, giving them that sense of parental security and safety that is so important for children to have.

So that children in neighborhoods that had no resources in poor public schools were able to still get a quality education.

My neighbors also told me that children are bussed to my neighborhood so expect 300 - 400 kids!

Classrooms in the neighborhood schools here in Logan Square are so overcrowded that children are taught in supply closets and hallways and under stairwells.

So, although it is certainly true that we should be spending more money on children in disadvantaged neighborhoods, the primary problem is that what we are already spending gets spent in really unhelpful ways, haphazard ways: different programs, different agencies, different levels of government.

So we are trying a new charter school in the area for next year for my oldest while my next child will stay at the neighborhood school.

And so he has created, in the Harlem Children's Zone, an integrated set of programs that support the neighborhood's children from cradle to college, in school and out ofChildren's Zone, an integrated set of programs that support the neighborhood's children from cradle to college, in school and out ofchildren from cradle to college, in school and out of school.

If you're lucky enough to find a good provider in your neighborhood, so much the better — your child will feel even more at home.

So not only are the rules of the game screwed up, but in low - income neighborhoods, foodservice directors are fighting an uphill battle of child preferences because of what they kids are eating at home.

All kids grow at different paces, so you can't determine whether your child will be short or tall just from comparing her to other kids at school or in the neighborhood.

«Over the past seven years, the Buffalo Promise Neighborhood initiative has been a positive and empowering force in the lives of so many children and families in our city,» said Brown, while hailing the city's $ 50 million investment in the neighborhood during his years in City Hall.

HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.

When I was a child, I grew up in a black neighborhood until I was 13, so I have an affinity for the culture.

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.

• Engage Detroit's land developers, investors, mayor, and community leaders to address safety and transportation issues so families don't have to default to their academically failing neighborhood school just because they have no way to get their child to a safer, more effective school.

The Jefferson County school board, which governs schools in Louisville and several surrounding suburbs, last month voted 5 to 1 to approve new policies that would drastically curtail involuntary busing so that children could attend neighborhood schools.

Most young children get the «Stranger Danger» talk at school, so they know about how to handle strangers in their neighborhood and in face - to - face situations.

Most young children get the «stranger danger» talk at school, so they know about how to handle strangers in their neighborhood and in face - to - face situations.

They only care whether there are enough choices available in their city or neighborhood so that their child — and every child — can find a strong fit and receive an excellent public education.

«If Dan Patrick and his followers wanted to give all students and their parents a meaningful educational choice, they would more adequately fund public education, so that children of all economic backgrounds would have a full menu of academic offerings and electives in their neighborhood public schools,» said Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria.

She adds, «When a child takes a walking field trip around their neighborhood that's supposed to be so «dangerous» and they are feeling safe with their group of colleagues and peers, that does wonderful things to that child's self esteem.

If we are to stop squandering the potential of so many of our young people, educators must face the fact that schools alone will never be able to adequately address the disadvantages that children from poor families and blighted neighborhoods bring with them to school.

Driven by their Madison Avenue advertising mentality, the corporate education «reform» industry's narrative seeks to convince our nation's citizens that our public education system is failing,» parents need market - based «school choice» so their children can escape dismal neighborhood schools.

At the beginning of that school year, we felt so fortunate to have found a way to get our children out of our failing neighborhood public school and into a Blue Ribbon School.

It seeks to restore and rebuild cohesion in schools, neighborhoods and families so that children are wrapped in a tapestry of supportive relationships and resources.

The neighborhood felt unsafe to many of the young children who had to walk themselves to school so grandparents of one child created a «walking bus», stopping at houses along the way so children could come out and walk with them.

HCZ's overarching goal is to create a «tipping point» in the neighborhood so that children are surrounded by an enriching environment of college - oriented peers and supportive adults.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

Our children are exposed to unprecedented levels of neighborhood violence and other social issues, so the fight for wraparound services is critically important to all of us.

CNS is an organization working in two neighborhoods in Glasgow to help bring «together people, resources and organisations in a neighbourhood area, so that all of those things can work together towards better lives for the children living there.»

So we do what we can to make sure that the experience of that child — or those children — that elects to stay in a neighborhood school, is a viable choice for them.

We support the growth of high - quality public schools so that parents in every neighborhood have access to a great school for their children.

So, if for instance, your dog bites a neighborhood child, your insurance would pay their medical expenses.

When we divorced, I took her loans and consolidated them with mine, so she and our child could remain in a safe neighborhood with good schools.

Dogs are less likely to bark at children they know and like, so give your puppy ample opportunity to get to know and like neighborhood children.

Similarly, children are less likely to tease a dog they know and like, owned by people they know and like, so give the neighborhood kids ample opportunity to get to know and like you and your puppy.

In a relatively deprived neighborhood like Taguig, though, many parents struggle to afford the miscellaneous charges for books, packed lunches, uniforms and so forth, and all too frequently, a child halfway through his or her school career will be taken home when the money runs out.

The Earth can not sustain a relentlessly growing human population, so a family planning clinic is needed in every neighborhood in every town and city around the World, and each woman must be given the legally protected right to decide if and when to birth her children.

The father also pushed to have the matrimonial home sold, so that he could resume his business and use the assets to upgrade his equipment; the mother objected to the sale on the basis that the children needed the stability of a familiar home and neighborhood.

As you can imagine the word around the neighborhood is that those How - To Geek guys know computers and love Minecraft, so we've received more than a few panicked phone calls and knocks on the door from neighborhood parents whose children's elaborate Minecraft creations have gone missing.

• Post the Colorado early learning and development guideline videos to your social media channels earlylearningco.org • Raise awareness of child safety issues and helpful childproofing information • Organize a moms» or dads» night out • Put children's books in your lobby and waiting areas • Schedule family events at different times of the day and on different days of the week so that more families can participate • Add information about family - friendly resources on neighborhood websites like Nextdoor • Remind people it's okay to ask for help • Host a play group at a local recreation or community center • Collaborate with childcare centers and schools by joining PTOs, volunteering in classrooms, participating in fundraising and more • Recognize a child or family in distress and offer assistance • Provide parenting education classes for parents and for students before they become parents • Connect parents to one another and to important resources for support

• Offer to baby - sit so parents can get a little break • Be a listening ear for a neighbor who is struggling • Coordinate a meal sign - up calendar for new parents or a neighborhood family in need • Organize a block party so families can meet each other • Start or participate in a carpool to help families • Increase social connections by introducing yourself to a new neighbor or saying hello to your neighbors by name • Get to know the children in your neighborhood and ask them how they are doing • Ask a family if they need something picked up the next time you run to the store • Run an errand, shovel snow, or do yardwork for a parent in your neighborhood • Invite a neighborhood family to your home for dinner • Donate children's used clothing, furniture and toys for use by another family

The MDI is designed to be administered as a large - scale, population - level measure so that stakeholders in communities and schools can obtain representative data on children during middle childhood on five dimensions: (1) Social and emotional development, (2) Connectedness to peers and adults at school, at home, and in the neighborhood, (3) School Experiences, (4) Physical health and well - being, and, (5) Constructive use of time after - school.

The child is encouraged and given the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with community peers and joining in activities in school, community clubs and organizations, neighborhood recreation centers, churches, and so on.

Most young children get the «stranger danger» talk at school, so they know about how to handle strangers in their neighborhood and in face - to - face situations.

We shall report on the characteristics of these families that seem likely to prevent the poor outcomes that so often befall children in these neighborhoods.