Sentences with phrase «struggling neighborhoods»

Others contend that public funds are being shifted away from struggling neighborhood schools and instead given to private schools that are held less accountable than their public counterparts.

She said that it was a misconception that struggling neighborhoods don't have any talented educators.

What's in all of this for the students who lose Hiawatha's lottery and end up in struggling neighborhood schools?

Schools as Community Hubs: Integrating Support Services to Drive Educational Outcomes The Brookings Institution, September 2015 Effective approaches to the problems of struggling neighborhoods — from health to school success and poverty — require the focused use of integrated strategies.

Sherman, who also serves on a citizen committee that advises the land bank, said she anticipates that the land bank will help struggling neighborhoods improve.

«While some of your work may be national in scope,» said the first lady in her opening remarks, «ultimately your most powerful impact is local... For example, The New York Botanical Garden started the Bronx Green - Up revitalization program, and they helped plant hundreds of school and community gardens in struggling neighborhoods so that families could grow their own fresh produce.»

And the movement of blacks into suburbs very often re-creates the economically struggling neighborhoods they have left in the cities.

Replacing struggling neighborhood schools with charter schools leaves too many children behind; we have documented the punitive, often financially burdensome discipline and push - out policies of some of the most heavily promoted charter schools.

(AP)-- Struggling neighborhood books stores now have a new way to ring up sales, courtesy of a formidable new rival - Google.

While not all charters have performed well in LA Unified, and with Alliance having faced challenges, too, over the last decade, the network does serve as an example to many supporters of what charter schools can offer students in struggling neighborhoods.

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott joined Sen. Marco Rubio in Miami Friday to talk about how the country's new tax code includes a provision that is intended to steer corporate money into struggling neighborhoods.

«As the Chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Committee, Vito Lopez consistently supports candidates focused on self - enrichment, rather than the needs of our struggling neighborhoods.

The Land Bank makes our city safer, builds community, improves property values and lifts up struggling neighborhoods.

There's a real sense of hope that Robinson will bring representation and change to the long - struggling neighborhood, even as he tries to shed the stigma of a drug - related past that included running a marijuana enterprise and spending more than six years in federal prison.

Just like in a struggling neighborhood in a city, everything here is connected.

Gyllenhaal plays the mother of a dyslexic child desperate for a way out of her struggling neighborhood school, and Davis the once - great teacher who joins Gyllenhaal's trigger campaign.

«Democrats amended the platform to: support community schools with wraparound services in struggling neighborhoods; implement restorative justice and alternative discipline practices; invest in engaging STEM curricula; explicitly oppose high - stakes testing as a means to close schools or evaluate educators; support a parents» right to opt their children out of tests; and support and respect all educators and school employees.

It also needs to be able to say «no» to a charter school that has a poor academic track record, lacks basic financial competence, or would weaken an ongoing effort to put a strong school in a struggling neighborhood.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray is set to introduce legislation that would give the D.C. schools chancellor authority to approve new charter schools, a measure meant to improve academic options in long - struggling neighborhoods.

Members of the 24th Street Elementary School parent union meet at a park near their children's Los Angeles school to discuss the next steps to force a major overhaul of their struggling neighborhood school.

NEW YORK — In the latest test of California's controversial «parent trigger» law, South Los Angeles parents have voted to transform their struggling neighborhood school into a charter school hybrid beginning this fall, organizers announced Wednesday.

NEW YORK — In the latest test of California's controversial «parent trigger» law, South Los Angeles parents have voted to transform their struggling neighborhood school into a charter school hybrid...

In terms of addressing the struggling neighborhood schools — which would still remain, even if a «school of hope» came to town and offered parents another option — the bill expedites turnaround strategies, so that students don't languish for years in schools with a failing status.

How best to help 77,000 children at perpetually failing K - 12 public schools sharply divided the Florida House on Thursday, as the chamber's Republican majority pushed through a controversial $ 200 million spending plan to attract specialized, high - performing charter schools to Florida that would offer an alternative to — and potentially supplant the role of — struggling neighborhood schools.

He attends a struggling neighborhood school where 43 percent of the students are reading and writing at grade level.

When families leave their struggling neighborhood schools, they drain resources and make it harder for those schools to improve.

The Woodrock Youth Development Program is a highly - structured afterschool program in Kensington, Philadelphia — a long - struggling neighborhood that harbors over 40 % of the drug trade in the whole city («A Profile]»)-- that has improved student social and behavioral skills by adhering to the CASEL framework.

Sasha, a white genderqueer high school student, was wearing a skirt on the bus when Richard, a black student from a struggling neighborhood, set Sasha's skirt on fire.