Sentences with phrase «students in these neighborhoods»

«For months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statement.

As city residents continue to file complaints about rowdy college students in their neighborhoods, members of the Common Council are struggling to find solutions.

We will continue to fight for the students in our neighborhood and their right to a high - quality public education.

I went back to my regular job and started tutoring middle school students in math at a school in D.C. while continuing to work with high school students in my neighborhood.

Rocketship schools serve primarily low - income students in neighborhoods where access to excellent schools is limited.

Our vision is that every student in every neighborhood will be engaged in a rigorous, well - rounded instructional program and will graduate prepared for success in college, career and life.

Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School is an elementary and middle school proudly serving the students in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, affectionately known worldwide as «Bed - Stuy».

«The voucher floodgates are wide open as unaccountable private schools take tens of millions of dollars from students in neighborhood public schools,» said WEAC President Betsy Kippers.

Pushing the free market farther still, the board has urged district elementary schools to compete with one another for enrollment, rather than simply serving all students in the neighborhood.

For example, schools can draw attendance zones based on the racial composition of particular neighborhoods because students in those neighborhoods would be treated the same regardless of race.

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

Nevertheless, as anyone fighting for this effort will tell you, the enormity of the challenge pales in comparison to the incredible opportunity of realizing the day when every student in every neighborhood nationwide receives the world - class public education they deserve.

Vaughn has since grown from 1,000 students to five campuses under one K - 12 charter, serving 3,000 students in the neighborhood and revitalizing the community.

First, he mused that authorizers must provide unlimited access to those students whose educational options are limited to the nearest traditional public school, a school that may not be meeting the needs of students in that neighborhood, especially if they are low income, racially diverse learners.

«First and foremost we are invested and engaged at this school because we want to ensure that all the students in that neighborhood have an excellent public education,» UCLA's Quartz said about the new venture at Mann.

«We're talking about diminished resources for students in our neighborhood public schools while private voucher schools essentially get a blank check at taxpayer expense with zero accountability.»

... so teacher Malka Borrego decided to start a charter school to serve the predominantly low - income, Latino students in the neighborhood where she grew up — Pico Union in Los Angeles.

Educational disparity is a social justice issue, and we are committed to working with communities to ensure that all students in all neighborhoods have access to an engaging, high quality, 21st century education.

Where can we serve the most students in the neighborhood at the most cost efficient way for the taxpayer?»

The education secretary should want to provide plenty of options in our public schools, accessible to students in every neighborhood, that meet individual needs.

On Capitol Hill, where some parents have made a concerted effort to retain students in neighborhood schools, enrollment can drop as much as 50 % between preschool and 5th grade.

Every student in every neighborhood has public schools that prepares them to fully participate and succeed in life and work in the twenty - first century.

Of course, you can, but the day after you do it, the schools will still be standing there, and the students in the neighborhood will need to go somewhere to learn.

Some of the students in these neighborhoods don't have food when they go home.

In addition, the Education Outreach Center at 21st and Garnett provides a variety of services to students in that neighborhood.

Not exact matches

It was totally unsolicited and in a student neighborhood of Boston where very few other customers had heard of Redd Foxx.

She opened Sticky Fingers in the gentrifying neighborhood of Columbia Heights, in part to serve the students, artists, and activists who were moving in, but also to prove something: Vegan food can be delicious when done right.

The team out of the University of California, Berkeley and University College London tested how people mentally estimate distance and travel times by having 20 foreign students in London draw, in detail, the neighborhood surrounding their residence.

The prime location in Manhattan's Gramercy neighborhood also means the stores are close to corporate professionals and students — the school of Visual Arts and Baruch College are a block away.

It was easy at the beginning to blame the miscalculations on the lack of awareness in the neighborhood, the weather or students being home for holidays.

In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, where the debate over guns is old and fraught, protesting the shooting death of a student proved far more challenging than his classmates expected.

On April 23, Niles North Chinese 3 and Chinese 4 students volunteered at the Chinese American Service League (CASL) in the Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago.

Health officials have not yet pinpointed the source of what sickened students from St. Clement School in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, following their April 17 visit to the aquarium, or what prompted more than 100 Andrew students to fall ill following their April 27 prom held at the Shedd.

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.

Jodi Houge was a student at Luther Seminary when she invited people to gather for worship in a neighborhood coffee shop.

Students and faculty gain an overview of ministry in the city, comparing and contrasting physical facilities, neighborhoods, staff, programs, financial resources and populations.

A student of mine went jogging with his father in their urban neighborhood.

Richard Speck, the man who in l966 murdered eight student nurses in Chicago, recalled later that while still at large in Chicago, more than a week after committing the crime, he looked up at a TV set in a neighborhood tavern and saw there the face of O. W. Wilson, the Superintendent of Police.

Thus, although it should be easier to teach Western students about Islam than about Hinduism or Buddhism, for there is much in common, the burden of our neighborhood quarrels — not always impartially recorded — and the subtle differences of interpretation make Islam the most difficult religion to present fairly.

He is not a lifelong student of the Torah and Talmud from some Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

The Beastro Despite its location in hip Hongdae, a neighborhood crawling with university students, this three - story eatery feels all grown up.

But in the neighborhoods around the campus and where students live, chronic poverty is the tradition.

Among the 3,450 students are more than 500 black youngsters, most of them attracted by stronger curricula or better facilities than those available at schools in their own neighborhoods.

Farrington's research background, plus her history as a teacher in high - poverty neighborhoods, helped her think differently about what happens to students when they're at school.

Sometimes the tournament that the team from the disadvantaged neighborhood won turns out to be a minor one, or the division that the students were competing in was restricted to students below a certain ability rating.

If we try to fix the schools in a low - income neighborhood without addressing the other needs of students there, it's not a real solution to the neighborhood's problems.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.