Sentences with phrase «taken out of our neighborhood»

As I turned the corner onto Plantation Drive — the street that would usually take us out of the neighborhood — what I saw startled me: a small black sedan, like a child's toy in the bathtub, bobbing up and down on the swollen waters that blocked our way out to safety.

All of that started to change when Camron's adoptive parents took him out of his neighborhood school in Bushnell and enrolled him in a private school with a school choice scholarship.

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He ran the company out of his home «until it took over» and the tractor - trailers thundering down the street threatened neighborhood tranquillity.

What would be your response if several of your neighbors took advantage of the «safer conditions in the neighborhood» and spoke out freely, only to be killed (so that in subsequent weeks the numbers of dead averaged fifteen)?

We're taking advantage of the end of our lease to do some traveling and try out living in some new neighborhoods.

Ever since its move into the neighborhood, Beat Street has been helping parents take some of the work out of buying gifts for kids, and has become known as the place to go for birthday gifts and holidays.

The event is part of the National Wildlife Federation's «Be Out There» movement, which takes place in backyards, neighborhoods and local parks across the country and encourages kids and their families to get outdoors and connect with nature.

All help out in small ways, but no one is taking ultimate responsibility for the fate of all the children in the neighborhood.

If you don't have family who will be able to take care of the baby while you go out for a date night with your partner, then look for a reliable babysitter in your neighborhood.

And above all, I can not for the life of me figure out why our dogs can have food without added soy products, preservatives, and artificial food coloring, but I can't take my youngest child to our trendy neighborhood cupcake shop because there's not a flavor there without food dyes (never mind what's on offer at the groceries and convenience stores along the same street).

On days when my husband is home and I can sneak out, I take a brisk walk around the neighborhood and enjoy 30 minutes of kid - free time with my iPod and my thoughts.

The speaker took heat for his position from local leaders and housing advocates who accused him of opposing affordable housing to preserve his voter base in the largely Jewish neighborhood by keeping out other groups.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

«We must take proactive steps to take guns out of the hands of criminals so that our streets are safer and the law - abiding members of our community feel empowered in their neighborhoods.»

In the months before design and construction takes place for the new 16MW microgrid — a locally sourced power grid consisting of two gas turbine generators — to be located in the downtown neighborhood of Sheridan Hollow, community groups are reaching out in search of concrete answers from project planners.

Critics say that solution falls short because it wouldn't cover parents who work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and would require some parents to take their children out of the neighborhood for daycare.

Looking at safety as a priority, the feds reach out to members of a new movement that takes science into neighborhoods.

A new study has found that Ediacaran organisms known as rangeomorphs reproduced by taking a joint approach: they first sent out an «advance party» to settle in a new area, followed by rapid colonization of the new neighborhood.

I have taken clients out for power walks with a backpack full of mini bands and bands with handles to create a hillside neighborhood circuit workout.

Home of the Unicorn Lattes that have taken over Instagram, The End is just your average neighborhood coffee shop, if your average neighborhood coffee shop has crystal - infused water sitting out in a pitcher and a menu of lattes filled with equal parts healing herbs and whimsy.

Halloween brought back a lot of great memories of him taking my brother and I out trick - or - treating around our neighborhood while my mom stayed at the house giving out candy.

Last week I returned to Dead Horse Bay with my friend for the sake of taking a long bus ride and getting out of our neighborhood.

Or at least they do if you plan on having leftovers to take pictures of or hand out to your neighborhood ghouls and goblins.

Nick and I ventured out for the first time over the weekend into our new neighborhood in search of spots to take blog photos.

When I was in Palm Springs for the first time this fall, I took a few photos of some of the awesome mid century homes and homeowners seemed to pop out of nowhere, seemingly peeved and baffled at the fact that I was taking photos / even wandering the neighborhood.

We took a ride via an uberX and stopped into one of my favorite local coffee shops, Storyville in Queen Anne, before heading out to another neighborhood favorite, Kerry Park.

I started out taking pictures inside my house, then in my front yard, and then in different areas of my neighborhood.

We're renting a lovely little apartment in the Montserrat neighborhood of Buenos Aires, and probably also taking a little trip to Uruguay, to check out Montevideo.

Set in a small town, this youthful outing tells the story how a local paper boy and a band of misfits successfully prevented a band of bullies from taking over their neighborhood.

This electrifying series takes us out of the action in Hell's Kitchen and places us in the rich, vibrant neighborhood of Harlem.

Baker lives around the corner from Donut Time and, having made films about other disenfranchised groups — Chinese immigrant food delivery men in «Take Out,» Manhattan street hustlers in «Prince of Broadway» and down - and - out porn actors in «Starlet» — he was curious about his own neighborhoOut,» Manhattan street hustlers in «Prince of Broadway» and down - and - out porn actors in «Starlet» — he was curious about his own neighborhoout porn actors in «Starlet» — he was curious about his own neighborhood.

When the pressures of having no income pile up and the stream of judgement from his wealthy father - in - law roll over him, he finds himself taking his gun out of his safe and wandering out into the desert outside his Albuquerque suburban neighborhood to potentially do something drastic.

Take your events or PTO meetings out to the community, in their neighborhoods, to places such as community centers, public libraries, or places of worship.

A number of mothers took advantage of MTO vouchers to move out of their old city neighborhoods as part of a plan to stay «clean» and protect their children.

As a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of schools west of the park and unable to afford private schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary school down the street or a diverse charter school nearby.

When workers from rural villages across southern China set out for cities in search of better jobs and a better life, that journey often takes them to neighborhoods like this one, a teeming section of Guangzhou's Hai zhu district.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

The parents I interviewed who were taking their children out of their gentrifying neighborhood's school shared stories of cultural dissonance that were minor affairs, but that crystallized for them the discomfort they felt as newcomers, and their inability to find a niche.

And neighborhood schools take on a permanence that is out of keeping with the charter model.

And the most dramatic of the moves will take place in the city's Lanning Square neighborhood next fall, when the KIPP charter network will move out of the trailers and into a gleaming brick - and - glass school, absorbing the one district school — the century - old Whittier School that is closing outright under Rouhanifard's plan.

As Dr Hite implements the district's plan to close Strawberry Mansion as a comprehensive neighborhood public high school we ask: how can the SRC consider taking more money out of district classrooms and putting it into the hands of a charter operator with this kind of record?

«Education savings accounts literally take money out of our neighborhood public schools and hand it over to subsidize private tuition, with zero accountability,» said Martin.

o Ensure that teachers take children out of school to explore the community and to visit neighborhood institutions.

And graduation rates of students who take remedial courses in college are dismal, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 out of 4.

«We're taking taxpayer dollars and putting them in (charter schools)... but we haven't fully funded our neighborhood public schools... to where... they're not out of portable buildings.

We need to take it out of the cubicles of Washington, D.C., where it was placed by the Obama administration, and return it to the neighborhoods of New Jersey.»

An out - of - the - way neighborhood in Grand Rapids isn't the most natural place for a brewery, but Jason Spaulding couldn't resist the opportunity to take over a former funeral home.

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For fans of literary mysteries: Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda One night in the gritty Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, two girls take a raft out into the bay, but only one returns.

Sylvia Renee Lyss, founder of F.L.O.C.K., and her volunteers go out on a regular basis, usually at night, to the casino back alleys and into the less affluent neighborhoods of Las Vegas to maintain «Feeding Stations» with water and food for a multitude of stray and wild cats.The purpose is to humanely trap and give the cats immediate vet care, neutering, and vaccinations.The cats are either adopted out or taken to the F.L.O.C.K. sanctuary to live out their lives in comfort for as long as they are with us.Sylvia Renee Lyss has devoted her life to helping stray and unwanted cats and kittens.She has been actively doing this work for over the last 30 years in Las Vegas.