Sentences with phrase «tough neighborhood»

These schools are in tough neighborhoods with highly under performing public schools.

These guys grew up in tough neighborhoods so risk is not unknown to them.

It is in a very tough neighborhood, they have academic challenges and for a long time, they had serious behavior issues as well.

«Oh,» said the cabbie, «you mean making sure all the school operators tell the truth about their performance and don't avoid working with kids from tough neighborhoods?»

Homeboy Industries is bringing hope to some of L.A.'s toughest neighborhoods by providing ways for at - risk youth and former gang members to meaningfully contribute to their communities.

It aimed to strengthen academics and help lift children in one of Newark's toughest neighborhoods out of poverty.

«Wilding,» when teenagers from Chicago's tougher neighborhoods invade the wealthier ones and do everything from rob convenience stores to assault passersby, gave way to bloodier crimes as Chicago's gang culture splintered in on itself, The Daily Beast reported in August.

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It was always going to be an uphill battle for Tesla but so far they are doing way better than they should have considering how tough a neighborhood this is.

That's not necessarily true of everyone — for some people it means remaining in the neighborhoods they came from if they came from tough neighborhoods, or returning to them after they've gone to college and come back to their neighborhood to be a lawyer or a teacher.

Homeboy Industries is bringing hope to some of L.A.'s toughest neighborhoods by providing ways for at - risk youth and former gang members to meaning...

«Just be aware that being the best house in a tough neighborhood, though, which it is by far, is a lot more difficult than being the worst home in a fabulous neighborhood,» the «Mad Money» host said.

It's a haul from any central location in the city, and it has a reputation as one of the tougher neighborhoods, which has helped the working - class area stay under the radar of tech workers and real - estate investors.

His mother worked for the New York Housing Authority, and brought up Walker and his two siblings in a tough neighborhood as a single mom.

It is working with three schools in Cape Town's toughest neighborhoods, providing gym equipment, training in how to use it and ongoing support for school sports programs.

Born to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, he grew up in a tough neighborhood of Boston, sharing a one - room tenement with his parents and three siblings.

Lunch Line follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch — and end up at the White House.

In the film, six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House.

THE BRONX — Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday he was unaware of the problems plaguing a Harlem anti-violence site that uses ex-gang members to stop shootings but that he stood behind the model the city has chosen to address stubborn gun violence in the city's toughest neighborhoods.

Addressing environmental concerns in tough neighborhoods is part of Syracuse's Problem Oriented Policing program.

Sheltered as we are by Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which deflect lethal radiation from space, we are like coddled children who have never ventured into a tough neighborhood.

But in this tough neighborhood, real dangers threaten daily to squelch dreams, and the simplest decisions can have life or death consequences.

Summary: Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled with gangsters and drugs dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD (multi-camera) STUDIO: CBS Television Studios TEAM: Jim Reynolds (w, ep), Aaron Kaplan (ep), Dana Honor (ep), Wendi Trilling (ep), James Burrows (d, ep) LOGLINE: The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness.

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD (multi-camera; fka Here Comes the Neighborhood) Picked up to series STUDIO: CBS Television Studios TEAM: Jim Reynolds (w, ep), Aaron Kaplan (ep), Dana Honor (ep), Wendi Trilling (ep), James Burrows (d, ep) LOGLINE: The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness.

DOPE: A critical hit and audience favorite out of the Sundance Film Festival, in Dope, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT.

But the movie implies Connolly is acting out something other than a repressed crush: It's the need of a bullied child in a tough neighborhood who looks to the biggest, meanest kid to protect and define him.

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Editing was presented to: Lee Haugen for Dope (Director & Screenwriter: Rick Famuyiwa)-- Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT.

Three geeks whose obsession with punk rock and 1990s hip - hop culture make them easy pickings for the jocks and gangbangers in their tough neighborhood.

Dope Rated R for language, drug content, sexuality / nudity, and some violence — all involving teens Available on DVD and Blu - ray This Sundance favorite tells the story of young black nerd named Malcolm who dreams of going to Harvard but must face the reality of growing up in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood in east Los Angeles and this woman drove me three hours every day to a different school to make sure I had a different opportunity.

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.

When psychologist Angela Duckworth studied people in various challenging situations, including National Spelling Bee participants, rookie teachers in tough neighborhoods, and West Point cadets, she found:

Our students may be from what is viewed as a tough neighborhood, they may be learning English, they may not know anyone who has gone to college, but they are good enough to achieve all of this and more.

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»

Most of America's 5,000 public charter schools are located in cities, many in tough neighborhoods with failed public schools.

He began traveling alone through some of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods, showing up at gyms and talking his way into pickup games.

Mastering sound teaching techniques «will be far more productive than being firm of convictions, committed to a strategy, and, in the end, beaten by the reality of what lies inside the classroom door in the toughest neighborhoods of our cities and towns,» says Lemov.

At the Success Academy in Bedford - Stuyvesant (one block from the Marcy Houses, the public housing complex where Jay Z grew up — still a tough neighborhood), 81 percent of 3rd graders were proficient in ELA last year (98 percent in math!).

St. Bonaventure School is in the Fairhill section of the city, a tough neighborhood where parents have worked together in the past to drive away drug dealers and prostitutes from nearby streets.

Mind you, these are Catholic schools that serve needy kids in tough neighborhoods.

As the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's Terry Ryan described the reality in one state, «Charter schools, many working in Ohio's toughest neighborhoods to educate the state's neediest children, are also forced to live under a cloud of uncertainty, harassment and intimidation.»

Growing up in Martissant, a tough neighborhood in Haiti's capital Port - au - Prince, Fils - Aimé discovered the sport as a young boy when his mom brought home a hoop.

In some of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods, professional artists are showing urban youngsters how to use technology to express themselves through video and Web art.

Today, public schools are often the safest places for children in tough neighborhoods.

The Social Justice Humanitas Academy is one of a handful of community schools that have been dramatically closing opportunity and achievement gaps in some of Los Angeles» toughest neighborhoods.