Sentences with phrase «urban parents if»

The fact that Question 2 is trailing significantly in the polls provides the obvious answer to Whitmire's query — of course suburbanites will deny better schools to urban parents if they think they might lose something and have little to gain.

Not exact matches

Our urban mama Megan is back, just in time for Valentine's Day, with a post all about the must have items all new parents need for date night — even if date night is simply in the living room!

If you are a ongoing parent who used to travel or live urban life style & want to give time to your baby but a all rounder stroller for ease then «Bugaboo Bee3 Stroller» would be the best choice for you.

Don't be disappointed though, if you love the Urban Jungle and would like a parent facing option, the new Carrycot Plus which we will be reviewing further down the page will solve this problem.

«Even though there are countless obstacles confronting today's urban schools, I firmly believe that parents and community members can have a profound impact on meeting the needs of children if schools engage them in the right way,» she says.

If reformers need to respect parents» decision to opt out of tests, the opt - out activists might at least assume that groups like the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the National Council of La Raza are qualified to judge their members» interests.

Now in the Urban Superintendents Program, Waronker wants to see if he can bring this success — success he attributes to the students, teachers, and parents — to the district level.

Thus, while we are not naïve enough to think that all parents would enroll their children in racially diverse schools if given the option, we do know — and we speak from personal experience as urban parents — that many would.

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Stephanie Smith understands why parents in the urban area where she teaches balk when she calls to ask if she can visit them at home to talk about their child and meet the family.

What SUNY is really doing here is setting up charter schools, which primarily operate within urban school systems, to a lot of African American and Hispanic parents not to worry if their children's teachers are highly educated, tested, professionals — training them to focus on test preparation above everything else just isn't that difficult anyway.

Instead, Holtz said if he is elected, he would build teams of DPI staff that would help urban districts foster relationships with parents and other community members to create a school community that feels ownership over a school and its students» academic achievement, attendance record and graduation rates.

If students and parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and wealthy schools serving suburban property owners as well.