Sentences with phrase «wants neighborhood schools»

None of this is to say that any parent wants to look far and wide for a quality school or wants neighborhood schools to be replaced.

, «(I) f the neighborhood that... white parents live in is white, they want neighborhood schools.

I want our neighborhood schools to succeed, but I'm not willing to sacrifice my kid to a school that doesn't meet the needs of our kids.

Not exact matches

And while we love 4.0 GPAs in admissions, we also want to see that you are engaged in your community (school, family, neighborhood) and not just solely focused on the books.

There should be exclusive neighborhoods, private schools for those who want them and can afford them.

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves.

The Muslim Educational Cultural Center of America, or MECCA, wants to build the new prayer center, school and recreation center in a residential neighborhood.

But I also find it useful, every once in a while, to think about the individual people who conducted these studies: the doctors or psychologists or social workers who went in to an orphanage in Russia or an impoverished neighborhood in Jamaica or a high school in Chicago or a living room in Queens and said, in essence, I want to help.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

That's one of the drawbacks, I think — not in this particular school, because the only food - related thing is a once - a-week relationship with a neighborhood bakery to bring in pizza if the kids want to buy it, and I can breathe through that.

Giving them the best opportunities we can in our neighborhoods and school systems, helping them to achieve the goals they want, the list goes on.

I recognize that part of the challenge is that kids develop a large network of neighborhood, preschool, and elementary school friends (and siblings) and some kids want everyone they know present.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

I want to draw attention to one nimble little organization helping feed hungry kids at my neighborhood elementary school, the Cecilia Rawlins Fund.

Today on the way to a pool play date, I was preoccupied with thoughts of the start of school next week, the neighborhood playgroup I am trying to start for my youngest, the violin lessons I wanted to look into for my oldest, the birthday present I need to mail for my sister, and the blog post I needed to come up with to wrap up Car Week on Baby Bunching.

As a councilor, Nicoletti says he wants to focus on job training programs, poverty, improving schools and neighborhoods, and making it easier for more people to become homeowners.

We all want the same things for our families — safe neighborhoods, good schools, plenty of recreational activities, well - maintained roads and comprehensive transit systems.

Perkins said Harlem Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman, gets free rein from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to move schools into any neighborhood she wants, regardless of the wishes of Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to move schools into any neighborhood she wants, regardless of the wishes of schools into any neighborhood she wants, regardless of the wishes of locals.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

Success Academy wants to build a new neighborhood school, but parents are pushing back against the idea.

Our neighborhood is comprised of 30 - something ex-pats from the city, like us, who have children and wanted to live in a solid school district and have a real yard.

She desperately wants to get out of the Valley and into the neighborhoods, social circles, and schools of the true Hollywood elite, even though this South Boston woman often feels out of her league.

The same elementary school had been a good fit for her eldest, but Allen hadn't wanted to send him to the neighborhood middle school, listed by the district as «persistently struggling.»

Parents would not want to go back to a system built on unequal access to schools, but they don't want to be denied options in the interest of maintaining quotas or forcing all children in a neighborhood to attend the same school whether it meets their needs or not.

First, while most Americans say they want some degree of racial integration, people of all racial groups are reluctant to be in the minority» in a given school or neighborhood.

That school's going to get better and better, and people from the city, even people in affluent neighborhoods like where I live, are going to look at that and say, «I want a school like that.

For the city, Hansen says, the moral of the story was that most parents don't want to move their children from their neighborhood school, no matter how miserable its scores on standardized tests.

Maybe this was because they wanted to stay in the neighborhood, or were concerned about how their child could safely get to another school, or didn't know there were open slots at good schools.

With fewer students, the district received less state aid, but since communities do not want to see their neighborhood schools shut down, the district had good political reasons to keep as many schools in operation as possible.

What people are saying is that they want a great public school in their neighborhood.

In Washington, that actually amounts to diversity: Haynes gets many applications from the all - black neighborhoods in Wards 7 and 8 where families say they want their kids going to school with Hispanics.

What about parents who are committed to staying in our chosen school — typically the traditional public school in our neighborhood — but want to help it get better?

Pereira didn't want to go to her neighborhood's 2,000 - student high school — it was too violent.

In the middle of writing the application for the charter school they wanted to open, Arne Duncan asked them to take over a public school he was closing in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

If you're unhappy with your neighborhood school or simply want to explore your options, you may want to enter a lottery for a charter school.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

Gavin is now home - schooled because he did not want to travel 22 blocks by bus to his reassigned school, which is in a different neighborhood across gang turf lines.

But the passage of ESSA has created a moment of opportunity to use these four pillars to help make every neighborhood public school a place that parents want to send their kids, educators want to work and kids want to be.

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

The Clinton Administration, signaling it will take a strong stand in controversies involving disabled students» desires to be educated with other children, has joined in a California lawsuit involving a mentally retarded girl who wants to attend her neighborhood school.

If parents who live near Brent or Ross want to claim the right for their kids to attend their neighborhood school, why stop them?

«If Dan Patrick and his followers wanted to give all students and their parents a meaningful educational choice, they would more adequately fund public education, so that children of all economic backgrounds would have a full menu of academic offerings and electives in their neighborhood public schools,» said Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria.

Most parents want to see their neighborhood public schools strengthened, with small classes and less emphasis on standardized testing.

Vargas says while the plan presented Tuesday includes year - long programs at the new school, more neighborhood students, and stronger family engagement, he doesn't want this option to be the final plan submitted to the state.

The letter sent to Lusher Charter School parents from its PTSA, proclaimed to want to ensure that all teachers» voices are heard but opposed the United Teachers of Lusher from forming.The PTSA placed signs around the neighborhood displaying its opposition.

But the union and NAACP also want to limit better educational options for low - income families who can't afford private schools and can't afford to move to an affluent neighborhood with decent public schools.

Parents who were able to do so moved to the neighborhoods where the schools they wanted to utilize were located.

Advocates say they offer an alternative to parents who want options beyond their neighborhood schools.

If the neighborhood school that those parents are near is black, then they want choice.»

«L.A. families still want more high - quality public school options in their neighborhood,» the foundation said in an email to LA School Rschool options in their neighborhood,» the foundation said in an email to LA School RSchool Report.