Sentences with phrase «working class communities where»

Ref's original inspiration for starting a charter school was to offer high - quality learning experiences for youth in the predominantly Latino working class community where he grew up.

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When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Leaving the Botanic Gardens, re-board your coach and drive to Shankill Road, an authentic working - class community, and the Falls Roads area, where murals on almost every gable wall tell the story of its violent past and hope for the future.

The primary residents of these communities were middle class families where Mom stayed home and Dad commuted to work.

«They know the game,» said Siefert, who teaches three government classes every day, launders the Bulldogs» uniforms himself and over the summer supervises the community pool, where Menser works as a lifeguard.

Crosland Moor and Netherton, where Labour have two of the three councillors, features working class communities with a strong immigrant presence.

I grew up in a middle class community where the men and women survived WW2 and through hard work bought their first home and raised a family.

I watched in Birmingham 40 years ago the full horror of the then «Immigration Debate» as it impacted on the Asian community in Birmingham where I lived and the impact on the white working class in the trade unions where I was active.

Organizers explained that Harlem had been chosen for the protest as it represents a neighborhood in flux, where soaring housing and commercial rents threaten to undermine the community's historic composition of working - class and middle - class life in New York.

«Today, I am announcing my re-election campaign for the New York Senate from where I will continue to work to find new ways to bring jobs, affordable housing and immigration reform to our community, so that middle and working class families can thrive here,» Espaillat, 59, said in a statement.

«Today, I am announcing my re-election campaign for the New York Senate from where I will continue to work to find new ways to bring jobs, affordable housing and immigration reform to our community, so that middle and working class families can thrive here.»

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Our group where I work is trying to create a resource library for yoga classes, and any input you have is helpful as we work together as a global community to create the best available to help this population.

Hoffman plays a run - down looking Mickey, who has managed to become a part of the close - knit community that is «God's Pocket», where working class people live out their lives in a simple yet happy way.

That's because the story is based in McFarland, Calif., a small, predominantly Mexican - American agricultural community, where many of the high school students work as pickers in the fields before and after classes.

I grew up in a conservative working - class family who had left its roots in farming communities of Ontario to travel to Hamilton, Toronto and other large metropolitan areas (where my dad landed a job as manager of Eastern Canada for Philips Electronics and brought us temporarily into the middle class).

Looking back, I had an ideal situation: class sizes of no more than 15 students, in a small community where everyone knows everyone, and a four - day work week!

As in every school where I have worked, I have started telling stories in my class, in my wife's class, in school assemblies, and at community events.

In short, the vision remains to create a model community school — where the doors are always open; where teachers, parents and members of the community work in partnership to provide world - class educational opportunities and where financial literacy is not just taught but practiced.

Elements primary, which plans to open in September 2015, will serve an area of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, with a «predominantly white working class community», where more than half the pupils will be expected to be eligible for free school meals.

Dr. Rodriguez's original inspiration for starting a charter school was to offer high - quality learning experiences for youth in the predominantly Latino working - class community where he grew up.

Compton, where most families are African American and Latino, has huge budget problems, as do most working - class communities in the state.

As Paul Tough points out in his recent New York Times article, «Rich kids graduate; poor and working class kids don't» the graduation rates for students from underrepresented communities are significantly higher at small liberal arts institutions, where students are encouraged to question the dominant discourse and develop their own policy perspectives.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

Where the famous upscale 90210 coexists next to hippie beach towns, hipster suburbs, and working - class communities.

After work, it was off to Community College of Vermont, where she was taking classes towards an associates degree that would let her apply for paralegal positions at the law firm where she worked.

As part of his work with the WPA, Motley taught art classes at the South Side Community Center, where he encouraged the talent of a young Charles Sebree.

After work, it was off to Community College of Vermont, where she was taking classes towards an associates degree that would let her apply for paralegal positions at the law firm where she worked.

In all facets of our work we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world — a just, loving humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully — where people can embrace their most basic universal human attachment needs without fear of persecution or marginalization as a result of religion, race, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, class, mental health, physical character or disability.

In all facets of our work we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world — a just, loving humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully — where people can embrace their most basic universal human attachment needs without fear of persecution or marginalization as a result of religion, race, ethnic or national origin, sexual / affectional orientation and preferences, gender expression, family structure, age, class, mental health, physical character or disability.

That was evident at the Good Neighbor Awards gala during the REALTORS ® Conference & Expo in New Orleans on Saturday night, where the 2014 class was officially honored for the life - changing work they do to improve their communities.