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- City residents who support neighborhood schools are often divided by race and purpose (2022)
Local school support is fragmented by race and class. digitalskillet / Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short ... - Editorial: Neighborhood Schools And The Choices We Make - Memphis Daily News (2016)
For Memphians of a certain age, the phrase “neighborhood ... - State Senate candidate Chris Jacobs proposes returning to neighborhood schools in Buffalo - WKBW-TV (2016)
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) - Republican Candidate for the 60th State Senate District, Chris Jacobs is proposing Buffalo Public Schools return to the â ... - Senate candidate Jacobs proposes return to neighborhood schools ... - WBFO (2016)
Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs, who is running for the 60th New York State Senate seat, says Buffalo school students are ... - Students opting out of neighborhood schools as choices grow - Sun Sentinel (2016)
Neighborhood schools soon could be a thing of the past. Parents now have a lot more options to send their kids to schools all over South Florida. Local school districts have ... - Neighborhood schools lead to rise in CPS 2016 graduation rates - Chicago Sun-Times (2016)
Janice Jackson, CPS' chief education officer, credited improvements at open-enrollment neighborhood schools for the bulk of the growth. And she said increases happened all over the city. Graduation rates rose at open-enroll ... - Dear Mayor Emanuel: I Resign My Position As Principal Of The #1 Rated Neighborhood School In Chicago - Huffington Post (2016)
In 2010, Chicago Magazine ranked Blaine Elementary School as the 16th best elementary school in Chicago, and the 6th best neighborhood school. After being hired to lead Blaine in the fall of 2011, I ... - Savannah-Chatham school officials propose focus on neighborhood schools - Savannah Morning News (2016)
Before another exclusive specialty school for the academic elite is built, some Savannah-Chatham Public Schools officials want to make sure they've adequately invested in the average stude ... - Political Musings: New Hanover neighborhood schools concept will have political fallout - StarNewsOnline.com (2016)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY -- Like it did six years ago, the issue of whether to use a neighborhood schools model will dominate New Hanover County politics in 2017. After a confidential ... - School board, candidates react to Markley memo on neighborhood schools - StarNewsOnline.com (2016)
So Nichols was not shocked when members got a frankly worded memo last month from Superintendent Tim Markley, suggesting neighborhood schools could disadvantage black and low-i ... - Another neighborhood school tests positive for lead - AustinTalks (2016)
Another Austin school has tested positive for lead in its water, bringing the total number of local schools to three, with others still nee ... - Alan Borsuk: Pull of neighborhood schools remains weak - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2016)
When court-ordered desegregation began in Milwaukee 40 years ago, the goal, in broad terms, was to replace segregated neighborhood schools ... - Pull of neighborhood schools remains weak in Milwaukee - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2016)
We have few integrated schools, especially at the kindergarten through eighth-grade levels, either in the city or in the suburbs. And strong neighborhood schools? That's st ... - Neighborhood school is beloved | Centre Daily Times - Centre Daily Times (2016)
Corl Street Elementary is a beloved institution that is the heart of all the neighborhoods whose childre ... - Without Planning And Oversight, Charter Schools Hurt Neighborhood Schools - Huffington Post (2016)
If approved by the state, the new charter school would take nearly $3 million in funding from Montclair's other public schools in the first year alone. That could mean fewer servi ... - UChicago Charter School outperforms CPS traditional neighborhood schools: Watch NKO campus principal Tonya ... - ChicagoNow (blog) (2016)
When kids are in schools where only 4% of the African-American male students who graduate from high school go on to complete college within six years (as is true with CPS traditional neighborhoo ... - West Somerville Neighborhood School presents end-of-year concert - Wicked Local (2016)
The sounds of “007†... - Neighborhood School work hoped to finally end by July - The Villager (2016)
BY MICHAEL OSSORGUINE | Updated Mon., June 13: The School Construction Authority has been renovating The Neighborhood School, P.S. 363, since 2013, and parents and st ... - Neighborhood schools drive increase in CPS graduation rates - Chicago Sun-Times (2016)
The good graduation news comes as Chicago Public Schools faces the possibilities of steep financial cuts to classrooms or possibly not opening on time in September without o ... - New program opens neighborhood school playgrounds to the public this summer - WDEF News 12 (2016)
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) – As of right now, all Hamilton County elementary school playgrounds are open for recreational use by by both kids and adults ... - A return to neighborhood schools would be smart - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2016)
As a divorced white working mother of one child, I navigated the labyrinth of the Pittsburgh Public Schools as I raised my daughter in the late '70s and through the ' ... - Oswego School Board Votes to Move Kindergarten Students to Neighborhood Schools - WspyNews (press release) (registration) (2016)
At its meeting Monday night, the Oswego District 308 School Board approved to transition the district's kindergarten program from the East View Kindergarten Center to a student's neighborhood school. A measur ... - A New Direction For Seven Cincinnati Neighborhood Schools - WVXU (2016)
Cincinnati Public Schools is rolling out new focus areas for seven of its neighborhood schools in the 2016-2017 school year. The curriculum adjustments are part of the district's Vision 2020 plan. Sup ... - Do Your Homework Before Dismissing Your Neighborhood School - Voice of San Diego (2016)
We were still torn between a one of the language-immersion schools and the neighborhood school but we opted for the neighborhood school because we liked the idea of bein ... - Milford School Board Approves Neighborhood School Policy Update - Patch.com (2016)
Students already attending an out-of-neighborhood school can remain there until they complete either elementary, middle or high school. Once that is done they must return to the school in their own neighborho ... - Sun setting on the traditional neighborhood school - Battle Creek Enquirer (2016)
Three generations of Grace Hernandez's family have learned at Franklin Elementary School. Her mother attended the old Franklin school on Green Street, and Hernand ... - Parents Just as Wary of Neighborhood Schools as They Were Five Years Ago, New Study Shows - Voice of San Diego (2016)
Five years after San Diego Unified made quality neighborhood schools its No. 1 priority, those schools aren't holding on to any more kids than they did when the effort began, a new report shows ... - Federal Hill Prep parents promote their neighborhood school - Baltimore Sun (2016)
"Would you mind supporting your neighborhood school?" he asked merchants and managers, handing each one a sign he requested they display in their windows. "We want people to see t ... - What can happen when a neighborhood school is forced to share its space with a charter - Washington Post (2016)
With increasing frequency, community-based schools, located predominantly in poor neighborhoods, are being hedged in, disrupted and derailed by charter school co-location, which is the forced inser ... - Matthews resolution supports neighborhood schools - Charlotte Observer (2016)
WBTVCiting the desire of parents, elected officials and the community to educate Matthews children in schools close to their homes, the Matthews town board unanimously passed a resolution Monday evening supporti ... - Fight to save neighborhood schools intensifies - The Philadelphia Tribune (2016)
“They're systematically disposing of ou ... - North Mecklenburg towns show support for neighborhood schools - WSOC Charlotte (2016)
Local governments across North Mecklenburg County plan to send a strong message to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District about its student assignment review. The process and talks of possible changes have become so controversial that towns like ... - New zones could create more neighborhood schools - The Daily Advertiser (2016)
New school attendance zones for Lafayette Parish students could incorporate more of a neighborhood school concept. Although the concept has support from some community ... - Faith (and work) in our neighborhood school benefited our kids and the community - Philadelphia Public School Notebook (2016)
Choosing to send our oldest son, Henry, to our neighborhood school not only benefited him and our family but also the extended school community. My husband, Mark, and I learned recently that Henry ... - Malloy: Increase charter school, cut neighborhood school funding - Thehour.com (2016)
In order to secure the votes needed to pass the two-year budget last June, lawmakers reached a deal to appease both the urban legislators upset that state aid for neighborhood scho ... - Kepler Neighborhood School fundraiser to help transition to new facility in downtown Fresno - Fresno Bee (2016)
Kepler Neighborhood School, a public charter in downtown Fresno, will hold a fundraiser on Feb. 20 to help them move to a new facility in the fall. The fundraiser will take plac ... - Westside Neighborhood School Announces February 25 Speakers - Culver City Observer (2015)
Following the success of their most recent speaker series featuring Dr. Wendy Mogel, Westside Neighborhood School announces their next speaker series event, featur ... - DAVID DALLAS: There goes the neighborhood school - Mississippi Business Journal (blog) (2015)
Back in 1965, plaintiffs sued the Bolivar County school system, including what is now the Cleveland School District, to end white-only and black-only schools. Unlik ... - Lost Capitol Hill: First Navy Yard Neighborhood Schools pt. 2 - The Hillishome (2015)
choate tn Two weeks ago, I wrote about the first schools in the Navy Yard neighborhood, and how two buildings formerly used for other purposes were repurposed for ... - Lost Capitol Hill: The First Navy Yard Neighborhood School - The Hillishome (2015)
choate tn The Navy Yard neighborhood of Capitol Hill was the first real neighborhood to develop in D.C. While the city as a whole existed entirely to support ...
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