Word: neighborhood
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...students who attend the Stanford Middle School in the Los Altos neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., 34% are Hispanic, 22% Asian, 23% Caucasian, 17% African American, 3% Filipino and 2% either Pacific Islander or Native American. More than 75% qualify for the free or reduced-cost lunch program, thus enabling Stanford to receive federal funding under Title I. Because the district allows parents to choose their children's schools, only about one-third of the students reside in the neighborhood; the others arrive on 16 buses. When Stanford's rainbow coalition gets off those buses, it is a vision...
Orchard Hills is a neighborhood that seems to be several steps behind the times and half a step ahead of a trailer park. The people who live in this scruffy, working-class section of Wichita are mostly poor. Many of the streets are unpaved, and most of the one-story aluminum-sided cottages look as if they would blow to pieces in a stiff wind. Until three years ago, the local school was in equally sad shape, plagued by some of the lowest grades and worst attendance rates in the city. All of which might seem to qualify Orchard Hills...
...love for the Dodgers was inextricably entangled with her childhood as a whole, she realized that the story would have to take on a larger dimension. She set about the project, then, as any diligent historian would, collecting documents and photographing and contacting nearly everyone who lived in her neighborhood when she was a child. "My intention to write my baseball story was transformed into something different," she writes. "I would write my own history of growing up in the fifties--when my neighbors formed an extended family, when television was young, when the street was our common playground, when...
...such a story. A woman in Chicago called up the special truancy hot line and admitted over the course of a number of days that her 15-year-old daughter had not returned to school after the first few days of kindergarten. In fact, besides occasional trips to the neighborhood grocery store, her daughter rarely left the house...
Incumbent Anthony D. Galluccio proposed turning vacant fire stations into community arts centers; incumbent and former mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 spoke of a possible new performing arts center; challenger Roger D. Frymire encouraged fighting crime on a neighborhood level; challenger Ian C. MacKinnon suggested encouraging more street performers; and challenger Rev. Douglas C. Whitlow proposed requiring all police officers to live in the city...