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Under the controlled-choice plan, parents write down their top choices among the district’s 12 primary schools. Rather than assign students to schools by neighborhood, the district balances parent preferences with socioeconomic characteristics to determine which school each child will attend...
...think it’s a public health issue for sure, but at this point, it seems to be being treated as a private health issue.” Residents have developed creative strategies to approach the infestation. On March 19, Minka Van Beuzekom of the Area 4 Neighborhood Coalition advocated introducing rodent education to the public schools, in programs that would teach children “the importance of keeping the city clean.” She threatened to bring the fruits of her “hobby”—rat-catching?...
...cutbacks, but if we could get them involved in the Pop Warner [Football] program, for example, then the kids would all know each other by the time they get to high school,” Sullivan says. “It becomes a sports community that breaks down neighborhood lines and class lines and race lines...
...Seidel has a clear soft spot for preserving the vitality of the city’s neighborhoods. In addition to his day job, he writes a column for The Alewife, a North Cambridge and Porter Square newspaper, and serves as the president of the board of the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, the oldest settlement house in the United States...
...Mart wants to tailor about 10% of each store's merchandise to the neighborhood--a long-unrealized goal. Given the company's appetite for goods, its buyers' primary focuses have been price and logistics: How do you get millions of 20-lb. (8 kg) bags of dog food delivered to 3,500 stores efficiently? They're good at that. They're not so good at figuring out what to do when shoppers in Dallas don't buy the giant bags of dog food that they've become so expert at supplying. What if doggie apparel is just as sellable...