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All posts tagged "after-school in apartment complexes"
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1.8KNewsReal Estate Investor Stagmeier Ready to Educate Landlords About Her After-school Model
High above Peachtree Street, on the 11th floor of the Colony Square building, a cool blue-gray light filters through the windows of...
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1.7KNewsTougher Rules Force Out Residents With Warrants, But Help Students’ Grades
ATLANTA — On the staircase outside his apartment at Summerdale Commons, Damien Small, 23, sat watching his 4-year-old son ride a green...
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2.4KNewsAfter-school Programs Offer Protective Factors, Research Shows
More and more research is linking transiency to student achievement. Transiency refers to students leaving a school in the middle of the...
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1.8KNewsAfter-school Director Has Quiet Presence, Strong Purpose
Children are making mud in the after-school program at Willow Branch apartments — and it’s not a carefully crafted science project. They...
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2.5KNewsApartment Complex Tests Whether Stable Rent, After-school, Health Programs Can Change a Struggling School
Children shoulder their book bags as they stream out of Indian Creek Elementary School at 2:30 each day. They walk in twos...
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1.3KNewsAfter-school Teacher: ‘I Want to Help People Find Wholeness’
Kristin Hemingway sits at a card table in a tiny room behind the leasing office at Summerdale Commons apartment complex. Her big...
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4.6KNewsCan After-school Program at Apartment Complex Turn Around a Failing School?
But 200 children lived there — one-third of Brumby Elementary’s student population. That year, something happened at Madison Hills. The complex was...
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3.6KNewsPublic Housing Increasingly Place for After-school Programs
Public housing is increasingly taking a role in supporting kids’ education, according to Megan Gallagher, senior research associate at the Urban Institute....
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1.3KNewsAfter-school Programs in Housing Complexes Less Visible, Face Challenges
Most after-school programs are located in schools or at community-based organizations. Those located in housing complexes are less connected to the larger...
