Sentence examples for blocks of a school from inspiring English sources

Do young children who live within blocks of a school have inherent rights to enroll there?

Of the 2,114 sex offenders who live in New York City and are listed in the state's publicly available database, 85percentt live within five blocks of a school and 32percentt within two blocks of a school, according to a report released yesterday by Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a Democrat who represents parts of Queens and Brooklyn.

Under the governor's emergency power orders, Robertson's CENCO Inc. wants to construct a small plant on the site of its Powerine refinery, within two blocks of a school in a heavily Latino neighborhood.

In June the board voted against situating the new school along Washington Avenue, between East 188th and 189th Streets -- behind a Roman Catholic school, across from Theodore Roosevelt High School and within nine blocks of a middle school, an elementary school and a vocational school.

The white paper outlines the building blocks of a new school system: all schools to become academies with compulsory membership of a chain or trust likely to follow; regional schools commissioners, acting as the equivalent of a large local authority and accountable to ministers; and even greater power transferred to Whitehall.

"The level of frustration is growing," said Mr. Cooper, whose district has seen shootings and stabbings within blocks of an intermediate school.

Selling within two blocks of a park or school also is prohibited.

But parents supporting the calls to create a free school say this will block the chance of a school which could help address a shortage of primary places in the area.

A better environmentalism would recognize the centrality of a photograph of a city block or a school playground.

I ask again: How can people of good conscience argue with straight faces that putting a high-performing, high-poverty school in a low-income neighborhood, within blocks of a low-performing, high-poverty school, somehow promotes segregation?

Ten blocks away on the wall of a school, was another paper: "This is the street of the Martyr Hani al-Jundi".