Sentences with phrase «city school systems before»

Wooten taught chemistry and biology in both the Huntsville and Decatur City School systems before accepting her current role as a teacher in a local homeschooling association.

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On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

The Legislature and governor ended the extraordinary session by granting a two - year extension of mayoral control over New York City's schools, ending months of uncertainty over Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership of the nation's largest school system and its 1.1 million students a day before it was to expire.

When de Blasio came to Albany in February to testify before the Legislature he sold mayoral control as essential to city schools» chance at success, despite the fact he had once voraciously opposed Mayor Bloomberg's use of the same system.

«Before mayoral control, the city's school system was balkanized,» de Blasio said.

Before taking on the New York City school system, Klein was an executive with German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, and before that a longtime Justice Department offBefore taking on the New York City school system, Klein was an executive with German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, and before that a longtime Justice Department offbefore that a longtime Justice Department official.

Dedicating a single press conference to the issue for the first time, Mr. de Blasio laid out in dire terms what would happen if New York City reverted to the old system of education that existed before his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, won mayoral control of public schools in 2002.

«I don't ask upstate Republican county executives to tell me what they'll spend the 1 % sales tax extender on before I agree to pass a bill,» Heastie said, contrasting the Senate GOP's demand for information on the school system from the city.

A ruling is expected next week, before Black is set to take over the city's public schools system Jan. 3.

The matter must be resolved before the scheduled June 16 end of the legislative session or the law will expire and the city school system would revert back to the old Board of Education days.

In the Game This Kartemquin Films documentary looks at a public high school on Chicago's southwest side for a few years before and after Rahm Emanuel's sweeping budget cuts to the city's school system.

If you think you've heard something about ballroom dancing being used in the New York City public school system before, then you are likely remembering a documentary released in 2005.

The «man with credentials,» Shael Polakow - Suransky, turns out to be a South African native raised in Michigan, who taught mathematics in New York City public schools before moving up the career ladder, to assistant principal, principal, and, in the Klein regime, to an executive position overseeing the district's pioneering system to track student performance.

In fact, at one point during testimony before the referees, in the fall of 2004, lawyers for the city requested that the panel include a recommendation for the legislature to remove a statutory cap limiting the number of charter schools in the state, arguing that charter schools were one part of its strategy for overhauling the city's school system.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

All teachers are certified before they begin teaching, and all senior staff have had long careers in the New York City school system.

In a letter sent on behalf of some families Wednesday to L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy and the school board — and just before the district begins negotiations with the American Federation of Teachers» City of Angels unit over a new contract — Barnes & Thornburg's Kyle Kirwan demanded that the district «implement a comprehensive system» of evaluating teachers that ties «pupil progress» data to teacher evaluations.

New rules in the Boston teachers» contract have helped the city's schools move toward the ideal of finding the best person for the job, but school administrators still have a way to go before they take full advantage of the system's expanded capacity to hire teachers from outside the district, a report concludes.

Veteran New York educator Kathleen Cashin, a regional superintendent in the city's sprawling system, explained the trend away from middle schools six years ago, before it was a trend, when she told the New York Times that parents «were clamoring» for a return to K — 8 schools.

Before returning to RI to take on his current role, Mr. Heng served as the Senior Director of Information Systems at Democracy Prep Public Schools, based in New York City.

He chaired the Youngstown City School District Academic Distress Commission, which was created four years ago in the midst of the system's academic implosion, before joining the administration of Gov. John Kasich.

Before the storm hit in August 2005, New Orleans public schools were like most cities and followed the 100 - year - old «One Best System.»

Ramon Cortines, a former schools chief in New York City, frequently threatened to quit before he finally resigned in 1995, leaving us with his oft - quoted observation that even Jesus Christ couldn't run the city's public - school sysCity, frequently threatened to quit before he finally resigned in 1995, leaving us with his oft - quoted observation that even Jesus Christ couldn't run the city's public - school syscity's public - school system.

He added that there was as similar dispute in Kansas City, before he came on board, involving parents and students that had been annexed into another school system.

The bill would increase the minimum population to 25,000, require SDE determine the financial capability of a city to sustain a school system before the city could establish a city school system.

The bill would increase the minimum population to 25,000, require SDE to determine the financial capability of a city to sustain a school system before the city could establish a city school system.

Before joining New Leaders, Desravines served as senior counselor to the chancellor of New York City's public school system, where he built support for the district's ambitious reform agenda.

As an author and television journalist, Cheryl Wills ventured into the nation's largest public school system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New Yorkschool system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New YorkSchool in New York City.

Sukey's favorite Before Frank McCourt wrote his two best - selling memoirs, Angela's Ashes , which won the Pulitzer Prize, and » T is , he taught English in the New York City school system for 30 years.