Sentences with phrase «city schools alternative»

Top Educator Finds Alternatives to Failure Joris Ray, director of the Memphis City Schools alternative schools, believes that helping students achieve academic success leads to confidence and better behavior.

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With very few exceptions, nobody in these major cities who can afford an alternative sends their children to the public school.

In the Greeley and Gresham schools and others we visited and in most of the elementary school lunchrooms throughout the city, children pick up their trays and file along a short cafeteria line that offers a serving of meat or an alternative, a vegetable, bread, fruit and milk.

But an alternative barometer of KC liberalism would by the city's failed state school system, which recently lost its state accreditation.

Johnson suggests the school would provide an alternative for parents and improve the quality of education in the city.

Many districts, including Syracuse city schools, have shifted from relying heavily on suspensions to using alternatives like «restorative justice,» which aims to keep students in the academic environment.

She joined the New York City Departmenet of Education in 2006 as a superintendent of the city's alternative high schoCity Departmenet of Education in 2006 as a superintendent of the city's alternative high schocity's alternative high schools.

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high sSchool District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high schoolschool.

And he remains bitterly hostile to the educational alternative that is one of the city's great success stories — charter schools — to the point of denying them space and working to thwart their growth.

That expansion would turn her network from a formidable sector within the Department of Education to a complete alternative school system in New York City, comparable to the nation's largest charter networks and a constant force for City Hall to reckon with.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

He reiterated the union's support for alternatives to state receivership for struggling schools, such as transforming them into community schools as New York City is doing as part of its School Renewal Program.

The actions could be a lifesaver for the popular alternatives to public schools because Bloomberg's likely successor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, has vowed to impose a moratorium on co-locating charter schools in city facilities.

deBlasio also wants mayoral control over New York City schools to be made permanent, saying the alternative is «chaos and corruption», but he says he would settle for a three year extension.

Flanagan on Monday released three different bills for one -, two - and five - year extensions of mayoral control of the city's schools, with longer renewals tied to greater support for alternative educational choices.

The city must now accommodate the alternative schools in city buildings or help them find space in private facilities and pay their rent.

Dr. Tisch said that among the things she was proudest of was creating alternative pathways to graduation for students who wanted to focus on the arts or a career - related skill, advocating for undocumented students to receive tuition assistance at city and state colleges, and pushing for state oversight of the troubled East Ramapo school district in Rockland County.

Charney, now dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, thinks ketamine could serve as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy, the current treatment of last resort.

For over 14 years coordinated and strategically facilitated the implementation and the sustainability of social emotional competency program PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) in the Baltimore City Public Schools.

Quinton Ma, a 22 - year - old marketing coordinator at Gawker Media, in New York City, started to drink VitaminWater as a middle schooler because it seemed like a healthy alternative to soda.

We find at least one piece of evidence of competition awareness in all 12 cities, indicating that traditional public - school leaders generally acknowledge students» alternative schooling option of attending a charter school.

A New York City community school district, in collaboration with a local college, has opened an alternative school in East Harlem for junior - high - school students that combines community - service work with regular classroom instruction.

Because many of the schools closest to their house were underperforming, the family began looking throughout the city for alternatives.

On a leap of faith, Allen put in an application to send her younger son to one of the few other public school alternatives in the city: a new district school for gifted students.

He is also a full - time teacher and staff developer for the Alternative High Schools of New York City, currently working at Bronx Tech High School.

Another school program, Eagle Pride, is an alternative school sponsored by the Los Angeles city schools and located in the former Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

The lack of better alternatives for parents in poorly performing schools may be an even greater problem in smaller cities.

Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»

«I spoke to leaders of coastal schools, inner - city schools, rural, primary, secondary, alternative provision and asked them what they did.»

When three Washington - based research and consulting organizations, backed by five leading foundations, launched the «Superintendents Prepared» program this year («Foundations Seek To Expand Pool of City School Chiefs,» Education Week, Feb. 5, 1992), I wonder whether they considered an alternative: abolishing the troubled office completely.

In Ohio, Dungan's daughter had been enrolled at the alternative school at which she had taught, but, having moved in the middle of the school year, there was little time to do research into the options in their new city.

This alternative approach, which now educates more than 30 percent of public - school kids in 19 cities, requires a new structure in order to work.

Put differently, even if the quality of voucher - participating private schools was identical in every city, they would all show different effects depending on the academic effectiveness of the publicly funded alternatives.

Using their new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing public schools, increasing charters from 14 schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing schools, and making almost all of the city's high schools «schools of choice» (see Figure 2).

An alternative high school in Denver that was shut down by the city's school board has been revived as an independent school.

In America's inner cities, private schools offer the only immediately available alternative to district schools.

Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schools.

For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and pilot an alternative placement algorithm based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.

Five of the six New York City high schools participating in Project S.M.A.R.T. (School Mediator Alternative Resolution Team) had a 45 to 70 percent reduction in suspensions for fighting during the program's first year of operation.

Like many inner - city Catholic schools, it has become an alternative for black and Hispanic families as well as white ethnics.

The five books under review here cover a lot of ground: suburb and city, both coasts and the Midwest, conventional high schools, and alternatives to them.

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

Eventually he missed the students and returned to the classroom, this time to Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career prSchool, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career prschool - to - career program.

Two further goals are related but subordinate: to narrow the learning gaps between haves and have - nots, and to help disadvantaged children escape dreadful inner - city schools through the creation of better alternatives.

In more than a dozen cities, charter schools educate 30 % of or more of all public school students, and are creating a ripple effect uplifting entire education systems, and seating supportive education leaders who helped create alternative opportunities in positions of authority at local and state levels.

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Previously, Rodriguez was the Chief Executive Officer of District 79 Alternative Schools and Programs for the New York City Department of Education.

Thus the Washington charters offer encouraging news for those concerned primarily with ensuring that inner - city children have viable alternatives to failing public schools.

In the context of backlash against immigrants and severely overcrowded city schools where newcomer students are easily lost in the shuffle, schools like Newcomers High look like a good alternative.