Sentences with phrase «city classrooms under»

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At 1 p.m., an annual UFT survey has found that for the first time in five years the number of overcrowded NYC classrooms has shown a significant decline, UFT President Mike Mulgrew and elected officials will call on the state meet its obligations under the Contract for Excellence, including lowering all city classes to the state average, steps of Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.

Under a revised budget plan unveiled at City Hall Friday, the city will continue to pursue its controversial plan to lay off 4,100 teachers and eliminate an additional 2,000 classroom positions through attrition, the mayor sCity Hall Friday, the city will continue to pursue its controversial plan to lay off 4,100 teachers and eliminate an additional 2,000 classroom positions through attrition, the mayor scity will continue to pursue its controversial plan to lay off 4,100 teachers and eliminate an additional 2,000 classroom positions through attrition, the mayor said.

The Philadelphia school district has formed a commission to find ways to reduce violence in the classrooms of city schools, including decreasing the number deemed «persistently dangerous» under the No Child Left Behind law and helping implement recommendations from state safety audits on 25 dangerous schools.

Aside from grumblings from the New York City teachers required to work under her system, there has been remarkably little open debate about the basic premises behind Calkins's approach, or even feedback on how the programs are faring in the classroom.

So important does Joel Klein's education department deem Cambourne's theories to be that it instructs all city teachers to go through a checklist to make sure their classroom practices meet the down - under education professor's «Conditions for Learning.»

Memphis officials realized that under the new rules, their district would need to conduct more than 28,000 classroom observations annually, a task that could overwhelm the city's school principals.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Under the city's new evaluation system, principals and assistant principals have had to spend a lot more time in classrooms.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE T.J. FIG Inc., City • ST 2008 — Present Instructor Provide critical student classroom and field environment instruction on Operational Procedures that include Vehicle Characteristics / Safety / Warnings and Cautions, Location and Function of Controls and Indicators and BII, PMCS, Egress and Rollover, Troubleshooting and Operating Under Unusual Condition, utilizing PowerPoint presentations and hands - on training demonstrations.