Sentences with phrase «city high schools on»

The café, which aims to become a mainstay in the University City and Drexel communities, features several tables and chairs that were reclaimed from the former University City High School on 3601 Filbert Street in Philadelphia.

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East's fourth major snowstorm this month swept through the region with heavy snow and high winds on Wednesday, snarling flights and commuter travel, closing schools and triggering emergency declarations in New York City and New Jersey.

Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson worked with the city of Philadelphia on a grant for public high school students interested in entrepreneurship.

The city will spend $ 200,000 on a program that helps high school students who dream of being entrepreneurs.

Survivors of last week's Florida high school massacre have announced a march on Washington and other major U.S. cities next month to demand tangible action so to prevent future school shootings.

Whether it was serving on student government or representing my high school classmates on the city school board, I was used to leading people.

Raymond Abbott is a high school dropout from Camden, New Jersey, one of the poorest cities in America with over 60 percent of its residents on welfare.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Strack is also the founder and president of Student Leadership University (SLU), which puts on faith - based programs to train high school and college - aged Christians in Orlando, San Antonio, and other major cities.

In Los Angeles, on South Fairfax Ave., below where it meets Wilshire Blvd. in the city's west end, sits the Orthodox Shalhevet High School, a three - story brick and glass private sSchool, a three - story brick and glass private schoolschool.

Though signing day is only two months away, and Mark Smith, the best high school wrestler in the U.S., still hasn't decided on a college, it sure is quiet in Del City, Okla..

As a Single Parent / Mother of a high school student at Detroit Cass Tech (Donovan People - Jones) here in the City of Detroit I am initiating this Petition on behalf of all students and parents around the country and even Canada.

But a high school coach and a program try to hold on in a city ravaged by senseless crime

The school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each students to attend (4) public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.

One practice per week for each team will be held at a local high school or city park, with a second practice each week being held at an indoor baseball facility to focus on small group instruction for hitting, pitching, and catching.

On the night of the crash, Grant Taylor, brother of Aces junior Bryan Taylor, had been in Huntingburg, 30 miles from his home of Tell City, Indiana, for a high school basketball game.

Following the Wolverines» satellite camp on Wednesday at Kansas City's Blue Springs South High School, Jim Harbaugh updated the status of...

Appelbaum's sons attend the high - performing Bell School on the city's North Side, which placed in the top 10 of a 2007 Chicago Sun - Times list of the highest - scoring middle - grade programs in Illinois.

The dish is on the menu every day in the city's high schools and regularly offered to younger students as well.

Regardless whether you desire to study primarily on campus or participate in our study abroad program in high school, an education at the Waldorf School of Garden City is international by deschool, an education at the Waldorf School of Garden City is international by deSchool of Garden City is international by default.

Michael Roe, principal of Poly High School, meets with students McKenna Elton, 16, left, and Deborah Platt, 15, from the Poly Social Justice Council, in Roe's office on Feb. 16, 2016, in the city of Riverside.

The City Council has directed both bodies to work together toward a plan for a joint recreation campus on a 13 - acre parcel of Park District property along 95th Street, but library officials fear a combined venture will further hinder the plans they have for a big new library near Neuqua Valley High School.

Library Board President Bruce Knopp plans to step before the City Council on April 4 with the board's revised plans for a third facility near Neuqua Valley High School, but he will also be seeking increased cooperation with the Park District and cash commitments from the City Council.

The city has taken some of the frustration out of the planning process over the last few weeks by taking a more active role in the purchase of the land on 95th Street near Neuqua Valley High School from the Park District.

The City Council agreed to hold off until June 20 before deciding whether they will give library officials the requested $ 18.6 million to construct the facility on Park District - owned land on the south side of 95th Street, west of Neuqua Valley High School.

After months of negotiations, Park District and library officials presented the City Council with the latest plan to construct a library and a Park District facility on 13 acres on 95th Street west of Neuqua Valley High School.

During a private breakfast meeting at Gracie Mansion, de Blasio, his top attorneys and a senior advisor encouraged a group of lawyers to work with the city on a pro-bono basis, provide internships and other mentoring opportunities to low - income high school students and assist in the bid to win the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

The Independent Democratic Conference on Wednesday released a platform designed to increase student diversity at specialized high schools in New York City.

At 7 p.m., Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer attends a New York City Department of Education public hearing on Health Careers and Science High School, George Washington Educational Campus, 549 Audubon Ave., Manhattan.

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

The Leadership Academy, which is part of the Rochester City School District is located on Lake Avenue at the former Charlotte High School campus.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York Ccity schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York CityCity.

New York Daily News article on BP Adams and Bronx BP Diaz unveiling a task force on inequities in access to gifted school programs and specialized high schools in New York City.

Hizzoner's offenses range «from evicting Harlem's highest - performing middle - schoolers to stonewalling parents for months on end, only to offer inadequate temporary solutions, despite the 144,000 empty seats across the city,» said the spokeswoman, Nicole Sizemore.

Schneiderman's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit issued subpoenas last week to eight parties involved with the sale of Rivington House, which was once a school owned by the city and is now set to become a high - end residential complex on the Lower East Side.

Politico New York article on BP Adams supporting the City's elimination of CUNY application fees from 37,500 high school students.

few years ago when I was teaching at a High School in the city of Buffalo when someone called and said there was a shooter on the roof....

«I felt that now was the right time to jump in,» he told DNAinfo over a chocolate milkshake at the Court Square Diner in Long Island City, which is on the way from his hour and a half commute between East Elmhurst to Stuyvesant High School, where he's a junior.

Stuyvesant, one of the city's most academically prestigious high schools, was on lockdown for hours after the attack, said de Blasio, who praised the school system and police for following established protocol and acting swiftly to shelter students in place.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«We spend $ 22 billion on the New York City public school system, so to say we aren't devoting resources is ridiculous,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at Washington Irving High School later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cschool system, so to say we aren't devoting resources is ridiculous,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at Washington Irving High School later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cSchool later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cschool year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been closed.

The Regents do not specifically mention a decade - old order from the state's highest court that said billions more need to be spent each year on schools in New York City to fulfill the state's constitutional requirement that each child receive a «sound, basic education.»

City Honors is number one on the Business First high school rankings list for the second year in a row.

A statement will follow shortly from the City School District regarding an upcoming public forum on Tuesday, January 23 at 7:00 PM in the Whitney M. Young Auditorium at New Rochelle High School.

So far, his campaign relies on volunteers and friends, with around 20 other students at some of the city's top high schools helping him out.

On May 3, 2016 supportive State Lawmakers including Assemblymembers Amy Paulin, Michelle Schimel, Brian Kavanagh, Patricia Fahy, Phil Steck, and Senators Jeff Klein, and Daniel Squadron joined approximately 170 high school students from New York City who traveled to Albany to urge lawmakers to support gun safety measures.

«Under Mayor Miner's leadership and Colleen Deacon's assistance as Sen. Gillibrand's point person in the region, the infrastructure in our city is crumbling, there is decreased police presence on our streets, the poverty rate is skyrocketing, and the high school graduation rate hovers around 50 percent,» O'Connor said.

The members of the Delegate Assembly, the highest policy - making body of the UFT, on Feb. 15 roundly rejected Mayor Bloomberg's call for an individual merit pay plan for New York City public schools.

The resolution outlines $ 2.7 billion in funding over five years for a universal pre-k and after - school programs at levels requested by New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio, but does not include the mayor's proposed tax on high - income city resideCity's mayor Bill de Blasio, but does not include the mayor's proposed tax on high - income city residecity residents.

Voters in the city of Albany defeated proposed charter revisions, but the question of spending $ 200 million on a new high school will likely come down to absentee ballots.