Sentences with phrase «city parent group»

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According to the New York Post, parent company Forest City Realty Trust (FCRT) is selling all but 5 % of the 30 % share it owns to its partner, Greenland USA, whose parent is Shanghai - based Greenland Holding Group.

Manchester City youngster Patrick Roberts has scored against his parent side for Celtic in their Champions League group stage clash this evening.

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We re-constructed the experiment with a group of local parents here in the Twin Cities about ten years ago, and it serves as a catalyst for important conversations about the role that self - discipline plays in our children's success and happiness...

In some cities, facilitators organize groups and advertise them in local newspapers or parenting publications.

Parents Group Asks City to Investigate How DCPS Picks School Lunch Vendors (Washington City Paper, May 12, 2016)

The sample consisted of 101 parents who attended one of 26 distinct Positive Discipline parent training group classes offered in cities across the United States.

I facilitate breastfeeding support groups in the Denver metro area, I offer lactations consults both in - home and at my office, and I teach breastfeeding classes for parents at several locations around the city.

The council's approval came as a relief to the group of teens and parents who have been fighting for years for a place to skate in the city, most of which is off - limits to skateboarders.

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The pro-charter-school group Families for Excellent Schools said even more needs to be done to comply with state and federal bullying laws, which is why the organization is a plaintiff in a class - action lawsuit against DOE, filed in April 2016, along with 23 parents whose children have experienced bullying and harassment in city schools.

Also a parent group announced a lawsuit Sunday against the city for its plan to put a charter school in the Brandeis Educational Complex on the Upper West Side.

«It's a cheap shot at Claire Shulman, who has dedicated her life to this city,» Bloomberg said during an interview with reporters and editors from the Community Newspaper Group, TimesLedger Newspapers» parent company.

New York City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

In October, Success and a group of parents appealed to the New York State Education Department, accusing the city of violating state law by denying the network funds for its program.

The two lawsuits, since combined by the judge, were filed in 2014 by the Partnership for Educational Justice, the group headed by TV personality Campbell Brown, and the New York City Parents Union.

The Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization and several other groups are calling on city school members to join a conversation tomorrow.

Eliot Spitzer and the state Legislature agreed that while the court case was brought by a group of New York City parents, the ruling should apply to all schools in the state.

«I thought the city fell down on the job,» Thompson said during a Monday interview with reporters and editors from Community Newspaper Group, TimesLedger Newspapers» parent -LSB-...]

Meanwhile, a small group of parents rallied on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday afternoon to decry the weaponry surge.

CITY HALL — A group of angry city council members, parents and members of the Freedom Party gathered on the steps of City Hall Thursday afternoon to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's appointment of businesswoman Cathie Black as the new schools chancelCITY HALL — A group of angry city council members, parents and members of the Freedom Party gathered on the steps of City Hall Thursday afternoon to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's appointment of businesswoman Cathie Black as the new schools chancelcity council members, parents and members of the Freedom Party gathered on the steps of City Hall Thursday afternoon to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's appointment of businesswoman Cathie Black as the new schools chancelCity Hall Thursday afternoon to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's appointment of businesswoman Cathie Black as the new schools chancellor.

Chris Cerrone, a Western New York parent and co-founder of New York State Allies for Public Education, an opt - out activist group, offered a different take on why city districts numbers have remained low or, in the case of Buffalo Public Schools, experienced a significant decrease.

The decision is a stunning blow for Bloomberg, who has repeatedly defended his choice amid intense criticism from parents groups, elected officials and other advocates who said the city needs a schools chancellor with a background in schools.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chandra M. Hayslett, Communications Director [email protected] 212-257-4350 New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Want Deal on New Teacher Evaluation System New Poll Shows Robust and Resilient Support; No Excuse Seen for Losing $ 300 million New York (Nov. 29, 2012)-- A new teacher evaluation system that would ensure that New York City received $ 300 million in additional State education funding enjoys overwhelming support among City voters in general and parents in particular, according to a new poll released today by StudentsFirstNY, the education reform advocacy group, and conducted by Anzalone Liszt Research.

New York State United Teachers, a statewide union, along with national and city - based groups, is hoping to leverage the outrage expressed by parents, teachers and lawmakers over state education commissioner John King's decision to «suspend» four town - hall meetings after a raucous forum in Poughkeepsie.

At the time, Sex and the City was at its zenith, and Nixon threw her star power behind the organization, at one point chaining herself, along with a group of other public - school parents, to the gates of City Hall.

«New York City has never been the mayor's priority,» said Mona Davids, head of the New York City Parents Union, a student advocacy group.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

For 10 days in early October, a dedicated group of teachers, parents and education advocates marched 150 miles from New York City to Albany.

The appellate division of New York State Supreme Court on July 28 declined to rule on the allegations in a lawsuit filed by the UFT and a coalition of community groups and parents on Jan. 5, 2010 that the New York City Department of Education was misusing hundreds of millions of dollars in Contract for Excellence funds earmarked for smaller class sizes.

A widely criticized Department of Education plan that would have forced schools to fund after - hours activities out of their own budgets was abandoned after the UFT and its New York City Coaches Association joined with parents, community groups and the principals» union in blasting the idea.

On the same day that Gov. David Paterson announced that this year's state budget deficit is growing and could reach $ 3 billion, the UFT joined education, labor, parent and community groups at a Sept. 23 rally on the City Hall steps to try to head off midyear cuts to schools.

The UFT joined education, labor, parent and community groups at a Sept. 23 rally on the City Hall steps to try to head off midyear cuts to schools.

Continuing their battle to stop the mayor from laying off teachers and cutting child care and after - school program funding, a group of parents and community members gathered at City Hall on June 16 to deliver a petition on seven 50 - foot scrolls signed by more than 20,000 New Yorkers telling Mayor Bloomberg and City Council members to invest in school improvement, not cut programs or personnel.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

The group was joined by concerned public school parents at City Hall on Thurs., Feb. 18th to ask the mayor to crack down on school violence.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in response to news that California millionaire David Welch's advocacy group, Student Matters, will fund and coordinate the lawsuit by the New York City Parents Union that seeks to invalidate due process and seniority rights for teachers.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

The lawsuit, which includes parents from Yonkers and New York City, was announced Tuesday by the Alliance for Quality Education — a labor - backed group that advocates for increased funding for schools.

Rogalski faciliates the youth group, while the mother of a trans teen and ex-Metro City Church member, Kim Tooley, leads the parent sessions.

As a member of a parent fund - raising group at New York City's P.S. 87, she helped raise more than $ 200,000 a year for ten years for the school.

The supreme court, in a 6 - to - 3 decision, upheld a county district judge's finding in March 1983 that a group of parents violated the state's compulsory - attendance law by sending their children to a school established by the Calvary Baptist Church in Charles City.

Each of these groups set out to inform parents of their NCLB options in target cities.

Since the state seized control of the city's troubled schools last December, Pennsylvania's plan to yield a number of them to for - profit EMOs has made front - page news and has drawn intense scrutiny from students, parent groups, and teacher unions.

Bending to pressure from several parents» and educators» groups, Mayor Kevin H. White instructed his commissioner of consumer affairs and licensing, Joanne Prevost, to place an immediate moratorium on the licensing of such games while the city ponders a «comprehensive plan» to address the «unregulated proliferation of video games and pinball machines» in Boston.

A group of parents who send their children to a Portland, Ore., high school that is scheduled to close at the end of this school year say they were angered and shocked by the city school board's decision last summer to «take away» their local school.

The floodgates of a longstanding debate were reopened recently when a group of New York City parents raised $ 46,000 to pay the salary of a laid off teacher.

Many parent groups, nonprofits, and foundations in the city are working to step in where government has failed.

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).