Sentences with phrase «city public school kids»

In the 2005 documentary film «Mad Hot Ballroom,» viewers saw how the lives of New York City public school kids were impacted by dance.

Last year, more than 105,000 New York City public school kids experienced homelessness at some point during the year, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.

«And New York kept its part of the promise too — because if we didn't quite rival the Kennedys, a New York City public school kid like me was able to make it all the way to New York City Comptroller,» he said.

Not exact matches

Former Barcelona star Ronaldinho playing with kids at a New York City public school in the Bronx in September 2016, when the club opened an office in the cCity public school in the Bronx in September 2016, when the club opened an office in the citycity.

A vast majority of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income kids, because their public schools tend to have the most problems.»

At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, «I had a lot of students comment, «I can't really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.»»

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

The city had just built the Thorp Public School on the south side of Grace, making Schorsch's homes seem a good place to raise kids, and the price nicely accorded with a blue - collar worker's pay stub.

The number of New York City kids eating free breakfasts in public school classrooms is growing, but the obesity rates are not, a new study finds.

«As the mother of two young kids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety Caukids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety CauKids Safety Caucus.

Submitted and Written by Reana KovalcikNancy Easton and Chef Bill Telepan serve as the executive leadership for Wellness in the Schools, a New York City - based non-profit that inspires healthy eating, physical fitness, and environmental awareness as a way of life for kids in the public school system.

Taking no chances, the city's Department of Education canceled school for the 1.1 million - student system — marking the second time this winter public school kids took a powder break due to snow.

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Black said she doesn't know if she would be sending her kids to the city's public schools if faced with that choice today.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

I've seen her for fight for her kids and her public school to make sure the city was doing right by them,» Rosenthal said.

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

The Daily News took a deep dive into the city's public schools in our five - part «Fight for Their Future» series — but now we turn the spotlight over to New York's political and educational leaders to learn what they believe is best for our kids.

The city could be on the hook for the cash after failing to place 2,500 special needs kindergarten kids in public schools.

He has countered that his focus remains on traditional public schools because they still enroll roughly 90 percent of city kids.

In their letter to the union, the candidates, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, expressed their solidarity with the drivers, but said they were increasingly concerned about the impact the strike was having on public school kids, parents and drivers, as it entered its fifth week.

He also supports education tax credits for parents who send their kids to private schools, and is against «dumbing down» admission standards to the city's elite public high schools.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley reports a new nation - wide study says there is a high rate of students arriving at school hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to cityschool hungry, but the Buffalo Public School District is serving thousands of free meals to citySchool District is serving thousands of free meals to city kids.

SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14 - year - old boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents» relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

The Dublin - set feature follows 14 year - old Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from his parents» strained relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust at the inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

As a review on Insideschools.org — an online guide to the city's public schools — said of JHS 123, «Parents were scared off by tales of kids getting their heads dunked in toilets by gang members and students ripping fixtures out of the walls and then hurling them from windows.»

When I was a kid I had been lucky enough to get a scholarship to an all - boys private high school just outside of the city, and that happened right when things were getting really difficult for me in the public school I attended.

Today, almost half of the city's public school enrollment is in charters, even more kids are on charter waitlists, and PCSB has the authority to continue growing its portfolio.

As the system is currently defined, that burden is mainly owned by the Dayton Public School district, just because that kid's parents happen to live within the city limits of Dayton this month.

Now the dominant force in New Orleans, with a hand in schools educating four of every five kids in the Crescent City, the RSD has been instrumental in fundamentally — and hopefully forever — changing our understanding of the delivery of public schooling.

At this point, I'm of the mind that the ASD / RSD model, though it is a giant leap in our evolving understanding of public school governance and operation, is not the long - term solution for what city kids need.

Today, fourteen cities have at 30 percent of their public school kids in charters.

Three years ago, chapters of Mustaches for Kids (M4K) in the city of New York and Charlotte, North Carolina, elected to raise money for public school projects posted on DonorsChoose.org.

«The reality is that our kids are in constant contact with the media,» says Daniel Rossi, director of the Midtown Manhattan campus of Satellite Academy, a four - year public high school with four New York City locations, who is an advocate for media literacy education.

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.

Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein have ramped up the citys efforts to infuse arts into New York City public schools, but the pressure is on all of us — our schools, arts education advocates, business leaders — to seize opportunities for partnerships that can build the type of successful communities that we all want to live in, and support our kids — the future of this cCity public schools, but the pressure is on all of us — our schools, arts education advocates, business leaders — to seize opportunities for partnerships that can build the type of successful communities that we all want to live in, and support our kids — the future of this citycity.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Syscity high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Sschool in the Oklahoma City Public School SysCity Public School SSchool System.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

This is «The Kids» Diner,» a Baltimore City Public Schools training center for vocational - education students — and a popular downtown eatery.

But the next year, his mother helped get him into a program in the city that allowed kids to enroll at high - performing public schools on conditional bases.

Report authors, Prof Peterson, Eric Hanushek at Stanford University and Ludger Woessmann at the University of Munich, wrote in Education Next magazine: «Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.»

Lost in the recent fight over TV ads about racial inequality in New York City schools is another sort of inequality — that kids in charter schools only receive a fraction of the funding that all other public school children receive.

«So when you talk about the promise charters can provide, we have families who want to send their kids to public schools in the city of St. Louis,» said Robbyn Wahby, the mayor's education aide.

«It would not really be helpful for me to take a kid who's going to an inner - city Boston charter school and say, «What if he went instead to the Weston public schools?»»

Keeping Kids In School and Out of Court: Report and Recommendations from the New York City School - Justice Partnership Task Force In the 2011 - 12 school year, there were 69,694 suspensions and 2,548 arrests and summonses in the New York City public scSchool and Out of Court: Report and Recommendations from the New York City School - Justice Partnership Task Force In the 2011 - 12 school year, there were 69,694 suspensions and 2,548 arrests and summonses in the New York City public scSchool - Justice Partnership Task Force In the 2011 - 12 school year, there were 69,694 suspensions and 2,548 arrests and summonses in the New York City public scschool year, there were 69,694 suspensions and 2,548 arrests and summonses in the New York City public schools.

New York City Charter Schools Hold Day of Action, Voter Registration Drive and Call for Fair Funding from Albany 40,000 NYC Charter Kids Only Receive 68 Cents on the Dollar Compared to Other Public School Children

The main issue should not be whether poor inner - city kids should receive public support to attend private schools.

As the City Council holds a hearing this afternoon on three resolutions aimed to cap and slow the co-location of public schools, district and charter school leaders who share facilities are speaking up about their experience co-locating with other public schools; collaboration, community building and putting kids first are recurring themes among all of them, demonstrating that educators know to check politics at the door.

Cities with long - troubled school systems — think Newark and Camden just across the Hudson — have successfully partnered with public charters to offer opportunities to needy kids, particularly poor children of color.