Sentences with phrase «city public schools closed»

So severe was the storm that even the New York City public schools closed for the first time since 1978.

Not exact matches

Last year, to help close this gap, the New York City Department of Education announced signing and retention bonuses for Pre-K For All teachers working outside public schools.

The school will remain closed for the rest of the week, and all school activities have been canceled, Broward City Public Schools tweeted.

I pondered the question after reading a CNN Belief Blog post in which Imam Khalid Latif, executive director of New York University's Islamic Center, argued that public schools should close for two prominent Muslim holidays in New York City.

But some elected officials on both the city and state level have criticized this approach as a way to close public schools and open a charter school in its place.

Hundreds of upset parents showed up last night at contentious meeting in Manhattan where a city panel was going to vote on closing 13 public schools this summer.

«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.

Yes, the budget tosses a few bucks into the charters» tin cup — ostensibly to close per - pupil funding disparities between New York City's traditional public schools and its 216 charters.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio urged Cuomo and the Legislature to reauthorize mayoral control of New York City's public schools, ratcheting up public pressure as his aides scrambled behind closed doors on several budget - related education issues.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

Despite the lack of notice for public comment, however, the Rye City School District will not directly get involved with the proposed legislation, according to Monahan, but will keep a close watch on it.

New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.

This year the holiday fell on September 12 and public schools in New York City were closed in observance.

The 2009 state law that renewed mayoral control of schools required that the city hold public hearings and provide information on the effect of the closings.

A New York City education panel voted to close 10 of 13 struggling public schools that the education department sought to close despite last - minute pleas from parents and students.

«I will fight to ensure the state closes the $ 4.4 billion funding gap owed to New York City public schools,» Digi said.

NEW YORK (WCBS 880)-- In addition to cutting more than 6,000 teaching jobs from New York City's public schools, Mayor Bloomberg's proposed $ 67 billion spending plan could force 20 fire companies to close.

The man who wanted to improve public schools is closing them, in a city where some school districts (like District 24) are packed to the brim with students.

De Blasio announced earlier Monday that New York City public schools will be closed Tuesday due to the storm.

An ongoing lawsuit over the closing of nineteen public schools has delayed notification for 80,000 of the city's eighth - graders waiting to hear from the Department of Education about where they'll be going to high school, and parents are steaming mad.

At its founding, AQE provided Nixon a fitting pathway into activism on a cause close to home for the parent of two children currently attending New York City public schools (her eldest child is now out of city schooCity public schools (her eldest child is now out of city schoocity schools).

Jeremy Dueñas, a freshman at Ralph McKee High School, created «Close NYC Schools During Snow Emergencies» amid an announcement by Farina and her head - in - a-snowdrift boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Wednesday night that city public schools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the BigSchools During Snow Emergencies» amid an announcement by Farina and her head - in - a-snowdrift boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Wednesday night that city public schools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the Bigschools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the Big Apple.

«I refuse to let my son go to any public school in New York City because you have failing schools that need to be closed.»

The four mayoral hopefuls — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller John Liu, and former comptroller William Thompson — spoke out against the city's school closing policy at the press conference, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Educational JustCity Comptroller John Liu, and former comptroller William Thompson — spoke out against the city's school closing policy at the press conference, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Educational Justcity's school closing policy at the press conference, which was sponsored by the Coalition for Educational Justice.

In the wake of the closing of a Bronx schools contaminated with a toxic chemical, two advocacy groups and eight members of the City Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he rschools contaminated with a toxic chemical, two advocacy groups and eight members of the City Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he resuCity Council have written to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he rSchools Chancellor Dennis Walcott demanding immediate testing of city school on leased property and a public disclosure of he resucity school on leased property and a public disclosure of he results.

Snow, cold temperatures and the prospect of blowing snow have prompted Buffalo Public School officials to close city schools again Wednesday, spokeswoman Elana Cala reported Tuesday night.

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.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter scPublic Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter sSchools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter scpublic schools and charter sschools and charter schoolsschools.

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).

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

In a new article for Education Next, «Mayoral Control in the Windy City,» Alexander Russo takes a close look at Rahm Emanuel's efforts to improve public schools in Chicago.

Since 2002, New York City has closed more than 20 underperforming public high schools, opened more than 200 new secondary schools, and introduced a centralized high school admissions process in which approximately 80,000 students a year indicate their school preferences from a wide - ranging choice of programs.

Whether for underperformance or underenrollment or both, school closings have prompted public outcry over the past decade in cities including Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit.

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Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

Sixteen New Orleans schools have been completely closed and another 30 have been taken over in some fashion by either the RSD or OPSB — a large number in a city that has only about 90 public schools in total.

Just recently news broke in Milwaukee that a charter school, Universal Academy, abruptly closed its doors on a third school in the city in six months, leaving Milwaukee Public Schools and Wisconsin taxpayers with a nearly $ 1 million dollar tab.

Parents and general public should be aware that public school closings in many cities are accompanied by the simultaneous expansion of charter schools and non-public options — schools which have become the darlings of corporate reform, but whose track records are often worse that those of comparable public schools.

New York City's public school system, the largest in the country, yesterday won the Broad Prize, given each year to an urban school district that has made great improvements in student achievement, particularly in closing gaps between white and minority students.

So, with New York City public school students returning next month, * the question is: Why isn't more being done to bring students of different races together in the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the country, one where the public schools have had little success closing a huge racial achievement City public school students returning next month, * the question is: Why isn't more being done to bring students of different races together in the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the country, one where the public schools have had little success closing a huge racial achievement city in the country, one where the public schools have had little success closing a huge racial achievement gap?

Since public education has failed to provide adequate education in the cities, a voucher program that could send kids to Catholic schools that have a track record of success, save the schools from closing, and no religion requirement was made would be good competition to the public schools.

The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.

Just last week it was announced in New York City that three failing public schools would be closing.

Oakland may be close to losing their public schools but cities like San Diego and Los Angeles are not far behind.

Public school teachers in large urban districts, such as Chicago and New York City, can earn close more than double that amount, pulling in close to or well over $ 100,000.

Principal Bynum, a product of New York City public schools who presided over the closing of another Brooklyn high school, arrived as principal in the fall of 2013.

Chicago Board of Education voted in 2013 to close some 49 of the city's public schools — schools that served approximately 87 percent black students.

Baltimore public schools were closed Tuesday as riots continue to engulf the city, and Thornton was unable to attend the signing.

Last week, the Washington Post's editorial board encouraged state lawmakers to consider the idea after nearly all of the city's public schools were closed for two days because teachers walked off of the job.