Sentences with phrase «city public schools through»

One celebrated graduate of the program, a pastor and former corporate lawyer named Jeremy Del Rio, started the Thrive Collective, which «adopts» New York City public schools through partnerships with churches and an emphasis on the value of mentorship.

Not exact matches

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.

Chance the Rapper's relentless quest to get Chicago Public Schools funded through the end of the millennium continues unabated, as the Second City's First Son has now announced that he talked the Chicago Bulls into throwing a cool million towards the project.

Suspensions of children in kindergarten through second grade have dropped in New York City public schools after City Hall's push to keep the littlest learners in their classrooms.

Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.

Buffalo Public School principals and teachers are going to be notified they have to take classroom attendance, once the memo completes its path through the City Hall bureaucracy.

The session runs through June, and lawmakers will also have to consider an extension of rent control regulations for New York City as well as mayoral control of public schools.

Having chaired the influential Committee on Codes since the early 1990s, Mr. Lentol has had decades to cement bonds with the veteran lawmakers in the Assembly and could pitch himself as the experienced hand required to guide the legislature through one of the more pivotal sessions in years (rent laws and the mayoral control of city public schools are both set to expire.)

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent organization whose mission is to provide programs and resources to improve learning and success for all Rochester city public school students through partnerships with educators, business and the community.

School nurse positions funded through the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will be downsized, affecting some 33,000 students in public, private and parochial schools.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew urged New York City to embark next September on a long - term initiative that will lower class size in the public schools to no more than 15 students in kindergarten through third grade.

Minchin Lewis, adjunct professor of public administration and international affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who studies financial management and social programming in urban government, pointed out this is not the first time the city of Syracuse has gone through government ovepublic administration and international affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who studies financial management and social programming in urban government, pointed out this is not the first time the city of Syracuse has gone through government ovePublic Affairs who studies financial management and social programming in urban government, pointed out this is not the first time the city of Syracuse has gone through government overhaul.

There are more than a dozen Syracuse public schools that are staring down major changes or closure in the near future, much like what three city schools are going through this year.

«We have been assured that no proposal will be considered unless there is a suitable relocation facility in our [area], that our school will be kept together, that there will be extensive discussions with us and that any proposal will go through ULURP which ensures adequate public and Community Board input and eventual City Council approval,» Shuffler wrote in an email.

Last year, after Mr. de Blasio briefly blocked three Success schools from public space and threatened to charge the network rent, Mr. Cuomo pushed through a law guaranteeing all new or expanding charter schools in the city free space or money to find their own.

The free program is a BID Family Day event, made possible through a partnership of the New Rochelle Downtown BID (Business Improvement District) with the New Rochelle Public Library, the City School District & PTA Council, and the Department of Parks & Recreation.

In a new article in the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York challenge those claims through a careful examination of the evidence.

Through music school, I met parents with high school and college education, and in this way I learned about the only city - wide public high school of high academic standing available at that time to girls.

My cousins, on the other hand, attended public schools in the city straight through and they would tell me stories how you'd need to get to class at least 10 minutes early to get a seat and text book.

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.

Our results indicate that, on average, New York City's charter schools raise their 3rd through 8th graders» math achievement by 0.09 of a standard score and reading achievement by 0.04 of a standard score, compared with what would have happened had they remained in traditional public schools (see Figure 3).

ChicagoQuest, the sister school to the New York City public school Quest to Learn, is a charter school for grades six through nine that serves a largely underprivileged population in Chicago's Near North Side.

The schools» transition from stately, which was characteristic of the early 20th century, to sterile has several explanations: the spread of modernism generally, the devaluation of public architecture in particular (city halls have been victims too), the physical growth of schools through both district consolidation and population increase, and fiscal pressures in the public sector.

Mr. Kerr, 47, the new communications director for city Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein, has taken on one of the highest - profile school public relations jobs in the country, just as the 1.1 million - student system is working through a number of...

The campaign, which began this month, will publicize the accomplishments of the public schools through billboard displays at 30 locations throughout the city.

98, Ed.D.» 01, the superintendent of Montgomery County [Md.] Public Schools, was walking through New York City's Central Park when the idea hit him.

To qualify for a scholarship, children had to be entering grades 1 through 4, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for the U.S. government's free or reduced - price school - lunch program.

It is now possible to provide some answers to these questions by exploring the relative effectiveness of recently hired New York City public school teachers who entered the profession through alternate routes.

Another district, Cambridge (Mass.) Public Schools, is trying an entirely new model: This fall it moved away from its long - held K — 8 configuration with the creation of a lower school and an upper school, with sixth - through eighth - graders in the upper school still housed within four of the city's elementary buildings.

In recent years, one Jersey City public school, PS 24 (better known as Watters School), has focused more on the whole child and has used a systematic social, emotional, and character development program in grades six through school, PS 24 (better known as Watters School), has focused more on the whole child and has used a systematic social, emotional, and character development program in grades six through School), has focused more on the whole child and has used a systematic social, emotional, and character development program in grades six through eight.

The resurgence of ability grouping comes as New York City grapples with the state of its gifted and talented programs — a form of tracking in some public schools in which certain students, selected through testing, take accelerated classes together.

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.»

Mr. Winters focuses on New York City public school students in grades 3 through 8.

Located in three leased buildings once used by a parochial school at Trinity Lutheran Church near downtown Stockton, the kindergarten through fifth grade Port City Academy is part of Aspire Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school organization based in Oakland.

Independent charter schools have also contributed their share of expertise in ways both formal and more organic through opening their doors and sharing their models with public and private schools in New York City, the U.S. and internationally.

2004 — CEI - PEA launched an initiative to develop public school choice programs in five major cities across the United States through a multi-year grant from the United States Department of Education.

We learned through our in - depth interviews that many white, affluent parents want to enroll their children in racially diverse public schools, but they struggle to find schools in New York City that are racially diverse.

Ms. Ravitch devotes a devastating chapter to New York City, where the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has made claims, soberly dismantled in Ms. Ravitch's book, that under his care public administration has continued to make steady improvement, largely through the creation of charter schools that give parents and students ever more choice.

For almost a year, a group of San Francisco youth — members of the city's Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth — campaigned to convince the SF Board of Education to make the «A through G» curriculum the default curriculum for all students in the San Francisco public schools.

The lab is a group of New York City public schools who are thoughtfully working through the challenges of implementing Common Core standards.

Center City Public Charter Schools will observe Spring Break from March 26 through March 30.

Suspensions of children in kindergarten through second grade have dropped in New York City public schools after City Hall's push to keep the littlest learners in their classrooms.

The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Hall of Fame honors outstanding educators, alumni and community leaders who through their lives have either deeply impacted WCPSS or, as an alumnus, dramatically added to the quality of life in our city, state or nation.

The District is a relatively small city and allows its students to ride Metrobus or Metrorail at no cost through the Kids Ride Free program, but does not offer public school transportation.

Nearly 600 sixth - through eighth grade students on 28 Baltimore City public school teams compete bi-weekly in an...

Through the prism of one inner - city public school, we witness complexities faced by urban public schools and communities everywhere.

Families living in this area are the only ones in the city who overwhelmingly attend in - boundary schools, from elementary school through high school, over other options in DCPS or at public charter schools (see Figure 1).

Achievement First schools accept students through a lottery open to all public school students in the city or district they are in (AF runs schools in New York City and in Connecticut so the charters are different in Ncity or district they are in (AF runs schools in New York City and in Connecticut so the charters are different in NCity and in Connecticut so the charters are different in NYC).

Last year, after Mr. de Blasio briefly blocked three Success schools from public space and threatened to charge the network rent, Mr. Cuomo pushed through a law guaranteeing all new or expanding charter schools in the city free space or money to find their own.

Through the fellowship, she will spend up to two years creating this system and will begin by working with the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) and many of the city's charter schools to build partnerships for the Schools (IPS) and many of the city's charter schools to build partnerships for the schools to build partnerships for the effort.