Sentences with phrase «city school board took»

The New York City school board took the first step last week toward overhauling special education in the nation's largest school system.

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Quinn tells WBFO News he believes the powerful New York State United Teachers Union has taken over the city school board, influencing the majority members.

Mark Aldrich, 54, of Salamanca was charged with passing a red light Wednesday at 7:22 a.m. City police say the accident — which took place at the corner of Winsor and Willard Streets — involved four vehicle, one of which was a Jamestown Board of Education school bus.

The city school board learned there is no consistency about what to do when a student refuses to take the tests.

The Buffalo School Board has decided to review its admissions policies at two of the district's most sought - after schools — City Honors and Olmsted 156 — after some parents complained that the present formula penalizes students who opted out of taking state tests.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

Buffalo School Board Member Theresa Harris - Tigg has a different take on what's going wrong, based on her student teachers from SUNY Buffalo State in city schools.

The Democratic Party and California need your efforts as we work to take our country back, elect a Democratic Congress, and support Democratic candidates for City Council and School Board seats.

Taking care of homeless children was a start of private boarding schools named after the city districts.

The mayor of Rochester, N.Y., and six city residents have taken the unusual step of asking the state commissioner of education to overturn the severance deal between the city's school board and former Superintendent Clifford B. Janey.

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.

He argued in an education blog that the board's position signaled the close of an «exhilarating chapter of reform» and suggested that the District should approve a second charter school authorizer that would be willing to take the city to the next level of growth.

Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush - with - cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.

Parents and teachers in the nation's largest school system would have broad new authority over their schools under a plan the New York City school board is expected to take up next week.

As LA mayor, Villaraigosa attempted to take control of the LA Unified school board, as the mayor has in cities like Chicago and New York.

Meanwhile, Ratliff, who is running for Los Angeles City Council and will be leaving the school board, said she hopes the district will take note of the successes at Haddon.

The District's old school board had chartering power until 2007, when Mayor Adrian M. Fenty took control of the city's traditional school system.

The Park City School board meetings take place monthly, and provide the community a variety of updates on what's going on with Park City Schools.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Public input during the Park City School Board meeting on Tuesday was extensive, with a handful of representatives taking the podium to urge the governing board to ask Superintendent Ember Conley to reconsider her resignaBoard meeting on Tuesday was extensive, with a handful of representatives taking the podium to urge the governing board to ask Superintendent Ember Conley to reconsider her resignaboard to ask Superintendent Ember Conley to reconsider her resignation.

The Park City School board is taking applications for the District 5 seat which is open due to Julie Eihausen's departure.

Our City, Our Schools, Our Voices, will come together this coming weekend in the final protest push before the May 22 Board meeting where the mass school closing vote will be taken.

The Park City School District celebrated three teachers who have earned National Board Certification, which can take up to 600 hours of outside work.

In a year that has seen a great deal of turnover in San Bernardino City Unified, there are now 13 candidates looking to take a seat on the SBCUSD School Board.

Park City School District is taking applications for a District 1 board member to replace outgoing school board member Phil KSchool District is taking applications for a District 1 board member to replace outgoing school board member Phil Kschool board member Phil Kaplan.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is backing Superintendent Hite, and the city's School Reform Commission, which succeeded the school board when the state took over the city's schools in 2000, is expected to vote on the proposal in School Reform Commission, which succeeded the school board when the state took over the city's schools in 2000, is expected to vote on the proposal in school board when the state took over the city's schools in 2000, is expected to vote on the proposal in March.

Not only have more than half of the city's public schools been taken over by the state, but almost all of the schools — including those still under the jurisdiction of the locally elected Orleans Parish School Board — have been handed over to charter operators.

Indeed, while the Orleans Parish School Board owns the majority of the city's public school property, the recovery district took over operation of the properties when schools were turnedSchool Board owns the majority of the city's public school property, the recovery district took over operation of the properties when schools were turnedschool property, the recovery district took over operation of the properties when schools were turned over.

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Ridley apparently resigned from being board chair of the charter management organization Crescent City Schools to take on the new group.

He pledged to take control of the city's public schools, then under the supervision of the Board of Education, which had been ridiculed for budget troubles and stagnant academic performance.

«If you close and consolidate campuses, the students will be able to take money to another campus,» said Juliet Stipeche, a former HISD board member recently appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner as the city's first education czar, explaining the logic behind school closures.

City commissioners will take a first vote at their Aug. 18 meeting, with a second vote in September, to create a board to run the school.

The New Orleans College Prep governing board — which operates Sylvanie Williams elementary in Central City and Walter L. Cohen High School — has decided to apply to run a third school, and took action on the application after a three - hour closed - door meeting that appears to have run afoul of the state's open - meetings laws, reports Joshua Johnston of TheSchool — has decided to apply to run a third school, and took action on the application after a three - hour closed - door meeting that appears to have run afoul of the state's open - meetings laws, reports Joshua Johnston of Theschool, and took action on the application after a three - hour closed - door meeting that appears to have run afoul of the state's open - meetings laws, reports Joshua Johnston of The Lens.

In September, after Newark students showed academic gains, New Jersey education officials voted to return control of the city's public schools to the local school board, 22 years after the state Board of Education took over the tattered distboard, 22 years after the state Board of Education took over the tattered distBoard of Education took over the tattered district.

«If this is not done well, we will go backwards as a city,» said Leslie Jacobs, a local insurance executive and philanthropist who as a member of the state board of education led the creation of the state district that took over the schools.

(Ill.) The Chicago Public Schools board of education approved the expansion of a collaborative city effort last week that's been shown to reduce crime along the routes children regularly take to get to and from school.

It takes a special leader to serve on a big city school board, especially in Philadelphia, where chronic funding shortages have created a «zero sum» approach on virtually every issue.

Mayor Luke Bronin's embattled nominee for the city school board, YMCA official Harold Sparrow, has withdrawn his candidacy on the eve of Monday's confirmation hearing, stating that controversy over his past employment had become a distraction that would take awhile to overcome

«When it came to my compensation, it was the board who took the initiative,» said Lam, who previously worked as a deputy school chancellor for New York City and as superintendent in Chelsea, Providence, and San Antonio.

The vote signifies the progress made in the 11 years since Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches, when the Legislature took the vast majority of city schools away from the School Board to be run by the state.

-LSB-...] the corporate «reformers» attempt to take over the school board in Nashville and the well - deserved defeat they experienced during the recent election in the Music City.

Although Sharpe's Jumoke Academy has never served bi-lingual students and only takes a small percentage of special educations students compared to the number served in Hartford's public schools, Commissioner Pryor, the State Board of Education and the City of Hartford's Board of Education recently transferred Hartford's Milner elementary school, with all of its students and taxpayer funds, to Jumoke.

While reasons for the declines are attributed to lower birth rates, outward migration from the city and the growth of charter schools, the board's Committee of the Whole, chaired by Steve Zimmer, has taken up the issue to make LA Unified schools more appealing to families.

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At the city of Parkland's Education Advisory Board on Monday, board member Wayne Alder called for Runcie and all school board members to resign «so that proper leadership in the district can take place.&rBoard on Monday, board member Wayne Alder called for Runcie and all school board members to resign «so that proper leadership in the district can take place.&rboard member Wayne Alder called for Runcie and all school board members to resign «so that proper leadership in the district can take place.&rboard members to resign «so that proper leadership in the district can take place.»