Sentences with phrase «city school children far»

This week we are going to see that a decade of test prep — rather than real learning — has left New York City school children far behind where they should be.

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Public schoolteachers in central cities are far more likely than the average central city resident to send their own children to private schools.

But we also should be concerned about the long - term costs, which continue to add up long after a child stops attending school — and extend far beyond the city limits.

Further, thousands of Renewal Schools children, their parents, and hard - working teachers all around the city also learned that their educational futures would abruptly change via a cornucopia of closures, mergers, and truncations upon which the mayor's Panel for Educational Policy will vote.

Across the city, zoned schools in heavily chartered neighborhoods have higher percentages of high - needs children than a decade ago; far higher, in fact, than the surrounding charter schools.

In the interests of progress we call upon Mr. Paladino to resign and further suggest that board members that align themselves with his destructive agenda reconsider their support of an individual that jeopardizes the mission of the Buffalo Public Schools and the futures of this city's children.

On Monday, he touted a $ 500 million second phase of the «Buffalo Billion» initiative, a $ 2 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure statewide and a far smaller $ 35 million investment in a pilot program to provide after - school services to children in 16 cities.

The Syracuse City School District is revisiting the debate over how far children should have to walk to sSchool District is revisiting the debate over how far children should have to walk to schoolschool.

Additional aftershocks have wreaked further havoc, including the collapse of a middle school in the Sichuan city of Dujiangyan that trapped 900 children.

After reading the critics and examining many more studies than Klein names (some inevitably negative), I believe there is simply no doubt that under Klein's leadership, children attending public schools in New York City were, on average, being far better educated at the end of his eight years than they had been nine years before.

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

«We now want to build on the lessons learned from the pilot so far to bring School Streets» benefits to even more children, families and residents across the city.»

A spokesman for the Birmingham City Council said: «All of Birmingham's children must benefit from any changes to the education system, so we need the government to make changes to enable this to happen so school and council budgets, that are already stretched, are not strained even further.»

Two further goals are related but subordinate: to narrow the learning gaps between haves and have - nots, and to help disadvantaged children escape dreadful inner - city schools through the creation of better alternatives.

Again, we need look no further than the recently reported comments by billionaire Daniel Loeb, Chairman of Success Academy Charter Schools, accusing New York City Deputy Mayor Richard Buery of being «smug and satisfied» with the current state of public education for «at - risk» black and brown children.

In most cases, college - educated parents with school - age children are far less concentrated in central cities relative to all parents with school - age children, with the exceptions of Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Seattle.

The expansion, funded by Nottingham City Council, will see a further 210 school places added for local children and expansion work should be -LSB-...]

Even the most «yuppified» Jersey City charter, the Learning Community school, is impressively integrated with 43 percent of its children poor enough to qualify for free lunches — far more than in most suburbs.

In other words, as far as New York City's exclusive Harvard Club is concerned, when it comes to important issues of public policy and the apparent widespread abuse of children who attend Success Charter Schools, ensuring that the truth is told is of little to no concern.

With an art degree from Rhode Island School of Design on his office wall, two union cards - stagehands and scenic artists - in his wallet, five able - bodied children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party - a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York City and as near as our local elementary sSchool of Design on his office wall, two union cards - stagehands and scenic artists - in his wallet, five able - bodied children, a French wife, and a photograph torn from a magazine of two Yugoslav guys roasting a lamb over a pit, he created a legendary party - a feast that almost two hundred people came to every year from as far away as the townhouses of New York City and as near as our local elementary schoolschool.

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