Sentences with phrase «city school children get»

«All we are asking for is that New York City school children get their fair share of resources,» said Levine.

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Currently, schools in high - expense cities such as San Francisco get $ 2.74 a meal per child.

Do you feel the need to tour and enroll your child in the top schools in your city in order to get them into a good university one day?

But that doesn't ensure every needy school - age child in the city gets the proper nutrition, officials add.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: As many wonder just what would happen should the executive order that protects children who were brought to this country illegally be eliminated, the head of Syracuse City Schools says all students — no matter how they got here — will be supported.

In a pattern that has remained unchanged for years, minority children got just 10 percent of the spots at New York City's specialized high schools.

With the 2016 legislative session just getting underway, parent advocates who live in low - income communities across New York City and have children who attend both district and charter schools wanted to make sure their voices were heard.

So, with all due respect, Mr. Scanlon, if you want to protect city school children, put your efforts into getting the lead out.

Calling the Albany budget crisis and its threat to rob city schools of as much as $ 600 million in state aid «the most dangerous thing this union has faced in 30 years,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the April 21 Delegate Assembly that members had to redouble their efforts to get the message out to elected officials that «children can't be made to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street.»

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

It's why I led the fight for mandatory kindergarten city - wide, it's why I increased the number of pre-K slots available in New York City, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campacity - wide, it's why I increased the number of pre-K slots available in New York City, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campaCity, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campaign.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

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«This brand - new, world - leading school will ensure every child in the inner city has the chance to get a great education at a great local school,» Mr Merlino said.

The major effect of vouchers would be to reduce discrepancies between the quality of schooling that the children in the inner city are getting and the quality of schooling of the most high - income person.

Inner - city parents are signing their children up for charter lotteries because the schools are getting results for kids like theirs.

Asked about the difference between urban and suburban charter parents, Patterson replied, «In the inner city, parents first want a school that's safe, where their children won't get hurt or shot and hopefully will be around adults who care about them.

Bowers's students spent a morning planting trees in a city park, and they made and distributed several hundred bookmarks that list steps even children can take to protect the environment — things like turning off the lights or taking the school bus instead of getting a ride from Mom or Dad.

All the news that's fit to link in Oakland and beyond — this week - The All City Council Youth Forum, Segregation in Oakland and it's effects, making sure your special needs child gets the summer services they deserve, an upcoming youth led event covering school quality, mental health, and the experiences of Black students, the widely... Continue reading The Oakland Education Week in Review - 5/4/18

When parents know their children are getting a disastrously poor education, it is unsurprising that they will support alternatives, especially if those alternatives have shown powerful results, as, say, is the case in some New York City charter schools.

And if you did, using the city's One - App process, how likely would it be that you would be lucky enough to get your child enrolled within your preferred school?

But folks in our communities know us and put their kids on long waitlists to get into our schools because it is our mission to provide the innovative, progressive and arts - enriched kind of education that our city ideally wants to provide for every child.

The Baltimore Teachers Union is urging the city to close down all schools until officials get a handle on heating problems that have already closed some buildings and left children shivering in others.

This is a critical moment for the city to stand up and support people like Dr. Perry who are unafraid to speak truth to power and have tough conversations about the urgent need to improve Buffalo schools so that every child can get a great education.

«Schools of Hope has had a tremendous impact — you remove that tutoring element and the gap gets worse — but we may have overstated the significance it could have on these children,» said Caire, now founder and CEO of One City Early Learning Centers, a new effort to address the racial achievement gap.

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.

The plan has resulted in upheaval for students and their families across the city with some schools closed, others turned over to private charter managers, and the introduction of a school choice system that has left many families with children at different schools and limited transportation options for getting their children there.

The stereotype of bad inner - city schools is overcrowded classes, but so many parents work hard to get their children elsewhere — whether a charter, a Catholic school or, by using a fake address, a better public school — that at P.S. 39 average class size is actually small, 21.

Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation, says similar collaborations have sprung up across the country, where civic leaders have moved past the «charter vs. district debate» and are asking themselves: «How do we just make sure that every child in the city gets to wake up in the morning and go to a great school?»

The program focuses on eight problems, including the number of city children who are up to date on their vaccinations, the number of high quality preschool programs in the city, how many Milwaukee students pass third grade math and reading tests, and how many complete high school, go on to college, and eventually get a degree.

Parents like Jonas rely on relationships with school leaders and teachers to get information about the enrollment process; they see this as the key for their child to get a chance at attending a school like Audubon, Ben Franklin or Hynes, which are some of the highest performing public schools in the city.

(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.

A lot of state money, under the Sheff agreement, goes to magnet schools and a fair amount of the money thus gets spent on children from the suburbs, not urban children, because not all city children are in magnet schools.

It was disclosed this week that when Arne Duncan was superintendent of Chicago schools, he kept a list of people — including some prominent ones — who asked for help in getting certain children into the city's best public schools.

In order to get to school every day, approximately 100,000 New York City school children must pass through a gauntlet of metal detectors, bag searches and pat downs administered by police personnel who are inadequately trained, insufficiently supervised, and often belligerent, aggressive and disrespectful.

An effort is under way in one western Massachusetts city to get young children to pick up a book, or two, before they head back to school in a few weeks.

From that vantage point, the Waltons have deduced that what poor children of color in the nation's big cities need to get a good education is a lesson in market economics — that what they offer Wal - Mart consumers is bound to work for parents and schools.

Jeffries says it costs roughly $ 6,600 to educate a child at New City, but few families are in a position to pay that amount, so the school raises money elsewhere, from local individuals who care about social justice to church meetings where a hat gets passed around.

The funding disparity reaches throughout the state, and is even worse in cities like Buffalo where students only receive 60 cents for every dollar children in district schools get.

In a pattern that has remained unchanged for years, minority children got just 10 percent of the spots at New York City's specialized high schools.

As a homeowner, would you consider renting out a house in another part of the city just to get your child into a better school?

Next, Spriggs worked with the city's Board of Education, first to get Harlem children to attend museum workshops regularly during the school day, then toward expanding to include other area schools.

Life transitions — starting from scratch in a new city, moving in together, going back to school, jumping into a new career, getting married, planning for a new addition to the family, trying to talk to your suddenly teenaged child, breaking up, getting a divorce, dating again, dealing with losses — create stress and conflict.