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Our study was based on data for New York City school children who were in grades 3 though 8 during the 1998 — 99 through 2007 — 08 school years.

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Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

With very few exceptions, nobody in these major cities who can afford an alternative sends their children to the public school.

A major deterrent to the reformation of the city's economic base is the unwillingness of those who can afford to do otherwise to subject their children to the inadequacy of urban schools.

Some parents who live in big cities even establish second homes near a village Waldorf school so that their children can attend.

The Waldorf School of Garden City is a community of faculty, staff, and parents who have come together with the common purpose of providing children with a purposeful and comprehensive education.

The politically sensitive issue affects all the children in the city of 2,300 who use the city's youth house, 17 W 261 Butterfield Rd., for social events on weeknights and as a haven for latchkey children after school.

If your city isn't holding an official event, they may be able to put you in touch with businesses who've expressed interest in giving away school supplies to local children.

«As the mother of two young kids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety Caucus.

«Year after year we have seen cuts or small increases that haven't kept up with inflation,» said Ms. James, who bemoaned a list of problems with city schools including large class sizes, schools closing, the high drop out rate for children of color and cuts to music and arts programming.

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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.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public 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.

The de Blasio administration and most of the education committee supported the bill, arguing that more experienced school bus drivers behind the wheel will benefit all city children who take the bus, particularly students with special needs who require trained drivers and escorts.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Duffy spoke to a crowd of about 1,400 charter school parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Caschool parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the CaSchool Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Capitol.

I mean, the people who were blindsided is 1.1 million school children in this city who deserved better.»

«Parents deserve the right to be notified when their child is assigned to a teacher who's been rated unsatisfactory two consecutive years or more,» said Ramona Wooden, a New York City school parent and member of StudentsFirstNY's Harlem chapter.

Mr. Addisson was one of many speakers honoring those who have made a tangible difference in the lives of our city school children as mentors, friends, advocates, and role models.

At Rochester Education Foundation's 10th annual recognition event «A Toast to REF — And Our Partners» Oct. 28 at the Memorial Art Gallery, friends of REF took a moment to recognize a person who has been dedicated to providing opportunity for Rochester city school children for more than 10 years, REF founder and Executive Director Pat Braus.

Her record at Success would likely to stake her the early backing of the city's tabloids, along with the families in her charter school network who are typically Moskowitz supporters, as well as other parents of children in charters across the city.

When asked about the political implications of the rally, Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman, painted herself as a school leader who focuses on teaching children how to read and write rather than navigating politically complex situations.

Laura Lavine (LR): Families of financial means who are interested in making educational choices for their children often, in the city of Syracuse, choose to send their children to non-public schools, or they leave the city all together.

Ms. Nixon laid out her biography: the child of a single mother with whom she had lived in a fifth - floor walk - up, a graduate of New York City public schools who sends her own children to them, a young woman who paid for her college education herself.

Asked about the charter schools» push, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Education said, «We are committed to lifting up all our children, across every zip code, who will be the future of this city together.»

TRIBECA — TriBeCa parents who fought the city's proposal to send their children to school in Chinatown after running out of classroom space in TriBeCa can now breathe a sigh of relief.

I'd like to thank Governor Cuomo, our State Delegation, Yonkers City Council, the PTAs and all the students, parents, teachers and Yonkers residents who fought so hard for the resources our school children deserve.

Using a standard measure of kindergarten readiness, the Le Moyne researchers compared Syracuse City School District children who received the books for three or more years to children who did not.

New York, NY — Eva Moskowitz released an open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio today that calls on City Hall to provide permanent middle school space for 465 Success Academy children who still don't know where they will attend school next year.

WBFO Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley talks with Buffalo News Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes, who for months has been tracking city school children facing the tragic issue of living in violent neighborhoods.

Ms. Kittredge is the parent of public school children who attend P.S. 101Q and The Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School and has been a strong advocate for education for all of our City's chischool children who attend P.S. 101Q and The Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School and has been a strong advocate for education for all of our City's chiSchool and has been a strong advocate for education for all of our City's children.

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.

Nixon, who is openly gay, highlighted her public school roots and being a parent of New York City school children.

Steve Krieg, a member of the Plattsburgh, N.Y. City School Board vying to unseat Stefanik, came under fire after calling Stefanik a «child» who can not think for herself on Wednesday.

Krieg, a member of the Plattsburgh City School Board, then turned to Stefanik, describing her as «a child» who can not think for herself.

In the past, families who live in Community Board 1 — which includes TriBeCa, Battery Park City and the Financial District — have been reluctant to send their children to elementary school outside of that immediate area.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

«It's a very nice approach to using technology to treat a problem that has not a lot of good solutions,» says Robert Weatherly, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and a physician at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., who was not involved in the study.

In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who attended eight high - poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.

Our neighborhood is comprised of 30 - something ex-pats from the city, like us, who have children and wanted to live in a solid school district and have a real yard.

As the two Palmer boys who didn't run off to the big city, Vincent D'Onfrio is a bloated teddy bear of a former high school star athlete and Jeremy Strong an 8 mm camera - clinging man - child (possibly on the spectrum, though that's never fully addressed).

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

He also offered attractive choices for parents living near the city borders, who could take advantage of an open - enrollment policy to enroll their children in schools run by suburban districts.

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.

The fact is that reforming urban schools is an issue of social justice: there are too many children in cities across the U.S. who are denied the opportunity to have a high - quality education, and these inequities run strongly along lines of race and class.

I am a father of two young (6 and 9) children who has had the pleasure and privilege of being an instructional aide, a high - school English teacher, a secondary ELA coordinator and an assistant principal in multiple districts, from semi-rural Maine to New York City.

Concluded Winerip, «Like many other middle schools in New York City, this one is overloaded with children who have transferred in under the federal No Child Left Behind law.»