Sentences with phrase «city school officials said»

But after fierce opposition from a state delegate and the Cherry Hill community, where Southside opened a little more than a decade ago, city school officials said they would work with the school community on a long - range plan to create a successful high school that also preserves the community hub.

City school officials said they have taken action on those schools, moving to close 18 and giving added resources to another 53.

A North End elementary school will be closed Monday and Tuesday for clean - up after asbestos was discovered during spring break this week, city school officials said.

City school officials said Kinsella needs to remain its own school because of its magnet status under the state's Sheff v. O'Neill pact, where city and suburban students are enrolled through a state - run lottery engineered for racial integration.

City school officials say they're working to help students who had trouble with the Common Core tests do better in the coming school year.

Despite a smoother budget process this year, city school officials say the district continues to struggle with chronic underfunding, and is stuck waiting for the delayed recommendations of a state commission charged with revamping spending on Maryland public schools.

Not exact matches

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN)- Three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged Thursday with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city's district attorney's office said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and district administrators who have attacked Chicago as having the shortest school day among the nation's 10 largest cities have begun touting this as an accomplishment: CPS officials say the 7.5 - hour day will tie Chicago with Philadelphia as «the leader among the largest cities in instructional time» for...

The teachers union says school officials never should have opened the programs because the Chicago Housing Authority and the city Department of Human Services have extended their summer feeding programs at 220 sites throughout the city.

The close proximity of Kendall Park, located at 84 W. 5th Ave., to nine schools and the city's downtown area and Riverwalk makes it ideal for the skate park, Park District officials said.

A new neighborhood school has been slated for Rogers Park since 1990, but city officials said they have been unable to locate suitable land in the densely populated area.

Several residents volunteered to serve on the committee, and Park District director Kirk Reimer said he has received commitments from city and school district officials asking to be part of the group.

When the site is not being used for school events, it will be open for public use, city officials said.

Five years ago, when Chicago became the largest school district in the nation to privatize its meal program, city officials said the initiative was designed to improve the quality and wholesomeness of student food.

A Syracuse City School District parent says her daughter was suspended for three days because she refused to take the state English assessment test, but district officials insist the eighth - grader was suspended for «disciplinary reasons.»

More than 50,000 NYC students 17 and up will have the chance to register to vote through their schools this year, city officials said.

Meantime, Rochester City School District officials said they welcome of the state investigation.

Officials say a 14 - year - old high school student has been taken into custody after shooting a classmate at their high school in the California city of Palmdale.

A Buffalo Public Schools official says that the district wants to respond to the city's serious lead poisoning problem with a sense of urgency.

Officials there said schools are closed Wednesday because of widespread power outages and downed wires through the city.

City Hall would agree to make it easier for charters to get public - school space or obtain funding to lease private space, said an education official familiar with the discussions.

Nassau GOP officials say they want Gurfein, a retired U.S. Marine lieutenant colonel and a former Great Neck High School football star, to run against Rice, of Garden City, instead of expending resources in what could become a divisive primary in the Third District.

While the budget allocated $ 146 million to early childhood education and after - school programming, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said city officials had missed a chance to restore cuts from previous years.

Tricia Joyce, a member of the task force, said she remembers that five years ago, city officials said they would take a closer look, and it did lead to opening temporary «incubator» space early for two new Downtown schools, but this was the first time she ever remembered being invited into smaller planning meetings.

In the past, the Syracuse City School District's budget deficit has been as high as $ 40 million, but this year it's $ 24 million, an official said.

Rochester City School District officials say protocol is for calls to be made when a child is not in sSchool District officials say protocol is for calls to be made when a child is not in schoolschool.

NYC city was able to reduce the number of suspensions for school kids by 17 % over the last academic year — about 9,000 fewer suspensions than the year before, education officials said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said a threat that was emailed to a New York City school official, as well as educators across the country, was «specific,» but not credible, while NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton called it a «hoax.»

School officials said they expected enrollment to grow with students who move into the city, but the number will still likely be far smaller than in past years.

City officials said chronic absenteeism at community schools has declined by more than 7 percent.

Kingston City School District officials said this week the $ 137.5 million Kingston High School Second Century Capital Plan will have

Kingston City School District officials said this week the $ 137.5 million Kingston High School Second Century Capital Plan will have to go five years deeper into the century in order to get the most out of the state aid funding the bulk of the project.

The decision is a stunning blow for Bloomberg, who has repeatedly defended his choice amid intense criticism from parents groups, elected officials and other advocates who said the city needs a schools chancellor with a background in schools.

Officials said there were a total of 503 serious crimes — including felony assault and robbery — in city schools last year.

At one school, after the principal two years ago «was giving out limited access letters like candy,» McLean said, his local Community Education Council held a meeting with city school officials and the National Action Network to discuss the issue.

Instead, he said city officials must do a better job listening to residents and working together to solve problems like school overcrowding and improving the city's controversial bike lanes.

THE BRONX — A city school aide was arrested after he confessed to filming up a teen girl's skirt aboard a 2 train in Pelham Parkway Monday, officials said.

Sources said the issue is personal to Silver, who was infuriated when city officials, over his objections, sought to put the Ross Global charter school in a public - school building in his Lower East Side district.

Hoping to wean city kids off meat, the Department of Education is introducing a once - a-week, vegetarian - only breakfast and lunch menu at 15 Brooklyn schools next spring, officials said.

A number of city and state elected officials told The Post they left a meeting at City Hall Friday angry after mayoral aides said the reason it was too late to honor the holiday next year was because the school calendar had already been publiscity and state elected officials told The Post they left a meeting at City Hall Friday angry after mayoral aides said the reason it was too late to honor the holiday next year was because the school calendar had already been publisCity Hall Friday angry after mayoral aides said the reason it was too late to honor the holiday next year was because the school calendar had already been published.

Crime in New York City public schools fell 35 percent over the past five years and there was a 10 percent drop in school - related arrests from January to June 2016 compared to the same time period last year, local officials said.

Hoping to wean city kids off meat, the NYC Department of Education is introducing a once - a-week, vegetarian - only breakfast and lunch menu at 15 Brooklyn schools next spring, officials said.

The funding provisions will create reams of new paperwork for the Department of Education, and city officials said the new rules would disrupt the city's current school budgeting process.

City Hall has largely demurred when facing Moskowitz in the past — ever since losing a high - profile fight with her and the network in the spring of 2014 over charter school space — with officials saying they wanted to avoid unnecessary conflict.

City Council education chair Daniel Dromm is pushing chancellor Carmen Fariña to make Diwali an official public school holiday, but said he hadn't yet heard from the administration about a letter he wrote to Fariña on the topic last week.

On Wednesday, Education Department officials said 42 city schools are using admissions targets to integrate their classrooms.

Elia was initially scheduled to visit a Success school in New York City next week, but education department officials said Tuesday that Elia had to skip the trip and visit the troubled East Ramapo school district instead.

The de Blasio administration will spend more than $ 5 million to help stamp out a burgeoning sexual harassment scandal in the public schools, city officials said Tuesday.

The controversial charter school leader, whose Success Academy schools spread to about two dozen locations across the city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has been rejected from a plan to share space with three additional public schools this fall, officials said.

D.O.E. officials said the Success school will still open, but will now likely be located in private space paid for by the city, as mandated by state law.