Sentences with phrase «city school system chooses»

«The situation at Townsend Harris, however, highlighted the broken way the New York City school system chooses principals.

Although many schools throughout the New York City school system choose to require uniforms, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) does not require students to wear uniforms as part of its code of conduct and instead applies a voluntary uniform policy.

Not exact matches

«Many people choose not to stay in the city because of the city school system,» Hogan said.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Mr. Fuller, the first person with little education experience chosen to head a big - city school system, is expected to step down this summer after four years in the job.

When Los Angeles and New York City received similar emailed threats but made opposing decisions — LA choosing to close its system for a day, New York remaining open, calling the threats a hoax — it cast a spotlight on how school leaders make decisions, and whether there's a right way or a wrong way to proceed in times of uncertainty.

Broad Foundation Fellow Diane Robinson and three colleagues chose to visit Shanghai and Hong Kong on the heels of the cities» school systems» world - leading results on the most recent Programme for International Assessment (PISA) exam.

First, through «mayoral control,» a city's elected executive displaces the school board, choosing the superintendent and providing system leadership.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confiSchools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools confidently.

To parents choosing among schools, to families deciding where to live, to taxpayers attempting to gauge the ROI on schools they're supporting, and to policy makers concerned with big - picture questions such as how their education system is doing when compared with those in another city, state, or country, that information is only marginally helpful — and potentially quite misleading.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

Research we've recently conducted in «high - choice» cities suggests that many parents, including those from very disadvantaged backgrounds, are actively choosing a school for their child, but too often these same parents are struggling to navigate an increasingly complicated system of public school options.

But in cities with multiple public school options, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families, whether they choose a charter or district public school?

Furthermore, we know that there is a large, and potentially growing, group of white parents in the system who would choose otherwise if New York City policymakers would only listen and create more viable, racially diverse schools and racially diverse programs within those schools.

In some instances, where highly educated parents with children have chosen to live in the city, parents have opted out of the public school system.

Houston schools superintendent, Richard A. Carranza, has been chosen to be the next chancellor of the New York City school system.

How she and de Blasio choose to balance the needs of individual families, single schools, and the broader system in order to give all city students a fair shot at a great education cuts to the core of the de Blasio message, said Noguera, the education professor.

Superior teachers of inner - city minority children quit because anyone who chose to teach in those schools was more likely than other teachers to be fired under the new system.

A: From a call - to - action perspective, the last paragraph of each video script talks about the community, the school system and answers why someone would choose to live in the particular neighborhood, city or town.