Sentences with phrase «city school system when»

The State Legislature ended decades of feudalism, corruption and chaos in the New York City school system when it gave Mayor Michael Bloomberg direct control in 2002.

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«When I was 22, my dream job was to be chancellor of the New York City School system,» he remembers.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

When school boards and whole cities are refusing to even consider putting in gardens, much less aquaponic systems because of LIABILITY issues, do we stand a chance?

When de Blasio came to Albany in February to testify before the Legislature he sold mayoral control as essential to city schools» chance at success, despite the fact he had once voraciously opposed Mayor Bloomberg's use of the same system.

Mayor de Blasio doesn't seem to want to have that discussion and just wants a rubber stamp renewal, but when 8 out of 10 students who walk across a stage and receive a New York City high school diploma need remediation in college, how can we say that this public school system is doing its job?»

«New York City's results prove that Governor Cuomo's evaluation system measures teacher effectiveness when implemented in good faith — making it a critical tool to improve schools for kids.

New York City was stunned Thursday when the person who Mayor Bill de Blasio picked to lead the city's school system turned down the job on live televisCity was stunned Thursday when the person who Mayor Bill de Blasio picked to lead the city's school system turned down the job on live televiscity's school system turned down the job on live television.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

When referencing Flanagan, who has spent five years in the city school system, she allegedly asked, «Did you see his big lips quivering?»

«She was a part of our effort when we sponsored town halls all across the City of New York on mayoral control of our public school system.»

City Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash was told recently it's very difficult to notify parents when a student isn't doing well during a marking period because of tangled systems.

But the key challenge for Newark when it regains local control — and the key challenge for all cities, regardless of the makeup of their school system — will be improving school quality across its diverse system of schools.

When I graduated, I decided to come back to New York to try to find a job in the New York City School System.

During the first half of the 20th century, when the New York City public schools composed one of the most successful systems in the nation, they were considered the jewels in the crown.

Both of us were deeply involved in developing New York's small schools and in establishing the central support systems that made them possible and sustained them, during the years when we worked in the New York City Department of Education in the administration of Chancellor Joel Klein.

(Longtime education wonks may remember a similar situation in New York City from the early days of the Bloomberg / Klein era, when their brand - new school grading system labeled some of Gotham's most sought - after schools as failures.

Detroit is a powerful illustration of what happens when no one takes responsibility for the entire system of publicly supported schools in a city.

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.

When I started writing The Urban School System of the Future in 2009, I didn't foresee the extent of the complications associated with parental choice in cities with expansive networks of accessible schools.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staf Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school system.

Neither Joel I. Klein, the outgoing chancellor of New York City schools, nor Cathleen P. Black, his designated replacement, had extensive backgrounds in education when they were selected to head the nation's largest school system.

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staff Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school system.

D.C. has recently undertaken two invaluable reforms that, when combined with the city's other systemic features, place D.C. on the brink of becoming the urban school system of the future.

Veteran New York educator Kathleen Cashin, a regional superintendent in the city's sprawling system, explained the trend away from middle schools six years ago, before it was a trend, when she told the New York Times that parents «were clamoring» for a return to K — 8 schools.

The project grew out of a practical problem we encountered when studying big city school systems: in many cities, the public school «system» is actually a collection of systems: school districts (often more than one), charter schools, and even state agencies.

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.

It would've been irresponsible for any city leader to oppose Achievement First's expansion over politics, just as it's irresponsible for the AFT to insinuate Achievement First abuses its lottery system when, in fact, it's the Hartford school system that manages the lottery.

When advocates teamed up with members of Congress to launch the city's charter schools, they designed a system with plenty of funding.

Playing by the Rules When the System Doesn't: Immigrant Families and Summer School in New York This report discusses findings from surveys conducted during the summer of 2000 to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the Year 2000 Summer program, an integral part of the New York City Board of Education's updated promotion policy.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and all of his acolytes who are rushing to implement performance - based compensation for teachers might want to take a close look at the preliminary results from a Chicago program with this focus that was initially started when Duncan ran the city school system.

The District's old school board had chartering power until 2007, when Mayor Adrian M. Fenty took control of the city's traditional school system.

And it's even more difficult when the Mayor, the City Council, the current Schools Chancellor and the city's leading newspaper do not have any real interest in knowing whether principals and teachers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved bonuses, or whether hundreds of children were inappropriately promoted or denied remedial attention, or whether their school system's dramatic improvement was a hoax and a City Council, the current Schools Chancellor and the city's leading newspaper do not have any real interest in knowing whether principals and teachers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved bonuses, or whether hundreds of children were inappropriately promoted or denied remedial attention, or whether their school system's dramatic improvement was a hoax and a city's leading newspaper do not have any real interest in knowing whether principals and teachers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved bonuses, or whether hundreds of children were inappropriately promoted or denied remedial attention, or whether their school system's dramatic improvement was a hoax and a lie.

Talks to prevent a legal battle between the city school system and its charter schools fell apart Tuesday when former Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, who had been selected as a mediator, withdrew from the effort.

«New York City's results prove that Governor Cuomo's evaluation system measures teacher effectiveness when implemented in good faith — making it a critical tool to improve schools for kids.

Five years ago, then - Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee accelerated the downsizing of the D.C. school system when she moved quickly to close 23 schools, igniting angry protest and long - lasting political backlash while spurring an exodus of students to the city's charters.

When the Illinois legislature gave Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley direct control of the city's faltering school system in 1995, Daley appointed Vallas, the city's budget director, to take the reins of the nation's third largest district.

In the nation's largest city, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under control of the New York City macity, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under control of the New York City maCity Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under control of the New York City maCity mayor.

In New York City, thousands of students fall into one of three unique student population categories: English Language Learners, who speak a language other than English at home and score below proficient on English assessments when they enter the school system; District 75 students, who have significant cognitive and physical impairments and require a specialized school setting; and special education students, who have an identified disability and an individualized education plan.

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson violated the city's ethics rules when she solicited a donation from a major food service contractor shortly after a whistleblower lawsuit accused the company of swindling millions of dollars from the school system, according to a ruling from the D.C.'s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

Ravitch worked intermittently for The New Leader until 1967, when she took a part - time assignment from the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation to report on the city's school system.

Long - term teacher retention wasn't a priority at Success Prep when the school opened in 2009, part of a radical reconstruction of the city's long - troubled school system after Hurricane Katrina that involved opening dozens of new charter schools.

When the notion of simply moving control of Bridgeport's school system to the City's mayor failed, the focus shifted to utilizing a provision in the state statutes that would allow the Commissioner of Education to throw out a community's elected board of education and install a panel appointed by the state.

Thankfully, what she's not willing to consider is a return to the days when having a job in the city school system might have little relation to doing the job.

When the Great Public Schools Now Initiative, the $ 490 million blueprint to turn half of Los Angeles» public school system into charter schools, was first leaked to Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume, it triggered an uproar among the city's education comSchools Now Initiative, the $ 490 million blueprint to turn half of Los Angeles» public school system into charter schools, was first leaked to Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume, it triggered an uproar among the city's education comschools, was first leaked to Los Angeles Times reporter Howard Blume, it triggered an uproar among the city's education community.

«Charter schools are asking for basic fairness when it comes to educating their public school students and a system that forces schools to take funds out of the classroom to pay rent is clearly one that is broken,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Cschool students and a system that forces schools to take funds out of the classroom to pay rent is clearly one that is broken,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School CSchool Center.

During the 2011 - 12 school year, when charters enrolled 41 percent of the city's students, they removed 227 children for discipline violations and had an expulsion rate of 72 per 10,000 students; the District school system removed three and had an expulsion rate of less than 1 per 10,000 students.

While folks with condescending «pull yourself up by the bootstraps» attitudes love the idea of a neighborhood public school system, they most often use this system when they can afford to move their families to the suburbs and wealthier, gentrified city enclaves.