Sentences with phrase «city students who»

New York City students who win a lottery to enroll in charter schools outperform those who don't win spots and go on to attend traditional schools, according to new research to be released Tuesday...

In Hartford, 59 percent of the 6,158 city students who entered the school - choice lottery for the past school year were offered enrollment in a school other than their neighborhood school.

Students in charter schools and inner city students who attend school in the suburbs through the Open Choice program showed the most growth in proficiency, and students in charter schools and regional magnet schools demonstrated the most growth in 8th grade advanced scores.

Papakhin represented the parents of most of the 29 New York City students who were enrolled at Rotenberg in 2014, the Center said.

That's Rhea Wong, executive director of Breakthrough, a non-profit that provides support to low - income New York City students who strive to graduate from college.

For many New York City students who have been continually failed by traditional schools, there is a charter school working overtime to give them a chance to succeed.

«In a push to target (New York) city students who suffer from mental health conditions, schools chancellor Dennis Walcott plans to open 20 new school - based health clinics... The schools will partner with hospitals to help students and their families deal with mental health issues that «impede academic achievement.»»

The superintendents of three Los Angeles County school districts are planning a joint appeal to their Los Angeles Unified counterpart in a bid to keep some 3,000 city students who collectively bring in millions of dollars in state funding to their districts.

Furthermore, these effect sizes are not comparable because the standard deviation used to scale the voucher results is from a much less diverse sample: low - income, inner - city students who participated in the experiment.

And teachers on TeacherTube say they've used the video to introduce a lesson, engage inner - city students who prefer music to math, and show students how to calculate their grades on an assignment.

The speakers, Buffalo News reporter Lou Michel and former News reporter Tiffany Lankes, discussed their extensive reporting which showed the difficult realities for city students who encounter violence.

Boys from all walks of life, including boys who seem to have made it — the suburban high school football captain, the seventh - grade prep school class president, the small - town police chief's son, the inner - city student who is an outstanding cartoonist and son of a welfare mother — all were feeling so alone that f worried that they often seemed to channel their despair into rage not only toward others but toward themselves.

Not exact matches

Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a competition among more than 1,000 college students who presented design concepts for how the Hyperloop might transport pods of people from city to city at high speeds.

The Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing complaints against New York City schools for actions taken against female students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male students.

The city will spend $ 200,000 on a program that helps high school students who dream of being entrepreneurs.

Students who graduated from my program last year have founded ventures focused on healthy, affordable frozen meals, college preparedness in inner cities, and carbon footprint management software for energy consumers.

Galveston - for those of you who are students of history - was the jewel of the Texas coast and a potential gateway city for the southern United States to the world.

A city judge set the $ 100,000 bond for Elton Wayne Holmes Jr. who is accused of running over two King High School students, killing one.

The city has launched programs to target three groups in particular: small - business owners, filmmakers who are women and people of color, and students dreaming of getting into the business.

He was part of a team of five MBA students from the Haskayne School of Business who acted as unpaid consultants for CUPS, which aims to ease poverty and homelessness in the city.

You might think the living arrangements of students who willingly attend the school is no business of the city's nor of a law professor from another institution.

Its administrators find that schedule the only way to accommodate students who live in different cities, have families and jobs or already serve as pastors.

But if he had the charge of a hospital, or lived in a city where the pestilence was raging, if he would be studying fermentation, the circulation of the blood, blisters, and the like, and such like excellent points, when he should be visiting his patients, and saving men's lives; if he should even turn them away, and let them perish, and tell them that he has not time to give them advice, because he must follow his own studies, I would consider that man as a most preposterous student, who preferred the remote means before the end itself of his studies: indeed, I would think him but a civil kind of murderer.

As someone who grew up in the largest muslim city outside of the middle east (Detroit Metro) and having grown up getting muslim holidays off of school, I would argue that if some 12 + % of NYC students really are muslim — if this guy has his facts right — why not?

Earlier this year I was in charge of «debriefing» a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner - city Washington.

A friend who works in inner - city schools is convinced that student violence can be directly correlated with carbohydrate and sugar intake.

Ashley Dumas, a graduate student at the University of Alabama who directed the excavations at the original Tabasco ® factory said that the bottle found in the Comstock mining district of Virginia City is a Type 1a bottle, one of the earliest forms known.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA — In celebration of Earth Day this Saturday, April 22, Pittsburgh will be home to a series of activities focused on identifying causes and solutions to America's food waste problems, led by student leaders from across the country who have gathered in the Steel City to compete at an annual national scholarship competition.

Despite being a 1st year student who is new to Manchester & the city life, he is an example of what you can achieve if you work hard!

Caton, a senior predental student who is married and has a newborn daughter, worked during the summer as a bellhop at a downtown Salt Lake City hotel.

Two students there, who had hitchhiked to Charlotte, immediately set off in the rain, this time hitchhiking to Kansas City.

He was a good, but not spectacular, student, and he tramped around the hills to the west of the city as a young man who didn't really know what he was going to do with himself.

Art Simburg, who had become Tommie Smith's greatest fan when both were students at San Jose State (the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara are next to each other), recruited most of the members of the Youth Village team.

Faculty members at the Waldorf School of Garden City are gifted teachers who have dedicated themselves to working closely with students in and out of the classroom.

But you have to use the tools to know how they work, and at the Waldorf School of Garden City that is our methodology — creative teachers and students who learn by doing.

Under a partnership between the Stanford Language Center and the International Institute of the Bay Area, Stanford students are paired with adults in Redwood City who are studying for the U.S. Citizenship exam in Spanish.

Under city rules, elementary and middle school students who are behind on payments but come to school without their own lunches must be fed the same meal as everyone else.

New York City has 185 charter schools, which the coalition points out serves students who live in poverty and are 93 percent black or Hispanic.

«Any legislator stubborn enough to turn down that type of windfall for New York City students and teachers is forgetting about the families who elected them here in the first place.»

«This is a very serious and very important issue, especially for the 1.1 million students who attend New York City schools and their parents,» Flanagan said in today's statement.

In the university cities of Austin and Nashville I spoke with students who still wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders.

«Maintaining mayoral control of city schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York Ccity schools is critical to students, parents and employers who all depend on high quality public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York CityCity.

Prior to his appointment in 2008, Mr. Driscoll was the Mayor of Syracuse where he spearheaded multiple environmental, energy and sustainability initiatives and made the City of Syracuse the first city in the country to offer every student who graduates with a Regents diploma free college tuitCity of Syracuse the first city in the country to offer every student who graduates with a Regents diploma free college tuitcity in the country to offer every student who graduates with a Regents diploma free college tuition.

Students of second - grade classes from PS 330 (Astoria), PS148 (East Elmhurst), and PS 112 (Long Island City) who won the NYC Ferry vessel - naming competition took a celebratory ride on May 10 aboard an NYC Ferry vessel, the Owl's Head.

But that number includes students who will not end up going to SUNY, or the City University of New York, or the community colleges that, together, make up the state's public higher education system.

«When it comes to the future of the 1.1 million students who attend New York City schools and their right to the best possible education we can offer them, I know we can do better.»

• Rick «Wall Street Lobbyio» Lazio's taxpayer bailout bonus... $ 1.3 million • One week of unemployment insurance for more than 3,000 unemployed New Yorkers who lost their jobs following the financial crisis... $ 1.3 million • Four average mortgages on homes that were foreclosed on during the financial crisis... $ 1.3 million • Starting base salary for 30 new New York City Police Officers... $ 1.3 million • Starting base salary for 30 new New York City Firefighters... $ 1.3 million • One year of SUNY tuition for 261 New York students... $ 1.3 million

A number of other divided cities in Europe and the Middle East, including Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Kirkuk, Mostar, Nicosia and Tripoli (Lebanon), are studied by seven PhD students who are part of the Project.

Stuyvesant, one of the city's most academically prestigious high schools, was on lockdown for hours after the attack, said de Blasio, who praised the school system and police for following established protocol and acting swiftly to shelter students in place.

The Utica City School District's practice of sending older students who are new to America into separate programs led to a lawsuit and an investigation by the state's attorney general.