Sentences with phrase «west side parents»

Thomas (Callum Turner) is a disaffected youth living on Manhattan's Lower East Side to spite his Upper West Side parents (Pierce Brosnan and Cynthia Nixon).

Also in the race are attorney Marc A. Landis, who represented Upper West Side parents in their fight to keep a charter school from opening in a public school building, and Community Board 7 member Mel Wymore, who would be New York's first openly transgender City Council member if he won.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Angry Upper West Side parents and politicians gathered Tuesday outside a local elementary school to protest what they called a «hostile takeover» by a Harlem charter school looking to share their building.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort...

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza stepped into a thicket last week when he re-tweeted a video of Upper West Side parents speaking out against the local school board's plan to integrate the community's middle schools.

NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Education.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza urged a white Upper West Side parent to get anti-bias training after she criticized him about a controversial tweet.

Not exact matches

He was born in the poorest parish on the West Side of Manhattan, where life was often difficult, but he was raised, with his sister, by two supportive and uniquely talented parents.

For several years, Mitchell had been an ardent media supporter of the players, coaches and parents of Jackie Robinson West, well before the Little League on the city's predominantly black South Side burst into the national zeitgeist.

On Manhattan's Upper West Side, where youth soccer went on at Riverside Park, some of the players had classmates whose parents were missing.

Some 400 children and parents gathered in the Garfield Park gymnasium Saturday evening to celebrate the Sharen Chesters of their West Side community.

A group of west - side Pasco County parents whose neighborhood might be reassigned to different middle and high schools has asked the School Board to consider different options they suggest would cost less money and angst.The parents, including...

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

Also a parent group announced a lawsuit Sunday against the city for its plan to put a charter school in the Brandeis Educational Complex on the Upper West Side.

Mr. Stringer, who, like the singer is an Upper West Side native, has known Ms. Gaga's parents, Joe and Cynthia Germanotta, for several years.

Mr. Bowman further suggested the Upper West Side councilwoman, whose husband works as an investment banker, is out of touch with the daily struggles of low - income parents — whom he argued the sack surcharge would disproportionately impact.

In the latest twist in the effort to rezone elementary schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side, a parent council with the power to approve or reject the city's plans issued a plea Tuesday: Move a popular school 16 blocks south.

In the latest twist in the effort to rezone elementary schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side, a parent council with the power to approve or reject the city's plans issued a plea: Move a popular school 16 blocks south.

Parents have long complained that cars and tour buses exiting the West Side Highway zip past the school, which houses a program for students with autism along with general education classes.

Noah Gotbaum, president of the Community Education Council in District 3 on the Upper West Side, urged parents to continue to fight regardless of who ends up in charge.

Across the street, on the west side of Broadway, StudentsFirstNY, the local branch of Michelle Rhee's school - reform group, organized public school parents in favor of the Common Core.

«It's important for our parents and communities like Bedford - Stuyvesant, East New York and Brownsville to have the same set of standards that they have on the Upper West Side or even in Park Slope.»

A proposal to diversify middle schools on the Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from some parents.

And billionaire real estate mogul candidate John Catsimatidis started off in an Upper West Side two - bedroom apartment by himself, and then later brought his parents to live with him.

He retweeted a news story referencing «wealthy white parents» in regards to an Upper West Side school meeting which featured a heated discussion on school diversity.

«In the process, we have created a county that works for all of its residents, from a newborn born to immigrant parents on the West Side of Buffalo to the fourth generation of family farmer nearing retirement in Marilla.»

PACE is an organization founded by parent volunteers who represent each of New York City's Citywide G&T schools and programs: The Anderson School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Brooklyn School of Inquiry, NEST + m on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, STEM Academy at PS 85Q (grades 2 - 5 in 2015/16) and The 30th Avenue School (Q300)(grades K - 2, 6 & 7 in 2015/16) in Queens, & TAG Young Scholars in East Harlem, Manhattan.

Miller urged the hundreds of parents and educators at the emotional meeting at the Goddard Riverside Community Center on the Upper West Side to speak out against the mayor's threats in every possible venue.

«As elected parent leaders we demand that the irregularities be worked out,» said Upper West Side dad and CEC 3 president Noah Gotbaum, who said the elections should be delayed until the end of the school year and wants oversight of all parent groups, including parents» associations, transferred from the DOE.

Reader Mark Connolly doesn't like the quota system City Hall is using to diversify schools, but he has little patience for protesting parents on the Upper West Side.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Parents lost their battle Friday to keep a controversial charter school from opening inside an Upper West Side high school building.

Upper West Side public school parents, elected officials and Community Board 7 fought for months to keep Upper West Success Academy from moving into an existing public school building.

«There's overwhelming parent demand for this school and for more options on the Upper West Side,» Sedlis said in an e-mail.

UPPER WEST SIDE — The city wants to knock down two Upper West Side elementary schools to clear the way for privately developed high - rise apartment towers — a plan that is infuriating local parents and education advocates.

Pauline Lipman, professor of educational policy, conducted multiple in - depth interviews with 23 parents on the West, South and Near West Sides of Chicago.

You lived on the West side of town, you owned a Polo shirt in every color, you golfed at the country club, your parents most likely bought you a car for your 16th birthday, basically in a nutshell, your parents had money.

Moving from his parents» Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey.

Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle are delightful as Midge's wealthy, Gilmore-esque parents, whose sprawling Upper West Side apartment doubles as Manhattan real - estate porn.

Austin is a hard - driving politico from the affluent west side of L.A., and now the unlikely head of Parent Revolution, a mostly Latina advocacy group led by the Los Angeles Parents Union and bankrolled by Broad and charter proponents.

«I believe that parents should have the choice of where their children go to school,» added Rebecca Sanders, 22, of the Upper West Side, who works at a Manhattan charter school.

Perry, a senior at West Charlotte High, a formerly all - black school on the city's west side, was protesting a court case that found one white parent suing the school system over the claim that his daughter was twice denied entry to a local magnet school on the basis of her rWest Charlotte High, a formerly all - black school on the city's west side, was protesting a court case that found one white parent suing the school system over the claim that his daughter was twice denied entry to a local magnet school on the basis of her rwest side, was protesting a court case that found one white parent suing the school system over the claim that his daughter was twice denied entry to a local magnet school on the basis of her race.

«I was blown away by the number of parents that were there,» Ms. Sackler tells me over coffee on Manhattan's Upper West Side, recalling the thousands of people packed into the Harlem Armory that day for the drawing.

The parents of Admissions, like the parents and politicians currently arguing about a proposal to diversify Upper West Side middle schools by setting aside 25 percent of seats for low - performing students (because low - performing equals low income and minority, natch) are both under the assumption that education is a zero - sum game.

«In reference to issues on L.A.'s west side, Zimmer argues, «The parents buying up the houses, who have more resources, have a lot of fear about public schools... and when you give them the opportunity to really engage and create integration and diversity in their neighborhood public schools, they don't want to.»

Under those circumstances, I help parents apply to progressive public schools like Manhattan School for Children (only a few blocks from where you once lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan), or Central Park East I and II (though that would have meant travelling uptown to Harlem and, well, I understand, Matt Damon, your limo driver didn't know the way.)

In New York City, the Center for Immigrant Families (2004) documented the experiences of several parents of color as they explored their elementary school options in District 3, which spans the Upper West Side and part of Harlem.

«I got the strength to stay [in the school] through the pain, because I knew I was on the side of justice, and this will inspire other schools to stand up to privatization,» said Elisa Nigaglioni, parent occupier and member of the West Humboldt Park Community Action Council, who met for a year to draft a proposal for improving Piccolo, Casals and Cameron Elementary Schools.

«I was the nerdiest, shyest person in the world,» he told an audience of middle school students and their parents at the West Side High School Fair, organized to help families make an active and informed high school choice.

Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, recently declined to support parent proposals to merge attendance zones for two highly segregated schools just nine blocks apart on Manhattan's Upper West Side.