Sentences with phrase «york city schoolchildren»

Therefore, we must reject your proposal and respectfully insist that our families and children receive the same serious consideration due to all New York City schoolchildren.

Last month I suggested that grouping New York City schoolchildren by age rather than ability would address two issues that stymie the NYC Department of Education: strict birthday cut - offs that ignore readiness and the perennial shortage of Gifted and Talented seats.

New York City schoolchildren deserve a mayor who believes their needs are worth focusing on.

«It's time for everyone to get to the table and work in the best interest of the 1.1 million New York City schoolchildren and their families.»

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Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

To ensure that the City and the state's other districts fulfill New York's promises to its schoolchildren, we request that you introduce a back - stop measure that requires districts to develop teacher evaluation plans by August 31, 2012.

«New York City has made great strides in offering a variety of language programs for our city's schoolchildren, and I'm honored that Queens will be home to the first South Asian dual language program,» said Chairman CrowCity has made great strides in offering a variety of language programs for our city's schoolchildren, and I'm honored that Queens will be home to the first South Asian dual language program,» said Chairman Crowcity's schoolchildren, and I'm honored that Queens will be home to the first South Asian dual language program,» said Chairman Crowley.

CITY HALL — New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called Monday for an end to what she called a stream of unnecessary standardized tests for city schoolchildren — saying it turns kids into «guinea pigs.&raCITY HALL — New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn called Monday for an end to what she called a stream of unnecessary standardized tests for city schoolchildren — saying it turns kids into «guinea pigs.&raCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn called Monday for an end to what she called a stream of unnecessary standardized tests for city schoolchildren — saying it turns kids into «guinea pigs.&racity schoolchildren — saying it turns kids into «guinea pigs.»

The Conference is a membership organization advocating for New York's urban school systems, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Yonkers and New York City, which make up 45 percent of the state's public schoolchildren.

After covering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Pennsylvania for ABC News, Baldrick brought solace to youngsters touched by these tragedies with «The Children of 9 - 11 Wall of Hope,» a display of artwork and writing by children from the victims» families and schoolchildren across Pennsylvania.

If you are Jorge Leon Collazo, a chef charged with putting healthy food on the plates of New York City's schoolchildren, you employ stealth and rewards to change habits without rebellion.

Though the distinction between equity and adequacy would become more significant in later years, in 1993 few education observers would dispute CFE's list of the education crimes perpetrated on New York City's schoolchildren or the incoherency of the system that delivered them.

If you live in New York City, where the majority of schoolchildren are Black, Latino, and poor, then you care about school quality a great deal.

One of the most commonly taught stories American schoolchildren learn is that of Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's 19th - century tale of a poor, ambitious teenaged boy in New York City who works hard and eventually secures himself a respectable, middle - class life.

That new book smell may soon be a thing of the past for New York City's schoolchildren.

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All that beautiful space Wave Hill is small by botanic garden standards, but for schoolchildren from New York City's five boroughs, it is huge.

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The bus lines in New York City help residents, tourists and schoolchildren move throughout the city every City help residents, tourists and schoolchildren move throughout the city every city every day.

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