Sentences with phrase «affect city schools»

She questioned how potential changes in state policy may soon affect city schools funding.

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School officials, especially in big cities, were concerned about how the changes might affect their ability to feed needy students.

The politically sensitive issue affects all the children in the city of 2,300 who use the city's youth house, 17 W 261 Butterfield Rd., for social events on weeknights and as a haven for latchkey children after school.

Also at 6:30 p.m., Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velazquez hold a joint town hall to discuss the latest federal policies affecting New York City, P.S. 20 Anna Silver School, 166 Essex St., Manhattan.

As an education advocate, the UFT is involved in many of the most important debates and discussions affecting our schools and our city.

Among them is a measure to extend the New York City mayor's control of the public schools, which has now been linked to a number of diverse issues affecting people in the rest of the state.

Also at 6 p.m., Transportation Alternatives hosts and «L - Train Shutdown Candidate Forum,» for NYC Council candidates in districts 1, 2, 3 and 4 to discuss «street design innovations and action plans they will fight for if elected to represent affected neighborhoods,» with Gothamist City Editor Christopher Robbins moderating, The New School, 66 West 12th St., Manhattan.

The BOE states that the City of Mount Vernon and the Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon, Richard W. Thomas have failed to respond to the District's request in any manner and continued to negotiate PILOT agreements which adversely affect the educational services offered to students of the Mount Vernon City School District.

Caught in the middle are a host of issues affecting 8.5 million residents of New York City such as mayoral control of schools, the expansion of charter schools and the most recent hot - button issue between the two men — the controversial 421 - a tax abatement program.

From Molinaro's view, groups of people were leveraged against each other, whether it was county leaders seeking certainty for their finances, the New York City school system and how it's leadership structure is formed or the communities affected by flooding that are in need of aid.

This «Remediation Tax» affects 21,000 New York City college students who have graduated from city high schools but are unprepared for college - level coursewCity college students who have graduated from city high schools but are unprepared for college - level coursewcity high schools but are unprepared for college - level coursework.

After waiting 9 hrs to offer my perspective on legislation affecting the admissions process at the city's specialized high schools (SHSAT), CM Dan @dromm25, chairman of the Council's Committee on Education, wouldn't allow me to speak because I refused to be sworn... Continue reading →

Democrats and Republicans are digging in on the remaining issues of 2017 including a measure to extend the New York City mayor's control of the public schools, which has now been linked to a number of diverse issues affecting people in the rest of the state.

The message was clear: The new reforms will affect all city students, not just 4 - year - olds or the relatively small number of students who attend struggling schools.

It is more likely, Albany sources said, that work will continue on the rent laws and several other legislative issues affecting the city such as mayoral control of the schools and the 421 - a tax abatement beyond the end of the session Wednesday.

And that's really affected schools like Buffalo and my home city of Syracuse.

This could cost New York City, one of the 10 districts affected, $ 60 million for 33 schools.

School nurse positions funded through the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will be downsized, affecting some 33,000 students in public, private and parochial schools.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

There is a forum tomorrow in Syracuse to shine the light specifically on how state spending has affected the Syracuse City School District.

While the lawsuit focuses on the named cities, a decision could ultimately affect the way small city schools in Albany, Schenectady and Troy are funded, said Reynolds.

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City report that one or two treatments with a compound called RU38486 can disrupt traumatic memories in rats without affecting normal memories.

St. Peter's School students in Kansas City, Missouri, want to determine how microgravity affects oxidation, which could rust the interior and exterior of spacecraft.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

They also highlight the need for more studies of this nature to give us a better idea of the cities and landscapes that are most affected now and also under additional greenhouse warming,» said co-lead author Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences.

Schools were closed across much of the area affected by the cold snap, including in the Twin Cities on Monday, and there were closures and delays yesterday in much of the Southeast as the weather moved south.

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València, in collaboration with the company C - Robots, S.L., have developed a new safety system for city and school buses that detects the presence of pedestrians in the surroundings of the bus stop, warns the driver of dangerous conditions and, ultimately, directly affects the vehicle.

The interdisciplinary study by data scientists Adam R. Pah and Luís Amaral and sociologist John L. Hagan reveals a persistent connection over time between unemployment and the occurrence of school shootings in the country as a whole, across various regions of the country and within affected cities, including Chicago and New York City.

«Crohn's disease is a complex disorder with multiple genes and environmental factors involved, which disproportionally affects individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry,» explained lead researcher Inga Peter, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

The city's Youth Commission — a group of high school students appointed by the city council — has the power to affect city policy in matters related to them.

The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working - and middle - class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

They used a shotgun approach that adversely affects some of the city's best schools.

Mathematica's own defense of its research design was that it could do the study more cheaply if it relied upon readily available data, even though Caroline Hoxby, facing similar data collection problems, nonetheless found a way of tracking students from first grade on («How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement»).

In the three cities, the grants will affect a total of almost 300 elementary and secondary schools with a combined enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

How have tax cuts affected our schools and cities?

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

Our findings, however, suggest that high school closures in New York City during this particular period produced meaningful benefits for future students while not harming, at least academically, the students most immediately affected by them.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

The New York City Public Schools, the largest district in the U.S., and one most affected by the terrorist attacks, still forbids students to have any electronic devices in their possession.

This is one reason the New York City public schools are an ideal setting to explore how a new teacher's certification status might affect how much students learn.

As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths of a 10 - year - old on the eve of her first day of 4th grade, a 16 - year - old boy shot in a city bus on his way home from school, and an 18 - year - old honor student killed outside his high school, among others.

Students in Milwaukee's religious schools are not the only ones affected by the temporary court order blocking the controversial expansion of the city's school - voucher program.

To understand how the small schools movement has affected ELL students in New York City, we studied the restructuring of two large Brooklyn high schools, Lafayette High School in Bensonhurst and Tilden High School in East Flatbush.

Results of a Survey of All Candidates for Citywide Office In a survey conducted by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Junior Board, candidates in the 2009 New York City elections for Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller provided answers to questions covering a variety of controversial issues that affect local public schools....

Prosecutors claim there was widespread cheating on state tests throughout the city's public schools, affecting thousands of students.

«I implore that you close schools in the District until your facilities crew has had time to properly assess and fix the heating issues within the affected schools in Baltimore City,» Baltimore Teachers Union President Marietta English wrote in a letter that was hand - delivered Wednesday to the school system's CEO, Sonja Santelises.

The Advisory Council's decision making has led to a variety of policy changes affecting schools across the city.

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Since the 2006 — 07 school year, the council has met twice monthly, regularly shared its perspectives on high school renewal efforts with the superintendent and members of the school committee, and informed its schools about issues affecting the entire city.