Sentences with phrase «at big city school»

At Big City School, bullying tended to happen in the bathrooms, where there was generally no adult supervision.

This problem appeared to be most dire for girls at Rural School: A full 72 percent of them reported suffering relational bullying either «every once in a while,» «often,» or «every day,» compared with 58 percent of girls at Big City School and 48 percent at Small City School.

However, students at Big City School reported feeling safe much less often than did their peers at the other two schools (65 percent, compared with 83 percent at Small City School and 81 percent at Rural School).

In terms of grade level, bullying was more common for 7th graders than for 8th graders at the three schools we surveyed, with two notable exceptions: Verbal bullying affected 8th grade girls more than any other subgroup at Small City School, and physical violence affected 8th grade boys and girls more than 7th graders at Big City School.

Not exact matches

Book signing: Chef Jess Schenker grew up in Parkland and graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School before making his way to the kitchen at Big City Tavern in Fort Lauderdale.

The kindness of Avery Huddleston, 7, led to a bigger surprise than anyone imagined at a school in the city of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

Amanda and her husband Tim recently moved from the big city of Nashville to Boone, North Carolina, where Tim is in graduate school at Appalachian State University and Amanda works at Samaritan's Purse.

We spent the first 23 school days, quite a lot of time in fact, in Toms River, New Jersey and Pau, France; but we also looked at elementary lunch menus in various other big cities in different regions in France and America.

«Lead poisoning is still a big problem, a huge problem,» says Philip Landrigan, MD, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

De Blasio has placed his biggest bet on the Renewal program, which has pumped extra money and other resources into a group of the city's most troubled schools, at a cost of $ 582 million.

This appears aimed at undermining what Mayor de Blasio points to as one of his biggest successes which is his stewardship of the New York City public school system.

The battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rages on, with the governor delivering a shot at City Hall by claiming he and state lawmakers have done more to aid Big Apple schools than the mayor and the NYC Council.

«If we close the school, right in the middle of perhaps the biggest oasis of health sciences research, technology and academic activity, we're sending a horrible message to the rest of the nation,» argued Congressman Adriano Espaillat at a February 22 rally at City Hall.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

«If you can find a corrupt mayor of New York City, holy moly, that's a big prize,» said Jennifer Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia Law School.

Senator Liz Krueger questioned why, after two votes in previous years to grant the mayor of New York City control of city schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de BlaCity control of city schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de Blacity schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de Blasio.

The PM thus blew a long, masterful raspberry, one so finessed it could only have been learnt in the shadowy confines of prep at Eton targeted at the back of a gowned professor; he yah - boo - sucks - to - youed repeatedly about Ed and his pals spending too much time with the big boys in that silly red uniform with the hammers and sickles from the school next door, Unite City High — which soon became Unite City blues...

But the session concluded in something of fizzle on Wednesday, as lawmakers remained at odds over extending mayoral control of New York City schools and a major legislative deal — sometimes referred to as a «big ugly» did not come to fruition.

Ironically, the comptroller, the man who adds up the plusses and minuses at the end of the day, was nowhere in the loop when one of the bigger ideas in county / city / school government was rolled out the same week by County Exec Mike Hein.

State test results are now out and at the bottom of the list among the state's Big 5 Districts is the Rochester City School District.

Jeremy Dueñas, a freshman at Ralph McKee High School, created «Close NYC Schools During Snow Emergencies» amid an announcement by Farina and her head - in - a-snowdrift boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Wednesday night that city public schools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the BigSchools During Snow Emergencies» amid an announcement by Farina and her head - in - a-snowdrift boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Wednesday night that city public schools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the Bigschools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the Big Apple.

Mr. de Blasio is a rare big - city critic of charter schools at a time when they are spreading rapidly in low - performing urban school districts.

I took a field trip to the big city last week, to attend the Union of Concerned Scientists» and George Washington University School of Public Health's conference, «FDA at a Crossroads.»

In Brazil's biggest city, São Paulo, this relationship is no different, as attested by a study conducted by researchers at University of São Paulo's Public Health School (FSP - USP).

The gist of this in a nutshell is liberal, college bred, big city types laughing down their noses at the amusing antics of conservative, might not have graduated high school, small town types.

Theron's Mavis is a young adult novelist at the end of her personal and professional rope, an erstwhile winner of the «best hair» competition in high school who since then has gone to the big city (Minneapolis in this case) and made her mark.

Bersin was one of that group of reforming superintendents who were being brought in at the time from outside the world of education to manage big - city school systems, the most prominent being Joel Klein in New York Ccity school systems, the most prominent being Joel Klein in New York CityCity.

At the Harvard Graduate School of Education, you get the best of both worlds — the world - class culture and diversity of a big city, plus the walkable charm and intellectual buzz of a college town.

And Spellings felt she had to allow at least some big - city districts to serve as tutoring providers, in part to placate the Council of the Great City Schools, which had been a vocal and courageous advocate for the city districts to serve as tutoring providers, in part to placate the Council of the Great City Schools, which had been a vocal and courageous advocate for the City Schools, which had been a vocal and courageous advocate for the law.

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

In my experience, the responsible use of power is all too rare at the top of big - city school systems.

About a dozen big cities are at this moment trying to hire new school superintendents, Lauren Camera notes in U.S. News,

I am not one to think that we solve problems by throwing money at them, but it was not only in New York City that schools received big funding increases.

The city broke up big failing schools to improve academics, but at the small schools that replaced them, fielding a robust music program is a challenge.

The authors found that schools in big cities with high minority populations were particularly successful at recruiting teachers with higher SAT scores.

Despite a new law meant to cut down on out - of - school suspensions, a review of the four biggest Connecticut cities showed suspensions are still happening at a high rate.

Yet despite years of reform and rhetoric, poor children in big cities still go to worse schools than their richer counterparts in suburbs or at private schools.

The strike in a district where the vast majority of students are poor and minority put Chicago at the epicenter of a struggle between big cities and teachers unions for control of schools.

Disadvantaged children living in rural England are less likely to do well at school than those from the big cities, says Ofsted's chief inspector.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

Hitting back was a particularly popular response to bullying at Big City and Small City Schools, particularly among the boys.

For instance, at Cleveland's George Washington Carver Elementary School, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district avSchool, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district avschool district average.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

The small schools were rolled out so quickly that, in some parts of the city, there was no system in place for the thousands of students who would have enrolled at the big high schools.

MEREDITH HONIG: School districts were created at the turn of the last century, though for different reasons in big cities than in small towns.

It was easily the biggest one - year OSI gain of any city school in the district's history, and one that school officials touted at the time.

There's a stark difference between the city's overall opt out numbers and the state's, and it's certainly true that parents at some schools in wealthier neighborhoods, whose schools can count on high test scores (as they are largely correlated with socioeconomic status), may have more time, a bigger platform to speak up, and, above all, more access to accurate information about the tests, their impacts and the right to refuse them.

The first order of business for Mary Ronan as the acting superintendent of the Cincinnati school system four years ago was making big changes at more than a dozen of the city's lowest - performing elementary schools.

Here's a look at the two central questions posed by «The Bee Keeper,» the new book about Michelle Rhee: Why do D.C. schools perform so much worse than many other big city school districts?