Sentences with phrase «badly on the city schools»

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By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

I submit that our current crop of office holders on every level of government, in all 50 states, from fire and water districts to school districts, town, counties, cities, states and federal legislatures are so bad that the term limit should be about 30 days.

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MANHATTAN — Negotiations between the city and the teachers union on a new teacher evaluation system fell apart Friday, prompting the State Department of Education to suspend more than $ 60 million in federal funding that had been targeted at some of the city's worst - performing schools.

Four years ago this month, one of the mightiest tornadoes on record slammed through Midwest City, killing more than 40 people, destroying scores of homes, and damaging an elementary school so badly that it couldn't be used anymore.

In It Doesn't Have To Be This Way: A Handbook on How To Create a Positive Environment in Our Schools, Frank N. Mickens, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Bedford - Stuyvesant, outlines how he transformed one of the nation's worst high schools into one of the city's best in eightSchools, Frank N. Mickens, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Bedford - Stuyvesant, outlines how he transformed one of the nation's worst high schools into one of the city's best in eightschools into one of the city's best in eight years.

Mr. Look, 37, must steer his 82 - year - old high school on the far west side of this river city through an aggressive, federally mandated effort to reverse a decades - long decline in student achievement that has given Shawnee the label of one of Kentucky's worst...

The latest example of this comes courtesy of Charles Epps, the superintendent of the woeful Jersey City school district, who declared on Wednesday that the young women attending the traditional public schools there were «our worst enemy» in his (abysmal) effort to improve education in the district and prevent school crime.

The de Blasio administration is banking on the community school model to help turn around some of the city's worst schools: the administration is investing $ 150 million to turn 94 struggling schools into community schools.

The teachers union is looking to expand its influence on school boards in the wake of Mayor Lovely Warren's request to be named leader of a receivership district to turnaround the city's worst schools.

«Schools of Hope has had a tremendous impact — you remove that tutoring element and the gap gets worse — but we may have overstated the significance it could have on these children,» said Caire, now founder and CEO of One City Early Learning Centers, a new effort to address the racial achievement gap.

When schools are as bad as they are in the inner - city neighborhoods of Detroit, Washington, and a few other large cities, they certainly have a depressing effect on student achievement.

The article goes on to describe how these qualities are being put to the test in Houston, where Terry Grier, the superintendent (check out his Houston schools blog here), has joined forces with Fryer, committing $ 19 million last year to nine of his city's worst performing secondary schools.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

That's worse on both counts than students in the city's public schools.

When asked about a Fordham Institute study on America's Best and Worst Cities for School Choice that ranked Atlanta as the ninth most «choice - friendly» city, Verdaillia Turner, president of the Georgia Federation of Teachers, responded, «That's like saying Chicago is the most murder - friendly city in the nation.»

That said, the overall increase in Detroit Public Schools students» performance on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress provides hope to Detroit, the worst - performing of the 21 cities surveyed.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.

Further, she questioned why the ASD would take Neely's Bend, one of the better schools on the city's worst - of list.

Ofsted's chief inspector had warned that children from poorer families who live in the countryside or on the coast in England, do worse at school than those who live in cities.

The small city of 27,000 needs it: Four days ago, Adam Lanza stormed on the Sandy Hook Elementary School campus, killing 20 first graders, six adults, his mother and then himself in what is considered the nation's second - worst mass school killing in hiSchool campus, killing 20 first graders, six adults, his mother and then himself in what is considered the nation's second - worst mass school killing in hischool killing in history.

Abstraction, New Observations, June 1984, No. 24 1984 Is Abstract Painting Regaining its Popularity by Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 14, 1984 1983 Ted Stamm by Sanford Kwinter, Art In America, January 1983, pp. 121-122 1983 Ted Stamm by Stephen Westfall, Arts Magazine, January 1983, p. 3 1983 Ted Stamm at the Far Turn by William Zimmer, Re-Dact 1 by Peter Frank, Published by Willis Locker and Owens, ISBN 093027900X 1982 Ted Stamm, Art Economist, Volume II, No. 14, December 31, 1982, p. 5 1982 Drawing Invitational 1981 by Geynne Vernet, Arts Magazine, February 1982 1982 Two Unprovincial Shows at the Jersey City Museum by Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, New Jersey supplement, October 10, 1982, p. 28 1981 Ted Stamm by Valentine Tatransky, Arts Magazine, February 1981, pp. 35 - 36 1981 Surely Temple Black by William Zimmer, SoHo Weekly News, February 18, 1981, p. 49 1981 Abstraction with a Relaxed Air by David L. Shirey, The New York Times, March 1, 1981, p. 19 1981 Ted Stamm by Tiffany Bell, Arts Magazine, May 1981, p. 8 1981 From the General to the Particular: Some Thoughts on Abstract Painting by Tiffany Bell, Arts Magazine, June 1981, pp. 120-124 1980 Tre Amerikaner i Skaane by by Sune Nordgren, Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), May 5, 1980 1980 Pool Documentation by Kay Larson, Village Voice, June 2, 1980, p. 85 1980 Jane Highstein and Sensibility Minimalism: A Tissue of Happenstance by Robert Pincus - Witten, Arts Magazine, October 1980 p. 140 1980 La Nouvelle Vogue New Yorkaise est Portee Para La Musie Rock by Daniel Cornu, Tribune De Geneve, December 1980 School's Out by William Zimmer, The SoHo Weekly News, June 11, 1980, p. 61 1980 Old Wine, New Bottles, Bad Year by John Perreault, The SoHo Weekly News, June 18, 1980 1979 Ted Stamm by December Kur, Handelsblatt (Dusseldorf), March 3,1979, p. 21 1979 Entries: Styles of Artists and Critics by Robert Pincus - Witten, Arts Magazine, November 1979, pp. 127 - 28 1979 Where is New York by Peter Frank, ARTnews, November 1979, pp. 59 - 65 1978 Ted Stamm by Tiffany Bell, Arts Magazine, February 1978, pp. 33 - 34 1978 Ted Stamm by Edit De Ak, Artforum, February 1978, pp. 63 - 64 1978 Artful Dodger by Gerald Marzorati, SoHo Weekly News, May 18, 1978, 10 1978 Pittori di New York by Riccardo Guarneri, Visual, April - May 1978, No. 2 - 3, pp. 40 - 43 1978 Ted Stamm at Hal Bromm Gallery by Peter Frank, Village Voice, December 19, 1977, pp. 93, 98 1977 Arts and Leisure Guide by Ann Barry, New York Times, November 27, 1977 1977 Voice Choices by Ali Anderson, Village Voice, December 12, 1977, p. 59 1977 New Museum at the New School by Peter Frank, Village Voice, December 19, 1977, p. 98 1976 Ted Stamm by Barbara Catoir, Das Kunstwerk, January 1976, p. 64 1976 Alternative Arts Spaces: One to one politics for the avant - garde by Stephen Reichard, New York Downtown Manhattan, Akademie Der Kunste - Berliner Festwochen, September 1976, p. 249 1975 Reviews by Susan Heineman, Artforum, March 1975, pp. 62 - 63 1975 Artists Space by Trudie Grace, Art Journal, Summer 1975, XXXIV / 4, pp. 323 - 326.

Her performance works [5][8] include a series of site - specific gifting performances called Limited, Limited Edition which she has presented at Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City, Queens; [9] in Jamaica, Queens; at the Incheon Women Artists» Biennale in Incheon, South Korea; [10] at On Stellar Rays gallery in the Lower East Side; in three locations in Newark, New Jersey for Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, [11] in a school yard in East Harlem; on 14th Street as a part of the Art in Odd Places performance festival, and on H Street NE in Washington D.C. [12] For Bad Kanji (2015), she painted temporary kanji tattoos on viewers at the Spring / Break Art Show, held in the historic office spaces above New York City's main post office, the James A. Farley Post OfficOn Stellar Rays gallery in the Lower East Side; in three locations in Newark, New Jersey for Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, [11] in a school yard in East Harlem; on 14th Street as a part of the Art in Odd Places performance festival, and on H Street NE in Washington D.C. [12] For Bad Kanji (2015), she painted temporary kanji tattoos on viewers at the Spring / Break Art Show, held in the historic office spaces above New York City's main post office, the James A. Farley Post Officon 14th Street as a part of the Art in Odd Places performance festival, and on H Street NE in Washington D.C. [12] For Bad Kanji (2015), she painted temporary kanji tattoos on viewers at the Spring / Break Art Show, held in the historic office spaces above New York City's main post office, the James A. Farley Post Officon H Street NE in Washington D.C. [12] For Bad Kanji (2015), she painted temporary kanji tattoos on viewers at the Spring / Break Art Show, held in the historic office spaces above New York City's main post office, the James A. Farley Post Officon viewers at the Spring / Break Art Show, held in the historic office spaces above New York City's main post office, the James A. Farley Post Office.

Considering the most notable things about this city is that it's known as having one of the worst school systems in the United States and is currently embroiled in a fight with neighbors over some of its schools, I would say that a certain amount of sense isn't that high on their agenda.

The School Development Program focused on two poor, low - achieving, predominately African American elementary schools in New Haven, Connecticut, that had the worst attendance and the lowest academic achievement in the city.