Sentences with phrase «best schools across our city»

Pearson said he and his colleagues see a «tremendous need» for good schools across the city and that charters can help meet that need because they operate outside of the city's bureaucracy.

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Ours is showing you good people for you to meet regardless of whether they're down the block or across the city, and because of the accountability and transparency that's in Hinge — we show first name, last name, where you work, where you went to school, all these different aspects — it's much more geared towards quality interactions.

in Moscow and other large cities, you can actually see ramps — well, at least in the city center — or come across traffic lights equipped with a sound signal for the blind, or even find a few disabilityfriendly kindergartens and schools.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proSchool District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is proschool lunch, is procured.

The report argues that there is now insufficient local oversight of school performance and the creation of locally accountable school commissioners, appointed by partnerships of local authorities across city or county regions, would act to address this vacuum and support better local coordination of education.

The scheme will also aim to help people get to work or school by better connecting towns and cities, unlock land for new homes, and improve business links — forming a crucial strand of the government's strategy to rebalance the economy by ensuring wealth is spread across the UK and not just concentrated in the south - east of England.

... The first grants will support Computer Science for All and ScriptEd to expand access to computer science education in schools across the city, as well as remove barriers for women and minorities to join NYC's thriving tech sector (where less than 10 percent of professionals are currently minority women).»

Mayor Bill de Blasio said a threat that was emailed to a New York City school official, as well as educators across the country, was «specific,» but not credible, while NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton called it a «hoax.»

Her record at Success would likely to stake her the early backing of the city's tabloids, along with the families in her charter school network who are typically Moskowitz supporters, as well as other parents of children in charters across the city.

City Hall, as well as Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, suddenly announced last week a compromise agreement to provide nearly $ 20 million annually for security guards, at up to 300 private and religious schools across the cCity Hall, as well as Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, suddenly announced last week a compromise agreement to provide nearly $ 20 million annually for security guards, at up to 300 private and religious schools across the citycity.

NEW YORK — Across the country, as well as across the tri-state region and all over New York City, students walked out of school by the thousands to call for stricter gun laws, and to call for an end to gun vioAcross the country, as well as across the tri-state region and all over New York City, students walked out of school by the thousands to call for stricter gun laws, and to call for an end to gun vioacross the tri-state region and all over New York City, students walked out of school by the thousands to call for stricter gun laws, and to call for an end to gun violence.

De Blasio is calling for an income tax increase on New Yorkers earning $ 500,000 or more to fund universal Pre-K, as well as provide quality after - school programs for middle school students across the city.

Better than the performances themselves, though, is their broader purpose: all proceeds from Miscast help to fund MCC in its continual efforts to produce some of New York's most ambitious and original works of theater, as well as support its MCC Youth Company and in - school partnerships that serve public schools across New York City.

The Metropolitan Opera's Live in High Definition series, which transmits liveperformances to movie theaters around the world, is now available freeto students in New York City schools, as well as at select theaters inregions across the country.

The next morning, I looked in the mirror, knowing that I was on the side of good and made my way to classrooms and schools across the city.

Even in some of the nation's largest cities, the number of kids traveling across town to attend better schools on any given morning might not fill a single school bus.

Schools frequently compare themselves to the school down the street or across town, but school graduates don't compete for employment with the best people in a city.

In cities and towns all across my home state of Massachusetts, school administrators and teachers» unions are engaged, usually well out of public view, in the periodic and exhausting ritual of collective bargaining.

Open - enrollment schools in New Orleans, as well as some selective - admissions schools, provide free transportation to students across the city.

«Enhancing professional development, coaching and collaboration opportunities for our dedicated Oakland teachers and school leaders, as well as strengthening partnerships and support for public schools already in existence is critical to realizing our vision of educational equity across the city.»

Locating new schools is just one of many issues facing charters in the District, as well as in cities across the country where charters are growing, including Kansas City and Cleveland.

The results appear to be telling parents whether their child's school is doing a better job than the one across town, in the neighboring city, or across the state.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

The Leading Outstanding Learning Programme (LoL) is a CPD programme for teachers which provides an opportunity to learn from experiences and best practice in a wide range of schools from across South Yorkshire (including outstanding state and independent schools, rapidly improving and ethnically diverse inner city schools and a newly created «school within a school»).

Principals from the District's traditional public schools and public charter schools will spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving school leadership across the city.

Oakland public school teachers across our city bring their best every day.

Going on to work for similar programs across New York City, as well as a for - profit prep school that I term a «cram school», I received exposure to great diversity both in student population and the cultural practices at each site.

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

Citing topics such as the new Common Core tests, technology initiatives and the recently approved boundary changes, she said the city is working to provide better access to challenging and engaging schools across all neighborhoods.

The changes would add hundreds of charter - school seats across the city, many of them meant for at - risk youths who have few good educational options.

I am proud to work with public school educators from across the city to help make Oakland the best place to teach in the Bay.

We have learned over many years, across many states and cities, that good authorizing is more likely to result in a strong charter school sector.

New York, NY - According to the data released today, the number of arrests and summonses in New York City schools are decreasing, but while the decline is good news, Black and Latino students across...

While the fight for school choice rages across the nation, perhaps no better example exists than that of the Windy City.

Lydia Edwards, candidate for Boston city council, released a comprehensive education platform pushing for better neighborhood schools and promised to be a champion for public education across the district....

In districts across the country — even ones in cities with some form of limited movement for kids — poor parents, typically those who are black or Hispanic, are forced to enroll their kids in underperforming schools when there are good ones nearby, sometimes just blocks away.

The first Fund invested in more than 50 schools across the city of Philadelphia, creating access to better educational opportunity for more than 24,000 students each year.

«As city and state leaders seek to figure out how best to salvage Detroit Public Schools and improve performance across a complex network of school choices, top school reformers from around the country want a piece of the action, too.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

Starting a good school is transformative; helping to launch a network of Great Hearts schools across a city or multiple cities can change the fate of our culture.

Kudos to the school leaders across the city who are doing their best with limited resources to create healthy and nurturing working conditions for their teachers

While many charter school leaders across the country grapple with how to best provide and pay for special education, New Orleans recently became the first city in the nation to tackle special education on the fiscal, human capital, and program fronts in the context of a full - choice public education landscape.

These efforts bolster the work happening in schools across the city to better serve students.

You, your neighbors, the teachers in your town or city — you are the people who can best design school reform strategies that work for your children, and create, nurture, and support high quality schools across the country.

As we discussed in our restart blog series, we describe school restart as matching high - quality operators with the highest needs schools in cities and districts across the country to restart them for better results.

We believe that we can engage our community, school board and new Superintendent to understand and acknowledge the district's failed financial practices and to adopt nationally recognized best practices and standards for financial operation that will ultimately help the district prioritize its resources, narrows its focus and improve outcomes for students across the city.

According to the NYC Charter School Center, Success Academy hosted a professional development workshop for educators across the city to discuss best pedagogical practices (Reinish, 2015).

This proposal aligns well with recommendations classroom teachers developed to raise the standard for school culture across our city.

Well, human appraisers can often spot where a very nearby comp is completely off - target because it's across a city or neighborhood line, in a very different school district, or otherwise in a location that makes the comp property's value significantly different from yours.