Sentences with phrase «big city school»

In her new book, Follow the Money, political scientist Sarah Reckhow discusses the rise of a new generation of education philanthropists, the differences among them, and how their work has played out in some big city school systems.

Gates outlined his new investment in broad terms, saying that 60 percent would go to traditional public schools — an announcement that elicited applause in the audience of big city school superintendents — and that he wants to let schools and educators drive the process.

Although the politics are more raw in larger and big city school districts, even the smallest school boards can be marked by alliances among members and between members and key community stakeholders.

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?

It takes a special leader to serve on a big city school board, especially in Philadelphia, where chronic funding shortages have created a «zero sum» approach on virtually every issue.

She has run a couple of big city school systems and is now superintendent in Atlanta.

Sure he is — but the record shows it's not enough to be a big city school system CEO.

In 2014, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said D.C. was «by every measure the fastest - improving big city school district in the nation.»

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).

Big City School is located in a low - income urban neighborhood and serves primarily Latino (65 percent) and black (33 percent) students; 93 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

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.

One student said that in a big city school, kids roll through the system without even trying.

Alliance of Big City School Districts Aims for More Healthful Meals L.A. Unified and five others are striving to make wholesome food a national standard.

From districts to schools: The distribution of resources across schools in big city school districts

In addition, big city school districts like Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and New York City plan to apply.

The project grew out of a practical problem we encountered when studying big city school systems: in many cities, the public school «system» is actually a collection of systems: school districts (often more than one), charter schools, and even state agencies.

... «The new NAEP results confirm that Duval County is one of the highest performing big city school districts in the nation,» said Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council for Great City Schools.

Discord has run many good educators out of big city school systems.

He made New York City a magnet for reform - minded entrepreneurs, sent forth more than a few excellent leaders to other big city school systems, and is never afraid to speak his truth.

Union leaders steered the debate away from the academic records of two big city school systems.

Doing better than the kids in big city school districts should provide suburbanites with little comfort.

The Young Women's Leadership School (known to everyone as TYWLS, or «twills») is a big city school, located on the top five floors of an 11 - story office building on busy East 106th Street in Manhattan, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York.

It is true that nearly a third of the nation's 9th graders — and about half those attending dangerous big city schools — have voted with their feet against the disastrous state of the modern public high school.

This was a period of significant social change, as the racial composition of big city schools...

Not exact matches

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

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.

And then, when I thought about my life after school, about how writers must live, how a writer must create, the places where writers go, I thought of New York City walk - ups, of Montreal cobblestones and the longed - for perfecting of my French accent, I thought of London flats, of Paris lofts, I thought of big cities, and crowded streets, old architecture, late nights, I thought of moving back east.

Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.

Because every morning, when she walks with her big brother to school, she passes through dozens of children on the crowded streets of Cochabamba, the second largest city in Bolivia.

Rev Coupe said he hopes the school uniform project can be bigger next year with various local churches partnering to expand the effort throughout the whole city.

That was one of the many perks of going to school in a big city — there were endless opportunities to expand...

Council - run ECS is by far the biggest school meal provider in the city, delivering over 18,000 meals daily.

For our 20th, since we didn't get to take a big trip or anything (he taught for the summer session of school), he surprised me with a bunch of my favorite concerts over the last month, including New Kids On The Block / Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, the Utah Symphony and GENTRI and we got to spend some time together in Salt Lake City.

Open to the public, sponsored by Big Poppa Smokers and sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society, the King of the Smoker invitational will feature hard - fought, old - school competition by legends of the smoker.

Its unemployment rate, median home value, high school graduation rate, and median household income are comparable to plenty of other big cities.

It's big school (undergraduate population @ 40K) in the 4th largest American city which is the 5th largest media market; it's in Texas which spreads the conference footprint (Navy does not do that); can recruit P5 talent (Ed Oliver, hello!)

The Walnut Creek school's wrestling program has been nothing but consistent over the past decade, quietly succeeding in the shadow of bigger programs like De La Salle, James Logan - Union City and Liberty - Brentwood.

These two cities are also full of graduates from Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State, and other Big Ten schools, which helps the whole conference make millions off the Big Ten Network.

If you're near a big city with lots of high school athletes, you have another edge.

They are a demographic, in other words, that in many big - city middle and high schools is seen as a behavioral challenge and an academic liability.

We decided to HS after we moved to a bigger city (with more school violence and more negative influences than we were comfy with) We are now homeschooing our 15 year old and our 6 year old.

Some parents who live in big cities even establish second homes near a village Waldorf school so that their children can attend.

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

But yes, CarolineSF, when I'm not complaining about our elementary school, I'm a big fan of Iowa City — it's a great place to live.

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.

Check out what kids are eating for school lunch in Columbus, Ohio compared to a another big city in France, called Montpellier.