Sentences with phrase «by closing schools with»

As a result of school closures, the Hartford Public Schools may be going in the exact opposite direction by closing schools with high proportions of Black and Latino teachers.

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FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

The child - welfare investigators, though, closed the case with no action after concluding that Cruz was not a threat, had not been mistreated by his mother, that he was receiving adequate care from a counselor at Henderson Mental Health, and was attending school.

By: Nadine James 4th May 2018 South Africa and other mineral - rich developing countries with close economic links to China must reassess their trade policies to provide a buffer against fluctuating commodity demand, according to Witwatersrand University School of Mining Engineering postgraduate student Peaceful Mathebula and... →

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

The actual number by that date was probably not much more than a third of that total; furthermore, despite the good that existing centers have done and are doing, the plan's most imaginative features — those that would bring such centers into close contact with schools, churches, the police, and other responsible community organizations — are the ones that have been least realized.

But by the end of the 1990s the stockyards had closed, and today many of the families of the South High soccer players — with immigrant parents from not only Mexico but also Central America, Southeast Asia and Africa — live in the housing stock abandoned by those Europeans and work in the lone meatpacking plant, a few blocks from the school.

With a team - high four goals, Klass closed out her extremely - decorated high school career by leading the Wolves to a 12 - 6 win over rival Monte Vista - Danville in the North Coast Section Division I championship on Nov. 15.

With a team - high four goals, Klass closed out her extremely - decorated high school career by leading the...

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

The guidelines for dealing with a concussion in youth sports were approved by the Common Council this week and are designed to close the loophole in the current concussion law that protects only middle school and high school athletes on school - sponsored teams.

This programme initiated by the Ghana Health Service will be run in phases with the first phase targeting about 360,000 in - school adolescent girls and close to 600,000 out of schoolgirls in four regions.

The email, titled, «Cloudy with a chance of political pandering» and written by Councilman Danny Dromm, slams Ms. Moskowitz for her decision to close all of her schools on Tuesday so that students can attend a large pro-charter rally in Albany.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor — over the protests of countless community members — wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

But while the chamber has closed, Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership of New York City, said the Israeli tech community is well - represented in New York City by the country's consul general and the Technion Institute, which has partnered with Cornell University to build a new graduate engineering school on Roosevelt Island.

The cuts for school districts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment were closed by 50 percent, with the proviso the rest would be taken care of next year — a key campaign pledge for the conference during last year's elections

«Since Thursday, none of the insider chatter has increased the number available jobs for his constituents, eased local parents» anxiety over the upcoming school year, or dealt with our senior citizens» fright over the proposed closing of senior centers throughout our community,» Johnson said in a statement distributed by her campaign.

The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.

He said that the board, «vehemently opposes any plan that closes the Phoenicia elementary school and robs our residents and their children of convenient localized education opportunities for their younger children, disregards the needs of the local economy and businessmen and residents that assist with, sponsor and pay for school programs...» The resolution listed how the school acts as a community center including athletic, educational, social programs during the evenings, weekends and summer that are sponsored by the town.

Success Academy spokeswoman Ann Powell said that the charter school network has had no communication with the city about closing schools and that any decisions about building space would be made by the DOE, not by them.

Stakeholders from the Essence School in East New York pushed the DOE to allow the school to operate, with students saying they lived close by and that safety was a major concern if they were forced to travel elseSchool in East New York pushed the DOE to allow the school to operate, with students saying they lived close by and that safety was a major concern if they were forced to travel elseschool to operate, with students saying they lived close by and that safety was a major concern if they were forced to travel elsewhere.

During the Bloomberg administration, many low - performing schools were closed and then replaced by smaller schools with new programs, and new staffs.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

In his opening remarks, Paladino's lawyer Dennis Vacco said Paladino was protecting the public's interest by publicly disclosing secret information from the School Board's closed - door meeting about contract talks with the teacher's union.

Among the key reasons cited by the Assembly and the ECA for adopting a June primary date are that, in their view: an August primary would result in reduced turnout because many voters vacation during that month; identifying and training sufficient poll workers would be very difficult during a prime vacation period; schools, which are often used as poll sites, are frequently closed and unstaffed during the summer; and that, given the myriad tasks that must be completed to prepare and transmit ballots, as well as the inevitable delays caused by administrative challenges, machine malfunctions and counting of paper ballots, setting a June date would ensure better compliance with UOCAVA's 45 - day ballot transmission requirement.

«By packing schools with struggling students, the DOE has not only set us up to fail, they have pushed us towards failure,» said Jorel Moore, 17, a senior at Brooklyn's Franklin K. Lane HS, one of the closing schools.

In patients likely to have surgery, close, active monitoring of small renal tumors confined to the kidneys is associated with low rates of tumor growth or death, according to a study by a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology.

Pursuing the origins specifically of RNA, the close chemical relative of DNA, a research team led by Nicholas Hud, a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the CCE, worked with a pair of potential chemical ancestors of the nucleobases of RNA.

In April, 1967 pesticide waste injected by a chemical plant at Denver's Rocky Mountain Arsenal destabilized a seismic fault, causing a magnitude 5.0 earthquake — strong enough to shatter windows and close schools — and jolting scientists with newfound risks of injection, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

I took a trip east this weekend to compete in a ski competition for my business school, and then I snuck away to visit with friends and family who live close by.

It's an easygoing town where medicated loopiness exhibited by the kids» school bus driver (Nick Swardson, coming closest to replacing Schneider) prompts Lenny to grab the steering wheel and pick up his fellow Grown Ups along with their kids.

As Joan gets closer to the school, Kat becomes plagued by progressively intense and horrifying visions, with Rose doing her best to help her new friend as she slips further and further into the grasp of an unseen evil force.

He forms a close bond with his former high school teacher, played by Edie Falco, who was instrumental in securing his release.

As you'd expect, the underwater photography is the best part and Salle realizes some striking watery vistas, such as schools of fish lit by a shaft of sunlight and Phillippe's close encounter with a whale.

Schools that had received D grades and were close to the failing grade that could precipitate vouchers» being offered to their students, by contrast, appear to have achieved somewhat greater improvements than those achieved by the schools with higher state Schools that had received D grades and were close to the failing grade that could precipitate vouchers» being offered to their students, by contrast, appear to have achieved somewhat greater improvements than those achieved by the schools with higher state schools with higher state grades.

Administrative attempts to close charter schools are often met with fierce parental opposition and lawsuits, but when parents don't like a school, they can simply vote with their feet, either by withdrawing their children from the school or by not choosing it in the first place.

In close collaboration with the district, a case study, «Staffing the Boston Public Schools,» was authored by PELP and used in both Ed School classes and PELP's 2007 Harvard Ed Press publication, Managing School Districts for High Performance.

Alpha authorizers can show the way by having the courage to tackle the politics associated with closing underperforming schools and knowing how to document the facts in order to prevail in the court of law and public opinion.

As in many Edison schools, Wintergreen starts each day with a 15 - minute (advertisement free) closed - circuit television «news» broadcast, written, filmed, and produced by Wintergreen students.

By so organizing and conceptualizing high schools, we underemphasize the need to provide secondary - school educators with incentives that are more like the incentives of their closer relative, college.

Mexican officials closed Casa by the Sea, a 538 - student school in Ensenada, Mexico, that specializes in behavior modification for troubled teenagers, on Sept. 10, along with two smaller schools nearby that worked with youths with drug addictions and other challenges.

Two years into teaching, close to the last day of the school year, I was surprised by how firmly the city had grown on me, this once strange city now bursting at the seams with people I knew I could call home.

In 2013, when we were looking at eight million dollars we'd saved by closing 13 schools, we wondered what do we do with it.

Academic Leagues at Edwards Middle School - Excerpt provided by NCTL from the Time Well Spent Report, explaining how Edwards has closed the achievement gap within Massachusetts in math, English language arts, and science with their Academic Leagues

Terry Bergeson won re-election to a third term as Washington state's schools chief by a substantial margin in what had been expected to be a close race with Judith Billings, a former state superintendent.

Develop a strong core of high - quality schools in the charter sector by working with the best charter authorizers to develop quality benchmarks and close low - performing charters in a targeted set of neighborhoods.

As voting for the snap general election commences, research by Schools Week has found that 22.6 per cent of schools are due to be used as polling stations, with hundreds having to close compSchools Week has found that 22.6 per cent of schools are due to be used as polling stations, with hundreds having to close compschools are due to be used as polling stations, with hundreds having to close completely.

Seek an early actuarial valuation and agree a repayment term Step 3 — Setting up an Academy Trust and Funding Agreement • This is the stage at which all legal documents need to be agreed with the DfE • The Academy Trust has to be registered with Companies House • Transfer or leasing arrangements for school land needs to be finalised • Completion of TUPE process • Governors complete and close consultation process • Funding Agreement signed by Academy Trust and Secretary of State • Academy opening date set Step 4 — Pre-opening • All CRB checks completed prior to transfer to academy status • Financial systems and contracts with staff and suppliers confirmed • Academy registrations with exam bodies confirmed • Insurances put in place

Disadvantaged pupils are closing the achievement gap, for All supported schools, with their peers in reading, writing and maths, according to an independent review by PwC of English schools supported by the Achievement for All programme.