Sentences with phrase «city and school buses»

Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València, in collaboration with the company C - Robots, S.L., have developed a new safety system for city and school buses that detects the presence of pedestrians in the surroundings of the bus stop, warns the driver of dangerous conditions and, ultimately, directly affects the vehicle.

Not exact matches

According to the report in the New York Times, programs of busing to achieve racial integration in schools have already been struck down in cities such as Nashville, Oklahoma City, Denver, and Cleveland.

In his role as CEO, Eric manages busing, food services and the PSAL (Public Schools Athletic league) for over 1 million children in the City.

Swapping land with the St. Charles Park District and leasing a lot from the city to create a school bus depot was approved by Community Unit District 303 this week.

The mayor's decision to pay school - bus workers seniority benefits that are not part of their contract is going to cost taxpayers $ 136 million — and a city lawmaker is calling for an investigation.

After the disappearance and death of Trevyan Rowe, the Rochester City School District offered a remorseful apology for various missteps, including not spotting Rowe walking away from School # 12 immediately after getting off his morning bus.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Ognibene also criticized Crowley over the Council's approval of a new high school for Maspeth without concessions for neighborhood children and a curb cut for buses, suggesting she could have won the concessions from the city School Construction Authority if she had consulted more Council members behind the scenes before theschool for Maspeth without concessions for neighborhood children and a curb cut for buses, suggesting she could have won the concessions from the city School Construction Authority if she had consulted more Council members behind the scenes before theSchool Construction Authority if she had consulted more Council members behind the scenes before the vote.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Two days after a suspected ISIS - inspired terrorist killed eight and injured 11 by driving a truck onto a Manhattan bike path and hitting a school bus near Stuyvesant High School, Mayor Bill de Blasio and city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña lauded the resilience of the campus's teachers and stuschool bus near Stuyvesant High School, Mayor Bill de Blasio and city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña lauded the resilience of the campus's teachers and stuSchool, Mayor Bill de Blasio and city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña lauded the resilience of the campus's teachers and students.

«We, as lawmakers, can help ensure that those living below the poverty line are able to take the bus or subway to appointments, work and school by making the Fair Fares plan a reality, guaranteeing half price MetroCards for some of our city's most vulnerable.»

Mark Aldrich, 54, of Salamanca was charged with passing a red light Wednesday at 7:22 a.m. City police say the accident — which took place at the corner of Winsor and Willard Streets — involved four vehicle, one of which was a Jamestown Board of Education school bus.

Moskowitz closed all 32 of her schools for the morning, busing thousands of children and parents to the event location from across the city.

But if you're riding the bus to a public high school here in the City of Buffalo and it's your only mode of transportation, you don't ride the bus by choice.

Castorina has never run for public office before, but is well known among the Island's elected officials for his pro bono lawsuit filed against the city in 2010 to restore school buses for seventh and eighth grade students.

The de Blasio administration and most of the education committee supported the bill, arguing that more experienced school bus drivers behind the wheel will benefit all city children who take the bus, particularly students with special needs who require trained drivers and escorts.

From the first time he came to mainstream media's attention in 1994 proclaiming that the Gay Games in New York that year would spread AIDS in the city, to his resignation from the Civilian Complaint Review Board because of the constant protest from the LGBT community, to his attacks on the Harvey Milk School and his bussing in evangelical Christians from the tri-state area to stage a protest against gay marriage on the steps of the Bronx County Courthouse, he has crusaded against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

«I first met Ron in 2010 when, working pro bono and working closely with then - Councilman [Vincent] Ignizio and me, he sued the city when it cut school bus service to seventh - and eighth - graders.

He also represented parents pro bono in a 2010 lawsuit against the city for its plans to cut school buses for seventh - and eighth - grade students.

New York City's Success Academy charter school network closed its 32 schools and plans to bus students and parents to Albany for the demonstration on the east Capitol lawn.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about the University at Albany / CDTA bus incident and school funding for eight small city school districts including Kingston and Poughkeepsie.

With the city Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff, including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquartcity Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff, including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquartCity Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquarters.

The state and city have historically split the cost of busing kids to private schools during the regular school day.

In yet another instance of his disregard for New York City's schools and students, as of Feb. 11, when this newspaper went to press, Mayor Bloomberg was still refusing to intervene in the yellow school bus strike, which began on Jan. 16.

The smog not only forced all primary and middle schools to suspend classes, but shut the airport and some public bus routes, the official Xinhua news agency reported, blaming the emergency on the first day of the heating being turned on in the city for winter.

In Washington, the federal government, city offices and schools are shuttered today, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has suspended subway and bus service.

It's back to school season, so all the school buses are around the city and when people go back to school all of our female clients especially the teachers they start having flare ups of their symptoms.

There's Old Town, an urban area with apartments, City Hall and the bus station, West Ridge, a housing and school area, and North Peak, an industrial outskirts type area.

Spider - Man also appears to be in New York City, as we catch sight of him on a school bus there, but we don't see him interact with Iron Man and the other team members.

Although parent involvement did increase in Oklahoma City's elementary schools when neighborhood schools were restored, an even greater increase in parent involvement occurred in the city's middle and high schools, which are still undergoing busing for integratCity's elementary schools when neighborhood schools were restored, an even greater increase in parent involvement occurred in the city's middle and high schools, which are still undergoing busing for integratcity's middle and high schools, which are still undergoing busing for integration.

The return to resegregated neighborhood elementary schools in Oklahoma City, after 13 years of busing for integration, has not led to the gains in achievement, parent involvement, and equity the school district had claimed, according to a report released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool district had claimed, according to a report released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

When changing such troubling habits raises objections, it's clear why it took several years to end open campus at lunch, require uniforms, have teachers greet each student with a handshake, make home visits routine, and place administrators beyond the school's gates so students could safely walk to catch city buses.

Again, in 2000, the Bulletin revisited busing in Boston and talked about the prominent role Ed School alumni activists and faculty members like Professor emeritus Chuck Willie and former dean Francis Keppel played in the trying to make progress in the city at the time.

Anyone traveling down America's rural highways or maneuvering through its towns and cities during the school year is familiar with the yellow school bus.

In the end, ACORN supported the city's proposal to limit choice to just the 48 schools and to use most of the money that would have gone into busing to fund improvements in the failing schools.

CHICAGO — Desegregation plans that provide for the busing of students between central - city and suburban schools are more effective in producing lasting integration than more limited types of plans, a new study released here concludes.

No arguments could overcome the hostility, though I explained how not all kids would be bused to the inner - city; how magnet schools would be used (the mid-1980s version of choice); and how extra resources could be provided.

Indeed, in many large cities during the 1960s and 1970s, the problems facing minority high - school students actually worsened, as their schools became battlegrounds for such issues as busing and identity politics, issues that overwhelmed more routine efforts to improve the quality of education.

Bowers's students spent a morning planting trees in a city park, and they made and distributed several hundred bookmarks that list steps even children can take to protect the environment — things like turning off the lights or taking the school bus instead of getting a ride from Mom or Dad.

As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths of a 10 - year - old on the eve of her first day of 4th grade, a 16 - year - old boy shot in a city bus on his way home from school, and an 18 - year - old honor student killed outside his high school, among others.

In each city the school board modified its plan several times in light of, for example, hostility to busing, the threat of resegregation, and the desirability of introducing greater student choice.

Where is NYC's public advocate, Letitia James, who sued the city over school buses that had no air conditioning and went after the Success Academy Charter School network for alleged bias against students with disabilschool buses that had no air conditioning and went after the Success Academy Charter School network for alleged bias against students with disabilSchool network for alleged bias against students with disabilities?

Park City School District Policy 5015 Standards for Utah School Buses and Operations PCSD Transportation Operating Procedures

Leading the spending spree was the New York - based entity that calls itself, «Families for Excellent Schools, Inc.» This is the group that bussed in parents and students from as far away as New York City and Boston to hold a rally at the Connecticut State Capitol demanding more money for the privately owned charter sSchools, Inc.» This is the group that bussed in parents and students from as far away as New York City and Boston to hold a rally at the Connecticut State Capitol demanding more money for the privately owned charter schoolsschools.

The clothes and supplies arrived at Empower via Operation School Bell's «Delivering Dreams Bus,» a former city bus retrofitted with dressing rooms and waiting areas for the students, and storage bins for clothes and suppliBus,» a former city bus retrofitted with dressing rooms and waiting areas for the students, and storage bins for clothes and supplibus retrofitted with dressing rooms and waiting areas for the students, and storage bins for clothes and supplies.

Barnes and Empower DC have led the legal effort to stop the city from building a tour - bus parking lot at the old Alexander Crummell School in Ivy Ccity from building a tour - bus parking lot at the old Alexander Crummell School in Ivy CityCity.

The honors students at our school were bused in to participate in the school's magnet science and math programs, and we soon discovered their environmental club projects were focused on the parts of the city where they lived and not the neighborhood where our school was and where we lived.

And since the city struck down its busing policies in the late 1990s, neighborhood schools in Nashville's high poverty areas are increasingly isolated as re-segregation has taken hold across the area.

Some opponents went to court to fight the bussing that combined inner city and suburban schools into one large district integration plan.

«[Students] come from all over the city, from South Salem, West Salem, and we don't provide school transportation, and so they're coming by either parent transportation or most of them by city bus, public transportation.»