Sentences with phrase «city education department»

But other New York City teachers — a spokesperson for the city education department was unable to say exactly how many — were rated based on only one year of data.

The New York City Education Department wanted to fire Michael Dalton, a music teacher in Washington Heights, after its investigators said that he had placed three third - grade boys on his lap in what they considered an inappropriate manner.

Officials from the city education department say the sheer number of vendors — about 900 — makes it difficult for the central office to vet them all.

A city Education Department spokeswoman wouldn't comment beyond saying, «Schools must be safe havens and we will review the lawsuit.»

A spokeswoman for the New York City Education Department declined to provide an estimate of how many students sat out the assessments, but said it did not anticipate having less than 95 percent participation.

In 2009 - 10, the city education department revised what had been a more or less automatic process of granting tenure.

It is unfortunate that false charges of favoritism have gained currency, because they are an insult to the civil servants at the city Education Department who are committed to protecting all children.

SEPTEMBER: The New York City education department begins to pilot a teacher - evaluation system based on the Danielson Framework for Teaching.

As the PBIS Coordinator, one of my goals is to create a school culture, where teachers participate in meaningful professional development beyond the city education department's standards and expectations.

The New York - based AUSSIE, which was recently acquired by an Australian company, Editure, took in more than $ 15 million of that amount last year, making it the system's top provider of professional development, according to an analysis by The Hechinger Report of a decade's worth of school spending data obtained from the city education department.

Finally, last year, there was hope: Balanced literacy was left for dead yet when the city Education Department recommended two reading programs for elementary schools as they prepare to meet the rigorous new Common Core State Standards in English: New York State's Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum and Pearson's ReadyGen.

The problem, one city Education Department official acknowledged, is that districts did not want to lose the Title I money they would have to give to parents to obtain the after - school tutoring — and so did little to make parents aware of the opportunity.

New York City Education Department to Add or Expand 40 Dual - Language Programs New York Times, 1/14/15 «But Paola Uccelli, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that some research has shown that in well - run programs, students learn both languages.

City Education Department spokeswoman Devora Kaye said the city supports all schools, charter or not.

The new funding comes after enrollment numbers published in March by the city Education Department showed even that black and Hispanic kids were poorly represented at the city's elite specialized high schools in 2016.

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 headquarters.

The determination of who faces being left back, though, remains a bit fuzzy since the city education department still has not received final test scores from the state.

City Education department spokeswoman Devora Kaye said the city's public school students will benefit from the programs.

City class sizes have increased for the sixth year in a row, new stats from the city Education Department show.

The new hires will include eight investigators who will double the size of the staff at the city Education Department's Office of Equal Opportunity.

De Blasio administration officials reported on April 20 that there were 471 sexual harassment complaints within the 140,000 - employee city Education Department from 2014 - 2017.

City Education Department spokesman Michael Aciman said the city has invested $ 6.5 billion to create more than 46,600 classroom seats in overcrowded areas.

«It is unconscionable that the state and the city have flouted the law and are subjecting over 290,000 students to overcrowded classes of 30 students or more,» said Haimson, citing a Class Size Matters analysis of city Education Department data.

While the playground and full - sized athletic field at East 96th Street and Second Avenue has traditionally been considered a playground under the jurisdiction of the city Education Department, the Cuomo administration, in doing research on the matter, found evidence that it was actually a park and should be governed by the city Parks Department.

Public Advocate Letitia James has sued the New York City Education Department, saying a $ 130 million computer system meant to track services for students with disabilities was a failure.

More public school teachers are getting tenure under the union - friendly de Blasio administration, statistics released by the city Education department show.

The New York City Education Department is expected to announce a plan today to help black and Hispanic students gain acceptance to some of the most competitive high schools.

The jury includes three people in nursing, a transit employee, a campus recruiter, an employee with the New York City Education Department, a salesman, a preschool teacher, a cabdriver, an office manager and a technician.

More public school teachers are getting tenure under the union - friendly de Blasio administration, statistics released Friday by the city Education department show.

Two students with disabilities and their mothers, along with a Bronx nonprofit organization, sued the New York City Education Department in Federal District Court, saying that it had violated their right to a «free appropriate public education.»

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, told Fred Dicker in a radio interview this morning that he hoped Gov. Andrew Cuomo would intercede in the ongoing dispute between the New York City education department and United Federation of Teachers over school improvement grant funding.

Not exact matches

The Flatiron School also offers a Web - development fellowship, with a similar education funded entirely by New York City's Department of Small Business Services.

After being contacted by ProPublica and the Times, other employers, including Amazon, Northwestern Mutual and the New York City Department of Education, said they had changed or were changing their recruiting strategies.

New York City Department of Education attorney Tsui S. Ng recently explained the benefits to the American Bar Association.

Founded nearly 35 years ago, DARE — Drug Abuse Resistance Education — grew out of a partnership between the Los Angeles Police Department and the city's schools.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

Last year, to help close this gap, the New York City Department of Education announced signing and retention bonuses for Pre-K For All teachers working outside public schools.

On behalf of the Department of Education, the New York Law Department provided a statement defending the policy: «We view this as a victory for the City's school children and their families.

Among the nation's top secondary schools, HCHS is uniquely governed, the only New York City public high school not under control of New York City's Department of Education.

New York (CNN)- One week after New York's Department of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests — including «dinosaur,» «birthday» and «religion» — the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoningDepartment of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests — including «dinosaur,» «birthday» and «religion» — the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoningdepartment announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the plan.

New York City's education department is looking to ban the word «dinosaur» from standardized tests, with some speculating it's because the word could offend creationists.

New York's City Council convened to vote on the issue and almost unanimously passed resolution 1281, calling for the Department of Education to recognize the holidays.

The Department of Education's says that avoiding sensitive words on tests is nothing new, and that New York City is not the only locale to do so. California avoids the use of the word «weed» on tests and Florida avoids the phrases that use «Hurricane» or «Wildfires,» according to a statement by the New York City Department of Education.

The banned word list was made public — and attracted considerable criticism — when the city's education department recently released this year's «request for proposal» The request for proposal is sent to test publishers around the country trying to get the job of revamping math and English tests for the City of New Ycity's education department recently released this year's «request for proposal» The request for proposal is sent to test publishers around the country trying to get the job of revamping math and English tests for the City of New YCity of New York.

New York City's department of education is also reported to be considering adopting the campaign.

The event offered 40 + education sessions, including the 9th Annual Farm to City Expo: Local Seafood Wave of the Future, sponsored by the NY Agriculture & Markets Department.

In 2010, the city took advantage School Improvement Grant from the Department of Education to drastically overhaul the way things worked at Douglass.

In New York City, between 2007 and 2010, Fryer oversaw and evaluated a program jointly administered by the city's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schoCity, between 2007 and 2010, Fryer oversaw and evaluated a program jointly administered by the city's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schocity's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schocity's most low - performing schools.

New York City Department of Education (New York), Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles), Chicago Public Schools (Chicago), Miami - Dade County Public Schools (Miami), Dallas Independent School District (Dallas), Orange County Public Schools (Orlando), Broward County Public Schools (Fort Lauderdale), Clark County Public Schools (Las Vegas), School District of Philadelphia (Philadelphia), Baltimore Public Schools (Baltimore), and Boston Public Schools (Boston) will coordinate menus to improve purchasing power from food providers so that costs are kept low.

(A spokeswoman for New York City's Education Department makes this same observation in the Times blog post.)