Sentences with phrase «city high schools now»

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The program, which began in three schools last year, now operates in 11 elementary schools around the city and in Cicero, where the population of students eligible for free or reduced lunches is 85 percent or higher.

A Jewish activist group is now demanding de Blasio scrub all traces of the anti-Semitic Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant from city property — even Stuyvesant High School — as part of his campaign to rid the city of «symbols or hate.»

Schneiderman's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit issued subpoenas last week to eight parties involved with the sale of Rivington House, which was once a school owned by the city and is now set to become a high - end residential complex on the Lower East Side.

«I felt that now was the right time to jump in,» he told DNAinfo over a chocolate milkshake at the Court Square Diner in Long Island City, which is on the way from his hour and a half commute between East Elmhurst to Stuyvesant High School, where he's a junior.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

In the State of the City address he is delivering right now in the Morris High School campus in the Bronx, Bloomberg sides with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — going so far as to mention the Manhattan Democrat by name — in the speaker's call to raise the minimum wage in New York.

He noted that one year ago the city had many of failing high schools, but now they are innovation and community schools.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

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We all know this city is full of cultural gems, but now we no longer have an excuse to ignore them, just because we already experienced them once on a high school field trip or a first date.

Pasadena Junior College - now known as Pasadena City College (PCC)- is established on the Pasadena High School Campus

Edinburgh — Turns out it was once a hospital, then a school for the deaf, and is now being transformed into high - end... the old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site and a...

I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, and have lots of high school friends who now live there, so when languishing in front of my parents» TV grew unbearable, I'd hop in the car and go into the city.

Most significantly, they have transformed teaching in Washington from a low - status occupation marked by weak standards and factory - like work rules into a performance - based profession that provides recognition, responsibility, support, and significant compensation, with some starting salaries now as high as $ 75,000 and top pay climbing from $ 87,000 to $ 134,000 (and higher in the city's year - round schools).

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 high - school options now available in the city are so limited that thousands of middle - class and working - class parents find themselves left out in the cold when their children fail to make the cutoff for the exam schools.

Mayor Bloomberg is justifiably proud of the big gains New York City made in boosting the high - school graduation rate on his watch, with about two - thirds of students now graduating in four years, up from half a decade ago.

I have spoken often about how Union City schools provided for me a stream of high expectations during a time of transition from adolescent to young man, from a single, national, ethnic, and language identity to one far more complex and inclusive of those who now enlarged my experience in extraordinary and new ways.

Now, at least 29 of the state's 41 districts offer online coursework — and many innovative blended - learning schools have emerged, such as Innovations Early College High School in Salt Lake City.

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By putting staff and students at Phoenix High School in control of their new building project, Hammersmith & City now has one of the most iconic and functional sixth forms in the country

Its model is now the basis for a network of international schools across the city, ranging from grade school to high school.

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But the students in the college - bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools.

«Syracuse is now number one in the nation in terms of the percentage of black and Hispanic families living in high - poverty neighborhoods,» said Sharon Contreras, outgoing superintendent of Syracuse City School District.

Chicago has five high - demand classical schools throughout the city now, but more than 1,000 students who qualified to enroll in a classical school this year did not receive an offer.

Former Abington Heights Middle School Principal Michael Elia, who now serves as the Forest City High School principal, was among 13 administrators in the state to receive the Distinguished Principal credential from the National Institute for School Leadership.

Plan now to join colleagues from elementary, middle level, and high schools for the 2018 National Principals Conference this summer in the Windy City.

The fact that Great Public Schools Now is open to supporting any type of high - achieving program (and not just charter schools) is a refreshing development in a city whose school board has been hostile to the expansion of chSchools Now is open to supporting any type of high - achieving program (and not just charter schools) is a refreshing development in a city whose school board has been hostile to the expansion of chschools) is a refreshing development in a city whose school board has been hostile to the expansion of charters.

With the Australians» help, District 2 began to thrive, and it now contains some of the highest - performing and most coveted public schools in the city.

Diplomas Now is an innovative model that targets attendance as it helps the toughest middle and high schools in America's largest cities prepare students to graduate from high school ready for college or career.

Demond Means, a Milwaukee Public Schools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce ThSchools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thschools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thursday.

With at least $ 64 million needed to expand Park City High School as well as $ 20 million for a new 5 - 6 school, the Park City Board of Education now needs to figure out how to pay fSchool as well as $ 20 million for a new 5 - 6 school, the Park City Board of Education now needs to figure out how to pay fschool, the Park City Board of Education now needs to figure out how to pay for it.

«School size is a way of talking about how you get to trusting relationships between adults and kids; size is an enabling condition,» said Michele Cahill, who, as senior counselor to former NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, was in charge of the redesign of the city's high schools from 2002 to 2007, and is now an advisor to the Super School PSchools Chancellor Joel Klein, was in charge of the redesign of the city's high schools from 2002 to 2007, and is now an advisor to the Super School Pschools from 2002 to 2007, and is now an advisor to the Super School Project.

The reorganization completely revamped the high school system: about 70 percent of the city's more than 400 high schools now have fewer than 500 students (although small schools enroll just over one - third of all city high school students).

The Provo City School District is now leasing the property until the new Provo High School is built.

Chris, a Cuba City High School graduate, and Hiroko moved to the U.S., where they now live with his mother, Diane Messer, the Dodgeville School District superintendent.

After a successful pilot program at South Bronx Preparatory, a district middle school located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, Family Playlists are now exclusively available on the organization's new subscription - based platform for schools and districts, PowerMyLearning Connect: School Edschool located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, Family Playlists are now exclusively available on the organization's new subscription - based platform for schools and districts, PowerMyLearning Connect: School EdSchool Edition.

In 2004 he became a New York City Teaching Fellow, and he has taught middle and high school English for the past ten years, first at Van Arsdale High School and now at Juan Morel Campos Secondary Schhigh school English for the past ten years, first at Van Arsdale High School and now at Juan Morel Campos Secondary Sschool English for the past ten years, first at Van Arsdale High School and now at Juan Morel Campos Secondary SchHigh School and now at Juan Morel Campos Secondary SSchool and now at Juan Morel Campos Secondary SchoolSchool.

Nancy Amling, the founding principal of Hudson High School of Learning Technologies, talks about what will and won't change at her school now that the New York City Department of Education has lifted its ban on smartphones on cSchool of Learning Technologies, talks about what will and won't change at her school now that the New York City Department of Education has lifted its ban on smartphones on cschool now that the New York City Department of Education has lifted its ban on smartphones on campus.

Principals» and teacher leaders» professional learning should involve opportunities to practice new skills and give immediate, thorough, and data - driven feedback.35 Some school systems have invested in specialized coaching for teacher leaders in developing and delivering high - quality, actionable feedback.36 With the support of professional development providers, such as Teaching Matters in New York City, these districts now recognize teachers who have mastered providing feedback as a component of professional learning with «micro-credentials» or «digital badges.»

Staff turnover was high, teachers were often absent and the building that had housed one of the first schools for black children in the city now languished, according to Howard, a longtime member of the school's shared decision making committee that acts as an advisory group to the principal.

That means more than nine out of 10 schools in the city are now charter schools — the highest proportion in the nation.

Since its opening, the school in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood has drawn students from all over the city, adding a grade every year; it now has 560 students, and in 2016 will graduate its first class of high school seniors.

Great Public Schools Now's mission is deeply rooted in our belief in educational equity and that every child in our city — irrespective of the zip code they live in — deserves a high - quality education that prepares him / her for college, career, and life.

CTAC was selected by the State of California to assist schools in two districts — Grant Joint Union High School District (now known as Twin Rivers Unified School District) and Vallejo City Unified School District — through the Immediate Intervention / Underperforming School Program (IIUSP).

Without identifying everyone by name, in addition to me there was a man who worked for the college board, a former staff member who is now a public school parent, a current high school principal of an «A» rated school who was going to host Matt and Elisa at her school later that day, a school leader from a school that is featured as a «miracle» public school in Wendy Kopp's last book, and which gets mentioned at fundraiser events, a 1990 alum who has been teaching for 22 years, and a former TFA staff member who now works for the New York City Department of Education.

Among CUNY's first - time freshman from New York City high schools who enrolled in 2007, 24 % of students enrolling in community colleges, 37 % in comprehensive colleges, and 45 % of students enrolling in senior colleges had been involved in College Now.

In a city where less than half of high - schoolers graduate and charter schools maintain a waiting list 3,000 names long, Norcross insisted that children deserve change now, not later.

Pobo Efekoro, now a student at Forest Hills High School in Queens, was juggling school, class presidency and a budget that was about to put the brakes on the IS 318 chess team, which had won more national championships than any other in the country — and out of an inner city school populated by low - income stuSchool in Queens, was juggling school, class presidency and a budget that was about to put the brakes on the IS 318 chess team, which had won more national championships than any other in the country — and out of an inner city school populated by low - income stuschool, class presidency and a budget that was about to put the brakes on the IS 318 chess team, which had won more national championships than any other in the country — and out of an inner city school populated by low - income stuschool populated by low - income students.