CITY HALL — The City Council passed twin resolutions Wednesday urging the city to begin serving free breakfast to
all city kids in their classrooms to stave off hunger.
Not exact matches
«I was
in 8th grade then and came from a
classroom of 50
kids back
in the
city.
Special correspondent Molly Knight Raskin reports on a program
in Kansas
City, Missouri, that's trying to stem this trend by looking beyond the
classroom to the issues these
kids face at home.
The number of New York
City kids eating free breakfasts
in public school
classrooms is growing, but the obesity rates are not, a new study finds.
«Of course I'm sadden by the news, but I will say that I've been very fortunate to be able to serve this community, to serve my district and my
city and be able to institute policies that I think that were so very great for students and
kids in the
classroom,» remarked McCarthy.
Nevertheless, De Blasio's spokesman Eric Phillips, said: «There's time left to get this deal done for the 1.1 million New York
City kids relying on our state government to protect the progress we've made
in our
classrooms.
Just curious - since teaching is so easy and everyone is an expert on how to do it - suppose Arne Duncan were to take over a
classroom of impoverished
kids in a tough
city school.
Appleton, which has seen several of its schools receive national recognition for their efforts
in this area, is one of the
cities participating
in Core 4 +, better known by school leaders here as «active
kids, active
classrooms.»
«Teachers and students need immediate action, and by hitting the airwaves, we hope our leaders
in Albany will hear the pleas of
classroom teachers and deliver for them and the
city's 1.1 million school
kids.»
But I think it was inspiring to teachers across the country, and it showed the teachers, at least
in one
city, were not going to lie down and allow their
kids to be
in an overcrowded
classroom with no arts, no library, and a lot of things they didn't have that Rahm Emmanuel's
kids expect as part of their schooling.