Sentences with phrase «city public administrators»

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The public sphere does not need to be identified only with the state; some regions, cities and European bodies have already proved capable administrators of public issues.

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

For the three citywide positions of Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, New York City's charter instead provides for a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollars.

Twenty - three percent of public school teachers and administrators in New York school districts outside New York City were paid more than $ 100,000 during the 2016 - 17 school year, according to data added today to SeeThroughNY.

BOROUGH PRESIDENT DIAZ TO HOST AFFORDABLE HOUSING INFORMATION SESSION HUD Regional Administrator Holly Leicht to Moderate Panel of City Officials, Housing Developers, and Community Organizations Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr invites the public to an upcoming workshop designed -LSB-...]

The Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete of the Week Program provides coaches, teachers, administrators and school counselors in public schools in the five boroughs of New York City with the opportunity to nominate a high school senior who otherwise meets the eligibility criteria to be named as a Spectrum News NY1 Scholar Athlete.

During his time as public administrator, he pledged that all Staten Island residents with no close relatives be buried in a local cemetery if they pass away, rather than in the city's common grave site.

While marking the end of this chapter of his nearly four decade career in public service, first as a teacher and administrator with Albany City Schools and then as a common councilmember and mayor, Jennings dispelled any notions of resignation or an otherwise «lame duck» administration to finish his final term.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Dozens of school administrators gathered in protest outside City Hall on Wednesday evening against the Buffalo Public School District and Superintendent Kriner Cash.

We believe that education is a human right and we want to ensure that New York City public schools are places of learning in which all stakeholders (parents, students, educators, non-pedagogical staff, administrators and the community) are engaged in a democratic process to provide a free and quality education to all its students, from Pre-school to College.

She alsofought to end mayoral control of city schools after a decades - long career as a public school teacher and administrator.

In 1970, city administrators realized arsenic from mountain mineral deposits was contaminating the city's water supply, with exposures of 500 to 800 ppb for the public at large.

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

Beverly L. Hall pronounced conditions at the schools worse than anything she had encountered in 25 years as a teacher and administrator in the New York City public schools.

After navigating the public school system in New York City as a caregiver and in Philadelphia as an afterschool program administrator, Melissa Diana Aguirre grew increasingly outraged at the poor quality teaching in urban schools.

Lantieri, a former teacher and administrator in the New York City Public Schools, is also co, with Janet Piatti, of Waging Peace in our Schools.

In cities and towns all across my home state of Massachusetts, school administrators and teachers» unions are engaged, usually well out of public view, in the periodic and exhausting ritual of collective bargaining.

Cizek cites December 1999 charges by Edward Stancik, the city's special commissioner of investigation for the public schools, that 52 teachers and administrators had assisted students in cheating on standardized tests.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

Add in the growing number of cities pursuing school portfolio management (which focuses on both charters and traditional district - run schools), and the urgent need to train administrators with the skills to thoughtfully manage what Edfuel calls «the autonomous and accountable public schools sector» is even more apparent.

Copyright 1988 Editorial With an annual salary of $ 150,000, Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green of New York City is not only the nation's highest - paid public - school administrator but earns more than any other state or local public official in the country, according to a national survey.

How she got here: Ashton taught three years in traditional public schools in Williamsburg, Va., and Washington, D.C., before she moved to the charter sector as a program administrator in Chicago and then New York City.

He says Indianapolis Public Schools administrators understand the challenges of educating inner - city students, but officials» good intentions are often lost in ineffective action plans.

Both served as top administrators in the New York City public school system under Chancellor Joel I. Klein.

Collectively we have been administrators, charter school founders, charter school parents, New York City public school students and teachers.

At one school, Capital City Public Charter School, the focus will be on deeper learning and how teachers and administrators are providing students with rich academic learning alongside deeper learning skills.

Dr. Nichols, the daughter of two educators, has worked as an administrator at several metro Atlanta districts including Atlanta Public Schools, Social Circle City Schools, and in Paulding County Schools.

The study looks at class sizes, student - to - teacher, student - to - administrator and teacher - to - administrator ratios in suburban, rural and city school districts, teacher pay and the demographics of teachers between 2009 and 2014, using data from the Department of Public Instruction and school district data from the U.S. Department of Education.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced today the final agreement for the obligation of $ 1.84 billion dollars in funding for the state of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) and Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) for the repair and replacement of public schools in Orleans Parish, including the City of New Orleans, damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Participants from the state, Jersey City, and other districts, representing administrators and teachers, met at a public forum at City Hall to discuss the ramifications of pending state - mandated teacher evaluation changes that would be more closely linked to student achievement.

His father, John B. King Sr., was a 66 - year - old retired public school teacher and administrator, who had been the first African - American principal in Brooklyn and later, the city's executive deputy superintendent of schools.

To Todd Hauber, business administrator of the Park City School District, there's no question: Public schools in Utah need more money.

That's why Battle Creek Public Schools and the City of Battle Creek are partnering to offer the BCPS Housing Incentive Program, providing financial assistance to help teachers and administrators buy or renovate a home in a targeted area within BCPS.

Although schemes abound these days to divide and degrade public education, they were nowhere to be found when teams of educators, union leaders, administrators, and community leaders gathered in New York City on Jan. 26 - 29 to explore ways they could effectively work together to transform schools into the safe, welcoming environments that every student deserves.

Earlier this month, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), a west coast based organization focused on family choice and portfolio cities, brought together a cross-section of educators, board members, administrators, community leaders and funders together to host a series of conversations about the state of portfolio work happening in cities across the nation.

Last week the New York State Teachers» Retirement System (NYSTRS), which provides a defined benefit pension plan to public school teachers and administrators outside of New York City, announced it was raising the required employer contribution rate * from 16.25 to 17.53 percent of payroll.

Adrienne Hill is a public education administrator with nearly 20 years of experience in both inner city and affluent school systems on the east coast.

Closing schools before sharing a clear, well - thought out plan for the City's educational and economic future signals a perilous lack of accountability from our public administrators.

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

Behind the rhetoric of «transparency» and «inclusion,» CPS under the administrators appointed by Rahm Emanuel's Board of Education are going out of their way to deny the public access to key information and to make sure that reporters — especially those with cameras and video cameras — are denied access to the growing mass movement across the city that is demanding no cuts this school year.

San Antonio's public school officials could learn from their peers in other U.S. cities where running public schools like charters empowers teachers, administrators, and parents, author David Osborne said Monday night at a panel discussion on public education.

The study, Central Office Transformation for District - Wide Teaching and Learning Improvement, uncovers the daily practices of administrators in three districts with transformation efforts under way: Atlanta Public Schools; the Empowerment Schools Organization in New York City; and the Oakland (Calif.) Unified School District.

If the Washington Post or New York Times can do a national story on the inflated salaries of so many top city administrators in the context of public needs, such as those of K - 12 kids and other library patrons, then so much the better.

«Over the past two decades the public focus has shifted away from a breed specific concern to a more general concern over vicious animals, regardless of breed,» City Administrator Chris Searcy wrote in a Sept. 17 memo to the council.

After careers as a professional dancer, high school English teacher, television director, public television executive, inner - city public school administrator, recording artist manager in Los Angeles, and manager / record / concert producer in Manhattan, he became, in 2009, a full - time artist.

The same low key behind - the - scenes work has been used to educate city planners, engineers and public works administrators.