Sentences with phrase «city public schools do»

«Baltimore city public schools do not deserve or accept this arbitrary action,» Phillip H. Farfel, the president of the Baltimore school board, said in a Feb. 1 letter to state officials.

New York City public schools do not use a standardized test that can be compared with any of the other public school districts.

Not exact matches

In the polyglot cities... the establishment of schools with any denominational coloring was sure to alienate some of the families... [Horace] Mann did not — nor did he wish to — abolish the use of the Bible in the public schools....

Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.

But that fact has way more to do with the CIF not having state basketball playoffs from 1929 - 1980, than it does for the City's public schools not being able to compete.

Still, don't for a minute think that Mission's first - ever title is a sign of city public schools that don't have a rich, colorful and at times a dominant basketball tradition.

Last year, 76 percent of public school students in the city received free lunches and another 6 percent did not pay full price for their meals, according to CPS records.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

Don't forget to check out our blog from July 2013, ANC 2013, Kansas City: Exhibit Hall Cooking Demo with Chef Adam Fisher, Denver Public Schools, to see Ultragrain ® in action — including a delicious recipe for DPS Spicy Chicken Mac & Cheese!

She does believe that mayoral control of the New York City public school system should have been extended beyond the one year that the state Legislature gave Mayor Bill de Blasio «There is an element for the mayor to have some skin in the game,» she said.

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.

New York City can do much more to address deep segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public sSchools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schoolsschools.

«At the same time obesity is epidemic nationwide, and 40 percent of the city's public school children are either overweight or obese, so we are appropriately concerned in making sure that our work to solve one problem doesn't inadvertently exacerbate the other,» she said.

Mulgrew said the work the union and its members did to help shape the state budget should help protect New York City public schools from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her privatization agenda.

78 percent of Manhattan public school parents polled said they don't like the way Mayor Bloomberg is handling city schools.

«And New York kept its part of the promise too — because if we didn't quite rival the Kennedys, a New York City public school kid like me was able to make it all the way to New York City Comptroller,» he said.

Mayor de Blasio doesn't seem to want to have that discussion and just wants a rubber stamp renewal, but when 8 out of 10 students who walk across a stage and receive a New York City high school diploma need remediation in college, how can we say that this public school system is doing its job?»

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.

Black said she doesn't know if she would be sending her kids to the city's public schools if faced with that choice today.

«Majorities of downstate suburban and upstate voters say their local public schools are doing an excellent or good job of preparing students to be college or career ready, however, twice as many New York City voters say their local public schools are doing a fair or poor job of preparing students, not a good or excellent job.»

The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

The report claimed a 2010 study done by the city Independent Budget Office severely under - counted the full value and liability of pension and retiree health costs of the district public schools.

I've seen her for fight for her kids and her public school to make sure the city was doing right by them,» Rosenthal said.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

Teacher and petitioner Emily James, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Brooklyn City Councilman Mark Treyger talk with In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the problems public school teachers face because they do not receive paid family leave.

Eunic Ortiz, president of Stonewall, wrote, «Any school in NYC — public, private, charter, or otherwise — that face a serious threat will and do receive sufficient NYPD - appointed security that is funded by the city.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schoCity Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schocity's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schocity schools.

«What I didn't get from the City Council, I got from the agencies, because I'm a great leader,» Mr. Barron said, noting he also obtained $ 80 million for schools in his district from the Bloomberg administration and oversaw the refurbishment of three public parks.

David Bloomfield, a professor of education at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, said going to the Capitol for funding assistance is a «predictable and potentially successful strategy in that it doesn't implicate New York City public school buildings.»

He had campaigned actively, participating in candidate forums, doing interviews on local television and radio and joining in calls for the city Housing Authority chairman's resignation and opposition to the way public school student data is being used in a state database.

If the city and teachers union do not reach a deal to overhaul teacher evaluations by a January deadline set by Gov. Cuomo, the city could lose up to $ 300 million in state funding for the public schools.

The UFT launched a second television ad in early March, featuring a public school parent telling Mayor Michael Bloomberg that, with a $ 3 billion city budget surplus, he doesn't have to lay off any teachers.

Our city government needs to do all it can — use every available resource — to help children achieve and improve the quality of our public schools.

In an extraordinary interview, Mr. de Blasio, appearing to unburden himself of months» worth of frustrations, said that Mr. Cuomo — who, like the mayor, is a Democrat — «did not act in the interests» of New Yorkers by blocking measures like reforming rent laws and the mayor's long - term ability to control the city's public schools.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that the DOE was not doing enough to support new teachers in response to the DOE's announcement that just 55 percent of eligible New York City public school teachers received tenure last year.

«There is probably no clearer example of how Mike Bloomberg uses his immense private wealth for public power in a fashion that is unprecedented not only at the city level but at the state and national levels, as well,» Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the Doepublic power in a fashion that is unprecedented not only at the city level but at the state and national levels, as well,» Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the DoePublic Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the Doe Fund.

The April 2009 H1N1 outbreak at a Queens, New York, high school was widespread but did not cause severe disease, according to an analysis conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hschool was widespread but did not cause severe disease, according to an analysis conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HSchool of Public Health.

To a western audience, Riyadh might feel almost as alien as the Bathtub, and Al - Mansour shoots the city, and the world, with both the back - of - the - hand expertise of an insider, and the careful eye of an outsider (she went to film school in the U.S, and had to direct mostly from the back of a van, lest she be seen doing the job in public).

The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working - and middle - class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools.

During World War I, the superintendent of the Cleveland public schools suggested firing those teachers sympathetic to Germany, and anti-war teachers did lose their jobs in New York City.

CREDO had done a national study that found more charters doing badly compared to their feeder schools from the traditional public sector, and an NBER study in New York City found substantially better performance of charters versus traditional public schools.

After all, how often does a public school host benefits attended by real estate mogul Donald Trump, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and TV news anchor Peter Jennings?

The public charter school board reviews and certifies graduates in the city's charter sector; DCPS should do the same.

What if cities (rather than school districts) were to create corporations, authorize them to do financing, and assign them the task of managing the public - school facilities portfolio so that both district and charter schools could be housed?

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

Another is Aim High in my city of San Francisco, a unique partnership between independent and public schools which historically have had little to do with each other.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).