Sentences with phrase «city school districts often»

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The largest food vendor for the District's public school system has agreed to pay $ 19 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged the city and mismanaged the school meals programs, with food often arriving at schools late, spoiled or in short supply.

Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.

City and county governments are more prone to overriding the cap more often than school districts.

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the SSchool desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the Sschool district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

From Seattle to Baltimore, officials in big - city districts this spring are wrestling with balancing their budgets by shuttering neighborhood schools, a delicate, often controversial, task.

The researchers» first - hand observation and extensive interviewing of student teachers and first - year teachers in three school districts near Salt Lake City during the 1982 - 83 school year revealed that the instructors used their own ideas about teaching about as often as they used methods taught them in education schools.

Test scores in many of America's urban school districts are inching upward at rates that often outpace those of their states as a whole, according to a report released here last week by a national advocacy group for city schools.

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk studecity school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk studeCity is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

The project grew out of a practical problem we encountered when studying big city school systems: in many cities, the public school «system» is actually a collection of systems: school districts (often more than one), charter schools, and even state agencies.

Such resistance was typical of big - city school district administrators, who had little patience with innovators, particularly novices like Feinberg and Levin; rookies with big innovative ideas have a habit of disrupting comfortable routines and often fail to deliver.

Wealthy families can send their kids to prestigious prep schools like Choate, Loomis, or Hotchkiss while families who don't have the same resources are often relegated to the district schools in their cities and towns, even if they're not working for their kids.

Hoxby says, citing one of Massachusetts» best - performing and wealthiest suburban school districts to point out a flaw in any attempt to compare charter schools, which are very often located either in inner cities or rural areas, with American public schools in general.

We selected the cities based on their size and because they reflect the complexity of urban public education today, where a single school district is often no longer the only education game in town.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

At the same time, parents in those same cities often hear claims by many charter schools that their students score two or three times higher than their district school counterparts.

«In impoverished cities,» Russakoff writes, «the school district with its bloated payroll was often the employer of first and last resort.

At Noble, which runs 14 campuses throughout the city and is often praised by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, students are issued demerits for misdeeds like not sitting up straight or not wearing a full school uniform — minor issues that would be overlooked in district - run schools.

An obscure and often misunderstood corner of state government, the local mandate program derives from a Constitutional provision that prevents the Legislature from imposing requirements on cities, counties, school districts and other local jurisdictions without also providing the funds needed to cover the costs.

But the spreading sector also ensured the demise of some neighborhood schools, blew a hole in the district budget, and often provoked ferocious resistance to further charter encroachment, which helped propel Ras Baraka into City Hall.

The charter school chain Ms. Moskowitz runs — which receives city tax dollars and often shares space with district public schools but is privately managed and does not employ unionized teachers — greatly outpaces regular district schools in terms of standardized tests.

This, in spite of the fact that the District decided to slash the offerings for those very children by eliminating all of the 27 elementary art, music and PE positions in the Lansing schools over a year ago, leaving the city's students with only 2 music, art and PE classes per semester, while their peers in neighboring school systems often receive these classes twice per week.

As a former Salt Lake City School Board member, I often sat in board meetings where the school superintendent and the district's financial manager would simply recommend approval of a redevelopment project tax exemption and the school board with little discussion would automatically approSchool Board member, I often sat in board meetings where the school superintendent and the district's financial manager would simply recommend approval of a redevelopment project tax exemption and the school board with little discussion would automatically approschool superintendent and the district's financial manager would simply recommend approval of a redevelopment project tax exemption and the school board with little discussion would automatically approschool board with little discussion would automatically approve it.

Well, human appraisers can often spot where a very nearby comp is completely off - target because it's across a city or neighborhood line, in a very different school district, or otherwise in a location that makes the comp property's value significantly different from yours.