Sentences with phrase «city school teachers responded»

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Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

Responding to Wilshaw's comments, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «In order to guarantee that any improvements are sustainable and felt across the city, local school leaders need to be able to rely on the local authority, the DfE [Department for Education] and the Regional Schools Commissioner to back them up.

When asked about a Fordham Institute study on America's Best and Worst Cities for School Choice that ranked Atlanta as the ninth most «choice - friendly» city, Verdaillia Turner, president of the Georgia Federation of Teachers, responded, «That's like saying Chicago is the most murder - friendly city in the nation.»

Responding to Moe will be Deborah Meier, a champion of teachers unions and the founder of New York City's Central Park East schools, and Heather Harding, vice president of research and public policy at Teach for America.