Sentences with phrase «city schools into»

It will not, however, turn many inner - city schools into high - scoring suburban - like schools.

The state recently placed 62 struggling city schools into a stewardship program, which means that if they do not improve, they will be taken over by a receiver.

State legislators are expected to include a one - year extension of Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over New York City schools into the late budget deal, city and state officials said Wednesday.

Even before charter schools appeared on the scene, the city Board of Education had a policy of squeezing several city schools into underutilized facilities.

His school went from being a «run - of - the - mill inner city school into the type of brutal urban school that defies improvement,» as the book jacket explains.

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

It turns out that many of them — at least the ones based in New York City — went into finance from one of 10 schools.

Yes, it is a problem in our own towns and cities, with our own teenagers — mostly girls — being trapped, repeatedly raped, kept away from their families and schools, and losing the chance to grow into the bright futures they deserve.

Born into a nomadic tribe in the Syrian desert to a poor mother who was raped by his father and died when he was young, Altrad was raised by his grandmother, who banned him from attending school, in Raqqa, the city that is now capital of ISIS.

«Like many other Canadian cities, Calgary is embracing diversity and expanding into new sectors with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship,» says Jim Dewald, dean of the Haskayne School of Business.

Employees of the Danish customer service firm Zendesk fan out into the poverty - stricken Tenderloin neighborhood to help in area schools and work in food kitchens, though it's part of a deal with the city that earns the company a break in payroll taxes.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

Watching ordinary people sink into an ordinary plastic tub in an ordinary school gym in an ordinary small city in western Canada is one of the most extraordinary and sacred moments of my life.

Several years ago, I suggested to a leading U.S. Catholic bishop that the Campaign for Human Development be transformed into a campaign for inner - city schools, because, as Brinig and Garnett demonstrate, these schools are the Church's best anti-poverty and empowerment program — indeed, they may be America's best anti-poverty program.

Chance the Rapper's relentless quest to get Chicago Public Schools funded through the end of the millennium continues unabated, as the Second City's First Son has now announced that he talked the Chicago Bulls into throwing a cool million towards the project.

But then again, we do want for everything around us to fall into place, home, neighbourhood, where we live, city, town, village, farm, mountain top, job, career, family, friends, food (comfort food) where we dine, what we dine on, schools for our kids, church, car we drive... yes the list does go on... amazing!

The definitly don't lob rockets into city centers from schools and hospitals so they can try and kill as many civilians while using their own as shields.

God wishes to make beggars into Lords... Look about you at the courts of all the kings and princes, at the cities and the parishes... There you will find lawyers, doctors, counsellors, writers, preachers, who for the most part were poor and who have certainly all attended school, and who by means of the pen have risen to where they are lords.

Foods for Athletes — BlackMP plans to continue to work with the city of Oakland to get its water into the school lunch program.

My son (21) called to say he would like to come for supper and we discussed what we should have as he was on his way out to our home (we live just outside a major Canadian city and he just moved into the city to be closer to school but likes to come home once in awhile for a meal).

Our blogging, beef - eating group gathered at The Chopping Block, a popular cooking school in the Windy City, and divided up into teams.

When Ezeli's parents sent him from their home in Benin City, Nigeria, to Yuba City, Calif., in 2004, into the care of his uncle Emeka Ndulue, a pediatrician, they did it to nourish their oldest child's medical school aspirations.

The 43 - year - old Fiori, who two weeks ago won the Quad City Classic, opened the envelope to find his application for the next Q school, which he gleefully ripped into tiny pieces....

Its students include everyone from prodigies at New York City's prestigious Juilliard School of Music to Olympic hopefuls, but Eastern Christian represents the company's first foray into team sports.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

«There are no words to convey the degree to which the Waldorf School of Garden City shaped me into the person I am today.

Walk into the Waldorf School of Garden City, and you will find yourself in a world of art — visual, musical, theatrical, you name it.

The Waldorf School takes full advantage of its proximity, tapping into the city's rich cultural and educational resources.

Decisions are made after thoughtful deliberation taking into account the individual candidate's ability to be successful at the Waldorf School of Garden City.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivered what he called a «10 - minute commercial about the city of Chicago,» pointing out its initiatives such as improved bicycle lanes, the restoration of school recess and healthy school lunches — then changed from a business suit into gym clothes and joined in.

Dozens of neighborhoods throughout the city will see their local school yards transformed from unsightly, asphalt patches with weeds growing through the cracks into grassy, park - like areas under capital improvement plans unveiled by the Chicago Park District.

Do you feel the need to tour and enroll your child in the top schools in your city in order to get them into a good university one day?

The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteSchool Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteschool systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteschool lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost after use.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a strong school choice proponent, laced into de Blasio and hinted he'd use his office to try to discourage a rollback of New York City's education reforms.

De Blasio has placed his biggest bet on the Renewal program, which has pumped extra money and other resources into a group of the city's most troubled schools, at a cost of $ 582 million.

Amid an ongoing investigating into his fundraising activities, Mayor Bill de Blasio will face his staunchest institutional critics next week in person as Senate Republicans hold a hearing on the future of mayoral control of New York City schools.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

Saratoga was the power of the 20th CD and now has been carved up, with Saratoga Springs in the Tonko District and Wilton and Greenfield in the Owens District (despite the Enlarged Saratoga Springs School and Library Districts expanding into those two towns beyond the City, it is in fact one community).

Mayoral control of New York City schools is set to expire, threatening to plunge the school system into chaos, unless the state legislature passes a law extending the program.

The city's incoming schools chancellor on Sunday defended the limited practice whereby certain teachers accused of wrongdoing buy their way back into the classroom.

When Michael Bloomberg leaves office in 2014 — assuming he leaves office in 2014 — the city will be saddled long into the future with the massive borrowing and school spending he required to maintain his political reputation.

«I am very confident that our extensive, national search has found New York City the best person to lead the nation's largest school system into the future,» he said.

If anything, the decision shows the association will not listen to ideas that do not fit into its narrow view of what the Syracuse City School District should look like.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

Well, that didn't take long: Just two weeks into his new job as the city's schools chancellor, Richard Carranza has already discovered the truth about Mayor de Blasio's Renewal - schools program: It's a sham.

The city pays more than 800 teachers without permanent jobs, and now plans to put them into school vacancies, whether principals want them or not.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie flatly said Wednesday night he would not bring his chamber back into session to vote on another extension of mayoral control of New York City schools.