Sentences with phrase «city schools often»

But because city schools often have multiple assistant principals, with different people focusing on instruction and operations, applying a single set of criteria to their evaluations could be complicated.

Not exact matches

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

The Kingdom is often taking root in small ways — in our kitchens and in our parish halls, in our streets and our subsidized daycares, in youth group mentoring relationships and after - school care, in prayer circles and by - law meetings at city council.

Hollywood producers and magazine editors love tales of inner - city kids defeating private - school students in chess tournaments, but often, when you look a little more closely at the triumphs, they aren't quite as inspiring as they originally seemed.

Many of you have already seen on TLT's Facebook page today's New York Times blog account of a New York City fourth - grader named Zachary who secretly filmed the lunches at his public school cafeteria, often revealing a startling disparity between the school menu's glowing description of the meal and the dismal food actually served.

Additionally, the daily salad bar at the Waldorf School of Garden City's cafeteria is often supplied with the produce grown in the garden.

Maybe there's something nearby that isn't too expensive — our city has a community schools program that offers preschool with fees on a sliding scale & often church programs (if you have a religious affiliation or don't care one way or the other) are less expensive.

If there is a school available, it's often at in the nearest city; which would mean I'd have to move to the city, and my husband would remain on the plantation, which is not an option for our family

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.

«Too often, the Mayor showed a disturbing lack of personal knowledge about the City schools,» Flanagan said in a statement.

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

Too often, the Mayor showed a disturbing lack of personal knowledge about the City schools.

Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

«They often tell you that unless you wear an old school tie or have the family contacts, you just won't get a chance to work in the City.

«There are still too many situations reported by students, parents and advocates in which students are harassed or threatened in school, often by the people who are supposed to protect them,» said Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, who heads the Council's Education Committee and sponsored the bill.

In New York City, allies of Mr. Bloomberg have organized such groups to lobby for the mayor's proposals on congestion pricing, charter schools and other issues, often in opposition to the municipal labor unions.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

On their many criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, they often converge — they have both called out the mayor's record on crime with similar rhetoric; they've both criticized the mayor's handling of the city's schools and homelessness; they both believe that jails should remain on Rikers Island, though reformed and modernized.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated on the basis of student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.

Indeed the average city school fiction book is 20 years old, so students are often frustrated when seeking out a timely book.

State lawmakers said they are doing their best to meet the often - competing financial needs of schools on Long Island, in New York City and elsewhere in the state.

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 appeared on NY1's Inside City Hall on Thursday night and spoke, as she often does, about what she and her allies call New York's «failing school» crisis.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

Laura Lavine (LR): Families of financial means who are interested in making educational choices for their children often, in the city of Syracuse, choose to send their children to non-public schools, or they leave the city all together.

«Too often, the mayor showed a disturbing lack of personal knowledge about the city schools,» the Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, said in a statement.

City school teachers often deal with students who are experiencing violence somewhere in their lives.

Other supporters of the city ID card say immigrant New Yorkers without government - issued ID cards often have difficulty picking their children up at school or using health services.

Charter school provisions are often traded for things like mayoral control of city schools or additional education aid to the broader public school system.

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.

In a country and an era marked by divisiveness, acrimony, and the often incapacitating inability to work together, we strongly encourage the Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation to set a different example, and to show the city and our children what compromise and collaboration look like.

«I was impressed with what Stephon's brother Stevante said that how proud he was of Sacramento, of his city, how people turned out and made this case a national one and brought attention because I think too often, our elected leaders, they will talk about things when it's a lot of children in a school, but when it's young black men of color who are being shot by the police unarmed... I think if we're gonna say black lives matter, we have to mean it, and we have to implement change,» she continued.

For Jersey City Public Schools teachers, hands - on STEM education is an important area of focus — but one that is often difficult to adequately fund.

Jamal Wallace and his friends have often noticed the mysterious man watching them with binoculars from his inner city apartment each day while they shoot hoops outside their Brooklyn school.

Jamal Wallace (Robert Brown XVII) and his friends have often noticed the mysterious man watching them with binoculars from his inner city apartment each day while they shoot hoops outside their Brooklyn school.

I found myself in an inner - city middle school classroom without a clue as to how to discipline students beyond the escalating volume of my come - to - order voice (I often went home hoarse) or the clacking of a wooden stick that I whacked on my desk for attention.

«Often, a person who is acting out wants to make amends for what they've done,» says Josh Heisler, a teacher at New York City's Vanguard High School.

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?

Even the lesser aim of dispersing a broader variety of services to neighborhood schools that are convenient to families and often underused outside school hours — and sometimes during them, in cities where enrollments are falling faster than school boards can marshal the political capital to close almost - empty schools — is problematic.

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.

Just as these things exist for a particular city or region, they exist, and are often more deeply rooted, at our schools and on our college campuses.

And we know that, more often than not, the students attending traditional public schools in cities are in intensely segregated schools.

Control families tended to send their children to city schools more often than experimental mover families did.

Often, computers in inner city schools are wrecked or stolen very quickly anyway.

«Incentives to work in low - performing schools are not the sole answer — too often, it's large class sizes, poor working conditions, and a lack of support from administrators that drives teachers away from high - poverty rural and inner - city schools,» she said.

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.

Seattle's immigrant populations often settle in the southeastern part of the city where the school is located.

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.

Separate from NCLB, however, many states and cities have undertaken high - profile and often controversial initiatives to take over, reconstitute, or turn around low - performing schools.