Sentences with phrase «city students sit»

Currently 45,000 city students sit on wait lists, 4 % more than last year.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on SAT and AP test scores going up for New York City students, quoting BP Adams.

For the first time, the city had students take the SAT during a mandated school day instead of offering it on weekends.

Former NYU president John Sexton lashed out at the New York City public school system, asserting that the system's teachers have lower SAT scores than some of the students they teach.

Now, Klein is excited about the latest SAT scores for New York City students, despite the fact that, well, they didn't really rise.

According to Kingston City School District Superintendent Paul Padalino, the student was sitting on a wall near Dunkin' Donuts before he and his friends crossed Broadway.

That's why GreatSchools ratings in a growing number of states and cities includes data about student academic progress over time, high school graduation rates, and college readiness including SAT / ACT performance and participation.

In the same year, more than 13 percent of Elizabeth City State students — who scored comparably on the SAT — took remedial courses.

Members of the Newark Student Union are currently staging a sit - in at the office of the city's state - appointed Superintendent, Cami Anderson.

With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch and students of color in the 50 cities were less likely than more advantaged students to enroll in a high - scoring elementary and middle school, take advanced math classes in high school, and sit for the ACT / SAT.

The young woman sitting across from me had just finished eight weeks of student teaching, and she was anxious to have her own elementary school classroom in one of America's major cities.

Developed Maine's first statewide school accountability system (A-F school grades) to ensure transparency in school performance for families and students; joining other states and cities around the country who offer these grades on schools — grades that are based on information Maine already collected but that had been sitting in file cabinets at the Department of Education.

Sitting near the base of Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron in Michigan, Bay City Public Schools comprises nine campuses and 8,000 students.

A spokeswoman for the New York City Education Department declined to provide an estimate of how many students sat out the assessments, but said it did not anticipate having less than 95 percent participation.

A fifth of the state's students sat out either the reading or the math tests last year, though New York City's opt - out rate was less than 2 percent.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

With this dual focus on my professional requirements and my students» needs, I sat down just more than a year ago with four Twin Cities teachers — elementary and secondary, traditional public and charter — to discuss our shared frustration at how little voice we had over these policies.

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.

Victory Prep (Commerce City)- has some of the highest overall SAT scores for any high school in Colorado and does very well by low - income and Latinx students with state and college readiness tests.

Ta - Nehisi Coates, author of «Between the World and Me», sat down with principals from New York City to talk about the role of public schools and his experience as a student in Baltimore.

Last week, as I sat listening to a panel of Newark students discussing what they want out of school at the City of Newark's chronic absenteeism summit, I heard words that are not often heard in a high school setting.

Though StudyPoint was originally founded as a study skills program for students in the Boston area, it quickly emerged as the academic and test prep tutoring leader in 25 major cities across the country, specializing in ACT and SAT tutoring.

He sits on the Criminal Law Advisory Board at Roxbury Community College and Quincy College, has volunteered as a mentor for a number of inner city students over the years, and is the current Chairman of the Town of Braintree Planning Board.

Students now have the option to take a defensive driving course on the internet instead of sitting through a Bay City class on a Saturday.

Students now have the option to take a defensive driving course on the internet instead of sitting through a Denver City class on a Saturday.