Sentences with phrase «closing schools across the city»

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Moskowitz closed all 32 of her schools for the morning, busing thousands of children and parents to the event location from across the city.

«Summer learning is an essential element to closing the achievement gap and ensuring educational equity across our city and state,» said Principal Jason Wagner, Pelham Lab High School.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

Schools were closed across much of the area affected by the cold snap, including in the Twin Cities on Monday, and there were closures and delays yesterday in much of the Southeast as the weather moved south.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

It came at a time when Catholic dioceses were aggressively merging and closing schools across the country, especially in inner cities, and Dayton's Catholic schools were among those experiencing an emotionally wrenching downsizing.

Most of the schools are not even close to it, resulting in students across the city receiving far less physical education than required by law.

The research team also found that, «while serious crime declined across the city between 1999 - 2005, it declined more slowly in police beats where Catholic schools closed,» and, «between 1999 and 2005, the presence of an open Catholic school in a police beat was consistently associated with a statistically significant decrease in crime.»

On average, for each closed high school, displaced students ended up attending 82 other high schools across the city.

Through EGO, City Schools could opt to close or reconfigure school programs, based on their performance, enrollment trends, and facilities needs in neighborhoods and across the cCity Schools could opt to close or reconfigure school programs, based on their performance, enrollment trends, and facilities needs in neighborhoods and across the citycity.

With Catholic schools closing across New York City and enrollment plummeting 35 percent over the last decade alone, Queen of Angels and five other Catholic schools in East Harlem and the South Bronx have banded into a «network» — another charter term — of six schools and 2,100 students to try to reverse course.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

Large numbers of Catholic schools serving disadvantaged students in inner cities across the U.S. are closing because of financial challenges.

The plan has resulted in upheaval for students and their families across the city with some schools closed, others turned over to private charter managers, and the introduction of a school choice system that has left many families with children at different schools and limited transportation options for getting their children there.

Aware that low - income students go hungry when schools close for the summer, the school district, partnering with other city agencies, operates a summer meals program at 1,100 sites across the city.

Yet while the rally has certainly galvanized educators across North Carolina's largest cities, the reaction has been somewhat muted among charter schools, although leaders at Durham's Central Park School for Children, a self - described «progressive» charter, say they will close May 16 as a tribute to the rally.

Education Cities and Great Schools recently released a useful new educational data tool called the Education Equality Index (EEI), which allows users to compare cities and states across the nation that are «closing the achievement gap.&Cities and Great Schools recently released a useful new educational data tool called the Education Equality Index (EEI), which allows users to compare cities and states across the nation that are «closing the achievement gap.&cities and states across the nation that are «closing the achievement gap.»

Our schools are conveniently based across the city in close proximity to actual trucking terminals.