Sentences with phrase «dozen island school»

Chancellor Betty Rosa of the Bronx, in a brief exchange with mothers from more than a half - dozen Island school districts, said the board is preparing to launch discussions of a revamped statewide diploma system.

Not exact matches

In the film, dozens of Japanese high - school students are placed on an island, given weapons, and forced to kill one another until one person remains.

Most played high school ball, but only a half - dozen of the 200 - plus devotees I'll meet made it to college; two were walk - ons for the New York Giants or Jets, one played semi-pro in Coney Island, another plays Arena football.

This unique program attracted the interest of dozens of volunteer high schoolers and college students primarily from Staten Island ready to mobilize their apathetic peers.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

Educators from several dozen school districts on Long Island and in New York State have benefited from Richard's sustained work within their districts.

And to understand why Ossining High was among this year's dozen silver - medal recipients (the closest regional facility to be awarded with a gold was South Side High School in Rockville Centre on Long Island), one only needs to cite their curriculum for students with learning disabilities, which allows more than 83 percent of such students to thrive in mainstream classes and extra-curricular activities.

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

The center's graduates have included the Obama administration's assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, state school superintendents in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Delaware, and district superintendents in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Seattle, and dozens of other cities.