Sentences with phrase «dozens of city schools»

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Because every morning, when she walks with her big brother to school, she passes through dozens of children on the crowded streets of Cochabamba, the second largest city in Bolivia.

Chicago Public Schools Inspector General James Sullivan recently found more than a dozen instances of falsified lunch applications among city and school employees at one West Side high school.

Students from dozens of schools across the city are planning to take part in a 17 - minute walkout Wednesday morning, with each minute representing a life lost during the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school.

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.

This mirrors the upswing first spotted among the dozens of schools that resumed class in summer, five weeks before the rest of the city's schools.

Renovations on more than a dozen city schools will be completed largely by minorities, women and Syracuse city residents, according to the terms of a new labor agreement.

Following a month of abundant citywide community activism and outreach, City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has submitted to City Hall more than 10,600 parent petition signatures, dozens of video and audio testimonies and nearly 20 resolutions from Community Education Councils, Community Boards and the Schools Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council, all protesting teacher and day care cuts.

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Contenders to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the city's school closure program Tuesday, just as Bloomberg touted the opening of dozens of new facilities in their place.

Inside the center dozens of people waited - among them Nelson's family members; her pastor, John Carter, of Abundant Life Church in East Syracuse; Sharon Contreras, Syracuse City Schools superintendent, and Helen Hudson, Syracuse common councilor - at - large.

Public Advocate Letitia James joins dozens of healthcare activists protesting in front of a Harlem charter school before the expected visit of House Speaker Paul Ryan on May 9, 2017 in New York City.

The scheme unraveled in January 2011 when Matthews was suspended following allegations that he had charged the police department for dozens of hours when he was actually working a second job as a security coordinator for the Kingston City School District.

Dozens of city high schools will offer new Advanced Placement courses in the upcoming school year under de Blasio's «AP for All» push.

Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the question of how to attract the best teachers and what teachers are lacking in their current contracts.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a Town Hall on violence in schools with dozens of teenagers Thursday afternoon.

Also at 10 a.m., dozens of parents will deliver letters to City Hall demanding that the de Blasio administration expand access to New York City's high - quality, high - performing public charter schools, Manhattan.

More than a dozen elected officials are signing on to a letter pledging support for charter schools ahead of a major rally in New York City.

Dozens of parents and students joined state Sen. Jose Peralta Tuesday at P.S. 143 to demand the city build a permanent extension to the elementary school, at 34 - 74 113th St.

«The tax refunds that Paulson and Singer would stand to receive through the refusal to extend the millionaires tax would be pocket change to them, but they could provide the New York City school district with the money to rehire dozens of recently - fired teachers aides.

The vintage Miami rap group's famously raunchy former frontman was one of dozens of locals who begged the city's public school superintendent, Alberto...

In New York City, the achievement gains of the last 15 years were possible only because there was room «for the leadership of the school system to act and to make change and to not be sort of negotiating those changes with dozens of local boards or even the central board,» he said.

Other attendees included Erie County Legislator Peter J. Savage; Kimberly Trent, representing the City of Buffalo's Commission on Citizens» Rights and Community Relations; a dozen local human service agency partners; students from Bennett Park Montessori School, singer Kevin McCarthy, young entrepreneur Daniel Gibbs; and the Library System's new owl mascot «Reada Book.»

Council members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan) and Antonio Reynoso (D - Brooklyn) held a rally with about 30 school children and dozens of environmentalists outside City Hall to announce a voting majority.

The city Department of Education plans to close more than a dozen struggling schools — including the Bronx high school where a student was stabbed to death by a classmate...

With the city Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff, including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquartcity Education Department announcing layoffs of some 800 support staff, including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, bus coordinators and others, UFT Secretary Michael Mendel joined City Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquartCity Councilman Charles Barron, Assemblywoman Inez Barron and nearly a dozen other Council members in decrying the budget - cutting move at a press conference on August 30 outside DOE headquarters.

Albany, NY — Dozens of New York City parents joined Assembly Members Marcos Crespo and Robert Rodriguez in Albany today and called on state legislators to give public charter schools equal treatment in the state budget.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Dozens of school administrators gathered in protest outside City Hall on Wednesday evening against the Buffalo Public School District and Superintendent Krinerschool administrators gathered in protest outside City Hall on Wednesday evening against the Buffalo Public School District and Superintendent KrinerSchool District and Superintendent Kriner Cash.

Moskowitz answered about a dozen questions, with topics including whether there is any potential mayoral candidate who embodies what she wants in a candidate, whether she plans on being involved in the 2017 election, why she is «such a lightning rod» for criticism, obstacles ahead, the City's pre-K program, whether she'll run for office at another time, whether she reflexively criticizes all education - related actions of Mayor de Blasio, whether she's concerned that her influence on state government will diminish because of her decision, discipline and suspension polices at Success Academy schools, her plans for other projects and her view on potential mayoral candidacies of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

Syracuse, N.Y. — As Mayor Stephanie Miner entered to a standing ovation tonight to deliver her State of the City Address at Dr. Weeks Elementary School, several dozen Syracuse firefighters were standing along the walls in protest.

On Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. in Albany, «dozens of New York City parents will join with elected champions to rally in support of public charter schools being given equal treatment in the upcoming state budget.

The Niagara County Crime Analysis Center receives live feeds from two dozen fixed surveillance cameras operated by the city, as well as an undisclosed number of mobile cameras and about 200 cameras mounted at the city's public schools.

There are dozens of vending machines, installed by a myriad of companies, in buildings owned and operated by the City School District of New Rochelle but no records of contracts, payments for electricity or sales commissions.

A dozen education activists stood on the steps of the State Office Building in Syracuse this morning to demand more funding for the city's schools.

With New York City schools planning for up to 8,500 layoffs, new teachers like Mr. Borock, and half a dozen others at his school, could be some of the ones most likely to be let go.

A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and provide the resources coming to the city schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol in Albany in an act of civil disobedience.

The research involved 1,903 children in grades 1 through 12 at a dozen schools in the large southern Chinese city of Guangzhou near Hong Kong.

When I began volunteering at Sequoia Academy, a new private school of about a dozen students, in Janesville, a medium - sized working class city in southern Wisconsin, I never imagined that I would end up as a lunch lady.

It follows about half a dozen teenage girls in New York City toward the end of their high school years and the beginning of whatever comes next (for some, college; for others, next to nothing).

The city closed dozens of schools, and more than 70 new schools — many of them charter schools — opened.

She spearheads Morningside Center's restorative practices work, and has introduced restorative circles and discipline into dozens of New York City schools, as well as schools in Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Washington, DC.

In cities like Detroit and Washington, D.C., which have dozens of powerful accounting and consulting firms, the public schools can not account for their spending or identify everyone on the payroll.

His dissertation, which became Spinning Wheels, one of his nine books (he's also co-authored two and edited dozens more), examined school reforms implemented by 57 cities.

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per stSchool, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per stschool districts spend per student.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

Cerf ran Edison Schools for six years, shepherding Chris Whittle's revolutionary idea into more than 150 schools in dozens of cities across the cSchools for six years, shepherding Chris Whittle's revolutionary idea into more than 150 schools in dozens of cities across the cschools in dozens of cities across the country.

Just as damaging would be (as is the case in at least twenty - four of our thirty cities) the failure to establish common applications that allow families to rank their options — from comprehensive district schools to magnet schools to charters — without the burden of filling out dozens of forms.

While there remain dozens of strong charter schools in New York City and demand for their seats remains robust among parents, they are viewed with suspicion if not outright contempt by New York City's mayor.

(Dozens of selective high schools in New York City — not including the eight that rely entirely on test scores — follow a complex citywide dual - track choice - and - selection process akin to the «match» system by which medical residents get placed.)

Although the measure was more about politics than policy — it was designed to raise the Hollywood actor's stature in advance of a future run for governor — the ballot initiative did reflect Schwarzenegger's sincere interest in inner - city schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City Gacity schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City GaCity Games.

This conversation could be taking place at El Verano School, in Sonoma, California, or at Hamilton Central School, in upstate New York, or in K - 8 classrooms in cities as diverse as San Francisco, San Antonio, Miami, and dozens of others whose school districts are using an art curriculum called Visual Thinking Strategies to improve critical thinking, language and writing, and academic achievSchool, in Sonoma, California, or at Hamilton Central School, in upstate New York, or in K - 8 classrooms in cities as diverse as San Francisco, San Antonio, Miami, and dozens of others whose school districts are using an art curriculum called Visual Thinking Strategies to improve critical thinking, language and writing, and academic achievSchool, in upstate New York, or in K - 8 classrooms in cities as diverse as San Francisco, San Antonio, Miami, and dozens of others whose school districts are using an art curriculum called Visual Thinking Strategies to improve critical thinking, language and writing, and academic achievschool districts are using an art curriculum called Visual Thinking Strategies to improve critical thinking, language and writing, and academic achievement.

In more than a dozen cities, charter schools educate 30 % of or more of all public school students, and are creating a ripple effect uplifting entire education systems, and seating supportive education leaders who helped create alternative opportunities in positions of authority at local and state levels.