Sentences with phrase «education in a given city»

It offers a user - friendly single source for a comprehensive range of education data, enabling users to both holistically assess education in a given city as well as make valid comparisons among multiple cities.

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Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

I listened to a message a while back by a famous pastor in Seattle who gave a message called «Building a City Within the City» in which he basically argued that God's heart was for the city, because that is where culture and education and art and music all hapCity Within the City» in which he basically argued that God's heart was for the city, because that is where culture and education and art and music all hapCity» in which he basically argued that God's heart was for the city, because that is where culture and education and art and music all hapcity, because that is where culture and education and art and music all happen.

The Metro Doulas Group, a listserv for city - based doulas, has 275 working members in its database — a surprising number, given that Birth Day Presence, which offers childbirth education and doula services at its locations in SoHo and Park Slope, trains 100 doulas annually.

Board members interviewed five candidates individually, giving each a chance to share their views on education in the city.

«Our Education Committee will hold a second public hearing in New York City on May 19 to further examine this issue, giving Mayor de Blasio and his administration another chance to make their case in a more thorough and more convincing way.»

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

While the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit was supposed to give the city its fair share of education aid, Walcott said city revenue would cover 61 percent of non-federal education spending in next year's budget.

By giving the State Department of Education the power to implement an evaluation system in New York City, the Governor will bring this three - year saga to a successful conclusion.

The New York Daily News asked Mayor de Blasio and a spectrum of city education leaders to give letter grades to Chancellor Carmen Fariña for her performance in her first year in office.

Mr. Tsanis also announced that beginning in 2016, the REF Board of Directors will give an annual Patricia Braus Founder's Award Scholarship to a city school district high school senior who has provided extraordinary service to his or her school or to the community, a scholarship that reflects the values of Rochester Education Foundation and its executive director.

New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has appointed someone to, as Elia puts it, give the Rochester City School District «much - needed assistance in developing and implementing plans to carry out its responsibilities to ensure all children in the district receive the education they deservEducation Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has appointed someone to, as Elia puts it, give the Rochester City School District «much - needed assistance in developing and implementing plans to carry out its responsibilities to ensure all children in the district receive the education they deserveducation they deserve.»

The Rochester College Access Network — formed in 2013 as a program of Rochester Education Foundation — is a collaborative effort working to give students that opportunity here in the Flower City.

In a last - ditch effort to push this issue before de Blasio is likely elected, the NYC Department of Education is giving the green light to open or expand 23 charter schools before Bloomberg leaves office and provide them with free space in city buildingIn a last - ditch effort to push this issue before de Blasio is likely elected, the NYC Department of Education is giving the green light to open or expand 23 charter schools before Bloomberg leaves office and provide them with free space in city buildingin city buildings.

In 2005, when she gave up her seat on the City Council to run for Manhattan borough president, the New York Times editorial board praised her as «smart and driven and an expert on education issues,» but ultimately concluded «her style — often described by those who have worked with her as abrasive — would not be well suited to this office.»

Washington (CNN)-- Hillary Clinton gave a full - throated endorsement of early childhood education on Tuesday, including crediting New York Mayor Bill De Blasio — a Clinton confidant — for his efforts to make universal pre-kindergarten the law in America's biggest city.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 202In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 202in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

The city's Department of Education is giving the green light to open or expand 23 charter schools before Mayor Bloomberg leaves office and provide them with free space in city buildings.

The city packed more students into its classrooms for the second year in a row, a new Department of Education report confirmed, giving students less individual time and making teachers» jobs more difficult.

But in its final post-trial submission filed this year, New York argued the formula does not represent the funding needed to give all students, including those in the small - city districts, the opportunity for a «sound basic education» under the New York Constitution, according to the alliance.

The state Department of Education has given the Syracuse City School District two extra weeks to come up with plans to phase out two underperforming schools in the cCity School District two extra weeks to come up with plans to phase out two underperforming schools in the citycity.

The policy was implemented at the behest of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued it made sense to give City Hall control over public education in the nation's largest cCity Hall control over public education in the nation's largest citycity.

Harold O. Levy, a former city schools chancellor, said he was skeptical of any arrangement that would give anyone in the Department of Education besides the chancellor leverage and autonomy.

We need a comprehensive strategy to fix rather than abandon struggling schools, and we need to give parents — who have for years been ignored by the city's Department of Education — a real role in important decisions about their local schools.

On Saturday: «Newly appointed New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia will give her first public address in New York City on Nov. 14 at the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators» (CSA) 48th Educational Leadership Conference... Elia will deliver the keynote at CSA's Professional Development Plenary.»

Members of the New York State Assembly and Senate, joined by parents and members of the city's Community Education Councils, on Feb. 28 announced their support for proposed legislation that would give the local councils veto power over proposed school co-locations in their districts.

Despite its name, the lead plaintiff in the 1993 complaint, CFE, did not argue that the state's financing arrangements were inequitable, but that the funds given to New York City were not «adequate» for a sound basic education.

Jill Carlson International Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.Education Policy City: Oakland, California Current job: Director of Individual Giving at Aim High, an award - winning summer learning program in the greater Bay Area founded by a HGSE alumnus Career highlight (s): Relaunching Students Helping Students at Room to Read, and being able to mobilize students (and their families) all over the world to raise awareness and funds for literacy and girls» education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.education; cheering on Deb Gittler, Ed.M.»

Cambridge, MA — When current U.S. education secretary, Arne Duncan, headed the Chicago Public Schools in 2004 - 05, the city implemented a new collective bargaining agreement that covered teacher dismissal policy: principals were given more flexibility to dismiss non-tenured teachers.

Nevertheless, Undersecretary Gary L. Bauer said at a briefing shortly after Mr. Bennett's Sept. 26 speech in New York City that the Education Department would seek to «broaden the definition» of transitional bilingual education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) Education Department would seek to «broaden the definition» of transitional bilingual education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) education to give districts more leeway in the amount of native - language instruction they provide limited - English - proficient (lep) students.

As an incentive to try the veggie item, Collazo, executive chef of the New York City Department of Education's Office of SchoolFood, held a weeklong sweepstakes in schools where it was served, giving away iPods and other MP3 players, as well as bicycles, as prizes.

The students from Baltimore and Boston and in many other cities and districts across the country are putting their education to work and giving back to their communities in a way that allows them to create change change that benefits them and our systems of government.

According to a 2015 report on district - charter collaboration from the Fordham Institute, DPS has «engaged charters more deeply than any of the other cities we studied, due in no small part to a decade of district leadership with a strong belief in the value of a portfolio strategy, a significant number of third - party stakeholders who have encouraged engagement, and an education landscape that gives the district a stake in charter success.»

So the story of a group of very successful Jewish lawyers in New York not only points to the period when they were born, a time of low birth rates, which meant that the New York City public schools they attended were uncrowded and gave a good education, but also to a Jewish propensity to seek out and seize opportunity.

Officials in Compton, Calif., have asked a federal court to give the city control over the 30,000 - student local school system, which has been run by the California education department since 1993.

Indeed, the $ 27 - million Wireless Generation contract to monitor student performance is the result of a rather tangled web — WG was purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in November, just after it announced it was giving Joel Klein, who had pushed the WG contract forward as the city's education chancellor, a job.

Out of School and Unprepared: The Need to Improve Support for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood In March 2011, the ARISE Coalition, a group of parents, educators, advocates and other supporters of students with disabilities coordinated by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), released this policy paper calling on New York City and New York State to follow the law with respect to transition planning and to give post-secondary transition for students with special education needs the same high priority they are beginning to give college and career readiness for other students.

Moir is this year's recipient of the $ 40,000 Brock International Prize in Education, given annually by the Brock Family Community Foundation of Oklahoma City to someone who has made «a significant impact on the practice or understanding of the field of educatioEducation, given annually by the Brock Family Community Foundation of Oklahoma City to someone who has made «a significant impact on the practice or understanding of the field of educationeducation.»

«My foray into the charter school world in 2002, after 34 years as an educator, gave me an opportunity to provide a quality education for far more students than ever before,» said Bruce Ravage, who led Norwalk's Side by Side Charter School from 2002 - 2005 before founding Park City Prep Charter School in 2006, where he is currently executive director.

The Rochester College Access Network — formed in 2013 as a program of Rochester Education Foundation — is a collaborative effort working to give students that opportunity here in the Flower City.

EVALUATION AGREEMENT BAD NEWS FOR TENURED TEACHERS The UFT and New York State United Teachers (All of the local unions in the state) gave away the store in today's agreements with the city and the State Education Department concerning teacher evaluations.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT QUESTIONS ACCJC: The Education Department recommended that the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees accreditors, gives the City College of San Francisco's accrediting a year to reach compliance — which is becoming a standard verdict in NACIQI's new age of graEDUCATION DEPARTMENT QUESTIONS ACCJC: The Education Department recommended that the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees accreditors, gives the City College of San Francisco's accrediting a year to reach compliance — which is becoming a standard verdict in NACIQI's new age of graEducation Department recommended that the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees accreditors, gives the City College of San Francisco's accrediting a year to reach compliance — which is becoming a standard verdict in NACIQI's new age of granularity.

It's a decision deeply rooted in the politics of school choice in Indiana and revolves around the administration of Democratic Mayor Bart Peterson, the first mayor given the authority to oversee the city's charter schools, says Claire Smrekar, a professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University.

Some advocates and policy analysts said that Mr. Klein was a transformative force, turning the city's public education system into something that people who had given up on it could believe in again.

In 2005 the city was a finalist for the Broad Prize for Urban Education, given annually to the best urban school district in the countrIn 2005 the city was a finalist for the Broad Prize for Urban Education, given annually to the best urban school district in the countrin the country.

The move by the Morris Jeff board to establish a contract with the union is the second action by a city charter school in the past month that indicates teachers — and school operators — may be willing to give unions a role in education.

Leadership is dedicated to a mission of giving more kids access to a great education, evident in Fordham's portfolio growth from 2,700 students in 2005, to 5,000 students in 13 schools (and growing) in five Ohio cities today.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

How she and de Blasio choose to balance the needs of individual families, single schools, and the broader system in order to give all city students a fair shot at a great education cuts to the core of the de Blasio message, said Noguera, the education professor.

«This gives us the opportunity to build upon our teacher leadership programming and work with the New York City Department of Education, and refine a model that can be replicated and sustained in school districts across the country.»