Sentences with phrase «fail city tests»

The New York City public schools, which in the past two years began holding back 3rd and 5th graders who fail city tests, will extend the promotion policy to 7th graders.

Not exact matches

The rest of the Premier League's aristocracy have failed to properly test City, and the smaller teams, with the exception of Huddersfield, have failed to adequately annoy them.

Madrid lost Ronaldo before the kickoff as he failed to pass fitness test and Man City dominated the game without really troubling Keylor Navas.

Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has revealed that he was disappointed with the leak of his latest acquisition Saido Berahino being banned for failing an out - of - competition drug test.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration offered the testing after a Department of Investigation probe last year found the city's housing authority had failed to conduct lead inspections for four years, violating city law and federal rules.

A new analysis from StudentsFirstNY found that at 75 city schools this year, all the students in at least one grade failed the state math or reading test.

By contrast, Moskowitz kept her schools open for one reason: In a city where the overwhelming number of black and Latino students are failing their proficiency tests, she believes students can not afford to miss the precious education they get.

The Buffalo Water Board's one - page info sheet about its lead testing program fails to provide much substance, especially for a city that still has a serious lead poisoning problem involving its housing stock.

And City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said in her first year of office she would stop «vilifying» teachers, reduce the amount of time spent on test prep and figure out another way to address failing schools.

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.

One third of all kids taking state tests in NYC are scoring at Level 1 As a parent in New York City, I know that some schools here are failing.

Other bills that were introduced, but not voted on, included measures to create new penalties for those who fail to report construction fatalities, a requirement for construction companies to give the city detailed reports about scheduled construction activities months in advance, and a mandate for drug and alcohol testing of construction workers at certain job sites.

The city's parks commissioner, who was partly responsible for a federal probe by giving a no - bid trash - bag contract to one of Mayor de Blasio's top fund - raisers, says he signed off on the deal unaware the liners failed the smell test years earlier.

The agency failed to conduct required lead - paint testing for four years — and Olatoye lied to the feds about it, a recent report by the city Department of Investigation revealed.

Fariña and Elia's close relationship may be tested this summer, when seven «persistently struggling» New York City schools may be turned over to an outside receiver if they fail to meet certain improvement benchmarks agreed upon by the city and stCity schools may be turned over to an outside receiver if they fail to meet certain improvement benchmarks agreed upon by the city and stcity and state.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standaCity teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standacity's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

Ranger Smith (Tom Cavanagh in a likable enough portrayal) has a reverent respect for nature and for his job at Jellystone Park, both of which are put to the test when corrupt mayor (Andrew Daly) schemes to sell off logging rights to the failing tourist attraction, thus saving his city from bankruptcy and winning him votes in the upcoming gubernatorial election.

School officials in Baltimore said the city school system hired 32 teachers this year who failed to pass a test of basic writing competency; another 100 teachers who failed the basic - skills examination were hired last year and remain on the staff, school officials...

Since NYC has been seen as the leader of the so called «reform» movement, the fact that our City Council took action will be regarded nationally as a critical moment — turning around a 12 year failed experiment, said Dani Gonzalez, Co-chair of Time Out From Testing.

The instructional strategy of the New York City public school system — prepping children for a now - discredited series of state tests — has failed.

One third of all kids taking state tests in NYC are scoring at Level 1 As a parent in New York City, I know that some schools here are failing.

And crucially, Watanabe failed to note that, prior to Cobian's arrival in 2009, the school's score on the Academic Performance Index — the state's annual measure of test - score performance of schools and districts — was 717, or 23 points above the city's average.

Table 3: Percentage of New York City Students Failing to Meet Proficiency on Achievement Exams by Test and Poverty Decile, 2000 and 2005

At 75 city schools, all the students in at least one grade failed the state math or reading tests this year, according to a new analysis by the advocacy group StudentsFirstNY.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

Mayor de Blasio has failed to comply with a 2015 unanimous city council resolution calling on the NYC DOE to inform all parents of their rights regarding test refusal at the beginning of each school year and in fact this spring the NYC DOE removed language from guidance instructing schools to respect parents» right to opt out until faced by questions from the City Council Education Commitcity council resolution calling on the NYC DOE to inform all parents of their rights regarding test refusal at the beginning of each school year and in fact this spring the NYC DOE removed language from guidance instructing schools to respect parents» right to opt out until faced by questions from the City Council Education CommitCity Council Education Committee.

It is this way so that schools can fail and be given to these private businesses who have no moral obligation to these kids or this city other then getting them to pass this stupid test.

That year, almost 60 % of black children in Asheville City Schools in grades 3 - 5 failed their end - of - grade tests in reading and math.

David Whitman, in his book «Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner - City Schools and the New Paternalism,» reports that in Chicago, from 2003 through 2006, just three of every 1,000 teachers received an «unsatisfactory» rating in annual evaluations; in 87 «failing schools» — with below average and declining test scores — 69 had no teachers rated unsatisfactory; in all of Chicago, just nine teachers received more than one unsatisfactory rating and none of them was dismissed.

To the dismay of Gov. David A. Paterson, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and various lawmakers, the Legislature failed to pass education reform legislation prior to the Race to the Top application deadline, to lift or increase the state's cap on charter schools and mandate the use of student standardized testing scores to evaluate teachers.

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In the event he failed any such tests and nothing was done, then the City of Albuquerque could be responsible for allowing such an individual to remain on the streets.