Sentences with phrase «for city educators»

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He was fascinated by the career of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983 and a legendary educator who pushed for integration and better performance in public schools.

She has also taught a wide variety of professional development courses for educators and aspiring puppeteers at Brooklyn College, the University of Utah, and City College CUNY.

An e-mail that some city school principals interpreted as an order to identify two tenured teachers for removal has educators wondering whether the district has set a firing quota.

«If training is not going well and you and your child are getting frustrated, take a break for a week and come back to it,» says Isabel Schein, LCSW, a parent educator in New York City.

The vacancy at Henninger will be filled by Brian Kavanagh, a local educator who most recently served as executive director of education and personnel for the Oswego City School District.

Reyes, 71, has been an educator for 48 years, a former New York City Board of Education member, and is currently a research associate at Hunter College's Center For Puerto Rican Studies in New York Cifor 48 years, a former New York City Board of Education member, and is currently a research associate at Hunter College's Center For Puerto Rican Studies in New York CiFor Puerto Rican Studies in New York City.

Rachel is a fierce advocate for public education, being the daughter of two city school educators and a graduate of city schools.

Enraged at the mayor's threat to close 33 «persistently lowest achieving» schools and remove half the staff in each school, more than 1,000 UFT - represented educators descended on a Jan. 18 meeting of the city's Panel for Educational Policy at Brooklyn Technical HS, disrupting the proceedings with whistles and chants before walking out in protest.

At Success Academy, the charter school network in New York City, current and former educators say the quest for high scores drives some of them over the line.

Noting the union's role in creating new models for educational success, Mulgrew shared details of his recent trip to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he, City Comptroller John Liu, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and delegates from the UFT's six community learning schools in its pilot program spoke to Cincinnati educators about the unique community schools model they have pioneered.

Primary Candidates from across the city were invited to come talk with educators and community members - and face the tough questions about how they will fight for our schools and communities.

What: City Council Hearing where educators, parents, and students will PACK THE ROOM to demand funding for Philly Schools!

Thousands of frustrated parents and educators from across Long Island were expected to attend a forum in Garden City Tuesday night for an opportunity to speak with New York State Education Commissioner John King about Common Core curriculum and state testing.

And while Carvalho was de Blasio's first choice for the job, the mayor insisted that there are great educators in the city's schools who will «do great work,» while the city continues its search for a new chancellor.

The 50 - year city educator says some of her major accomplishments in her inaugural year include new contracts for teachers and principals, the rollout of universal pre-K and the creation of 128 community schools with added social services.

I am a long - time educator, activist and parent here in New York City, and I am announcing my intention to seek the Green Party's nomination for the office of Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York.

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent organization whose mission is to provide programs and resources to improve learning and success for all Rochester city public school students through partnerships with educators, business and the community.

July 28, 2011 Educators in Rochester City School District will be encouraged once again to apply for up to 200 new books apiece this Fall, through REF's Give Back, Give Books program.

Rochester City School District educators can apply for the books through our competitive process.

Cuomo, facing harsh criticism from city leaders and educators, soon backpedaled and said he was just floating a blueprint for budget talks over the 278,000 - student system.

The contract gave educators retroactive raises for each year in that period, and arranges for the city to disburse the back pay periodically — the math of which was unclear and apparently disconcerting to the state senator.

We are seeking nominations for the best volunteer serving city school students as well as nominations for the best educators in city schools.

Studies have shown that smaller class sizes lead to better academic results for students and efforts to reduce class sizes have enjoyed broad support from city educators.

The Rochester City School District is hosting a major hiring event Saturday to bring new educators, social workers and counselors in for the next school year.

Funding for the program, which reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies, received a 63.5 percent increase in the final city budget passed on June 6.

A group of developers and educators submitted a proposal to the city for the world's...

But Cuomo's sympathies for the legal rights of labor are heightened by his desire for peace with the United Federation of Teachers, which represents the city's educators.

This year's push by parents and educators for additional state funding for public schools paid off when the governor and Albany lawmakers on April 1 finalized a new state budget that contained a $ 1.4 billion increase in state education funding, with $ 525 million going to New York City public schools.

Teacher's Choice received a 63.5 percent increase in the final city budget, passed on June 6, bringing funding for the City Council's popular program that reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies back up to its pre-recession high of more than $ 20 millcity budget, passed on June 6, bringing funding for the City Council's popular program that reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies back up to its pre-recession high of more than $ 20 millCity Council's popular program that reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies back up to its pre-recession high of more than $ 20 million.

Even though the contracts with the city's 300,000 workers, including UFT - represented educators, have all expired, the executive budget that he proposed on May 2 contains no money for back pay.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

Carranza, 51, was not named as a defendant in the case, but the suit alleged he ruined the career of a female educator in San Francisco after she called him out for flirting with a female colleague while Carranza was the city's superintendent in 2013.

Yelyzaveta Kalinichenko, a special education teacher at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and 13 fellow educators from District 3 squeezed into the office of state Sen. Liz Krueger to appeal for more state funding for New York City public schools.

WHEREAS Victory Inc.'s union - busting campaigns have targeted charter school educators at Merrick Academy Charter School in Queens, Sisulu - Walker Charter School in Harlem and New York City Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx, chapters of the New York City United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and charter school educators at the Charter School of Educational Excellence in Yonkers, a chapter of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers (YFT), all of whom are affiliated with the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); and

The UFT, which represents teachers at three Victory charter schools in New York City, has cited Victory management at the New York State Public Employment Relations Board for firing educators for union activity, coercing employees to withdraw their union support and discriminating against employees who are union supporters.

Some educators said if the standards are flawed then the receivership should be reconsidered for the struggling city schools.

Its offerings include cosmology courses for educators and scientists, partnerships with museums and a «Space Explorers» enrichment program for inner - city middle - and high - school students.

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DCPS says it's unfair that it has to serve as the educator of last resort for all city kids, while charters can choose not to backfill or take mid-year transfers.

, sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa International, for educators, in Greenville, S.C., and Johnson City, Tenn..

These insights come from Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators, a handy book by Kathryn Parker Boudett and Elizabeth City that's full of tips and strategies for making better meetings.

, sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa International, for educators, in Ardmore, Okla.; Durham, N.C.; St. Paul, Minn.; and Traverse City, Mich..

New York City, with the nation's largest public school system, is also using incentives for educators, mostly in the form of bonuses for principals and teachers.

From Data Wise to Meeting Wise, faculty Kathy Boudett and Liz City offer new ways to make meetings more effective for educators

Instructional rounds, as defined by City, Elmore, Fiarman, and Teitel (2011), is a disciplined way for educators to work together to improve instruction and is a practice that combines three common elements of improvement: classroom observation, an improvement strategy, and a network of educators.

Boudett and City's Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators (2014), the latest publication to emerge from the project, recognizes the importance of meetings as the place where much of the real work of school improvements happens.

At both schools — one in our city and one in Los Angeles — educators saw blended learning as a way to custom - tailor the school experience for urban students whose backgrounds and learning needs varied widely.

Speaking to educators gathered in his city on Oct. 23 for a Council of the Great City Schools conference, Mayor Richard M. Daley called the federal school improvement law an «unfunded mandate,» and he urged the group's members to work together to revisecity on Oct. 23 for a Council of the Great City Schools conference, Mayor Richard M. Daley called the federal school improvement law an «unfunded mandate,» and he urged the group's members to work together to reviseCity Schools conference, Mayor Richard M. Daley called the federal school improvement law an «unfunded mandate,» and he urged the group's members to work together to revise it.

Shanghai was the first city in China to require ongoing professional development for educators.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.