Sentences with phrase «for neighborhood public schools»

Fighting for neighborhood public schools that are safe, welcoming places for teaching and learning;

«Either they'll stand up for neighborhood public schools that provide opportunity for all children, or they'll reward campaign donors by funneling tax dollars to the private school industry.»

How about a statement opposing corporate replacements for neighborhood public schools?

Education historian and activist Diane Ravitch said that language was unacceptable and that, among other things, the Democrats needed to make a statement opposing corporate replacements for neighborhood public schools.

«Reclaiming the promise of public education is about fighting for neighborhood public schools that are safe, welcoming places for teaching and learning,» Weingarten said in her keynote speech at TEACH announcing the effort.

Reclaiming the promise of public education is about fighting for neighborhood public schools that are safe, welcoming places for teaching and learning.

Not exact matches

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

We woefully underestimate the power of business leaders if we think they are engaged in private enterprise, for their decisions have huge public impacts not only on their stockholders but on the jobs we need, the neighborhoods in which we live, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the schools in which we learn.

Fields said it was important for the city to preserve traditional district public schools, especially in underserved neighborhoods.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Organizers including Queens Neighborhoods United, New Queens Democrats, Queens Community Action Group, NY Indivisible and Jackson Heights People for Public Schools plan to discuss the Independent Democratic Caucus, which the senator joined in January, along with the recent budget and the effect of President Donald Trump's plans for the district.

But this is obviously not the case: Tisch yesterday blasted the Senate bill for neither limiting the number of charters allowed in a certain neighborhood nor making it harder for them to share space with underpopulated traditional public schools.

Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Although its application hasn't yet been finalized, the Success Academy has rolled out bus stop ads and a website that touts the school as a solution for parents looking for new public school choices in the neighborhood.

I'd like to begin by thanking Daniel Dromm and the Education Committee for holding this hearing and ensuring that important budget issues involving our neighborhood public schools get the attention they deserve.

Among the concessions to neighbors would be greater access to the school's athletic events, scholarships for neighborhood children to participate in sports camps and a public dock at the waterfront.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

After nearly 20 years of trying to redevelop the former public school he bought from the city at an auction for $ 3.15 million in 1999, Singer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming local elected officials and neighborhood groups have conspired to block the project.

In 2007, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, acting on behalf of the Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools, a coalition of parents, neighborhood residents and community organizations, successfully sued the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education for violating the Public Authorities Law and the State Environmental Quality Review Act by not disclosing a Site Management Plan.

They analyzed nearly 70,000 school records for students in district - based traditional public kindergarten in New York City in 2009, and linked the records to demographic information and neighborhood characteristics.

In Novato, parents are assigned a neighborhood school but can also apply for a transfer to one of the seven other public elementary schools in town.

Involvement with an international school also helps these organizations increase their public profile; sometimes these projects work in the exact neighborhood of these schools, but were unrecognized until someone within the school proposed a partnership, resulting in increased visibility for the project within the community.

For example, Andrew Coy, high school technology teacher and Executive Director of the Digital Harbor Foundation, established Baltimore City's first free, public, neighborhood makerspace in an empty Parks & Recreation building that was about to be shut down.

Rather than simply providing an alternative to neighborhood public schools for a handful of students, the theory says, school choice programs actually benefit students remaining in their neighborhood schools, too.

A spokesperson for Dayton Public explained that because the district doesn't necessarily assign children to a neighborhood school and families are allowed to choose where they send their children, parents have to register in order to obtain a school assignment that would allow them to qualify for a voucher.

He opened his school in 2002 in a renovated public school building (for which BCCS won a preservation award) on the edge of Albany's tough Arbor Hill and West End neighborhoods.

The desire for an alternative to a neighborhood public school was strong for the families who applied to the OSP in 2004 and 2005.

BAA is Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, where students come from every neighborhood to explore their passion while also receiving a full college preparatory education.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

For more than a decade, these schools have been luring parents and children, promising a more personalized education than their neighborhood public schools can provide.

Meanwhile, more parents in D.C. neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park are sending their kids to public schools, resulting in fewer spots for «out of boundary» students in the most sought - after neighborhood schools such as Lafayette, Murch and Eaton elementary schools or Deal Middle School.

After all, there are traditional «public district schools» that have admissions criteria (e.g Bronx School of Science), charge for various services (e.g. music, AP tests), or are open only to families who inhabit certain neighborhoods (e.g. all of them).

For Randi Weingarten, the answers to these questions are obvious: «Parents, the public, and teachers share the same beliefs about the importance of good teaching and strong neighborhood schools.

During the 1980s, the Chilean government decentralized the administration of schools, transferring responsibility for public school management from the Ministry of Education to municipalities (recognized neighborhoods in Chile around which municipal services are organized).

In the middle of writing the application for the charter school they wanted to open, Arne Duncan asked them to take over a public school he was closing in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

Others are attracted because they are looking for a different, safer, or higher quality alternative to the public school in their neighborhood.

Traditional zoned - based assignments may be less able to match family preferences than the OneApp, especially for those who don't have the means to purchase or rent a home in a neighborhood with desirable public schools.

We will continue to work with parents and communities to fight for safe and welcoming neighborhood public schools that value both kids and the women and men who work with them.

Vouchers enable students and their parents to use public funds to choose the school that is best for them, freeing them from the monopoly that neighborhood public schools have had for decades.

WASHINGTON — Parents overwhelmingly believe that public schools are the single most important institution for the future of their community and of our nation, and they choose strong neighborhood public schools over expanding choice, charters and vouchers, according to a nationwide poll released today by the American Federation of Teachers.

Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»

Today, public schools are often the safest places for children in tough neighborhoods.