Sentences with phrase «for school closures»

The biggest market shares were in the fifty largest cities where the «dropout factories» were ripe for school closures.

«In the case of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, this immediately builds pressure for school closures as early as next year, because the EITC and OSTC scholarships are vital to parents» ability to afford their children's education.»

The HPS leadership team, Torres - Rodriguez shared, focused on creating criteria for building and maintaining schools, rather than creating a list for school closures, as Torres - Rodriguez explained on local NPR program Where We Live.

Use the DCPS Events Calendar to search and plan for school closures, spring and winter break dates, teacher professional development days and other special events.

In mid-October, during a meeting inside the magnet school with the waterfall, city school officials unveiled proposals for school closures as soon as next summer.

Not exact matches

I have loans for several different programs of study at the same school, but was unable to complete any of the programs or transfer credits from one program to another prior to the school's closure.

This Lobby had brought about the closure of Faith - based Adoption agencies, aggravating the crisis in placing children for adoption, and was poised to put on the Statute Book laws which would have imposed its own opinions on Faith - based schools and anyone else who disagreed.

• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

Naperville Streets close for race Street closures will be in effect in Naperville on Thursday, Nov. 22, during the Naperville Lions Club's annual Turkey Trot 5K that begins and ends at Naperville Central High School.

This program will not be available during school holidays, teacher workdays, or school closures This program is for children of walking age to 5 years and one caregiver can play with the child at no charge!

Berkeley Rose Waldorf School's nursery program is a licensed facility in accordance with California State law: Programs serving children under age 4.9 for more than 12 hours a week must be licensed or risk heavy fines and immediate closure.

Using the pseudo name Gull Makee, she wrote a diary for the BBC Urdu Service blog, narrating how she and her classmates still managed to attend the school by wearing normal clothes instead of uniforms, how fearful she once felt upon overhearing a passerby's threatening phone call, and how frustrating it was for her to learn about the school's closure for winter vacations, with no announcement about its reopening date.

The state government in readiness for the action has ordered the immediate closure of all primary and secondary schools in the state as a way of protecting the lives and properties of the entire citizenry.

At 3 p.m., state Sen. James Sanders Jr. holds a press conference to celebrate that P.S. / M.S. 42 Robert Vernam School will remain open after initially being slated for closure, P.S. / M.S. 42, Beach 66th St., Queens.

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

Wadleigh's truncation had been scheduled for a vote on Wednesday evening, April 25, by the Panel for Education Policy (PEP), the body that votes on Department of Education (DOE) policy and school closures.

In response to the threat of closure of her local primary school, Trudy led a campaign to breathe new life into her village for future generations.

Bloomberg has closed 140 struggling schools since taking charge of the education system in 2003, drawing the ire of critics including mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, the former City Comptroller, who called for a legal moratorium on closures this year.

Chief among the committee's recommendations is the elimination of the mayor's majority on the Panel for Educational Policy, which decides on school co-locations, closures and other important matters and which has never rejected a proposal brought by the city under the Bloomberg administration.

Multiple area elementary schools are being considered for closure and new teachers with less union seniority are again nervous about whether they will have jobs next fall.

Carl Pressley, the vice president of the PTA at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sSchool for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter schoolschool.

The closure of the passenger bridge on the city's South End earlier this month due to safety concerns sparked questions about who is responsible for repairs: the City of Plattsburgh, or the Plattsburgh City School District.

Quinn, a close ally of the mayor, stood out this week as the only major Democratic contender who did not joint the teachers union on the steps of City Hall to call for a moratorium on school closures and co-locations.

«In November, the nonpartisan Research Alliance for New York City Schools presented findings from a rigorous analysis of school closures under Mayor Bloomberg, showing that graduation rates improved by 15 - points for students who left and attendance and graduation rates improved for those who remained during the transition.

With a month to go before classes start, supporters of Lafayette High School turned out Wednesday to defend the school, which is slated for clSchool turned out Wednesday to defend the school, which is slated for clschool, which is slated for closure.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer called for the U.S. Department of Education to implement a warning system for students at financially troubled schools in the wake of Dowling College's possible closure.

The following school districts have announced closures an delayed starts on Thursday, May 17 as a result of road conditions and power outages following Tuesday's severe thunderstorms.Westchester County North Salem Central School District, one - hour delays for students, staff reports on timeSomers Central School District, two - hour delayOur Montessori SchoolPutnam CountyCarmel Centschool districts have announced closures an delayed starts on Thursday, May 17 as a result of road conditions and power outages following Tuesday's severe thunderstorms.Westchester County North Salem Central School District, one - hour delays for students, staff reports on timeSomers Central School District, two - hour delayOur Montessori SchoolPutnam CountyCarmel CentSchool District, one - hour delays for students, staff reports on timeSomers Central School District, two - hour delayOur Montessori SchoolPutnam CountyCarmel CentSchool District, two - hour delayOur Montessori SchoolPutnam CountyCarmel Central...

De Blasio has said he expects substantial improvement at the 94 so - called «Renewal Schools» within the next three years before struggling schools can be considered for cSchools» within the next three years before struggling schools can be considered for cschools can be considered for closure.

Briggs, who gave the assurance on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, urged proprietors of such schools to apply formally to the state Ministry of Education for registration and possible approval of the schools to avoid closure.

She has campaigned for safer access to schools and against the closure of community facilities.

During my time as an MP, there was a proposal for the closure of ten schools in my constituency due to falling numbers of children.

If the school had been proactive enough to provide oxygen cylinder and other first aid kits which could have sustained the life of the deceased student (s) before being taken to competent doctors for further medical attentions, students would not have been so enraged to move to the street to express their grievances which has subsequently led to the closure of the school even at the period of examination.

The Connecticut Working Families Party announced Thursday it had endorsed one candidate for the election: Shonta» Browdy, 41, a Hartford parent advocate who has been a fixture at city school board meetings for years and spoke out against the prospect of school closures in the North End.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

The teacher's union, which is locked in a bitter war with Mayor Michael Bloomberg over the terms of a new teacher evaluation system, has repeatedly slammed the administration for using closures as a key method for turning schools around.

The Department for Education has ordered the closure of one of the government's flagship free schools, after inspectors found that it had «unacceptably poor» standards.

Indeed, reality seems to have sunk in with Team de Blasio on this front: The city last month finalized 10 school closures, a record for this mayor's tenure.

A parent who sounded emotional about the closure of the school said «It is very unfair for the pupils to be at home while others study.

Further, thousands of Renewal Schools children, their parents, and hard - working teachers all around the city also learned that their educational futures would abruptly change via a cornucopia of closures, mergers, and truncations upon which the mayor's Panel for Educational Policy will vote.

Harlem's Choir Academy, once a beacon for the arts in education, is now on Mayor Bloomberg's list of 24 schools marked for closure after being driven into the ground by school administrators and the Department of Education, says the school's longtime UFT chapter leader.

Meanwhile, the incident has led to hurried closure of markets and schools in the area as residents scamper home for safety.

A judge has denied the UFT and NAACP's request for a preliminary injuction preventing the closure or relocation of 22 struggling schools.

The Morrisania school on the William H. Taft campus is among the latest group of schools slated for closure under Mayor Bloomberg.

Also cut was funding for Schools under Registration Review, which will hamstring schools already at risk of closure if student standards are not rSchools under Registration Review, which will hamstring schools already at risk of closure if student standards are not rschools already at risk of closure if student standards are not reached.

The playing field to compete for students is not level, and nobody in the mayor's office or DOE is taking responsibility for it, preferring to leverage dwindling enrollments by school mergers, closures, and truncations without looking at key underlying problems.

Interim Buffalo School Superintendent Don Ogilvie says the school district has a Friday deadline to submit a round of proposed turnaround plans for four failing city schools to prevent closure by the New York State Education DeparSchool Superintendent Don Ogilvie says the school district has a Friday deadline to submit a round of proposed turnaround plans for four failing city schools to prevent closure by the New York State Education Deparschool district has a Friday deadline to submit a round of proposed turnaround plans for four failing city schools to prevent closure by the New York State Education Department.

Eleven of those schools, including Washington Irving High School in Union Square, have since been pegged for closure.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

Additionally, Joseph Hochreiter, superintendent of the Hendrick Hudson school district, said that the closure of the plant would negate a third of the district's tax base and has halted intentions to move forward on a $ 14 million capital improvement project for the district.

21 other schools were approved for consolidation or closure.