Sentences with phrase «from schools across the city»

My activism in the fight for equity and against harmful charter schools myths has lead to a role at C3S engaging parents from schools across the city.

With support from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, The Mind Trust is sponsoring twice as many school leaders in this year's Relay cohort, in response to high - demand from schools across the city and stellar reviews from the 13 school leaders who received the fellowship last year.

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MBAs Across America helped a Kansas City, Missouri food market find identify technologies to help it graduate from an old - school paper system to boost efficiency.

The city turned out to be a godsend for Josiah, who entered San Francisco Boys» High School in July of 1869, and only two years later registered as a freshman in the new University of California, across the bay from San Francisco.

Students from dozens of schools across the city are planning to take part in a 17 - minute walkout Wednesday morning, with each minute representing a life lost during the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school.

As a matter of fact Crowley mailed a piece of campaign literature all across Queens to curry favor with those deeply concerned about Education in her bid to become your Congresswoman from the 6thDistrict, however upon research and review and confirmation from her office spokesman, she's taking credit for schools that were budgeted and started construction prior to her even being elected to the City Council.

Hizzoner's offenses range «from evicting Harlem's highest - performing middle - schoolers to stonewalling parents for months on end, only to offer inadequate temporary solutions, despite the 144,000 empty seats across the city,» said the spokeswoman, Nicole Sizemore.

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.

More than 100 protesters, including New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, rallied across the street from the school, on West 118th Street.

New York, NY — Public school parents from across New York City gathered outside today's mayoral control hearing to send a clear message: parents are dissatisfied with the quality of NYC public schools and they expect Mayor de Blasio to be held accountable.

Moskowitz closed all 32 of her schools for the morning, busing thousands of children and parents to the event location from across the city.

Schools will be randomly selected «by the end of the school year» from a pool «schools across the city that serve high - needs students,» the departmenSchools will be randomly selected «by the end of the school year» from a pool «schools across the city that serve high - needs students,» the departmenschools across the city that serve high - needs students,» the department said.

Principals across the city will no longer be able to select the teachers they want if they're unable to fill a vacancy; instead, breaking a promise made by Chancellor Carmen Fariña, the city will force on the school an unwanted teacher from the Absent Teacher Reserve, or ATR.

In February, 200 public school parents from communities across New York City traveled to the State Capital in Albany for a special panel co-sponsored by State Senator Kevin Parker and StudentsFirstNY on the need for high - quality school options in our communities.

Friday she paid a visit to Syracuse, first sitting down with business leaders from across the region at one of the Syracuse City Schools.

Now, parents and education advocates from across New York City are asking state legislators to ensure the future of high - performing public charter schools by supporting the Governor's proposal.

«Students across our city deserve a safe learning environment, no matter what community they come from or where they attend school,» said Mark - Viverito, but like all her colleagues she refused to clarify what has suddenly changed that mandates the government now stepping in where it never has before.

«As a result of this work, average class size across the city has decreased from 26.4 students per class in the 2015 - 16 school year to 26.1 this year,» he said.

The proposed cuts, part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's expected 2013 executive budget, would take $ 170 million from after - school and child care programs, leaving nearly 50,000 students without those programs across the city.

The Moral Mondays movement came to New York State on Jan. 12 as about 1,000 students, parents, advocates and union leaders from New York City and across the state converged on the state Capitol to demand fair and equitable funding for public schools.

The controversial charter school leader, whose Success Academy schools spread to about two dozen locations across the city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has been rejected from a plan to share space with three additional public schools this fall, officials said.

Pending approval from the City Council's land - use committee in April, Ienuso said that construction of the field house would not begin until the summer months in order to reduce the amount of noise and traffic at the construction site during the school year, in an effort to help the schools across the street from the site.

Standing in front of the Great Western Staircase, parents from across the city spoke to their children's life - changing experiences in public charter schools.

NORTHERN MANHATTAN — Parents and politicians from across the city joined forces Tuesday to rail against the potential dezoning of their schools districts.

While Upper West Success Academy can accept applications from children across the city, Sedlis said the school will give preference to local students and is intended to be a «neighborhood school.»

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito, along with upset students and teachers, said Friday that the school, which has 2,000 students from across the city and teaches technical and trade skills to students age 16 to 20, is desperately needed.

Inspired by students from the targeted Florida high school, as many as 500,000 people are expected to rally against gun violence and in favor of stricter gun laws on March 24 in Washington, D.C., with sister marches taking place in cities across the world.

«Across neighborhoods of Wisconsin, from the North Woods to the cities, the results are striking,» says Dr. Kristen Malecki, assistant professor of population health sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and colleagues analyzed the dust concentrations in aerosol samples from two locations, French Guiana's capital city Cayenne and the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe, to understand the amount, source regions, and seasonal patterns of airborne dust that travels across the North Atlantic Ocean.

After taking a break from school and moving across the country, Ashley Rose settled down in the bustling city of Houston.

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Better than the performances themselves, though, is their broader purpose: all proceeds from Miscast help to fund MCC in its continual efforts to produce some of New York's most ambitious and original works of theater, as well as support its MCC Youth Company and in - school partnerships that serve public schools across New York City.

High School Musical: The Concert toured through four cities across the United States from November 2006 through May 2007, featuring live performances of the songs (and the songs only — no acting) from the hit 2006 made - for - TV movie.

This money is used to leverage partnership funding and deliver a programme of new and improved community sports facilities in towns and cities across the country that schools, football clubs and communities can benefit from.

In Omaha, Nebraska, cities and suburbs created a joint tax - sharing program to fund schools that bring together students from across the region.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oSchool District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oschool districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

Across all three cities, the average effect of switching from a public to a private school for black students was 6.3 percentile ranks in both math and reading.

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

Travelling from schools right across the UK, the teams of students aged 10 to 18 will come together in London to pitch in front of a panel of judges comprised of industry leaders and high profile figures, such as digital entrepreneur Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Tech City CEO Gerard Grech and TV presenter Davina McCall.

Celebrating modern art from across the globe, Birmingham's Ikon Gallery is housed in a Victorian school building in Brindleyplace, beside the city's canals.

Not too surprisingly, these conditions — combined with increased competition from charter schools around New York City — contributed to an erosion in student achievement, school culture, and family recruitment efforts across our schools.

Average per - pupil public revenues (from all sources, including federal Charter School Program start - up grants) across the NewSchools portfolio were more than $ 11,500 in 2010, ranging from about $ 9,000 to $ 16,000, depending on the states and cities where schools are located.

As it compiles information on «effective» leader and teacher practices from its third cohort of low - income schools across the nation, the New York City - based New Leaders for New Schools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - frschools across the nation, the New York City - based New Leaders for New Schools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - frSchools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - friendly.

In 50 years, the council has grown from an organization with 12 districts to a membership consisting of 66 big - city school systems across the nation.

Even as courts across the country began releasing school districts such as Kansas City, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, Savannah, Buffalo, and Boston from long - running desegregation orders during the 1990s, magnet schools continued to thrive.

Fifteen years ago, the school system in this small city across the Mystic River from Boston was a case study in failure.