Sentences with phrase «improved education in this city»

«For more than 30 years, Robert Jackson has been fighting for New York City's public school children and has championed many causes that have improved education in this city,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.

«Jay McCarthy and James Sampson were very dedicated to improving education in the city.

However, the questions of how to make sure such a financial collapse doesn't happen again and how to improve education in the city are what's driving disagreement.

This process was part of a package of Bloomberg - era reforms intended to improve education in the city and diminish entrenched inequities.

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Atlanta Driven in large part by a surge in financial tech, education tech and health tech startups, Atlanta clinched the «most improved» city designation on this year's ITM report, rocketing up more than 15 places since last year's analysis.

East Hartford, CT is a WRAP Partner city, which worked with a local retailer launch a campaign to provide improved signage and education for customers about film packaging that can be included in the bin along with grocery bags.

Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal choices.

Overall, this first generation of relationship education programs for low - income couples had no impact on relationship quality, except for Building Strong Families in Oklahoma City, which improved relationship quality, romantic involvement, co-parenting, and father involvement.

With her experience in housing, education, criminal justice, small business preservation, and disaster preparedness, she is ready to fight for District 2 in the City Council and improve the quality of life for every resident.

Mayor Byron Brown says he is open to mayoral control if that's what it takes to improve Buffalo's schools, but feels a conversation is needed with parents and others in the city — and statewide — about how to reform public education.

Johnson suggests the school would provide an alternative for parents and improve the quality of education in the city.

A controversial idea is gaining traction in Buffalo as a means for improving education for city students.

In the classroom, Shafran said parents deserved more input on how the city plans to improve the quality of education throughout the borough.

After touring the under - performing Automotive High School in Brooklyn, de Blasio and his education team once again touted their ongoing effort to improve 94 of the city's struggling schools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 million.

Cash says he continues to ask parents to be engaged with their children's education as he remains committed to improving public education in the city.

The one policy that has arguably done more to improve education outcomes for kids in New York City over the past decade has been the systematic effort to close the City's giant failing high schools (i.e. drop out factories) and replace them with new, smaller high schools.

«If you look any of the challenges that we have on Staten Island or across the city or around the country, the solution, the way to improve those things, is investing in young people,» said Oddo, who added he's allocated more than $ 100 million for education since his days on the City Councity or around the country, the solution, the way to improve those things, is investing in young people,» said Oddo, who added he's allocated more than $ 100 million for education since his days on the City CounCity Council.

How many cities around the world has been successfully applied, True social changes, political changes, economic changes and changes in education, Improving Quality of Life and Social Welfare under the ISO 37120 standard?

The Ga West MCE also noted that standard in education at the basic level has improved drastically following the provision of eleven 30 - unit Millenium City Schools and several other school blocks built.

Christine Quinn City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, running in the Democratic primary, highlighted the challenge of affordable housing which she says is a big concern for the CEOs of companies from all backgrounds, and the need to improve education through an emphasis on literacy and offering tablets instead of textbooks.

Half also expect him to improve the quality of education in city schools over the next three years.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless studeCity Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless studecity with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless studecity school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless studecity school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Earlier in the day, religious leaders and politicians welcomed new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black during the Convent Avenue Baptist Church's annual Martin Luther King Day service, urging her to improve the city's education system.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Consider the enormous sums of money being spent to promote Physical Education in the classroom, improved access to sports facilities, and improved playgrounds for children in inner city neighborhoods.

Held in Denver's Marriott City Center Hotel, the event brought together several hundred scholars and Spencer affiliates to watch Gardner and Murnane debate the uses and limits of data in improving education.

If that's the case, then why is the mayor's chancellor of schools, Carmen Fariña, the board chair of the Fund for Public Schools, whose express legal purpose is «improving New York City's Public Schools by attracting private investment» in public education?

In the late 1990s, education - reform advocate Geoffrey Canada began an ambitious social experiment, pledging to do whatever it took to improve the lives of New York City's poor children.

If we focus exclusively on improving the education in big cities we fail to engender the support education reform needs from suburban elites if it is to be successful.

About Askwith Forums: The Askwith Forum, established in 1998 by an anonymous donor and named in honor of New York City public - relations consultant, writer and publishing executive Herbert Askwith, is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that provide an opportunity for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to share their work, talk with one another, and advance proven practices that will improve learning opportunities for all.

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

He says that about half of the $ 36 million or so he has to spend on K — 12 education annually goes to «trying to figure out ways of improving instruction in inner - city schools.»

For example, an education volunteer group that had formed years earlier to improve the quality of education in the city regrouped to form the People's Hurricane Relief Fund.

Indeed, in many large cities during the 1960s and 1970s, the problems facing minority high - school students actually worsened, as their schools became battlegrounds for such issues as busing and identity politics, issues that overwhelmed more routine efforts to improve the quality of education.

As New York City councilwoman Eva Moskowitz noted in a letter to Justice DeGrasse, «Education spending has increased by about a third since I took office in 1999, yet our schools have not improved by a third.»

In a new article for Education Next, «Mayoral Control in the Windy City,» Alexander Russo takes a close look at Rahm Emanuel's efforts to improve public schools in ChicagIn a new article for Education Next, «Mayoral Control in the Windy City,» Alexander Russo takes a close look at Rahm Emanuel's efforts to improve public schools in Chicagin the Windy City,» Alexander Russo takes a close look at Rahm Emanuel's efforts to improve public schools in Chicagin Chicago.

In Missouri v. Jenkins, when the court and its self - appointed experts tried to improve the quality of education for African American children in Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would wanIn Missouri v. Jenkins, when the court and its self - appointed experts tried to improve the quality of education for African American children in Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would wanin Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would want.

Teitel is co-author, (with Liz City, Richard Elmore, and Sarah Fiarman) of Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning, (Harvard Education Press, 2009).

This past month, I spoke to education innovators around the world about topics ranging from improving city schools to inclusivity to the increasing importance of film festivals in the digital age.

Single - gender education has long been a pillar in the world of private schools, but in the past decade, several big - city school districts have opened all - boys schools designed to improve academic achievement and social - emotional skills for non-white students.

Working with the George W. Bush Institute to serve up searchable and comparable city - level reports on education data from over 100 cities in the U.S. to help empower policymakers to improve student outcomes

Washingtonians are accustomed to seeing their elected and appointed leaders attempt to improve public education in the city: Since 1804 there have been 17 different school governance and administrative regimes, the most recent established in 2007.

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The Sutton Trust, a London - based foundation that aims to improve social mobility in the United Kingdom, will host an all - day summit on education and social mobility at The Paley Center for Media in New York City on Thursday, April 19, 2018.

New research on work done by the Bloomberg administration to improve New York City schools indicates that abandoning calls for dramatic intervention in persistently struggling schools would be a stain on the education legacy of any President and would do unjustifiable harm to millions of American youth growing up in poverty.

The latest example of this comes courtesy of Charles Epps, the superintendent of the woeful Jersey City school district, who declared on Wednesday that the young women attending the traditional public schools there were «our worst enemy» in his (abysmal) effort to improve education in the district and prevent school crime.

Funded by: U.S. Department of Education - IES Amount: $ 1,000,000 Dates: 7/1/14 — 12/31/18 Summary: The Massachusetts Institute for College and Career Readiness (MICCR) will promote working alliances between researchers and policymakers in the use and interpretation of data and evidence to guide decision - making and improve student outcomes through meetings with MA Gateway City school and government leaders, as well as collaboration between researchers and teachers in the target communities.