Sentences with phrase «in big city school»

In her new book, Follow the Money, political scientist Sarah Reckhow discusses the rise of a new generation of education philanthropists, the differences among them, and how their work has played out in some big city school systems.

One student said that in a big city school, kids roll through the system without even trying.

From districts to schools: The distribution of resources across schools in big city school districts

Doing better than the kids in big city school districts should provide suburbanites with little comfort.

Not exact matches

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Book signing: Chef Jess Schenker grew up in Parkland and graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School before making his way to the kitchen at Big City Tavern in Fort Lauderdale.

The kindness of Avery Huddleston, 7, led to a bigger surprise than anyone imagined at a school in the city of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

Amanda and her husband Tim recently moved from the big city of Nashville to Boone, North Carolina, where Tim is in graduate school at Appalachian State University and Amanda works at Samaritan's Purse.

Which is one very sensible reason why the majority of teachers in the big city systems do not send their own children to the public schools.

Because every morning, when she walks with her big brother to school, she passes through dozens of children on the crowded streets of Cochabamba, the second largest city in Bolivia.

That was one of the many perks of going to school in a big city — there were endless opportunities to expand...

Council - run ECS is by far the biggest school meal provider in the city, delivering over 18,000 meals daily.

For our 20th, since we didn't get to take a big trip or anything (he taught for the summer session of school), he surprised me with a bunch of my favorite concerts over the last month, including New Kids On The Block / Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, the Utah Symphony and GENTRI and we got to spend some time together in Salt Lake City.

It's big school (undergraduate population @ 40K) in the 4th largest American city which is the 5th largest media market; it's in Texas which spreads the conference footprint (Navy does not do that); can recruit P5 talent (Ed Oliver, hello!)

The Walnut Creek school's wrestling program has been nothing but consistent over the past decade, quietly succeeding in the shadow of bigger programs like De La Salle, James Logan - Union City and Liberty - Brentwood.

They are a demographic, in other words, that in many big - city middle and high schools is seen as a behavioral challenge and an academic liability.

Some parents who live in big cities even establish second homes near a village Waldorf school so that their children can attend.

School officials, especially in big cities, were concerned about how the changes might affect their ability to feed needy students.

We spent the first 23 school days, quite a lot of time in fact, in Toms River, New Jersey and Pau, France; but we also looked at elementary lunch menus in various other big cities in different regions in France and America.

Check out what kids are eating for school lunch in Columbus, Ohio compared to a another big city in France, called Montpellier.

It was housed in property rented from the City of Baltimore, this little school set off on a big journey.

The school district's efforts to buy better quality ingredients from local businesses fit in well with the city of Austin's Good Food Purchasing program, an initiative to harness the buying power of big institutions to benefit the local economy and support the city's sustainability goals.

«Lead poisoning is still a big problem, a huge problem,» says Philip Landrigan, MD, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

I mean, I babysat my way through high school to earn spending money and I took care of kids in my profession as a nurse in a big city hospital.

(Previously, this report was known as School Breakfast in America's Big Cities.)

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

Rochester and Yonkers experienced significant improvements; for the first time, the graduation rate in a Big 5 city school district, Yonkers, exceeded the statewide rate.

«If we close the school, right in the middle of perhaps the biggest oasis of health sciences research, technology and academic activity, we're sending a horrible message to the rest of the nation,» argued Congressman Adriano Espaillat at a February 22 rally at City Hall.

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In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School DistrictIn ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districtin grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districtin each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another ycity schools for another year.

Known as a «big ugly» in Capitol jargon, the bill extended rent regulations and the 421 - a real estate subsidy program, authorized $ 1.3 billion in property tax rebates, renewed mayoral control of New York City schools for another year, released $ 250 million for mandated expenses of non-public schools and demanded more transparency for controversial state testing.

Senator Liz Krueger questioned why, after two votes in previous years to grant the mayor of New York City control of city schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de BlaCity control of city schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de Blacity schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de Blasio.

But the biggest and most difficult remaining issue in the session issue is an extension of the mayor of New York City's authority over the city's public schools, known as mayoral contCity's authority over the city's public schools, known as mayoral contcity's public schools, known as mayoral control.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Thursday the city's DOE stood by and did nothing while Pan American International High School Principal Minerva Zanca compared one of the school's black teachers to «a gorilla in a sweater» with «f — ing nappy hair» and demeaned another for having «big lips.&School Principal Minerva Zanca compared one of the school's black teachers to «a gorilla in a sweater» with «f — ing nappy hair» and demeaned another for having «big lips.&school's black teachers to «a gorilla in a sweater» with «f — ing nappy hair» and demeaned another for having «big lips.»

There wasn't a big turnout Tuesday night in Lafayette High School for a meeting on city schools» new code of conduct.

The PM thus blew a long, masterful raspberry, one so finessed it could only have been learnt in the shadowy confines of prep at Eton targeted at the back of a gowned professor; he yah - boo - sucks - to - youed repeatedly about Ed and his pals spending too much time with the big boys in that silly red uniform with the hammers and sickles from the school next door, Unite City High — which soon became Unite City blues...

But the session concluded in something of fizzle on Wednesday, as lawmakers remained at odds over extending mayoral control of New York City schools and a major legislative deal — sometimes referred to as a «big ugly» did not come to fruition.

Several big ticket items are up for renewal in Albany this June, including mayoral control of city public schools.

Ironically, the comptroller, the man who adds up the plusses and minuses at the end of the day, was nowhere in the loop when one of the bigger ideas in county / city / school government was rolled out the same week by County Exec Mike Hein.

Safety on city school buses has been a big concern following reports of a couple of sexual abuse incidents of young children on buses in 2016.

Hours after Miami - Dade schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho accepted then declined to lead New York City's public schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he had made it clear to the nationally - known educator that his alleged affair with a reporter a decade ago would be «rehashed» in New York City and that the Big Apple was the «big leagues.&raqBig Apple was the «big leagues.&raqbig leagues.»

By school too as atm wealthy schools in big cities send to get more per pupil than schools like the one where my husband works which is very deprived, but in a rural county.

New York City's largest and most polarizing charter school network, Success Academy, is applying for its biggest expansion yet, with plans to open 14 new charter schools in the next two years, a spokeswoman for the network announced on Tuesday.

The language of the so - called «Big Ugly,» the 72 - page bill with all the legislative changes from this session, allows for 50 slots from the overall cap to be «granted to a charter for a school to be located in a city having a population of one million or more.»

Fluent in Spanish and an accomplished mariachi musician, Carranza had been coveted by several big - city school systems.

Fluent in Spanish and an accomplished mariachi musician, Carranza has been a coveted target of big - city school systems in the past.

The PAC is using a pollster and political consultant, Doug Schoen and Bradley Tusk, connected to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, once the Senate Republicans» biggest individual donor and a charter school champion when he was in office.

As has been the case in previous filings, Cuomo's biggest campaign donors include people from the New York City real estate industry and supporters of charter schools.