Sentences with phrase «in city school systems»

In many urban areas, however, this was too little, too late: integrating urban schools was becoming increasingly difficult by the late 1960s and early 1970s because there were so few white students left in city school systems.

We'll learn how she plans to act to improve relationships, mind - sets, build trust and enforce change in the city school system.

The scholarship winners, all Hartford residents, come from 18 schools in the city school system, said Richard...

When referencing Flanagan, who has spent five years in the city school system, she allegedly asked, «Did you see his big lips quivering?»

But as the Beaumont Journal reported that day, Miss Baldwin was special, «one of the best known and beloved teachers» in the city school system and «a guiding spirit» within Beaumont's growing Mexican community.

Immediately after the incident, Barr took her plight up the chain of command in the city school system.

Thankfully, what she's not willing to consider is a return to the days when having a job in the city school system might have little relation to doing the job.

Not exact matches

Garden City Booragoon has gone high - tech to attract and retain more shoppers over the school holidays, launching an interactive augmented reality system using technology developed in Europe.

On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

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.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

Governments, nonprofits, schools, healthcare systems and churches lack the infrastructures to help the way they do in the cities.

Whitehurst is now a science teacher in the New York City public school system and is planning to finish his master's degree in biology at CCNY.

What's more, these students were among the most disadvantaged in the New York City public school system.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

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In the New York City school system, cartons of 2 percent milk go unopened.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

An emerging initiative has been implementing a classroom breakfast program in all of the city's schools, and 50 have signed on so far; the system also has grab - and - go breakfast kiosks in six schools.

Some school districts, like the one in New York City, do everything they can to make the system work so that hungry kids get fed.

There are 307,021 children in the city's public and Catholic school systems in that program, the research found.

Geoffrey Canada, having grown up in an urban school system himself, had a vision for the city of Harlem and the children that resided there.

I have worked for a school system in Johnson City, Tennessee for a little over 2 1/2 years.

Highlights include establishment of a trail system that is mostly wheelchair accessible; programs reaching out to 40 schools and 230,000 residents within a two - mile radius; and, in partnership with the city of Boston, creation of the George Robert White Environmental Conservation Center, which models environmentally sound building practices.

When school boards and whole cities are refusing to even consider putting in gardens, much less aquaponic systems because of LIABILITY issues, do we stand a chance?

Submitted and Written by Reana KovalcikNancy Easton and Chef Bill Telepan serve as the executive leadership for Wellness in the Schools, a New York City - based non-profit that inspires healthy eating, physical fitness, and environmental awareness as a way of life for kids in the public school system.

The largest food vendor for the District's public school system has agreed to pay $ 19 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged the city and mismanaged the school meals programs, with food often arriving at schools late, spoiled or in short supply.

«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 Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

At 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will deliver remarks at a rally on the City Hall steps in Lower Manhattan, urging the extension of mayoral control of the New York City school system immediately.

«The underrepresentation of some minority groups in New York's Specialized High Schools is indicative of a larger set of challenges that face this city's educational system today,» said Bronx Assemblywoman Jeff Dinowitz in a statement.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice to lead New York City's school system, Alberto M. Carvalho, said that he had changed his mind and would not leave his job as superintendent of the Miami - Dade County system, leading to cheers in a packed meeting room of his school board.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that efforts in the state Senate to tie mayoral control of the New York City school system to an expansion of charter schools is «a load of crap.»

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña was in Albany for two days this week, updating the Legislature on the progress of the city's public school system.

With the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.

It was announced today that Kerrey, the former president of the New School in New York City, had signed on to the effort to tighten campaign finance laws by introducing a voluntary public matching system similar to New York City and lower contribution limits.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to reporters at City Hall in Manhattan after Miami - Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho announced abruptly that he will not accept the job of running the New York City school system on Thursday, March 1, 2018.

Carranza pointed out that the city recently allocated $ 125 million in «Fair Student Funding» to bolster school budgets, but said that Albany needs to provide more funding for the education system.

She does believe that mayoral control of the New York City public school system should have been extended beyond the one year that the state Legislature gave Mayor Bill de Blasio «There is an element for the mayor to have some skin in the game,» she said.

«It's long past time the city took steps to change what is a fundamentally broken system to address school bullying,» the group's CEO Jeremiah Kittredge said in a statement.

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

Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.

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.

De Blasio is creating a task force to grapple with the space crisis in the city's school system — and is including supporters of charters.

Stuyvesant, one of the city's most academically prestigious high schools, was on lockdown for hours after the attack, said de Blasio, who praised the school system and police for following established protocol and acting swiftly to shelter students in place.

«We spend $ 22 billion on the New York City public school system, so to say we aren't devoting resources is ridiculous,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at Washington Irving High School later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cschool system, so to say we aren't devoting resources is ridiculous,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at Washington Irving High School later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cSchool later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cschool year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been closed.