Sentences with phrase «including school closings»

• Limit federally - mandated school improvement models to a narrow set of strategies, including school closings privatization, and / or firing half the staff, which are punitive and have had little verified success.

All told, these cost create a sharp and steep fiscal cliff for the city, forcing it to take dramatic action, including school closings.

But we have still a long way to go to overcome the forces of big money that are intent on privatizing our public schools, and imposing policies, including school closings, more high stakes testing, and the rapid expansion of online learning, that threaten to further damage our children and are unsupported by research.

Perspectives differ about containment strategies, including school closings, travel restrictions, and airport screenings.

Lowering class size is one of only four strategies proven by the federal education department's research arm to improve student achievement, a list that does NOT include school closings, wholesale staff firings, turnarounds, or conversion to charter schools.

create a facilities plan that will «streamline» the district, including school closing and consolidations.

CPS also uses these tests in other ways for which they were not designed including school closing and turnaround decisions as well as teacher and principal evaluation.

Not exact matches

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

The first four locations announced Wednesday include an address in east Toronto that is close to at least one school, drawing concerns from the association representing Ontario's public school boards.

They include IBM, which is helping urban high schools close the STEM skills gap, and 23andMe, which is empowering consumers to learn about their genetic risks — and the lifestyle choices they can make, in some cases, to lower them.

The report included a link to a closed - door presentation that J.P. Morgan made at Harvard Law School in March.

Last year, Three Square distributed close to 40 million pounds of food and grocery product — more than 33 million meals — to more than 600 program partners, including nonprofit and faith - based organizations, schools and feeding sites.

In addition to television, restaurants, and cookbooks, Hall is involved in a number of not - for - profit organizations that reflect causes close to her heart, including chef José Andrés's World Central Kitchen Chef Network, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, and Feeding America; she also serves on the advisory boards for the Edible Academy for the New York Botanical Gardens and for the Food and Finance School in New York City.

Isaiah Wilson, who recently included Michigan in his top 8 group of schools, had a close eye on the Wolverines during their...

Isaiah Wilson, who recently included Michigan in his top 8 group of schools, had a close eye on the Wolverines during their overtime win over Indiana on Saturday.

The campaign includes an on - line petition drive and a series of ads that reference the Colorado high school massacre and also note that both President Obama and his GOP opponent, Sen. John McCain, pledged to close the loophole during the 2008 campaign.

NYSUT's spending came as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a series of changes to the state's education policies, including a new criteria for teacher evaluations, a strengthening of charter schools and making it easier to close schools deemed to be «failing.»

«Year after year we have seen cuts or small increases that haven't kept up with inflation,» said Ms. James, who bemoaned a list of problems with city schools including large class sizes, schools closing, the high drop out rate for children of color and cuts to music and arts programming.

The non-Renewal schools that are closing include: KAPPA IV; Academy for Social Action; Felisa Rincon de Gautier Institute; Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation; Eubie Blake School.

The Renewals that are closing include: PS 050 Vito Marcantonio; Coalition School for Social Change; High School for Health Careers and Sciences; New Explorers High School; Urban Science Academy; PS 92 Bronx School; Brooklyn Collegiate: A College Board School; PS / MS 42 R. Vernam; MS 53 Brian Piccolo.

Legislative leaders say they are close to agreement on the tax plan, which could include shifting income tax burden to a payroll tax (to be deducted by employers), and enabling tax - deductible charitable donations to healthcare and school funds.

At least 42 school districts, including the state's six largest, canceled classes for the day, affecting close to 1 million students.

But Lipton also said there is «more to do,» like restoring «progressivity» to the state's tax code, closing the carried interest tax loophole, and investing in a new «social contract» on public education that ensures full funding for schools — including universal pre-K (an early de Blasio priority)-- and restoration to the public university system to pre-recession levels.

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The mid year financial report released by Cuomo's budget office says options to close the gap include more cuts to state agencies, delaying payments to local governments and schools, suspension of some construction projects, and even borrowing money short term to pay for operating expenses.

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.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

Alerts will include things like school closings, Office of Emergency Management memos, MTA advisories and street closures.

Cuomo's plan includes $ 1 billion more for schools and the extension of an additional tax on New York's highest income earners, known as the millionaire's tax, in order to pay for education spending and close a $ 3.5 billion budget gap.

The declaration came just hours before he convened legislative leaders in a closed - door meeting to detail plans to slash $ 10 billion in planned expenses, including aid to schools, hospitals and local governments.

The foldout also includes commitments to «support our public schools» and to «close the $ 4.4 billion annual gap in funding owed by the state to public schools» — a figure apparently derived from the Court of Appeals» 2003 Campagn for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State decision, which ruled Albany had shortchanged the city billions in education funds.

● Closing the loophole on the legal definition of a school to include Pre-K and Kindergarten (Senator Klein)

The final budget deal, as expected, did not include a range of non-fiscal matters, including extending the statute of limitations in child abuse cases, school safety measures, gun control, relaxing certain criminal bail requirements and any bolstering of ethics and campaign finance laws in reaction to what has become an annual parade of Albany corruption cases, including two major trials this year of people with close ties to Cuomo.

And DiNapoli notes that state lawmakers had little time to consider changes to the state's education policy — which included measures aimed at new teacher evaluation criteria, changes to teacher tenure and plans to close schools deemed to be struggling or failing.

The weather is making headlines this morning, and has resulted in the cancelation and / or postponing of a number of planned events — including today's joint legislative budget hearing on the housing portion of the executive spending plan — as well as school closings.

The state budget approved in April had good news for schools and low - wage workers, but once again it was done behind closed doors and includes a shift of money to public authorities, a review by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli contended.

He said that the board, «vehemently opposes any plan that closes the Phoenicia elementary school and robs our residents and their children of convenient localized education opportunities for their younger children, disregards the needs of the local economy and businessmen and residents that assist with, sponsor and pay for school programs...» The resolution listed how the school acts as a community center including athletic, educational, social programs during the evenings, weekends and summer that are sponsored by the town.

Including faith schools as part of a broader network is a surer way of bringing communities closer together.

The UFT's other legislative priorities this year include new curriculum and teacher training aligned with the education standards that are being developed; restored funding for Teacher Centers statewide; additional funding for community schools and the Positive Learning Collaborative; closing tax loopholes to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share; and increased investment in technology and career and technical education programs.

In recent years, the city's school district has made several decisions to help close budget gaps, including cutting about 200 staff positions.

Even though Foley did not receive the CEA board's endorsement, he «remains committed to real education reform, including addressing the needs of the 100,000 children who are in under - performing schools and closing Connecticut's achievement gap, which remains the worst in the nation,» spokesman Chris Cooper said.

Downtown families living east of Broadway, including many in Southbridge Towers, have said they would oppose sending their children to Chinatown schools, since there are two other schools that are closer to them: the Spruce Street School, which opened this fall near City Hall, and the new Peck Slip School, which will open in an incubator space in Tweed Courthouse next fall.

The Cleveland school district is so fiscally maimed that it will close seven schools in June, lay off 700 Cleveland Teachers Union members — including 643 of 3,600 classroom teachers — and 68 paraprofessionals.

This year's additional funds will go to 532 schools — including schools that the city wants to close or phase out — where two - thirds or more of students fell below the bar.

The city Department of Education plans to close more than a dozen struggling schools — including the Bronx high school where a student was stabbed to death by a classmate...

For Cuomo, triangulation includes supporting gay marriage, defending abortion and calling for the closing of a nuclear power plant, while pushing a property tax cap, blocking tax increases and making sure Long Island schools received greater shares of school aid in Republican districts.

Cuomo's plan includes $ 1 billion more for schools and the extension of an additional tax on New York's highest income earners, known as the millionaires» tax, to pay for education spending and close a $ 3.5 billion budget gap.

Legislative leaders, emerging from an earlier closed door meeting with Cuomo, concur that they still have no final resolution on key issues including the minimum wage and the exact amount of school aid in the state budget.

Earlier in the day, Senate Independent Democratic Leader Jeff Klein, following a closed door meeting with Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders, said he hoped for a «grand bargain» that would include the mayoral control extension, the sales tax continuation and some provisions to help charter schools.

Many parents voiced concerns about what they believe is the district's unofficial plan to shutter one or more buildings, including the Congers school, which was closed in August 2013 due to structural damage in a gymnasium wall.