Sentences with phrase «large city and school»

When a large city and school district share the same boundaries, the result is a large district like those in New York City or Chicago.

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

«Toronto has many of the critical elements to become a digital media capital,» says Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics and professor of management at the Rotman School of Management, noting the city's access to quality talent, good infrastructure and strong universities, as well as its large media presence.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

The city's largest employers include Lenoir County Public Schools, Sanderson Farms, and Lenoir Memorial Hospital.

He is a professor and director of cities at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management; a distinguished visiting fellow at NYU's Shack Institute of Real Estate; and the co-founder and editor - at - large of The Atlantic's CityLab.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

As someone who grew up in the largest muslim city outside of the middle east (Detroit Metro) and having grown up getting muslim holidays off of school, I would argue that if some 12 + % of NYC students really are muslim — if this guy has his facts right — why not?

The city's and school system's Muslim population has mushroomed to a level that is similar to the Jewish population, and it's unfair to make such a large number of Muslim students take a «sick day» on these important holidays.

in Moscow and other large cities, you can actually see ramps — well, at least in the city center — or come across traffic lights equipped with a sound signal for the blind, or even find a few disabilityfriendly kindergartens and schools.

It sits in the middle of the state's largest city, boasting a premier medical school, a massive research apparatus and budget, and a strong business school.

As things stand now some schools that move games off campus to larger facilities in their home cities will have to put up with the designation of «visitor» and dress only 10 players because they are not playing in their «home» gym.

These schools exist in large cities and small towns, suburbs and rural enclaves.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and district administrators who have attacked Chicago as having the shortest school day among the nation's 10 largest cities have begun touting this as an accomplishment: CPS officials say the 7.5 - hour day will tie Chicago with Philadelphia as «the leader among the largest cities in instructional time» for...

FRAC's «Making it Work in Large School Districts» takes a look at the country's largest school districts — from 17,000 students in Reading, PA to 1.1 million students in New York City — and puts the spotlight on those that are «going the extra mile» to connect students with their morningSchool Districts» takes a look at the country's largest school districts — from 17,000 students in Reading, PA to 1.1 million students in New York City — and puts the spotlight on those that are «going the extra mile» to connect students with their morningschool districts — from 17,000 students in Reading, PA to 1.1 million students in New York City — and puts the spotlight on those that are «going the extra mile» to connect students with their morning meal.

Her school is one of 11 in the city that has introduced salad bars — part of a larger trend in Baltimore and statewide to provide students with more healthful meals.

Five years ago, when Chicago became the largest school district in the nation to privatize its meal program, city officials said the initiative was designed to improve the quality and wholesomeness of student food.

All of these parents lived in the inner cities of America's 20 largest cities; 65 % had no high school degree; 85 % were African or Hispanic American; and 60 % were below the poverty level.

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.

The Legislature and governor ended the extraordinary session by granting a two - year extension of mayoral control over New York City's schools, ending months of uncertainty over Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership of the nation's largest school system and its 1.1 million students a day before it was to expire.

«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 phase - in factor varies from 0.47 percent to 13.6 percent, with specific rates for the five largest city school districts (New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers) and more general rates for other districts based on district demographiccity school districts (New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers) and more general rates for other districts based on district demographicCity, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers) and more general rates for other districts based on district demographics.14

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

At a Manhattan news conference, the Democratic attorney general praised Duffy's efforts to consolidate agencies and bring mayoral control of schools to New York's third - largest city over the objection of teachers unions.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

In addition, NYSED held more than 120 fall and winter regional in - person meetings across the state in coordination with the state's 37 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) and the superintendents of the state's five largest City School

That year, the New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers missed the state - imposed mid-January deadline, prompting officials to withhold $ 250 million from the state's largest school district.

Inside the center dozens of people waited - among them Nelson's family members; her pastor, John Carter, of Abundant Life Church in East Syracuse; Sharon Contreras, Syracuse City Schools superintendent, and Helen Hudson, Syracuse common councilor - at - large.

To that end, he combined the school's two fundraising institutions — the City College Fund, which has targeted small donors, and the Twenty - First Century Foundation, which caters to large givers — into a single foundation.

Decades - Old Rusty School Trailers at P.S. 19 in Corona to be Removed New Physical Addition to School Building Slated for Construction QUEENS, NY — Parents, elected and city officials today together announced plans underway to permanently expand capacity that's been long overdue at overcrowded P.S. 19Q in Corona, the largest elementary school in New York -LSSchool Trailers at P.S. 19 in Corona to be Removed New Physical Addition to School Building Slated for Construction QUEENS, NY — Parents, elected and city officials today together announced plans underway to permanently expand capacity that's been long overdue at overcrowded P.S. 19Q in Corona, the largest elementary school in New York -LSSchool Building Slated for Construction QUEENS, NY — Parents, elected and city officials today together announced plans underway to permanently expand capacity that's been long overdue at overcrowded P.S. 19Q in Corona, the largest elementary school in New York -LSschool in New York -LSB-...]

She commands the largest and most influential charter school network in the city and openly flirts with challenging Mr. de Blasio when he will seek re-election in 2017.

«The contract with the teachers» union expired in October 2009, while contracts with the union for principals and other school administrators and District Council 37, the city's largest public employee union, expired in March 2010.

They were almost exclusively from charter schools, and mostly from the Success Academy network, New York City's largest and most powerful charter network.

Success Academy is the city's largest charter network, with 36 schools citywide, including 19 in Northern Manhattan and the Bronx.

StudentsFirstNY, a local chapter of the national reform organization, and Success Academy, the city's largest and most powerful charter school network, quickly joined suit, along with other charter networks like KIPP and Achievement First.

This week will include a focus on what the city can do to stop gas - related explosions after another such explosion occurred this weekend, this time in Borough Park; education politics and policy, as the pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a large rally; a continuation of negotiation and criticism between city and state entities over MTA funding; and more.

This was the largest graduation rate increase out of the state's «Big 5 City School Districts,» which is composed of New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, according to the state education department.

Still, turning struggling schools into charters on a large scale would be new territory for the city and state.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship school of the CUNY system and the nation's largest urban public university.

Easton today called the committee «nothing but a hit squad for millionaires and the largest landlords in New York City who want to take money out of the public schools to finance a tax cut for themselves.»

ALBANY — The State Legislature has adjourned for the year without coming to an agreement on mayoral control of New York City's schools, leaving a looming question mark over the chain of command for the nation's largest public school system and its 1.1 million students.

«New York City will become the largest school district in the nation to recognize Eid al - Fitr and Eid al - Adha as holidays,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio.

«Right now, when large - scale development is winding through the city land - use review process, sometimes, developers give back a school, sometimes they give back a park, sometimes it's affordable housing, sometimes it's nothing and sometimes a project isn't approved,» she said.

To prevent the impending lapse of mayoral control over New York City schools, the state Legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a two - year extension Thursday as part of a larger omnibus bill, which included a pension enhancement for certain uniformed workers, special recognition for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and several benefits for upstate areas.

Some board members cited the large number of students of color in the city school district and the impact the comments will have on them, as well as the poor example they set.

It's still not known whether the governor would get his wish to have greater control over the exact school aid distributions for New York City schools and large upstate school districts, including Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse.

Billionaire Dan Loeb is stepping down as chairman of Success Academy, the city's largest charter - school operator — and will be replaced by an equally monied but less controversial chief, The...

Among large school districts, Buffalo's numbers were behind New York City and Yonkers, but ahead of both Rochester and Syracuse.