Sentences with phrase «largest public school system»

· Ten Strands is working to leverage existing California state infrastructure and education initiatives within the nation's largest public school system to bring environmental literacy to its 6.2 million K - 12 students.

As an author and television journalist, Cheryl Wills ventured into the nation's largest public school system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New York City.

A new budget has been adopted for the second - largest public school system in Massachusetts that officials say puts «students first.»

The second largest public school system in Massachusetts will operate with a $ 346 million budget in the next school year, a 2.4 percent increase over what the Springfield schools spent this year.

Construction is underway on a new food center that will provide improved nutrition for tens of thousands of children in the second - largest public school system in Massachusetts.

The second largest public school system in Massachusetts is expanding early childhood education through what officials say is a unique partnership with the private sector.

After two decades as president of the teachers union in the second - largest public school system in Massachusetts, Tim Collins is formally retiring at the end of the month.

Officials say good progress was made during the first year of an initiative to turn around the struggling middle schools in the second largest public school system in Massachusetts.

New York City, which has the nation's largest public school system, wants to hire 1,000 black, Latino and Asian male teachers by 2017 to create a teaching corps that more closely matches the student body.

«Wanted in New York City: A Thousand Black, Latino and Asian Male Teachers (Posted 2015-12-11 05:04:39); the Nation's Largest Public School System Wants Teaching Force to Better Match Its Student Body.»

Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) is the nation's sixth largest public school system and the largest fully accredited district with over 234,600 students in more than 230 schools and education centers.

In 2012, the New York City Department of Education, or NYCDOE — the largest public school system in the country — and the United Federation of Teachers, or UFT, designed a teacher career ladder to extend educators» skills beyond their individual classrooms and allow teachers to be powerful levers of change in school communities.

On Tuesday, L.A. Unified board members approved the first Parent Trigger to take place in the district, which is the second largest public school system in the United States.

In New York City, home to the nation's largest public school system with 1.1 million pupils, just 52 percent of the students who took last year's statewide Regents test in Algebra I passed, mirroring statistics elsewhere in the country.

Since the school reform law went into effect in 2002 and Pennsylvania's Governor appointed Paul G. Vallas the first Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia school district, «reform» has been aimed to bust unions and impose massive privatization on the nation's eighth largest public school system.

The weeklong teachers» strike in Chicago has crippled the nation's third - largest public school system as union leaders fought against budget cuts and a reform agenda laid out by the city's Democratic mayor, Rahm Emanuel.

The Miami district is the nation's fourth - largest public school system, with about 345,000 students.

North Carolina's largest public school system may be warning of «enormous disruptions» without speedy action from state lawmakers on a looming class size funding crisis, but key education leaders in Raleigh tell Policy Watch there's little sign Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly will act soon.

* New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg installed Cathleen Black, a woman with no experience in public schools, as chancellor of the country's largest public school system.

Carranza announced earlier this month is leaving the district to become chancellor of New York City Schools, the largest public school system in the United States.

LA Schools Reinventing Art Education The Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest public school system in the United States with some 700,000 students.

And yet, as I look around America's largest public school system, what do I see but... chaos, gridlock, and corruption.

2014 — 207 schools select CEI - PEA as their Partnership Support Organization, which makes our PSO the sixth largest public school system in the United States.

Jesus Jara, now a deputy superintendent in the Orange County (Fla.) district, is in line to lead the nation's 5th - largest public school system.

With a focus on equity, innovation, and quality, Dr. William R. Hite, Jr. serves as Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, the largest public school system in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

California is doing things differently — a bold experiment to bring America's largest public school system back from the brink.

That was 2006 and the happening place was New York City, where Joel Klein was four years into remaking the nation's largest public school system.

New York City, with the nation's largest public school system, is also using incentives for educators, mostly in the form of bonuses for principals and teachers.

Cathie Black another example, a bachelor's degree in English, former advertising and media mogul, appointed to be the NYC Schools Chancellor lacks credits, coursework, relevant graduate degrees and professional experiences in public education yet she is suppose to lead the largest public school system in the nation.

He also said leading the nation's largest public school system was «difficult.»

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.

Steiner was roundly criticized for heeding Mayor Bloomberg's request to grant Black a waiver to run the nation's largest public school system even though she had no experience as an educator.

«There may be some truth in that,» Black says, all but admitting that for a manager like her, with no professional experience in education, heading America's largest public school system was above her capabilities.

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

Because most public charters, like Aspire, have more freedom to innovate than large public school systems do, I see promise that in the right set of circumstances charter schools can achieve greatness for special ed students.

Twenty years after Delaware's first charters opened, the state is still wrestling with their proper role within the larger public school system.

It will mandate the state treat charters less as a independent enterprises and more as interdependent parts of the larger public school system.

The district in 2014 was one of two nationwide awarded the annual Broad Prize for Urban Education, then considered by some to be the Nobel Prize for large public school systems.

The fact that two out of those three states are also home to the two largest public school systems should make these dips in enrollment especially troubling.

Large public school systems, of course, have standardized processes for hiring that involve human resource professionals in central offices.

Forty - eight of the 100 largest public school systems in the United States in 2008 - 09 reported enrollment declines compared with the previous year's numbers.

With more than 100,000 students, Chicago's public high schools would have been the second larges public school system in Illinois were they a separate district.

This graduation is one of five for Aspire Public Schools, California's highest - performing large public school system serving predominantly low - income students.

They exist throughout Maryland and I believe, within larger public school systems.

Like most large public school systems, Seattle's was facing rapid decline in 1995.

Not exact matches

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Of course, school lunch is one part of the larger war that must be waged — against the public's apathy, lack of awareness, or disenfranchisement from the system.