Sentences with phrase «mayors saw in their school»

Yet the urban ring mayors saw in their school district systems the same structural flaws that the urban mayors saw in theirs.

Not exact matches

The relationship between Cuomo and de Blasio publicly had been one in which the two men carefully sought to avoid any on - the - record critiques, even as the governor was seen as purposefully undermining the mayor on key issues such as an Atlantic Yards land deal, the terms of extending the 421a tax abatement, mayoral control of New York City schools, universal pre-Kindergarten and a city - wide increase in the minimum wage.

The Senate has for the last decade been an unpredictable force in state politics and the source of heavy spending by deep - pocketed benefactors and labor groups interested in seeing which party controls the chamber — underscoring the chamber's role in determining the outcome of everything from charter schools, to tax policy and the agenda of the mayor of the city of New York.

Seeing the upcoming mayor's race as an opportunity to make some much - needed changes to school governance in New York City, the UFT has reconstituted its School Governance Commschool governance in New York City, the UFT has reconstituted its School Governance CommSchool Governance Committee.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo has signaled that he may push for mayoral control of schools in upstate cities in the upcoming legislative session, and upstate mayors are waiting anxiously to see what the follow - through looks like.

But his efforts came too late; Mr. Cuomo and Republicans in the State Senate were already working in private to provide a lifeline to charter schools, seizing on what they saw as the mayor's political weakness.

On the one side, she agreed with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to a test plan offering monetary incentives to teachers in schools whose poorest students make significant gains in achievement (see «New York City's Education Battles,» features, Spring 2008).

Governor Deval Patrick, in a nod to the mayor, backed legislation that would expand pilot schooling throughout the state while curtailing charter school operations (see «Accountability Overboard,» features, Spring 2009).

«I wanted my students to see school reform and interventions for kids from the vantage point of the mayor — what levers he can pull, what roadblocks get in his way, the political considerations he faces,» Weissbourd said.

«All of us had collectively turned our backs on the schools,» the mayor said in the August speech, recalling how observers had seen bullet holes in glass doorways, graffiti on walls, and restrooms that didn't work.

The majority of students in city schools and in the mayor's schools are African American (see Figure 1).

Another example of the mayor's office and the local establishment making nice over charter schools can be seen in KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Indianapolis.

Schwarzenegger also stepped into a dispute over the future of the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, siding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa against the district's board and the teachers union (see «Power Struggle in Los Angeles,» forum, Summer 2007).

In the 1990s, however, a new breed of urban mayor began to see the school system as one of the keys to rebuilding the cities.

In any case, we see no reason at all for the mayor being other than quite satisfied with the latest grades NAEP has given his city's schools.

The point, the mayor said, is to get Chicago Public Schools students in all parts of the city to stop seeing high school graduation as an ending and get them to consider what's next.

But his efforts came too late; Mr. Cuomo and Republicans in the State Senate were already working in private to provide a lifeline to charter schools, seizing on what they saw as the mayor's political weakness.

Ms. Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman who recently announced she would not run for mayor in 2017, was speaking at New York Law School, part of their CityLaw breakfast series, and gave what was mostly a typical Success Academy stump speech: save for an introduction that was more of a defense against recent lawsuits and media stories, and for a conclusion that saw parents of former Success students livening up the typically staid CityLaw audience to demand apologies or answers from Ms. Moskowitz.

Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan's first week in office saw housing help for low - income families, a study of the city's Race and Social Justice Initiative and a proposal for two years of free community college tuition for public high school graduates.