Sentences with phrase «middle class students last»

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signs legislation for tuition - free college for middle class students last week at LaGuardia Community College in Queens..

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The Excelsior Scholarship, rolled out by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last year, offers free tuition to middle - class students at the State University of New York and the City University of New York.

But here we are in New York, approaching a brave new world in which middle - class students who meet certain criteria will soon be eligible to attend a state university or college for free, thanks to legislation signed last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Contrast this with the local school where class sizes are notoriously large and there has been a «white flight» of middle class students out of this school to private schools in the last few years.

When the student - government president here at City Springs Elementary / Middle School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his heels.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

Peggy Coyne, a Black Hawk Middle School reading specialist and president - elect of Madison Teachers Inc., said she plans to ask students to write journal entries Tuesday about what they did while classes were canceled the last four days.

Walker and the Republican - controlled Legislature last session expanded vouchers to Racine, eliminated an enrollment cap in Milwaukee and raised income limits to allow middle - class students to participate.

The decreasing affordability of higher education is eroding the last relatively secure path into the middle class, as more students take on larger amounts of debt to finance their higher educations, or forego it altogether.

The Excelsior Scholarship, rolled out by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo last year, offers free tuition to middle - class students at the State University of New York and the City University of New York.

Law school was a shelter from the storm, and an arts student's dream — a guaranteed ticket into the upper middle class, through a prestigious, cerebral profession that had gone largely unchanged for the last 500 years.