Sentences with phrase «more guidance counselors»

The chancellor has said she wants to get all second graders on their proper reading level and has repeatedly stressed the importance of hiring more guidance counselors.

Our current system forces public schools to choose between paying thousands of dollars in rent or providing more guidance counselors, computers, and after school activities for students.

Experts have said it is critical for students who are bullied and their parents to have allies at their schools who they can talk to, which is why many advocates have been calling for more guidance counselors and social workers, while some principals have said they'd like to add more school aides to their rosters.

The Initiative is modeled after President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative for young men and the city's Young Men's Initiative — and will be funded with $ 20 million in City Council and private philanthropic funds to pursue recommendations like hiring more guidance counselors in school, expanding the Nurse - Family Partnership program, and requiring city agencies to have «gender equity liaisons.»

Dromm told Gay City that one of the real problems in the public schools is «abusive» security agents, and he said if the Council can afford $ 20 million for private schools they should appropriate an equal amount for «restorative disciplinary practices» for such security personnel in the public schools as well as for many more guidance counselors.

Your story about the absenteeism crisis in New York City public schools highlights the need for the city Department of Education to hire more attendance teachers as well as more guidance counselors and social workers.

The city is also implementing a $ 15 million «Single Shepherd» program to hire more guidance counselors for middle and high schoolers in low - performing Districts 7 and 23.

She cited Boys and Girls HS, one of the 94 schools, where the UFT and the Department of Education are partners in a holistic approach, bringing in more guidance counselors and intervention services, adding instructional time, offering more arts and athletics, and emphasizing professional development and mentoring.

Rather than talking about how he would continue this success, Comptroller John Liu said his first priority the first year in office would be to hire more guidance counselors.

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña used her March 20 budget testimony to map out her administration's new priorities: middle school after - school programs, a thousand more pre-K teachers for September, more guidance counselors and speech teachers, art instruction and better professional development.

The increases for instruction and for support services (which include expenditures to hire more teachers and / or increase teacher salaries along with funds to hire more guidance counselors and social workers) may help explain the large, positive effects for students from low - income families.

One way to address these gaps would be to scramble for funding to fill them with more of the same: hire more teachers and more guidance counselors.

The 94 schools will receive medical, mental and dental services, more guidance counselors, social workers, and academic intervention specialists.

They include successfully changing policy to enforce the implementation of five Ethnic Studies classes, the addition of three more guidance counselors, and the elimination of a policy that required students to go to detention for being late during their class time.