Sentences with phrase «most city schools»

The state took over most city schools right after the storm in 2005.

The union has not had a collective bargaining agreement in the city since the Recovery School District seized most city schools from the School Board.

The parents who mailed in all those applications believe that the new Wayne school will have a more motivated staff than most city schools (300 teachers applied for 14 jobs), that it will benefit from its association with the university, that it will be a magnet for philanthropy (before opening it had attracted $ 575,000 in corporate donations), that it will be smaller (city middle schools have 600 to 1,000 students) and have smaller classes (25 students versus 35 for city middle schools), and that it will demand more from their children.

Not exact matches

After Playworld selected six finalists, consumers who «liked» the company's Facebook page were able to vote for the community or school they considered most deserving; Parker's Woods park in Mason City, Iowa, and St. Norbert School in Northbrook, Ill., were the wischool they considered most deserving; Parker's Woods park in Mason City, Iowa, and St. Norbert School in Northbrook, Ill., were the wiSchool in Northbrook, Ill., were the winners.

Tony Laing, senior graduate student services coordinator at the New School in New York City, says he has had the most success placing qualified interns at companies he has the most experience with.

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

Springbank is also home to two of the city's most sought - after private schools, Webber Academy and Strathcona - Tweedsmuir School, as well as the prestigious Glencoe golf and country club, which Gull purported to have a five - year waiting list for new members.

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

Located in the world's most diverse city, Rotman School professors offer a rich blend of teaching acumen, industry experience and leading - edge research.

In fact, a recent study from the UCLA Anderson School of Management ranked L.A. as the most unaffordable city in the nation for both home buyers and renters.

Since the most severe problems are in inner - city schools, we should focus our efforts at reform there.

Somehow, as quickly as possible, we must discover the most effective way to end the scandalous failure of our inner - city schools.

A vast majority of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income kids, because their public schools tend to have the most problems.»

Watching ordinary people sink into an ordinary plastic tub in an ordinary school gym in an ordinary small city in western Canada is one of the most extraordinary and sacred moments of my life.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

God wishes to make beggars into Lords... Look about you at the courts of all the kings and princes, at the cities and the parishes... There you will find lawyers, doctors, counsellors, writers, preachers, who for the most part were poor and who have certainly all attended school, and who by means of the pen have risen to where they are lords.

Leonor Espinosa was chosen as winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize from a final Top 10 by a Prize Jury of the world's most respected chefs and experts in other fields, and announced today at the El Claustro de Sor Juana, a culinary school in Mexico City.

NIAMEY HARRIS Mission - S.F. — Football / Basketball — Senior This Harris, who is not related to Najee, gets the slight nod over the Antioch standout due to the fact that he may go down as one of San Francisco's most - decorated athletes to come out of the city's public school system.

As a star defensive player at John McDonogh High in New Orleans, Thompson had been the most passionate head - cracker in the city's schools.

Upon graduation, our 8th Grade students routinely attend the most competitive independent and public high schools in New York City and beyond.

What's more, these students were among the most disadvantaged in the New York City public school system.

In New York City, between 2007 and 2010, Fryer oversaw and evaluated a program jointly administered by the city's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schoCity, between 2007 and 2010, Fryer oversaw and evaluated a program jointly administered by the city's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schocity's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schocity's most low - performing schools.

According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.

It's probably not an possibility for most city dwellers, but our second homebirth was just on the other side of the fence from a public school (and recess ended just as active labor came on...)

The Waldorf School of Garden City has more than 47 passionate educators, most with advanced degrees in their core field.

In the Greeley and Gresham schools and others we visited and in most of the elementary school lunchrooms throughout the city, children pick up their trays and file along a short cafeteria line that offers a serving of meat or an alternative, a vegetable, bread, fruit and milk.

One of The Lunch Tray's most popular guest posts ever, entitled «The Incredible Shrinking Lunch Period,» was written back in 2011 by Chris Liebig, a law professor who also blogs about Iowa City schools.

«Most people haven't even thought about «school foodservice» as a career, but it's a very common one — we're in every town and city!

Researchers in Cincinnati tested this plan in one city school's lunchroom by posting green smiley faces alongside the most nutritious foods: fruits, vegetables, fat - free milk (white, not chocolate), and entrees featuring whole grains.

«Those rallying in Albany next week should stand together with the city and advocate — side by side — for our children, particularly the most underserved, and all of whom are public school students.»

De Blasio has placed his biggest bet on the Renewal program, which has pumped extra money and other resources into a group of the city's most troubled schools, at a cost of $ 582 million.

«Studies have shown that simply changing the admissions process would do nothing to address the lack of diversity at our city's most prestigious schools.»

It was one of the most colorful exchanges Monday besides the back and forth between Republican Senator Terrence Murphy and de Blasio over Mayoral control of City schools.

Lawmakers also voted to nearly double the city's speed camera program from 140 to 290 — most in the vicinity of about a third of New York City schocity's speed camera program from 140 to 290 — most in the vicinity of about a third of New York City schoCity schools.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

A Saratoga County native and alumna of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, she has worked in reporter and editor roles at newspapers in Utica and Binghamton, and most recently for the Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey.

As an education advocate, the UFT is involved in many of the most important debates and discussions affecting our schools and our city.

He is known as a committed advocate for public education, and co-founded the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which won billions of dollars for city schools from the state, though most of that money has never materialized.

The vacancy at Henninger will be filled by Brian Kavanagh, a local educator who most recently served as executive director of education and personnel for the Oswego City School District.

Most of the policy facing lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo is wrapped up in a broader debate over extending mayoral control of New York City schools.

A federal investigation finds most city elementary schools are violating the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Stuyvesant, one of the city's most academically prestigious high schools, was on lockdown for hours after the attack, said de Blasio, who praised the school system and police for following established protocol and acting swiftly to shelter students in place.

This past week, New York City parents learned whether their precious tots got into the city's most exclusive private schoCity parents learned whether their precious tots got into the city's most exclusive private schocity's most exclusive private schools.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

«We, as lawmakers, can help ensure that those living below the poverty line are able to take the bus or subway to appointments, work and school by making the Fair Fares plan a reality, guaranteeing half price MetroCards for some of our city's most vulnerable.»

Well, maybe — but plenty of people not named Barack Obama and not boosted by a vibrant and extensive network of active supporters also won on November 4th, and it strains credulity to think that every race for city council, school board or even Congress will swing on which candidate most effectively mobilizes an internet - driven grassroots army.

Her firing also came after several city school officials left the department since Black's appointment in January, most recently Deputy Chancellor John White, who announced he was leaving for a post in Louisiana.

Chess in the Schools has been teaching and empowering more than a half - million students in the most underserved communities throughout New York City, since 1986, helping students learn to use chess as an educational tool to promote learning and critical thinking.

The board is also responsible for vetting and approving most charter school applications, and its rejection of a round of new schools in the city this year earned her ire from the other side of the aisle.

In an interview this week, he said that his administration had established good relationships with most charter schools in the city.