Sentences with phrase «new classroom space»

The governor first proposed the «Smart Schools Bond Act» — a plan that would allow for up to $ 2 billion in borrowing for educational infrastructure spending (i.e. new classroom space) and technology purchases — in his 2014 State of the State address.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A battle over new classroom space at 26 Broadway is pitting a high - performing lower Manhattan high school against a school from the Upper East Side.

But local district chiefs said the loss of flexibility would force school systems to spend millions to create new classroom space and might jeopardize K - 3 arts, music and physical education teachers — so - called «specialty» subjects.

Districts would also have to spend millions on new classroom space and mobile classroom units, or offer sharp cuts to local school initiatives such as Pre-K programs.

Smaller classes would also prompt a need for new classroom space in many schools and districts, with school administrators complaining they would need to spend millions in local dollars to boost school infrastructure or refit mobile classroom units.

The proposal is aimed at improving accessibility by adding elevators, wheelchair lifts and ramps and more secure building entrances among 10 schools, and expanding five crowded schools by adding new classroom spaces and other building additions.

The city will need to identify, or in some cases build, new classroom space; hire, and in some cases train, about 4,500 new teachers; and create a transition between 3 - K programs in public schools, community - based organizations and existing programs supported by the Administration for Children's Services, which oversees young children.

The new classroom spaces incorporated many green aspects in their design and construction ranging from the installation of energy efficient demand - controlled lighting and ventilation to the use of materials that are locally manufactured, high in recycled content, and low in volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

«It is great to think that our new classroom spaces may do more than support the learning experience of future educators, researchers, and policymakers, but might also impact how they think about the integration of sustainability into the classroom and inspire them to push the limits of this ideal in their endeavors,» Carlson says.

The two partner agencies that run the Pre-K programs would be forced to find — and likely pay for — new classroom space, which is not a guarantee.