Sentences with phrase «of keeping schools open»

Our schools follow the guidance of their local health departments, with the goal of keeping schools open as long as it is in the best interest of our students and faculty.

Meanwhile, the California Charter Schools Association says Magnolia parents are planning to protest at the courthouse tomorrow morning in support of keeping the schools open.

Not exact matches

Whether it is the beginning of August and you are attending Open House, or if it is April and you are touring for the following school year, take a look around and keep these considerations in mind.

«My experience at the Waldorf School of Baltimore continues to follow me through life - in my good friends, in the community, in keeping an open and creative mind.

If you are wanting to show what your child is learning I would suggest keeping a diary of all of the things you do in a day - and be open minded about what counts as «school type» learning.

I still don't like to see sugary milk offered in schools and I believe that after a time the consumption of plain milk would go back up, but I am keeping an open mind.

He made the assertion in Ibadan, Oyo State capital in an address at the opening session of the Training Workshop on the Use of Curriculum Guides, Record Keeping, Guidance and Counselling and Multigrade Teaching Techniques for Nomadic School Teachers in the South - West Zone.

Nearly 100 students from Legacy School for Integrated Studies on 34 W. 14th St. gathered in Union Square Wednesday afternoon to ask the Department of Education to keep the school open despite its poor School for Integrated Studies on 34 W. 14th St. gathered in Union Square Wednesday afternoon to ask the Department of Education to keep the school open despite its poor school open despite its poor marks.

The authority had planned to close the center, which lets the public use Stuyvesant High's athletic facilities when school is not in session, on Dec. 20 — much to the outrage of residents and officials — but the authority agreed to keep it open while they work with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's office to find a new operator for the facility.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the educational system.

Alfred Higley, a member of Shandaken town board read a one - page resolution passed by the town board in support of keeping Phoenicia school open.

By contrast, Moskowitz kept her schools open for one reason: In a city where the overwhelming number of black and Latino students are failing their proficiency tests, she believes students can not afford to miss the precious education they get.

Bill de Blasio found himself a lonely man Thursday as he tried to defend his decision to keep the city's schools open in the midst of a Nor» easter that ended up dumping about 10 inches of snow on the city.

There are numerous private nonprofit organizations and foundations across the state, many at SUNY schools, that contend they operate outside the state's open government laws, keeping their records out of reach from the public and journalists.

«Do you believe that the policy of routinely closing schools after what seems in a lot of cases deliberate policy by the department to let these schools deteriorate until they are not worth keeping open, do you think that is policy that should be part of your vision?»

Faced with a blizzard of criticism from angry parents forced to trudge with their kids to school through a nor» easter that dumped up to three inches of snow an hour on the Big Apple, a seemingly out - of - touch Chancellor Carmen Fariña defended the call to keep classes open Thursday — blindly declaring it «a beautiful day out there» as wet flakes and freezing rain continued to pelt New Yorkers.

The $ 68.5 billion budget keeps fire companies and libraries open, without raising taxes, and increases the number of daycare and after - school spaces offered by the city, which had been on the chopping block under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's original plan.

De Blasio vowed to be «on top of the action,» and added that officals would wait to make a «game - time decision» on whether to keep schools open Friday.

The city suspended alternate side of the street parking, but vowed to keep public schools open as long as possible.

School board member Carl Paladino has been accused of his own invested interest in some of the area charter schools, while minority members are fighting to keep the schools open.

Those fighting to keep Jonathan Levin HS open acknowledge that its grades on the DOE's School Progress Reports have slipped, but note that Tweed has failed to give the school the support it needs to serve rising numbers of English language learners and special education stuSchool Progress Reports have slipped, but note that Tweed has failed to give the school the support it needs to serve rising numbers of English language learners and special education stuschool the support it needs to serve rising numbers of English language learners and special education students.

In the last mayoral election, most of the Democratic wannabes vowed to keep open dysfunctional city schools, just to preserve jobs for staff and cater to unions.

It means that all new and existing religious free schools must continue to keep at least half of its places open to all children, irrespective of their religious or non-religious backgrounds.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

Apart from whatever generous state aid is likely to be negotiated by Cuomo and lawmakers in an election year, set aside $ 3 million in annual funding to keep open the STEM high school and the Long Island High School of the Arts run by Nassau school and the Long Island High School of the Arts run by Nassau School of the Arts run by Nassau BOCES.

She «sets priorities and agendas for the school,» which is a dean - ish way of saying that she controls the Magic Money Valve, opening it for certain purposes and keeping it closed for others.

Boettiger has kept an open notebook since his third year of graduate school, in 2010, and will start a faculty position in July.

Reddi, now the dean of the graduate school at Florida International University, realized early on that «hundreds of opportunities that could connect my research to other areas» would have been lost if he had been only focused on his own day - to - day activities as a researcher and not on also keeping his eyes open to new opportunities.

It's now 2009, and Caleb Koestler (Canterbury, Benjamin Button), a current student at the same school, receives the envelope to open, keeping the page of numbers, only to be found by his widower, alcoholic father, John (Cage, National Treasure 2), a professor of Astrophysics at MIT, who soon deciphers the meaning.

Two of her three students at the Salund School in McLeod are expected to graduate from 6th grade next spring, and school officials in the town, population 60, are unlikely to keep the school open, sheSchool in McLeod are expected to graduate from 6th grade next spring, and school officials in the town, population 60, are unlikely to keep the school open, sheschool officials in the town, population 60, are unlikely to keep the school open, sheschool open, she said.

So when we have bad weather, we do everything we can to keep the school open and make sure the site is safe, for example reducing the risk of people hurting themselves on ice.

Those who already had a culture of supporting students with anywhere, anytime learning kept students and parents fully informed of school closures or openings, and could operate almost as normal with learning materials and activities available from anywhere, ongoing student teacher communications and on - line submission of completed work.

I know it's the end of the school year, but keep your eyes open for buttons.

A network of schools in California is designed around the idea that career preparation and college preparation should blend seamlessly, keeping all doors open for students.

As long as charter schools aren't kept from opening or expanding because of arbitrary state caps, parents will continue flocking to them.

Beyond that, exposure to different cultures will keep TFA «open to new ways of doing things,» which can be a challenge for young companies, Jon Schnur, a co-founder of two education nonprofits, America Achieves and New Leaders for New Schools, told me.

The third finding, which is fundamental for us, is about recognising there's a willingness on the part of philanthropy to open that conversation and keep that conversation going; that they want to know what's happening in schools.

JE: At a school level, in terms of females choosing those subjects at senior secondary level, is the worry that they're not keeping their options open, that this is a broad skillset and we should be encouraging them to go into these subjects?

In an e-mail alert last year announcing community meetings about the school district's problems, the superintendent wrote: «The Reading School District is facing a financial crisis that could threaten the ability to keep our schools open the entirety of nextschool district's problems, the superintendent wrote: «The Reading School District is facing a financial crisis that could threaten the ability to keep our schools open the entirety of nextSchool District is facing a financial crisis that could threaten the ability to keep our schools open the entirety of next year.

This national competition is open to all schools who are members of Eco-Schools England, part of environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, where more than 17,000 schools are registered and 1,200 schools currently hold the top award of Eco-Schools Green Flag status.

Because it's an open - source system, the platform will keep improving, in the view of Mark Kushner, who heads + Impact School, a private Expeditionary Learning high school in Lake Tahoe, California, that useSchool, a private Expeditionary Learning high school in Lake Tahoe, California, that useschool in Lake Tahoe, California, that uses SLP.

This tool for connecting kids, teachers, and parents online can open up the lines of communication between school and home and can help keep kids on their toes.

Only three of seven buses started, but McNamara said he reluctantly kept school open, and informed parents that buses were going to be delayed.

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That kept the schools open for another school year, while justices contemplated the second part of the «suitable» equation, whether the state was providing enough money overall.

«Interest groups do all they can to keep new schools from opening up in neighborhoods where there are other schools existing — not because of what's best for kids, but because of what they perceive is best for adults.»

Instead of deflecting potential concerns, it aggravated them, opening a festering sore about funding for district schools, which local officials say are straining to make do under an outdated state financing formula that has not kept pace with spiraling costs.

In order to keep the school open and preserve its small class sizes, 62 kids embarked on a letter writing campaign to the local community describing the value of the school and explaining to community members exactly how they could help.

If enough avail themselves of those alternative opportunities, especially if the neighborhood school is bad (in any of a dozen ways, including safety, physical plant, etc.), there won't be enough kids left to justify keeping it open.