Sentences with phrase «of vacant schools»

Chicago promised to use the proceeds of the sales of vacant schools to improve those neighborhoods.

Dennis Conta of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association (from left), Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines and state Sen. Alberta Darling hold a press conference outside 38th Street School in Milwaukee Wednesday to announce proposed state legislation that would grant the city power to approve sales of vacant school buildings.

A recent poll by Education Reform Now, a non-partisan partner of DFER - DC, showed that 76 % of voters and an overwhelming 86 % of parents believe that public charter schools should be part of the solution to the city's supply of vacant school buildings.

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My old man used a razor strop on me from time to time and having no success once paddled himself, with me watching, to demonstrate his failure to rectify my attitude (I had set a vacant lot on fire, smoking cigarettes I'd salvaged from the steps of the Catholic church across the street) In school, you had to bend over and grab your ankles in order to take your licks.

The post being taken up became vacant after Dr Krish Kandiah left to become president of the London School of Theology.

There are overgrown lots next to gas stations, vacants, a tour of churches, and shuttered schools.

Currently, many of Lombard's activities are being held in a vacant elementary school building, but School District 44 officials have indicated the former Fairwood School might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires nextschool building, but School District 44 officials have indicated the former Fairwood School might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires nextSchool District 44 officials have indicated the former Fairwood School might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires nextSchool might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires next year.

Along with the school, properties under consideration include the Southminster Presbyterian Church, the Church of God, an office building, a theater, five acres of vacant land owned by Central DuPage Hospital and seven homes.

With 14 applicants vying for a seat left vacant by outgoing board president Sam Black in Glen Ellyn District 41, school board members this week selected Cathryn Wilkinson, the former associate dean of Fine and Applied Arts at the College of DuPage to fill the spot.

Palatine - based District 15 and the Palatine Park District jointly purchased 3.7 acres of vacant land at Plum Grove and Meacham Roads, across the street from the junior high school.

School board member Shelby Brown is on the ballot to fill the town council seat left vacant by the sudden death of William Horan.

The vacant seat on the Buffalo School Board is apparently very attractive to residents of South Buffalo.

Victor J. Turchiarelli's seat on the Buffalo School Board was declared vacant in 1992 by then - Commissioner Thomas E. Sobol after Turchiarelli failed to attend board meetings for more than a year because of a back injury.

Other Westchester Municipalities having School Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool Board And 2018 - 2019 Votes include The Peekskill City School District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District (2 seats up), Greenburgh Central School District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District, New Rochelle Public Schools (One (1) full Five - year term and one (1) Two - year term [unexpired portion of a vacant term]-RRB-, Scarsdale Public School District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District, the Mamaroneck Union Free School District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District (which includes public school system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Stschool system for Village of Larchmont residents), Port Chester Public Schools, Tuckahoe Union Free School District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District (one (1) board seat), Pelham Public School District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District (Eligible Pelham voters may vote on a two - proposition bond proposal to fund facilities / infrastructure projects and athletic facilities / fields upgrades), Rye City School District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool District (There is only one Polling Place: The Rye Middle School Gymnasium at 3 Parsons StSchool Gymnasium at 3 Parsons Street.)

Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines on Wednesday made a push for a state law that would let the city decide on the sales of vacant MPS school buildings.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Interested applicants who reside in Buffalo's Park District have until September 1 to apply for the vacant seat on the Buffalo Public School's Board of Education.

The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

YORKVILLE — After several years of lobbying the Department of Education and elected officials to relieve overcrowding, Upper East Siders are getting a middle school in P.S. 158's vacant space, officials announced Friday.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Parents and community education advocates are demanding that the Department of Education put a middle school in P.S. 158's vacant space.

March 4: David Gates is appointed as a school board trustee by the Nassau BOCES superintendent to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Cooke, who was the top vote - getter in the May 2014 board election.

The vacant Michael J. Dillon U.S. Courthouse in downtown Buffalo, which is in walking distance of several other courts in Buffalo, is an ideal location for the University at Buffalo Law School, according to State Senator Marc Panepinto.

A stipulation in the bill requires the independent preparatory school to come to terms with the Rye City Council first on a shared - use agreement for the 4.7 - acre vacant land parcel located parallel to the private school, along Boston Post Road and at the entryway of one of Rye's municipal borders.

This partnership between the Erie County Clerk's Office, the WNY Law Center and Columbia Law School is the first of its kind, applying the skillset and knowledge of the law students, to provide additional support, resources and information to smaller municipalities otherwise overwhelmed by the complicated process of identifying responsible parties for maintaining vacant properties.

«This new partnership with Columbia Law School is a substantial step towards riding communities of vacant and abandoned properties,» said Clerk Mickey Kearns.

Buffalo's University Heights community is grappling with a problem familiar to most city residents: What to do with a vacant landmark school right in the middle of a residential area?

The formerly weed - choked vacant lot will be a classroom for a new venture called Farm School NYC: The New York City School of Urban Agriculture.

The school, currently located in former Buffalo Public School # 29 at 2219 South Park Ave., in Buffalo, wants to create a new campus on 26 acres of vacant land at 154 South Ogdschool, currently located in former Buffalo Public School # 29 at 2219 South Park Ave., in Buffalo, wants to create a new campus on 26 acres of vacant land at 154 South OgdSchool # 29 at 2219 South Park Ave., in Buffalo, wants to create a new campus on 26 acres of vacant land at 154 South Ogden St.

Property tax collection is a major source of funding for public schools, but there are thousands of properties in Syracuse that the property taxes aren't being collected on — either because they're vacant or the owner isn't paying.

The Syracuse school district could be down a million dollars because of an unintended consequence of vacant properties being sold to the land bank.

«Our findings showed that restoration of vacant land helps to deter crime and violence and represents a pragmatic upstream infrastructural investment strategy to address complex social issues in cities,» said Charles Branas, PhD, Mailman School of Public Health chair and professor of Epidemiology, and lead author.

Residents who lived near vacant land that had been restored reported a significantly reduced perception of crime and vandalism as well as increased feelings of safety and use of outside spaces for socializing, according to a new study at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Greening vacant lots may be associated with biologic reductions in stress, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Cleaning and greening vacant lots might be just enough of a change, Kaplan says, to help build a sense of ownership and neighborhood identity in the affected communities so they can come together and push for larger improvements like better schools and sanitation — and remain in the neighborhood to enjoy them.

It believes that in England there will be approximately 25,000 schools full of vacant spaces between July and August.

The latest TES Teacher Recruitment Index from TES Global shows that schools filled a higher proportion of vacant posts during the Easter 2016 period than in any Easter period since 2012.

Schools have filled a higher proportion of vacant posts during the Easter 2016 period than in any Easter period since at least 2012.

On Top of the News State Law Forces Milwaukee to Put Vacant Schools Up for Sale Ed Week District Dossier 8/21/15

Vialet has visited schools where the center of the schoolyard was about as vacant as a volcano crater, flanked by children on the sidelines, unsure of what to do with their free time or how to engage their classmates.

A high turnover among top state school officers nationwide is posing a challenge for recruiters seeking people with the right mix of educational acumen and political savvy to fill the vacant or soon - to - be-vacant spots.

In return, according to the terms of a 106 - page draft agreement, the business and community leaders have agreed to give priority to hiring qualified high - school graduates for vacant entry - level jobs.

It was on the site of an elementary school that had been vacant for 14 years, and had become a real blight on the neighborhood.

Up to a quarter of school governor positions are vacant in some rural and deprived areas of England and one in 10 of the 300,000 governor posts nationally is unfilled.

The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.

Though charter schools already had right of first refusal on public school property up for sale, charter school operators were meeting resistance from some Arkansas school districts selling vacant buildings.

Fortunately for those who blanched at the thought of long, nicotineless work days, though, Jim Stork had spotted a small vacant apartment across the street from the school.

NMTCs Help Expand Charter School, Revive Vacant Mall in Oklahoma City, by Mark O'Meara, Senior Writer, Novogradac & Company LLP, Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits, March 2017, Volume VIII, Issue III

And more than 40 percent of all small, rural school districts in the country have serious difficulties filling vacant teaching positions.

Any school building disposition should include advanced planning to prevent vacant schools through advanced planning of potential school vacancies.

If the De Blasio administration takes away funding for construction along with access to vacant space in public school buildings, the cold hard reality is that tens of thousands of New York City students will be denied a chance for a better education.»

In addition to using one of the many vacant spaces on the Katzenbach campus, the charter school plans to team with Katzenbach and provide some combined programs.