Sentences with phrase «on big city school»

It takes a special leader to serve on a big city school board, especially in Philadelphia, where chronic funding shortages have created a «zero sum» approach on virtually every issue.

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Because every morning, when she walks with her big brother to school, she passes through dozens of children on the crowded streets of Cochabamba, the second largest city in Bolivia.

For our 20th, since we didn't get to take a big trip or anything (he taught for the summer session of school), he surprised me with a bunch of my favorite concerts over the last month, including New Kids On The Block / Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, the Utah Symphony and GENTRI and we got to spend some time together in Salt Lake City.

It was housed in property rented from the City of Baltimore, this little school set off on a big journey.

The City Council has directed both bodies to work together toward a plan for a joint recreation campus on a 13 - acre parcel of Park District property along 95th Street, but library officials fear a combined venture will further hinder the plans they have for a big new library near Neuqua Valley High School.

NYC Council members seized on the big raise de Blasio gave his new schools chancellor to push for raises for city cops.

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.

The legislative session was due to end the following week, but state leaders failed to reach agreements on any of the big - ticket items: extending rent protections to 2.5 million tenants, extending mayoral control of city schools and renewing 421 - a.

The battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rages on, with the governor delivering a shot at City Hall by claiming he and state lawmakers have done more to aid Big Apple schools than the mayor and the NYC Council.

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another ycity schools for another year.

There wasn't a big turnout Tuesday night in Lafayette High School for a meeting on city schools» new code of conduct.

But the session concluded in something of fizzle on Wednesday, as lawmakers remained at odds over extending mayoral control of New York City schools and a major legislative deal — sometimes referred to as a «big ugly» did not come to fruition.

Safety on city school buses has been a big concern following reports of a couple of sexual abuse incidents of young children on buses in 2016.

New York City's largest and most polarizing charter school network, Success Academy, is applying for its biggest expansion yet, with plans to open 14 new charter schools in the next two years, a spokeswoman for the network announced on Tuesday.

But the pressure mounted on the governor to deliver deals on rent regulations, mayoral control of New York City schools, and other big - ticket items, all while the legislature remained in turmoil thanks to their leadership crises.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

Mayoral control of schools in New York City is another big item remaining on lawmakers» to - do list.

City officials are calling on Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers to hand over millions in additional funding for Big Apple public schools.

Born in the Soviet Union in 1949 and raised in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Vilenkin got hooked on cosmology in high school, after reading about the Big Bang in a book by Sir Arthur Eddington.

Ren's a big - city high school rebel who relocates to a small town, takes up the right to dance to loud, groovin» music as his cause (laws on the books forbid it), and eventually wins over everyone from the town preacher's trouble - making daughter, Ariel (Julianne Hough), to the reverend himself (Dennis Quaid).

As the two Palmer boys who didn't run off to the big city, Vincent D'Onfrio is a bloated teddy bear of a former high school star athlete and Jeremy Strong an 8 mm camera - clinging man - child (possibly on the spectrum, though that's never fully addressed).

Produced by its star, this aimiable high school comedy (there was one every week last year) features Drew Barrymore as a 27 - year - old blue - stocking big - city journalist making up for her sad schooldays when assigned to go undercover to report on teenage mores.

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The Young Women's Leadership School (known to everyone as TYWLS, or «twills») is a big city school, located on the top five floors of an 11 - story office building on busy East 106th Street in Manhattan, one of the poorest neighborhoods in NewSchool (known to everyone as TYWLS, or «twills») is a big city school, located on the top five floors of an 11 - story office building on busy East 106th Street in Manhattan, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Newschool, located on the top five floors of an 11 - story office building on busy East 106th Street in Manhattan, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York.

But if the next mayor of New York City calls you on the day after his / her election and said simply, «Jean - Claude, the Big Apple has the largest school district in America, and that system educated you and then employed you for two decades.

Mayor Bloomberg is justifiably proud of the big gains New York City made in boosting the high - school graduation rate on his watch, with about two - thirds of students now graduating in four years, up from half a decade ago.

We no longer build shining cities of learning on hills — by hand, with sweat, toil and tears; we build big - box stores on flat land and call them schools.

As Giuliani's intervention illustrates, the question of who should run big - city schools is not only who should be the CEO, but also who should serve on the board of directors.

This article is based on the experience of civic and education leaders in six big - city school systems — New York City, New Orleans, Denver, Oakland, Newark, and Cleveland — that have adopted a «portfolio strategy.&racity school systems — New York City, New Orleans, Denver, Oakland, Newark, and Cleveland — that have adopted a «portfolio strategy.&raCity, New Orleans, Denver, Oakland, Newark, and Cleveland — that have adopted a «portfolio strategy.»

Opposition among antipoverty groups is building on two grounds — that charter schools are done to, not by, families in big cities; and that transfers of funds to charter schools hurt students in district - run schools.

The prose in this volume will appeal more to the citation - enthralled political scientist than to the informed citizen, but the study itself brings together the best available evidence on the consequences of mayoral efforts to reform big - city school systems.

That's how he frames his role as superintendent of the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big picture.

Los Angeles, Washington, Houston, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City and Seattle are just a handful of the big cities looking to fill one of the most important jobs on their payroll — that of the school superintendent.

Charter market share is significant and growing in most big cities, meaning authorizing will have a major bearing on the future of urban public schooling.

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

Not enough college students want to teach in big cities, and few education schools focus on preparing teachers for urban classrooms.

Thousands of infuriated parents and children, staging one of the biggest demonstrations in years, converged on City Hall Tuesday to protest Bill de Blasio's plan to make charter schools pay rent.

It's a big bet for the administration, based on the idea that the city can build the best community schools sector in the country, proving that community schools can be a vehicle for school improvement.

A decade ago, I became fixated on what I saw as the biggest problem in K — 12 education — that we continued to assign low - income inner - city kids to persistently failing schools.

To parents choosing among schools, to families deciding where to live, to taxpayers attempting to gauge the ROI on schools they're supporting, and to policy makers concerned with big - picture questions such as how their education system is doing when compared with those in another city, state, or country, that information is only marginally helpful — and potentially quite misleading.

Despite a new law meant to cut down on out - of - school suspensions, a review of the four biggest Connecticut cities showed suspensions are still happening at a high rate.

In 2011, Bill Turque, then The Washington Post's D.C. schools reporter, wrote that Rhee's focus on test scores did indeed bring «big gains — and more big headlines — for the city.»

In 2012, Chicago teachers — already the highest paid teachers in the country while working the fewest hours of any other big - city school district — went on strike.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

Extra classroom places are likely to relieve some of the increasing pressure on primary schools, particularly in London and the big cities, where a surge in the birth rate has seen primary schools struggling to cope with the rising demand.

In some big cities, fewer than half of high school students graduate on time.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

Unlike other big cities, Cincinnati has the advantage of having designed or redesigned its schools with community schools in mind, beginning more than a decade ago, when it embarked on a $ 1 billion effort to renovate its schools.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

And in a recent US News & World Report piece, «America's Bankrupt Schools,» Lauren Camera sounds alarm bells, explaining that «Pension plans could be the culprit behind broke big - city school districts,» and goes on to detail the bleak fiscal situation that now burdens Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago.