Sentences with phrase «open and close schools»

If the school board can open and close schools as well as issue a host of regulations about their operations, they effectively control their operations.

PMs can open and close schools, just like School Districts do.

And their ability to open and close schools can effectively control any other aspect of school operations that they wish.

It is easier to open and close schools when your student population is rising, and Denver's was growing rapidly.

In Baltimore, we had protocols around the decision to open and close schools in relationship to a set of potential events — whether it was ice on the streets, snow, buildings that were too hot or too cold, a potential hazmat situation in a school, a lockdown of a neighborhood because of crime, or what have you.

I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.

Charter authorization creates a very different process for opening and closing schools and may open up school leadership to newly emerging non-profit and for - profit charter operators.

For more than a century, public schools have been governed and actively managed by local school boards and districts, which opened and closed schools based mainly on total district enrollment, district finances, and local politics.

With a dozen different authorizers opening and closing schools in Detroit, Chan says this creates unpredictable enrollment and limits the expansion potential for highest - rated operators.

Teachers open and close the school instructional time by showing a short and engaging video to help children and adolescents develop emotional management strategies, empathy, resilience, conflict resolution skills and more.

Not exact matches

About a year later, Elon and his younger brother Kimbal, who has long been Musk's closest friend and chief co-conspirator, drew up plans to open an arcade near their school.

FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

«We're so thrilled to officially open the doors of our new Saxbys café and kick off our partnership with Drexel's Close School of Entrepreneurship,» said Bayer.

Bayer was joined at the café's opening by Drexel University President John Fry, 11 - term U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah and Dean of Drexel's Close School of Entrepreneurship Donna De Carolis, who joined Bayer in pulling the café's first espresso shots.

Once it is set have them practice opening and closing it many times to ensure that there will not be a problem at school.

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The TLC is open Monday - Wednesday, 3 pm to 5 pm, and Saturday 10 am to 1 pm during the 2017/2018 school year (September 5, 2017 - June 15, 2018), with the exception of the following days when it will be closed: December 30, January 1, April 16, May 28.

The school opened in 1970 and closed in 1981, and was sold to the state in 1989 for a new District 3 headquarters of the Illinois State Police.

«We want to turn these schools around, but just to blame teachers and close schools and open up charter schools I think is unfair,» Heastie said.

But some elected officials on both the city and state level have criticized this approach as a way to close public schools and open a charter school in its place.

As part of a deal to renew mayoral control of New York City schools, state and city leaders will allow the reuse of 22 charter contracts that have been revoked or surrendered by charter schools that closed or never opened.

«Orchard Park schools are looking forward to a close partnership with the Department of Social Services, and to further opening the lines of communication to support all of our students in difficult times,» said Matthew McGarrity, Superintendent of Orchard Park Central School District.

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.

He was still effectively able to close schools, open charters and co-locate schools during his second term, as the sympathetic P.E.P. approved almost all of the mayor's proposals.

Story of the Day: Bronx Charter School on Probation for Shady Lottery Practices The Academic Leadership Charter School, which opened on East 141st Street in 2009, is in hot water and in danger being closed after city investigators discovered that the school may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted stuSchool on Probation for Shady Lottery Practices The Academic Leadership Charter School, which opened on East 141st Street in 2009, is in hot water and in danger being closed after city investigators discovered that the school may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted stuSchool, which opened on East 141st Street in 2009, is in hot water and in danger being closed after city investigators discovered that the school may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted stuschool may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted students.

Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (D - Queens), chair of the Education Committee and a close ally of the United Federation of Teachers, was wondering why a highly rated charter that wanted to open a second school in her district was rejected.

Tricia Joyce, a member of the task force, said she remembers that five years ago, city officials said they would take a closer look, and it did lead to opening temporary «incubator» space early for two new Downtown schools, but this was the first time she ever remembered being invited into smaller planning meetings.

Subways were running close to normal but many parents and students reported rough commutes to public schools, which were open Monday morning despite protest from some politicians.

NYC schools are open, though schools in Newark, NJ are closed due to ongoing storm cleanup, and many schools on Long Island are either closed or have delayed openings.

Schools in NYC are open, but districts elsewhere have closed or delayed opening due to fridge temperatures and dangerous driving conditions.

«Essentially we have the beginning of a tsunami, where literally we could have a hole in our community with the closing of Sophie Finn and the closing of the Kingston Hospital campus right next door which I can see every day from my office,» said Gallo during a press conference which — as he paced back and forth in the Common Council chambers before an audience of reporters, community members and at least four school board trustees — seemed at times similar to the delivery of an opening argument at trial.

She also embraced a strategy implemented by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg that entails closing failing schools and opening smaller ones in their place.

«Andrew believes that public review and consultation are important but can not become a poison pill that prevents the opening of new charter schools,» a source close to Cuomo told The Post.

Voting will open at 6 a.m. and the polls will close at 9 p.m. Voting Districts 2, 3 and 4 will vote at the Highland Firehouse, Districts 5 and 6 vote at the Town Hall and Districts 1 and 7 at Highland High School.

Jeremy Dueñas, a freshman at Ralph McKee High School, created «Close NYC Schools During Snow Emergencies» amid an announcement by Farina and her head - in - a-snowdrift boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Wednesday night that city public schools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the BigSchools During Snow Emergencies» amid an announcement by Farina and her head - in - a-snowdrift boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Wednesday night that city public schools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the Bigschools would be open Thursday — despite a storm warning and forecast that called for as many as 10 inches of snow to blanket the Big Apple.

Downtown families living east of Broadway, including many in Southbridge Towers, have said they would oppose sending their children to Chinatown schools, since there are two other schools that are closer to them: the Spruce Street School, which opened this fall near City Hall, and the new Peck Slip School, which will open in an incubator space in Tweed Courthouse next fall.

Voting will open at 6 a.m. and the polls will close at 9 p.m. Districts 1 and 5 will vote at Deyo Hall; 4, 6 and 8 will vote at the New Paltz Middle School; Districts 2, 3, 7 and 10 at New Paltz High School; and District 9 will vote at the SUNY New Paltz campus.

For more than eight years, he closed schools, opened schools and otherwise tried to transform the nation's largest school system.

The voucher program began in the 1970s as a means of breaking up pockets of poverty and allowing poor recipients to move closer to quality schools and job opportunities by offering subsidies to be used on the open rental market.

The Bloomberg administration had pursued an aggressive agenda of closing struggling schools and opening new schools.

«The DOE should be opening more career and technical schools instead of trying to close them.»

Bloomfield Industry's North Hempstead location, which drew ire from community members for being close to a school, has received the green light from the town, and is expected to open later this month.

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.

But I was such a romantic youth that I closed my eyes to lots of things that I should've had my eyes open to; and I described it in my book, how, you know, a high school teacher pushed me to Harvard.

Coauthor Dr. Stefan Feske, of the New York University School of Medicine Department of Pathology, in 2006 discovered ORAI channels, which open and close to allow calcium into cells.

«Knowledge of the 3 - D structure of these channels is required to understand the molecular basis of channel opening and closing, and how this process is controlled by a wide variety of endogenous molecules and pharmacological modifiers,» said Rodney Kellems, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTHealth Medical School.

«These self - healing, bioinspired actuators bring us another step closer to being able to build entirely soft - bodied robots, which may help to bridge the gap between humans and robots and open entirely new application areas in medicine and beyond,» said Wyss Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children's Hospital Vascular Biology Program, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Ivy Jean's school was open and my work was closed for winter break, so I met him for lunch to celebrate his birthday early which is Christmas Day.

Chris used to practice his jury selection, open / closing arguments on me during law school, so I'll randomly throw an «I OBJECT» into an argument now and then.