Sentences with phrase «problem at city schools»

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Since the most severe problems are in inner - city schools, we should focus our efforts at reform there.

At the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide theAt the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide theat Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide them.

«Lead poisoning is still a big problem, a huge problem,» says Philip Landrigan, MD, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

This past weekend, with mayoral control of the city schools set to expire at month's end if he can't get action, he was off in Miami Beach pontificating on national problems.

«At the same time obesity is epidemic nationwide, and 40 percent of the city's public school children are either overweight or obese, so we are appropriately concerned in making sure that our work to solve one problem doesn't inadvertently exacerbate the other,» she said.

A group of Brooklyn teachers, chapter leaders and UFT representatives met on June 7 at a local diner with City Councilman Vincent Gentile to make sure he understood the severe problems facing overcrowded District 20 schools and how much more severe those problems will become if the city lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positiCity Councilman Vincent Gentile to make sure he understood the severe problems facing overcrowded District 20 schools and how much more severe those problems will become if the city lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positicity lays off 4,200 teachers and cuts another 1,500 teaching positions.

Here's what we do know: Syracuse and the surrounding area did get some help in fixing roads, addressing discipline problems in city schools, job training for current openings at area manufacturers and improving city hall's computer system.

As the Syracuse City School District goes into its budget process, it's looking at a $ 24 million spending gap, a revenue problem stemming from years of stagnant state aid in the face of rising educational costs.

The comptroller was against the second vote on the $ 180 million high school renovation even before problems at polling sites across the city.

«It's a very nice approach to using technology to treat a problem that has not a lot of good solutions,» says Robert Weatherly, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and a physician at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., who was not involved in the study.

«The practical application of this work is that the problem is not large cities, the problem is the conditions in which some people live in large cities,» says study co-author Jose Lobo, an economist at A.S.U.'s School of Sustainability in Tempe.

The findings also suggest that obesity is a drain on the economy in addition to being a serious personal health problem, says Linda Barrington, PhD, the managing director of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University's school of industrial and labor relations, in New York City.

Professor Howard Seeman, author of Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems: A Classroom Management Handbook, is a former New York City public school teacher and professor of education at Lehman College, City University of New York.

In New York City, school officials have implemented a variety of special programs designed to attack the same problem — daily absenteeism runs at about 23 percent of the district's high - school students.

With the city of Philadelphia facing severe financial problems, a program that boosts salaries for some senior teachers in the city school district — at a cost totaling up to $ 16 million this school year — is raising some eyebrows.

I am not one to think that we solve problems by throwing money at them, but it was not only in New York City that schools received big funding increases.

The task force, established by Senator Simon last May in the wake of several reports highly critical of the city's school system — one calling its dropout problem «a human tragedy of enormous dimensions» — was aimed at turning Chicago into an «urban laboratory» for educational experimentation.

If you look at Figures 1 and 2 in the report on Detroit that I cited from Stanford's CREDO research center, you will see that the city's charter schools do look somewhat better than the comparison traditional public schools, but there are four problems with taking these results literally.

Asthma in the School: A Look at New York City This report uncovers and addresses some prevailing problems in New York City public schools with regards to asthma....

Report authors, Prof Peterson, Eric Hanushek at Stanford University and Ludger Woessmann at the University of Munich, wrote in Education Next magazine: «Lacking good information, it has been easy even for sophisticated Americans to be seduced by apologists who would have the public believe the problems are simply those of poor kids in central city schools.»

There are problems in some cities and states with some charter schools that need to be improved or closed, but calling for a national moratorium on all charter school growth makes no sense at all.

If charter, district, state, and civic leaders in Detroit can pivot quickly from their various postures over the Free Press series and start addressing the very real problems that parents face in district - run and charter schools alike, they will have a good chance at building a vibrant system of choice for their city.

Elijah Watkins enrolled at KIPP Sankofa after encountering a series of disciplinary problems at a traditional city school.

Student research teams at all five of the city's high schools have studied the problems and are adding their voice to the district's redesign effort.

When Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children A recent episode at a Salt Lake City elementary school highlights a common, hard - to - solve problem: What should schools do when students can't pay forSchools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children A recent episode at a Salt Lake City elementary school highlights a common, hard - to - solve problem: What should schools do when students can't pay forschools do when students can't pay for lunch?

This problem appeared to be most dire for girls at Rural School: A full 72 percent of them reported suffering relational bullying either «every once in a while,» «often,» or «every day,» compared with 58 percent of girls at Big City School and 48 percent at Small City School.

This keeps the size of the Cherwell at a reasonable level while giving the Swan access to all the expertise and experience of the parent ship — a very satisfactory solution to the problem of a shortage of school places in a growing city.

As an extreme example of both how superintendents are entwined within their local communities and the sorts of unexpected social and political problems that affect their work, Gregory Thornton, CEO of the Baltimore City Public Schools, was supposed to be present at the MOU ceremony.

But many have questioned throwing money at the problem — Newark schools already spend $ 22,000 a pupil, more than double the national average, and like many inner - city districts has hardly seen a return on that investment at test time (less than half of fourth graders are proficient in English).

When administrators at the San Mateo - Foster City School District signed up a year ago for School Innovations & Advocacy's Partnering4SpecialEd ® - they knew the service would include expert analysis of the district's growing encroachment problem as well as insight into improving conditions.

At the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans, like many large cities in the U.S., had been mired for years in a school system broken by financial woes, inner - city crime, student discipline problems and low graduation rates.

Old buildings such as schools, city condos and even some hotels might have some premises problems that you can not see at first glance.

General Maintenance Worker — Nashville Maintenance — June 2014 — Present • Inspect equipment and machinery to pinpoint source of problem and recommend solution to property owner, accompanied by an estimate • Repair machines using an array of tools, such as wrenches, drills, saws, hoists, and hammers • Schedule routine maintenance to be done at over 30 properties in the city, including schools and industrial complexes • Assemble new HVAC units to be installed at a building, and install new wiring to be in compliance with state ordinance • Develop schematic designs and blueprints to be distributed to team members that accurately lay out what is required for the job • Maintain a safe working environment by writing a safely manual to be used by all 40 members of the company, and throughout employment never had a single accident • Join metal components together in a piece of equipment with welding equipment and torches