Sentences with phrase «proposed city school system»

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The union is proposing a wide range of changes to restore balance to the city's system of school governance, including dramatic changes to the composition of the Panel for Educational Policy that will eliminate the mayor's majority.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

«Gov. Cuomo's proposed budget reflects his deep understanding and appreciation of public schools and the important role charter schools play in the public education system, particularly for the highest needs students,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center.

Topics included his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statement that he is not planning to approve a specific amount of pre-K funding set forth in the state senate proposed budget, how confident he is of pre-K funding, the status of his administration's review of the city's Sandy relief programs, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's statements on mayoral control of the city school system and charter schools, the current status of site clearing and the investigation into the cause of the East Harlem building explosion, whether New Yorkers should be concerned about gas leaks, his reaction to a tweet yesterday by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito critical of Governor Cuomo's reaction to the East Harlem building explosion, how the church services he attended this morning for victims affected him personally and the relief efforts being led by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Mayor's Fund for NYC.

CITY HALL - City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito proposed hiring 1,000 police officers, eliminating school lunch fees for all students and overhauling the property tax system in the City Council's budget response rolled out Wednesday afternoon.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

He also proposed an extension of after - school programs for junior high school students, part of what he called a «transformation» of the city's education system.

In a campaign speech at the American Youth Hostel last week, Mr. Dinkins proposed assigning one school - system security officer to each of the city's 1,069 schools.

The proposed education reforms are to be included in legislation that will set the 1996 budget for the capital city and its public school system.

In fact, he proposes that Mayor Michael Bloomberg appoint her to be the chancellor of the New York City school system.

Lawmakers are proposing expanding the entities that can authorize charter schools — beyond local school boards, UW - Milwaukee, UW - Parkside and the city of Milwaukee — to include all UW System campuses, state technical colleges and state Cooperative Educational Service Agencies, or CESAs.

In January, addresses the Massachusetts Board of Education at the statehouse to request increased support for arts in the public school system and to propose several approaches to arts in the core curriculum; during summer, collaborates with Townsend and guest artists Richard Rosenblum, Richard Baker, Paul Bowen, James Balla, George Marsh, and Varujan Baghosian at the New Provincetown Print Project; solo exhibition: Monotypes by Michael Mazur for the Inferno, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (travels through 1997 with Mazur and Pinsky giving lectures on their collaboration at eight venues).