Sentences with phrase «public districts face»

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Broward School Board members took a stand against arming school employees Tuesday, while facing harsh public criticism about how well the district protects and cares for its students.

Come summer, concertgoers at Northerly Island will bask in breezes off Lake Michigan while facing a stage framed by views of Burnham Harbor, Soldier Field and downtown Chicago under plans the Chicago Park District revealed to the public Monday.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field trips.

The principal and assistant principal of a high school on Chicago's Northwest Side face disciplinary charges after a yearlong investigation by Chicago Public Schools» inspector general revealed abuses ranging from nepotism to fraud, district officials confirmed Wednesday.

The eight - county district covers parts of Central New York, the Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier, where Tenney has faced a series of protests from groups who want a public meeting.

The mailing was sent out in the districts of Sheila Harsdorff and Rob Cowles who are both anti-gay GOP representatives who backed Govenor Scott Walker's attempt to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees and are facing recall challenges from progressive Democrats Shelly Moore and Nancy Nusbaum

School district shuts down information after Stoneman Douglas shooting Facing significant legal and political exposure over the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the district has tried to keep information from the public and put out untrue and misleading statements, frustrating parents who say this is the time for maximum transparency.

The Buffalo Public Schools district potentially faces two lawsuits: for not increasing the ranks of minority students at City Honors and for favoring current city students for admission over charter and parochial students.

The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the «debate» went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions.

Reed faced protesters at a series of town hall meetings in the 23rd Congressional District over the past two months, attracting national media attention as he held eight meetings while many of his Upstate Republican colleagues refused to meet with the public.

Vargas made the comment following Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson's March 23 public announcement that he was recommending Liang — who faces up to 15 years prison — receive a no - jail sentence.

Incumbent Rory Lancman, who represents the 24th District, covering Jamaica, Jamaica Hills, Jamaica Estates, Briarwood, Kew Gardens Hills and Fresh Meadows, is facing a challenge from Bangladesh - born Mohammad Rahman, an employment planner at the Department of Social Services, who vows to fight for immigrant rights, public safety and senior services in the neighborhood.

Examines Public Safety & Other Issues Facing NYCHA The Bronx Public Housing Task Force — made up of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and City Council Members -LSB-...]

Examines Public Safety & Other Issues Facing NYCHA Today, the Bronx Public Housing Task Force — made up of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and City -LSB-...]

In his letter, Turner asked Weiner to meet with him at a public forum to discuss various issues facing constituents in the 9th Congressional District, which includes Bayside, Briarwood, Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Hillcrest, Howard Beach, Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, Oakland Gardens, Ozone Park, Rego Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, Rockaway Park, Rockaway Point, Woodhaven and parts of Brooklyn.

Although Buffalo Public Schools managed to close a $ 10.2 million budget deficit for next year without slashing jobs, the district still faces a long - term budget gap.

Commissioner Gordon and Batman had just witnessed the transformation of statesmen and public hero District Attorney Harvey Dent into the evil and demented Two - Face.

Similarly, schools and districts, when faced with competition, might make public statements about how they need to change but never translate these statements into action.

Rather than take on the difficult and challenging work of winning loyalty and enrollment from low - income parents, school districts face much more powerful incentives to fight legislative, legal, and public - relations wars.

Look, Listen, Learn District Administration, July 2011 «When [Senior Lecturer] Deborah Jewell - Sherman began to lead the Richmond (Va.) Public Schools in 2002, she faced a board of education that had voted 5 - 3 to hire her.

And their revised strategy of operating public schools under contract with public school districts was flawed by an underestimation of the political resistance they would face and their inability to control costs or quality within the public system.

With urban and suburban districts facing the deepest budget cuts they've seen since the recession of the mid-1980s — and a milder recession in the early 2000s — the prospects for comprehensive arts education in most K - 12 public schools appear bleak, and even schools with minimal programs may lose what they considered to be bare bones to begin with.

We already have an impressive joint project with the Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the country.

The Little Rock, Ark., public schools are facing a cash - flow crisis that will force them to close next month unless efforts to secure an infusion of funds prove successful, the district's superintendent, Ruth Steele, said last week.

This month, voters must decide whether they will help the 76,000 - student district pay the $ 1.4 billion bill to replace aging roofs, faulty wiring, rotted windows, malfunctioning boilers, and a host of other chronic building problems facing the Cleveland public schools.

This fall, more than 10,000 Chicago public school students faced retention as the school district implemented a program to eliminate social promotion and enforce consistent standards of achievement.

While they are supported by many families, charter schools face frequent public criticism — including by Baraka — that they are destroying the school district.

Now the district faces a deficit of $ 259 million and is contemplating filing for bankruptcy protection, a rare occurrence in the history of American public education.

February 14: Driving Change: Challenges Superintendents Face in Urban Schools Kaya Henderson, Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, was joined by Tommy Chang, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and Tom Boasberg, superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

Jersey City's public schools have faced some serious challenges, including being in a school district that just had local control restored after years of being administered by the state of New Jersey.

Join Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this digital and instructional journey.

Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them.

Each city in the consortium is unique: Oakland is BAM's largest city, is the only city located west of the Mississippi River, and has faced several external challenges during early phases of the initiative, including a transition in school district leadership and a public school budget crisis.

For example, Facing History has a long - standing partnership with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) through which we have developed units for the district's civics and history curriculum in grades 8, 9, 10, and 11, reaching over 12,000 students each year.

After years of positive press and lavish praise from reformers, the District of Columbia Public Schools have faced a series of scandals in recent years.

The Chicago public schools are facing a budget crisis so severe that it threatens to shut down the system next fall unless the Illinois legislature comes up with more money, district officials warned last week.

Charters will face a second - straight year of flat per student funding, rising costs, and a glaring funding gap of nearly $ 4,000 compared to public operating funding for traditional district schools.

Its something every school district will have to face,» said Cissy Bowman, spokeswoman for the Mt. Lebanon (Pennsylvania) School District, which waged a very public campaign against a MRSA outbreak district will have to face,» said Cissy Bowman, spokeswoman for the Mt. Lebanon (Pennsylvania) School District, which waged a very public campaign against a MRSA outbreak District, which waged a very public campaign against a MRSA outbreak in 2007.

Yet, most major problems facing the schools identified by the public are under the control of states and school districts and so could be solved by them.

No one — not the state, not the charter school authorizers, schools and advocates, and not the districts — is willing to take responsibility and fix the problems facing Michigan's public school children and their families.

«We strongly commend Governor Brown's commitment and support to protect public education funding, particularly as schools and districts continue to face difficult economic and fiscal times.

The new report Leadership Perspectives on Public Education: The Gallup 2017 Survey of K - 12 School District Superintendents identifies the key challenges that school leaders believe are facing public education Public Education: The Gallup 2017 Survey of K - 12 School District Superintendents identifies the key challenges that school leaders believe are facing public education public education today.

The Marlboro Township Public Schools are a high - performing suburban district that was facing problems many successful schools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them engaged.

The Boston Public Schools (BPS) face the same challenges as other urban districts in the United States.

Advisory committees provide important public input to the Board of Education, Superintendent, Principals and other staff on issues facing the school district.

Some New Jersey public school districts face severe budget shortfalls that threaten the risk of widespread teacher layoffs across the district.

The election of three school board members comes at a particularly important time as the district faces critical budgetary decisions, the need to improve student achievement particularly for chronically underserved students and even greater parent demand for high quality educational options including charter public schools.

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

Andrew Blumenfeld, a 20 - year - old member of the La Canada, Calif. school board (and a public face of Students for Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to serve.