Sentences with phrase «public neighborhood schools»

Across our network of public neighborhood schools, we have created regular opportunities for targeted problem - solving and feedback.

These systemic supports provide reinforcement for an enduring culture where there is collective ownership, starting with school leaders and teachers and cascading to network leaders and staff, over the outcomes of the work and of each student — and it is the most impactful driver of our success as an network of public neighborhood schools.

Our system of distributed leadership has created a strong and enduring professional learning culture where there is collective ownership over the outcomes of the work and of each student — and it is the most impactful driver of our success as a network of public neighborhood schools.

Charter schools will siphon students and funding out of public neighborhood schools across the district without changing the fixed costs of running those schools, or necessarily reducing the need for staffing and services in those schools.

Not exact matches

Climate, poverty, unemployment, inequality, neighborhoods that are job deserts at best and killing fields at worst, lagging infrastructure (public schools!)

Calculated based on presence of neighborhood amenities like Restaurants, Schools, Hospitals, Public transportation and others

If Amazon is concerned about retaining employees as they move into their 30s, settle down and have families, Montgomery's bucolic neighborhoods and strong public schools might be the answer.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

We woefully underestimate the power of business leaders if we think they are engaged in private enterprise, for their decisions have huge public impacts not only on their stockholders but on the jobs we need, the neighborhoods in which we live, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the schools in which we learn.

The neighborhoods around a parish were occupied by parishioners; the schools (even the public ones), and the shops were often in the hands of parishioners.

As the country becomes more ethnically and religiously diverse, there will be those who say the Church can only survive if we fight to the death to preserve our civic religion — keeping prayer in public schools, keeping the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and keeping mosques out of our neighborhoods.

Following this approach, we might exclude parochial schools but not nonreligious private schools from a school - voucher program, or bar religious student groups but not chess clubs and neighborhood - watch associations from meeting in public school classrooms.

So that children in neighborhoods that had no resources in poor public schools were able to still get a quality education.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboSchools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighboschools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

In the end we went with the public school that is also our neighborhood school and he got a lottery spot in the full - day program.

A second - grade teacher and an assistant principal have been removed from student contact at Jordan Elementary Community School in the Rogers Park neighborhood while Chicago Public Schools conducts an investigation into their conduct.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

I grew up attending public school in poor neighborhoods and didn't feel that I was smart enough to homeschool.

I have gone into my own kids» public school lunch room, in a relatively affluent neighborhood in central Houston, btw, and have seen (and photographed) poorly prepared food — items that are still frozen, items like green vegetables that are grossly overcooked, to the point of almost being brown, etc..

As part of a national survey, 12,000 Buffalo Public School students were queried about life as they see it, in school and in their home neighborSchool students were queried about life as they see it, in school and in their home neighborschool and in their home neighborhoods.

Fields said it was important for the city to preserve traditional district public schools, especially in underserved neighborhoods.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

Models of city neighborhoods created by Buffalo public school students are currently on display at the CEPA Gallery.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

Ackerman, on the other hand, called the new NY - 6 «fantastic,» noting it included the neighborhoods where he «grew up, went to public school and college, and started my family and my business,» adding: «It contains my political base and longtime roots, and I have had the privilege of representing approximately 90 percent of it during my 34 years in the state Senate and U.S. Congress.»

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

«I'm really excited to introduce this man who is outer - borough working dad, a public school parent, a lifelong progressive reformer and a leader who champions New York as a city of neighborhoods and families,» she said.

Albany, NY — Alan is joined by New York State Senator Bill Perkins, who is challenging charter school funding and questioning whether public schools are being left behind in some of the state's poorer neighborhoods.

LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

A number of readers have forwarded the mailer, which not only includes a large headshot of the Republican Guilderland Town Board member and reveals Redlich's home address, but also urges recipients to «call the police» if they see him near a «public school,» «in your neighborhood» or «near your family.»

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

Upset with a state Senate Republican budget plan to boost charter schools, the powerful city and state teachers union bombarded GOP senators last week with nearly 20,000 faxes and 1,500 phone calls warning the plan would damage neighborhood public schools.

According to the governor, the doorman told him, «in my neighborhood the public schools are failing, and if I don't get my son into a charter school I have no options.»

Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan's Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she would promote classroom diversity by rezoning schools, as she did in Manhattan District 3, in other neighborhoods.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the dire need for more schools Downtown, as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Principals of local schools, parents and community board members emphasized the need for more schools Downtown as the number of young families in the neighborhood continues to grow — thanks, in large part, to the reputation of the good public schools, they said.

Organizers including Queens Neighborhoods United, New Queens Democrats, Queens Community Action Group, NY Indivisible and Jackson Heights People for Public Schools plan to discuss the Independent Democratic Caucus, which the senator joined in January, along with the recent budget and the effect of President Donald Trump's plans for the district.

There are so many Buffalo public school parents that know it's a good old boy neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and the money makes a difference.

But this is obviously not the case: Tisch yesterday blasted the Senate bill for neither limiting the number of charters allowed in a certain neighborhood nor making it harder for them to share space with underpopulated traditional public schools.

In New York, under close public supervision, they admit students by lottery and have outperformed traditional neighborhood schools.

He also said the district needs to return to «neighborhood schools» and «promote charter schools which are generally more successful than the traditional public schools.»

Project BOOST, run by the Center for Educational Innovation - Public Education Association (CEI - PEA), provides academic enrichment opportunities to elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent, but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Reforming failing public schools in poor neighborhoods is the first preventative step to future incarceration, Cuomo said.