Sentences with phrase «pushed out of the district»

«Our position is that the city government isn't doing enough to stop people from being pushed out of the District and forcing people to leave what's been a lifetime home for them.»

But as Dropout Nation noted last month, Ferguson - Florissant's high graduation rate may be a result of its overuse of suspensions and expulsions, which lead to kids being pushed out of the district and end up in St. Louis and other surrounding school systems.

Not exact matches

As Chicago Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about kids» allergies

School officials in Arlington Heights District 25 are working on a compromise to keep pupils displaced by school renovation from pushing a preschool out of its home.

Pushed out of public buildings, smokers in Chicago may find themselves kicked off of beaches and out of playgrounds, the Chicago Park District announced Tuesday.

HOFFMAN ESTATES — Dozens of concerned citizens came out to the Hoffman Estates Park District board meeting this week to push for improvements to Colony Park and the playground next to MacArthur School.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — The Washington Heights Business Improvement District appointed a new director Monday, four months after a vote of no confidence pushed out her predecessor.

The sign attempts to rename part of the borough as the Piano District, encapsulating many of the fears borough residents have about being pushed out of their neighborhoods by gentrification and rising rents.

The zoning change is being billed as a way to provide much - needed space to manufacturers who are pushed out of the Garment District by high rents.

Manhattan Borough President Gail Brewer on Friday lambasted the city's plans to change zoning in the Garment District, saying that relocating manufacturers will likely push the garment industry out of the city entirely.

Last year the New York Times published an op - ed arguing that the seeming success of charter schools in Harlem is driven by their willingness to push out students with disabilities, and that such «charter school refugees» drain district schools of resources.

The previous chancellor, Rudy Crew, a veteran educator with experience running several large school districts, had been pushed out at the urging of New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

NCLB «is pushing school districts to do things out of their comfort zones,» says Robert Maranto, who last year surveyed state education officials throughout the country about NCLB.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, families and teachers in school districts that serve low - income students and students of color struggle to understand how to address the highly punitive, push - out climate of overtesting brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act, the ESEA's last reauthorization.

The program, which pairs older and younger students for technological training, grew out of a need to improve students» skills after the school went one - to - one — part of Meriden's larger push to modernize teaching and learning district - wide after Benigni came on board.

Some school districts were using the IEP diploma to push students with disabilities out of school prematurely.

He noted that when schools in his small district must reorganize classes to cope with new students who push classrooms out of compliance, it disrupts education in a way that's «counterintuitive to what we wanted.»

Those schools that beat district averages have been accused of pushing out their lowest - performing students or those with discipline problems to artificially inflate their test scores.

Add the Madison Metropolitan School District to the ranks of districts nationwide that are backing away from get - tough discipline codes that push struggling minority students out of the classroom.

He spoke out against the governor's successful push to strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights, and Evers has also advocated for significant increases in school funding — both by increasing state aid to schools and by allowing local school districts to raise additional revenue through property taxes.

This is the proposal aggressively pushed by a governor who is billions of dollars behind the state's constitutional obligation to fund public schools equitably, who continues to use accounting tricks to cheat school districts out of millions of dollars owed under the already inadequate funding in the state budget, who has restricted districts from increasing revenue locally without a super-majority, and then has the nerve to blame strangled school districts for not raising test scores.

This week, the Lee County school board made history by becoming the first district in the Florida to opt out, after hundreds of parents pushed them to do so.

We steered LAUSD away from the path of most other urban districts — keeping Eli Broad out of the superintendent search, and successfully pushing for an educator to be hired for the position.

They believe the district is rejecting bids to open new charters out of fear that a push to double the number of charter seats in L.A. could harm the district's bottom line.

We're asking parents, students, and other community advocates to join us in the fight to maintain the federal school discipline guidance, which is a critical tool that can help schools and districts reduce the use of practices that push students out of school (e.g. suspensions and expulsions) and prevent them from disciplining in ways that discriminate against students of color.

Out of those discussions, Morales pushed to expand MyOn, a digital library program piloted at Ramona, and Accelerated Reader, a comprehension assessment tool used in several schools, to all schools in the district.

The students pushed out of charter schools often return to district schools, which have to deal with the turmoil and consequences, often mid-year, just as students are getting ready to take the MCAS.

Ever since the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the federal government and school districts across the country have responded with a massive infusion of police and law enforcement tactics in schools, supplemented by zero tolerance suspension policies that push students out of schools for even minor misbehavior.

Sadly, despite centuries of progress, there still exists a segment of that «we» that has been disconnected from the rest — it is a segment composed of our low - income children and black and Latino students who disproportionately struggle in underresourced school districts, are pushed out of the classroom by harsh discipline policies, and are systematically denied a fair and substantive opportunity to learn.

The same politicians that continue to push for a state takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools conveniently leave out the fact that students in MPS are grossly underfunded when compared to students in surrounding suburban districts.

The tankhouses weren't much; without the context of the distillery district they wouldn't have lasted a month, just another boring background building to push out of the way for new buildings in a city where demolition by neglect is so common.