Sentences with phrase «school closing meeting»

When Margery Yeager, special assistant for transformation management for the D.C. public schools, attended her first school closing meeting in 2008 — she's now helped close 28 schools — the meeting was so contentious that, she recalls, «I honestly thought at the time, «I don't know how we will make this happen because there is just such vocal opposition.

She learned that lesson after arriving at one school closing meeting at which the community had no idea their school was being shut down at the end of the year, she says.

Not exact matches

Though the pair were close in age and geography — they went to the same elementary and middle schools — they had never met before collaborating on this semi-biographical piece of work that has so resonated with audiences.

Victor Montalvo is the lead pastor at Reality Community Church in Sanford, FL, a new church that meets in an elementary school and is the closest church to where Trayvon Martin was killed — just a few blocks away.

The school eventually closed, even the Boy Scout troop which used the church basement for meetings left.

, a legendary basketball and baseball coach from Archbishop Molloy High School (Konchalksi's alma matter), where the two met over fifty years ago, and after which they remained close friends.

The first is Jack Curran, a legendary basketball and baseball coach from Archbishop Molloy High School (Konchalksi's alma matter), where the two met over fifty years ago, and after which they remained close friends.

Presumably because such changes help to meet this need, the study seems to approve the tendency it sees in theological schools to move toward closer affiliations with universities.

The Sky Sports pundit reports that the pair met by chance at the restaurant in Barcelona and merely greeted one another as they have known each other for 15 years and their children went to the same school as they evidently have a close relationship.

I met my husband while in high school, together for 25 years with 2 close to grown children.

If you pay close attention to your community news, you'll often come across a swap - meet of sorts, whether it's in your local library, a church basement, or in the case of our NYC fave, Little Swappies, at the incredible Avenues private school!

If it is close enough to the school year, sometimes the teachers are in the room and your children can meet them before the first day and introduce themselves.

Also at 1 p.m., de Blasio and NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina hold a photo spray and deliver brief remarks prior to conducting their weekly education meeting on Staten Island, which is closed to members of the press, Staten Island Borough Hall, 10 Richmond Terrace, Room 126.

A group of students demanded a meeting with him to lobby against closing troubled schools.

Hundreds of upset parents showed up last night at contentious meeting in Manhattan where a city panel was going to vote on closing 13 public schools this summer.

First and second graders at Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo had a chance to meet their athletic mentor up close.

Enraged at the mayor's threat to close 33 «persistently lowest achieving» schools and remove half the staff in each school, more than 1,000 UFT - represented educators descended on a Jan. 18 meeting of the city's Panel for Educational Policy at Brooklyn Technical HS, disrupting the proceedings with whistles and chants before walking out in protest.

The declaration came just hours before he convened legislative leaders in a closed - door meeting to detail plans to slash $ 10 billion in planned expenses, including aid to schools, hospitals and local governments.

Tricia Joyce, a member of the task force, said she remembers that five years ago, city officials said they would take a closer look, and it did lead to opening temporary «incubator» space early for two new Downtown schools, but this was the first time she ever remembered being invited into smaller planning meetings.

Commissioner Elia held a lengthy hearing in June to review a Buffalo School Board request to remove Paladino in violation of executive meeting board rules in which he revealed private, closed - door information on the teachers» contract.

Believing he was among friends, UFT boss Mike Mulgrew showed what he's really made of during a closed - door meeting with union activists — spewing hatred toward education «reformers» and charter schools, and even admitting he sabotaged teacher evaluations.

During a recent closed - door meeting, UFT President Michael Mulgrew showed his true colors and declared «war» on education reform and charter schools.

May 20: The school board, in an early - morning vote after meeting for hours behind closed doors, votes to seek a replacement for Superintendent Susan Johnson.

Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid Superintendent Susan Johnson by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.

On Tuesday, during a meeting with the editorial board of The Daily News, she delivered some harsh criticism against the Bloomberg administration's effort to close poor - performing schools, saying it had led the city to «warehouse» struggling students in schools where they «don't have a shot» at succeeding.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina today will meet behind closed doors with staff at the Urban Assembly for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx, where a deadly stabbing took place yesterday.

A proposal that would link a tax credit for donations to public schools and fund private - school scholarships to the Dream Act is not «viable» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said on Monday after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Education secretary met by booing and shouts of «rubbish» after she claimed that selective schools help close attainment gap.

Reports surfaced Friday that Brown's attorney reached out to the school board during a closed door session at Wednesday's meeting.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Budget Talks, and officially closing three schools The North Rockland Central School met for a Committee of the Whole Board Workshop Session of the Board of Education Tuesday night in the North Rockland Administration Building to discuss next year's budget and vote to officially close several schools.

Budget talks began Wednesday, as Governor Cuomo met behind closed doors with legislative leaders to discuss school aid, economic development proposals and ethics reform.

He said Paladino should not be removed from the board for disclosing in a newspaper story published in ArtVoice information about teacher contract negotiations from the School Board's Oct. 17 executive session because that closed - door meeting was improperly convened by the board.

Fariña and Elia's close relationship may be tested this summer, when seven «persistently struggling» New York City schools may be turned over to an outside receiver if they fail to meet certain improvement benchmarks agreed upon by the city and state.

She is meeting with the New York City Charter School Center and leaders from many charter schools and networks in a closed press meeting on Saturday.

In his opening remarks, Paladino's lawyer Dennis Vacco said Paladino was protecting the public's interest by publicly disclosing secret information from the School Board's closed - door meeting about contract talks with the teacher's union.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

Legislative leaders, emerging from an earlier closed door meeting with Cuomo, concur that they still have no final resolution on key issues including the minimum wage and the exact amount of school aid in the state budget.

Earlier in the day, Senate Independent Democratic Leader Jeff Klein, following a closed door meeting with Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders, said he hoped for a «grand bargain» that would include the mayoral control extension, the sales tax continuation and some provisions to help charter schools.

Cleveland's resignation came the week after PEP rejected the de Blasio administration's plans to close two Queens schools during a contentious Feb. 28 meeting that stretched past midnight.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

He has argued that the information was coincidental to the closed door meetings, and necessary to expose the financial troubles presented by a teacher's contract that he says was «rigged» when the Buffalo Teaches Federation supported candidates in last year's school board session.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

Designing wind farms with close packing of turbines, based on schooling fish, could greatly increase efficiency, say researchers at a meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society.

[BOX 3: Grants and Contracts] Financial Statements, 1957 - 1959 Financial Reports, 1957 - 1959 Financial Statements, 1958 Financial Reports 1960-1961 1962 1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 Report on Review of Source Data Preparation for Accounting Purposes, Oct. 1961 AAAS Budgets, 1968 - 1969 Financial Reports, 1968 - 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1970 Financial Reports, 1970 - 1971 Financial Reports, 1972 Financial Reports from Operations, 1979 Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 1974 and Projections to 1963 Report for Examination of Financial Statements and Additional Information, 1983 - 1984 Closed out Funds and Stocks AAAS Grants Committee, 1955 AID Audit - Mexico City, 1974 Asia Foundation, 1955 - 1975 Boston Concerts Carnegie Corp. - Grant to AAAS for Science Teaching Improvement Program Graham Chedd - Contract [3 folders], 1973 - 1977 DOS - AID Irene Tinker, 1973 - 1977 RISM Research for the Study of Man, 1973 - 1977 Smithsonian, 1971 - 1977 Audit, 1973 - 1977 Close Out, 1976 - 1978 GE Grant - Regional Consultants on Science Teaching, 1956 Gordon Marshall, Exhibits Contract, 1952 National Endowment of the Arts, 1973 NSF Grant - Soviet Science, 1952 Training Talented Students, 1955 Travelling High School Library, 1956 Gordon Conference on Teacher Education, 1956 Junior Academies Workshop, 1957 Proposal to NSF for Development of Science Teaching Materials for Elementary and Junior High Schools, 1961 Progress Report to the NSF on the Holiday Science Lecture Program, 1963 Proposal to the NSF for 1964 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Comparative Science Program, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Cooperative Science Program, 1964 WGBH, 1972 Willis Shapley, Contract Agreement, Oct. 1978 DHEW - Barrier Free Meetings, Oct. 1977 CBS News - Conquest Program Series, 1959 MISCO Contract - original, 1972 Basic Books Publishing - New Roads to Yesterday, 1963 - 1966

I went back to school during this time as well to obtain my personal training certification is where I met a guy who is now a close friend by the name of Tony.

Ivy Jean's school was open and my work was closed for winter break, so I met him for lunch to celebrate his birthday early which is Christmas Day.

I'm only really close friends with a couple of people but I'll never forget those I met while in school and all of the great memories!

California State University, Sacramento — The men's team has been close to perfect this season, and enters the meet as the No. 1 team in the country, a ranking they have held for a school - record 12 straight weeks dating back to last... live results of the race online.

However, when Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie), a player who missed the fated game due to an injury, pulls the school together in a chant outside of the board's closed - door meeting, Dedmon and the board decide differently.

A government study is taking a close look at kindergartners as they start school and will track them through their primary grades so the nation's schools can better meet their diverse needs.