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The administration has heralded a 29 percent drop in school crime over four years, but the organization Families for Excellent Schools has put forth other studies based on state data that have shown rising levels of violent incidents in city schools (See Figure 4).

Not exact matches

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

As everyone knows, there is a tremendous cultural struggle going on in national politics, manifested in disputes over abortion, capital punishment, gun control, crime, welfare, affirmative action, gay rights, school prayer, and other kindred things, many of which have a subtle racial dimension.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

And while the ethnic background of those committing crimes involving gambling, loan sharking, drug dealing and prostitution has changed over the decades, a recent bust by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Westchester District Attorney Anthony Scarpino was old school, with the arrest of 10 people who all had ties to the Lucchese crime family.

Tom Watson went down badly with his «Comrades» opening line which is a bit too old school «scary» for the kids and his plea for everyone to join Labour brought the inevitable left - wing reaction from Maeve Mckeown raging against Labour over Iraq, tuition fees and the usual Blairite crimes.

«New York is learning what happens when the Mayor prioritizes his personal national ambitions over running New York: crime is on the rise, public schools are still failing our children, and Bill de Blasio's signature initiative, Vision Zero, isn't working,» Laska said in a statement.

But Floyd reiterated his suspicions over the gleaming numbers, arguing once again that school staffers aren't reporting crime.

Squinting into a bright noon sun, the former LaFayette School Superintendent reiterated the main talking points that have defined her candidacy up to now: more police on the streets to fight crime, mayoral control over a struggling school district, and ethics rSchool Superintendent reiterated the main talking points that have defined her candidacy up to now: more police on the streets to fight crime, mayoral control over a struggling school district, and ethics rschool district, and ethics reform.

Crime in New York City public schools fell 35 percent over the past five years and there was a 10 percent drop in school - related arrests from January to June 2016 compared to the same time period last year, local officials said.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

In their research, Dr. Itai Ater of Tel Aviv University's Recanati Business School, Dr. Yehonatan Givati of Hebrew University, and Dr. Oren Rigbi of Ben - Gurion University examined the impact of transferring authority over jails from the police to the Prison Authority made on arrests and crime in Israel.

Crime comedy inspired by a bizarre true story, following a chubby high school dropout who starts trafficking marijuana over the Canadian border for...

When he uncovers that the crimes are of super-natural origins, he must join forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramírez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are taking over and terrorizing their city.

The decision came just days after Mayor Giuliani moved, over the chancellor's objections, to appoint a special commission to investigate school crime and the adequacy of the school system's security division.

«Over the 5 - year period from 1995 through 1999, teachers were the victims of approximately 1,708,000 nonfatal crimes at school, including 1,073,000 thefts and 635,000 violent crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault).

That's real money over a period of five years if we're serious in pushing it through to the public school system, dealing with issues of juvenile crime, the lack of structure, the whole panoply of social issues.

The school discipline discussion has paralleled the wider debate in urban America over «broken windows» or «quality of life» policing, which entails aggressive enforcement of low - level crimes if they threaten to disrupt the social order — vandalism, turnstile jumping, public drinking, and the like.

Over a fifth (22 %) of education staff believe that pupils have been subjected to hate crime or hate speech * while at school in the last academic year, according to a poll of 345 members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

This one - page film guide on the film West Side Story the musical adaptation of the play Romeo and Juliet, set in 1950s New York, incorporates themes around street crime, immigration and the American dream, is designed to support pre - and post-screening discussions of character, genre and the key themes of the film for use with primary school pupils aged 7 and over.

Think of the various educational crimes charter schools are often accused of: not serving an equitable percentage of vulnerable populations over zealous test prep, counseling students out, unrealistic demands of parents, and teaching to the tests.

Respondents valued school improvement over tax cuts by 77 to 21 percent, over environmental protection by 77 to 19 percent, and over fighting crime by 51 to 44 percent.

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA anSchool District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA anSchool teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA anschool districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

Schools Week submitted freedom of information requests to all 43 of the UK's police forces, asking how many racial hate crimes and subsequent arrests were reported in schools over the past three financialSchools Week submitted freedom of information requests to all 43 of the UK's police forces, asking how many racial hate crimes and subsequent arrests were reported in schools over the past three financialschools over the past three financial years.

David Silverberg and partner Terry Moshenberg have mined over 800 data sets to create the Hometrics Report — an address - specific research report that includes information grouped into seven categories and includes details on nuisance neighbours, reported crimes in the community, local school performance, and proximity to potential illegal activity, such as grow - ops, among others.

As Edward Abbey pointed out two decades ago, «It should be clear to everyone by now that crude numerical growth does not solve our chronic problems of unemployment, welfare, crime, traffic, filth, noise, squalor, the pollution of our air, the corruption of our politics, the debasement of the school system (hardly worthy of the name «education»), and the general loss of popular control over the political process — where money, not people, is now the determining factor.»

Over at Crime & Federalism, Michael Cernovich agrees that The VC's Orin Kerr has done a public service with his post, «A Few Thoughts on First - Year Law School Grades.»

North Attleboro High student found innocent in school threat trial Patrick Skrabec, who spent six days in jail over the Christmas holiday after his arrest, was found innocent of threatening to commit a crime and disturbing -LSB-...]

Studies done over the years have come to the conclusion that children who have an active father in their lives are less likely to drop out of school or be involved in crime and drug abuse.

Nearly 80 percent of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never - married families.Each year government spends over $ 200 billion on means - tested aid to families with children; three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage.

Over the past several years, the US online homebuyer experience has risen in popularity with the likes of Zillow and Trulia, which similar to RFS, provides School, Crime, and Demographics data.

Campus Advantage immediately implemented a value - add strategy to reposition the asset as a luxury student housing community, reduce crime at the property, and increase rent over the prior school year.

Now the 38 - year - old crouches over a computer and relies on algorithms that evaluate home values, proximity to schools and crime rates to outrace rivals for any remaining bargains offered by real - estate agents.