Sentences with phrase «school in a city»

He left vowing to forget about the nursery and to focus instead on having the best music school in the city.

Barron attends a private school in the city.

The kindness of Avery Huddleston, 7, led to a bigger surprise than anyone imagined at a school in the city of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

There are more than 20 elementary and middle schools in the city, which serve almost 20,000 school - aged children and their families.

Reading that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is planning to build a new school in West Baltimore («Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to build first new Catholic high school in city in more than 50 years,» April 30) raised several questions for me.

For five decades, it was the only high school in the city for African Americans.

In December, Townsend was hired to coach Reginald F. Lewis, a small 1A school in the city that finished 4 - 6 and has not won a playoff game in the school's 13 years.

The Club's charity works tirelessly with disabled people, providing curriculum and after school provision for up to 50 special schools in the city.

And even though I live in the suburbs my kids still attend school in the city.

If you'd like to help, call an elementary school in your city and offer to purchase lunch tickets or daily milk cartons for 1 o 2 or more kids in the school that the principal knows needs the help.

She attends what is considered to be the top public middle school in the city.

Do you feel the need to tour and enroll your child in the top schools in your city in order to get them into a good university one day?

Larry attended public schools in the City of Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1962.

He was born in Chicago and graduated from Kelvyn Park High School in the city and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, where he received a bachelor's degree in marketing.

In his testimony, de Blasio made clear that he opposes an effort to have the state inject itself in an effort to turn around failing schools in his city.

Until the UFT is out of the picture there will be no QUALITY public schools in this city.

The mayor unveiled a plan to establish physical - education classes and facilities at every school in the city by 2021.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

«So we're losing millions from the Syracuse City School District this year to charter schools in the city.»

Nevertheless, it's not entirely clear what Cuomo means when he says he will «save» charter schools in the city and state.

few years ago when I was teaching at a High School in the city of Buffalo when someone called and said there was a shooter on the roof....

Ms. Moskowitz slammed Mr. de Blasio in the media and eventually, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's help, secured space for her own schools and sweeping new protections for charter schools in the city.

There are currently 216 charter schools in the city serving 106,600 students, or 10 percent of the public - school population.

Schools in the city's Renewal program improved more on state standardized tests in reading and math than the rest of the city's schools, but that doesn't mean they're all safe from the chopping block, the mayor said.

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

The board is also responsible for vetting and approving most charter school applications, and its rejection of a round of new schools in the city this year earned her ire from the other side of the aisle.

In an interview this week, he said that his administration had established good relationships with most charter schools in the city.

During a tour of P.S. 57 in Clifton, one of seven schools in the city that launched an initiative to teach children with print - based disabilities, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said the classes will help students deal with their condition.

Cashin would later go on to serve as CEO of the Knowledge Network Learning Support Organization, which provided support to struggling schools in the city.

That's exactly what Siena has done for the past six years at P.S. 150, one of the smallest elementary schools in the city, which has just one class per grade and has no cafeteria, gym or auditorium.

Under the new plan, schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has invited principals from every public school in the city to create new enrollment targets for student subgroups.

Aiming to boost the growth of charter schools in cities nationwide, the Walton Family Foundation plans to announce a $ 250 million initiative today to help charters build and expand their sites.

The 12 - month extension, which was coupled with a strengthening of charter schools in the city and statewide through keeping their numbers in an available pool, was agreed to after the mayor sought a permanent program.

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano is making a renewed push for a $ 2 billion bonding measure for schools in his city.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente today announced that the site of the former Kemble Street School in the City of Utica's Cornhill will be a key feature of a new two - year grant obtained by the New York State Department of Health's Center... Read more

For the third time, de Blasio, who has sought long - term extensions of his control of city schools, is facing hostility from Senate Republicans who have attached poison pills to the extension — namely, the raising of the cap on charter schools in the city.

Top allies sued Mayor de Blasio Wednesday to overturn his decision to open 14 charter schools in city - owned buildings this fall.

U.S. Fifth Fleet Chaplain Mark Steiner wrote to Legislator Hardwick to express the gratitude of the servicemen and women who received valentines created by students attending schools in the City of Tonawanda, Grand Island and Town of Tonawanda.

Teachers and principals unions are criticizing de Blasio's policies of eliminating suspensions and metal detector policies as making schools in the city less safe.

Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz, who has fought with de Blasio over the role of charter schools in the city, said earlier Wednesday that she agrees with him about mayoral control.

The scholarship winners, all Hartford residents, come from 18 schools in the city school system, said Richard...

«With the environment around ed reform changing, we're asking for fairness for charter schools,» Brett Peiser, C.E.O. of the Uncommon Schools network, which has schools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a statement.

In ELA, 97 percent of middle schools in the city have higher incoming scores; in math, only one city school has lower incoming scores, according to DOE data.

Making teacher evaluations more dependent on test scores, reforming tenure and adding charter schools in the city were all priorities of StudentsFirstNY and became significant pieces of the governor's agenda for the 2015 legislative session, which he announced in his State of the State speech on Jan. 21.

The program has been implemented at all schools in the city's «Renewal» program for badly faltering campuses.

However, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to be adamant on slowing the progress of charter schools in the city.

In May, the Times Union submitted an open records request seeking the time sheets showing Aiello's governmental work hours while he was attending grad school in a city several hours away.

The actions could be a lifesaver for the popular alternatives to public schools because Bloomberg's likely successor, Democrat Bill de Blasio, has vowed to impose a moratorium on co-locating charter schools in city facilities.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

None of the schools in the City School District of New Rochelle were designated as «high performing» or «high progress».