Sentences with phrase «school seats»

An estimated 45,000 new charter school seats will be needed during the next four years just to meet current demand.

We need more high - quality public school seats to make that a reality.

The extra money will be used to fund nearly 12,000 new schools seats whose construction had been put on hold.

It makes little sense to create additional schools of choice, and thereby add to the supply of school seats, when the population of an area can barely sustain one academic program.

As the time for law school seat deposits rapidly approaches, many potential law students are wondering the same thing: How much does it matter which law school you attend?

The borough president recommended more permanent affordable housing and local schools seats.

The changes would add hundreds of charter - school seats across the city, many of them meant for at - risk youths who have few good educational options.

As the charter school sector expands, it is necessary but not sufficient to study political and policy conditions, or the growth in the number of high quality charter school seats.

It could be the only law school seat that was offered to them or the only institution their family would be willing to help pay for.

In line with our vision, the new seats these schools create are intended for children of all backgrounds, as will any future new school seats we support.

The fact is that while the number of high - performing high school seats in Denver is growing there are very few open seats (most are filled at the sixth grade for the good 6 - 12 grade schools).

That's scarcely enough to provide middle and high school seats for charter children now in grades K - 4 — let alone provide for even a minimal expansion of the program.

This is important to us because we work with the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation in their efforts to create 20,000 new high - performing school seats in Idaho by 2024.

This means more high quality public charter school seats for Texas students and millions of dollars in savings for public charter schools.

E3 Rochester seeks to bring together and support Rochester (NY) charter schools in collaborative efforts aimed toward increasing the number of high - quality public school seats available for our community's children.

In 2016, parents and educators from KIPP LA's Comienza Community Prep elementary school in the city's Huntington Park neighborhood decided on a campaign to seek more middle school seats for their children.

The long - awaited deal will create additional school seats for West Village and Greenwich Village kids.

Despite our Board adding nearly 9,000 public charter school seats since 2013 — 14, the number of unique families on public charter school waitlists has risen from 7,205 in April 2014 to 11,317 in April 2018.

We are responsible for leading an initiative to open 20,000 new high - performing school seats by 2024.

«By providing for only two of the six middle school spaces requested, the Department of Education leaves hundreds of Success Academy scholars without school seats next year.

Plenty of people disagree with Gauthier — the National PTA and the American Academy of Pediatrics support school seat belt laws — and Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives later on.

Bluum is committed to creating 20,000 new high - performing charter, private and innovative public school seats over 10 years.

To further address school overcrowding, Adams called for the city to establish a task force «to develop a site identification plan that would solve the public school seat shortage in and around Downtown Brooklyn.»

To this end, Texas Aspires is supporting bills in the House (HB 3439) and Senate (SB 1882) that will help expand district - charter partnerships by providing for the creation of incentives for traditional schools to partner with high - performing charter schools to create the many more quality school seats Texas needs for its students.

«This budget was an opportunity to reverse the loss of 30,000 after - school seats cut over the past several years,» de Blasio said in a statement, adding that without asking the wealthiest New Yorkers to pay more in taxes, the budget «affirmed a status quo that continues to leave working families behind.»

Stringer added, «New developments can increase traffic, impact neighborhood character and add a new population to an area that already lacks school seats and other amenities.»

States would have the obligation to create and offer those children in the worst schools seats in better - performing schools.

The Broad plan, recast as Great Public Schools Now, «re-launched» in June with a changed emphasis on adding high - quality school seats wherever they are found, charter or district, a clear shift that resulted from the aggressive pushback against the original plan.

The two smallest districts, SE Denver (# 2) and Central Denver (# 3) have ZERO students in the two lowest categories of school performance while the other districts (NW, NE and SW) which compose over 75 % of Denver's students only have 43 % of the distinguished school seats.

But the Board is also weighing a plan to use the Education Center site for elementary school use instead, while accelerating the construction of new high school seats at the Career Center.

Since taking office, Malloy has reached into the special school seat belt fund four times, grabbing close to $ 10 million dollars.

The primary culprit was a long - accumulating budget deficit (totaling $ 1.35 billion), brought on by bureaucratic bloat, inefficiency, and declining school enrollment — which saw more than a quarter of school seats empty and left the district with badly underused buildings in need of millions of dollars in repairs.

Our team is committed to increasing the number of high - quality public school seats within Clark County neighborhoods to collaboratively help prove that every child can achieve, regardless of their race, zip code, unique learning needs, family history, or household income.

To maximize the opportunity we must balance growth in new school seats with a focus and intentionality around academic quality and student performance.

New York City's charter school leaders are calling upon Mayor Bill de Blasio to double the number of charter school seats available to students by 2020.

«In addition, HOPE has demonstrated its commitment to growing the number of high - quality, private school seats available to children in Milwaukee and Racine.»

Everyone, however, was clear about their interests, and in this case it wasn't difficult to identify a shared goal that coincided with all interests: more KIPP middle school seats for Comienza families.

«Over the past two years, I, and members of my School Overcrowding Task Force, have made it clear to DOE staff that much of the 26 Broadway space should be used to address the need for additional school seats for this fast - growing community,» Silver wrote to Klein.

The appeals court agreed, saying the city's educational impact statement «merely indicates the number of school seats that will be eliminated» and that the seats «will be recovered through the phase - in of other new schools or through available seats in existing schools.»

Manhattan has lost more than 1,000 unscreened high school seats since 2009 because of expiring leases, and the 26 Broadway space will replace several hundred of them, Speiller said.

Cheering and chanting for choice, an unprecedented crowd of roughly 25,000 parents, children and teachers swarmed Prospect Park on Wednesday to demand the doubling of city charter school seats by 2020.

The NYC Charter School Center reports that «there are now 4 applicants for every charter school seat in Harlem and the South Bronx — an example of insufficient supply and overwhelming demand.»

Some members of the Washington - Lee High School Parent - Teacher Association are concerned that the Arlington School Board may re-purpose the adjacent Arlington Education Center into an elementary school instead of adding high school seats, as was previously decided.

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The controversial Brooklyn Heights Library redevelopment is facing opposition from Borough President Eric Adams, who Wednesday released a slew of recommendations for the project, including more affordable housing and local school seats.

What feedback do you have for Educate78 about how to better move forward the cause of increasing access to quality school seats across Oakland's 78 square miles?

As reported by the Statesman, my nonprofit organization, Bluum is committed to what we call the «20 in 10» strategy; creating 20,000 new high - performing Idaho school seats in 10 years.