Sentences with phrase «school seats by»

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

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.

Not exact matches

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

But the second year, school participation grew by about 300 percent, and the program was moved to the center's 2,658 - seat Au - Rene Theater.

«Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this, we call BS,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzales in a speech that went viral this weekend.

one of the more notorious western towns in America's collective imagination, claimed by its second year schools for one thousand children, three theaters, and a two - thousand - seat opera house where Italian operas were favored.»

Thursday night is Face Time at Harpo's, the appointed hour for a massive exchange of check - outs: J - schoolers in their Woody's wear, Ag - schoolers in their pointed boots, athletes in their motley styles, lady professors in their tight jeans — they all crowd in by nine, all the seats and booths taken and the waitresses lost in a hive of table - hoppers and minglers.

Tiger Stadium already sells alcohol in premium seating areas, which is allowed by conference policy, but LSU and some other SEC schools want to sell alcohol everywhere.

«We placed the boys in side - by - side infant seats and spoon fed them with one spoon and bowl first one mouth, then the other,» says Jennie Howell, a middle school teacher and mom of adult fraternal twin sons.

With 14 applicants vying for a seat left vacant by outgoing board president Sam Black in Glen Ellyn District 41, school board members this week selected Cathryn Wilkinson, the former associate dean of Fine and Applied Arts at the College of DuPage to fill the spot.

A New York City proposal to diversify middle schools on Manhattan's Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from parents worried their high - achieving children might lose access to the popular public schools.

And you know, fueled by Real Estate and Charter School $ $ $, dark money channeled through invisible Virginia PO Boxes, IEs from who - knows - who, they'll swamp a few key Dem seats and they'll win again, despite overwhelming Democratic statewide voters.

School board member Shelby Brown is on the ballot to fill the town council seat left vacant by the sudden death of William Horan.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Schumer embarked on his political career by winning a New York state Assembly seat in 1974, the same year he graduated from Harvard law school.

State Supreme Court Justice Catherine Nugent - Panepinto Monday afternoon denied a temporary restraining order filed by former Buffalo School Board Park District member Carl Paladino to keep the seat vacant.

The Onondaga County Democratic Committee selected a Camillus high school teacher to run for the New York State Senate seat being vacated by Rep. John DeFrancisco (R - DeWitt), Syracuse.com reported on Saturday.

The Onondaga County Democratic Committee selected a Camillus high school teacher to run for the New York State Senate seat being vacated by Rep. John DeFrancisco (R - DeWitt), Syracuse.com

Victor J. Turchiarelli's seat on the Buffalo School Board was declared vacant in 1992 by then - Commissioner Thomas E. Sobol after Turchiarelli failed to attend board meetings for more than a year because of a back injury.

And charter - school supporters, led by Mr. Loeb, have poured millions of dollars into ensuring that the State Senate remains in Republican hands — even as Democrats have won a majority of seats — backing Mr. Klein's renegade group, which first broke away from the party in 2011 and eventually formed a coalition with the Republicans.

Clarkstown Taxpayers host candidates forum BY ALLAN GOLDSTEIN Candidates seeking to secure a seat on the Clarkstown School Board faced local residents last Thursday evening in the Nanuet Library.

Among the new projects announced at the town hall at I.S. 145, which was co-hosted by Councilman Daniel Dromm, was a new 476 - seat middle school scheduled to open in Sept. 2020.

Absentee ballots have been counted, and confirm incumbent Carl Paladino as the winner of the Park District Buffalo School Board seat by a 132 - vote margin.

Thousands of parents and teachers descended on Foley Square to demand that de Blasio get behind charter school proponents» plans to increase the number of charter seats across the city to 200,000 by 2020.

Interviews for the vacant seat on the Buffalo school board once held by Carl Paladino began Wednesday night at City Hall.

NEW YORK — New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today encouraged parents across the city to make a direct impact on their child's education by running for an Education Council seat.

A proposal to diversify middle schools on the Upper West Side, by setting aside seats for children with low test scores, is facing stiff resistance from some parents.

«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.

March 4: David Gates is appointed as a school board trustee by the Nassau BOCES superintendent to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Cooke, who was the top vote - getter in the May 2014 board election.

She takes the seat currently held by School Board President James Sampson, who ran an unsuccessful write - in campaign.

According to estimates presented at the meeting by Eric Greenleaf, another P.S. 234 parent and school overcrowding advocate, lower Manhattan will be short more than 1,000 seats for school children by 2015, even with the new 712 - student Peck Slip school under construction.

And Carl Paladino, the former Republican gubernatorial candidate with whom the board's majority typically sides, narrowly held onto his seat by a margin of just 107 votes against union - supported high school student Austin Harig, according to preliminary numbers.

By increasing the number of gifted and talented programs in our neighborhoods and increasing the number of public charter school seats to 200,000 citywide, we can give thousands more kids in the Bronx the chance to participate in a program or attend a school that could change their lives.

Inside the new 630 - seat school, which was designed by Frank Gehry and sits in the base of his New York by Gehry apartment tower, flashbulbs popped and a crowd of grinning politicians, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, offered handshakes and high - fives.

Joined by supportive politicians, the rally called for 200,000 charter - school seats in the five boroughs by 2020.

Paladino entered politics by being elected to the South Buffalo seat on the school board of Buffalo Public Schools in 2013, and he was reelected in 2016.

Admitting that he is extending the Tory battleground to gun for Lib Dem and Labour seats, Cameron was heckled by a Lib Dem supporter over Tory policies on schools and tax

The group last year also attempted to gain more influence by pushing for its president, Samuel L. Radford III, to have a non-voting seat on the School Board.

Black and Hispanic kids, who make up nearly 70 % of city students, were offered just 10 % of seats at specialized high schools, which are considered by many to be the best in the city.

The city will fit in the additional seats into the Peck Slip School by adding two floors totaling 20,000 square feet to the existing post office building at 1 Peck Slip, which the city purchased for $ 13.5 million earlier this fall.

Once again, the political winds on the Buffalo School Board are shifting, with Tuesday's election putting an end to the current majority and replacing it with a new one backed by the teachers union.Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up for grabs.

The two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District seat in a primary argued over who has better job creation ideas during a debate held by the Southold Democratic Club Tuesday night at Southold High School.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

Questions asked included whether Cardinal Dolan supports the income tax surcharge that is part of the mayor's plan, what the 1,700 seats offered by the Archdiocese are currently used for, pending education tax credit bills, how the mayor expects to get his pre-K plan approved despite continuing disagreement with Governor Cuomo, guidelines governing church / state separation, how enough sufficiently - credentialed teachers can be in place for September and whether the pressure over his charter school actions is causing Mayor de Blasio to change his views.

Pahaham, a Ph.D from the New School for Social Research, previously declared for the 7th District seat, which is being vacated by term - limited Councilman Robert Jackson.

All those factors played a roll in Queens receiving $ 1.9 billion from the School Construction Authority - the largest capital investment among the five boroughs - to create 18,632 new seats in its schools by 2020, she said.

People - it is one race in a heavily Republican district - this means nothing for the November elections - although, if the dems put up somebody who was accomplished more than a school teacher - they could have won this seat - and it is pretty pathetic that a former congressman only won by 5 % over a school teacher - so you republicans, I wouldn't be jumping for joy

«I guess Mr. Yassky doesn't think that Pace Law School deserves his full - time attention, or that anyone might care that all the time he spends making the case that he should be picked for the vacant seat by party bosses is time he could spend on improving things at the Law School,» according to an email from an ATL tipster.

With last year's added funding, the Queens Library system «increased its ESOL seats by 6.6 percent,» said Dennis Walcott, the new president of the Queens Public Library and former schools chancellor.

The Buffalo School board is taking applications from candidates who they could appoint to fill his seat until Friday, and must have a replacement in place by mid September, 30 days after Elia's ruling