Sentences with phrase «school seats empty»

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.

Not exact matches

For the Chicago Public Schools, the empty seats undermine efforts to boost achievement and cost the district millions in attendance - based funding.

Hizzoner's offenses range «from evicting Harlem's highest - performing middle - schoolers to stonewalling parents for months on end, only to offer inadequate temporary solutions, despite the 144,000 empty seats across the city,» said the spokeswoman, Nicole Sizemore.

When it comes to actually addressing whatever overcrowding those revised methods predict, the ideas get more controversial: The Council recommends the city use eminent domain to seize potential school sites where necessary, and consider redrawing school zones and district lines to balance population between schools that have too many kids and those with empty seats.

«The mayor's obstructionism means nearly 150,000 seats sit empty in public buildings while public charter schools are shut out, depriving countless families of an escape from failed schools,» Moskowitz said after the rally.

But according to a pro-charter organization, city charter schools currently have 2,500 empty seats, and a review of SUNY authorizing documents shows that current schools are already authorized to enroll another 27,000 students in the coming years.

Mulgrew contended that less successful students often leave charter schools, but that their empty seats remain unfilled.

Consider the split - second calculations you make when you estimate the number of empty seats on the school bus or gauge the number of cookies in a cookie jar.

There are almost 3,000 empty seats in the district's high schools, where enrollment is dropping.

However, particularly if the voucher value is relatively small, price ceilings mean that private schools will likely only fill empty seats rather than expand enrollment.

Financially desperate private schools with a lot of empty seats are likely to be first in line to accept these terms.

This summer, a high - performing KIPP charter school in Annapolis, Maryland, was forced to close because it couldn't find a permanent facility, even though the school district, according to its own study, had 900 empty seats in a nearby, underutilized school.

Out of 98,000 seats, 31,000 were empty, and many school buildings were half full.

While popular charter schools struggle to expand in a city with sky - high real estate costs (see my post yesterday for political context), some traditional school buildings are awash with empty seats.

The strategy proposed by the task force relies on a combination of developing demand, building capacity, and transforming institutions to fill empty seats, increase capacity in existing schools, reopen closed schools, and build new Catholic schools in areas that have seen the greatest growth in the Latino population.

After all, many of them are half - empty as parents find seats in more successful public schools, either charter or traditional.

Many of these no - excuse model schools attain excellent test scores that can not entirely be explained away on the basis of «counseling out» tough kids and not backfilling empty seats.

If their student got into several schools, the schools may not find out until the first day of class whether the student accepted — when they had an empty seat.

I fully expect anti-reformers to blame charters for empty seats, closing schools, and disturbing communities.

Programs limited to small populations, such as students eligible for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, tend only to fill empty seats at existing private schools but don't do much to encourage innovation or even the expansion of existing options.

The struggling district began the school year with 22,000 empty seats and the aggressive plan will eliminate roughly 9 % of those seats.

The city's own data shows there are 39 school buildings with at least 300 empty seats apiece in the districts where Success needs space.

Yet, when charters lose students during the school year, they are not required to fill those empty seats, even if they have a waiting list.

What's more, in the districts where charters have applied for space, 171 buildings have more than 300 empty seats, the City defined threshold for siting a charter school.

He is the author of An Empty Seat in Class: Teaching and Learning After the Death of a Student; Great Books for High School Kids; and Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom.

«The appropriations committee would leave enough in the budget to allow existing charter schools to expand as planned and fill empty seats.

For example, he said, there are «400,000 empty seats in Catholic schools nationwide, and approximately 36 percent (of them) are in states that have a school - choice program.»

There are about 29,000 empty seats in the district, and Superintendent Jeff Eakins thinks retrofitting them for 3 - and 4 - year - olds would better prepare the children for school and also make better use of available space.

Winnipeg schools have a lot of empty seats in older neighbourhoods, and rather than build schools where the children are, the province will fund busing instead.

I don't think anybody here is ready to go back to school and have an empty seat,» he said.