Sentences with phrase «school space the city»

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In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

The Waldorf School of Garden City has rolling admission based upon space and availability.

At the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide them.

For years, the Park District has teamed with area schools to use their gymnasiums for programming space, but as the city's population has swelled, park programs have been relegated to increasingly cramped quarters.

New York City's Department of Education said that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva MoskowCity's Department of Education said that it would not find space for five new middle schools proposed by the Success Academy charter school network in time for the locations to be approved by a city panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva Moskowcity panel in November, setting up another clash between the mayor and Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz.

At 11 a.m., NYC Council Member Jessica Lappin, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and NYCLU Director Donna Lieberman hold a press conference to speak out against a resolution that calls on Albany to allow religious groups to use New York City public school space for worship services; Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.

At the same time, advocates opposed to de Blasio's push to reduce the available space in charter schools in New York City will also descend on the Capitol.

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At 11 a.m, public charter school leaders, including Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, join parents on the City Hall steps to demand that de Blasio «act immediately to resolve (their) open space requests,» Manhattan.

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.

De Blasio is creating a task force to grapple with the space crisis in the city's school system — and is including supporters of charters.

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.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTCity Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTcity employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

(Gov. Cuomo told business leaders that the state would step in to pay the rent of city charter schools denied free space under a crackdown by Mayor De Blasio, according to two sources.

The charter network plans to expand in commercial space on the Far West Side, a major shift for the network, which has insisted that the city provide charter schools free space.

The resolution also requires New York City to offer facilities aid to charter schools that are expanding or that lose public space.

The ability to access school space has been used by some anti-gay congregations as part of a «church planting» effort across the city.

Under current law, the city Department of Education uniformly refuses to offer space to new and expanding charter schools and forces the operators to file a lengthy appeal.

Other parts of the anti-obesity proposal include: ensuring new schools are built with dedicated activity space; creating a program to send doctors into homes to develop preventive programs for children with asthma; increasing the availability of free food programs for children; and doubling the number of school - based health centers in the city to 250.

City Hall would agree to make it easier for charters to get public - school space or obtain funding to lease private space, said an education official familiar with the discussions.

The new laws prevent de Blasio from charging rent to charters as he had said he would, require the city to find space for charters in D.O.E. buildings or to fund those schools up to $ 40 million for space in private buildings, and implement other safeguards for charters after an intensive charter lobbying effort in Albany.

Tricia Joyce, a member of the task force, said she remembers that five years ago, city officials said they would take a closer look, and it did lead to opening temporary «incubator» space early for two new Downtown schools, but this was the first time she ever remembered being invited into smaller planning meetings.

This morning, the New York City Independent Budget Office released data showing charter schools housed in private space receive 16 % less funding per student than district schools.

De Blasio's power over city schools has already been somewhat diminished by the new pro-charter state law dictating how the city must accommodate charters in both public and private space.

Next school year will be the first to offer full - day pre-K to every city 3 - year - old, and Mr. Buery will be tasked with the execution of it — no easy task considering the difficulty of securing enough space, in the right neighborhoods, to attract parents.

At a rally with parents on the steps of City Hall on Thursday, Ms. Moskowitz urged the city to make space available for the new schools, and suggested that Success Academy families would go on a hunger strike if necessCity Hall on Thursday, Ms. Moskowitz urged the city to make space available for the new schools, and suggested that Success Academy families would go on a hunger strike if necesscity to make space available for the new schools, and suggested that Success Academy families would go on a hunger strike if necessary.

The city would be required to first look for space in regular public schools where new charters — or those wishing to expand — could be co-located.

The new mayor enraged the charter school movement by vowing to charge schools getting rent - free space in city buildings and scrapping a $ 210 million charter building fund.

NON-WHITES ONLY: New School Students Demand Safe Space for «Persons of Color» A group of students at The New School in New York City have demanded college administrators...

A charter school network's plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a war over classroom space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.

The Supreme Court decided not to review a lower court decision that upholds the city's right to refuse to provide space in city schools for religious groups.

At 10:20 a.m., Success Academy Charter Schools founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz makes an announcement about the middle school space proposal recently sent to Success Academy by the New York City Department of Education, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 9:40 a.m., leaders of New York City's charter networks join parents to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to support 50 new charter schools in public space over the next two years, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

School officials last week discussed plans for moving the Kingston City School District's administrative headquarters to the former Frank L. Meagher Elementary School, minus the option of using space in that building for a universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) program.

Parents and staff at Arturo Toscanini were livid roughly two years ago when the city proposed having a Success Academy charter school expand into the building, and Donohue maintains that closing his school is just a way to give more space in the building to Success Academy.

Success Academy spokeswoman Ann Powell said that the charter school network has had no communication with the city about closing schools and that any decisions about building space would be made by the DOE, not by them.

And he announced a new partnership with The City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering to create a new incubator space in Upper Manhattan where students and faculty members can work together to market their ideas.

Her march on Albany last winter, after the mayor briefly blocked three of her schools from city space, helped set the new law into motion, and she vowed last week to ensure that «the law is followed.»

«Involving the charters, one of the things that the city has continued to do is basically flout the law and make sure that charter schools have unbelievable difficulties trying to secure space,» Flanagan continued.

Last year, Mr. Cuomo denied Mr. de Blasio the tax hike he sought to fund his universal prekindergarten initiative and later rammed through a law that guaranteed new charter schools free space in New York City, punishing the anti-charter teachers» union and the mayor, who was always a charter critic.

A new state law passed in April gives the city just two options to meet the demands of the Success Academy network: It can hand over free space in public or private buildings, or give the schools money to find their own space.

«He negotiated a budget deal with state lawmakers that guarantees future New York City charter schools rent - free space in under - used public school buildings or funding to offset the cost of renting a building.»

«Parents want to let legislators know they support the governor's proposal to allow charters to provide high - quality pre-K seats,» he added, referring to Cuomo's recent proposal that much - needed city pre-K space could be found in charter schools.

Charter schools offered free space in city educational facilities are actually a bargain for New York taxpayers, a new study shows.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has indicated plans of charging charter schools rent for sharing space with traditional public schools.

The city should be looking at overcrowded schools differently — working to bring more resources while waiting to build more space, she believes.

She has also had a few bumps, including her controversial decision to revoke offers of city space from three charter schools.

Mayor de Blasio is creating a task force to grapple with the space crisis in the city's school system — and is including supporters of charters.

In Manhattan, where such real estate is scarce, this project will invigorate an entire underused square block of the city with a sustainable community, complete with a new elementary school, 682 units of affordable housing, and 15,000 square feet of retail space.»

The poll also asked voters about the city's efforts to ban churches from renting space in public schools.