Sentences with phrase «schools classroom space»

Success Academy boss Eva Moskowitz accused Mayor de Blasio of illegally denying charter schools classroom space at a City Hall rally on Thursday.

At 8:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso, parents and advocates challenge the NYC Department of Education for giving public school classroom space to charter schools, School Building K111, 35 Starr St., Brooklyn.

Not exact matches

In the Netherlands, one school is taking classroom tech to another level entirely by focusing on the way a learning space is lit.

Eight schools have edible learning gardens which include fruit trees and bushes, outdoor classroom space, compost bins, rain catchment systems, and weather stations.

It's really refreshing to see the outdoor space being incorporated into the classroom in this way and I can't wait to see how BB enjoys it when she starts school in a couple of years.

School gardens also provide restful spaces for kids who are easily overwhelmed / overstimulated by too much classroom time.

All of what I envision — the shiny classrooms, piles of books, and endless snack supply — lies in stark contrast to what I'm seeing on the ground in Ethiopia, whether at traditional schools or at the Population Council's safe learning spaces for girls suffering in urban slums.

At the Alabang Elementary School in the southern part of the capital region, some 450 families live side by side in classrooms and on any available floor space.

A sheltered pavilion will serve as an outdoor classroom and meeting space, and the site will provide efficient flow for pedestrians, cars, and school buses, and incorporate outdoor gathering spaces for school groups and other participants.

Accidental Electrical Fire Destroys Buildings at Pasadena Waldorf Altadena Country Club offers space for childcare, thanks in part to Five Acres CEO Chanel Boutakidis (Tuesday, September 22, Altadena CA)-- On Friday August 29th at approximately 5:30 pm, an accidental electrical fire destroyed the building housing Pasadena Waldorf School's first and second grade classrooms at their historic campus -LSB-...]

As Elliot grew, he was no longer content to hang out in his own space during our school day and do his own thing away from the preschool materials, but giving him free reign in a classroom not designed for his age group was both dangerous for him and frustrating for those it was intended for.

The school board did unanimously agree to a $ 585,000 construction project that will add classroom space to Ivy Hill Elementary and Greenbrier Elementary schools.

Projected changes to enrollment lead the school district to add classroom spaces for specialized programs, district officials said.

Skelos said he was outraged by de Blasio's decision to cancel classroom space for three of longtime adversary Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools this fall that were approved last year by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The nearly $ 13 million project will also build eight classrooms that will add 336 new seats to the school, a rehearsal space and a black - box theater.

Carl Pressley, the vice president of the PTA at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sSchool for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter schoolschool.

The ballot proposition, if approved, would also permit using the bond proceeds «[t] o construct, enhance, and modernize educational facilities to accommodate pre-kindergarten programs and provide instructional space to replace transportable classroom units» and «[t] o install high - tech security features in school buildings and on school campuses.»

For the first time, the privately operated schools will be eligible for government funds to cover the costs of leasing classroom space in private buildings, Albany sources said.

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.

A day after getting slapped with a federal lawsuit from charter school parents for canceling classroom space for their kids, Mayor Bill de Blasio got hit from the other side...

Schools are already having to convert non-classroom space, such as music rooms and libraries, into classrooms and others have been forced to reduce playground space or expand class sizes, the association warned.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

ALBANY, NY — Senate Co-Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan (D - Queens) celebrated passage of legislation that would protect existing school playground space in New York City from the long term displacement caused by ongoing construction or temporary classrooms.

Influential charter school leaders, including Success Academy founder and longtime de Blasio foe Eva Moskowitz, urged de Blasio to hand them space in city classrooms in a strident letter sent to City Hall Thursday.

TRIBECA — TriBeCa parents who fought the city's proposal to send their children to school in Chinatown after running out of classroom space in TriBeCa can now breathe a sigh of relief.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A battle over new classroom space at 26 Broadway is pitting a high - performing lower Manhattan high school against a school from the Upper East Side.

They must also go toward construction or renovation of spaces within school buildings to serve as health suites, adult education spaces, guidance suites, resource rooms, remedial rooms, parent / community rooms, and career and technical education classrooms.

The off - color quip came in response to concerns by public - school dad Eric Greenleaf, who said at a meeting of parents and officials at state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown office that there will be «huge shortages» of classroom space in lower Manhattan in coming years.

In court filings, Upper West Success Academy officials argued the charter school would be «placed in an under - utilized space within Brandeis, and so cause no harm to the existing schools» and that some of the classrooms allocated to the charter school are currently used to store file cabinets and extra furniture.

Parents said the charter school, which is a public school, would take classroom space and resources away from non-charter students.

«I hope also that voters will vote in favor of the Smart Schools Bond Act in November, so we can get more school space, and equip all of these classrooms with state - of - the - art technology.

For example, school districts might use it to build or renovate pre-kindergarten classrooms, obtain space to eliminate trailers in overcrowded schools or to purchase high - tech security upgrades.

The school will receive $ 2 million for fiscal year 2016 from local Councilman Daneek Miller and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz to upgrade its laboratory and classroom space in the Science and Modern Languages departments.

But Cheung also highlighted two spaces — a school building in Bedford - Stuyvesant and one in Crown Heights — that still had furniture in classrooms and lockers in the hallway.

The DOE's deputy chancellor of operations, Elizabeth Rose, acknowledged that in the 2018 - 2019 school year, P.S. 297 would lose three full - size classrooms and one quarter - sized space it currently occupies.

For years, when floodwaters swamped the elementary school, dedicated teachers improvised classrooms in whatever spaces were available, including parks and private homes.

But Science Buddies realizes that teachers also need concrete support in the form of physical science materials that can be used for student projects, for classroom STEM experimentation and exploration, or to fuel the development of a school Maker Space.

I was in middle school, just starting to enjoy learning, and had a hard time dealing with the idea that a teacher who was supposed to go into space, then come back to share her experience with her classroom and other classrooms, now wasn't coming back at all.

Get a good look at a Formic ship, the tech - ed out classrooms, the space shuttle school... and most importantly, THE BATTLE ROOM!

Watch a determined middle school teacher transform his crowded classroom space to enable deeper learning and effective teamwork — with help from his students, community volunteers, and a few experts.

In our elementary school classrooms, we use AR to create active learning experiences hitherto inconceivable, and in the process redefine the learning space!

It found that pupils who were schooled in a classroom environment which made creative and flexible use of design, natural light and noise, temperature, air quality, space and storage performed up to 25 % better than those in schools which didn't.

This series of three videos shows how designers and community volunteers helped a teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in San Francisco transform his crowded classroom into a space that fosters collaboration, creativity, and active student learning.

In his opinion for the court of appeals, Judge Edward Ferns ultimately found the district's formula for assigning classroom space to charter schools was consistent with the intent of Proposition 39.

The site also offers space for schools to publish school newspapers on - line and create special Web sites for extracurricular activity groups, clubs, and individual classrooms to publish student writing on the Web!

The building is situated close to the school sports hall and therefore, convenient for the PE theory lessons that will take place in two of the classrooms, with the other two used as general teaching spaces.

As educators, we are designing every single day — whether it's finding new ways to teach content more effectively, using our classroom space differently, developing new approaches to connecting with parents, or creating new solutions for our schools.

We wanted to create large, column - free spaces, and the ubiquitous layout of traditional schools — perimeter classrooms bisected by a common hallway — made that goal expensive or impossible.

The classrooms, flooded with light, utilise space to create different atmospheres, ideal to the school's holistic approach to learning.

Besides ensuring that all students have compassionate, effective teachers creating classroom conditions and opportunities for these things to occur, a school principal's primary responsibility is to allocate the scarce resources of time, space, and funding to maximize children's positive and productive experiences of school.