Sentences with phrase «than the city school»

Three UFT employees earned more than city Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina's 2017 salary of $ 233,430 — including union boss Michael Mulgrew, who nearly cleared $ 300,000 in compensation ($ 299,119).

But the majority of charter districts statewide perform even worse than the city school district for African - American students in eighth - grade math, the report noted.

Not exact matches

Flombaum and Enbar, who self - funded the operation up to this point and who say tuition alone can keep the school easily afloat, say they want to work first on perfecting the methods their more than a dozen instructors employ before expanding to other cities or to online courses.

The blaze shut down schools and forced more than 200 patients at two city hospitals to evacuate.

South Eugene High School, located in hippie - friendly Eugene, Ore., is situated less than a mile away from the University of Oregon, the city's top employer.

More than 3,000 members of the public also paid their respects at an open viewing Friday after a week of mourning across Houston that included tributes at City Hall, the police headquarters, the elder Mr. Bush's office, and Barbara Bush Elementary School, the New York Times reported.

Another story in The Sun, about racial covenants in Rodgers Forge («Residents of Towson neighborhood confront racist legacy of covenants,» Sept. 10) was significant because, repeatedly, new residents remark that they moved to the neighborhood because of good schools and because taxes are lower than in Baltimore City.

The kindness of Avery Huddleston, 7, led to a bigger surprise than anyone imagined at a school in the city of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

There are more than 20 elementary and middle schools in the city, which serve almost 20,000 school - aged children and their families.

Reading that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is planning to build a new school in West Baltimore («Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to build first new Catholic high school in city in more than 50 years,» April 30) raised several questions for me.

More than 200 people attended the protest outside a Bronx public school where Bloomberg was giving his annual State of the City address.

Public schoolteachers in central cities are far more likely than the average central city resident to send their own children to private schools.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

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 deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

Christianity Today: New York City Churches Will No Longer Be Evicted from Public Schools — For Now More than 60 churches that faced possible eviction Sunday from New York City public schools should have more room to bSchools — For Now More than 60 churches that faced possible eviction Sunday from New York City public schools should have more room to bschools should have more room to breathe.

He told me the name of the street and of the school he had gone to, and when he did so, I realized that I had never once in all my life set foot on that street or laid eyes on that school — this in a city whose population when I lived there was not much more than 200,000!

Noting that more than 10 percent of New York City school students are Muslim, he suggests that the public school calendar grant the Islamic community the same holiday leisure as it already gives to Christian and Jewish students.

In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

If a theological sketch of the idea of a theological school is a utopian exercise, the community it describes is less an ideal city than a crossroads hamlet with an overwhelmingly white male population.

To date, the festivals have raised more than $ 20 million for the Florida International University Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, as well as $ 8.5 million for the Food Bank for New York City and the Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

I think my generalization suggesting a black coach in a city school has an advantage recruiting black athletes is closer to how the world works than some open minded dream world that prejudice between races has been removed.

The city, the state, the school, the team and the fans, who mill about town in caps and sweatshirts with more BCS bowl logos than your power school's entire media guide.

Scouts have been monitoring him closely since his freshman season at Bishop Miege High School outside of Kansas City, but there has always been the sense that he's more prospect than player.

The Chiefs» graduation rate since 1988 is 27 %, and according to a report by Juli Rhoden of Oklahoma City's KTOK radio, over that same period no more than 10 % of the school's black players have earned their diplomas.

In a city of about 200,000 people, 93,000 youngsters and adults per week use the schools in afternoons, evenings and on Saturdays — a greater number than are enrolled for the regular school day.

But that fact has way more to do with the CIF not having state basketball playoffs from 1929 - 1980, than it does for the City's public schools not being able to compete.

We decided to HS after we moved to a bigger city (with more school violence and more negative influences than we were comfy with) We are now homeschooing our 15 year old and our 6 year old.

In recent years, the City introduced whole grain pasta, replaced white bread with whole wheat bread and installed more than 1,000 salad bars in schools.

Chicago Public Schools Inspector General James Sullivan recently found more than a dozen instances of falsified lunch applications among city and school employees at one West Side high school.

Chicago is one of the first cities to have its schools conform with nutritional guidelines that call for no more than 30 percent of calories from fat, 10 percent or less from saturated fats, plus increases in vegetables and grains.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

The Waldorf School of Garden City has more than 47 passionate educators, most with advanced degrees in their core field.

The Waldorf School of Garden City's ideas and people cross more than academic disciplines — they transcend languages and nations.

The Waldorf School of Garden City is so much more than a school; it is a loving community where children tSchool of Garden City is so much more than a school; it is a loving community where children tschool; it is a loving community where children thrive.

Rather than approximating a college curriculum, students at the Waldorf School of Garden City can experience it firsthand.

This «alliance of alliances» between six cities represents 4,536 schools, more than 2.5 million students and 46 billion school meals, and a combined $ 552 million in food service.

In 2016 after conducting a comprehensive study, the DC City Auditor recommended that DCPS should manage its own school food program rather than contracting it out to a company like SodexoMAGIC.

Referendum proposals seeking property tax increases to bolster sagging school, library, municipal and park district budgets will be on the Nov. 4 ballot in more than two dozen towns, villages and cities throughout Will and southern Cook Counties.

The D.C. Council has begrudgingly approved a food service contractor to provide meals for more than 100 of the city's public schools.

Kristin James, owner of Prairie Kitchens Cooking School, says she now takes her classes to the people rather than expecting them to come to one central kitchen in the city.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

What is the city of Houston doing to support school meals, other than relying on the federal subsidy?

«Flavored milk is far less sugary and tends to have fewer calories and more nutrition than beverages like soda,» said Keith Ayoob, associate clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City.