Sentences with phrase «to keep the school open»

The state's charter law, on the other hand, guarantees an extensive legal process for any charter facing closure, effectively keeping the school open for many years.

The state had to give the district two cash advances this spring to pay staff and give it an emergency loan to keep schools open through the end of the school year.

Is student generation too low to justify keeping a school open in the area?

Our schools follow the guidance of their local health departments, with the goal of keeping schools open as long as it is in the best interest of our students and faculty.

Now, I wouldn't keep any school open that wasn't doing a better - than - average job.

For though they made the same call on keeping their schools open, it's clear they did so for entirely different reasons.

In the case of struggling schools, the report said it can be difficult to «justify keeping the school open» unless there is an «overwhelming reason».

I called a snow day for my kids today, despite the fact that the mayor kept the schools open.

Like de Blasio, this one also kept her schools open.

We may need to keep schools open late in the evening so children have a safe environment in which to do homework or access computers.

Normally, you have a bias toward keeping schools open and keeping kids in schools.

Teachers will expect to be paid for working significantly more days, and there are other costs of keeping schools open (such as air conditioning in many parts of the country).

However, keeping schools open in less than ideal circumstances after district leaders closed three schools earlier in the week shows that there is a systemic issue.

Assistant Professor Joshua Goodman of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government found keeping school open during a storm had a more negative effect than canceling classes, in part because parents often kept their kids home anyway, which meant they fell behind in their lessons.

Authorities should be forced to keep schools open with small class sizes to allow for further expansion in later years, as surely this must work out cheaper than constant closure and rebuilding of schools!

But Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, who remained cool and collected throughout the hearing, argued that it wasn't right to keep schools open if they are failing kids with consistently low test scores and graduation rates.

Despite this, the local communities in Puerto Rico are fighting to establish normalcy by keeping their schools open and doing their best to provide for their students (Araiza, 2017).

Nearly 100 students from Legacy School for Integrated Studies on 34 W. 14th St. gathered in Union Square Wednesday afternoon to ask the Department of Education to keep the school open despite its poor marks.

By contrast, Moskowitz kept her schools open for one reason: In a city where the overwhelming number of black and Latino students are failing their proficiency tests, she believes students can not afford to miss the precious education they get.

De Blasio vowed to be «on top of the action,» and added that officals would wait to make a «game - time decision» on whether to keep schools open Friday.

Only three of seven buses started, but McNamara said he reluctantly kept school open, and informed parents that buses were going to be delayed.

Community Learning Centers: Keeping School Open After School Lets Out A new guidebook, available on the Internet, can help school leaders in establishing programs that keep kids off the street and benefit all members of a community.

Voting to keep schools open because they do a good job educating kids is a great first step in signaling that anyone who is in education for the benefit of kids is welcome on the same team.

After Ball State University declined to renew the charters for two Imagine - run schools in the state, Imagine took advantage of Indiana's new voucher program and will keep the schools open as private schools in the fall.

But state schools superintendent Randy Dorn expressed his openness to finding a solution that keeps the schools open permanently.

Unable to pay its bills, the state legislature passed a bill late last year allocating over $ 215 million to help CPS keep schools open for the full year.

«We are very focused on honouring our commitment to pupils who are currently studying at the school, and the department's decision to keep the school open until summer 2019 ensures that the 120 pupils currently in year 10 and year 11 will all be able to complete their GCSEs here as planned,» Mr Bryant said.

Providence was the only one of the four urban core cities in Rhode Island that chose to keep school open Monday.

Flanagan told a state panel last week it's not clear if the Muskegon Heights school district, or the for - profit charter company that ran it the last two years, will face any consequences for running up a deficit big enough to require an emergency loan worth $ 1.4 million and two cash advances to keep schools open through June.

That decision to make an early call came after de Blasio took heat for his decision to keep schools open during a major snowstorm in February 2014 — much to the ire of many parents and teachers forced to navigate treacherous roads.

For example, 54 percent polled by Gallup in 2010 agreed that the best thing to do about low - performing schools is to keep the school open with the same staff and give it more support.

Clinton's glib use of «wouldn't keep any school open» shows a limited understanding of just what is involved in «closing» a school.

Meanwhile, the California Charter Schools Association says Magnolia parents are planning to protest at the courthouse tomorrow morning in support of keeping the schools open.

To those who say that we don't have the capacity to grow enough new schools, I say that's because we have a system that was mistakenly built a century ago to populate schools by geography, to keep schools open in perpetuity, to homogenize offerings, and to own and operate all public schools in a designated area.

Then headteachers will have to make judgement calls about whether they can keep their schools open, based on what proportion of their staff are members of striking unions.

«We will have conversations with the objective to keep these schools open.»

If tommorrow the State determined we should keep schools open 24 hours a day and provide 3 meals, snack, with reacreation and daycare then who do you think would pay for it?

Community Education Council 9 voted against the proposal to shutter J.H.S. 145, representatives said, and elected officials such as Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. wrote a letter urging the DOE to keep the school open.

Skelos is working to reverse this and keep the schools open:

The move came after a raucous joint hearing at Wadleigh on 114th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, held by Community Education Council 3 and the DOE, where politicians, parents, teachers, students and clergy vowed to take whatever steps were necessary to keep the school open.

De Blasio and Farina defended their call to keep schools open, made at 10:30 Wednesday night, as weather forecasts predicted a severe winter storm with six 6 to 10 inches of snow for the city.

School board member Carl Paladino has been accused of his own invested interest in some of the area charter schools, while minority members are fighting to keep the schools open.

Queens state Sen. Jose Peralta said on Twitter that keeping schools open would make it difficult for parents.

Allegedly, kung fu master Wong Jack Man wanted him to close his school down, and so Bruce challenged him to a fight in 1965 citing that if he won, he would be allowed to keep the school open - while if he lost, he'd honour the result and walk away from teaching.

Scrambling to keep its schools open during a strike, an Ohio district has found a way to get around a state law that limits short - term substitutes to teaching a class for up to five days.

Two of her three students at the Salund School in McLeod are expected to graduate from 6th grade next spring, and school officials in the town, population 60, are unlikely to keep the school open, she said.

So when we have bad weather, we do everything we can to keep the school open and make sure the site is safe, for example reducing the risk of people hurting themselves on ice.