Sentences with phrase «turn around a district»

Though the Buffalo PTO is boycotting Friday's event, leaders have urged their members to attend the summit Saturday, where Cash will present his plan for turning around the district.

The young teenagers — 13 and 14 years old — brought these interests Saturday when they went shopping for career - focused high schools, a key component of Superintendent Kriner Cash's plan for turning around the district.

You know, turning around a district like this is complex.

«I created the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools not only to turn around our District's lowest - performing schools, but also to be a catalyst for system - wide change,» said Mayor Villaraigosa.

«They're not useful,» said Paul Vallas, a veteran superintendent who has helped turn around districts in Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans and is now running the schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

While the community is concerned about using outside operators to turn around district schools, Atlanta's thoughtful and community - focused approach helped the district usher in this ambitious strategy.

Not exact matches

The Palatine Park District has also turned to a more natural way of dealing with geese by not mowing around ponds, which discourages geese who are fearful of predators hiding in the tall grass, Gould said.

By contracting out the arena's management, the district hopes to build on 10 years of success in turning around the profitability of the stadium built in 1924.

The job of turning around that image now falls to the newly installed director of the Park District, Ken Brissa.

Four superintendents in five years have tried to turn around the Buffalo Public School District.

While history is being made in Washington, it is unfortunate that the recent vacancy in New York's 26th District denies Western New York a strong voice as Congress deliberates on key initiatives that are designed to turn our nation around.

ALBANY — Albany County District Attorney David Soares said Tuesday he will ask judges to seal the convictions of offenders — including some felons — who have turned their lives around for at least 10 years.

With the involvement of monitors during the past three years, the district has begun to turn around and it is imperative that funding is provided to continue to build on this momentum.

Waronker, who took over as schools chief on June 2, contended in that letter that his attempts to turn around the struggling district have been undermined by the board's three - member majority.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday ordered the acting chief of the troubled Hempstead school district to send her monthly progress reports on efforts to turn the system around, declaring that local authorities have not yet «adequately addressed» festering problems.

But it's all corrupt: Just as the speaker uses the cash to buy members» votes, so do they, in turn, toss it around their districts to buy political support.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday appointed veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district, a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

«The state budget enacted last year gave school district leaders hope after several difficult years that financial prospects for their schools might at last be turning around,» said Deputy Director Bob Lowry.

Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco of the 112th district believes that every legislator and the governor will focus on turning the economy around»... and the fortunes of our constituents in terms of jobs, economic expansion for small businesses, keeping our young people who get great educations in New York State IN New York State and stopping that «brain drain.»

«In anyone else's district if they turned around and said «We're going to run the N train once an hour, it would be crazy,» Ignizio said.

The revised plan, which would be included in the state budget, would also give districts more time to turn around what Cuomo calls «failing» schools or districts before a state - appointed «receiver» could seize broad authority over them.

«It would be nice if they have some kind of educational background and I'd really like some more financial partners who could help me turn around some of the problems in the district.

«We've turned Yonkers around during my six years as mayor,» said Spano, adding, «I want to put that record of success and leadership to work for the people of the 37th District.»

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

Fellow Democrats who oppose the acting Erie County district attorney's ethics proposals are turning the argument around him, aiming their own ethical challenges at him.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

We have to make sure that we continue to turn things around in East Ramapo and lift the tide in all the other districts,» he said.

But Say Yes to Education may hold the key to turning around the city's troubled school district.

Sept. 14: State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia appoints veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead district in a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the system.

That's what Rochester Superintendent Bolgen Vargas says the district needs in order to put in place a successful school turn - around plan for East High School.

The Rochester City School District is expected to submit its final plan to the State Education Department on May 15th to turn East High School around.

Kinderhook, NY - April 13, 2016... John Faso, the endorsed Conservative, Republican, Independent candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, today released his second television advertisement, which focuses on his plans to turn the Upstate economy around and help small businesses.

Turn on the agricultural district layer to see the extent of the districts around your property.

Lavine said if she hasn't turned the city school district around by the end of her first term, she won't seek reelection.

Executive Chairman of Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has said that the One District One Factory initiative of the current administration has the potential of turning Ghana's fortunes around by creating wealth and sustainable jobs.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

[113][114] Harig won the support of the Buffalo Teachers Federation and AFL - CIO, [113] while Paladino received the endorsement of The Buffalo News editorial board, which wrote: «Despite all his defects — his offensive comments, his bullying, his sometime inability to function effectively on the board — it is because of his influence that the board is even interested in turning around an underperforming district.»

Under then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., the district regularly failed to comply with state mandates and develop plans for turning around its struggling schools.

I look forward to partnering with Senator Gillibrand and President Obama in Washington on behalf of working families all across the 20th District, where I will fight to create jobs, provide middle class tax relief, and offer new ways to meet our most pressing challenges, so we can turn our economy around.»

Lavine: Well in addition to everything else I've talked about, which is to turn the schools around and what I've said is, if I'm elected Mayor I'll be seeking mayoral control of the school district --

There is no district like it and we can do report after report and they will all say the same thing, that East Ramapo is in trouble and needs drastic changes to turn things around.»

Lavine, who has proposed mayoral control of the city school district, said bold, outside - the - box thinking is also needed to turn around Syracuse's struggling schools.

Many critics have complained in the past that rigid zoning standards in previous versions forced them into a «California» model of urban development — sprawling suburbs revolving around a central commercial district — which in turn forces residents to make long, traffic - clogged commutes.

Winning means they must turn around, leaving their loved ones behind and embark on a «Victory Tour» through the districts.

States should insist that districts take aggressive action to turn around dropout factories and schools where the vast majority of students are demonstrably not on track for success.

In Philadelphia, charter schools are actively engaged with the district to turn around low - performing schools in specific neighborhoods.

The total number of school districts in the U.S. dropped from more than 100,000 around the turn of the 20th century to less than 15,000 by the turn of the 21st century, even as the population of school - age children increased during that period.

Frustrated by the turn - around time involved in data processing, the California superintendent decided 18 months ago to upgrade the Corona - Norco Unified School District's computer system.

As districts nationwide struggle to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education has shifted its focus to turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools.