Sentences with phrase «urban districts said»

More than half of participating large urban districts said they didn't have enough time to hire qualified staff, according to the urban schools group survey.

The image of today's public schools as violence - ridden creates a big challenge for public - relations professionals, top communications specialists from two urban districts say.

Not exact matches

«I do believe that urban innovation districts are a way to catalyze and focus entrepreneurial energy within cities,» says Lower.

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you like.

Imagine that you've been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you... [Continue reading]

Another report says that the menu will now include «Salvadorean beef stew, chicken tandoori, Asian pad thai, California sushi roll and teriyaki beef and broccoli with brown rice,» but also notes the district says the changes were already in the pipeline well before Jamie even showed up in L.A. (And given what I know about school food procurement in my own large urban district, which I'm told can have a year - long lag time, that seems likely to be true.)

Park district officials say much of the land they would receive, plus some they would be leased, will be developed into new parks and an urban nursery to grow trees and shrubs.

The other is providing bicycle access to downtown destinations, including North Central College, Naper Settlement, the Riverwalk, Centennial Beach and the downtown business district, Urban said.

In one of its public statements, FOCUS had said the antibiotic - free chicken costs «a few pennies more,» but a few pennies can add up significantly in a large, urban district like Chicago.

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

Elia said the latest data shows that urban school districts are capable of graduating students, but might need more options from which kids can choose.

«The ploy is obvious — he is offering $ 100 million for urban schools in upstate districts represented by Assembly Democrats,» Easton said in a statement.

Few have lawyers in the consumer credit cases filed in New York City, in rural, suburban and urban child support cases and «the overwhelming majority» of tenants in eviction cases in all four of the state's judicial districts, he said.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, said the additional school aid would flow through both the foundation aid formula — which favors urban districts — and to alleviate the gap elimination adjustment, which would benefit wealthier, suburban districts.

Cities in the 24th district, including Oswego, Sterling and Clay, are not as Democratic nor as urban as Syracuse, Driscoll said.

The district also recently created the Urban Fellowship Program as a way of attracting prospective minority teachers to work in the district, Persampieri said.

«The fact that someone who grew up in the most urban area of the nation — Hell's Kitchen — could be welcomed into dairy barns in Delhi, and small businesses in Monticello, and mix with today's college students at New Paltz, while returning home at night to Orange County and being welcomed there also, is something that is a testament to the people of the 42nd Senate District,» said Bonacic.

«The most important thing the state could do is recognize the increased need in urban districts,» Mulvey said.

Heastie says problems facing an urban center like Syracuse are the same ones facing his home district in the Bronx.

The Miami - Dade schools website says the district has become one of the nation's highest - performing urban school systems, receiving systemwide accreditation from AdvancEd in 2014.

«It is crucial that parents and members of the public know that this bond proposition, which will greatly benefit students in urban school districts around Westchester, will need support on Election Day,» said Williams.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

Saying that the state constitution guarantees a «thorough and efficient» education to all New Jersey children, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the state must provide more funding to its 31 poorest urban school districts.

Understanding students in the Syracuse City School District is easier said than done, especially if a teacher didn't attend an urban school as a kid, Scott said.

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Hunter is the mother of a high school student, which she says gives her insights into issues an urban district faces.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teachers Academy for high school students.

In a statement released by Katz's campaign, Executive Secretary Treasurer of the NYC District Council of Carpenters Michael J. Forde said the Councilwoman's job creation and urban planning credentials separate her from the other candidates:

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

«An ideal situation in five years may be in a leadership role at a large urban school district, charter school network, or nonprofit organization that serves underrepresented students, especially those living in poverty,» she says.

«Asil's experiences as an English learner shaped her interest in the science and art behind literacy education, even as a math educator in an urban district,» says Senior Lecturer Pamela Mason, faculty director of L&L.

She embodies the values of courage and commitment that are required to meet the daunting challenge that confronts urban school districts, making good teaching happen for every child, every day, in every classroom, to enable all children to learn and achieve at high levels,» said Professor Robert Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Prourban school districts, making good teaching happen for every child, every day, in every classroom, to enable all children to learn and achieve at high levels,» said Professor Robert Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents ProUrban Superintendents Program.

Plaintiffs in these lawsuits say they favor high standards and accountability and then point to data showing that large numbers of students in urban districts fail to meet heightened standards.

One superintendent of a large, urban school district said that low - income high - school students in his district were beginning to take MOOCs in greater numbers than students from more privileged backgrounds.

The typical urban school district's personnel and budgeting systems leave principals without much say in hiring teachers or allocating resources.

But, it says, «in comparison with other urban districts, the District's scores were similar; many others also showed consistently significant gains.»

The result, Moore Johnson says, is that best practices on how to effectively lead and manage urban school districts are being shared and are spreading in meetings, at conferences, and online.

Ed Secretary Nominee Has Fans in the Field Colleagues of Houston Independent School District Superintendent Rod Paige say that although they will miss him, the country will benefit from his experience in dealing with urban education issues.

Cherry Rice says she's happy with what they've achieved so far, focusing on one urban district, but looking forward she wants to figure out how to expand the model to other high - needs areas.

While class - size reduction has helped achievement in most of California's large urban school districts, not all of those have enjoyed such results, says a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.

All that said, Chicago isn't the only urban school district in the nation struggling with the demands of educating a large number of high - need students.

After graduation, he plans to return to the classroom, teaching social studies in an urban district secondary school, preferably, he says, in a warmer climate.

The problem is also reaching outside urban areas and into suburban school districts, where large increases of minority immigration are occurring, said Gerald N. Tirozzi, executive director of the National Association for Secondary School Principals.

«Large urban districts are crisis points,» said McAdams.

«There is a common thread in how the Philadelphia crisis started, what happened in Michigan, and what's happening in Illinois, where there is abandonment by these Republican governors or legislatures of urban city school districts,» she says.

Movement strategists consider five factors when selecting battlegrounds, she said, and the District met each condition: a legislative and an executive branch controlled by supporters, local political champions for education or urban renewal, local business support, a weakened teacher union, and grassroots backing.

«What a principal would wish for in my daughter's school in our nice suburb would be so different from what a principal in the urban district where I work would wish for,» said Lyn McCarty, a special education administrator in an urban California public school district.

In both urban and rural communities, 64 percent of parents say they are «very satisfied» with their child's charter school, compared to 54 percent of urban parents and 56 percent of rural parents who say they are «very satisfied» with their child's assigned - district school.

Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of Great City Schools, which represents urban districts, said he believed Baltimore city's scores reflected the state's performance, including the inclusion of more special education students.