Sentences with phrase «vacant school buildings»

A recent poll by Education Reform Now, a non-partisan partner of DFER - DC, showed that 76 % of voters and an overwhelming 86 % of parents believe that public charter schools should be part of the solution to the city's supply of vacant school buildings.

The district authorizes the schools, has agreed to help them expand, and recently sold them four vacant school buildings.

Dennis Conta of the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association (from left), Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines and state Sen. Alberta Darling hold a press conference outside 38th Street School in Milwaukee Wednesday to announce proposed state legislation that would grant the city power to approve sales of vacant school buildings.

My grandparents «rescued» it from a vacant school building owned by a family friend, and we moved it piece by piece from Indiana to Atlanta, then I restored it.

Not exact matches

The four - story, 77 - year - old brick building, previously a traditional high school, was vacant when flooded by Katrina and had slouched into a rotting, mold - choked shelter for displaced residents.

Currently, many of Lombard's activities are being held in a vacant elementary school building, but School District 44 officials have indicated the former Fairwood School might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires nextschool building, but School District 44 officials have indicated the former Fairwood School might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires nextSchool District 44 officials have indicated the former Fairwood School might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires nextSchool might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires next year.

Along with the school, properties under consideration include the Southminster Presbyterian Church, the Church of God, an office building, a theater, five acres of vacant land owned by Central DuPage Hospital and seven homes.

But two weeks ago the school district informed the park district that a vacant 4.5 - acre site owned by the school district is sufficient land on which to build the school.

Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines on Wednesday made a push for a state law that would let the city decide on the sales of vacant MPS school buildings.

The Syracuse City School District held classes there until 2011; the building has been vacant since.

Cleaning and greening vacant lots might be just enough of a change, Kaplan says, to help build a sense of ownership and neighborhood identity in the affected communities so they can come together and push for larger improvements like better schools and sanitation — and remain in the neighborhood to enjoy them.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — In some school districts across the United States, public school buildings sit vacant while nearby charter schools searching for space are turned away.

Though charter schools already had right of first refusal on public school property up for sale, charter school operators were meeting resistance from some Arkansas school districts selling vacant buildings.

«Not only did this development allow a charter school to expand its services in an economically distressed community, but it also repurposed a vacant building in the process.»

Any school building disposition should include advanced planning to prevent vacant schools through advanced planning of potential school vacancies.

If the De Blasio administration takes away funding for construction along with access to vacant space in public school buildings, the cold hard reality is that tens of thousands of New York City students will be denied a chance for a better education.»

Five other buildings gained teachers in the shuffle, but another 17 schools had to close vacant positions, voluntarily reduce teachers» hours, or find money to pay for teachers whose jobs can no longer be supported due to lower - than - expected enrollments across the district.

«If we're going to have a brand - new charter school open up, and you have vacant space in a district building, it's far more efficient for everybody — for the charter, for the district, for the taxpayer — to locate in a building already within a school, and appropriate for a school.

When a charter school renovates and re-opens a formerly vacant, dilapidated school building, the entire community benefits.

The Milwaukee Public School Board is scheduled to vote tonight on a measure that would give the superintendent more control over charter schools and vacant buildings.

I know of other situations where the NYAD has blocked use of valuable vacant space in a building they own where the school is supposedly «independent».

In addition, the school district must pay for maintenance of vacant buildings.

In New Haven, Achievement First is maneuvering to take over the now vacant Martin Luther King School, at a discount price, and build a new building to house one of their charter schools.

Noble's plans to build its 17th campus, a new high school on what's now vacant land in the Brighton Park area, has sparked heated public hearings and competing community demonstrations.

They should ensure charter public schools have free or low - cost access to vacant buildings owned by local school districts, municipalities, or the state.

And there's a huge vacant space adjacent to Osgoode Hall Law School and near the Scott Library that would be just perfect for the new building.

The building housed 30 classrooms, so the school rearranged its schedule and started using classrooms that were vacant during teachers» planning period, as well as holding classes in the auditorium and other rooms.

Stoneman Douglas currently has four deputies patrolling the school, as well as four more guarding the now - vacant three - story building where the shooting took place.

A group of neighbors in Evanston has been vocal in opposing a plan to bring an alternative high school to a now - vacant industrial building located across the street from single family homes.

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