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What's more, these students were among the most disadvantaged in the New York City public school system.

«Senator Marcellino and the members of the education committee will seek information about what is being done to fix underperforming schools and other specific plans to improve and strengthen the city school system so that the state's examination of mayoral control is as comprehensive as possible.»

This appears aimed at undermining what Mayor de Blasio points to as one of his biggest successes which is his stewardship of the New York City public school system.

«It's long past time the city took steps to change what is a fundamentally broken system to address school bullying,» the group's CEO Jeremiah Kittredge said in a statement.

Dedicating a single press conference to the issue for the first time, Mr. de Blasio laid out in dire terms what would happen if New York City reverted to the old system of education that existed before his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, won mayoral control of public schools in 2002.

The digital and social media effort features a new daily fact — highlighting what the New York City school system could do with the $ 300 million — for each of the remaining 2 days until the Jan. 17 deadline.

«I don't ask upstate Republican county executives to tell me what they'll spend the 1 % sales tax extender on before I agree to pass a bill,» Heastie said, contrasting the Senate GOP's demand for information on the school system from the city.

Hartford's Equity 2020 committee, the advisory panel that city school leaders formed months ago to consider school consolidation, got its first glimpse of what the district's consultants have been working on in recent weeks — three possible scenarios to help shrink the school system starting in the 2017 - 18 school year.

Depending on what happens in the coming session, this could turn out to have been a first step in weakening the mayor's control over the city's public school system.

Here's what we do know: Syracuse and the surrounding area did get some help in fixing roads, addressing discipline problems in city schools, job training for current openings at area manufacturers and improving city hall's computer system.

He also proposed an extension of after - school programs for junior high school students, part of what he called a «transformation» of the city's education system.

What this approach ignores, to be frank, is that most victims of crime in New York City belong to Mark - Viverito's «communities of color» — just as black and Hispanic students suffer most from disruptions in the city's 70 % - plus black and Hispanic public - school sysCity belong to Mark - Viverito's «communities of color» — just as black and Hispanic students suffer most from disruptions in the city's 70 % - plus black and Hispanic public - school syscity's 70 % - plus black and Hispanic public - school system.

You would think that what all this prefrontal cortex real estate would do for us is allow us to do all these wonderful things like paint and make music and speak and build churches and cities and schools and have systems of justice, but at an anatomical level one of its most distinguishing characteristics is that it's full of inhibitory circuits.

It discounts real improvements in the city's school system, ignores the tremendous challenges facing some of the city's secondary schools, and distracts from the hard work required to graduate students truly qualified for what comes next.

In three new articles published in Education Next, researchers with the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA - New Orleans) at Tulane University, directed by professor of economics, Douglas Harris, show the impact of the reforms on student performance; consider to what degree the city's system of school choice provides a variety of distinct options for families; and take a careful look at the city's unique centralized enrollment system.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

Detroit is a powerful illustration of what happens when no one takes responsibility for the entire system of publicly supported schools in a city.

This is not what is occurring in several cities where school districts have developed choice systems.

This raises a question very much worth pondering: What is the best way to arrange a city's system of schools given our tradition of local control and the state's ultimate constitutional obligation?

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

«I want to see what it means for a city to build a system of community schools.

«What Cincinnati does, that they have probably done better than any other city, certainly better than New York at this time, is not just to have a collection of great community schools, but to have a system of community schools,» Buery said in an interview Monday evening.

In «Many Options in New Orleans Choice System,» ERA - New Orleans researchers consider to what degree the city's system of school choice, where 93 percent of public school students attend charter schools, provides a variety of distinct options for famSystem,» ERA - New Orleans researchers consider to what degree the city's system of school choice, where 93 percent of public school students attend charter schools, provides a variety of distinct options for famsystem of school choice, where 93 percent of public school students attend charter schools, provides a variety of distinct options for families.

After surfacing all of these problems, the group then talked about what cities and school systems can do to address them.

Ta - Nehisi Coates offered a «master class» for a group of New York City school leaders who were eager to know what they could do to help dismantle those systems of oppression.

While reformers failed to overhaul New York City's laws for hiring and firing teachers, they have succeeded in cultivating a robust system of charters to challenge the preeminence and performance of traditional public schools, and offer a model of what non-union schools might look like.

Carmen Avalos, city clerk for the South Gate community of Los Angeles and a mother of six children, four of whom attend charter schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.schools, said the Great Public Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.Schools Now plan has been greatly anticipated by parents of color like herself who have endured what she called a «two - tiered system.»

«What she's done here is not only just improve the academic outcomes, she's managed to stabilize the system,» said Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of large school districts.

«She's given the city a sense of optimism and hope that its public school system can be what they want it to be.»

And sometimes they push families out of certain neighborhoods, or entirely out of the city, especially if families feel they don't get what they need from the school system.

What the city does have is the Quality Review process, in which external assessors rate how well a school's internal systems support student learning.

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

«I certainly respect the (state) board's decision to send me that request for emergency, but we are going to make sure that we know exactly what the condition of the city of Jackson public - school system is now — that that wasn't just a snapshot that occurred.»

So let's be clear about this: Once again, Detroit's city council behaves irresponsibly towards its citizens — especially its children — because its majority has lost site of what matters most: The children who must attend this atrocity of a school system.

Thankfully, what she's not willing to consider is a return to the days when having a job in the city school system might have little relation to doing the job.

Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and wiped out much of its school facilities, but the process of rebuilding it provided what then - Governor Kathleen Blanco called a «golden opportunity» to remake the entire school system.

Education Cities CEO Ethan Gray took to the stage at SXSWEdu to describe what a system of autonomous, accountable schools means for educators, parents, and school districts.

«Of course, the public school system is good but what I really love about the area is that I can walk to almost anywhere in the city in less than half an hour.»