Sentences with phrase «with school closures»

In NYC, where I'm most familiar with school closures, the school is not just renamed, or given a new principal — those kids are strewn elsewhere, and the replacement school (s) serve an entirely different set of kids (often with higher incoming test scores).

Second, we simply can not tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good... The communities they're changing so rapidly are our communities, and our experience with school closures and charter school expansion confirms what an abundance of research has made quite clear: these policies have not produced higher - quality educational opportunities for our children and youth, but they have been hugely destructive... Third, while the proponents of these policies may like to think they are implementing them for us or even with us, the reality is that they have been done to us.»

Cerf often cites what he says is the jump in achievement that has come with school closures in New York City, where he was deputy chancellor before coming to New Jersey.

It's a disappointment that the authors hardly recognize the major disruption and destabilization that occurs in association with school closures (Lipman 2015).

The authors contribute arguments for pushing forward with school closures even if the community is fighting to keep these schools open.

The high stakes associated with school closures, and the paucity of prior research, led us to explore this terrain ourselves.

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• increase public funding for after - school programs • serve suppers instead of (or in addition to) snacks • recruit more school districts to provide after - school suppers and snacks • support and expand year - round participation by integrating the Afterschool Supper Program with the Summer Food Service Program • streamline and simplify the Afterschool Supper Program • serve meals during weekends, holidays and unanticipated school closures; and • improve meal quality

This program will not be available during school holidays, teacher workdays, or school closures This program is for children of walking age to 5 years and one caregiver can play with the child at no charge!

Berkeley Rose Waldorf School's nursery program is a licensed facility in accordance with California State law: Programs serving children under age 4.9 for more than 12 hours a week must be licensed or risk heavy fines and immediate closure.

Using the pseudo name Gull Makee, she wrote a diary for the BBC Urdu Service blog, narrating how she and her classmates still managed to attend the school by wearing normal clothes instead of uniforms, how fearful she once felt upon overhearing a passerby's threatening phone call, and how frustrating it was for her to learn about the school's closure for winter vacations, with no announcement about its reopening date.

A former NFL player who attended a prestigious private high school in Los Angeles was detained by police, and released, in connection with a social media post that prompted the closure of the school due to security concerns.

Multiple area elementary schools are being considered for closure and new teachers with less union seniority are again nervous about whether they will have jobs next fall.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers has warned Governor Nyesom Wike not to proceed with his planned closure of over 5,000 private schools in the...

Carl Pressley, the vice president of the PTA at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sSchool for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter schoolschool.

With a month to go before classes start, supporters of Lafayette High School turned out Wednesday to defend the school, which is slated for clSchool turned out Wednesday to defend the school, which is slated for clschool, which is slated for closure.

This coupled with the failure and closure of many free schools have costed the taxpayer millions and had a detrimental effect on children's education.

In mid-October, during a meeting inside the magnet school with the waterfall, city school officials unveiled proposals for school closures as soon as next summer.

The community held several meeting with DOE officials in the weeks after the closure was announced, and Juan Pablo Duarte was removed from the list of targeted schools in January.

The teacher's union, which is locked in a bitter war with Mayor Michael Bloomberg over the terms of a new teacher evaluation system, has repeatedly slammed the administration for using closures as a key method for turning schools around.

Indeed, reality seems to have sunk in with Team de Blasio on this front: The city last month finalized 10 school closures, a record for this mayor's tenure.

Tonawanda Huntley Plant Aid: The Ken - Ton School District will receive $ 2.7 million more aid, the town of Tonawanda will receive an extra $ 1.8 million and the county an extra $ 1 million to offset massive property tax losses with the closure of NRG Energy's Huntley power plant on River Road, according to a statement from Sen. Chris Jacobs and Assemblyman Robin Schimminger.

The study analyzed 40 exchanges that buy and sell the virtual Bitcoin to identify factors that trigger or stave off closure, said the study's authors, computer scientists Tyler W. Moore, in the Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and Nicolas Christin, with the Information Networking Institute and Carnegie Mellon CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University.

With a secure and easy - to - open Velcro closure and an interior and exterior made of water - resistant polyester, this stylish binder safely contains your homework, notes and other school essentials.

Description: ASOS Colourblock Contrast Satchel — perfect for work or school with a roomy interior and a front lock closure.

March was filled with birthdays and snow and school closures.

Made with a zip closure and sleek silhouette, this bag is features a leather strap and eye - catching pattern that helps you show your school spirit.

A teachers» union chief said today that schools are not a child - minding service as parents reacted with fury to another swathe of closures in the snowy Can schools prevent mass shootings?

Borrowing heavily from The Muppets (or even High School Musical), the overall plot — put on a show, save the home from closure — is predictable, but the performers are clearly having a good time; Michael Gambon is deliciously cruel as the show's controlling musical director, while unlike Marigold Hotel, Maggie gets more to do than simply look at people with a withering expression.

Those who already had a culture of supporting students with anywhere, anytime learning kept students and parents fully informed of school closures or openings, and could operate almost as normal with learning materials and activities available from anywhere, ongoing student teacher communications and on - line submission of completed work.

The event was inspired by Jona's discussions with Shelton, and by the agency's webinars about ensuring continuity of learning during extended student absence or school closures.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

While traditional schools are rarely closed for poor performance, charters live with a realistic threat of closure should their tests scores falter.

Families scrambled to cope with the headaches and costs posed by nine days of school closure, yet there were no signs of this boiling over into backlash.

Charter schools, the one type of public school that is actually being held to account by authorizing bodies, are now threatened with closure if they don't perform to standards other public schools can safely ignore.

After nearly two weeks out of school, the teachers called off their walkout and returned to work — with no concessions beyond their initial 16 - percent raise, and with much of the initial goodwill rubbed off by a school closure that looked increasingly gratuitous.

Brinig and Garnett assume Catholic schools» effectiveness with lower - income inner - city children and take up a different story: the effect of school closures on the quality of the social life in their surrounding neighborhoods.

Though strong expansion continues in places like California and Florida, the 2006 — 07 school year saw 26 states open five or fewer new schools, while 5 states — because of closures — began the school year with fewer charters than they had the year before.

However, we found that for rising 9th - grade students, the closure of their most likely high - school option led them to enroll in somewhat higher - performing high schools and substantially improved their likelihood of graduating with a New York State Regents diploma.

As with the core impact analysis, we compared outcomes before and after the closure decision for both the closing schools and comparison schools, to shed light on the degree to which the phase - out process itself affected outcomes for non-mobile students.

«Without the penalty of closure, charter schools, which often succeed with students when the district often doesn't, simply don't make sense.

Schools with first - year principals and those slated for closure in the spring of 2009 were excluded from the sample prior to randomization.

A decade later, restarts are providing charter school boards with an opportunity to effectively and proactively address poor academic performance well before charter renewal and closure become issues.

PCSB employs a cloud - based system for collecting and making available public documents; enrollment specialists work with students displaced by school closures; a recent internal reorganization better develops and deploys functional expertise; and the use of social media disseminates key school information.

«Adequate yearly progress» has been eliminated, along with the sanctions — including possible school closure — associated with it.

But still, school districts are pressing forward with closure plans.

All, with the exception of Texas, have been producing fewer new charter schools for the past few years, while closure rates have held reasonably steady.

Years of top - down edicts, mass school closures, privatization, and test fixation with sanctions instead of support haven't moved the needle — not in the right direction, at least.

At the heart of its high school reforms were three interrelated changes: the institution of a districtwide high school choice process for all rising ninth - graders, the closure of 31 large, failing high schools with an average graduation rate of 40 percent, and the opening of more than 200 new small high schools.