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Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact
across society, these
schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers,
with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner -
city Catholic
school.
in Moscow and other large
cities, you can actually see ramps — well, at least in the
city center — or come
across traffic lights equipped
with a sound signal for the blind, or even find a few disabilityfriendly kindergartens and
schools.
Students from dozens of
schools across the
city are planning to take part in a 17 - minute walkout Wednesday morning,
with each minute representing a life lost during the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high
school.
NYC
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation
with school rezonings
across the
city in the upcoming
school year.
As a matter of fact Crowley mailed a piece of campaign literature all
across Queens to curry favor
with those deeply concerned about Education in her bid to become your Congresswoman from the 6thDistrict, however upon research and review and confirmation from her office spokesman, she's taking credit for
schools that were budgeted and started construction prior to her even being elected to the
City Council.
In addition, NYSED held more than 120 fall and winter regional in - person meetings
across the state in coordination
with the state's 37 Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) and the superintendents of the state's five largest
City School
Primary Candidates from
across the
city were invited to come talk
with educators and community members - and face the tough questions about how they will fight for our
schools and communities.
With the 2016 legislative session just getting underway, parent advocates who live in low - income communities
across New York
City and have children who attend both district and charter
schools wanted to make sure their voices were heard.
New York, NY — Public
school parents from
across New York
City gathered outside today's mayoral control hearing to send a clear message: parents are dissatisfied
with the quality of NYC public
schools and they expect Mayor de Blasio to be held accountable.
It is the largest charter
school network in the
city,
with approximately 11,000 students in 34
schools across the
city, in each borough except Staten Island.
Friday she paid a visit to Syracuse, first sitting down
with business leaders from
across the region at one of the Syracuse
City Schools.
Just one day after Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared at
City Hall
with a bevy of business leaders to push for extending mayoral control of New York
City schools, the state Senate education committee held its second hearing on the issue right
across the street.
Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher quality
across New York
City public
schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York
City public
school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in
schools with the highest needs.
City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school y
City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation
with school rezonings
across the
city in the upcoming school y
city in the upcoming
school year.
Her record at Success would likely to stake her the early backing of the
city's tabloids, along
with the families in her charter
school network who are typically Moskowitz supporters, as well as other parents of children in charters
across the
city.
He noted that large and growing charter networks
across the
city and country have a «direct analogy
with a
school district,» but noted that he believes New York's networks have proved their academic merit.
The controversial charter
school leader, whose Success Academy
schools spread to about two dozen locations
across the
city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has been rejected from a plan to share space
with three additional public
schools this fall, officials said.
Today, parents
across the
city face a wide array of
school options, but choice has ballooned in geographic clusters that correlate directly
with racially segregated neighborhoods.
UFTers have been out in force all month,
with mass leafletting and high - profile rallies
across the five boroughs, to raise public awareness about the state Senate's preliminary budget that would cut
city public
schools by $ 500 million.
Families for Excellent
Schools, a pro-charter advocacy group out of New York
City, took umbrage
with NYSUT's statement Tuesday, demanding it «immediately apologize» to the 120,000 charter
school students
across the state and their families for «calling them a distraction.»
«
With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&ra
With record numbers of New York
City families struggling
with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&ra
with homelessness, we are proud to partner
with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&ra
with Borough President Melinda Katz and people
across Queens on Project: Back to
School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&
School, which gives homeless children backpacks and
school supplies critical to their academic success.&
school supplies critical to their academic success.»
Moskowitz's Success Academy charter
school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side
school to open in the fall of 2014, along
with five other
schools across the
city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward
with the plan.
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.
A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio
with hostility and a diverse set of charter -
school parents
across the
city.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito, along
with upset students and teachers, said Friday that the
school, which has 2,000 students from
across the
city and teaches technical and trade skills to students age 16 to 20, is desperately needed.
Inspired by students from the targeted Florida high
school, as many as 500,000 people are expected to rally against gun violence and in favor of stricter gun laws on March 24 in Washington, D.C.,
with sister marches taking place in
cities across the world.
In partnership
with Mastery Charter, we've given thousands of books to students and
schools across the
city, and we're just getting started.
Taxpayers deserve to know how much their kids»
school spends per child and be able to compare that
with the neighboring
school or a
school across the
city, state, or nation.
This phenomenon is common
across the United States,
with charters fighting for space in high - cost
cities without the legislative and financial supports that district
schools enjoy (see «Whose
School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»
Not too surprisingly, these conditions — combined
with increased competition from charter
schools around New York
City — contributed to an erosion in student achievement,
school culture, and family recruitment efforts
across our
schools.
At one point, as she waits for tardy D.C.
city council member Marion Barry outside a failing elementary
school, she drifts
across the street to chat
with residents.
Placing public charter
schools on a par
with TPS in receiving local educational funds, as Colorado plans to do, would bring over half the
cities in our study to funding parity
across the two public
school sectors.
Schools frequently compare themselves to the
school down the street or
across town, but
school graduates don't compete for employment
with the best people in a
city.
In 50 years, the council has grown from an organization
with 12 districts to a membership consisting of 66 big -
city school systems
across the nation.
NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major
cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students,
with demographics that are similar to those of their local public
school peers.
The research team also found that, «while serious crime declined
across the
city between 1999 - 2005, it declined more slowly in police beats where Catholic
schools closed,» and, «between 1999 and 2005, the presence of an open Catholic
school in a police beat was consistently associated
with a statistically significant decrease in crime.»
• Third,
with just a single type of
school replicated
across the
city, the monopoly operator must develop a single theory of action for how to produce
school success.
Right now,
across the country,
cities and
schools are faced
with the question, «Should we celebrate Columbus?»
Distinctive Charity Shares Stache of Cash
with Schools They may not be commonly recognized as a philanthropic group, but in cities across the United States men are banding together to raise fuzz and then razing that fuzz as part of a unique charity — Mustaches for Kids — that generates money for kids in local s
Schools They may not be commonly recognized as a philanthropic group, but in
cities across the United States men are banding together to raise fuzz and then razing that fuzz as part of a unique charity — Mustaches for Kids — that generates money for kids in local
schoolsschools.
With leadership and resources from the Mayor's Office, the
school district, and partners
across the
city, a new initiative called the Oakland Promise is re-envisioning how
cities can make college a reality for all young people.
With a small but efficient team of 20 IT technicians, Lincoln Public
Schools needed to implement a scalable IT help desk solution to serve over 20,000 devices, 7,500 staff members and 37,000 students
across 70 locations
city - wide.
Retired big -
city superintendents and even life coaches
across the country were seeking contracts
with failing
schools.
With Catholic
schools closing
across New York
City and enrollment plummeting 35 percent over the last decade alone, Queen of Angels and five other Catholic
schools in East Harlem and the South Bronx have banded into a «network» — another charter term — of six
schools and 2,100 students to try to reverse course.
«Harlem Link is part of a wave of charter
schools that opened in the last decade in New York
City with the intention of providing academic opportunities for families
across income levels and proving that demography is not destiny,» a Rangel statement said.
That reform would mandate the most ambitious kind of integration:
with students of different classes and races, from
cities and adjacent suburbs, transported
across district lines to go to
school together.
Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact
across society, these
schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers,
with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner -
city Catholic
school.»
The California legislature,
with the enthusiastic support of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed a bill last summer that seemed to grant the dynamic mayor significant new powers over the sprawling Los Angeles Unified
School District (LAUSD), the nation's second - largest,
with 873
schools spread
across 700 square miles and 27
cities.
Education officials in
cities across the country have shuttered hundreds of
schools in recent years — a phenomenon that's been criticized for displacing students and doing away
with the very buildings that often serve as the heart of a community.
I hope the Newark experience inspires parents and educators
across the nation to find more ways to work together, and
with other public education partners, to find innovative solutions that not only help your own
school but transform public education system for your
city or state as a whole.