The chief lawyer for the New York City School Bus Contractors Coalition, Jeffrey D.
He visited an inner-city school and promised that his church would provide each student a toy and a new uniform.
Under his leadership, the city has announced significant environmental initiatives, as well as substantial reforms of the city school system.
The departure of Chancellor Joel Klein from the New York City School system marks a real change in the guard.
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Unlike other big city school bosses, like New York's Rudy Crew or San Francisco's Waldemar Rojas, Paul Vallas is no educrat.
"There might be a few laws that might come out of this, " said Ikhlas Abdullah 56, a retired New York City school assistant principal.
Non-citizens were able to vote for the city school board for three decades, until the board was disbanded soon after Bloomberg took office in 2002.
Seth Dewboys travels west from a mostly white Louisville, Kentucky, neighborhood to an inner-city school with high test scores and a racially mixed student body.
New York City school officials wouldn't comment on Mr. Rebell's study.
Ann Forte, a spokeswoman for the New York City school system, said the Microsoft email service includes automatic filters for inappropriate content, which Google couldn't provide.
Similarly, some 133, 000 students in Chicago are eligible for extra tutoring, but city school officials say they only have money to pay for 25, 000 to 30, 000 of them.
One of Taylor's recent buyers, a former Wall Street executive, says her 14-year-old son is ashamed to tell his New York City school chums that his family owns a ranch.
Mr. MIKE CASSERLY (The Council Of Great City School): Before Hurricane Katrina, it was a school system and a city whose student achievement was nationally renowned as being extremely low.
According to the Council of the Great City Schools, students in sixty-six major city school systems in thirty-eight states showed gains in fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading in 2005.
Therefore, there should be no problem in judging the effectiveness of those teachers in an inner-city school such as Hurlingham and Chelsea, or a suburban school, or indeed a selective school.
New York City school bus union leaders voted Friday to end a nearly monthlong strike, sending more than 8, 000 drivers, matrons and mechanics back to work apparently without achieving their goals.
Gary Haines, who describes himself as black and a product of an inner city school system, is training to be a teacher having worked in London as a learning support assistant.
New student test scores released by the U.S. Department of Education last week showed that Washington's fourth-graders made the largest gains in math among big city school systems in the past two years.
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When Tammy McCormack didn't show up that morning at her job with the Schenectady city school district, her son was notified and went to the house to check on his mother and sister, Brown said.
This, again, does not apply to everybody, but anyone who goes into an inner city school today is going to find the same underclass culture that conservatives have long worried about when it comes to blacks.
One of those opinions confirms the conventional wisdom that U.S. higher education, especially at our elite research universities, is world class while primary and secondary education, especially in our big city school systems, are lagging badly.
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At Shirelands Language College, an inner-city school in Birmingham, England, a portal called the Shirelands Learning Gateway makes it easier for parents to follow their children's progress, and it helps teachers and students keep track of schoolwork and take advantage of individualized instruction.
In general, side effects of Byetta can include diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting, which may contribute to changes in kidney function, says Dr. Richard Hellman, the past president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and a clinical professor at the University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Medicine.
Moira Forbes sat down with Cosmopolitan Editor-In-Chief Kate White on Tuesday, just hours after it was announced that Hearst Magazines Chair and Forbes PowerWoman Cathie Black had been tapped by Michael Bloomberg to replace Joel Klein as the Chancellor of the New York City School System.
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Kris W. Kobach, a University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law professor, who worked on immigration policy for former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and who helped draft the Arizona statute, insists that it's narrowly targeted to take advantage of an enforcement mechanism Congress left the locals in 1986.
At least four high schools have canceled their proms this weekend, including Park City High School in Park City, Utah, according to CNN affiliate KSL-TV.
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Though he was enrolled at The Bronx High School of Science, a prestigious New York City public school, attending the school required him to make the long commute to the city's northernmost borough every day.
"It's very upsetting, " said Alex Ragone, director of the middle and upper school at City and Country School in Manhattan, which runs through eighth grade.
One mother from Norwich, who asked not to be named, said she received more than 30 emails over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, telling her Recreation Road Primary School and City of Norwich School were closed.
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Asch is a former New York City high school librarian who lives in New Jersey.
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