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Ruis, Andrew R. " 'The Penny Lunch Has Spread Faster than the Measles': Children's Health and the Debate over School Lunches in New York City, 1908–1930." History of Education Quarterly 55.2 (2015): 190–217. online; Shelton, Jon. "Dropping Dead: Teachers, the New York City Fiscal Crisis, and Austerity" in Shelton, Teacher Strike!
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools.As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members.
Year Month and date Event type Details 2009: March: Company: Uber founded as UberCab. [1] 2010: May: Company: Uber goes live for the first time in San Francisco, launches at SF AppShow, gives attendees first limo rides from app. [2] December: Team: Ryan Graves steps down as CEO in favor of Travis Kalanick. [3] 2011: May: National expansion ...
On November 5, 2013, Adams was elected Brooklyn Borough President with 90.8 percent of the vote, more than any other candidate for borough president in New York City that year. [52] In 2017, he was elected with 83.0 percent of the vote. [53] In both of his campaigns, he was unopposed in the Democratic primaries. [54]
On December 31, 1907, a ball signifying New Year's Day was first dropped at Times Square, [160] and the Square has held the main New Year's celebration in New York City ever since. On that night, hundreds of thousands of people congregate to watch the Waterford Crystal ball being lowered on a pole atop the building, marking the start of the new ...
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) originates in the Government of New York City attempts to control rising crime in early- to mid-19th-century New York City. The City's reforms created a full-time professional police force modeled upon London's Metropolitan Police , itself only formed in 1829.
Walden School was a private day school in Manhattan, New York City, that operated from 1914 until 1988, when it merged with the New Lincoln School; the merged school closed in 1991. Walden was known as an innovator in progressive education. Faculty were addressed by first names and students were given great leeway in determining their course of ...
The number of junior high school teachers has also changed little, with 257,605 junior high school teachers in 1996, and 247,485 in 2023. Approximately 8% of junior high students attend private junior high schools (accounting for 7% of all junior high schools by number).