A divided school system will inevitably collide with community cohesion and reduce understanding of difference.
Bombed buildings mar the centre, and the city is still divided – schools, hospitals, even bus stations – between Bosniaks and Croats.
But like Graham Greene - whose father was also his headmaster - who has written about the green baize door that divided school and home life, Paulin acknowledged some tensions.
The formula divided schools into three categories -- high-, medium- and low-need -- based on poverty data, the number of students for whom English is a second language, and the number of special education students.
To construct "school environment," we divided schools into thirds based on the pass rates of earlier cohorts.
What's a superintendent – and a divided school board – to do?
The Chronicle divided schools into research, masters and bachelors degree granting programs that spent more than $50 million per year.
The proposal has divided school board members, with some saying that holding down two sprawling jobs could be too much for White.
Instead, under the administration's proposals, a new accountability system would divide schools into more categories, offering recognition to those that are succeeding and providing large new amounts of money to help improve or close failing schools.
"The governor created the central tool we need to divide school aid fairly, which is the foundation formula," said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which has lobbied for increased school aid for New York City.
I divide schools into two categories: low-performing and high-performing.
