Originally, 1,864 books were to go to classrooms.
They go to classrooms and look for children who are not just acting out aggressively like Samuel, but who are withdrawn, depressed or display a marked absence of emotion.
McKinsey's main role will be to recommend administrative savings so that more of the school system's $12 billion budget can go to classrooms, a top priority of Mr. Klein's.
Joan E. Mahon-Powell, the acting superintendent of District 19, said much of the spending had gone to stocking classroom libraries, collections of 200 to 300 books in each classroom that are available to students to supplement their lessons.
(The boys had gone to Sergei's classroom, across the hall, for their lesson).
During the incident, students were told over the intercom system that the building was in lock-down and to quietly go to their classrooms, according to eye-witnesses.
It's just flower arranging, tap dancing, Pilates, lonely old folk going to dusty classrooms to learn about the Tudors.
On hearing the message, they are supposed to go to their classrooms, draw the curtains and lock doors.
To reinforce the ultimate goal of going to college, classrooms, instead of being numbered, are named after universities: Princeton, Columbia, Boston College.
Mr. Goh then went to other classrooms looking for additional victims before fleeing in a car he stole from a student, Officer Watson said.
Today, New York City's 1.1 million public-school students return to their classrooms — or, in the case of about seventy thousand four-year-olds enrolled in the city's pre-K program, go to their classrooms for the very first time.
