Sentences with phrase «city policies across»

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We evaluated renters insurance quotes for a sample policy in 95 cities across the state of Pennsylvania in order to determine which cities had the highest and lowest annual renters insurance costs.

As increasingly more Nordic consumers continue to choose organic over conventional foods, and cities across Scandinavia (like Copenhagen, for example) continue to put organic food at the top of their policy agendas (and on their public - sector kitchen menus), so those numbers will rise.

Obama announced that if he is elected president, the main thrust of his urban - poverty policy will be a billion - dollar initiative to replicate the Harlem Children's Zone in twenty cities across the country.

Our members have helped move forward paid Family Leave policies in cities, counties and states across the nation, have helped pass affordable childcare policies in red and blue states alike, have also helped advance sick day policies in over a dozen cities and states across the nation, as well.

Kristin: MomsRising is working on all of those family economic security policy priorities in cities, counties and states across the country, educating leaders about what's happening with moms, and educating the media, as well as reaching out to moms and letting them know that they're not alone in their struggle, and that together, they can make change.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is procured.

On November 7th in Cork City, Young Knocknaheeny will bring together leading experts, policy makers, practitioners, and participants to share and connect the science, policy, and interdisciplinary practice across the domains of child development, health, equality, urban development, and change practices for whole community prevention and early intervention.

Projects under the mayor's housing policy have proved contentious in several neighborhoods across the city.

Cities should be empowered to determine policy across health, social care, education, employment and other areas, based on local needs.

The Comptroller's report documented these findings for New York City, while the report from the Fiscal Policy Institute notes the impact of these benefits across upstate New York.

«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for macity of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for maCity Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.

The ordinance would require all city agencies and departments to conduct an annual gender analysis of the impacts of their policies across communities in Buffalo.

Massey has promised to invest in infrastructure across the five borough to reduce traffic congestion and vows a «total ground - up overhaul of city traffic management policies.»

In an attempt to get government to act on preserving water bodies across the country, the group said it will launch a public awareness march in the coming weeks to ensure the agenda on making Accra the cleanest city streamlined among the policies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is realized.

Local Progress provides its membership with policy and governance best practices, space to build solidarity, and the opportunity to partner across cities as part of a national progressive movement.

These disparate voting patterns in cities across the country point to the distinct concerns and outlook of different urban areas, driven by divergent economic fortunes — and therefore the need for greater variation in policy - making to address the needs of different places.

ReZone Syracuse, which was started in 2015 by former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, aims to update building policy and regulations across the city, including in areas surrounding Syracuse University's campus.

For example, coordination on transport policy might be best achieved across several cities, while skills and training policies will likely require local input on the challenges of the specific economy and its people.

Outside Government, George Osborne can focus on the policies that will best promote prosperity across the North — boosting productivity in cities.

Since leaving City Hall, Bloomberg has spent millions of his own money to push gun control policies and candidates across the nation.

«Our goal has always been to constructively work with the speaker to pass the Right to Know Act — she has a clear choice: support sound policy that a majority of her members, 18 families of New Yorkers killed by the NYPD and hundreds of community groups from across the city endorse, or chart a path that is increasingly antithetical to democracy and allows police abuses to continue.»

«I have been vocal in my opposition to many of the mayor's policies,» Malliotakis said, criticizing him for his policies on property taxes, water bills, spending, his plan to open 90 homeless shelters across the city, and sanctuary cities, among them.

This puts Syracuse on a list of sanctuary cities across the country that have policies in place to protect undocumented immigrants from being deported.

Since before the last election cycle, there have been increasing calls for improving women's representation across city government and to add women's voices to important policy decisions.

That was consistent with a «health in all policies» strategy focusing on the targeted reforms, across City departments and agencies.

Michael Osterholm, head of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, says he thinks «the money can be used wisely across the Americas.»

Since the state department of education not only designs tests but constructs numerous other policies that affect operations both in New York City and elsewhere in the state, it is of interest to learn whether New York City students do as well or better than students across the rest of the State of New York.

As vice president, Gray not only advises The Mind Trust's president and CEO on issues of strategy and operations and advances the policy work, he also leads the effort to help this Indianapolis - based and - focused organization build a national network of city - based organizations that will work together to support education entrepreneurs as they scale to new markets across the country.

East Birmingham Network Academy The East Birmingham Network (EBN) is a group of 12 schools across Birmingham that used the free school policy to meet a gap in the existing provision of the city.

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

And in this case, its effect on policy implementation in cities across the nation would matter: we'd see greater prudence in the process of deliberation, improved communication to stakeholders, and more thoughtful and respectful execution of an undesirable but ultimately necessary decision.

Earlier this month, Mayor de Blasio announced a change of policy that would result in the forced placement of 400 teachers from the ATR pool into schools across the city.

The Advisory Council's decision making has led to a variety of policy changes affecting schools across the city.

In June 2015, E4E - New York members and current classroom teachers from across the city released, Climate Change, a policy proposal with recommendations for ensuring safe and welcoming school communities.

The teacher - authored report was developed by E4E - Chicago's Teacher Policy Team (TPT), comprising classroom teachers from across the city.

I was excited to see how a bunch of teachers from across the city came together and decided the policy focus for an organization I had only recently joined.

And these battles are contributing to a growing disjunction in education policy and among stakeholders within communities and across cities.

The work of the D.C. Advisory Committee on Student Assignment, created to overhaul school boundaries and student - assignment policies for the D.C. Public Schools, has received praise across the city.

The teacher - authored report was developed by an E4E - Los Angeles's Teacher Policy Team, comprised of teachers from across the city, after conducting extensive academic research, identifying best practices and speaking with fellow teachers and students to determine how to make the Common Core more accessible for English Learners and students with disabilities.

With the Los Angeles expansion, E4E is working with teachers to identify the policy issues that are most relevant and impactful through listening sessions and networking events with educators from across the city.

And since the city struck down its busing policies in the late 1990s, neighborhood schools in Nashville's high poverty areas are increasingly isolated as re-segregation has taken hold across the area.

A wide range of approaches to address discipline concerns with new policies and laws are being tested across the country — including in New York City — with varying degrees of success and enthusiasm.

A high - level investigation into chronic absenteeism in Washington, D.C., high schools has found that students across the city graduated despite missing more than 30 days of school in a single course, in violation of district policy.

Civil liberties advocates have been among the loudest voices pushing for restorative justice, and were sharp critics of Bloomberg's discipline policy, which they said helped create a «school to prison pipeline» of minority students across the city.

In 2005 researchers from the Fordham Institute and the Progressive Policy Institute analyzed the funding of charter schools in 27 cities across the country.

Education leaders from several western states and education policy and teaching experts from across the country will meet in Salt Lake City today for a two - day conference on measuring educator effectiveness.

In the succeeding months, which brought the collapse of France, the threat of invasion across the Channel, and the heavy air raids on London and other cities, the Daily Worker seemed to be implementing this policy by encouraging unrest in the forces and among the civilian population, and by advocating stoppages and strikes in industry.

Across the 28 cities and towns we included in our survey, our sample 45 year old rider saw an average annual cost of $ 896 for his motorcycle insurance policy.

We evaluated renters insurance quotes for a sample policy in 95 cities across the state of Pennsylvania in order to determine which cities had the highest and lowest annual renters insurance costs.

The Chinese policy of urbanization is moving more than 100 million in from the county to cities across the world's most populous nation.