Sentences with phrase «families in cities across»

Opie's earlier portrait series include Portraits (1993 - 1997), from which the Whitney images were drawn, as well as Domestic (1995 - 1998) and In and Around Home (2004 - 2005), which document the domestic spheres of lesbian families in cities across the U.S., as well as the artist's own family.

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Across the town, small - business owners and their families benefit from a high quality of life; in 2009, Holland was designated the second - happiest city in America, according to a Gallup poll.

Prior to joining the Sherpa family, Liz spent several years in New York City as Senior Director of Communications + Special Projects at Conde Nast where she managed public relations, executive positioning and global programming across the company's media properties.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

Your European adventure sounds wonderful, but better to leave while you still want to stay... one needs roots as well as wanderlust, something I've had trouble coming to grips with myself, with my family's story in one tiny city and mine flung across several continents.

It is the simple things that are bringing me so much joy lately: enjoying a rainy afternoon at work, biking to various markets across the city, making dinner as a family, sipping beers at the picnic table in the backyard, feeling the crisp spring air breeze gently against my bare ankles as I walk down the street.

When not on air, she is involved in several organizations including Common Threads, an organization that creates comprehensive and impactful nutrition and cooking programs that operates in thirteen cities across the country and has taught over one hundred thousand families what it means to cook for life.

He cooked in natural restaurants across the USA, including the East West Cookery in New York City, 7th Inn in Boston, The Unicorn in Miami and his own restaurant The Garden Cookery in Maine before moving his family to the beautiful city of Asheville, North CarolCity, 7th Inn in Boston, The Unicorn in Miami and his own restaurant The Garden Cookery in Maine before moving his family to the beautiful city of Asheville, North Carolcity of Asheville, North Carolina.

It is the central force in his life, slicing across family, football and community, carrying him to the top of his profession and to an iconic status in a still - wounded city that he has helped lift from despair.

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.

Australia has transplanted troubled families away from courts and into 65 Family Responsibility Centres in cities across the country.

Also at 1 p.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein and Sen. James Sanders hold a press conference to unveil a new report that found nearly a dozen sexual predators currently residing in 10 family shelters across New York City, Lincoln Atlantic, 90 - 35 Van Wyck Expwy., Jamaica, Queens.

And whether it's property taxes in single - family homes on Long Island, Westchester or all across the city and upstate New York or it's rent regulation, which keeps the cost of rental property down... the concept is the same.»

«Their powerful support for our children and families — combined with Speaker Silver and the state assembly's passage of a resolution last night that includes a funding stream in the form of a tax on the city's highest earners — represents a new consensus sweeping across this state.»

In a release to the media, de Blasio's office touts the budget as moving forward «key initiatives to tackle income inequality and lift up families across the five boroughs, while protecting and strengthening the City's long - term fiscal health.»

New Affordable Homeownership and Rentals — development of affordable one - to four - family homes, condominiums, cooperatives and small affordable rental buildings across approximately 11 city - owned sites in South Jamaica.

«As a native New Yorker, I know how important libraries are for families across our city, and I'm honored to now be in a position to help make them work even better for Queens» Mr. Koerner said.

The badly strapped housing authority depends on HUD for nearly 40 percent of its overall funding and for the entirety of its massive Section 8 program, which puts up 89,000 families in private apartments across the city.

In addition to Ramos's family and friends, the mourners included cops from New York City and across the United States, police chief Bill Bratton, Governor Cuomo, Vice-President Biden, and Mayor de Blasio.

Garcia was in the city for a fund - raiser last night organized by de Blasio's friends at the Working Families Party, and his supporters were eager to make the connection, to see Garcia's surprise forcing of an April 7 runoff against Rahm Emanuel as the latest manifestation of a grassroots wave building across the nation.

Last year, DHS began using hotels across the city as temporary shelters to deal with a spike in rates of homelessness, with 1,700 families placed in the Ramada Inn in Willowbrook and the Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Comfort Inn in Travis, Matteo said.

Her record at Success would likely to stake her the early backing of the city's tabloids, along with the families in her charter school network who are typically Moskowitz supporters, as well as other parents of children in charters across the city.

In announcing his plan last week to cover the tuition of students accepted at a state or city college or university — provided their families earn no more than $ 125,000 a year — Governor Cuomo said: «This is a message that is going to provide hope and optimism for working - class families all across the state.»

As of December 2015, the city had 577 rooms reserved for temporary homeless housing across 20 hotels in the city for single adults, and 527 rooms across 25 different hotels for families with children, who stay in the hotels for an average of 10 days at a time.

Emerging from a district where socially conservative Evangelical Christianity has taken hold in recent decades — making it, in Torres» words, the Bible Belt of New York City — his ability to win over leaders across the spectrum, including most major unions, the Working Families Party, and politicians from reformer Gustavo Rivera to political dynasty scion Ruben Diaz, Jr., was striking.

After covering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Pennsylvania for ABC News, Baldrick brought solace to youngsters touched by these tragedies with «The Children of 9 - 11 Wall of Hope,» a display of artwork and writing by children from the victims» families and schoolchildren across Pennsylvania.

An experiment in place - based education, the Museum School recently won a coveted XQ Super Schools award and is driving widespread adoption of its model across the district — bringing families and students back to a city in an economic and cultural downturn.

Less formally, more than 20 cities, through the Gates Foundation — funded District - Charter Collaboration Compacts, have established cooperative working groups focused on a range of topics, such as solving shared problems, addressing gaps in service across sectors for students and families, and sharing innovative practices.

Not too surprisingly, these conditions — combined with increased competition from charter schools around New York City — contributed to an erosion in student achievement, school culture, and family recruitment efforts across our schools.

Instead of promoting choice and letting the chips fall where they may, thoughtful leaders in cities across the country know that governments and their partners and choice advocates have important, challenging work to do if they want school choice to truly benefit families in the real world.

«Harlem Link is part of a wave of charter schools that opened in the last decade in New York City with the intention of providing academic opportunities for families across income levels and proving that demography is not destiny,» a Rangel statement said.

In developing the EEI, we had a very specific goal: identify schools and cities across the country with the highest performance for students from low - income families.

Charter schools have created high - performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small high schools of choice have shown that public - school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.

District and charter partners in Camden, NJ, have implemented a new enrollment process designed to give families equal access to schools across the city through a neutral, unified system, while also guaranteeing a spot at their neighborhood school.

Your EEI Category tells you how students from low - income families are performing in your school or city relative to FRL students in other schools and cities across the country.

The plan has resulted in upheaval for students and their families across the city with some schools closed, others turned over to private charter managers, and the introduction of a school choice system that has left many families with children at different schools and limited transportation options for getting their children there.

In the absence of strong guidance, the working relationships between schools, their partner organizations, and families vary greatly across the city in design, community involvement, leadership style, expectations, accountability measures and staff professional developmenIn the absence of strong guidance, the working relationships between schools, their partner organizations, and families vary greatly across the city in design, community involvement, leadership style, expectations, accountability measures and staff professional developmenin design, community involvement, leadership style, expectations, accountability measures and staff professional development.

Over the last week, 100 education advocates, families, educators, elected leaders, representatives from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Illinois State Board of Education, gathered in locations across the city for problem - solving forums to discuss ways in which schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and trauma.

Charter school supporters and advocates frequently point to the broad choices that families have when seeking a school in New Orleans, where most of the 82 public schools are charters and most accept applications from across the city.

The Family League of Baltimore in partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools and the Mayor and City Council, currently has 45 community schools across the city, each with a full - time community school coordinator, that provide students with health and mental health supports, after - school programs, and access to food, among other serviCity Public Schools and the Mayor and City Council, currently has 45 community schools across the city, each with a full - time community school coordinator, that provide students with health and mental health supports, after - school programs, and access to food, among other serviCity Council, currently has 45 community schools across the city, each with a full - time community school coordinator, that provide students with health and mental health supports, after - school programs, and access to food, among other servicity, each with a full - time community school coordinator, that provide students with health and mental health supports, after - school programs, and access to food, among other services.

His cuts have hurt middle - class and poor schools across the state, but despite the crisis, the Philadelphia school district has attracted a new generation of middle - class families eschewing the suburbs for city life — a diverse constituency that state politicians will find it far more difficult to ignore, at least in the long term.

While this measure will not make it possible to compare progress across city initiatives in any meaningful way, it does provide a common indicator that can serve as a proxy for a number of factors that influence child wellbeing, including health, mental health, and family stability.

Several other cities have been developing additional data capacity in support of this work, including creating MOUs to share data across agencies, surveying students about their school connectedness, asking families about the barriers they face in accessing preschool, and making use of data collected through a programmatic partnership to improve their understanding of community and individual student needs.

The three schools, all of which are in the early stages of planning, will continue the district's strategy of offering many schools with different themes and approaches for families to choose across the city.

Report: Education Equality Index: Measuring the Performance of Students from Low - Income Families in Cities and Schools Across the Country

Earlier this month, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), a west coast based organization focused on family choice and portfolio cities, brought together a cross-section of educators, board members, administrators, community leaders and funders together to host a series of conversations about the state of portfolio work happening in cities across the nation.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2016 — For homeless students with nowhere to go after school and low - income students whose families can't afford computers or internet access, free afterschool homework centers in 34 branches of the Los Angeles Public Library across the city provide a safe haven.

The families of these charter students understand what's at stake with the next NYC schools chancellor, and this past October, thousands of students, parents and teachers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of the city's charter schools.

The completely new compact sedan is targeted at young families in large and small cities across the country.