Sentences with phrase «major city districts»

Major City Directors Section Meeting CEP: Making It Work in Major City Districts (3310) Key Area 3 - Administration 7/14/2015, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Ballroom ACE Speakers: Nadine Mann, PhD, RD, Zoe Neuberger, Stacy Koppen and Susan Ehrhart, SNS The national roll - out of the new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) has exceeded all expectations among small and mid-size school districts.

Not exact matches

A swirl of development, spurred on by Grand Central Terminal's construction, shaped New York City's central business district as a major epicenter of American capitalism.

«We stand with District Attorney George Gascón and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and urge the phone industry to take accountability for the rise in smart phone theft all across the country,» said Charles Ramsey, President of the Major Cities Chiefs Association and Police Chief of Philadelphia.

Amazon unveiled plans on Tuesday for a major expansion in Boston's Seaport District, promising 2,000 new technology jobs even as the city remains in contention for the company's coveted second headquarters.

Started as a family - run stall in the city's Mission District nearly 15 years ago, Philz is a locally revered drip specialist with major expansion plans.

However, in metropolis of China, cafes are everywhere, especially near central business districts and downtown in major cities.

Randich and other park district officials may get their wish for an adjustment to a property tax act that currently suppresses their borrowing power and thus their ability to plan or pay for major capital improvements without the City of Joliet's assistance.

By making lunch free for all, New York City joins several other major districts — including Detroit, Chicago and Dallas — in taking advantage of the Community Eligibility Provision.

The Chicago Park District has lined up some major Chicago landscape design firms for its new «Garden in a City» show, to take place in Grant Park May 13 to 21.

The Chicago Park District was criticized Tuesday for having much higher operating costs than park systems in other major American cities, but it also won praise for its plans to lower its tax levy by $ 3.7 million in 1986.

The Arlington Heights Park District is continuing to take its tennis programming and facilities game to the next level with the announcement of a major expansion and renovation of its 53,350 square - foot and nearly 45 year - old Heritage Tennis Club located on the north side of the city.

The Park District has a 99 - year lease with the city for the 60 acres, which includes Sportsman's Park and the Garden Plots, granting the city the right to review «major changes» to the property.

Our district doesn't have a policy regarding food, and because we suffer from so many major deal issues being inner city, low social economic, as well as a negative district balance, layoffs, and pay cuts, getting a food discussion going isn't even on the radar.

Moreno, 50, heads the Park District's central area, which ranges from Belmont Avenue south to 31st Street, and from the Chicago River west to the city's border, encompassing some of the city's major parks.

Seals Nevergold said Flanagan - Priore came across as «very genuine,» as a longtime city resident «invested in the city» and someone who «will not have a very steep learning curve because she already comes in with some understanding of some of the major issues that we face in the district.»

Bed bugs have become a major nuisance for the Syracuse City School District which has found them in eight of its schools in recent weeks.

Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has picked up the backing of another major city union — 1199SEIU Heathcare Workers East.

The primary victory marks a major upset for Markey, who has represented the 30th Assembly District — which includes Maspeth, Woodside and parts of Long Island City, Astoria, Sunnyside and Middle Village — since 1998.

Yesterday, Common Cause / NY released a critique of the Commission's proposed plan for the New York City Council, highlighting three major points of issue: the ratio of representation between the Bronx and Manhattan, Council District 8, and the removal of Randall's Island from Manhattan into Queens.

Councilman Gentile, whose Brooklyn district includes Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Dyker Heights, described the bills as a «major step to a healthier city.»

The community partners honored at the event — three individuals and one program — have had a major impact on the lives of students and teachers in the city school district.

The Rochester City School District is hosting a major hiring event Saturday to bring new educators, social workers and counselors in for the next school year.

«The governor plans for major interventions for the City of Buffalo school district as well as the school districts that are failing all over the state,» said Hochul during a recent appearance in downtown Buffalo.

Oswego City School District Superintendent Dean Goewey presents major budget cuts to the school board and public.

Broome County District Attorney Steve Cornwell, State Police & Johnson City Police announced a major weapons bust in Broome County.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

And so there's no confusion from your article, Jenifer Rajkumar got over 40 % of the vote against an incumbent in a City Council district heavily weighted against her in her first major race.

The tech fair, organized by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Community School District 6 and City College to help local students to learn more about careers in STEM, will also include companies like BMW, Con Edison, Major League Baseball, New York Life and Spectrum.

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.

In the 39th District in Queens, which includes Jackson Heights, the only major - party candidate to appear on the ballot is Aridia Espinal, a Democrat and former aide to Francisco Moya, who left the Assembly for a spot on the City Council.

The District of Columbia boasts some positive results in its mission to curb gridlock and reduce pollution — like the most rapid rise in bike commuters among major cycling cities.

If you are the leader of a large area, such as a major city or a county, we may ask you to change your name to a smaller area if someone living in the same district (but further away than 10 miles) wants to set up a chapter.

With offices in all major cities and associate lawyers in more than 400 districts.

In this episodic iteration, a crime wave — led by a mysterious figure known as the Scarab — is killing off prominent citizens of a major metropolitan city, and the mayor is haranguing the police commissioner and district attorney about the situation.

Snow Falls is supposed to be an economically strapped town, but its bustling downtown district has all the amenities you'd expect in a major city including an electronic store with high - end Apple products.

In six major school districts (New Orleans, Louisiana; the District of Columbia; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Flint, Michigan; and Gary, Indiana), at least 30 percent of public school students are enrolled in public charter schools.

Faced with a $ 1.6 million deficit requiring major cuts in programs, members of the North Chicago city school board were ready to close the district's nine schools in March, until Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois promised emergency operating funds for the 4,300 - student district.

The major planks of Klein's reforms are well known: breaking much of the old local district bureaucracy, empowering principals and creating a new principal training center, issuing report cards for schools, delivering autonomy and innovation zones for experimental schools, and keeping more of the city's problematic teachers out of its schools.

Although the claim of «unfunded mandate» has been asserted almost since the day NCLB was signed into law, School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Spellings constitutes the first major legal challenge to the historic education law to be filed in federal court.

Specifically, from 2003 — 2005 Boston's fourth - and eighth - grade students have shown the largest improvement in math scores of the 11 major cities participating in the National Assessment of Educational Progress Trial Urban District Assessment.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

Besides being the largest and one of the most diverse school districts in the country, New York City is a major employer of uncertified and AC teachers.

Efforts are underway in many major cities to make school choice work for families through district - charter partnerships.

EdWeek recently reported that at least three major school districts — Boston, Chicago and New York City — offer online credit recovery classes.

Of 114 editorials on education in the city's two major newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun Times, between August 1995 and March 1997, three out of four endorsed the district leadership's complete exercise of power over school policy issues.

Several Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court asked last week whether federal - court supervision of the Kansas City, Mo., school district has gone too far as the Court heard oral arguments in a major school - desegregation case.

Lawsuits proliferated and the state continued to threaten to withhold funding until finally, in 1997, in the face of several court - imposed deadlines, the state and city reached a settlement requiring major management and education reforms in the school district.

At least for the urban districts where students are in serious academic trouble - which includes nearly every major city in the country - I wonder if there is a Michelle Lite alternative.

And charter school networks and school districts in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles have recently started implementing programs to integrate their low - and high - poverty schools.21

In response to the need for qualified math teachers and the difficulty of directly recruiting individuals who have already completed the math content required for qualification, some districts, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and New York City, have developed alternative certification programs with a math immersion component to recruit otherwise well - qualified candidates who do not have undergraduate majors in math.