Sentences with phrase «affordable school buildings»

The most immediate and overwhelming single factor constraining charter school growth in the Bay Area is a lack of access to affordable school buildings.

Still, we find clear, consistent barriers to charter school growth: a lack of access to affordable school buildings, increased competition among charter schools for students and resources, and a political backlash to the growing presence of charter schools.

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The Cascade Football Team Camp provides high school football coaching staffs and teams with challenging, affordable, exciting, and fun filled atmosphere for developing skills, camaraderie, and team building in a natural setting.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Also at 10 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul breaks ground on affordable housing for seniors at the converted School 77 building, 429 Plymouth Ave., Buffalo.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

While members of the not - for - profit have been regular critics of Paladino and his role on the Buffalo Public School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable housing.

The messy end of session also includes agreements on short extenders — one additional year for mayoral control of the New York City schools, and a six month extension of a tax break for real estate developers who build some affordable housing.

When it is complete, these two new buildings will stand alongside eight others — incorporating a new school, open space, retail and job opportunities, and a total of 1,300 new affordable apartments.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

At 8 a.m., NYLCVEF, Enterprise Community Partners and NYU's Wagner School host a policy forum on greening affordable housing in New York City, The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Floor, Manhattan.

The governor also did not deny that he was the «top Cuomo administration official» quoted in the Daily News questioning de Blasio's strategy as he pushed to renew his control of the city's schools and restructure and reauthorize a real estate tax subsidy to help him build more affordable housing.

Throughout his career in public service, Scott M. Stringer has dedicated himself to building a strong middle class for New York City, taking on critical issues such as affordable housing, school overcrowding and public safety.

«The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets — not to have a fair fight.»

«Crime is down, our economy is strong, affordable housing is being built, and more children are attending pre-K and graduating from high school than ever before,» said de Blasio spokesman Austin Finan.

«Since Mayor de Blasio took office, our streets are safer, our schools are improving, and we are building affordable housing at a record pace,» Espaillat said.

Melissa Grace, a spokesperson for the mayor, said that the administration is «focused on developing affordable housing, building and modernizing our parks, libraries and schools — and doing so in a manner that ensures community engagement.»

The opposite happened in the legislative session that just concluded: de Blasio got just one year of mayoral school control (instead of the seven afforded his predecessors, or the three he said he'd accept) and had a major asterisk attached to an overhaul of the 421 - a real estate subsidy that he needs to build more affordable housing.

Community Board 7 wants Extell to build a school and make 30 percent of the housing at Riverside Center «affordable.»

They each called for easing overcrowding in classrooms in the neighborhood, the need for new school buildings and support for creating more permanent affordable housing.

Mayor Byron Brown joked that Buffalo should be renamed «Ribbon - cutting City» as he joined others to dedicate a newly - completed affordable housing project inside a former school building.

The company, which has built 261 primary schools, 64 secondary schools and seven academies in the last three years, announced the Community Plus range which is supported by Morgan Sindall Investments, urban regeneration firm Muse Developments, and affordable housing provider Lovell.

And Habitat for Humanity is building affordable housing for local families near a new high school campus, which students from the district's architecture theme school will help them build.

Buildings in the Bay Area that are suitable for school facilities are both limited and expensive, making it very difficult to find affordable long - term leases on the private market.

The Chromebook was built to meet the needs of schools and districts looking to deploy affordable and comprehensive one - to - one computing initiatives.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

One of the outcomes is likely to be a rationalisation of what is affordable for fire safety measures within schools, especially any that are likely to undergo building or refurbishment.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Sarah McCarrick, BREEAM education sector manager at BRE presented her thoughts on how to build affordable and green buildings in conjunction with the Big Society, and George Martin, head of sustainability at Wilmott Dixon offered lessons from the Zero Carbon Schools Initiative.

They will seek to understand how the space is to be utilised and create a design to suit the school's needs, building in an affordable maintenance schedule that can be sustained.

Bridge International Academies in Kenya provides a standardized model of high - quality affordable education by designing cutting edge curricula, building schools and training teachers from the local community.

While many of us were transfixed on the machinations of Congress to undo the Affordable Care Act, the Senate yesterday voted 50 - 49 to «scrap the Obama administration's rule for holding schools accountable for student performance» proving once again how much simpler it is to smash stuff than to build stuff.

And Hailu is certainly busy: He's a building representative at his school; member of his local's contract negotiations team; promoter of education - friendly candidates; and an advocate for affordable family housing.

The founders searched high and low for an affordable facility (charter schools outside of NYC do not receive access to state aid for their buildings) and finally found one at Ernie Davis, the old middle school building in Elmira.

CalSAC is building a future where every child in California — regardless of income, race, or zip code — has access to high quality, affordable out - of - school time programs.

Before beginning her teaching career with Teach for America, Ms. Michaels participated as a leader in Americorps NCCC service program, worked as an outdoor instructor at The Outdoor School, and raised money for affordable housing through a Bike and Build cross-country bicycle trip from Rhode Island to San Francisco.

When City High moved to its new home in the historical Bell Telephone Building in 2012 it only seemed fitting to go «old school» when providing their students with fresh made and affordable choices.

Thus far, ExED's $ 174 million in New Markets Tax Credit allocations have built 29 affordable charter school facilities serving over 13,500 students.

Other than announcing that «We've built better schools, raised test scores, made college more affordable, and put Connecticut on a path toward universal pre-kindergarten,» Malloy made no mention of the massive Common Core testing scheme that will be swamping Connecticut's public schools this year, neither did he explain why his administration supported the Common Core «cut scores» that are designed to ensure that the vast majority of public school students and teachers are deemed failures.

Philanthropic support allows us to scale our operations and impact while keeping pricing affordable for school clients, develop new products and services, and build organizational infrastructure.

The Triangle - based affordable housing nonprofit CASA is proposing to build a new 24 - apartment complex reserved specifically for Durham Public School teachers.

Designed and assembled by the same master craftsmen that build our ultra performance systems, the remarkably affordable Campus Edition provides the reliability and dependability you need for Back to School.

Our grants have helped build affordable housing, expand and enhance healthcare facilities, and have also provided funding for schools across New Jersey.

For more than 15 years, Global Green's LEED - accredited staff has spearheaded applying green building technology to more than $ 20 billion in new schools and affordable housing construction, while advancing groundbreaking solar, green building, and energy efficiency legislation.

For nearly 20 years, Global Green USA has been a national leader in advocating for smart solutions to global warming including green building for affordable housing, schools and communities that save money, improve health and create green jobs.

For 15 years, Global Green USA has been a national leader in advocating for smart solutions to global warming including green building for affordable housing, schools and communities that save money, improve health and create green jobs.

Affordable housing, safe streets and sidewalks, access to open space, transit, schools, fresh food, jobs and education, energy efficiency and renewable generation, stormwater management, and green building are core principles of our work.

The project advances the Governor's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system by helping to make clean energy a possible choice for more schools and municipalities.

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Passive Houses, be they apartment buildings, office buildings or schools are very airtight and energy efficient — achieving up to 90 % reduction in heating and cooling energy demand from typical buildings existing today, while being very comfortable, healthy and affordable.