Sentences with phrase «around districts in»

«They're not useful,» said Paul Vallas, a veteran superintendent who has helped turn around districts in Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans and is now running the schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

But after a doom - and - gloom «Victory Tour» around the Districts in celebration of their win, evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) announces that the 75th Games (a.k.a. the Third «Quarter Quell» — held every 25 years) will be comprised of past winners battling to the death.

In a statement, Rhodes pointed to his trips around the district in an RV and the grassroots support he's receiving as helping to break through.

In a nod to the 2014 spot that saw her driving around the district in a Ford pickup, one peppy spot featured the lawmaker ticking off a list of promises she said she has kept since taking office, including the refusal of special subsidies, transparency and efforts to «preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security.»

Not exact matches

Seoul, home to half of South Korea's 50 million - person population, also houses up to 3,500 start - ups and around 100 accelerators, most notably in its famed Gangnam district.

The problem with this proposition, from a political standpoint anyway, is that despite the SBA's past failings, and the evident hypocrisy in Washington, the ribbon cuttings the agency delivers to congressional districts around the country make it enormously popular on Capitol Hill.

Steven Feldman, a former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York who is a member of the New York State Bar Association's White Collar Committee, which Hendon cochairs, called Hendon a «fantastic pick» for Trump who is «an all - around superstar» in the «upper echelon» of white - collar defense attorneys in the city.

Eleven cities and towns around the U.S. are sharing more than $ 1.5 million in preservation grant funds, recently awarded by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve unique features of downtown districts.

Northern Minerals will also sink more funds into exploration in the highly prospective district around the project, with the goal of boosting the mine life of the full - scale project from an initially contemplated 11 years to more than 20 years.

Talks to transfer the project to PIF began in 2016, around the same time the government said it would rescue the district as part of its Vision 2030 efforts to diversify its oil - reliant economy.

Delphi Automotive (dlph) will launch a small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city district in one of the first real - world tests of automated rides on demand, the company said on Monday.

So it's significant that Obika's newest location is in the middle of Toronto's financial district, where it will serve a menu built around fresh Mozzarella di Bufala Campana, flown in twice weekly from Italy.

Nearly half of the businesses with black CEOs cluster around our nation's capital — in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia — and a third overall provide services to government agencies.

We're sitting in the company's headquarters in San Francisco's Mission District, discussing the philosophy of Asana's culture, which they conceived around the time they were trying to recruit old friends and colleagues.

Partners representing 15 Starbucks regional districts around the United States that are participating in Adopt a Unit — an emerging Starbucks program designed to build a bond between partners and the military communities they serve.

«The Movants have had ample opportunity to intervene in the multiple cases challenging the so - called «Fiduciary Rule» in district courts around the country, in appeals in two other circuits courts, and in this appeal, which was decided by this Court more than a month ago,» the filing said.

As midnight approached on Dec. 11, a circle of Zappos and Downtown Project employees lifted up their shot glasses around a bonfire near the edge of the Fremont East District in downtown Las Vegas, where Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is conducting one of his many social experiments.

Here are this week's watercooler conversation - starters on why inland states struggle to find funding, coming issues in federal entrepreneurship policy and the success of innovation districts that are cropping up around the U.S. (and in Kansas City).

Outer suburbs in Melbourne and Sydney, typically around 30kms from the central business districts, that are not close to transport, amenities or a popular school zone are also struggling.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

Additionally, they control a highly prospective land package around what could be another world class mining district in Southern Cone.

Wolfinger said the decision to close came around the same time as a local state of emergency was declared in Brevard, and that the district continues to work with Emergency Management to monitor the hurricane's path.

Like many of the neighborhoods within and around San Francisco, the Sunset District has experienced significant growth in recent years.

CNN: As sex trade increases around conventions, faith - based groups step up efforts It's 10 p.m. in Charlotte's trendy NoDa district, and a handful of women and one man have hunkered down over French press coffee and pastries.

Last week's special election in New York's 9th congressional district, which centers on Brooklyn and Queens, revolved largely around Obama's Israel policy.

It brings together (a) fragmented reflections from my three years of living and working with the Paraiyar communities in about 20 colonies around the town of Karunguzhi in Chingleput District, Tamilnadu (1985 - 87); (b) systematically documented data from a six - week intensive field trip in two of these 20 colonies, i.e., Malaipallaiyam.

Soon, this generosity led to a «shantytown» growing up in the Strip District around St. Patrick's and Fr.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

moving abusive teachers around from school district to school district is so common in the profession that it is called «passing the trash».

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

Then he told how the «new war trumpets of Indulgences and the bugles of pardon started to sound, even to blast» around in the district, using all the old arguments of threat and fear.

In early to mid-1800s, the area around Albuquerque was the largest sheep - growing district in the state, which meant that mutton was a large part of the dieIn early to mid-1800s, the area around Albuquerque was the largest sheep - growing district in the state, which meant that mutton was a large part of the diein the state, which meant that mutton was a large part of the diet.

There are also other smaller leagues, such as the Murray Football League, Kyabram & District Football League and the Picola & District Football League which have teams from in and around Greater Shepparton.

I just grew up in an area where many teachers made around 70 - 100k (with bonuses, yeah our school districts gave various bonuses and I know this because all their salaries are online) so my judgements may have been biased.

As Little League Tournament action opens around the nation on June 29 this year with district play, culminating in the World Series in late - August, for the first time in 44 years, JRW will not take part in the competition.

The circuit uses the longest district road in Italy as the start / finish straight the Via Cristoforo Colombo and will race around the Obelisco di Marconi with the Colosseo Quadrato making for a pretty backdrop to the race.

The day before, on April 2, I had gone to a Goodwill store in the city of Orange and purchased a disguise, clothes that would have suited any bum wandering around nearby MacArthur Park or the broken - bottle district of downtown L.A.: a $ 5 pair of baggy brown pants, marked down to $ 2.50, whose cuffs scraped the floor; a large gold shirt for $ 3; a white tie, with a bright yellow stain, for 15 cents; a pair of brown shoes, which I wore without socks or laces, for $ 5; and the ugliest sports coat in the store, a black number with red and white flecks, for $ 2.50.

The Chicago Park District's «Movies in the Park» are highly anticipated each summer, as they take flicks around the city for some after - dark amusement.

As part of the expansion, Park District officials plan to place more speakers in the area to improve sound and construct a temporary fence around the lawn perimeter for the events.

A small group of children crowded around 10 - year - old Ashley Osorio Monday as she held the instant camera photograph of her first day in this year's Chicago Park District summer camp program.

After the village incorporated in 1956, it declared the area around the four corners formed by the intersection of Old McHenry and Robert Parker Coffin roads a historic district.

Many parents today also choose alternative options, such as academic redshirting, or the practice of postponing for a year school entry for kids whose birthdays are close to cut - off date (often in or around September for most districts).

The school district responded with a statement saying, «The homework worksheet in question was downloaded from a website that allows teachers around the world to share educational resources.

That was certainly the case in Berkeley, Calif., and in Boulder, Co., two districts where I have spent considerable time in the kitchens and the cafeterias, and where parents rallied around the idea that children deserve better than processed convenience foods and tons of sugar for breakfast and lunch.

KT: Never in a million years did I think I would have made an impact in districts and schools with so many students in and around the Houston area in just over a year.

In surveying the progress made by districts around the country in sourcing local food, writer Tracie McMillan finds that it tends to be the smaller states — Maine, Vermont, Maryland and Delaware — which are having the greatest successeIn surveying the progress made by districts around the country in sourcing local food, writer Tracie McMillan finds that it tends to be the smaller states — Maine, Vermont, Maryland and Delaware — which are having the greatest successein sourcing local food, writer Tracie McMillan finds that it tends to be the smaller states — Maine, Vermont, Maryland and Delaware — which are having the greatest successes.

That said, HISD managed to meet all the HHFKA requirements with an increase in participation, as have many other districts around the country, so it's clearly possible to achieve.

Many school districts have since worked with their suppliers to lower the sugar content in flavored milk, and many of these milks now contain around 130 calories and 22 grams of total sugar per serving (12 grams of which are naturally occurring).

But the era of the spork may now be coming to a close, at least in larger districts around the country.

I weep for the fact that many districts around me will now be stocking their school stores with sugarfree Red Bull, low carb Monster, Diet Mt Dew, plus all the snacks Kiera highlighted in her story.