Sentences with phrase «between city policy»

For others of this era, the communication gap between city policy and artist initiatives proved insurmountable at the time: Fugitive Art Projects sought physical space in 1999 to cultivate exhibitions, studios, and artistic dialogue, but eventually closed their Fugitive Art Center venue in 2005 after struggling to work with building codes and facility issues.

Not exact matches

In its latest statement, it said «household vulnerabilities have moved higher,» which is how policy makers describe the troubling nexus between excessive housing prices in many cities and record levels of household debt.

This deal between the city and tech companies including Google and Facebook has been in the works for some time, The Wall Street Journal reported, but a recent string of protests in the last month (including activists smashing a bus window in Oakland, and multiple instances of protesters physically blocking buses) have escalated the need for a new policy.

«We need to create a policy between the school board and the city to build attainable housing for young people in the core,» said Mayor Mandel.

Indeed, it is simply remarkable that those people responsible for educational and social policy during the past three decades can not make the obvious connection between the deplorable state of education, the multiple tragedies of the inner cities, and the virtual elimination of religiously informed values from American public life.

There is no clear policy lesson for the Northern Powerhouse from the proximity of or the links between the cities in the two areas — they just happen to be close together.

Mulgrew encouraged delegates to join the Father's Day silent march against the city's «stop - and - frisk» policy to be held at 1 p.m. at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues.

He also reiterated arguments that hat sanctuary city policies facilitate relationships between police and undocumented victims and witnesses of crimes.

«The Independent Democratic Conference is proud to bridge the gap between the people of the City of New York and the Senate to accomplish important policies that the Mayor has championed like Universal Pre-K, Vision Zero, the millionaire's tax and mayoral control,» Giove said in an emailed statement.

Signs of progress are emerging from negotiations between the de Blasio administration and the City Council over the future of the city's housing polCity Council over the future of the city's housing polcity's housing policy.

Those policies were behind a recent war of words between the Trump administration and officials in New York City over its so - called sanctuary city status, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions asserting that New York was «soft on crime.&raCity over its so - called sanctuary city status, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions asserting that New York was «soft on crime.&racity status, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions asserting that New York was «soft on crime.»

Such a program would mark a moment of policy cooperation between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who have traded barbs over a range of policy issues for several months.

This week will include a focus on what the city can do to stop gas - related explosions after another such explosion occurred this weekend, this time in Borough Park; education politics and policy, as the pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a large rally; a continuation of negotiation and criticism between city and state entities over MTA funding; and more.

We are attracted by the idea of coalitions between progressives, especially if they result in electoral reform, genuine reform of the House of Lords and of the City, legislation for fixed - term parliaments, stronger civil liberties, an enhanced Freedom of Information Act, closer ties with Europe, a multilateral foreign policy and withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The de Blasio administration continued to seek REBNY officials» assistance in Albany as well as their input on city policy, according to a review of additional emails exchanged between the two offices during the first half of 2015.

New York City gained 300,000 new residents between the ages of 20 and 34 between 2000 and 2010, the report by the Empire Center for New York State Policy shows.

A battle over housing policy is quietly rekindling the feud between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn gave preliminary approval to a class - action settlement in which the city agreed to pay a total of $ 5 million to 470 people who were put in solitary confinement on Rikers Island under a now - scuttled policy between Nov. 23, 2012, and Sept. 16, 2015.

Competitive policy innovation between major cities should start to see them create bold new ideas to deal with seemingly intractable social and economic problems.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn't appear inclined to grant Mayor Bill de Blasio's request to grant the city control of its own local minimum wage — setting the stage for another major policy disagreement between the state's leading two Democrats.

CHELSEA — Conversation was less about policy and more about the past at Monday's debate between Yetta Kurland and Corey Johnson, both vying to replace Speaker Christine Quinn on the City Council.

Signaling a growing divide between the de Blasio and Cuomo administrations on education policy, Lt. Governor Robert Duffy told New York City's charter contingent on Tuesday that their movement has the support of the governor's administration.

The demands, made in a meeting between city chief labor negotiator Jim Hanley and the Municipal Labor Committee, set the stage for a war with newly enraged labor leaders that would play out in Albany, which must sign off on pension - policy changes.

The comparative framework included the seminal work of German and Japanese urban climatologists, as well as the more recent climate policy initiatives of New York City and the City of Manchester.The project was a collaboration between MARC and the Centre for History of Science Technology and Medicine.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reported that talks between Nick Clegg and City lobbyists have prompted calls for financial sector representatives to lobby the government to change its policy on the European fiscal initiative.

«These sanctuaries are not truly safe for undocumented communities if «broken windows» policies exacerbate unnecessary interactions between police and city residents — in fact, such policies threaten the protection and amnesty that New York city is promoting right now,» they said.

A dispute over a computer use policy continues, although negotiations between city hall and lawmakers could bring the story to a close.

While some speakers talked about confrontation with Cuomo, expressed frustration with his strongarm tactics, and, in the case of The Black Institute's Bertha Lewis, compared the governor's defunding threats to progressive arch villain Rudy Giuliani's efforts, City Council Member Brad Lander laid out the fight as one between competing philosophies of where policy change really comes from.

For many real estate professionals, the contest between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney is the main focus this election season, even though neither man will have a direct hand in New York City real estate policy.

De Blasio also used the speech to extend a rare olive branch to charter schools, announcing the city would spend $ 5 million — the lowest financial commitment of all the new policies announced Wednesday — to foster collaboration between 50 charter and district schools.

«There was an agreement between the governor and the Assembly including HASA for All... and there was an agreement with the city,» said Ginny Shubert, a principal at Shubert Botein Policy Associates, a consulting firm.

The second half of the Assembly's legislation wades into a political tug - of - war between Mayor Bill de Blasio and a pair of Republican state lawmakers over New York City's policy towards undocumented immigrants and what will become of the data associated with New York City's municipal identification program (IDNYC).

While fiscal responsibility is not solely the realm of Democrats, the city's fiscal health has become the focal point of heated policy exchanges between Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Ward 15 Common Councilman Frank Commisso Jr., who also works as Director of Municipal Affairs at the Albany County Department of Audit and Control.

There's been little love between Miner, who has criticized the governor's policies toward fiscally stressed cities, and Cuomo, who has shown little tolerance for criticism.

A connection between innovators and policymakers will be more important within the next decade, he said, and it will require policy frameworks to ensure that potential risks are managed to reap societal benefits, particularly as it concerns the «Internet of Things» technologies and smart cities or even issues like smartphone encryption.

If the world's cities focused their investments on expanding public transportation, walking and cycling, they could save more than $ 100 trillion in public and private capital and urban transportation operating costs between now and 2050, according to a report released today by the University of California, Davis, and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

Working with colleagues, Dr. Robert C. Whitaker, a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research Inc., in Princeton, N.J., followed more than 2,700 children born between 1998 and 2000 in 18 large cities...

After - school programs can improve participants» literacy by providing intensive lessons several times a week and establishing strong bonds between instructors and participants, concludes a two - year study by New York City - based Public / Private Ventures, a public - policy - research organization.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

(There is, of course, a tension between the idea of the federal government intervening to encourage states and cities to adopt school vouchers programs and the idea that we need more local control of education, but Trump is not really the kind of policy detail guy who is bothered by this kind of thing.)

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.

Professional and policy organizations such as the University Council for Education Administration, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the Bush Institute's Alliance to Reform Education Leadership have all recognized Illinois for exemplary partnerships between school districts and school leader preparation programs.

As with so many fights between the charter sector and City Hall, the current dispute appears to be largely philosophical, rather than specifically focused on school space policy.

Brill captures many of the interconnecting relationships between the practioners in schools and the policy advocates at the city, state and federal levels.

At the same time, there are still citizens — especially dual - income households without children who tend to populate cities, as well as those concerned with other issues — for which education policy doesn't weigh in as a deciding factor largely because they see little concrete connection between low graduation rates and the levels of crime in their communities.

«The result of these policies,» Grant laments, «was to create an invisible wall between cities and suburbs.

Similarly, in Chicago, out - of - school suspensions fell by 65 percent between the 2012 — 2013 and 2014 — 2015 school years after the district revised its policies, while New York City, after a policy shift, issued 31 percent fewer suspensions in the first half of the 2015 — 2016 school year than it did in 2014.

Unfortunately, there are people who are so entrenched in the old battles between policy makers and labor that they fail to see that we have moved beyond past skirmishes and are working together for our city's kids.

Dr. Robert Vargas discussed how redistricting laws, bureaucracies, and public policies shape the conditions of cities, with a particular focus on the relationship between ward boundary redistricting and block - level violence in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.