Sentences with phrase «big city counterparts»

Drivers in a more suburb and rural area encounter a lesser amount of cars than their big city counterparts.

The suburban district also trails its big city counterpart in placing vocational school grads into jobs, with only 35 percent of Ferguson - Florissant vocational ed kids getting jobs versus 59 percent for St. Louis.

These conditions have led to distorted legal markets in rural areas where, for example, the only lawyer for miles around can charge double or triple the billable rate of his / her big city counterpart.

Not exact matches

Even though their ridership is nowhere near the Big Apple's, upstate New York's largest public transit face many of the same challenges their big - city counterparts at the MTA deal with on a regular basis, including aging infrastructure and increased demand for serviBig Apple's, upstate New York's largest public transit face many of the same challenges their big - city counterparts at the MTA deal with on a regular basis, including aging infrastructure and increased demand for servibig - city counterparts at the MTA deal with on a regular basis, including aging infrastructure and increased demand for service.

Most Big Apple residents will see a far less bountiful windfall from the tax overhaul than their counterparts in Florida, according to an analysis by the Partnership for New York City.

But the biggest finding was that those who lived closer to the city center or the main highway had better access to water deliveries than those in more remote areas — because of distance and transportation issues — but still less than their urban counterparts.

They, and their disadvantaged counterparts in big - city schools, must be protected from the fairy tale we adults so glibly tell: doing conventional school work guarantees a good job.

Given that the one out of every eight white suburban fourth - graders not on free - or - reduced lunch are struggling with reading is equal to the levels in big - city districts — and the rate of black fourth - grade suburban counterparts who are functionally illiterate is only four percentage points lower than that of big - city peers — suburban districts are actually falling down on their jobs.

Yet despite years of reform and rhetoric, poor children in big cities still go to worse schools than their richer counterparts in suburbs or at private schools.

A new program in rural Alaska seeks to halt this trend through a new program that pairs rural schools with big - city counterparts.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

In a report on school safety released last October, Eden reached the conclusion that New York City's charter schools were «safer» than traditional district counterparts not by comparing raw data from the Big Apple's school climate survey or even using more - objective data such as incident reports over a period of several years.

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

Kyle might offer a small - town ambience, but residents deal with daily stress as much as their big - city counterparts.

Residents of sparsely populated counties in Texas, Nebraska and North Dakota saw median home values as low as $ 50,000, all while earning similar incomes as their counterparts in the big cities.

Like their counterparts in big cities, dog owners in Lake County may have to start cleaning up after their pets with pooper scoopers.That was one of several changes to the county's animal control ordinance suggested during a public hearing Tuesday.The revamped proposal, which aims primarily to stop vicious animals before they bite or harm someone, will undergo more tinkering to include suggestions like cleaning up after dogs.Pooper scoopers will be needed if the county sticks with the idea to ban defecating by dogs on both public and private property other than that belonging to the animal's owner, County Commissioner Richard Swartz said.

They are Resort Fees charged at standard hotel properties in big cities, called something else, and just as mandatory and deceiving as at their Resort counterparts.

Chicago can hardly be thought of as a «soft» city when compared to its coastal counterparts; as the poet Carl Sandburg wrote, it is a «city of big shoulders», a distinctly blue collar metropolis, a heartland of the working man and woman.

Drivers living in a big city will pay more than their rural counterparts, due to the amount of cars on the road.