Sentences with phrase «big city districts»

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

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In his book, he recalls a time when he worked in a big office in the financial district of his city.

MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences Discovery District) today announced a big step toward its goal of establishing Toronto as a leading global centre of bioscience commerce, with the addition of Salt Lake City - based NPS Pharmaceuticals and Boston - based VIMAC Ventures as tenants.

Strategically located in Manhattan's historic Financial District near Battery Park, Quake teams have access to one of the world's largest financial centers and one of America's biggest startup ecosystems, all in one great city.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

Dana Gioia likens a renewal of Catholic literature to the renovation of our lost immigrant neighborhoods: «It is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogenous, characterless suburbs of the imagination and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts.»

The City Council has directed both bodies to work together toward a plan for a joint recreation campus on a 13 - acre parcel of Park District property along 95th Street, but library officials fear a combined venture will further hinder the plans they have for a big new library near Neuqua Valley High School.

The school district's efforts to buy better quality ingredients from local businesses fit in well with the city of Austin's Good Food Purchasing program, an initiative to harness the buying power of big institutions to benefit the local economy and support the city's sustainability goals.

With its $ 272 million annual budget, the park district spends well over $ 30,000 an acre of park, she says, far more than any other big city.

There are over 500 apartments slated during the next two to three years, adding a big - city feel to the district.

The union and city have been at odds since Mayor Richard Daley pushed a measure through a recent City Council meeting that gives the Chicago Park District and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority the responsibility for traffic control at Bears games and other big events on and around the Museum Camcity have been at odds since Mayor Richard Daley pushed a measure through a recent City Council meeting that gives the Chicago Park District and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority the responsibility for traffic control at Bears games and other big events on and around the Museum CamCity Council meeting that gives the Chicago Park District and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority the responsibility for traffic control at Bears games and other big events on and around the Museum Campus.

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«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Rochester and Yonkers experienced significant improvements; for the first time, the graduation rate in a Big 5 city school district, Yonkers, exceeded the statewide rate.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

That was a big enough figure for councilors to be concerned and call a special committee meeting, but school Superintendent Sharon Contreras wrote a letter to councilors saying the district can «effectively manage» its budget and that the land bank is a «positive force» for the city and should continue its work.

But other pieces of the governor's budget would also have a big effect on the city — namely his congestion pricing proposal to toll cars entering Manhattan's central businesss district.

Yarborough, who was a two - term Jacksonville City Councilman representing a big swath of his current House district, is also one of the better grassroots candidates in the area.

The City Council and district attorneys have played a big part in the reduction of noise summonses by enacting laws and policies that de-emphasize enforcement of quality - of - life offenses, said John Jay College professor Joseph Giacalone.

You can't ignore the biggest democratic club in the city that happens to be in your district.

This was the largest graduation rate increase out of the state's «Big 5 City School Districts,» which is composed of New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, according to the state education department.

The calculation impacts levies for 677 school districts as well as 10 cities, including the «Big Four» districts of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers.

Aggressive costumed characters who pose for pictures to drum up dollars in the Theater District are driving away customers from one of the city's biggest draws, industry leaders said.

Another big union spender last year was the Communication Workers of America District 1, a close ally of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who led a fundraising effort to win Democratic control of the state Senate.

From Streetsblog: Queens City Council District 25 «Helen Sears is a lackluster incumbent who seems to believe that renegade cyclists are the big problem on the traffic - choked, auto - oriented streets of Jackson Heights.

State test results are now out and at the bottom of the list among the state's Big 5 Districts is the Rochester City School District.

The districts, which do not include the Big 5 city school districts (NYC, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers), together expect to increase school property taxes by $ 516 million, or 2.4 percent, even while forecasting total enrollment to dip by 6,145 students, or 0.4 percent.

Mr. Faso, a thirty - plus - year - resident of Kinderhook, NY — Prof. Teachout moved to the district from New York City in January to run for the NY19 seat — strongly opposed the Obama Iran Nuclear Deal, saying that it gave billions of dollars to one one of the world's biggest sponsors of terrorism, virtually guarantees that Iran will get nuclear weapons, and poses an existential threat to the State of Israel.

The non-citizen population resides in heavily Democratic areas; if they are not counted, those areas will not have sufficient population to support Democratic congressional and legislative districts, especially in the big cities.»

Turner's biggest turning point came when former New York City Mayor Ed Koch crossed party lines to endorse him, hoping a Republican win in the district would send a message to Obama on the president's policies toward Israel.

With Rob Astorino waging an upstate campaign (there are few Republican votes in the big city) based on hot - button issues like repealing the Safe Act, economic deprivation and mandate relief, the tide, even in Democratic districts like the 46th, will probably be running toward the GOP.

According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), New York City is one of the biggest school districts in the country that enrolls a large number of students into charter schools.

And Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, another veteran Democrat who chairs that chamber's education committee, also predicted that the governor's decision to allow his Division of the Budget to oversee and potentially limit the spending of big school districts, such as New York City's, could backfire.

The graduation rates for the state's «big five» city school districts have mostly increased.

Mr. de Blasio is a rare big - city critic of charter schools at a time when they are spreading rapidly in low - performing urban school districts.

In the four years following the implementation of the cap in 2012, the growth rate of school taxes statewide, excluding the big five city school districts, dropped by two - thirds, he said.

City Councilman Ruben Wills (D - Jamaica) started his term as the new member of City Hall's Queens delegation last week and he said he has been busy finding ways to solve his southeast Queens district's biggest problems.

Peralta praised Piazza's decision to be inducted as a Met, calling it «big news for New York City and my district, which includes Citi Field.»

The graduation rates increased for each of the so - called «Big 5» city school districts as well.

We hear the city Department of Investigation and new Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is picking up where Bob Morgenthau left off, looking at a big - time developer who may have spread more than hefty campaign contributions around the Bronx.

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Under the current congressional districts, most of Astoria, Long Island City, parts of Sunnyside and Woodside, Roosevelt Island and a big section of Manhattan's East Side are currently in U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney's (D - Astoria) district.

I also want to thank the members of the Assembly for their efforts to stop the wholesale closing of schools in New York City and to give communities a bigger role in deciding where and how schools should be co-located in their districts.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

City school results still fall well below state proficiency levels but sit within the middle of the pack among the five biggest urban districts in the state.

For instance, the Water Reclamation District of Chicago estimates that achieving its governmentally mandated goals for nitrate removal from city sewage could cost $ 144 million a year in purchase and maintenance of bigger and more sophisticated wastewater treatment facilities.

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When it comes to dinning, like most big cities, there are districts that harbor distinct cultural peoples.

Amazon has given a straight - to - series order for a period crime drama called Tong Wars to be written by Paul Attanasio (Bull, Homicide: Life on the Street) and directed by Wong Kar - wai (In the Mood for Love) that will apparently be based on the Chinese gang wars that occurred in the late 1800s in the Chinatown districts of San Francisco and other big U.S. cities.