«I wanted to do what I was doing in
a big urban system to prove all these programs were scalable and transferable,» he says.
Not exact matches
The
biggest shares of foundation aid go to school
systems in New York City and other
urban and poor suburban areas.
Instead, he argues, the state should pool its financial resources to tackle
big issues - highways, bridges and, yes, aging
urban water
systems.
The researchers sifted through an extensive amount of data on many
urban systems — mostly
big American cities, but also European (primarily German) and Chinese
urban areas.
«The reduction in size means all sorts of
systems could easily adopt it,» he says, particularly treatment plants in
urban areas, where both space and smell are
big issues.
«In the dismal gallery of failing
urban school
systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the
biggest horror of them all.»
Simply put, the problems confronting
urban school districts are
bigger, costlier, more numerous, and tougher to overcome than those facing most rural and suburban
systems.
A closer look at graduation numbers reveals a concentrated dropout crisis in
big - city districts, as well as odds - defying success in 21
urban systems.
The organization of state superintendents and the organization of
big urban school districts will work together to audit the number and types of tests administered and develop new
systems that are leaner and more integrated.
Part of my fellowship was to look at how a
big urban school
system tries to make sense of reform.
The report is chilling in its description of how school closures and privatization are destroying America's
big cities and turning
urban public school
systems into institutions of last resort.
Big urban transit
systems and the profit motive aren't a good fit for each other.
But the
big change is the 5 - inch Touchscreen
system, which we've seen in the top variants of the Punto Evo and the Linea, which is now available, as part of standard equipment, in the Avventura
Urban Cross.
Clark's original plan to build a functional field research station on the grounds grew, after visiting Milwaukee and many of its
urban farms last year, to include an aquaponic
system (incorporating fathead minnows from Lynden's
Big Lake) and a trial garden.
The
big winner of the day was ShadowMaps, a GPS - related
system developed by UCSB engineering students to overcome the «shadow effect» in which tall buildings in
urban areas can «confuse» GPS
systems and create errors in cell - phone GPS location.
And while we're seeing a resurgence of interest in so - called «real food» or slow food and local food, it's going to take a lot more than a few
urban rooftop farms in
big cities, or the expansion of certified organic shipping container farms, or an explosion in countertop gardening units to go from our current wasteful food and agriculture
system to a model that is ultimately sustainable and future - focused.
«Opioid use disorder or addiction to prescription pain relievers or heroin is a disease that touches too many of our communities,
big and small,
urban and rural, and devastates families all while straining the capacity of law enforcement and the health care
system.»