Sentences with phrase «central cities»

The 2006 Integrated Energy Policy Report Update stated that the single largest opportunity to help California meet its statewide energy and climate change goals resides with smart growth - development that revitalizes central cities and older suburbs, supports and enhances public transit, promotes walking and bicycling, and preserves open spaces and agricultural lands.

Located by the Haihe River, just a thirty - minute train ride from Beijing, Tianjin is one of China's five national central cities.

Many of the best smaller towns have central cities with no cars and great atmosphere.

Segregation is by far the most serious in the central cities of the largest metropolitan areas, but it is also severe in central cities of all sizes and suburbs of the largest metro areas, which are now half nonwhite.

It is estimated that half the schools located in central cities have at least one unsatisfactory environmental condition.

A recent U.S. Department of Education study on school spending reported that in central cities - where greater numbers of students live in poverty and it costs more to educate them than non-poor students - schools must spend a greater portion of limited funds on instruction and less on repairing buildings or buying / repairing equipment, which has led to often - dangerous infrastructure conditions.

On the face of it, the key reason that parents live in central cities is the location of their work.

A high percentage of parents who work in central cities also live there.

In most cases, college - educated parents with school - age children are far less concentrated in central cities relative to all parents with school - age children, with the exceptions of Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Seattle.

Conspicuously absent from recent discussion is the role and attractiveness of central cities for families with children.

Charters were not shying away from central cities.

Second, the CRP report is primarily concerned with schools that are minority hyper - segregated; are we truly concerned that minority students are transferring from integrated suburban schools to venture into central cities to attend racially segregated schools?

In the paragraphs that follow, we will show that our central cities approach provides a far more appropriate unit of comparison, and we will demonstrate that the CRP Table 22 examining data for cities across the nation is off base.

If the geographic barriers weren't enough, in many of the central cities of the CBSAs used in the CRP report, a student must either be a resident of the city (such as in Boston, see here) or, if they wish to travel from outside the city, they must pay tuition to the receiving charter school (see Washington D.C.'s rules here).

In suburban areas, charter schools are more likely to locate in districts with lower incomes, greater socioeconomic diversity, and close proximity to central cities.

Private schools are located disproportionately in central cities and in the Northeast.

Enrollment in urban Catholic schools, originally designed for an immigrant population, was falling, as Catholic families moved from central cities to the suburbs (see Figure 1).

It would be better, they concluded, to focus on schools in the central cities, with their highly visible social problems.

Even after things settled down, a sharp racial division was carved between the predominantly minority schools in central cities and the overwhelmingly white schools in suburban areas.

The most consistent advocates for school vouchers in America are low - income black and Hispanic parents who live in central cities.

Meanwhile, as Catholics, along with others, left the central cities for suburbia, Catholic schools were losing their local Catholic parish students.

Education expenditures in central cities rose from $ 346 per resident in 1977 to $ 420 in 1981, while suburban expenditures rose from $ 372 per resident...

Indeed, we find the majority of students in the central cities of metropolitan areas, in both charter and traditional public schools, attend school in intensely segregated settings.

In the central cities it is a different story.

Again, comparing the segregation in charter schools in a state, which are concentrated in heavily minority central cities, to that in traditional public schools throughout the state, reveals nothing about the reality of racial segregation in charter schools.

For the 39 CBSAs examined by the authors, only 22 percent of the traditional public schools were located in central cities, compared to 51 percent of the charter schools.

First, the majority of students in central cities, in both the public charter sector and in the traditional public sector, attend intensely segregated minority schools.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

Even within many of the central cities in the metropolitan areas listed above, there is a great deal of racial segregation.

«I think you will see autonomous vehicles rolled out in places like Olympic parks or central cities pretty soon, but it's going to be a while before you can go into a garage and buy a car without a steering wheel.»

In each of the major urban centers the story is the same: the better - off white families are moving out of the central cities into the suburbs; the ranks of the poor who remain are being swelled by Negroes from the South.

Of first importance is a decline of parts of the central cities» business activity.

In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.

It's also the kind of bold policy stroke that would command national attention, with Cuomo potentially starring as the governor who triggered the removal of a whole cohort of aging highways that blighted central cities for 60 years.

They also often reject any role for governments in addressing social - economic problems, such as unemployment or the low wages earned by workers who are trapped in unskilled occupations or isolated in central cities, where financial and physical infrastructures are inadequate and social networks are weak.

The plight of the central cities and the reasons for the flight of Jews and others, whites and middle - class blacks alike, can not be found in the machinations of bankers and politicians.

Public schoolteachers in central cities are far more likely than the average central city resident to send their own children to private schools.

Since the dawn of the new millennium, Christianity in China has redirected its growth toward a hundred or so central cities throughout the country.

«Those people» languishing in the drug - infested, economically depressed, crime - ridden central cities — those people are our people.

That has driven first - time homebuyers to look beyond central cities for affordable options in suburbs and exurbs, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Old Perth Port proposal comes amid a ramp - up in hotel investment in the central city, with the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority planning for a world - class hotel and residential precinct on a 6,800 sqm site in Elizabeth Quay.

Increasingly, the best use is becoming residential in character, especially where the United States is experiencing a reflux of suburban dwellers back into the central city areas.

The STUDIO is set in an exclusive central city location above Toastface Grillah café, at 143 Barrack Street - in a unique state heritage listed building with edgy, arty styling.

The Work & Learn Center, located in the Central City area of New Orleans, is a youth employment program comprised of several youth - run businesses.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

As Harvard professor Paul E. Peterson notes, one «attraction of inner - city school choice is the possibility that a choice - based system could reduce the racial isolation within the central city.»

During economic downturns, businesses tried to curb expansion and cut expenses by shutting down the older, more heavily taxed and less efficient central city plants.

On this auspicious evening every year just as dusk turns to dark in one of our central city streets, a row of houses light up with the spirit of Christmas.

Authorities in Mexico say the Europa League trophy has been recovered after it was stolen in the central city of Leon.

Authorities in Mexico say the Europa League trophy has been recovered, after it was briefly stolen in the central city of Leon.