Sentences with phrase «city in the nation where»

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

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You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty of infrastructure - ready land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, offers all of these desirable attributes at a more affordable cost.

For more detailed explorations of the themes mentioned in this report, stay tuned to the Insureon blog in January, where we'll explore tips for buying the best equipment and furniture; ways women business owners can increase revenue; and how small business looks different in the nation's cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

For example, some cities like Dallas and Seattle are expected to outperform the nation in 2017, where home - price growth is concerned.

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.

The most popular of these shrine figures is the Virgin of Guadalupe, a dark - skinned (Indian) Mary whose veneration goes back to 1531.45 A basilica in her honor stands now at the place where she first appeared to a humble Indian, Juan Diego; and hundreds of thousands of Mexicans from all over the nation make pilgrimages there on the edge of Mexico City.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

And beyond this, there is still another circle where we are concerned with our fellows in our country or nation (I shall call this, for convenience sake, the «city»), making us English or American or Russian or Chinese.

Where distance from a nation's hub cities — London, Paris, New York — had represented a proportional loss in news, information and power, now «the provinces» in Europe and North America rapidly increased in economic, social and political power.

He has also changed the face of dining in cities throughout the nation, first in Los Angeles, then in Las Vegas, where he was the first star chef to create a contemporary fine dining restaurant, paving the way for other celebrated chefs and the city's metamorphosis into an acclaimed dining destination.

In the SB Nation NFL writers mock draft — where bloggers from each of our team sites make the pick — Jimmy Morris of Music City Miracles takes a stab at Tennessee's first selection and fills a big need.

The tragic story of an 11 - week - old boy who suffocated after sleeping in a car seat for two hours has swept the nation, as Shepard Dodd's parents prepare to take legal action against the Oklahoma City daycare center where it happened.

Cuomo chose Long Island to make his announcement, a New York City suburb where property taxes are among the highest in the nation.

More than 3,000 people died in the nation in bloody post-poll violence which petered out only after the arrest of the Gbagbo couple in 2011, when troops stormed the bunker where they had taken refuge in the nation's main city, Abidjan.

«This 56 - unit residential building is unique in that even in our nation's inner most cities, where homeownership rates sit well below the national average, hardworking people of modest means have the opportunity of owning their own homes to improve not only their lives, but the lives of future generations that follow.

Mayor de Blasio spotlighted NYPD heroes Thursday night in an unusual nighttime State of the City speech in The Bronx, where he unveiled plans to create the nation's first retirement - savings program for private - sector employees.

Across the nation, concern over contamination has risen in places like Seattle, where the city recently sued the agribusiness giant Monsanto over chemical pollution in the Duwamish River, and in Minnesota, where a state report issued last week found that up to 60 percent of groundwater samples from wells in the central part of the state had unsafe levels of nitrates.

In addition to Flint, residents of many communities are affected — including Newark, New Jersey; Cleveland and Sebring, Ohio; New York City; and in Jackson, Mississippi — where the «situation illustrates another aspect of the broad paralysis facing the nation,» stated RosneIn addition to Flint, residents of many communities are affected — including Newark, New Jersey; Cleveland and Sebring, Ohio; New York City; and in Jackson, Mississippi — where the «situation illustrates another aspect of the broad paralysis facing the nation,» stated Rosnein Jackson, Mississippi — where the «situation illustrates another aspect of the broad paralysis facing the nation,» stated Rosner.

While the survey showed that there are women all across Canada who believe in monogamy, they're particularly concentrated in Ontario, where the city of Stratford is home to the nation's most monogamous women.

Many across the nation find themselves this week asking a similar question in the days since two recent police shootings of black men — in Baton Rouge Now, he is living in Savannah, Ga., where he he has been working with the city's Black Lives Matter branch to advocate for social justice issues

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But today, charter schools enroll about 30 percent of Newark's students citywide, making Newark one of the nation's several «high - choice» cities: places where charter schools are in the mainstream, not on the margin.

The June 27 decision by Philadelphia's School Reform Commission reverberated in the city, where critics said it was driven by politics and money, as well as elsewhere in the nation, where experts who have been closely monitoring Philadelphia's experiment with outside management were divided on exactly...

Some districts, like the nation's largest, in New York City, have found that it helps to pair general education teachers with special education teachers in a co-teaching model, where teachers share classroom responsibilities and both receive specialized training in teaching students with autism.

Where once it was unsafe to roam outside of a few limited commercial and government sections, today the District of Columbia is one of the most desirable cities in the nation to live and work, drawing diverse communities of people fighting over real estate, office space and schools.

Between 2004 and 2009, Cerf was Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education where he led organizational strategy, innovation, labor relations, and all matters pertaining to recruiting, supporting, developing, and evaluating the nearly 80,000 teachers and 1,450 principals who work in the nation's largest school district.

Consider that in the nation's largest cities, where well over 80 percent of charter - school students are black or Latino, fewer than 33 percent of teachers are black or Latino, and fewer than 10 percent of charter schools are founded and led by blacks or Latinos.

They are blamed when achievement scores are down and ignored when test scores are up; even in New York City, the nation's largest school district, where classes begin on Sept. 8.

Previously, he served at the executive level in the New York City Department of Education, the largest school system in the nation, where he held the position of Director of School Performance and Accountability.

The debate in Nashville echoes themes the nation has heard from New York City and Los Angeles where students, teachers and parents have engaged in prolonged battles over decisions to co-locate charter schools in public school buildings.

By Nina Rees, President of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools As schools start to open across the nation, the back - to - school test in New York City will be taken in November, where Mayor...

In the city where Educators for Excellence started, members are working through E4E to increase equity for students in the nation's largest school systeIn the city where Educators for Excellence started, members are working through E4E to increase equity for students in the nation's largest school systein the nation's largest school system.

With a little of the nation's aid, the startup built a high - end flagship showroom in Mexico City and a 30,000 - square - foot, state - of - the - art factory located in Querétaro, where cars are assembled in cells — Formula 1 style — not on production lines.

Blechman participates in a pigeon shoot where entrants pay $ 150 to shoot live pigeons; he tracks down Mike Tyson, the nation's most famous pigeon lover, and spends time with Queen Elizabeth's Royal Pigeon Handler in England; and he sheds light on a radical «pro-pigeon underground» in New York City.

On the one hand there are the enormous sweeping novels of Dickens, Zola, Balzac where whole worlds — cities and nations — are painstakingly chronicled and set into play; and then, on the other there is the Victorian ghost story which is often a domestic drama where characters are haunted (literally and figuratively) by figments of their own passions and desires — like those found in the Brontes, Wilkie Collins, and Thomas Hardy.

To understand how this transformation occurred, take a brief trip back into the history of the Middle East, where it all began.Go back to the origins of humankind, where two rivers formed the Fertile Crescent and civilization sprouted.Watch the Abrahamic Religions bud in the Levant along the eastern Mediterranean Sea and develop into Judaism and Christianity.Witness the steady march of empires hold sway over Middle Eastern trade, resources, religion and culture for millennia.Visit the sacred cities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copcities whose connections to holy people and events sparked bitter conflict.Start your study of the birthplace of human civilization today with History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copCities - From the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today's Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History.Scroll up to get your copy now.

In fact, Las Vegas, Nevada's largest city, has 25 parks where dogs are free to play off - leash (that's third in the nation per capitaIn fact, Las Vegas, Nevada's largest city, has 25 parks where dogs are free to play off - leash (that's third in the nation per capitain the nation per capita).

There isn't a city or county in the nation where dogs don't need help — where they don't wind up on the street or neglected on chains in backyards, don't get dumped at municipal shelters out of ignorance or mere convenience, don't outlive their owners and find themselves among strangers who don't know what to do with them.

As Austin approaches its fifth anniversary of being the largest no - kill city in the nation, I would like to reflect on how we got here and where we need to go by sharing this short video.

With the vote of confidence given him by Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Friday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington could afford to boast just a bit as he gave PLUS News his first interview since returning from the United Nations General Assembly in New York City where...

The day to day operations of Defiance will be moved to our Redwood City studio where it can be managed alongside Rift and our other in development titles including ArcheAge and End of Nations.

Set in a land of war where the ancients have abandoned four nations to their own mortal devices, you must build your city, train troops, research technology, and expand your territory to conquer the land - for victory, and for survival.

«The - day - to - day operations of Defiance will be moved to our Redwood City studio where it can be managed alongside Rift and our other in development titles including ArcheAge and End of Nations.

The City Champs Minecraft event consists of a four - week competition where 12 Super League City Clubs compete with one another to become the best in the nation.

She has also served as Curator at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, working with artists such as KAWS, Hope Gangloff, Brazilian troupe Chelpa Ferro, Andrea Dezso, Brody Condon and others; Assistant Curator of architecture and design at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where she worked on groundbreaking exhibitions such as «Cai Guo - Qiang: I Want to Believe», «Zaha Hadid», and «Restoring a Masterpiece: Frank Lloyd Wright «s Guggenheim Museum»; Curator of Collections and Public Programs at the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, a facility housed in Frank Lloyd Wright's idiosyncratic tower and now a World Heritage Site; Director of Community Outreach of the Queens Theatre in the Park in New York City, a premier performing arts venue that serves the most ethnically diverse county in the nation; and as Project Coordinator for the Mexico Now Festival, New York City's first — and only — annual festival of contemporary Mexican art and culture.

Originally commissioned in 2004, After Before constructs a quasi-documentary multi-channel film where two actors conduct interviews on the streets of New York City — two months prior to the US Presidential Elections — in an attempt to illuminate the state of the nation.

The Center for Book Arts, the first not - for - profit organization of its kind in the nation, was founded in 1974 and the only location in New York City where visitors can view book arts exhibitions in the context of an active, working studio.

Yesterday, I spent the day covering Greenpeace's anti-coal efforts in Chicago, where two of the nation's oldest coal plants still operate within city limits.

A reduction in LDV travel and ownership has been observed in several cities in OECD countries, but demand for motorized road transport, including 2 and 3 ‐ wheelers, continues to grow in non ‐ OECD nations where increasing local air pollution often results.

From my vantage point here in South Africa, I am aware of the momentum of the major build - up to the next big United Nations world environment conference, COP 17, which will be held in December, in Durban, the city where I went to school and university.