Sentences with phrase «city school libraries»

The average fiction book in city school libraries was about 20 years old when we started our program a decade ago.

We have collected and distributed more than 42,000 new books to city students and to city school libraries.

In addition, city school libraries receive one - third the new book funding of suburban libraries.

Give Back, Give Books gives books to city school students to take home or for city school libraries.

Give Back, Give Books is Rochester Education Foundation's program to give books to city school students to take home or for city school libraries.

To date REF has proudly donated more than 34,000 new books to help build the home libraries of city students, and to city school libraries.

Proceeds will be used to purchase books for city school libraries about topics including the U.S. Civil Rights movement and biographies of contemporary leaders such as President - Elect Barack Obama.

An outgrowth of Rochester Education Foundation's successful and continuing Give Back, Give Books program, through which new books are donated to city school students and city school libraries, Recipe for Success continued the mission of Give Back, Give Books by offering cookbooks to students.

We also know that city school libraries are short on pleasure reading books.

In 2006, REF offered Give Back, Give Books, a community - wide books drive through which more than 10,000 new books were given to city school libraries and city school students to take home.

An outgrowth of Rochester Education Foundation's successful and continuing Give Back, Give Books program, through which new books are donated to city school students and city school libraries, Recipe for Success continued the mission of Give Back, Give Books by offering cookbooks to students.

The average fiction book in city school libraries was about 20 years old when we started our program a decade ago.

In addition, city school libraries receive one - third the new book funding of suburban libraries.

To date REF has proudly donated more than 34,000 new books to help build the home libraries of city students, and to city school libraries.

Give Back, Give Books gives books to city school students to take home or for city school libraries.

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It's taxes collected by governments that provide us with the wide array of social services and infrastructure, such as schools, medical services, libraries and parks, safe streets and livable cities.

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 City Council agreed to hold off until June 20 before deciding whether they will give library officials the requested $ 18.6 million to construct the facility on Park District - owned land on the south side of 95th Street, west of Neuqua Valley High School.

Library officials had hoped a third city library to be located near Neuqua Valley High School would be well under construction by this time.

At a recent Library Board meeting that drew City Council members, homeowners groups and other city leaders, library and park officials agreed to form a committee to explore using land south of 95th Street, near Neuqua Valley High School, for the proposed facilCity Council members, homeowners groups and other city leaders, library and park officials agreed to form a committee to explore using land south of 95th Street, near Neuqua Valley High School, for the proposed facilcity leaders, library and park officials agreed to form a committee to explore using land south of 95th Street, near Neuqua Valley High School, for the proposed facility.

Referendum proposals seeking property tax increases to bolster sagging school, library, municipal and park district budgets will be on the Nov. 4 ballot in more than two dozen towns, villages and cities throughout Will and southern Cook Counties.

Good habits start young — and affordably — at any of our city's neighborhood library branches; one of our favorites is the gigantic Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, with plenty of sunny nooks, a welcoming children's section and even a spot for your kid to (ahem) school you at chess.

After months of negotiations, Park District and library officials presented the City Council with the latest plan to construct a library and a Park District facility on 13 acres on 95th Street west of Neuqua Valley High School.

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After de Blasio released his executive budget on May 7, council members have continued to push for an increase in funds for libraries, parks, NYPD headcount, senior citizen services, women's health services, city - funded school lunches for all students, and more.

Last week the City Council approved Mayor Bloomberg's $ 63 billion «austerity» budget, cutting funds for schools, libraries and social programs.

The Chancellor also announced the continuation of the summer meals program throughout the city, which starts on June 27th and offers free meals to children 18 and under, in participating schools, parks, libraries, and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) sites across the ccity, which starts on June 27th and offers free meals to children 18 and under, in participating schools, parks, libraries, and New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) sites across the cCity Housing Authority (NYCHA) sites across the citycity.

Farina declined to speak with reporters Monday but during her appearance before the Assembly committee she spoke of the city's efforts to care for homeless students, including putting libraries in some shelters and food pantries and laundry services in schools with high percentages of homeless.

New York's City Council, which must approve the budget, should consider relieving cuts to senior centers, schools and libraries in areas like Queens where these media centers are vital to people of so many nationalities.

«Whether we're fixing the roof at a branch library, renovating a playground, or building out a new computer lab at a local school, these capital awards are going to strengthen our borough and our city, and improve people's lives.»

The $ 68.5 billion budget keeps fire companies and libraries open, without raising taxes, and increases the number of daycare and after - school spaces offered by the city, which had been on the chopping block under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's original plan.

«All our excess money from revenues coming out of New York City is coming up there, supporting your real estate, your school base, your tax base and all the municipal services, the library, senior citizens services.

«The announcement will be made in the library of PS / MS 282 Park Slope School... Among the speakers at the press conference will be New York City Chief Technology Officer Minerva Tantoco.»

Presented in collaboration with Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Public Schools, City of Buffalo, Erie Community College, Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Praxair, State University of New York (SUNY), SUNY Buffalo State and University at Buffalo, this collaborative effort continues to underscore the critical importance of STEM fields to future employment in Buffalo's emerging life sciences and advanced manufacturing industries.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

We may be living in an information age, but New York City's public school students are being cheated out of the skills they need to evaluate, process and analyze information because school libraries and librarian positions are drastically underfunded, UFT Assistant Secretary Robert Astrowsky told a City Council hearing on May 6.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn cited the firehouses, as well as major cuts to libraries, after - school programs and the Chief Medical Examiner's office, as her top concerns.

Upper West Side City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, who emphasized the need to combat overcrowding in public schools, also said building libraries and parks needs to be a priority.

Over the past two years in New York City, PB has led to funding for expanded sidewalks for pedestrians, increased security in libraries, computers for schools, and much more.

The Call is open to a wide range of people and organisations, including mediators and practitioners of science communication; STEM festival organisers; universities and institutes of technology, science centres, museums and other cultural attractions; artists; educators; industry professionals and academics in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM); arts agencies; production companies; schools; local authorities (libraries, city / county councils etc.); youth clubs; community groups; and research institutes.

The Italian fashion education system is split between Milan, Rome and Florence, with latter the home of the country's top ranked school, Polimoda, which ranked 9th in both BoF's BA and MA programme rankings and boasts two historic campuses within the Renaissance city and one of the most significant fashion libraries in the country.

My wife remembers classmates having to put a nickel in the «mission box» if they mispronounced a word — «libary» instead of library or «pitcher» instead of picture — at her Jersey City parochial grade school.

More and more, brick and mortar libraries are taking their offerings online, expanding their reach beyond their own schools, neighborhoods, or cities to the global community.

The impetus behind creating an after - school system in Providence started with the mayor, David N. Cicilline, who jump - started the process by bringing together all middle school principals, directors of city recreation centers, and the heads of the public libraries.

From that clause, De Grasse determined that the New York City schools were unconstitutional in everything from library expenditures to arts courses.

Applicants from around the country, including representatives from city governments, corporations, nonprofits, schools, universities, museums, and libraries proposed plans to increase STEM mentoring in their areas for the chance to share over $ 1 million in resources.

A number of school boards, libraries, and city councils have implemented such policies as part of a cultural boycott to protest the system of apartheid, or racial separation, the report notes.

Those programs include early - childhood programs for the state's 16 largest and neediest cities, school library improvements, 16 urban charter schools, and additional funding for magnet schools to attract students from surrounding school districts.

Rochester city schools receive one - third as much library funding as Monroe County suburban schools.