Sentences with phrase «diverse urban area»

Queens is also the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, and approximately forty - eight percent of the residents in Queens are foreign born, and have come to Queens to make a better life for their families.

Located in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse urban area of Charlotte, NC, Central has focused its efforts this year on creating a community garden to benefit congregants, local residents, and the church's food pantry.

As the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, Queens offers a bit of something for anyone, no matter their background.

Over the past 15 years, I have lived in an affluent suburb, a rural community, and a culturally diverse urban area.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

As the first layperson to serve as Secretary for Education and Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston, she served on the Cardinal's Cabinet and led the second largest school district in Massachusetts composed of 120 schools and 42,000 students primarily located in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse urban areas.

Not exact matches

The schools represented are diverse — from elementary schools to colleges, in urban, suburban, and rural areas — but they stand unified in message and mission.

Particularly in urban areas, a more culturally diverse population may act as drivers of challenges to old ways of doing things and lead to a more pro-active political culture that seeks to express its own ambitions and agendas and thus challenge — even resist — conventional top - down flows of power, both institutionally and discursively.

Grant Reeher, a political science professor at Syracuse University and host of The Campbell Conversations on WRVO, said that aligns with previous victories for Clinton, who has found support in diverse, urban areas like Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.

The final bit of evidence was that seats that contained a larger proportion of young people did see their turnout rise more at the election... though as Chris Prosser and the rest of the BES team ably explain in their paper, this is not necessarily the strong evidence you might think: seats with more young people tend to be urban and more diverse, so it's equally possible that urban areas in general saw a larger increase in turnout.

Australia is a diverse country, possessing golden, sandy beaches, bustling urban areas and quieter, outback towns.

In a demographically diverse district of urban, suburban, and rural areas, the percentages of black students scoring below state standards were two to four times greater than for white students.

They surveyed two - parent families from diverse economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds in urban and rural areas.

The region includes a multiethnic population from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds living in rural and urban areas.

And while some Mountain States boast charter populations that are diverse in ethnicity, income, and location, in the states with the greatest number of charters, the schools are densely concentrated in urban areas and largely serve low - income students of color.

Diverse communities are no longer limited to urban areas.

This school is a nonprofit, independent charter school in the middle of an urban area that serves the most diverse group of kids in the state.

As an education consultant, Maria Gonzalez provides professional learning to teachers and leaders in diverse districts in both urban and rural areas.

Fact 6: While charter schools are predominantly located in urban areas, charter schools, on average, are more racially / ethnically diverse * than their traditional district school counterparts (comparative districts).

Additionally, local economies tend to be less diverse than those in urban areas, with fewer employers and fewer fully functioning industry sectors.

Working with diverse populations from coast to coast, and from our southern to northern borders, it is this passion for commitment that makes Treviño an effective leader and one of the country's leading trainers and teachers in the areas of effective school board governance, urban education, the politics of education, and the foundations of educational leadership.

In awarding a grant under this section, the Secretary shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that grant recipients represent diverse geographical areas of the United States, including urban, suburban, and rural areas.

How do we conserve and rebuild the open spaces in our urban areas in ways that are sustainable and conducive to healthy lifestyles for diverse communities?

when considering visiting Cebu Island, you might want to get away from the busy city areas and venture out to the urban areas, Cebu is so diverse the island has many beach resorts on the north and south of the island

It is the tenth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and offers a multi-culturally diverse and modern urban lifestyle.

Chesapeake is the second largest city in Virginia based on land covered, and is one of the most diverse cities in the country with urban areas, farmland, forests, and other types of areas to offer.

From its bustling urban areas to its quiet, cultured suburbs, New Jersey offers a diverse range of living environments.

The economy in Pennsylvania is diverse, in part, due to the wide spread between rural and urban areas.

Located in the East Bay Area of the Pacific Ocean, its economy as a major port city with one of the country's most ethnically diverse populations has resulted in a show of urban muscle pushing it into the 21st Century.

Students on these Minneapolis area campuses will find that their programs include students that are diverse in age, ethnicity, gender and cultural backgrounds, a true reflection of the diversity of the Minneapolis urban area as a whole.

Understanding the diverse set of traumatic and stressful experiences of low - income urban youth is an area of research that requires further study.

Of those, 102 came from the Boston area and were younger, urban, ethnically and economically diverse and in a committed but not necessarily married relationship.

Her areas of specialization include: urban schooling; teaching and learning to support culturally and linguistically diverse learners; and teacher professional communities.

Factors driving price increases in the country's urban neighbourhoods generally included limited property availability, a desire to be near the workplace, diverse amenities and more recently, the rising cost of fuel — which, when combined, have heightened buyer interest in these city - core areas.