Sentences with phrase «few city districts»

New York City - based races are rarely competitive in November, though there are a few city districts where Republicans hold seats or can show well.

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Lastly, BuzzFeed Product Labs is turning its office, located a few blocks away from BuzzFeed's headquarters in New York City's Flatiron district, into a physical retail store called «Homesick for the Holidays.»

Small, concentrated districts like the Scillies and Gibraltar will report before then, as may the City of London (which has very few inhabitants because it's all office space), but these are sideshows to the main event.

One of only a few cities to have a designated innovation district, this 140 acre radius is composed of businesses, organizations and nonprofits that apppeal to the city's entrepreneurs, creatives, civil servants and professionals.

Chicago's financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet they belong to two different worlds.

About Hotel Boutique Just a few minutes» walk from some of the city's most popular sites such as Bryant Park, the theater district, United Nations building and much more, Hotel Boutique is the ideal New York hotel for business travel and sightseeing.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Councilman John Yerly suggested banning skateboarding in business districts and a few other places, including the City Hall parking lot.

The city has taken some of the frustration out of the planning process over the last few weeks by taking a more active role in the purchase of the land on 95th Street near Neuqua Valley High School from the Park District.

So the mayor rejected the pier marina plan, and is seeking another arrangement wherein more fair benefits would accrue to the city and fewer to the park district.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

Leah Schmidt, president of the School Nutrition Association and director of nutrition programs at a Kansas City, Mo. school district, said any schools that would consider forgoing the federal funds would have to have very few students eating the free and reduced - cost meals.

This consolidates many solid Dems into a few inner - city districts.

In fact, Hikind's district was one of the few districts in all of New York City that Cuomo, who beat Paladino by a landslide, actually lost.

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, whose district also includes the hotel site, said he was told about its use only «a few hours before they started moving families into that shelter.»

That campaign, like most Democratic primaries in New York City and State, had been staked on getting the paper's backing, and a few days after he got it, Mr. Schneiderman eked out a 2 - point victory over Nassau County district attorney Kathleen Rice, even though Ms. Rice was tacitly backed by Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic Party establishment.

There aren't many high - profile races on the ballot, but we will soon have two new members of the City Council, two new District Attorneys (Staten Island and the Bronx), and a few new state legislators.

In the 74th Assembly District, Huntington Beach City Councilman Matt Harper raised a few thousand bucks and spent it all on slates.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

Still mostly white, largely suburban in layout and feel, the 19th is one of the few political swing districts in the city, where Republicans can run competitive campaigns and win, and where independent - left Democrats such as Tony Avella maintain tremendous electoral popularity.

Mr. Hikind, an Orthodox Jew representing a relatively conservative district, is one of the few city Democrats who openly criticizes the president.

Winter is only officially a few weeks old, but thanks to an eventful run of weather, the Kingston City School District has already used up its entire allotment of snow days for the 2013 - 14 school year.

Few have lawyers in the consumer credit cases filed in New York City, in rural, suburban and urban child support cases and «the overwhelming majority» of tenants in eviction cases in all four of the state's judicial districts, he said.

«If I were to go to my district tonight at a meeting with the community, or school or a function and ask people if they thought the city was better prepared today for a storm than they were three years ago, very few hands would go up,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich said.

In a few months that district will be reapportioned by the New York City Districting Commission which is tasked with redrawing all 51 city council districts based on the 2010 census to reflect population shifts in time for the 2013 City Council electiCity Districting Commission which is tasked with redrawing all 51 city council districts based on the 2010 census to reflect population shifts in time for the 2013 City Council electicity council districts based on the 2010 census to reflect population shifts in time for the 2013 City Council electiCity Council elections.

(See: Eldridge, Sean) Teachout follows the same pattern — moving to a rental property in the district from New York City just a few months ago, after Chris Gibson announced his retirement from Congress.

But can Trump be ignored in a district that is half in the New York City media market and is only a few hours drive from Trump Tower?

«We will also present our Shared Services Plan that we spent the last few months working on collaboratively with local city, town and village officials as well as school districts and BOCES.

Charter groups are beginning to plan Capitol - based actions for the next few weeks and looking to assemblymembers from city districts to push for state funding to help co-located charters.

With Rob Astorino waging an upstate campaign (there are few Republican votes in the big city) based on hot - button issues like repealing the Safe Act, economic deprivation and mandate relief, the tide, even in Democratic districts like the 46th, will probably be running toward the GOP.

Brannan and Quaglione will now face off in one of the few competitive general election races in the city in District 43.

The current state budget includes $ 300 million for full - day pre-K programs in New York City and $ 40 million for those in the rest of the state, but Capital reported this week that few upstate districts plan to participate.

While Diaz Sr.'s more socially conservative views on issues like abortion and same - sex marriage sometimes pose a problem for fellow Democrats, his district is one of the few heavily Democratic areas of New York City where these positions are not a liability.

Republicans, who would provide an ineffective barrier to change if control of the rent laws comes to New York City, have many fewer rent regulated units in their districts.

The city school district is setting up programs as early as pre-kindergarten to try to ensure fewer students have the academic problems that lead to academic failure and dropping out.

According to 25th City Council District candidate Daniel Dromm, the fire was the fourth feeder cable fire to occur on the block in the last few years.

But the culture of criminal justice would also have to shift — among lawyers, judges and district attorneys — to ensure that fewer New Yorkers languish in city jails awaiting trial, experts said.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sDistrict in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white sdistrict of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

In both cities (especially in Denver), the special education gap grows as students proceed from kindergarten through the 5th grade, and charters classify fewer students as SLD than do district schools.

ESSA's flexibility coupled with the fact that some cities now have fewer than half their schools within the traditional district can enable state leaders to apply charter - style accountability to district - run schools.

On a leap of faith, Allen put in an application to send her younger son to one of the few other public school alternatives in the city: a new district school for gifted students.

But the lawyer representing one of the defendants said he would file suit within the next few months to test whether district boundaries can be used to deny parents from the inner city the opportunity to provide a high - quality education for their children.

They will phase in, over the next few months, a mandatory mastery - learning approach in reading and mathematics for all of the city's 123 public elementary schools, according to James J. Sarnecki, the district's supervisor of elementary mathematics and sciences.

This approach allows a few more districts to enter the winner's circle, namely Dallas, New York City, and San Diego.

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

Where strong charter laws exist, as in Arizona and a few cities, considerable peer - reviewed research (not cited by the AFT) finds that districts do in fact respond to competition by working to improve.

There are too many separate school districts — about 700 ranging from New York City, with 1,100 teachers, to others that have fewer than 200 students.

The schools, all but a few in New York City, had fought a high - profile battle backed by officials of the New York City district to avoid the English exam.

New York City schools, for instance, might spend less than the few school districts that educate the sons and daughters of New York's investment bankers (who live in those rich suburbs).

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.