Sentences with phrase «former city programs»
Both Nicoletti and Perez Williams have proposed resurrecting former city programs while Masterople would explore a new tax to shore up city finances.
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She had a small - but - thriving local clientelle that paid top dollar for the former New York City Ballet dancer's unique fitness program, which was specifically developed to create a ballerina's lean shape.
MOSCOW (Sputnik)-- The use of 50 - 100 grams of A234 nerve agent in UK's Salisbury would have killed the city, which calls into question the use of this substance against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, Leonid Rink, one of the developers of chemical weapons program, dubbed Novichok in the West, told Sputnik.
Former Leicester City player and BBC MOTD frontman, Gary Lineker, has promised to host the first program of next year in nothing but his underwear.
Some of her former employers include: Arcata Co-op Whole Foods Bakery; Ventura's City Bakery; Patagonia's Employee Natural Foods Cafe; Santa Barbara's Our Daily Bread; County of Ventura's Senior Nutrition Program; Santa Barbara's Community Action Commission Nutrition Services; and, the Orfalea Foundations» School Food Initiative.
Helen C. Doria, Millennium Park's first executive director, was a force for cultural programming in Chicago, spending much of her career working with the Chicago Park District and with Lois Weisberg, the city's former longtime commissioner of cultural affairs.
Keynote Panel Discussion with • Robert McDermott • Linda Williams • Keelah Helwig Kindergarten Teacher and Early Childhood Chair, Waldorf School of Garden City, and Sunbridge College alumna • Susan Howard Co-Director, Sunbridge Early Childhood Teacher Education • Douglas Sloan Professor Emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University, and former Master's Program Director, Sunbridge College • George McWilliam Core Faculty, Sunbridge Elementary Teacher Education • Moderated by Stephen Sagarin Core Faculty, Sunbridge Elementary Teacher Education
... It's a valid criticism, but the biggest obstacle is current legislators who are former New York City Council members who participated in the program.
Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg will announce today that he's throwing his financial might into helping beleaguered American mayors, creating a $ 200 million philanthropic program aimed at backing inventive policies at the city level and giving mayors a stronger hand in national politics.
Despite City Hall's general satisfaction with the results of the program so far, John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Eugene O'Donnell, a former NYPD officer and prosecutor, said it can hard to pinpoint it's exact value.
«Some of the city's worst air quality, if not the worst, is in midtown Manhattan,» said Nilda Mesa, the former director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability who now heads the Columbia University Earth Institute's Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning program, in a recent interview with amNewYork.
Ryan, a former sheriff's civil officer, and Cahill, a lawyer, author and former alderman, liked to start their hour - long call - in program with «welcome to Sanctuary City.»
The mayor's team has noted the homeless population began to swell under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and has blamed the problem on rising rents and the loss of city and state assistance programs.
Former Erie County and City of Buffalo elected official Joel Giambra, longtime State Senator John DeFrancisco and former Housing Commissioner for the Pataki Administration Joe Holland took turns criticizing Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion program, an energy policy that bans hydrofracking, the state's taxes and regulations, ethical troubles in Albany and education policies including the Excelsior prFormer Erie County and City of Buffalo elected official Joel Giambra, longtime State Senator John DeFrancisco and former Housing Commissioner for the Pataki Administration Joe Holland took turns criticizing Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion program, an energy policy that bans hydrofracking, the state's taxes and regulations, ethical troubles in Albany and education policies including the Excelsior prformer Housing Commissioner for the Pataki Administration Joe Holland took turns criticizing Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion program, an energy policy that bans hydrofracking, the state's taxes and regulations, ethical troubles in Albany and education policies including the Excelsior program.
City lawmakers are working to restore a «clean streets» — as in less strewn with trash — program which, unnoticed by them, was cut from the 2012 budget by former mayor James Sottile.
During former mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure, the state cut what was known as the Advantage Program, which allowed the city to spend its Department of Homeless Services budget on rental assistance for families leaving shelters, as long as they were employed or actively seeking jobs.
Bart Schwartz, the former federal prosecutor hired by Cuomo to investigate potential fraud in the state's Buffalo Billion program, has retained New York City PR firm Montieth & Co..
At 5 p.m., former Gov. David Paterson delivers the keynote address at the New York City Mission Society's Learning to Work program graduation ceremony, Washington Irving Young Adult Borough Center, 40 Irving Place, Manhattan.
De Blasio, a Democrat, and former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a Republican - turned - independent, will hold a joint news conference Oct. 21 in the Bronx to plant the millionth tree of the Million Trees NYC program that Bloomberg launched in 2007 to improve the quality of life on the city's streets.
School officials last week discussed plans for moving the Kingston City School District's administrative headquarters to the former Frank L. Meagher Elementary School, minus the option of using space in that building for a universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) program.
Fuentes got a $ 55,000 - a-year job as head of the city's community development program, replacing Mike Murphy, a crony of former mayor Jim Sottile.
NEW YORK (AP)-- A former state senator pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges she embezzled nearly $ 88,000 from a taxpayer - subsidized program that helps low - income families navigate the city's public school system.
De La Rosa — who served as City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's former chief of staff before announcing her candidacy for the 72nd District in April — has pledged to allot $ 100 million a year for capital repairs at city - run housing and create programs for youth in that housing such as sports teams, education support systems and City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's former chief of staff before announcing her candidacy for the 72nd District in April — has pledged to allot $ 100 million a year for capital repairs at city - run housing and create programs for youth in that housing such as sports teams, education support systems and city - run housing and create programs for youth in that housing such as sports teams, education support systems and art.
The program, started under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has been plagued with delays, suffered «flawed or incomplete» work paid for by the city and was criticized by residents and de Blasio himself.
In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.
Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Bob McCarthy notes that the Buffalo Billion was not only Cuomo's signature upstate economic development program, but also a potential vehicle for him to ride to higher office, arguing that he is capable of restoring struggling Rust Belt cities to their former glory.
Free all - day programs can also be a lifeline to parents struggling with sky - high child care costs, points out Brian Jones, a former New York City elementary school teacher, current Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State, and parent of a young child approaching preschool age.
What earned the former city councilman and state legislator a five - year prison term, though, was funneling taxpayer dollars to friends, family, and phantom youth programs.
HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.
Those who are opposed, including family members, former patients and staff, believe changing the rural setting to a city location will change the program.
He praised his predecessor, former Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., for his involvement in the fight to keep Long Island City HS and the Gifted & Talented program at PS 122 open.
«There are no deliberations or work product from this group,» said Kate Hudson, director of the New York City Watershed Program for the environmental group Riverkeeper and a former regional attorney for DEC Hudson.
And budget analysts on Thursday continued to criticize de Blasio for his spending plan's lack of a «program to eliminate the gap» or «PEG,» a budgeting practice common under all de Blasio's predecessors dating back to former Mayor Ed Koch, which requires city agencies to identify a specific amount of money they could cut in the coming fiscal year.
Silver used his negotiating position, the pro-Silver former members point out, to fight for funding for a statewide pre-kindergarten program, before Bill de Blasio was even a city councilman.
He pointed to former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, a Democrat, who was able to push through a capital improvement program for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the city's transit system, in 1981 only after conceding to a demand by Republican legislative leaders for an independent monitor.
Among the goals cited by Thompson, a former head of the Board of Education, were expanding the city's prekindergarten programs and the number of Community Learning Schools, an initiative that was launched by the UFT.
But in de Blasio's report released Monday, he reiterated that the new tax revenue would be «dedicated solely to the expansion and enhancement of New York City's pre-kindergarten and after - school programs,» and promised to keep them in a special «lockbox» similar to the way former Mayor David Dinkins used tax funds to pay for the «Safe City, Safe Streets» program in the early 1990s.
The rebuilding program, which was implemented under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has been criticized by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said in February that the city had to «do better» at releasing the funds.
Bart M. Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor, is to conduct the review; it involves the Buffalo Billion, a signature Cuomo administration program meant to revitalize that long - suffering city, and other elements of the governor's nanotech initiative, on which he has hinged much of his upstate economic policy.
Jerilyn Perrine, a former city housing commissioner who is now executive director of the nonpartisan research group Citizens Housing and Planning Council, said the expiration of the program would be «very troubling.»
But the former «Sex and the City» star did not waste a minute Wednesday in taking on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, claiming credit for already pulling him leftward on several issues and lambasting him for a «top down» economic development program that rewards corporations, contributors and billionaires.
Levy's partner is Woodward, a consultant and former business executive in the biotech industry whom Levy met through the unique QED Proof - of - Concept Program sponsored by the University City Science Center in Philadelphia.
Arthur Levine, former dean of what many consider to be the preeminent teacher - preparation program, Teachers College, Columbia University, has been savage in his criticism: «Teacher education is the Dodge City of the education world.
From tales of his 30 years teaching in New York City schools to the public's indifference toward teachers, Pulitzer Prize - winning author and former teacher Frank McCourt's lighthearted and humorous talk yesterday to students in the Teacher Education Program, one of 13 master's programs at the Ed School, left an impression.
«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program diProgram through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program diprogram director.
A former dean of HGSE, Graham has also worked as director of the National Institute of Education, president of the Spencer Foundation, director of the Education Program at Barnard College, and a high school teacher in Virginia and New York City.
Another school program, Eagle Pride, is an alternative school sponsored by the Los Angeles city schools and located in the former Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.
Special Education Reform Brings City More In Line With National Trend WNYC, August 9, 2012» «I think there has been a culture in New York City that kids with disabilities belong in a different place,» said Thomas Hehir, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the former director of the federal government's Office of Special Education Programs.»