Sentences with phrase «handful of big cities»

However, it hardly serves any cities at all in the Midwest and only serves a handful of big cities in the Southwest.

They report only at the national and, sometimes, the state level (and, in the case of NAEP, a handful of big cities) and only in certain grades.

Los Angeles, Washington, Houston, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City and Seattle are just a handful of the big cities looking to fill one of the most important jobs on their payroll — that of the school superintendent.

This fall, they also launched a pilot in a handful of big cities, offering a premium same - day parcel - delivery service for consumers.

Hinge only works in a handful of the biggest cities in the world.

Not exact matches

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

The big forward has been making a name for himself as a handful in Russia and has such been attracting interest from the likes of Borussia Dortmund and Swansea City.

The Big Apple Circus could return to New York City for this year's holiday season, according to the winning bidder for the bankrupt enterprise, Compass Partners LLC, which beat a handful of competitors.

The result is that Ghana's industrialization is heavily skewed in spatial terms, which in turn leads to a deep concentration of job opportunities and ancillary business opportunities in just a handful of the country's biggest cities.

«Next time she indicts a large chunk of the country's biggest city,» Chotiner concludes, «she should have better evidence than a 2008 presidential campaign — which was utterly unrelated to Quinn's candidacy — and a handful of adjectives in a New York Times article,» which pointed to a poll in which voters described Quinn with terms often used to denigrate women in power.

But the HTC has beefed up its political operation since then and is now one of only a handful of city labor unions with get - out - the - vote and field operations big enough and organized enough to swing elections.

The legislation unveiled Wednesday would make Ulster County one of a handful of communities in the nation, mostly big cities, which offer public matching funds for elections.

Likewise, if you live in a big city like Los Angeles but you only seem to run into the same handful of single men, you can turn to a free dating site and meet local men you otherwise wouldn't get a chance to meet.

There Are Jews Here visits a handful of far - flung Jewish communities struggling to maintain membership in synagogues against the call of bigger cities — where colleges are more prestigious and professional opportunities more plentiful.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

Mayor Villaraigosa is a vocal proponent of the parent trigger, along with a handful of other big - city mayors.

And although there are a handful of parent - led groups working hard in the state, what strikes us about the «movement» is that it has taken hold everywhere, in bigger, county and district - wide groups, but also in small, school - centered groups like ours, and among individual parents across the city and state.

His portfolio of alternative strategies take the form of «planet levers,» relatively «focused efforts, targeted the right way» that «can translate into big outcomes» and that rely on a «handful of nimble actors — including a few key nations, states, cities and companies — to get started.»

We asked a handful of our Big Bear City, CA traffic school customers one very simple question: «On a scale of 1 - to - 10: How likely is it that you would recommend our online Big Bear City DMV licensed traffic school to a friend, and why?»

Although there are a handful of very large cities in the state, the city of New York itself is 33 times more populated than the next biggest city.

«Because walkable urban centers close to amenities are typically a big draw for renters, you'd expect rents to rise faster in the city than in the suburbs — which is exactly what we've been seeing until very recently,» says Dr. Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow, «but a handful of factors are helping turn the tables and beginning to push suburban rents up at a higher clip.