Not exact matches
In New York
City alone, 44 low - performing high schools were closed between 2000 and 2014 as part of efforts by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to eliminate so - called dropout factories and improve education for students who would typically attend a failing school because they lived nea
City alone, 44 low -
performing high schools were closed between 2000 and 2014 as part of efforts by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the
city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to eliminate so - called dropout factories and improve education for students who would typically attend a failing school because they lived nea
city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to eliminate so - called dropout factories and improve education for students who would typically attend a failing school because they lived
nearby.
Imagine a high
performing blue innovation high school applying for a collective improvement partnership with an intermittently -
performing yellow school
in a
nearby part of the
city.
Initiated
in the 1990s and spanning four continents, Reality Hacking consists of over 300 interventions to date, including such varied works as RH No. 320 (Snow Monsters)(2015), a constellation of twelve marble snowmen
in various stages of melting that occupied the plaza outside of the Flatiron Building
in New York
City; RH No. 202 (2002 — 2003), a composition
performed by the Ensemble for New Music Zurich based on a recording the artist made of a glass shelf filled with crystal objects crashing down a flight of stairs; RH No. 200 (2002), an artificial doughnut - shaped island built at the delta of a river
in Switzerland using rocks and earth from the construction of a
nearby tunnel; and RH No. 244 (2007), a snowman installed at the southernmost point of the African continent.
There are several paid parking lots
nearby, including the underground IMPARK lot across the street from
City Hall and the
Performing Arts Parking Garage on Grove Street
in Hayes Valley.
«We have adopted a
nearby stream, Third Fork Creek, and are organizing creek clean up events 2 - 4 times a year
in coordination with the
city of Durham, as well as
performing stream monitoring and water quality testing.