Sentences with phrase «in city education»

In March, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo defended charters» role in city education at a rally at the Capitol in Albany while Mr. de Blasio held one in support of his prekindergarten plan nearby.

The small increase in city education funds comes after school budgets have absorbed cuts for three years in a row.

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The company is pursuing a range of growth opportunities, including a Sydney city campus for Macquarie University and a new business in Hong Kong to recruit students in China on behalf of education institutions in Australia and the UK.

In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPaIn 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPain New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPad.

As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.

«There are a lot of studies which have shown that lighting can actually impact on the mood of the students in their education and in their learning,» she told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

The city's Palmer Park Preparatory Academy was recently on the cover of Education Week for becoming a teacher led school in which teachers take over administrative duties.

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

So the government is going to have to come to terms with what that means for affordability in the cities, what's that's going to mean for infrastructure, education — it's a big equation.

Cecilia Retelle and Kim Taylor — co-founders of Ranku, a discovery engine for online degrees from traditional education institutions — secured Mark Cuban after informally pitching him at a bar in New York City.

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

Finalist cities are refining their pitches based on many of the factors that usually motivate corporations in site selection — economic development opportunities, transportation access and infrastructure, skilled labor force and quality - of - life measurements, like education and real estate costs.

What the top ranked cities had in common was being situated in relatively wealthy countries with good health and education systems, good quality infrastructure and they tended to be medium - sized, and had low population densities.

Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

«Over the past six months, we've traveled the globe to find the world's most promising startups working to develop innovative solutions to fundamental challenges in education, energy & sustainability, health, and cities & transportation,» says Donna Harris, co-founder of 1776.

City Lit, a 96 - year - old adult education center in central London, is offering a four - week course this winter called «the art of self - portraiture.»

He criticized states for kicking the can down the road, living beyond their means year after year in a «never - ending sense of crisis» that results in «stop - and - go funding of vital programs,» such as those for infrastructure, education, pensions and city and county services.

To recap: A team from Washington D.C. incubator, 1776, traveled to 16 cities around the world to find the best startups in the most regulated industries, including education, health care, smart cities and energy.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

As a cofounder at New York - based General Assembly, Hargreaves noticed a growing housing crisis affecting the tech education provider's students, many of whom couldn't meet the rigorous rental requirements stipulated by landlords in New York City.

While the business opportunity in smaller cities is large, limited Internet connectivity and reluctance among parents and students to pay for online education hamper adoption of online supplementary education platforms, it said.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

New York City Coming in at 9th in this year's ITM report, New York City's technology ecosystem, sometimes called «Silicon Alley,» is home to just about every startup niche imaginable, with notable sectors including education tech, health tech and financial tech playing a big role.

Taxes on real estate in Maryland account for about 35 % of city budgets and 30 % of county budgets, funding local services like public education and fire protection.

Atlanta Driven in large part by a surge in financial tech, education tech and health tech startups, Atlanta clinched the «most improved» city designation on this year's ITM report, rocketing up more than 15 places since last year's analysis.

The hukou registration system that ties people to their place of ordinary residence deprives migrant workers of rights to welfare, education or property, and prevents them from launching businesses in the cities, where they are treated as second - class citizens.

Aboriginals living in Canadian cities report high rates of happiness based on their income, education, and network of personal relationships, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute...

We also factored in the population ages 25 to 34 and the education level of each city, because a young, local entrepreneurial community is most likely to thrive with more networking and knowledge - sharing opportunities.

«If you live in a big city and need to spend more on housing due to work and the current rental market, it's OK to do so as long as you adjust some of your other discretionary spending,» says Ash Exantus, director of financial education at BankMobile, a digital banking platform.

And the eventual arrival of the «HQ2» could affect housing and rents, education and transportation, and the very character of the city that Amazon selects — so Lee said it would be critical for the company to keep diversity in mind.

Presentations on topics such as (a) the relationships among price movements of stock indexes, the CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®), and the India VIX Index, and (b) new studies on fund use of options and volatility - based strategies, will be delivered by me to continuing - education meetings of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP) in the cities -LSB-...]

You might decide to get an in - depth education by enrolling in an online MBA program in California or a data science course in New York City, for instance.

* + - As part of the Digital Currency Council's Continuing Education partnership with Inside Bitcoins, the DCC's Director of Curriculum Dan McArdle, had the opportunity to interview the thought leaders that will be speaking at the Inside Bitcoins Conference in New York City on April 27 - 29, 2015.

The Enterprise Center in Johnson County (ECJC) is a non-profit organization that helps Kansas City entrepreneurs grow by providing entrepreneur education, mentoring, office space and connections to capital.

Each magazine covers several communities with well thought out articles and discusses characteristics such as: Median Housing Price City / Town Profile Arts & Cultural Activities Recreation & Outdoor Activities Continuing Education Opportunities Hospital Airports Tax Info Climate & Weather At the end of the articles, key characteristics are bulleted in a quick read section.

Produced by The Idea Village in partnership with Solomon Group, NOEW engages a dynamic locally relevant, globally significant network of entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, non-profits, students, and professionals to support growing companies and elevate entrepreneurial successes through six days of discussion, debate, education, competition, and celebration in a city like no other.

Kansas City fared better than New York City and Los Angeles in metrics such as tech workers per capita, share of workers with a Bachelor's degree or higher, entrepreneurial growth and share of «knowledge» workers, defined as those in occupations such as architecture, social science, health care and education.

Moving to Oklahoma in 1999, Sally continued her career in higher education at Oklahoma City University, but soon found her true calling in social services as the Vice President of Financial Development at the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City.

To capitalize on this opportunity, CIBT developed the Global Education City Holdings Inc. (GEC) subsidiary to help students find affordable student housing in a good location.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

But as I informed you earlier this practice is not happening in the cities where girls and their families prefer to have their girls carry on with their education..

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

«It took a judge seven years and 607 pages,» the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «to explain why children in New Jersey's poor cities deserve the same basic education as kids in the state's affluent suburbs.»

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

This trend is the same within the borders of the United States, the more secular states have lower unemployment, better education programs, healthier people, and safer cities, but than you have all the states in the bible belt sitting on the bottom of the list together in almost every category except religion.

In 1995 when PepsiCo offered to assist our nonprofit scholarship foundation with private charitable contributions, the Jersey City Education Association threatened a state and national boycott of all Pepsi products.

Health care for the poor, education in the inner city, job training for welfare mothers, discipline for criminally offending youths, improvement of community infrastructure and housing, nutrition for infants, drug treatment for recovering addicts» all of these things and more require the provision of public funds and are essential to the progress we seek.