Sentences with phrase «in schools around the city»

Michael Nakkula developed his «invention - based» counseling model while working with urban youth in schools around the city of Boston.

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There are now Hand in Hand schools in six cities around Israel.

The City is already working in cooperation with the School Boards to set up first - time home buyers housing on surplus school sites around Edmonton, but with little surplus school land in the core, they need to look at other opSchool Boards to set up first - time home buyers housing on surplus school sites around Edmonton, but with little surplus school land in the core, they need to look at other opschool sites around Edmonton, but with little surplus school land in the core, they need to look at other opschool land in the core, they need to look at other options.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

As a Single Parent / Mother of a high school student at Detroit Cass Tech (Donovan People - Jones) here in the City of Detroit I am initiating this Petition on behalf of all students and parents around the country and even Canada.

The youngster was hanging around outside City's Carrington training ground and asked the maverick striker for his autograph, but Balotelli was more interested in why the little scamp was wagging school.

Biography Name: Aleksey Miranchuk DOB / Age: 17/10/1995 — 21 years old Club: FC Lokomotiv Moscow Position: Attacking midfielder Nationality: Russia Career so far: Born in Slavyansk - na - Kubani in Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia, Aleksey Miranchuk took his first steps in football in Olimp, the local school academy based in Krasnodar, around an hour and a half by car from his birth city, together with his twin brother Anton.

The team's reputation has grown in recent years, and they have begun to draw good elementary - school players from around the city, which has added to their advantage.

The Waldorf School of Garden City provides students from around the globe with the complex skills required to achieve in a complex world.

But now, the Baltimore eighth - grader's tray features beds of greens and fruits and vegetables that are available at her middle school through a salad bar option that is sprouting up in school cafeterias around the city.

HUMAN Healthy Vending, headquartered in Culver City, Calif., places high - tech and eco-friendly healthy vending machines in schools, gyms, hospitals, corporate and government locations and cosmetology schools around the world.

The program, which began in three schools last year, now operates in 11 elementary schools around the city and in Cicero, where the population of students eligible for free or reduced lunches is 85 percent or higher.

It took awhile to get here, but finally here we are: 30 day look around American and French school lunch menus, with the first 23 days in Toms River, New Jersey and Pau, France... then we traveled west, north, south thru some well - known cities.

In his testimony, de Blasio made clear that he opposes an effort to have the state inject itself in an effort to turn around failing schools in his citIn his testimony, de Blasio made clear that he opposes an effort to have the state inject itself in an effort to turn around failing schools in his citin an effort to turn around failing schools in his citin his city.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

She has reported on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schoCity school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schocity's method of testing for lead in water in schools.

This time around, a new board will vote on whether to keep the city schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, and will make preparations for school board elections in May 2018.

«Under Mayor Miner's leadership and Colleen Deacon's assistance as Sen. Gillibrand's point person in the region, the infrastructure in our city is crumbling, there is decreased police presence on our streets, the poverty rate is skyrocketing, and the high school graduation rate hovers around 50 percent,» O'Connor said.

In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carmen Fariña launched the $ 150 million School Renewal Program to turn around 94 state - identified struggling schools.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

Those issues ranged from a plan to cut taxes for the struggling Vernon Downs harness track in central New York to the proposal to put more speed cameras around New York City schools and legislation related to those who qualify for enhanced accidental disability pension benefits in New York City.

«These inner - city schools represent both new immigrant populations from Latin America and established ones from around the world, representing a diverse cross-section of families and traditions that is uniquely «New York», and one that is close to the heart of the Holy Father,» said Superintendent Dr. Timothy McNiff in a statement.

When it comes to holding principals accountable in his effort to turn around struggling city schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to take a page out of the police playbook.

He said negotiations failed around three major issues, including raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, a potential cost shift from public schools to charter schools and a real estate tax abatement program in New York City.

• Buffalo estimated $ 10.2 million would cover the upgrades of 144 intersections with priority given to those around schools, on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and in the Central Business District, said Michael J. Finn, city engineer.

One would suspend the license of a driver for 60 days after they get two speeding violations in school zones in an 18 - month period and the other would expand the number of speeding cameras near schools around the city from 140 to 290.

He tells WBFO News now is the time to review every possibility in an effort to turn around failing city schools and refresh education for Buffalo's public school children.

Ready for his third term, McCoy, district clerk of the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, is interested in sticking around to see the district move into the future.

Several hundred parents, largely from district schools around the city and almost exclusively black, attended the rally at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, where Assemblyman and future Cuomo official Karim Camara and City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. spcity and almost exclusively black, attended the rally at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, where Assemblyman and future Cuomo official Karim Camara and City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. spCity Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr. spoke.

«We have a very, very strong charter school community around the state and particularly in New York City.»

«What is being more closely monitored this time around is that on these permits there will be the names of the school that the teacher is in so you can't just use these permits to park anywhere in the city,» she said.

A Harvard - educated proponent of reforming traditional models of education, Waronker is known for turning around dangerous and struggling public schools in New York City.

Almost half of city residents polled said the mayor «failed in his goal» to turn the city's public schools around.

In his report, School Lunch Flunks: An Investigation into the Dirtiest New York City Public School Cafeterias, Senator Klein revealed the unsanitary conditions of school cafeterias, that shocked parents around theSchool Lunch Flunks: An Investigation into the Dirtiest New York City Public School Cafeterias, Senator Klein revealed the unsanitary conditions of school cafeterias, that shocked parents around the cCity Public School Cafeterias, Senator Klein revealed the unsanitary conditions of school cafeterias, that shocked parents around theSchool Cafeterias, Senator Klein revealed the unsanitary conditions of school cafeterias, that shocked parents around theschool cafeterias, that shocked parents around the citycity.

A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible bid.

To further address school overcrowding, Adams called for the city to establish a task force «to develop a site identification plan that would solve the public school seat shortage in and around Downtown Brooklyn.»

With 34 schools currently serving around 11,000 students, Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy is, and will likely continue to be, the largest charter school network in New York City.

«With the environment around ed reform changing, we're asking for fairness for charter schools,» Brett Peiser, C.E.O. of the Uncommon Schools network, which has schools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a staschools,» Brett Peiser, C.E.O. of the Uncommon Schools network, which has schools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a staSchools network, which has schools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a staschools in the city and upstate, told Capital in a statement.

«Mayor de Blasio claims he wants to turn around struggling schools and end education inequality in New York City, but after 18 months in office he has little to show for it,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

«Under Mayor Miner's leadership and Colleen Deacon's assistance as Sen. Gillibrand's point person in the region, the infrastructure in our city is crumbling, there is decreased police presence on our streets, the poverty rate is skyrocketing and the high school graduation rate hovers around 50 percent,» she said.

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

(One answer: New York City would still prefer to avoid the belt - tightening that's already on the drawing board in other school districts around the state.)

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was «disappointed» that a bill to add more speed cameras around schools didn't come to a vote in Albany this session — and said the city will now boost other Vision Zero efforts instead.

Steiner notes matter - of - factly that Black «lacks evidence of knowledge» in a host of «critical areas» confronting New York City's public schools, including education standards, curriculum and turning around low performing schools.

There is, though, the issue of mayoral control of New York City schools, which will expire at the end of June unless it is renewed, and whether Cuomo and legislative leaders can reach a memorandum of understanding around how $ 2 billion in budget money targeted for affordable housing will be spent.

On July 16, the New York State Education Department began implementation of the new receivership program passed by the state Legislature with the announcement of a list of 144 struggling and persistently struggling schools around the state, including 62 in New York City.

With summer just around the corner, Baumann and Diane Madfes, a clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, give us the facts and fiction about 10 home skin therapies.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

I also thought it was funny when I did my internship in Chicago and next to no one I'd see walking around the city used Vera Bradley, while everyone at school / from high school was still crazy about it.