Sentences with phrase «inner cities across the country»

Whether supporting one of our high - impact urban business programs or the entire organization, our partners know they are choosing to support an organization dedicated to transforming inner cities across the country.

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When I remember the heartbreaking footage from Hurricane Katrina, or think about the awful situations in so many inner cities and in rural areas across the country, I question whether or not our nation's wealth is really a «blessing from God,» as so many people claim.

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

Today we teach in more than 30 countries and 50 cities across Europe and India, with one mission to awaken every one's inner buddha or supreme consciousness.

Jeremy Renner delivers an Oscar - quality performance in this true tale recounting the valiant effort of an intrepid journalist to expose the CIA's role in infesting inner city neighborhoods across the country with crack cocaine.

The sad truth is that similar scenarios are being repeated with painful regularity in our impoverished inner cities all across the country.

While New Orleans is a particularly culturally rich city, many of the same claims could be made about inner cities all across the country.

It came at a time when Catholic dioceses were aggressively merging and closing schools across the country, especially in inner cities, and Dayton's Catholic schools were among those experiencing an emotionally wrenching downsizing.

The original buildings and added - on portable classrooms look just like countless other aging inner - city school facilities across the country.

Enthusiasm for kitchen gardens in schools has swept across Australia over the past decade, springing up as tiny pocket - sized patches and vertical gardens in the inner city to expansive plots in country areas.Nobody knows what proportion of schools have a kitchen garden, but anecdotal evidence at least in New South Wales suggests about 50 per cent of primary schools now have them.

Across the country, many charter schools have been spectacularly successful, especially in inner - city locations.

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

«We need to hear from claimant and defendant firms in personal injury work, from large practices to sole practitioner practices, from practices engaged in commercial litigation of whatever size, and from inner city locations to rural areas across the whole country.

Gooda said there were plenty of examples of success across the country — not least in the inner - Sydney suburb of Redfern where good dialogue between police and the local community had seen an 80 per cent drop in robberies committed by Aboriginal youth, helping to make it «the safest inner city suburb in Sydney».

«The same trend continues to play out across the country, one that highlights a contrast between coveted bedroom communities and struggling inner and industrial - satellite cities,» says Dr. Andrew Schiller, CEO and founder of Location, Inc. and NeighborhoodScout.