Sentences with phrase «inner cities and suburbs»

The heroin epidemic that has spread across the nation affects thousands in major inner cities and suburbs.

But we already have the dispiriting paradox of our real inner cities and suburbs sinking into a Grimpen Mire (the grim foggy bog haunted by the Baskervilles» hound) of actual ungovernability, as more and more bright people score brilliantly on SimCity.

He has taught English Language Arts for 11 years in middle schools, high schools, the inner city and the suburbs.

Not exact matches

In Melbourne, auction prices for inner - city apartments (defined to include properties in the CBD and adjoining suburbs) have been broadly flat or declining since 2000 (Graph 33).

Churches in the inner city have been there for people when the government has disappointed them and other citizens fled for greener pastures in the suburbs; they continue to be a crucial part of organizing and ministering to needs in the community.

Many of these activists think black sociologist William Julius Wilson is correct to argue that structural changes in the U.S. economy have led to a mismatch of the labor and job supplies: residents of the inner city are unable to win the types of jobs that are available in the city, and they can't get to the jobs that are available to them in the suburbs.

There seem to me to be three general kinds of temptation faced by ministers working in our inner cities today, apart from graft and the lure of the suburbs.

In different ways, Jesus and Paul are heralding the inbreaking of God's rule on earth, the fulfillment of all our hopes and prayers when we pray — alas, sometimes mindlessly — that God's kingdom come on earth and God's will be done on earth (in Washington, D.C., Afghanistan and Iraq, in affluent suburbs and in blighted inner cities).

Some have suggested that we should skip the task of rebuilding social capital in inner - city neighborhoods by moving the poor to neighborhoods and suburbs where social capital already exists.

The former mayor of Albuquerque, David Rusk, believes that inner cities will continue to deteriorate unless cities and their suburbs are politically connected, either through metropolitan government or through policies.

However much division there once was between suburbs and inner city, that distinction is rapidly passing as the problems envelop and control both.

Here we return to the emphasis upon the more inclusive church — inclusive of people in the suburbs and inner city, of all races, of people of many different opinions and on both sides of most conflicts.

The poverty with which I was dealing every day (let alone in the Third World) was directly related to the increased wealth of the rich, the neglect of the problems of small towns and the inner city, to the growth of the suburbs.

Pirate Life has just bought the property next door to its base in the inner - city Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh and is busy converting it into a packaging facility with a second canning line to free up space in its increasingly crowded main brewing shed.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

David Cameron was setting London as his test, and Ken Livingstone had moved into a two - point lead after identifying tube fares, police numbers and living standards as key issues for Londoners, and mobilising the Labour vote from leafy suburbs to the inner - city core.

There's a clear pattern, it's the suburbs that are declining and the inner city that's getting much better off.»

There is no shortage of ambition here and the aim is to raise the performance of inner - city areas, as well as more prosperous suburbs and commuter towns.

He says: «The Common Core rollout and its link to high - stakes testing got everybody up in arms in the inner city, the suburbs, and rural areas.

But while Labour has performed as strongly as ever in its inner - city northern city strongholds such as Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool, it was seen as vulnerable in the northern suburbs and smaller towns.

Cuomo - Hochul took the heavily populated outer boors of New York City, the inner suburbs, and the region around Buffalo, the state's other major cCity, the inner suburbs, and the region around Buffalo, the state's other major citycity.

First on this list has to be Bridge Rd in Richmond, an inner city suburb of Melbourne popular for its trendy cafes and factory outlet stores lining its streets.

The film opens with a lucid prologue tracing the roots of America's racial tensions in the continued segregation between inner - cities and suburbs, creating a police state with whites marginalising blacks.

If I were pressed to describe the thematic intention of this seemingly random, vulgar comedy, it would be to make the opposite of the «inspirational teacher movie» like Stand and Deliver, Lean On Me, and Dangerous Minds, by setting the film, not in the inner city, but in the suburbs, and making the teacher a morally challenged person rather than one of great character.

Opening with an audio collage of 911 calls and news reports about Chicago's spike in violence, Death Wish lays out an oversimplified snapshot of urban decay as a foundation for the brutality unleashed by one man after inner - city violence spills over into an affluent suburb.

While there were new Catholic schools and Catholic schools with waiting lists in the suburbs, inner - city Memphis had become increasingly black and poor and non-Catholic.

The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working - and middle - class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

In the past, teachers in city schools got tenure and moved to the suburbs, leaving the inner city schools with hard - to - fill vacancies.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

The first half of the two - hour program presents images and interviews highlighting discrepancies in quality among schools in the inner city, rural areas, and suburbs.

During the deliberations concerning the commission's report, I became an advocate of a proposal to divide the Milwaukee School District (100,000 students) into between eight and ten pie - shaped districts extending from the Milwaukee inner - city to the suburbs.

For instance, the building of highways to accommodate the automobile hastened the flight to the suburbs and the decline of inner cities.

«Obviously in the growth suburbs you can find greenfield sites to build new schools, but it's a real challenge in the inner - city, and that's why Victoria's first vertical school will open, so with smaller parcels of land you need to go up,» he said.

The Collaborative selected the team of APA and POA, the two top school finance research firms in the country, to examine the state's approach to funding K - 12 schools to ensure all students are fully prepared for college and careers, from the inner cities to the suburbs, to rural areas and the U.P.

The School Finance Research Collaborative is bringing together top industry experts to reexamine the state's approach to funding K - 12 schools to ensure all students are fully prepared for jobs and success, from the inner cities to the suburbs, to rural areas and the U.P.

Students in charter schools and inner city students who attend school in the suburbs through the Open Choice program showed the most growth in proficiency, and students in charter schools and regional magnet schools demonstrated the most growth in 8th grade advanced scores.

The Collaborative is bringing together top industry experts to reexamine the state's approach to funding K - 12 schools to ensure all students are fully prepared for college and careers, from the inner cities to the suburbs, to rural areas and the U.P.

The School Finance Research Collaborative is bringing together top industry experts to reexamine the state's approach to funding K - 12 schools to ensure all students are fully prepared for jobs and success, from the inner cities to the suburbs, to rural areas and the U.P. (more...)

Especially communities in the inner - ring suburbs of flourishing cities, which are increasingly becoming magnets for poor and working - class families priced out of gentrifying areas?

I have lived / worked in both an urban area and a suburban area, and I can tell you with certainty that there are just as many ineffective teachers in the suburbs as there are in inner - city schools.

Ignoring that inner - city disease or its treatments, in part by shunning anyone and anything south of 8 Mile Road — the famous, Eminem - enhanced demarcation line between city and suburb — became a way of life for suburbanites.

And then, at the tender age of 12, he was unexpectedly uprooted to Peckham, an inner city suburb of South - East London.

Worried about falling home values because of their new neighbor, the rest of the white families in the inner city neighborhood would often sell their own houses at a loss and flee to the suburbs.

Cleveland Heights is an independent city and an inner - ring suburb of the city of Cleveland.

Recently I was looking at some properties available in large cities inner suburbs (in this case Sydney and Melbourne).

We've divided Calgary's neighbourhoods up into three categories: the core includes all the urban downtown communities, the inner suburbs are all the older, commuter neighbourhoods and the outer suburbs are the communities typically 45 minutes or more from the city centre.

Oaks currently offers 11 Brisbane hotels in the city centre and inner suburbs of Milton and Bowen Hills.

Make a long weekend of it and enjoy the hip inner city suburbs and attractions or use it as a springboard to explore the beauty of New Zealand's North Island.

The Boutique Vulcan Hotel is nestled on the edge of the Sydney inner - city, located in the inner western suburb of Ultimo - and on the fringe of Darling Harbour.