Sentences with phrase «large city department»

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There are no statistics to show whether texting played a role in any of the fatalities, but «when you keep records for 40 years and see two consecutive years with the back - to - back largest, that tells me there was a game changer,» said Richard Retting, a former traffic safety commissioner for the New York City Department of Transportation who worked on the report.

Commerce Department spokeswoman Lauren Cox acknowledged in an e-mail that the large West and South Philadelphia sites are among those that «rise to the top» of the city's pitch to Amazon, but she stopped short of confirming them as the headliners.

Department stores are disappearing and restaurants are grappling with rising labor costs, leaving owners of large retail spaces in the city with fewer viable tenants, he argued.

In the New York City Department of Education, the largest school district in the country by number of students, cups are «generally available to all students,» but spokesperson Margie Feinberg can not say in which of its schools cups are available only upon request.

The number of tuberculosis cases in New York City suddenly jumped by 10 percent last year — the largest increase since 1992, according to the Health Department.

The mayor was followed by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, who spent his Sunday reading the tensions between City Hall and the police department into the larger context of a contract dispute.

From the Department of Environmental Protection, documents and records being sought include studies showing whether New York City is aware that large construction projects that involve the replacement of lead service lines could lead to spikes in the presence of lead in tap water.

2/06/17 --» Marijuana Arrests in City Increase, with large racial disparities» — Politico's Brendan Cheney: «The New York Police Department arrested 18,136 people for marijuana possession in 2016, a 9 percent increase from 2015, according to data provided by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

With a new partnership with the New York State Department of Health («NYSDoH») and the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General («OMIG»), Erie County will be the «flagship» of the State's revamped Demonstration Project process and become the largest municipality outside of New York City to partner with the State on stamping out provider waste and abuse.

The largest institutional development was the Parks Department's $ 54 million investment at 1561 East 174th Street by Playground 174, one of the sites identified for improvements under the city's Community Parks Initiative.

That year, the New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers missed the state - imposed mid-January deadline, prompting officials to withhold $ 250 million from the state's largest school district.

«This event is going to be the largest security challenge the department and the city have ever faced,» police commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday during a briefing for reporters.

Already an embarrassment to the nation's largest police department, it remains unclear whether the widening probes could do damage to City Hall.

One of the largest operators of affordable multi-family housing in Upper Manhattan and the boroughs is suing the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development for at least $ 4 million for lost income tied to deferred rent increases in subsidized housing vouchers at three apartment complexes in East Harlem.

A Wisconsin - based vendor for the New York City Finance Department made a large tax error yesterday when it accidentally withdrew about 2,000 payments on...

Crisis is part of the gig for the chief health official in the nation's largest city, and Dr. Mary Bassett has dealt with her share of emergencies in the two years she's served as commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

This was the largest graduation rate increase out of the state's «Big 5 City School Districts,» which is composed of New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, according to the state education department.

«This event is going to be the largest security challenge the department and the city have ever faced,» NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said.

As New York moves to decriminalize low - level offenses, arguing enforcement is «rigged against communities of color,» other large cities are coming under pressure from the Justice Department — now led by former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, Loretta Lynch — to do the same thing.

And compared to other large outbreaks, the city's health department appears to have performed as well as its counterparts.

Mayor de Blasio answered questions from the press on a wide range of topics, including HIV prevention, the role of the Health Department and the «Nanny State», the large - size soda ban, Metzizah B'peh, fines and penalties levied by the Health Department, the ethics complaint filed against Patrick Gaspard, the city's fiscal outlook, stop & frisk and more.

At 2 p.m., the NYC Health Department holds a media briefing to release «Health of Latinos in New York City,» a comprehensive report of 51 indicators describing the health of the city's largest Latino heritage groups, East Harlem Neighborhood Health Action Center, 158 E. 115th St., Room 101, ManhatCity,» a comprehensive report of 51 indicators describing the health of the city's largest Latino heritage groups, East Harlem Neighborhood Health Action Center, 158 E. 115th St., Room 101, Manhatcity's largest Latino heritage groups, East Harlem Neighborhood Health Action Center, 158 E. 115th St., Room 101, Manhattan.

That expansion would turn her network from a formidable sector within the Department of Education to a complete alternative school system in New York City, comparable to the nation's largest charter networks and a constant force for City Hall to reckon with.

The New York City Department of Education is the country's largest.

-- Post's Joe Marino, Yoav Gonen and Bruce Golding: «Hizzoner twice ignored questions from The Post as he strolled into Manhattan parties for District Council 37, the city's largest municipal public - employees union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

In the past, the Department of City Planning rejected the full Chinatown Working Group Plan, saying it was too large.

Kasper said the city's future plans may be effected by the «rapid pace of projects» related to revitalization efforts, noting that local lawmakers are hoping to do a lot of financial planning in advance to support city departments as the larger workload — along with other unknown impacts of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI)-- are levied onto their departments.

Albans) raked in more than $ 1 million in member items to support nonprofits within his district, with the largest chunk going to the city Parks Department for programs at Roy Wilkins Park.

This contract is not a panacea and there are a large number of issues that we have with the City of Buffalo and this department's management staff.

According to Quinn, New York is the second largest institutional purchaser of food in the city, after the U.S. Defense Department.

A proposal has been discussed to have the Onondaga County Parks Department assume maintenance of the four large city parks, Schiller, Thorndon, Onondaga and Burnet.

Climbing the Ladder A large department that spans the university's graduate and medical schools as well as several campuses in the Twin Cities area, BMBB has some 40 tenured and tenure - track faculty and about 60 postdocs — or, more precisely, about 60 scientists who other departments would lump together as postdocs.

Other sources include local biotechnology centers (many larger cities and / or universities have a biotech center for tech transfer or for starting «seed» companies) and larger biotech or pharmaceutical companies in the local area (try the Human Resources department!).

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Selected samples taken from the cannabis seized by the police in the three largest cities in Denmark is analysed at the forensic chemistry departments on a monthly basis.

The Penn team delved into whether ride - hailing sharing affected crash rates within individual cities by studying State Department of Transportation data from Las Vegas, Portland, Ore., Reno, Nev., and San Antonio — American cities in which Uber, the nation's largest ridesharing company, launched, ceased, then resumed operations.

In 2012, a research team that included NIU's Walker Ashley, a professor of meteorology in the geography department, found that in comparison to rural areas, large cities in the Southeast had a much higher risk of experiencing heavy rainfalls associated with summertime thunderstorms.

We also meet Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), a twenty - something woman who aspires to be a photographer, but works for a large department store in New York City.

With seven other chefs in the New York City Department of Education's SchoolFood program, Collazo — able to use the district's buying clout to demand healthier products from food manufacturers — creates tasty, healthy recipes for students in the nation's largest district.

«A large part of our budget goes to placement,» Silva says, noting that the Safety and Security Department's generous $ 750,000 budget shows the city and administration's commitment to school safety.

Over the past eight years, I've been privileged to serve as chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the nation's largest school district.

Using a large data set provided by the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE), we analyzed student test scores as well as information about the students, their teachers, classrooms, and schools.

Large Urban School Districts: Baltimore, MD, Alexia Lotts - McCain, MEd, Baltimore City Public Schools; Boston, MA, Katia Miller, MPH, Boston Public Schools; Broward County, FL, Sebrina James, EdS, Broward County Public Schools; Cleveland, OH, Deborah Aloshen, MEd, Cleveland Metropolitan School District; DeKalb County, GA, Jessica Grippo, MPH, DeKalb County Board of Health; Detroit, MI, Arlene Richardson, EdD, Detroit Public Schools; District of Columbia, Omotunde Sowole - West, MPH, Office of the State Superintendent of Education; Duval County, FL, Jamie Wells, MSH, Duval County Public Schools; Fort Worth, TX, Edward Patterson, MS, Fort Worth Independent School District; Houston, TX, Felicia Ceasar - White, MS, Houston Independent School District; Los Angeles, CA, Timothy Kordic, MA, Los Angeles Unified School District; Miami, FL, Jonathan Carbone, Miami - Dade County Public Schools; New York City, NY, Lauren Murray, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygi ene; Oakland, CA, Ilsa Bertolini, Oakland Unified School District; Orange County, FL, Brenda Christopher - Muench, Orange County Public Schools; Palm Beach, FL, William Stewart, MPH, School District of Palm Beach County; Philadelphia, PA, Judith Peters, MBA, School District of Philadelphia; San Diego, CA, Rachel Miller, MEd, San Diego Unified School District; San Francisco, CA, Kim Levine, MHA, San Francisco Unified School District.

Jim joined the company in 2005 to oversee the sales organization and was responsible for driving sales and revenue growth in state departments of education and large city school districts.

Between 2004 and 2009, Cerf was Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education where he led organizational strategy, innovation, labor relations, and all matters pertaining to recruiting, supporting, developing, and evaluating the nearly 80,000 teachers and 1,450 principals who work in the nation's largest school district.

In August 2002, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg selected former corporate executive and Justice Department official Joel I. Klein to become chancellor of the nation's largest school system — a system that had just come under mayoral control.

Empty Promises: A Case Study of Restructuring and the Exclusion of English Language Learners in Two Brooklyn High Schools Since 2002, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environmCity Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environmcity's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environment.

The U.S. Department of Education started making NAEP results available for large cities in 2003.

During the 2016 - 17 school year, the country's two largest school districts — the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)-- suspended or expelled students for a total of 47,558 days.

This school year, New York City's Department of Education says it has Pre-K for All contracts with 1,129 private programs — also known as community - based organizations — ranging from established religious organizations to community centers, nursery schools, large private preschools with multiple locations and small schools like Bryan Wong's Little Sunshine Preschool.