Sentences with phrase «large city policies»

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The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

Yesterday I blogged about rental housing in Yellowknife, over at the Northern Public Affairs web site. Specifically, I blogged about a recent announcement by the city's largest for - profit landlord that it plans to «tighten» its policies vis - a-vis renting to recipients of «income assistance» (which, in most parts of Canada, is known generically as social assistance).

«There is an excitement that is palpable so, our goal is to harness this enthusiasm and direct it into working groups that actually influence national, state and large city governmental policies.»

In a forthcoming report from New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management by Eric Kober entitled «Uses and Abuses of Value Capture for Transit,» Kober writes that the first, similar iteration of the proposal «diverts New York City's largest and most stable tax source in a manner that could affect the City's fiscal stability.»

@jwodder: Homelessness and what to do about homelessness is current public policy issue in most large cities in the U.S.

To a large extent, state fiscal policies have caused great pressure on property taxes in needy cities, counties and school districts, including decisions: to reduce revenue sharing; to decrease the share of local school budgets covered by state aid, to divide the non-federal share of Medicaid costs without considering ability to pay, and to allocate STAR benefits... (read more)

For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencCity Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agenccity's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agenccity agencies.

Mark Levine, Council Member - elect, Manhattan «This agreement heralds a new era for the City Council and for the city at large — a time of activist progressive policy - making to address the growing gap of inequality hCity Council and for the city at large — a time of activist progressive policy - making to address the growing gap of inequality hcity at large — a time of activist progressive policy - making to address the growing gap of inequality here.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neaCity Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neacity's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

This week will include a focus on what the city can do to stop gas - related explosions after another such explosion occurred this weekend, this time in Borough Park; education politics and policy, as the pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a large rally; a continuation of negotiation and criticism between city and state entities over MTA funding; and more.

Since New York City's tax system and tax policy are in large part defined by State law, the City and the State are in active discussion about adopting coincident measures.

Her comments on NY1 came as part of a larger public - relations push, in anticipation of the coming redirection of education policy in City Hall.

Ortiz is a past president of the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City, the state's largest LGBTQ political club that works with elected officials in all five boroughs and is active in policy advocacy at City Hall and in Albany.

I think it would be great to use it to push policy at a larger level here in the city.

At a large rally on the steps of City Hall, officials and advocates called on DiFiore and OCA to more aggressively implement policies that would keep ICE officials from arresting immigrants at the state's courthouses.

And a spate of political victories for one part of the charter sector — the large networks FES represents — has shed light on a chasm within the sector that may complicate future charter advocacy, as the city's independent charters keep waiting to see their policy priorities fulfilled.

The receivership policy, which has loomed large over struggling schools since it was introduced in 2015, in effect simply requires that the city decide how to deal with the school.

The organization had come under fire from good - government advocates over its receipt of large donations from companies lobbying City Hall, including more than $ 1 million from real estate developers, some trying to influence the administration's zoning and housing policies.

The policy was implemented at the behest of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who argued it made sense to give City Hall control over public education in the nation's largest cCity Hall control over public education in the nation's largest citycity.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

«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.

Subica believes strategies developed by South Los Angeles organizers and policy makers to reduce crime and violence around these properties may carry over to other large cities throughout the U.S., which also possess high numbers of tobacco shops and liquor stores.

Effects of domestic violence policies, alcohol taxes and police staffing levels on intimate partner homicide in large US cities.

In addition to these policies, the development of oil and mineral resources led to rapid urbanization, which drew people from the rural areas to pursue jobs in larger cities.

«Policies should be directed to making large cities more livable» — for instance, enacting legislation or spending money to alleviate poverty and crime, the negative effects of growth.

Allstate, one of the largest residential property insurers on the east coast, elected not to renew 30,000 policies covering coastal properties in New York City, Long Island, Westchester County and Connecticut, and is considering reducing coastal area coverage in Massachusetts and along the Gulf.

Towns and small cities are often less able to mainstream climate change adaptation into policies and practices than larger urban areas.

In other states, protection policies take the form of one - off allocations made to large city districts as students disappear.

The rapid gentrification of many large American cities represents a triumph and an opportunity for Republicans — a triumph because it was mainly Republican ideas (welfare reform, aggressive crime - fighting tactics, pro-growth policies) that set the trend in motion, and an opportunity because the wealthier, and frankly whiter, new residents are more likely to vote for the GOP.

Working with colleagues, Dr. Robert C. Whitaker, a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research Inc., in Princeton, N.J., followed more than 2,700 children born between 1998 and 2000 in 18 large cities...

While discipline policies vary across schools, districts, and states — and as the nation's largest school district the New York City public schools are likely more bureaucratized and formalized in matters of school discipline than smaller districts — the scale, scope, and level of complexity of the legal regulations affecting day - to - day school practices appear quite formidable.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

As a former New York City councilwoman and the leader of a network of schools larger than many public school districts, Moskowitz is in a powerful position to influence education policy.

These five schools were located in neighborhoods with some of the highest retention rates in the city (after the promotion policy took effect), and they had large percentages of minority and poor students.

New York City pursued a policy in 2002 that «closed many large, comprehensive high schools with a history of low performance» and opening hundreds of small secondary schools of choice.

Today, Chicago Public Schools — the third largest school district in the nation serving over 400,000 students — will stand with its sister cities in adopting a policy and programming blueprint that increases the access to, equity in, and quality of arts education.

Donald Trump outlined his policy and philosophy for K - 12 education in a speech at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy (CASSA), a for - profit charter school in the largest city of battleground state of Ohio.

One was the Minnesota Business Partnership, comprised of CEOs from the state's largest private corporations; another was the Citizens League, a powerful, centrist Twin Cities policy group.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

Realistically, however, the «New» Renewal Schools Program can not address the housing, food insecurity, and discrimination (which impact education) that students at Renewal Schools face, indicating that the city must also address larger institutional issues when truly reforming education policy.

The largest housing development in the world, Co-op City has unique pricing policies that threw off our calculation for a 30 - year mortgage payment.

Detroit, the state's largest city, quoted rates for our sample policy and rider that were more than 2x the state average.

Concerns have mounted that home prices in Canada's largest city have spiralled to the point where policy - makers need to intervene, as they have in Vancouver, where a number of measures have been implemented including a tax on foreign buyers.

The five places with the most expensive motorcycle insurance policies in South Carolina are all either large cities, or suburbs of large cities in the state.

In Montana, the five largest cities all had motorcycle insurance rates for our sample policy and rider that were near the state's average.

That's why we do these renters insurance guides for large cities, and why we make sure that everyone who buys a policy understands what they're buying and what it does for them.

Using the identical sample motorcycle insurance policy and rider in other states, typically the largest cities have the highest motorcycle insurance rates.

The authors also say the policy is often put in place by cities and counties without «widespread public knowledge» and without studies on the impacts of large feral cat populations on the environment.

With the nightmare that so many places have created in large part because of their breed - specific policies, it is a wonder that any city would even consider such a failed approach.