Sentences with phrase «large urban counties»

Repeating the experiment on data from 40 large urban counties across the U.S. yielded similar results.

The measure would allow some of the large urban counties, including Wake, to bypass that requirement if they levy a quarter percent tax this November.

In fact, a report published last month — Differences Between Rural and Urban Areas in Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban counties.

Not exact matches

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

Saratoga county is populated with urban professionals who may vote in large numbers.

And Erie County, as an urban county with a large population of poor people, faces an especially onerous bCounty, as an urban county with a large population of poor people, faces an especially onerous bcounty with a large population of poor people, faces an especially onerous burden.

This study has advantages over other studies in that it includes individuals of low, middle, upper - middle and high individual wealth across 1,833 urban and rural counties in the United States, and a large number of both blacks and whites.

«Some of the counties we looked at were very large, with both urban and rural areas in a single county, so to tease apart the interplay between the measures of quality in our five domains and how they impact urban and rural areas,» Jagai said, «we will need to look at geographic areas smaller than counties.»

We've also helped several other large urban districts, including Orange County, start programs similar to EMERGE.

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.

Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation's top urban school districts and the largest school district in the state, has recently experienced the benefits of this collaboration by piloting a new adaptive cognitive vocabulary app that's enabled by this new platform.

Miami - Dade County, the fourth largest school district in the nation, and Duval County, the 20th largest, were two of only four large, urban districts to improve in fourth - grade math.

Olson is one of 244 principals in Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools, one of six large urban districts across the country that since 2011 have been involved in The Wallace Foundation's «principal pipeline» initiative — designed to grow more effective principals.

We sought input from teachers who are currently or have recently been involved in either formal or informal teacher leadership programs at state, district or school levels — and coincidentally, three of the four work in Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public Schools, the largest district in Kentucky with more than 150 schools and representing both urban and suburban settings.

«As we have shown, the negative financial impacts are large, particularly in the urban and densely populated district of Durham but also in some of the non-urban counties as well.

The National School Boards Association's (NSBA) Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) today announced the large district winners of the 2014 Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence; Georgia's Fulton County Schools and Tennessee's Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.

The studies used data from Hillsborough County, Florida; Houston, Texas; and a large urban district in the Northeast.

The 2010 - 11 school year is witnessing a larger - than - usual upheaval among the ranks of urban superintendents: Ramon Cortines is retiring in Los Angeles next month, Joel Klein quit mid-year in New York City, Michelle Rhee was done after Adrian Fenty's failed re-election bid in the nation's capital last fall, Clifford Janey is out in Newark after his contract wasn't renewed, Ron Huberman stepped down in Chicago last November, Beverly Hall is leaving amidst a cheating scandal in Atlanta, Paul Vallas is moving on from the Big Easy and Jerry Weast is throwing in the towel in Montgomery County, Md..

Check & Connect is being implemented in the DeKalb County School District, which is a large urban district within the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area.

September 2017 - Jim Green and Dr Claudia Sonder plan and implement the large animal rescue component of the 2017 Urban Shield exercise held in Alemedia County.

Under my leadership, Tompkins County, New York, became the first No Kill community in the U.S. I have also spoken nationally and internationally on animal sheltering issues, have written animal protection legislation at the state and national level, have created successful No Kill programs in both urban and rural communities, and have consulted with a wide range of animal protection groups, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

Before taking the helm at PACC, Auerbach was an executive at two other shelters in large urban areas — the Austin Animal Center in Austin, Texas, and Fairfax County Animal Services in northern Virginia.

Walk the largest part of the Urban Wine Trail — a self - guided trail of 20 + tasting rooms representing Santa Barbara County wines — and easily discover why Santa Barbara's wine country is easily world class.

Greater Los Angeles is the second - largest urban region in the United States, encompassing five counties in southern California, extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County on the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast.

The Ohio River from Athens County, Ohio, Winter oil on canvas 36 ″ x 96 ″ 2011 LG: Outside the universities and the larger urban art centers, the plein air painting «movement» of regional painters has become increasing popular.

A survey released today that ranks Hillsborough County as a top - rated urban school district reflects the good work being done in the country's eighth - largest school system.

Around 115 Native American families living on reservations and in urban communities are served at any given time in San Bernardino and Riverside counties — some of the largest counties in the country.

The sample was also stratified by geographic region and counties» metropolitan statistical area status (largest urban areas / not largest urban areas) with probability proportional to total enrollment in eligible grades of the primary sampling units.

However, no large parcels are available for major new communities within the county's urban services line.