Sentences with phrase «major urban cities»

These studies examined schools in major urban cities such as New York, Chicago, and Boston (Children's Aid Society, 2006; Whalen, 2007).

For a long time now, major urban city districts have used «rubber rooms» to oust veteran teachers, minority teachers, political rascals who won't keep their mouths shut about the districts (at both the local / school and central office level.

Likewise, a plaintiff in an automobile accident case could try to increase the settlement value of his case by arguing to the insurance company that case's venue, a major urban City, is historically favorable to plaintiffs.

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FPT has opened Apple stores in major urban centers across the country, including two in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.

Visions of the Smart City are starting to materialize as CTO's for major municipalities are coming to understand how Internet of Things products and services can provide cost savings, increase quality of life and promote safety in urban environments.

Houston and Dallas, the major urban hubs of oil - rich Texas, are also among the five cities where office rents are rising the fastest.

In his outline, Zimmer is also careful to ascribe this to major U.S. cities, and not the entire country, which includes areas where lack of urban density means that transportation has different patterns.

Although operating in a small city has its disadvantages, most obviously, less access to venture capital than you would find in urban centers like New York City, Boston, or San Francisco, analysts point out that there are still major benefcity has its disadvantages, most obviously, less access to venture capital than you would find in urban centers like New York City, Boston, or San Francisco, analysts point out that there are still major benefCity, Boston, or San Francisco, analysts point out that there are still major benefits.

To his point, about 94 percent of Aspiration customers are spread across the heartland, as opposed to major urban areas like New York City and San Francisco.

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arcity schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arCity of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

As Geifman notes, Russia's «urban populace swelled from around 9 million people in the mid-19th century to about 25 million in 1913, with inhabitants of most major Russian cities increasing four - or five-fold,» leading to a «breakdown of social values.»

Unfortunately, by concentrating almost exclusively on the inner city, and inner city New York in particular, Gods of the City contributes to a preoccupation with the major metropolises (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) that has characterized most scholarship on urban religcity, and inner city New York in particular, Gods of the City contributes to a preoccupation with the major metropolises (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) that has characterized most scholarship on urban religcity New York in particular, Gods of the City contributes to a preoccupation with the major metropolises (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) that has characterized most scholarship on urban religCity contributes to a preoccupation with the major metropolises (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) that has characterized most scholarship on urban religion.

Their arrangement has played a major role in the dramatic revitalization a decaying urban neighborhood and has a huge impact on the city's art scene.

A major deterrent to the reformation of the city's economic base is the unwillingness of those who can afford to do otherwise to subject their children to the inadequacy of urban schools.

(The Urban School Food Alliance, an organization pushing for healthier, greener options in seven major U.S. cities, is using its leverage to keep 225 million single - use plastic trays out of landfills every year.)

Urban conflict is nothing new in cities like Belfast, Jerusalem and major cities in the Middle East.

Heseltine was appointed to head the cities task force having been responsible for urban policy twice as Environment Secretary under Thatcher and Major.

His intervention came after Channel 4 News FactCheck revealed that a number of urban MPs were concerned that reducing housing benefit payments would force the poor out of major cities, and after Prime Minister David Cameron promised to divert # 70m to calm the row.

The projects include the JDS tower at 247 Cherry St.; 62 ad 69 story towers from L+M Development Partners and the CIM Group at 260 South St.; and a 62 - story building by the Starrett Group at 259 Clinton St. City Planning decided a ULURP was not called for because the developments would have required, in urban planning speak, only a «minor modification,» rather than a «major modification,» of the LSRD Plan.

«Syracuse is one of the only cities along the Thruway where the Thruway bisects a major urban area,» Dougherty said.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, a swath of empty property south of Delancey Street, will get 450 affordable housing units as part of a major redevelopment project — and those units will remain affordable forever, city officials announced Tuesday.

Alkane hydrocarbons (propane, isobutane, and n - butane) from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) are present in major quantities throughout Mexico City air because of leakage of the unburned gas from numerous urban sources.

If we act now and rethink the design of our urban landscapes, cities can play a major role in conserving the remaining native plant and animal species and help bring back more of them.»

Beijing, like some other cities in Asia, has significant problems with air quality, and may be 10 - 50 times more polluted than some major urban areas in the U.S. with air concerns, such as the Los Angeles basin.

In each of the major urban centers the story is the same: the better - off white families are moving out of the central cities into the suburbs; the ranks of the poor who remain are being swelled by Negroes from the South.

In major cities like Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Faisalabad, etc. young generation prefer to do urban western trend dressing.

Alexandria: Alexandria, major city and urban muḥāfaẓah (governorate) in Egypt.

I switched my academic major at the University of Wisconsin from pre-medicine and nutritional sciences to urban education and spent the next decade working with city youth.

In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11).

Specifically, from 2003 — 2005 Boston's fourth - and eighth - grade students have shown the largest improvement in math scores of the 11 major cities participating in the National Assessment of Educational Progress Trial Urban District Assessment.

Beating the Odds found that between 1999 and 2003 the share of all elementary and secondary school spending that states devoted to the nation's major city school systems decreased, although the demands and mandates placed on urban schools have increased.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

Charter market share is significant and growing in most big cities, meaning authorizing will have a major bearing on the future of urban public schooling.

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

The Politics and Practice of School Accountability (co-editor with Martin R. West) The Future of School Choice (editor) Our Schools and our Future (editor) City Limits The Urban Underclass (co-edited with Christopher Jencks) Price of Federalism Welfare Magnets (with Mark C. Rom) The New American Democracy (with Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson, and William G. Mayer) Four of his books have received major awards from the American Political Science Association.

At least for the urban districts where students are in serious academic trouble - which includes nearly every major city in the country - I wonder if there is a Michelle Lite alternative.

It's not uncommon for some urban school teachers to make this logical decision, but Philadelphia has the HIGHEST percent of teachers» offspring going to private school of any major city in the nation.

This report highlights growth in U.S. Latino students» reading scores over the last decade, using scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment to compare progress across states and major cities, and for some major urban school districts.

Passing rates dropped statewide as well, according to state records, but Rochester lagged state averages and posted the lowest passing rates in English language arts of the five major urban districts, including New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse and Yonkers.

The Quality Schools Compact effort is an outgrowth of a roundtable discussion that occurred last February between 13 major urban school district superintendents matched with charter leaders from each of those cities.

As you know, a few years ago Memphis City Schools underwent major surgery as several suburban districts seceded from the large urban district to establish their own school systems.

This program has received major national awards and recognitions for its program quality including UCEA's 2013 award as an Exemplary Leadership Preparation Program (one of two programs nationally to receive this designation) and the 2012 Urban Impact Award from the Council of Great City Schools.

Urban planners are redesigning cities and major metropolitan areas to be friendlier to pedestrians and bicyclists, amid ever - worsening traffic and as many millennials choose not to own cars, as Uber and Lyft and their ilk edge out traditional taxicabs.

17 At time of posting, detailed map coverage is available for most major urban areas of the United States and for certain metropolitan areas of Canada (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Windsor, London, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax).

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, urban migration brought the art form to major city centers yet for decades capoeira was perceived as an outlawed practice.

Humanity coalesced into the major urban centers, and established independent city - states.

Check out our ranking of Canada's 35 major urban centres to see how their real estate prospects compare to Brantford, this year's pick for the best city to buy property.

Its low unemployment rate and affordable yet steadily rising housing prices pushed the city to the top spot in our annual ranking of the best places to buy property in Canada's major urban centres.

Smaller cities and places just outside major urban centers tend to have the best rates and this holds true for the state of Arizona.