Sentences with phrase «more schools around the city»

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Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

The youngster was hanging around outside City's Carrington training ground and asked the maverick striker for his autograph, but Balotelli was more interested in why the little scamp was wagging school.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

Those issues ranged from a plan to cut taxes for the struggling Vernon Downs harness track in central New York to the proposal to put more speed cameras around New York City schools and legislation related to those who qualify for enhanced accidental disability pension benefits in New York City.

«What we need to do is make a situation where women feel more comfortable cycling around the city, by building more cycling facilities, more shower facilities at schools for example.

The trailers were meant to be a short - term solution to address overcrowding at public schools, but more than a decade after they were placed around the city, thousands of students still use them.

«What is being more closely monitored this time around is that on these permits there will be the names of the school that the teacher is in so you can't just use these permits to park anywhere in the city,» she said.

A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible bid.

The DOE's school closure policy has come under intense fire from education advocates and elected officials who believe the city should be investing more to turn failing schools around instead of shutting them down.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was «disappointed» that a bill to add more speed cameras around schools didn't come to a vote in Albany this session — and said the city will now boost other Vision Zero efforts instead.

A Cuomo aide said the special session won't deal with other issues like de Blasio's push for more speed cameras around schools and Brooklyn Democrat Sen. Simcha Felder's desire for police outside every city school.

My friend Martine and I were hanging out in some very Scandi and picture - worthy spots around the city, just look at the old school red houses, can it get more Scandinavian?

The folks in Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) probably put more time into building community consensus around their Compass 2015 initiative than any district in the country.

The New York City - based College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the Advanced Placement brand, said more than two - thirds of the 134,000 ostensible AP - course syllabuses submitted for review by teachers from 14,383 secondary schools around the world were immediately approved.

Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and parents packed streets near the White House and the U.S. Capitol and marched in cities around the globe on Saturday to demand more - restrictive gun laws and decry gun violence, the latest in a series of massive demonstrations sparked by the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 people last month.

Lesley Hinds, City of Edinburgh City Council's transport convener, said: «The whole aim of School Streets was to create a safer, more relaxed atmosphere around schools, encouraging children to walk and cycle and parents to leave their cars at home.

Dave Mundy, Operations Director at Delta Security, says lockdown procedures are becoming increasingly prevalent in schools: «We have seen increased interest from central London schools, especially around transport hubs such as St Pancras and Liverpool Street for a while now, and more recently in schools further out from the City centre.

That sort of deeper engagement will likely require Cleveland's charters to offer more as well, such as committing to share the responsibility of serving the city's special education students or working with the district to turn around its chronically low - performing schools.

While in New York he served as Deputy Chancellor, launching the Innovation Zone, a network of 100 21st Century schools that use technology to personalize student learning, and leading the city's efforts to turn around more than 100 failing schools and start 500 new charter and district schools.

«A national model for school reform» is also being thrown around to describe what has already happened in many places and what is proposed to happen in still more cities.

Wanting to reach more children, I later accepted a position with a New York City school district working with principals around bilingual education.

Merriman said charters around the city are working on initiatives to enroll more kids with disabilities and English language learners, including online applications in many languages and charter schools designed for kids with autism.

Out of the 300 largest cities (based on school - age population), about 500 schools (or around 4 percent) have students from low - income families who are outperforming their peers from more affluent backgrounds, according to the group's 2017 Education Equality Index.

The new working paper — published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and authored by Abdulkadiroğlu, Pathak, Jonathan Schellenberg, and Christopher Walters — discusses data from the New York City Department of Education, which enrolls around 90,000 ninth - graders every year at more than 400 high schools.

The guide shares insight into the design and delivery of NYCLA's Aspiring Principals Program, which has prepared more than 500 principals for the New York City public school system and which has been adapted by state and district programs around the United States.

Edwards also recognized the «stories behind the data,» highlighting principals whose school breakfast programs had high participation rates, a principal who took an art class to connect more with his students and let them critique his work, and a principal who bought a bus for his school that he uses to drive students to their internships around the city.

The United States has an estimated 6,000 charter public schools serving more than 2 million students, with 110 cities enrolling at least 10 percent of students in charters, 25 districts enrolling more than 20 percent, and the top three districts enrolling around 40 percent.

The Incas began construction around 1430 AD; the city had space for no more than 750 inhabitants complete with housing for servants, schools and temples for making sacrifices and preparing mummies.

New York City (February 28, 2014)-- Presenting more than 125 works by five artists who launched their careers in a gritty San Francisco neighborhood in the early 1990s, ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND / Mission School is the first East Coast museum exhibition to highlight these artworks that have achieved cult - like status in the Bay Area and beyond.

Gilliam and Young are both African - American artists who came out of the Washington Color School; Gilliam saw success early on in his career and is on display at museums around the city, but Young has only recently become more well - known.

You may be able to attend school in another part of Columbus, since public transit makes it more convenient to travel around the city.