Sentences with phrase «neighborhood leaders at»

As the James Weldon Johnson Elementary School community looks to the future, the Recovery School District has agreed to meet with school and neighborhood leaders at 6 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 21) at the Johnson school, 1800 Monroe Street.

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(Although they seem less generous: CNN reported the president was considering rebates in the neighborhood of $ 800 - $ 1,600, while Congressional leaders were at $ 500.)

At the time that the Seljuqs were extending their empire another Turkish leader, Ahmad Gazi Danishmand (died 477; A.D. 1084) established his kingdom in Cappodocia in the neighborhood of Caesarea (modern Qisarya).

Though residents now do most of their shopping at Orland Square, the newly renovated Orland Park Place, big - box stores or neighborhood supermarkets, village leaders want to re-create the atmosphere of the village's first stores.

Not a bad idea: Illinois State Senate Minority Leader Emil Jones Jr. has sent a letter to the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners requesting that Ada Park in the Morgan Park neighborhood be renamed after Olympic gold medalist Ira Murchinson, who died last month at the age of 61.

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 nearby.

«Amber has worked hard to improve her neighborhood as a community leader, has put forth clear plans to tackle major issues at the State level, and has consistently stood up for equality across the board.

Also at 11:30 a.m., Bushwick faith leaders, small business owners and residents march and rally through Bushwick to call on Albany to close major loopholes in rent laws that are driving the loss of affordable housing in the neighborhood, Make the Road New York's office, 301 Grove St., Brooklyn.

At 1 p.m., Real Affordability for All, top elected officials (like NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James), union leaders, workers, and local residents, will call on de Blasio to make substantial changes to his housing plan to ensure real affordability and good union jobs for residents who live in neighborhoods that will be rezoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., struggling small businesses owners from low - income neighborhoods of NYC join leaders and members of Real Affordability for All in opposing de Blasio's housing and rezoning plan, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The 19 - year - old Orozco was all smiles as he dined with family, friends, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and a handful of other Bronx leaders at a restaurant in Castle Hill, just a short drive away from the Soundview neighborhood the London Olympian calls home.

Comrie, the deputy majority leader at City Hall, has listed 144 member items in this year's budget, including small donations to neighborhood groups such as the Cambria Heights Civic Association, which received $ 3,500, and large contributions to long - running community organizations, such as the $ 28,000 he gave to the Afrikan Poetry Theatre for workshops.

The two statewide Democrats — not known for having an especially warm relationship — graced the stage at the Casita Maria Center in the impoverished Hunts Point - Longwood neighborhood alongside Bronx leaders like Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo and Congressman Jose Serrano and Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro Garcia - Padilla, and in front of an undulating ocean of union placards.

At a news conference on Dec. 19 at a Brooklyn education center, de Blasio named a team of religious, community, education and business leaders to head the effort and announced a campaign website — upknyc.org — to rally «people from every neighborhood to turn the plan into reality.&raquAt a news conference on Dec. 19 at a Brooklyn education center, de Blasio named a team of religious, community, education and business leaders to head the effort and announced a campaign website — upknyc.org — to rally «people from every neighborhood to turn the plan into reality.&raquat a Brooklyn education center, de Blasio named a team of religious, community, education and business leaders to head the effort and announced a campaign website — upknyc.org — to rally «people from every neighborhood to turn the plan into reality.»

ASTORIA — Local elected officials, community leaders and a group of residents gathered last week at an Astoria park to protest reported plans of a right - wing Greek party to open an office in the neighborhood.

City, state and community leaders gathered in Buffalo's Fruit Belt neighborhood on Friday to announce an agreement aimed at protecting residents of the Fruit Belt neighborhood from infringement on parking spaces by employees of the constantly growing Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

When they founded the school, community and school leaders wanted a very different school for the neighborhood than Atlanta offered at the time.

At a Friday morning press conference held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others at a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availabilitAt a Friday morning press conference held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others at a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availabilitat a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availability.

At left is then - Madison School Board President Carol Carstensen, and at right is neighborhood leader Adam SmitAt left is then - Madison School Board President Carol Carstensen, and at right is neighborhood leader Adam Smitat right is neighborhood leader Adam Smith.

LOS ANGELES, CA - On Saturday, Feb. 4, well over 5,000 parents, students and teachers from across Los Angeles joined education officials and leaders for the «Schools We Can Believe In» rally at Exposition Park, to demand high - quality public schools in every neighborhood, quality space and equal funding for all public school students.

At two recent meetings with ASD leaders at Madison and Neely's Bend, parents packed the room to praise their neighborhood schools and denounce hostile charter takeoverAt two recent meetings with ASD leaders at Madison and Neely's Bend, parents packed the room to praise their neighborhood schools and denounce hostile charter takeoverat Madison and Neely's Bend, parents packed the room to praise their neighborhood schools and denounce hostile charter takeovers.

Alendra Lyons, a community leader in the Dunbar neighborhood who both works at the school and serves on its site - based decision - making committee, was told at a committee meeting in June that the community schools pilot had been moved elsewhere.

By having school leaders on, by having parents on, neighborhood associations on — what would they like to see in terms of community engagement at schools?

At the same time, charter leaders at some schools located in low - income neighborhoods, like KIPP DC and Eagle Academy, have argued they should be able to give a preference to nearby familieAt the same time, charter leaders at some schools located in low - income neighborhoods, like KIPP DC and Eagle Academy, have argued they should be able to give a preference to nearby familieat some schools located in low - income neighborhoods, like KIPP DC and Eagle Academy, have argued they should be able to give a preference to nearby families.

The education policies of Chicago's leaders force its poor children and children of color to attend under - resourced schools, often at a great distance from their neighborhoods, on a pretext of under - enrollment and poor performance.

At the same time Chicago leaders closed 125 neighborhood schools, they opened 41 selective public schools and 108 charter schools; more than they closed.

Through PACK, local organizations and leaders worked to expand learning opportunities for children and families at home and in the community through afterschool programs, neighborhood celebrations, leadership development, youth engagement, social marketing and other activities.

Since August, I have watched and listened to over 40 Oakland public school leaders and teachers from many of the diverse public schools here in Oakland — from district managed neighborhood schools to charters schools at varying stages of their own organizational development.

She seeks out opportunities to meet with legislators and education leaders on education issues and stands up for children, their teachers, and their neighborhood public schools at rallies, hearings, meetings, and town halls.

The roughly 200 protesters, parents and neighborhood residents who turned out for a fired up community meeting at Durham's Lakewood Elementary on Tuesday say they've racked up about 900 signatures on a petition for state leaders to keep the Innovative School District (ISD) out of the city's schools.

Still Ms. Golden's connection to Harlem, where she also lives, is visibly strong; she can regularly be seen chatting with street vendors; eating branzino with her board chairman, the financier Raymond J. McGuire, at Vinatería; and convening the heads of the Dance Theater of Harlem and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at Red Rooster to welcome a new cultural leader to the neighborhood.

More than 60 Southwest Detroit residents and community leaders gathered last week to call on local, state and federal officials to design an evacuation plan in wake of the April 27 explosion at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in the 48217 neighborhood.

In the six months since Hurricane Harvey battered the Houston region, local leaders have talked at length about not just restoring flood - damaged neighborhoods and infrastructure, but hardening the area against future disasters.

The Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Texas in Austin has worked with city and community leaders to build green, infill «alley flats» in impoverished city neighborhoods.

In May, Ryan Wilson, team leader of the Wilson Group at Keller Williams Realty in Newton Center, Mass., landed a listing for a two - bedroom, two - bath home in an established, in - demand neighborhood.

The market is currently full of investors like CPPIB, looking to place their money in either fortress malls or neighborhood grocery - anchored shopping centers, according to Richard West, director and leader of the national retail valuation group at CBRE.