Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods better advocate»

«It makes it more objective than what it's been in the past,» Howard said, adding the report cards will help parents and neighborhoods better advocate for what their schools need to improve.

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After college, my ideas turned into practice, and life marched on in a series of how to be the best possible Christian, with a social justice flair (eschew money, buy fair trade, advocate for social justice causes, create programs for the needy in my neighborhood).

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.

City Council members need to do a better job to advocate for ALL small business in every neighborhood.

I support the Long Island City Artists, Merchants, Queens Community Board 2, Long Island City Partnership and other community leaders and residents who are advocating for the neighborhood and I am very disappointed that the MTA has not been able to provide a better response.»

Moreover, reform advocates note, basing admissions on geographical boundaries is an exclusionary practice, all too redolent of the days when low - income students of minority background desperately sought to escape from «slum» or «ghetto» schools and gain access to the generally superior schools in «good» neighborhoods from which they had been barred.

The board's vote followed months of intense pressure to reject the proposal from other black education advocates, who argued that charter schools give children in poor neighborhoods better school options.

Instead, you've advocated for neighborhood schools, saying they promote a better community of parents and teachers working together.

Charter School Reporting Corps, Neighborhoods Partnership Network Trumpet Awards, 2011 Winner for Best Education Advocate

With ESSA, educators — the ones who know students, parents, and neighborhoods best — have the opportunity to advocate for what we know works, and community schools should be at the top of our list.

Whether you are a shelter worker, veterinarian, or feral cat advocate — or you just share your neighborhood with feral cats — knowing how to tell the difference can help inform how best to interact with a cat or what, if any, intervention would be in each cat's best interest.

Whether it's a group of neighbors who band together to get a neighborhood feral spayed and keep a collective eye on her well - being, or whether it's the elderly woman who barely has enough money to feed herself, but always manages to scrape together enough for her «outside cats,» feral cats who have these advocates in their corner are the fortunate ones.

That is why the Better Bike Share Partnership is bringing together the people who collectively can make it happen — system operators, city transportation officials, social justice advocates, and the people that work directly with the low - income neighborhoods that bike share aims to reach.

Frankly, the best has been to get a couple of advocates who are willing to post on the local neighborhood / social media system in Seattle, NextDoor, when people have legal questions.