Sentences with phrase «of big districts»

Even with improvement, better measures, and better policies, big online schools will likely have performance levels similar to those of big districts serving high - need, high - mobility populations.

A CALmatters analysis of the biggest districts with the greatest clusters of needy children found limited success with the policy's goal: to close the achievement gap between these students and their more privileged peers.

Not exact matches

For a real cultural experience, check out Gastown, the historic downtown district encompassing one of the biggest Chinatowns in Canada.

This is especially problematic because the district's biggest marketing challenges lie outside Richmond, as a map of the state hanging in the office makes clear.

In 2010, red shirt protestors shut down Bangkok's central business district for weeks; the government responded with a crackdown that resulted in 92 deaths, and provoked the torching of Bangkok's biggest megamall and the nation's stock exchange.

Tucked into Denver's tony Cherry Creek North shopping district since 1997, SOL (Store of Lingerie) has seen plenty of bigger businesses — including national brands — open in the area, only to fall flat.

«I am worried that because of the impact that gerrymandering has had on many of the districts that it may be hard to make big changes» in the 2018 elections, Powell said.

This summer, he took on an even bigger challenge as chef de cuisine at the Chase, a new fish - and - oyster house in the heart of the financial district.

In his book, he recalls a time when he worked in a big office in the financial district of his city.

Today, in Singapore's financial district, big names in the private - money world, like Credit Suisse, Julius Baer and UBS, keep offices in gleaming skyscrapers among the squat facades of century - old colonial British buildings.

The logo of Europe's biggest insurer Allianz SE is seen on the company tower at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, March 2, 2016.

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«After decades of being overlooked, Kentucky's Bourbon industry is only going to get bigger and I'm happy to support an industry that provides so many jobs and revenue for the state and my district.»

An early trailblazer of Brooklyn's Dumbo district, Big Spaceship has watched from the front row as the neighborhood has blossomed into a destination for creative, tech and media startups.

Campbell senior Jordan McKinley, an intern with the Cobb School District's communication office, said he was surprised how big of a problem human trafficking is in the metro Atlanta area, especially in connection with Hartsfield — Jackson Atlanta International Airport and MARTA.

At the same time, big — time investors can also leverage on the high demand for cleaning services by larger corporations to set up their own well — organized office cleaning businesses in strategic locations within a business district in the United States of America.

At the same time, big — time investors can also leverage on the high demand for cleaning services by larger corporations to set up their own well — organized gutter cleaning businesses in strategic locations within a business district in the United States of America.

MaRS (Medical and Related Sciences Discovery District) today announced a big step toward its goal of establishing Toronto as a leading global centre of bioscience commerce, with the addition of Salt Lake City - based NPS Pharmaceuticals and Boston - based VIMAC Ventures as tenants.

We'd like to give a big shout - out to the School District of Palm Beach County, the School District's Police Department and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office for their collaboration and swiftness following the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...

Strategically located in Manhattan's historic Financial District near Battery Park, Quake teams have access to one of the world's largest financial centers and one of America's biggest startup ecosystems, all in one great city.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

Dana Gioia likens a renewal of Catholic literature to the renovation of our lost immigrant neighborhoods: «It is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogenous, characterless suburbs of the imagination and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts.»

The arrangements that went into the 1986 District of Columbia crusade were typical of the big rallies of the later years: 500,000 personal invitations issued, 400,000 packets of material mailed to area homes, thousands of prayer groups meeting regularly for months ahead, 4,000 workers trained to counsel with «inquirers,» another thousand prepared for follow - up work.

«There was a noise like a big explosion,» G. Baskar, principal of the college in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district where the asteroid landed, told the Wall Street Journal.

The Puerto Rico born Senator Diaz helped to bring busloads of marchers from the Big Apple to the District, another place where the people have been denied a direct vote.

Royal Kona Coffee continues to build on its legacy of producing smooth tasting Kona coffee cultivated on the slopes of Hualalai and Mauna Loa in the north and south Kona Districts on the Big Island.

Big Island Coffee Roasters of the Big Isle's Hawai'i District was awarded the top spot in the Creative category with a score of 86.939.

Kona Coffee District on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii, known as the Kona Coffee Belt delivers a large portion of Hawaiian Gourmet Coffee.

The market name for coffee (Coffea arabica) cultivated on the slopes of Hualalai and Mauna Loa in the North and South Mountain Kona Districts of the Big Island of Hawaii is Kona coffee.

In the tradition of the Humanitarian Bowl (the former name of the Famous Idaho ® Potato Bowl), many events during game week will raise funds and awareness for local charities, including the United Way, Optimist Youth Football, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boise School District, Treasure Valley YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts, and Armed Forces personnel.

Gimblett Gravels Wine Growing District chairman Tony Bish said China was expected to overtake Britain as New Zealand's biggest market for cabernet merlot next year, and by 2014 one in every two bottles of the style was likely to be going to China.

The complex houses nationally acclaimed restaurants such as Khai Vu's District 1 whose Lobster Pho and Big Bone Pho are now legendary and Food and Wine Magazine Sommelier of the Year in 2013 — Bank Atcharawans Chada Thai, Both now Las Vegas Chinatown dining destinations and institutions are part of the foodie strip mall.

As you can see, the schools that benefit the most from competitive equity divisions are the high - enrollment, big schools of larger districts like Sacramento Unified, Stockton Unified, East Side Union High School District of San Jose and others.

And residents of southern Saskatchewan come down to Minot to splurge at the area's malls and big box stores, and also the cute boutiques in the hip, historic district downtown.

The ban's biggest impact would be the elimination of fried foods, said Vanover, who believes it would be too expensive for most districts to switch over to natural oils like peanut or olive oil.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is moving playgrounds to the front of the line for the Chicago Park District's limited construction money, with other big - ticket projects like new fieldhouses moving back in the queue.

For Maryjo and Steve Cubberly, the Park District and schools were the big attractions behind leaving their Mt. Prospect home of 10 years for a larger one in Arlington Heights» Scarsdale subdivision two years ago.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

«I think parks will play even a bigger role in providing residents a sense of security by being able to do things in your own back yard,» said Roger Key, executive director of the Park District.

But, according to Ed's story,» it's widely assumed in food service circles that the big players — Chartwells, Sodexo, Aramark — are not declaring all of the rebates to which school districts are entitled, hence the shroud of secrecy.»

«This is one of the craziest years that we've had,» said Larry Bower, director of the parks and planning at the Wheaton Park District who's been with them for 29 years and says providing outdoor skating rinks is one of the district's «biggest challengesDistrict who's been with them for 29 years and says providing outdoor skating rinks is one of the district's «biggest challengesdistrict's «biggest challenges.»

The Park District of Highland Park is one of the state's biggest, with a budget of $ 20 million and about 75 full - time employees who run a golf course, recreation facility, ice rink, public beaches, hundreds of acres of parks and an aquatic facility.

For Illinois schools, the ban's biggest impact would be the elimination of fried foods, said Vanover, who believes it would be too expensive for most districts to switch over to natural oils such as peanut or olive oil.

And it seems they are big fans of popular pop hits thanks to the park district pool.

But districts are still unconscionably underfunded when it comes to school food, and Big Food still plays too large of a lobbying role in shaping what appears on kids» trays.

Thanks for mentioning how «districts are still unconscionably underfunded when it comes to school food, and Big Food still plays too large of a lobbying role in shaping what appears on kids» trays.»

«They do n`t have a big enough tax base for the number of years it takes to build (a park district), «Whitehouse said.

He also was involved in acquiring much of the land for the Lincoln Marsh and for the district's biggest purchase, the Arrowhead Golf Club.

The City Council has directed both bodies to work together toward a plan for a joint recreation campus on a 13 - acre parcel of Park District property along 95th Street, but library officials fear a combined venture will further hinder the plans they have for a big new library near Neuqua Valley High School.

Edward Uhlir, a landscape architect for the park district, said the employees also have discovered a volume of lithographs of parks in Paris believed to have been compiled between 1880 and 1890 and newspaper accounts of the era «s big events, including a bad storm that hit in 1921 and the construction of Lake Shore Drive.