Sentences with phrase «of city education»

USCM staff connects mayors to their colleagues for peer - to - peer networking opportunities and on - site technical assistance; and through a network of city education policy advisors, identifies and shares best practices, shares resources, and provides peer - to - peer learning opportunities.

The prospect of an expanded voucher program is not a welcome one among the District's elected officials, who chafe as Congress — where the District has no vote — passes laws that shape the landscape of city education.

Should the governor, Assembly and State Senate fail to reach a consensus by the month's end, control of the city education system would revert to the old community school boards — widely criticized for their uneven, inefficient and decentralized structure.

«It is unconscionable that the state and the city have flouted the law and are subjecting over 290,000 students to overcrowded classes of 30 students or more,» said Haimson, citing a Class Size Matters analysis of city Education Department data.

The New York Daily News asked Mayor de Blasio and a spectrum of city education leaders to give letter grades to Chancellor Carmen Fariña for her performance in her first year in office.

While the playground and full - sized athletic field at East 96th Street and Second Avenue has traditionally been considered a playground under the jurisdiction of the city Education Department, the Cuomo administration, in doing research on the matter, found evidence that it was actually a park and should be governed by the city Parks Department.

About 43 percent of city education funding comes from the state.

Further, mayoral control of the city education system could end with this school year unless Albany agrees to extend it.

The de Blasio administration warned of corruption and chaos should state lawmakers end the legislative session next week without renewing a law giving the mayor control of the city education system.

According to the State of Our Cities education data tool, there are a lot of similarities between Charlotte and Dallas.

Not exact matches

The company is pursuing a range of growth opportunities, including a Sydney city campus for Macquarie University and a new business in Hong Kong to recruit students in China on behalf of education institutions in Australia and the UK.

After a successful 32 - year investment banking career, Bill Henson, a decade ago, made the transition to inner city education, initially joining the board of Cristo Rey New York High School, a private Catholic college preparatory high school that educates children of all faiths.

As part of its 7 Days of Genius Festival, a weeklong series of panel discussions and talks kicking off March 1, New York City's 92nd Street Y is launching its first Genius Startup Competition, a contest that's intended to unearth big ideas that can have a major impact in fields such as education, energy, sustainability, and other industries that are poised to address the world's most pressing problems.

The Flatiron School also offers a Web - development fellowship, with a similar education funded entirely by New York City's Department of Small Business Services.

It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

«There are a lot of studies which have shown that lighting can actually impact on the mood of the students in their education and in their learning,» she told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

The city's Palmer Park Preparatory Academy was recently on the cover of Education Week for becoming a teacher led school in which teachers take over administrative duties.

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

After being contacted by ProPublica and the Times, other employers, including Amazon, Northwestern Mutual and the New York City Department of Education, said they had changed or were changing their recruiting strategies.

New York City Department of Education attorney Tsui S. Ng recently explained the benefits to the American Bar Association.

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

Cecilia Retelle and Kim Taylor — co-founders of Ranku, a discovery engine for online degrees from traditional education institutions — secured Mark Cuban after informally pitching him at a bar in New York City.

A native of New York City, Garcia is a frequent speaker on legal education panels and an advocate of value - based legal billing.

After garnering feedback from more than 80 Kaplan executives and technology experts, and tinkering with their revenue models, design plans and presentation speeches for three months at Kaplan's New York City offices, the teams behind these disruptive education technology companies have learned their fair share of business lessons.

Unsurprisingly, they found a strong correlation between education and wealth: Wealthy cities tended to have at least one well - respected research university, along with a higher percentage of residents with bachelor's and graduate degrees.

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

Finalist cities are refining their pitches based on many of the factors that usually motivate corporations in site selection — economic development opportunities, transportation access and infrastructure, skilled labor force and quality - of - life measurements, like education and real estate costs.

The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education and medicine, and the city is considered highly innovative for a variety of reasons.

And Avigilon has something most competitors don't: National Bank Financial analyst Kris Thompson observed that whereas most competitors serve only specific customer segments (the most important of which include education, policing, retail, transportation, city surveillance and others), Avigilon's offerings address most conceivable applications, and it is also building software modules to address specific requirements.

The Halifax Index, produced annually for Nova Scotia's capital, benchmarks the city against five peer cities on a number of important measurements: population growth, education levels, the confidence of the business sector, and more.

Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

Cities were ranked on categories including stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure, but cost of living wasn't taken into account.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

«Over the past six months, we've traveled the globe to find the world's most promising startups working to develop innovative solutions to fundamental challenges in education, energy & sustainability, health, and cities & transportation,» says Donna Harris, co-founder of 1776.

Founded nearly 35 years ago, DARE — Drug Abuse Resistance Education — grew out of a partnership between the Los Angeles Police Department and the city's schools.

City Lit, a 96 - year - old adult education center in central London, is offering a four - week course this winter called «the art of self - portraiture.»

He criticized states for kicking the can down the road, living beyond their means year after year in a «never - ending sense of crisis» that results in «stop - and - go funding of vital programs,» such as those for infrastructure, education, pensions and city and county services.

As a cofounder at New York - based General Assembly, Hargreaves noticed a growing housing crisis affecting the tech education provider's students, many of whom couldn't meet the rigorous rental requirements stipulated by landlords in New York City.

While the business opportunity in smaller cities is large, limited Internet connectivity and reluctance among parents and students to pay for online education hamper adoption of online supplementary education platforms, it said.

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Don't let the mediocre college education level and household income distract you — Gainesville has plenty of factors that make it one of the best cities for a successful 2017.

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The things about our cities that make you want to move here are the same reasons many of us live here — we have great systems of higher education, museums, and infrastructure that helps move people and things from one place to another.

Taxes on real estate in Maryland account for about 35 % of city budgets and 30 % of county budgets, funding local services like public education and fire protection.

As David Dayen wrote for The New Republic during the first round of the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes, «[T] hey're worse than a zero - sum game between metropolitan areas; they're net - negative, because the corporation extracts the subsidy while cities lose revenue that would otherwise go to education or infrastructure investment to benefit the common good.»

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

10,000 Small Businesses expanded its network of cities and partners to provide small businesses with the education, business services and capital they need to grow and create jobs.

The hukou registration system that ties people to their place of ordinary residence deprives migrant workers of rights to welfare, education or property, and prevents them from launching businesses in the cities, where they are treated as second - class citizens.