Sentences with phrase «of particular neighborhoods»

These agents, familiar with the hazards of particular neighborhoods, can offer you advice about your various policy options and can provide you with a selection of competitively priced policies.

These agents, familiar with the hazards of particular neighborhoods, can offer you advice about your various policy options and can provide you with a selection of competitively priced policies.

For example, schools can draw attendance zones based on the racial composition of particular neighborhoods because students in those neighborhoods would be treated the same regardless of race.

In some other parts of the country — Washington, D.C. — for one, residents of a particular neighborhood purchase a parking sticker that gives them priority for parking places close to their homes.

Can you discuss the attributes of a particular neighborhood, such as the quality of the schools, shopping options and median incomes?

Previously, Owlized had developed viewers that resembled old - fashioned coin - operated binoculars to help residents of a particular neighborhood see how climate change might look and feel.

Not exact matches

«Starting at this location in particular is especially meaningful because the neighborhood has a lot of significance for me and generations of my family.»

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

This neighborhood expands until it embraces those notions which constitute the most general description of reality of which we are capable during any particular historical epoch.

I remember a particular snow in my childhood wherein most of the neighborhood (and state) lost power, but my mom was able to make dinner for us and some of our neighbors.

He told me that, after inviting his particular friends, legislators, members of the bar, and others, from adjoining counties and distant neighborhoods, he had put a negro boy upon a horse and directed him to go to every family, rich and poor, within a circle of a few miles around his home, and invite them all to the wedding.

That's one of the drawbacks, I think — not in this particular school, because the only food - related thing is a once - a-week relationship with a neighborhood bakery to bring in pizza if the kids want to buy it, and I can breathe through that.

The various infrastructure development in the state are to further enhance the welfare of government workers in particular: quality and affordable schools for their children, affordable medicare, good neighborhoods to live in, good roads to drive on without the frequent wear and tear on their vehicles.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

Hawkins says that his accent is native to a particular neighborhood of San Mateo, between the railroad tracks and the Bayshore freeway, which had been settled mostly by people from the South, whites and blacks.

Prioritizing the way in which people actually «feel» the boundaries of their neighborhoods minimizes drawing districts that prioritize creating safe seats for a particular political party.

Instead of being limited to particular neighborhoods, the requirement that 20 percent of subsidized development units be affordable would apply citywide, and — theoretically — stimulate the building of more below - market units.

The New York Post reported that many of these buildings are in neighborhoods the Citizens Budget Commission singled out as in particular need of affordable housing, but didn't mention what kind of buildings they are, how big they are, and how many of them are usable for housing.

The theater has particular resonance as a symbol of a resurgent Brooklyn and of the city's investment in minority neighborhoods.

«I think the work is a useful step in trying to understand where and how cities should be managing their particular neighborhoods, in terms of who is exposed and what the sensitivities are,» he says.

The researchers quantify the gains and losses of alternative plans by Detroit Future City and others by modeling the employment decisions of firms, location and commuting decisions of workers, as well as the decision of developers to enter particular neighborhoods.

And one of the speakers Don Berwick, who's head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, talked about a new Web site, healthindicators.org, I believe it was, where the CMS is making available information about health outcomes for particular areas in the country, and so you can actually look up health outcomes in your neighborhood.

On one particular day of my journey, many mysterious things aligned, placing me in a little Jerusalem neighborhood where a yogini by the name of Talia Sutra lives.

What are some of your favorite things about New York City and your neighborhood, Gramercy, in particular?

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«This neighborhood in particular has touched the lives of so many people — there are many deep connections to this recent history, so this is a moment of true celebration for this uniquely American history and culture.

This is especially the case when they are enrolled in the same schools in low - income neighborhoods, irrespective of language background or identification with a particular racial group.

In addition, we have obtained historical data on reported criminal incidents in Mecklenburg County that is geocoded to the exact address of the crime, which allows us to measure variation in crime in and around particular schools and neighborhoods.

However, the socialist / revolutionary movement re-emerging in particular in working class neighborhoods of large cities in the 1990s suggests that this hope was not destroyed entirely with the 1980 coup.

Murray emphasizes in particular the degree to which the better educated and professional have concentrated in certain neighborhoods, and how opportunities for the upper middle class of college - goers to interact with and know neighbors of lower classes have declined.

In response, savvy exam school promoters sometimes enter into treaties with the regular high schools — a sort of reverse quota system — and promise not to admit more than so many youngsters from particular districts or neighborhoods.

The number of students who have felt unwelcome or rejected by a particular group because of their academic ability, athletic ability, beliefs, ethnicity, family income, gender, hobbies / interests, home neighborhood, primary language spoken, musical interest, personal appearance, race, sexual orientation, or style.

In particular, I've been focusing on understanding the degree to which Head Start might be more or less effective depending on where centers are located — in urban versus rural settings, in communities with high versus low levels of wraparound services and resources, in high - versus low - crime neighborhoods.

School attendance zones, which assign children to a particular school by their neighborhood of residence, do curtail this kind of freedom.

The mean of these school - level values for each district tells us, for example, that a district with an imbalance score for any particular racial group that is positive has, on average, public high schools that over represent that group relative to their neighborhoods.

I've come to believe that «local control,» embodied by a sense of deference to families, neighborhoods, and educators, respects the intricacies of public schooling, the particular histories of communities, and the wisdom of time - tested practices.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

«We have to ask of every school: What does this particular school need in order to meet the challenges of the neighborhood it's situated in?

In particular, the income of neighborhood residents and the amenities available near the school both affect teachers» decisions of where to teach, particularly in urban areas with high population - density.

Creating mixed income housing in ways that displace low - income residents may improve outcomes for that particular neighborhood, but it doesn't improve the outcomes of displaced families.

Students will reflect upon and describe the experience of walking the neighborhood, paying particular attention to elements that surprised them or didn't conform to their expectations of the experience (their «ah ha» moments).

If the district data shows that a particular neighborhood is struggling with high levels of chronic absence, perhaps the work can be aligned with existing community resources targeting the same geographic area, such as a community schools or neighborhood revitalization effort.

In upper - middle - class and wealthy neighborhoods, in particular, they are too busy doing other things, like playing sports, studying, and following a full schedule of activities booked by their parents.

If chronic absence levels are significant for particular schools, neighborhoods or populations of students (that is, specific ethnic or language groups or, for example, children in special education), schools should partner with community agencies and families to understand the factors contributing to early absence to develop appropriate responses tailored to their realities.

Schools that educate our black children, in particular, in our own neighborhoods have always been undermined through the restriction of funds, quality staff, and other resources.

Dr. Robert Vargas discussed how redistricting laws, bureaucracies, and public policies shape the conditions of cities, with a particular focus on the relationship between ward boundary redistricting and block - level violence in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.

First, states and districts can use rates of kindergarten chronic absence to identify if they need to expand investments in high - quality pre-K programming in particular schools, neighborhoods, or for certain student populations.

I have analyzed the ways in which families look for resources and visibility from their schools and neighborhoods alike, as well as presented tensions between parents and students in their understandings of how schools can meet their particular educational needs.

We want short essays (800 to 1,200 words) that combine a powerful sense of place with reflections on the meaning of particular landscapes, cities, or neighborhoods.

The application uses magnifying glass at the top left corner of the screen to narrow down your search options just in case you are in the mood to dine only a certain type of cuisine or only in a particular neighborhood.