Sentences with phrase «of public neighborhood»

Across our network of public neighborhood schools, we have created regular opportunities for targeted problem - solving and feedback.

These systemic supports provide reinforcement for an enduring culture where there is collective ownership, starting with school leaders and teachers and cascading to network leaders and staff, over the outcomes of the work and of each student — and it is the most impactful driver of our success as an network of public neighborhood schools.

Our system of distributed leadership has created a strong and enduring professional learning culture where there is collective ownership over the outcomes of the work and of each student — and it is the most impactful driver of our success as a network of public neighborhood schools.

Charter schools will siphon students and funding out of public neighborhood schools across the district without changing the fixed costs of running those schools, or necessarily reducing the need for staffing and services in those schools.

Not exact matches

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

But that all changed earlier this month when Florida public health officials reported a handful of cases originating from mosquito bites in the relative small, one - square - mile neighborhood of Wynwood just north of downtown Miami.

Experts have suggested building public housing in low - poverty areas instead of high - poverty areas, which would spur poorer families to move to better neighborhoods and increase their chances of success.

Living further from public transportation hubs, in outlying neighborhoods or with roommates are all trade - offs that can save a lot of money.

Chariot is a VC and Y Combinator funded startup that invites the public and enterprises to crowdsource new commuter routes then launches a twice - daily service when a critical mass of riders between neighborhoods want a faster and more reliable commute.

Calculated based on presence of neighborhood amenities like Restaurants, Schools, Hospitals, Public transportation and others

He stated he liquidated his holdings as a result of he exerted a lot affect inside the neighborhood and had the flexibility to maneuver the markets by means of his public feedback on Twitter and different public platforms.

They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well - educated teachers and a sound educational program.»

This observation was brought delightfully home to me a few months ago, when I dropped a small pile of books on the checkout desk at my neighborhood public library.

A shaky Chinese regime is likely to try and displace public discontents over the policy's impacts on the Chinese economy and Chinese society by chest - thumping in its immediate neighborhood; signs of this are already visible in the South China Sea.

Think of the low - rise, high - density character of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.

With other members of the Congress for New Urbanism, I contend that the mixed - use walkable neighborhood is the sine qua non of urban design and that it ought to be a focus of both public policy and urban planning, whether such neighborhoods are considered in isolation or in relation to other neighborhoods.

At its most humane, the city is not a faceless or shapeless amalgam, but a patterned and harmonious ordering of household, neighborhood, public institution, and civic center.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

The victories won by this campaign — increased public responsiveness to the needs of one of its poorer neighborhoods — are important practically.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

New York City Atheists, a group that opposes the public use of religious references, is challenging the new sign, which was erected in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood.

We woefully underestimate the power of business leaders if we think they are engaged in private enterprise, for their decisions have huge public impacts not only on their stockholders but on the jobs we need, the neighborhoods in which we live, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the schools in which we learn.

The neighborhoods around a parish were occupied by parishioners; the schools (even the public ones), and the shops were often in the hands of parishioners.

As the country becomes more ethnically and religiously diverse, there will be those who say the Church can only survive if we fight to the death to preserve our civic religion — keeping prayer in public schools, keeping the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and keeping mosques out of our neighborhoods.

Whatever the rest of the society does not want — jails, public housing, garbage dumps — is conveniently placed in our neighborhoods.

If you're nearby — perhaps for The Bronx Museum of the Arts, free to the public — these three spots offer fine neighborhood snacking.

«We Houstonians really look for that neighborhood spot catering to more than just trends,» said Kyle Noonan, native Houstonian and co-owner of FreeRange Concepts, which founded The General Public.

The Industry Public House I visited is Pittsburgh's second location — the first is in the Lawrenceville neighborhood — and it serves barrel - aged Manhattans, lumberjack Old Fashioneds (made with your choice of wood smoked by a torch - wielding bartender) and wild boar bacon.

Mehta acknowledged in his essay that some of this inequity is on the supply side: Schools that have the freedom and resources to adopt the techniques of deeper learning are more likely to be well - funded independent schools or public schools in wealthy suburbs or neighborhoods.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

Little Groove also does a lot of free programs at the public libraries, classes in different neighborhoods including a weekend class in Back Bay, and two classes a week at the Children's Museum.

This plan is responsible and well thought out, emphasizing public education to prevent mosquito bites and remove artificial sources of standing water around homes and neighborhoods.

Mell argued that the public would still be the primary users of the field and that the university and Park District would set up clinics for neighborhood youths.

«It's a public park in a very high - density neighborhood, where many homes have small yards or no yard at all,» said Plotkin, 32, a Chicago emergency room physician who, along with some of her neighbors and Friends of the Parks, is battling to preserve the park and its more than 60 trees.

But a public outcry pushed the park board to reconsider and decide that the new skate park should not be located in any of the city's 60 neighborhood parks that are tucked in residential areas.

Before the first ball is even kicked, a new soccer field under construction near the south end of Lincoln Park has already become a battleground between the Chicago Park District and neighborhood and park advocacy groups over the fair, open use of public land.

«If this is a good plan, it should go back to the Plan Commission,» said Eleanor Roemer, general counsel of the advocacy group Friends of the Parks, adding that there should be public meetings of neighborhood groups if the new story is built.

Next week, my school will host a public screening of the new documentary Lunch Line, which follows six Chicago kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods as they as they set out on a mission to fix school lunches — ending up at the White House.

While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

The field houses, in a new network of small neighborhood parks, offered separate indoor gyms for boys and girls, English - language programs, early branches of the Chicago Public Library and public bathing facilPublic Library and public bathing facilpublic bathing facilities.

I have gone into my own kids» public school lunch room, in a relatively affluent neighborhood in central Houston, btw, and have seen (and photographed) poorly prepared food — items that are still frozen, items like green vegetables that are grossly overcooked, to the point of almost being brown, etc..

The Atlanta BeltLine is a sustainable redevelopment project that provides a network of public parks, multi-use trails and transit along a historic 22 - mile railroad corridor circling downtown and connecting many neighborhoods directly to each other.

«We didn't have an outbreak of people urinating in public, but we have had some isolated incidents, including one specific one in the neighborhood of Lake Ellyn after the 4th of July fireworks display,» Holmer said.

They get you around the neighborhood, bridge the gap between home - public transportation - work and save you money by reducing your use of dirty g

In my neighborhood at least, the bulk of the public Clinton supporters have been Latin women, while the Obamamans tend tend to be younger and more nonprofity.

As part of a national survey, 12,000 Buffalo Public School students were queried about life as they see it, in school and in their home neighborhoods.

«I want to preserve and build on the advances in public safety and neighborhood quality of life of the Giuliani and Bloomberg years,» Saffran said.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.