Sentences with phrase «on city support»

We also find that the crisis was certainly not due to excessive spending relative to that of surrounding districts (see sidebar titled Philadelphia Support for Education for details on city support, charter school enrollments, district spending, and teacher salaries).

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This week, with the on - field action (and the media's attention) shifting to games in Kansas City, the sport has a great chance to provide even more public support to an important cause — one with which its history is inextricably intertwined.

New York City — which, through the Bloomberg years put outsized emphasis on boosting the startup ecosystem, and finding solutions to a dearth of programmers — has been quick to show support for The Flatiron School.

Today, Jumpstart not only helps Cleveland - based entrepreneurs get their businesses funded and supported, it also advises other communities around the country, says Jumpstart chief executive officer, Ray Leach, working with 18 different cities on how they too can create their own thriving entrepreneurial economies.

Harrison has had many big - name celebrities support his cause, from Will and Jada Smith raising over $ 100,000 on their birthdays to a viral video of Jennifer Connelly depicting the water crisis but in New York City terms.

Ride - hailing service Uber inaugurated a support center in Brazil's biggest city on Tuesday with plans to invest 200 million reais ($ 62 million) and create 2,000 jobs, underscoring an aggressive growth strategy in Latin America's biggest nation.

To support himself and his brother, Hamilton started clerking at Beekman and Cruger, an import - export firm on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, according to City Journal.

On Sunday, thousands of people reportedly gathered in the Afrin town of Kobane and are currently traveling to the city of Afrin in support.

This support from cities is not lost on advocates.

«It was just the data point — the look on his face — when he was shocked that we don't support just basic, status quo services you'll find in other tech cities,» he said.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection is supporting Roosegaarde's venture, and has asked him to take the tower on a tour of four other cities in the coming year.

The result of a partnership between HEC Montréal and the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, CDL - Montreal is the city's first world - class startup support program focused on capitalizing its expertise in AI.

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

Gratzer's duties include liaising with the distillery brand managers on KBA event production, promotion and execution; building community support throughout the host city and state; developing a unified marketing campaign to drive ticket sales; and attracting partners and sponsors to support the premium and elegant Kentucky Bourbon culture.

In effect, you'd be stripping cities and city - regions of real earnings with which they could reinvest and effectively transferring those earnings to keep other places on life support.

In his ruling, Rhodes said that settlement, which was key in winning the support for the plan from Detroit's two retirement systems and scores of city workers and retirees, «borders on miraculous.»

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

GCT's focus on innovation in health, fintech, smart cities innovation and the future of work aligns with MaRS» sectors and complements the support that MaRS offers to Canadian entrepreneurs in Toronto.

Now, if only our state leaders would get on board to support local city ordinances...

Mazin Sidahmed, co-founding editor and senior reporter at Documented, a Civil - network site covering immigration and national security issues in New York City, says Civil has provided extensive support, including a financial grant, as well as as the technology on which to build the site and assistance with design.

The expeditionary unit's ground force, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, will man the guns and deliver fire support for U.S. - backed local forces who are preparing an assault on the city.

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas industrial market was built on supporting the city's tourism and hospitality industry, which brings in nearly $ 60 billion per year, according to a study by Applied Analytics.

Down the road, Uber plans to build on its learnings to support data partnerships in other cities using the SharedStreets data standards.

I am sure that the funding for the new Royal Alberta Museum will be a topic of discussion among the participants (as well as City Council's vote to allocate more than $ 450 million to support the proposed Katz Group Arena — more on that later).

Social impact «residents» that have been placed in coworking centres by All Good Work include BASE, which develops co-living residences for young adults with learning differences; RiF, which supports refugees and asylum seekers arriving in New York City; and AdaptLab — a team that helps filmmakers with autism and learning differences to work on productions and gain valuable skills for sustainable employment.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

This year Hong Kong is the host city and Cyberport will be jointly organising this high profile event on 10 - 11 April with ESCAP with support from the Innovation and Technology Bureau of HKSAR Government.

Kansas City - based Edge Up Sports launched a crowdfunding campaign Wednesday to support its platform providing fantasy football players insight on their picks.

The developers of the sprawling Port Covington property on the South Baltimore waterfront say they will soon seek their first sale of city bonds and put the proceeds toward the infrastructure to support two or three mixed - use buildings that will open in...

According to researchers at McGill, using the data from the At Home / Chez Soi project, «Support services for homeless people with mental illness in Canada's biggest cities cost more than $ 55K a year per person on average.»

Dr Billings, who was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.

A rally has been held in Jakarta on Wednesday to support the city's Christian governor who was jailed for two years on Tuesday for blasphemy.

It includes a chapter on domestic life that reviews how and where single men lived; a chapter on associations such as the YMCA and YMHA, which sprang up in these years to offer support, wholesome company, and structure to bachelor life in the city; a chapter on bachelor - frequented institutions (a rather more dignified term than most readers would choose) such as the saloon, the pool and dance halls, and the barber shops.

Iraqi protestors gather in support of Prime Minister Nuri al - Maliki in the city of Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, on January 8, 2013.

On the principle that has driven him from the start, and that has apparently been supported at every turn by God's response — namely, that the righteous ought not suffer — Abraham might have pressed the case to its logical conclusion: to spare the city for the sake of one righteous man.

«But here in Oxford we're not prepared to just let the situation worsen, which is why the city council has chosen to pick up an additional, non-statutory burden in tackling rough sleeping to try to plug the gap after the county council was unable to carry on funding some support due to this tightening of the purse strings by the Government.

This museum, on the other hand, is supported fully by city taxes and to have such disregard for the culture of the area clearly shows a need to replace administration.

As much as I am outside of my comfort zone here (I do not attend church - nor plan on doing so ever again, I have plenty of non-christian friends but not one Christian friend in my current city, I DJ at a bar, I run a radio that plays secular music (yet everything is sacred), I work a regular day job, I struggle with financial hardship and responsibilities I never asked for..., I sometimes have fear of the future and many times my faith dwindles... Some days I cry because I support my family and I feel just really tired...) despite all this fractured humanity that I am....

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against Hunger.

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

Meat Free Monday founder Paul McCartney expressed his support for the initiative: «Congratulations to Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver, New Westminster and Port Moody for going meat free on Monday 15 May.

Investment until now had been focused on the cheese business, where following the opening of the new Nuneaton packing plant, Dairy Crest has a world - class supply chain supporting its Cathedral City brand.

Commenting on the packaging, the York Gin Company's Emma Godivala says: «We are very excited to be launching the first gin made in the ancient City of York, and we've had much support from other gin makers and enthusiasts — especially within Yorkshire itself.

Rainforest Alliance Leadership Summit May 9, 2018 - New York City, NY, United States A convening of leaders from business, government and conservation for a day of panels and discussions on protecting the environment, implementing climate solutions and supporting communities worldwide.

Then Abby Mandel, who I'm sure a lot of you remember, a great mover and shaker in the world of Chicago food, said we have to get together and do a farmers market that is different from the city's farmers market, one that will really educate people and start to really focus on sustainably raised crops, and she got a bunch of us chefs together to help her and support her launching that, and the great Green City Market was bcity's farmers market, one that will really educate people and start to really focus on sustainably raised crops, and she got a bunch of us chefs together to help her and support her launching that, and the great Green City Market was bCity Market was born.

Green City Market's Farmer Scholarship Program depends on support from our generous donors.

Fifth Annual Octoberfest at Bull City Burger and Brewery Free Live Music on Parrish Street Supporting Durham's Habitat for Humanity Durham, -LSB-...]

Culminating these dinner experiences is a dinner at the James Beard House on April 4, 2014 in New York City to support the foundation whose mission is to celebrate, nurture and honor America's diverse culinary heritage through programs that inspire and educate.

For instance, some fans are castigating Wenger for dealing with manu who is ready to pay higher fee than man city but are okay with and supporting Sanchez who is insisting on playing for domestic rival.