Sentences with phrase «on closing the gap by»

De Blasio cites the city's 21 % poverty rate as proof of this, and he campaigned on closing the gap by pushing real estate developers to build or preserve 200,000 affordable homes and creating a universal pre-K program for the poor, funded by raising taxes on those who make a $ 500,000 or more.

«So, even where overall attainment is high, we want schools to focus relentlessly on closing this gap by improving outcomes for those from disadvantaged backgrounds.»

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In February 2017, the TMX - backed, Advancing Innovation Roundtable, chaired by Yaletown partner, Salil Munjal, published a comprehensive report containing recommendations on how to close the growth capital gap in Canada, currently estimated at $ 4 billion and growing.

Maglan concentrated on investing in companies with economic difficulties in the United States but the low values in Puerto Rico and «the steps taken by the Governor to close the gap in the budget» attracted Maglan to invest for the first time in municipal debt.

Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»

Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.

2nd point is we will only close the gap by finding where to improve on our own team.

Liverpool had the chance to close the gap on league leaders Chelsea yesterday, but were held to a 2 - 2 draw by Sunderland.

Rennes, on the other hand, took a major step closer to safety by opening up a ten - point gap between they and the bottom three.

Chelsea can close the gap on top - four rivals Tottenham to just five points by beating Burnley tonight, but Antonio Conte has opted to rest several key stars at Turf Moor.

A win for City would give us the chance to close the gap on the league leaders to just 10 points by beating Aston Villa at the Emirates stadium on Sunday.

The Rossoneri were held by Sassuolo at the San Siro on Sunday night, missing out on an opportunity to close the gap on the likes of Roma and Inter who lost over the weekend.

They made the most of it by capitalizing on opportunities in every game and closing up as many gaps as they could.

still gutted by our failure to close our gap on chelsea.

Millwall kept their hopes of winning this season's FA WSL2 alive by closing the gap on leaders Doncaster to three points, as they extend their unbeaten run in the calendar year.

I love winning football games, obviously, and at 4 - 0 up we really should have one this one, but if you had offered me the opportunity to close the gap on United by one point I would have taken it.

They had a glorious opportunity to close the gap on PSG and were instead beaten 2 - 1 by Lille at home.

On a day where rivals Manchester United are reportedly closing on a move for Alexis Sanchez, the day couldn't have gotten any worse for the Gunners as we failed to close the gap on the top four by losing 2 - 1 away at the Vitality StadiuOn a day where rivals Manchester United are reportedly closing on a move for Alexis Sanchez, the day couldn't have gotten any worse for the Gunners as we failed to close the gap on the top four by losing 2 - 1 away at the Vitality Stadiuon a move for Alexis Sanchez, the day couldn't have gotten any worse for the Gunners as we failed to close the gap on the top four by losing 2 - 1 away at the Vitality Stadiuon the top four by losing 2 - 1 away at the Vitality Stadium.

Arsenal are set to take on Sunderland in what was their game in hand and it give them oppertunity to close the gap between them and other top four hopeful Liverpool by just 1 point going into the last weekend of premier league football.

A German triumph in Slovenia would close the current gap dividing second from third before matchday six, but Estoril coach Marco Silva is not giving up on steering the Portuguese side into second place, despite the fact they trail Liberec by four points.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

Peggy discusses the ways pleasure is largely missing from young women's sexual encounters and calls on us to close the «orgasm gap» by talking candidly with them from an early age about sex, bodies, intimacy and joy.

On October 25, I'll be giving the keynote address at the Fostering Hope / Closing the Gap Summit in Salem, Oregon, organized by the Catholic Community Services organization in the region.

If Scotland were to choose to go down the independence route, not only would there be more than enough oil income to make every single Scot better off by considerably more than # 500 a year, but also for its new government to close down the submarine bases in the Clyde without having to submit to any form of blackmail on currency issues, to increase the gap in health and education funding relative to the rest of the UK, to keep the ship yards open, and a great deal more besides.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close an over $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses and prescription opioid users, among others.

The PSC's press release (not sent out by the Schneiderman campaign) quotes from the Times» endorsement senator and also highlighted his effort to combat the «corrupting influence of big corporations» and support of tax increases on the wealthy to help close the state's chronic budget gap.

The Conservative - controlled north London council has committed to spending # 1.5 m this financial year on a much - hyped reform programme to help close a yawning budget gap, but it is on course to recoup just # 1.4 m in savings in the year.The programme is budgeted to deliver savings of # 13m a year by 2014, about a third of the total cuts planned by the council.

Hammond announced a review by Oliver Letwin on how to close the gap between planning permissions being granted and houses being built.

Mr. Paterson, meeting publicly in Albany with leaders of the Legislature, also said he would not sign any budget that relied on borrowed money to close New York's $ 9 billion budget gap, a decision that would essentially kill a proposal crafted by his own lieutenant governor, Richard Ravitch, to use short - term borrowing to offset some cuts to government programs.

Commenting on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisiGap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprisigap, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «The findings of this report are sadly unsurprising.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research group.

Cuomo, a Democrat, said the only way to close the gap is to extend the so - called millionaire's tax, which he said would generate $ 4 billion by continuing to impose a tax of 8.82 percent on the state's highest wage earners for an additional three years.

Speaking at the last public hearing before the City Council and City Hall finalize next year's budget by the June 30 deadline, Mulgrew said the UFT has repeatedly brought ideas to the table on how to close the city's projected budget gap without teacher layoffs, such as cutting back on outside contractors at the Department of Education or using a portion of the city's rainy - day fund.

Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday unveiled a $ 168 billion budget plan that would close a more than $ 4 billion gap by reducing some spending, and imposing tax increases on health insurers, big businesses, and prescription opioid users, among others.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — World AIDS Day 2014, December 1, 2014, is focused on the opportunity to it can only be achieved by closing the gap between people who have access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services and people who are being left behind.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

Such concerns have led the European Commission (EC) to develop an ambitious strategy for human resources and mobility, based on four priorities: making science more attractive for young people; improving training and mobility opportunities to facilitate the access of researchers to new knowledge and skills, and to attract researchers to Europe; developing better job opportunities for researchers by closing the gap between academia and industry; and improving public recognition of the researcher's status and profession.

If the dragonfly can match its prey's body orientation, scoring a successful meal becomes as simple as closing the vertical gap and grabbing on as the target (a fruit fly in the video above) passes by.

One scenario investigated by the team is on the supply side: the closing of «yield gaps».

But project manager Masato Nakamura thinks enough fuel remains on board to close that gap by changing course and to attempt another orbit - insertion manoeuvre.

It is thought that therapeutic doses of niacin may help close the gap on the residual risks left by statin drugs approaches.

The Serpent And The Rainbow (1988 — Wes Craven) Thanks in part to Matt Price and his podcast «Let's Scare Matthew Price To Death», I've finally closed a huge gap in my horror knowledge by seeing — on screen no less — Craven's enormously entertaining film.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

JE: Just finally on that gap and starting early, that's been backed up by lots of studies hasn't it, it's very difficult to close that gap once they start into school.

«By working closely with UK universities to raise awareness of data analytics skills and giving hands on training, we are helping to close the skills gap that exists between today's graduates and the workplace — but we see this is just the beginning.»

These systems attempt to close gaps by focusing on gaps directly.

Without information on costs and benefits, the percentage of Hispanics selecting the four - year option trails that of whites by 6 percentage points, but that gap closes when either cost or earnings information is provided.

By moving to tougher, Common Core - aligned assessments with much higher cut scores, states can finally close the honesty gap and make good on this commitment.

Achievement: Student groups currently scoring below benchmark (scale scores below 750 on current state tests) will be expected to close the gap to 750 by 25 percent within 5 years.