Sentences with phrase «other urban systems»

Cities seeking voluntary methods of desegregating schools developed Montessori magnet schools, first in Cincinnati, and then in other urban systems, most notably Milwaukee and Kansas City.

As we've learned from other urban systems, the key lies in the mayor's willingness to assume responsibility for the performance of the district.

Not exact matches

What DC's dangling: a hip, upwardly mobile urban center with a young, highly educated, tech savvy workforce, an expansive public transit system, biking trails and other neighborhood amenities, not to mention close ties to Amazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos.

As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

At an Urban Land Institute conference last week, two panels of transportation experts — one from the public sector, the other from the private sector — discussed the issues plaguing tri-state transportation systems and the potential of public - private partnerships to address them.

«Disruptions of services in one infrastructure will almost always result in disruptions in one or more other infrastructures, especially in urban systems, triggering serious cross-sectoral cascading infrastructure system failures in some locations, at least for short periods of time,» the report says.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

Breathing in smog, while inevitable in certain urban and industrial areas, can irritate the cardiovascular system and cause other health problems.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Wilson and others say that having effective leadership in urban school systems is important, regardless of where that leadership is located.

Likewise, the 2015 CREDO report concluded that Detroit's charter sector was one of only four urban charter communities that «provide essential examples of school - level and system - level commitments to quality that can serve as models to other communities.»

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

D.C. has recently undertaken two invaluable reforms that, when combined with the city's other systemic features, place D.C. on the brink of becoming the urban school system of the future.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

However, a comparison with other urban districts in Illinois and the Midwest, such as Cincinnati, Gary, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and St. Louis, none of which created a similar accountability system during this period, shows that Chicago's trend is unique (see Figure 2).

Management - information systems that track attendance and other data can make a significant difference in the success of urban out - of - school - time programs, a new report says.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

I recognize that even in suburban districts some GT programs are poorly run and other issues can exist, but to simply say that «for urban schools, the standard G and T system is often a waste of time» is a truly ridiculous conclusion.

The incident stunned parents who received word at afternoon pickup and jolted officials accustomed to dealing with an urban school system's usual array of crime and other emergencies.

Proponents point to positive benchmarks: District enrollment is growing; D.C. scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have improved (in some cases at a much faster rate than students in other large urban districts); and teachers who left the district after receiving low marks on D.C.'s new teacher evaluation system were replaced with higher - scoring teachers who boosted student achievement.

In addition, YES Prep's students are outperforming their higher income and white peers statewide in most cases — something very few, if any, other large urban school systems nationwide to date have achieved.

Big urban transit systems and the profit motive aren't a good fit for each other.

«We are proud that HISD has managed to avoid the extensive school closures that we have seen in other large urban school systems,» said Jason Spencer, press secretary for the district, in a statement.

Reformers say its successes as an almost all - charter, state - controlled district make it a model for other failing urban school systems.

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

I then offer a comprehensive profile of Massachusetts» approach to charter schools, including an analysis of Massachusetts» charter cap system alongside an examination of various data trends accompanying the policy, including the conclusion that the cap seems to have produced charter schools which appear to be serving Boston's and other urban areas» low - income and minority communities particularly well, although this pattern is not necessarily replicated in non-urban schools.

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The BMW Motorrad Concept Link boasts an all - electric drive system and state - of - the - art connectivity technology, as well as numerous other pioneering ideas for urban mobility in tomorrow's world.

The exclusive BMW HP4 RACE for track use and the BMW Motorrad Concept Link, boasting an all - electric drive system and state - of - the - art connectivity technology, are joined by numerous other pioneering ideas for urban mobility in tomorrow's world.

Some of the artists draw inspiration from the lines of urban architecture, some from surface and texture, and others from vintage system grids.

Brooding and violent, at times absurd and at others disquieting, the LONDON PICTURES reveal what might be termed the nervous system of quotidian contemporary society: the impulses, outbursts, sorrows, hopes, temper and desires of daily urban life.

From the press release: Brooding and violent, at times absurd and at others disquieting, the LONDON PICTURES reveal what might be termed the nervous system of quotidian contemporary society: the impulses, outbursts, sorrows, hopes, temper and desires of daily urban life.

After reading and talking about the truly impressive, activist work of people like Will Allen of Growing Power, urban farmer and educator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and other inspiring changemakers, we were asked to think about what we could do in support of a healthier food system.

~ ~ Update, 12:24 p.m. It will be interesting to check whether building collapses and other quake damage match the projections mapped in a 2010 paper in the Journal of Geographic Information Systems: «Urban Vulnerabilities in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Visualizations of Human / Hazard Interactions,» by Keshav Bhattarai and Dennis Conway.

Like other urban farming initiatives, rooftop farms promote sustainable living by contributing to the local food production system and to recycling urban organic waste.

In addition to the chapters devoted to overarching regional breakdowns, there are also chapters devoted to other culturally or geographically regionally similar areas, such as, coastal areas, rural communities, and «urban systems» — all equally powerful ways of situating people in shared communities of interest facing similar challenges..

significant deforrestation has not been replaced with other plants, significant deforrestation are in urban areas, the deforrestation reduces the co2 cycled through natural systems leading to more atmospheric co2

RUAF collaborates with local authorities, research organisations, urban producers and other stakeholders in the assessment of the urban food system and the design of adequate urban agriculture and food policies and - programmes, applying a multi-stakeholder approach.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

The event brought together an impressive array of groups, including indigenous peoples, fishermen, traditional riverbank communities, popular movements from the periphery of urban centers, union workers opposed to the privatization of water and sanitation systems, and environmental and human rights NGOs and students, among others.

Since more than a decade RUAF Foundation is publishing the Urban Agriculture Magazine in English to enable exchange of policy views, practical experiences, research results and other information in the field of urban agriculture and urban food sysUrban Agriculture Magazine in English to enable exchange of policy views, practical experiences, research results and other information in the field of urban agriculture and urban food sysurban agriculture and urban food sysurban food systems.

The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

Next to the provision of fresh food and animal feed, urban agriculture may play other functions in the city system, and combine different functions in one area of land (multi-functionality).

Urban Water Management Plan (2015) presents the latest information on the San Francisco Public Utility Commission's service areas, Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System and other water systems operated by the SFPUC, system supplies and demands, water supply reliability, Water Conservation Act of 2009 compliance, water shortage contingency planning, and demand managSystem and other water systems operated by the SFPUC, system supplies and demands, water supply reliability, Water Conservation Act of 2009 compliance, water shortage contingency planning, and demand managsystem supplies and demands, water supply reliability, Water Conservation Act of 2009 compliance, water shortage contingency planning, and demand management.

The change in management is intended to result in a more reliable system led by Alta, an operator that has successfully managed large scale urban bike share programs in New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, and several others.

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