The core of SimCity was still intact and completely functional, even if
the reduced city size made it difficult to do what you might do in the older titles, but the always - online functionality crippled a game that had the potential to become a positive step forward.
Not exact matches
The mayor's plan aims to
reduce the
city's inmate population to 5,000 detainees from its current
size of about 9,400.
This would obviously increase the
size of each member's district, and
reduce the representation of each individual voter in the
city.
In Nashville, there's a movement to
reduce the
size of the
city council from 35 members to 15, in order to streamline «getting things done».
The mayor recently landed the support of 2010 GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, who said Tkazyik «has a proven track record of cutting spending four straight years, cutting the
city's debt and
reducing the
size of bureaucracy.»
The announcement came in the form of a series of changes Fariña proposed to the Department of Education's 2015 - 2019 Capital Plan, which also includes adding 7,000 seats to the
city's schools to make room for Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed universal pre-K program and to help
reduce class
size, which rose consistently during the last six years of the Bloomberg administration.
Highlights were policies still claimed by Labour today as among its most significant achievements — the creation of the minimum wage, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and bills to
reduce class
sizes — as well as one key Brownite policy whose wisdom has now become disputed: independence for the Bank of England, which also involved removing its role as
City regulator.
Studies have shown that smaller class
sizes lead to better academic results for students and efforts to
reduce class
sizes have enjoyed broad support from
city educators.
Advocates and
city parents have filed a lawsuit calling on state Education Department officials and
city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza to
reduce class
sizes in the public schools.
«We are committed to addressing overcrowding across this
city and have invested significant resources to increase seat capacity and
reduce class
size,» Aciman said.
Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York
City public schools
reduce class
size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.
Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the
city's schools,
reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class
size reduction.
MANHATTAN — A state appeals court threw out a suit brought by the United Federation of Teachers and NAACP alleging the
city misused funds allocated specifically to
reduce class
size.
The suit called into question how $ 760 million in state money given to the
city to
reduce class
size was spent.
Manhattan could see their New York
City Council delegation
size reduced by one seat, and the Bronx, which has the smallest delegation, could pick up a seat.
Beyond asking the
city to increase its contribution to the M.T.A., the Cuomo administration is seeking to
reduce the
size of the capital plan.
New York
City's proposed ban on large drinks could
reduce calorie consumption if 40 percent of people comply, and do not feel the need to purchase several smaller -
size drinks at once
PNNL's new zinc - polyiodide flow battery has a high energy density, which
reduces its
size and cost and makes it well suited to store energy in densely populated
cities.
Pavements, including roads and parking lots, can cover one - third or more of a typical U.S.
city, and previous studies have shown that cool pavements can
reduce a
city's average outside air temperature by around 0.5 degrees Celsius, depending on the extent of deployment,
city size, and
city location.
By
reducing humans to just a few inches tall you can pack an entire
city into a space the
size of a football pitch and massively
reduce their impact on the environment.
They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that
reducing class
size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner -
city but not in suburban settings.
The mayor also wants to
reduce the
size of the schools — or schools within schools — to no more than 500 students, and he wants to create «community partnerships» that would draw the private sector and nonprofit groups into the job of educating the
city's kids.
A dozen years after it was created by Congress, the
city's charter system has taken shape as a fast - growing network of schools, whose ability to tap into private donors, bankers and developers has made it possible to fund impressive facilities, expand programs and
reduce class
sizes.
Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great
City Schools, a coalition of 68 urban school systems, said his members rely on the fund mostly to
reduce class
size, which is allowed under current rules.
Last week at a school board meeting, Kansas
City, MO School District superintendent John Covington told the school board that there is no research that supports
reduced class
size linked to increased student achievement.
Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, said
city school officials should
reduce class
sizes and hire additional reading and math specialists before focusing on summer instruction.
This will allow our children to have experienced educators in their schools and possibly even help to
reduce class -
sizes around the
city.
San Bernardino
City Unified outlined how it will spend $ 1.2 million to reinstate nine counselors and $ 13.5 million to
reduce class
sizes to targeted levels.
«I see frustration and bitterness among parents growing by leaps and bounds,» said Leonie Haimson, a mother who runs Class
Size Matters, an advocacy group in New York
City that pushes for
reduced testing and smaller class
sizes.
Harries said the additional state resources that would support Elm
City Imagine could be an opportunity to
reduce class
sizes at other, over-enrolled public schools and share the burden of enrolling «transient students» who switch schools after Oct. 1.
Its compact
size is great for navigating
city streets, but translates into
reduced cargo and passenger space.
We should send more people to Europe to study the models developed in
cities of various
sizes, instead of reinventing the wheel... Many great ideas can be implemented neighborhood by neighborhood to
reduce traffic and reclaim public space for the people who live and visit here.
NEW YORK — Today Mayor de Blasio announced a suite of new energy efficiency initiatives that will dramatically
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from New York
City's over one million buildings — of all
sizes, types, and uses — and put the
City on a pathway to an 80 percent reduction in all emissions by 2050, while creating green jobs and generating energy savings for building owners and tenants.
To maintain a robust economy and good quality of life, the report states, Indian businesses and government must invest in areas such as women's health and education to
reduce family
size, resource - efficient
cities and infrastructure, and increased food system productivity.
Growing in
size might be a solution for criminal legal aid firms in London and other major
cities to improve their efficiency and provide services in a more localised way, thus
reducing the time spent travelling to advise and represent clients in police stations and magistrates» courts.
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