Sentences with phrase «separate city states»

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And, the AAUW reports, «many counties and cities have additional regulations, separate from both state and federal laws.»

But they are separated by nearly 800 miles of blacktop, and by one other very important measure: McAllen is the second-most expensive city for medicine in the United States, trailing only Miami in costs.

«We can see the bridge built with local steel here that literally connects Canada to the United States,» he said, gesturing out the window toward the overpass spanning the nearby St. Marys River that separates the Canadian city from its American namesake in Michigan.

The letter raised the possibility that a federal contractor in San Francisco would have to make its policies conform to three separate sick leave rules — one for the city, one for the state of California and one for the federal government.

With only Mississippi State this weekend and Tulane on November 22 separating LSU from its first perfect season in 50 years, the school and the city have gone football mad.

Not only do our 700 school district lines often track patterns of residential economic segregation, there are school districts in this state today — including New York City — with boundary lines within the district that keep children of wealth starkly separated from children of poverty.

At a press conference early this morning demanding more education funding from the state, Ms. James went after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the $ 2 billion tax cut plan he unveiled ahead of his State of the State speech last week, separating her from other city lawmakers, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who have largely refused to criticize the state, Ms. James went after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the $ 2 billion tax cut plan he unveiled ahead of his State of the State speech last week, separating her from other city lawmakers, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who have largely refused to criticize the State of the State speech last week, separating her from other city lawmakers, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who have largely refused to criticize the State speech last week, separating her from other city lawmakers, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who have largely refused to criticize the plan.

Prosecutors in Bharara's office filed court papers in two separate corruption cases giving notice that they were adding the pensions of two state senators, a city councilman and two other officials to the list of property subject to forfeiture if the officials are convicted.

The Utica City School District's practice of sending older students who are new to America into separate programs led to a lawsuit and an investigation by the state's attorney general.

At the same time, Mr. Peralta, a leading candidate for Queens borough president, has paid $ 31,000 since the end of 2011 from his separate state Senate account to the New York City law firm Stroock Stroock & Lavan.

The effort to institute cashless tolling along the state Thruway system should be separate from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to institute congestion pricing at key points in New York City, Republican Sen. Michael Razenhofer said in a Wednesday Capital Tonight interview.

«We're going to continue working together to ensure that business opportunities are available to everyone,» he said at a separate forum, which was part of a day - long event sponsored by the newspaper City & State.

Borno state police commissioner Damian Chukwu said one civilian was killed as locals in the Jiddari Polo area of the city fled the insurgents, while 12 were killed nearby in three separate suicide blasts.

The comptroller's action leaves the separate New York State Teachers» Retirement System — which covers public - school educators outside New York City — in a shrinking minority of funds still optimistically assuming they'll earn 8 percent.

The New York City Board of Elections is currently under a separate investigation by the state Attorney General as to why more than 100,000 Brooklyn voter registrations were canceled just before the primary.

After separating from her, Hochul was surrounded by reporters, with Juan Manuel Benitez of NY1 asking whether she would support allowing New York City's expected municipal IDs to be used to enter state government buildings and access state government services.

They were separated from another hopeful, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, by a seat occupied by State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, who is running for public advocate.

The contest pits Moya against Hiram Monserrate, who is trying to make a comeback after he was expelled from the state Senate for slashing his girlfriend's face with glass, and did jail time for stealing city money in a separate fraud case.

The ruling came three days after Mr. de Blasio, in his State of the City speech, predicted a court victory on the issue, and criticized what he called the «landlord lobby» for being behind the legal action and a separate court challenge to a rent freeze approved by the Rent Guidelines Board.

Officials from the Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance's office and the Southern District of New York, in separate statements, appeared to fault the mayor for directing donor inquiries to city agencies and for circumventing contribution limits to State Senate candidates.

Asked why the city and state seemed to have such a hard time agreeing on how to handle the homeless problem, Cuomo said that the situation was similar to how reporters sometimes fight with their editors, because they occupy separate roles.

Mr. de Blasio has said he was not immediately informed about a separate federal investigation, also by the United States attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, into the New York City Housing Authority, which began turning over millions of documents last year.

Among them were plans to create separate inspector general offices for the scandal - tainted City University of New York as well as the State University of New York system.

Starting when Cuomo's father, Mario, was governor, the city and the state came up with a joint plan known as NY / NY to build supportive housing on three separate occasions.

In at least three City Council races where sitting state Assemblymembers are candidates, separate complaints have been filed with the city Campaign Finance Board alleging that each of them has violated prohibitions against using government - funded mass mailers within a mandated 90 - day communication blackout period before the September 12 primCity Council races where sitting state Assemblymembers are candidates, separate complaints have been filed with the city Campaign Finance Board alleging that each of them has violated prohibitions against using government - funded mass mailers within a mandated 90 - day communication blackout period before the September 12 primcity Campaign Finance Board alleging that each of them has violated prohibitions against using government - funded mass mailers within a mandated 90 - day communication blackout period before the September 12 primary.

(There are eight separate systems: five in New York City and two others, one for police and fire and one for teachers, in addition to the state and local system for public employees outside of New York City.)

State government has utilized design - build to save time and money on big infrastructure projects and New York City wants similar power to streamline the process by awarding one contract for project design and execution, instead of engaging in separate processes and contracts.

In his state budget proposal, Cuomo for the first time would create a separate, higher minimum wage for New York City.

Institution mailing address — If you are planning to use U.S. mail service, use separate fields for street, city, state, zip code.

A bio stating you're «looking for a partner to watch the Northern Lights, navigate through obscure cities and fill an experimental - baking - taster vacancy» separates you from singles who aren't likely to be serious dating, more likely «looking for someone to chill with, preferably also an avid Netflix advocate».

Love and Relocation In these modern days of Jewish internet dating and Jewish Matchmaking, many potential partners live in separate cities, separate states and sometimes separate -LSB-...]

In these modern days of Jewish internet dating and Jewish Matchmaking, many potential partners live in separate cities, separate states and sometimes separate countries.

Separate from NCLB, however, many states and cities have undertaken high - profile and often controversial initiatives to take over, reconstitute, or turn around low - performing schools.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schools.

They brought this action in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas to enjoin enforcement of a Kansas statute which permits, but does not require, cities of more than 15,000 population to maintain separate school facilities for Negro and white students.

One - quarter of the nation's high school students don't know the name of the ocean that separates the United States from Asia — the Pacific — and 80 percent do not know that India is the world's largest democracy, according to a 2001 study conducted by the Asia Society, a New York City - based organization that promotes an increased understanding of the countries and cultures in Asia.

NAEP maintains a separate database of 21 cities that are part of «TUDA,» or Trial Urban District Assessments, that get their own scores separately from their home states.

«A «state's rights» educational system is structured to be «separate and unequal — 50 states, 3,067 counties, tens of thousands of cities, 15,000 school districts and 85,000 schools — all «separate and unequal,» each with varying degrees of opportunity, funding and quality,» says Sharpton.

Wouldn't it be awesome if public schools had ambassadors / senators / advocates who could represent their schools» needs to city, state, and local leaders separate from their local elected officials?

Looking across ELA and math scores on state exams for New York City students in grades three through eight in 2003, the achievement gap separating black and Latino students from white and Asian students was.74 of a standard deviation.

The Globe review offers a rare examination of payroll records at the city's 16 independently run charter schools — public institutions that are overseen by state education officials and operate as separate government entities from the city.

The City School District of the City of New York (the New York City public schools) is the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,800 separate schools.

Explore the New York City subway system with Pablo and Alicia as they get separated from their class while finding their way to the Empire State Building.

There is also a box set out that provides a $ 1 discount overbuying the books individually!In the dystopian future, the nation is divided into six city - states that are all further separated by the benefit each citizen can provide to their society: Stalwart (strength), Astute (intelligence), Collusive (greed), Radiant (beauty), Quixotic (no life direction), and the Altruistic (willing...

New York City consists of five separate boroughs with wildly different — and higher — housing prices than the state as a whole.

Currently the ninth - largest city in NC, it's also the only city in the entire state that has parts in four separate counties.

Below we profile a few cities in the state of New York and include a separate study on New York City.

There's a unique feeling when you live and therefore drive in L.A.. It's the feeling of being in a city situated in basically a perfect place to live (beautiful weather, right along the water, in one of the most diverse states in the country) but that feels so huge and where everyone wants to mind their own business and be in their own cars and be kind of separated from everything around them.

In fact, most of your governance in Cities: Skylines is separated by districts, making taxation as true to the United States as developmentally possible.

On October 26th, Ken Johnson's review Minding the Gap Between Rarefied and Local Art Culture states, «A video called «Intertextuality» that shows a chicken wandering around on a city street has been altered to give it the high - contrast darks and lights and the intense, fruity color of an Andy Warhol painting... The effect of such works is to conflate in the viewer's mind two habitually separated realms: that of rarefied high art and that of popular culture and ordinary life.