Sentences with phrase «small city districts»

Margaret Terry Orr (PhD, Columbia) is a faculty member of Bank Street College of Education (NY) and directs its Future School Leaders Academy, a two - year school and district leadership preparation program in partnership with 30 + suburban and small city districts.

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This Small City is Building a Thriving Innovation District (and It's Not in California or New York)

On this day in 2011, hundreds of protesters flowed into New York's Zuccotti Park, a small private park just two blocks from Wall Street in the city's financial district.

Small, concentrated districts like the Scillies and Gibraltar will report before then, as may the City of London (which has very few inhabitants because it's all office space), but these are sideshows to the main event.

Delphi Automotive (dlph) will launch a small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city district in one of the first real - world tests of automated rides on demand, the company said on Monday.

Singapore is a small city - state divided into districts; binary options trading in this market has existed for a while in six districts, although not in all areas.

That general tax is the single largest tax, but there are other smaller taxes that vary by city and district.

Pius also brought a pragmatic desire to realize in this small town what his papal predecessor Nicholas V desired but could not realize for Rome: the «most perfect paradise» of the Vatican district, a City of God on the Tuscan side of the Tiber.

Using $ 35 million from a lease of city parking garages, the district will transform 25 acres that include Daley Bicentennial Plaza and two smaller areas to the east known as Cancer Survivors Garden and Peanut Park, officials said.

The show aims to offer practical and imaginative ways to make the most of garden spaces common in the city — small front and back yards, parkways, balconies and roof gardens, for example, said Laura Foxgrover, director of development for the Park District.

The Park District, which has seven «dog - friendly areas» in the city, already has designated Coliseum Park, a small South Loop park at 14th Street and Wabash Avenue, as a dog park.

West Chicago Library District - Seeking to annex all unincorporated land north of the city to Army Trail Road and two smaller tracts on the city «s south side.

Major City Directors Section Meeting CEP: Making It Work in Major City Districts (3310) Key Area 3 - Administration 7/14/2015, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Ballroom ACE Speakers: Nadine Mann, PhD, RD, Zoe Neuberger, Stacy Koppen and Susan Ehrhart, SNS The national roll - out of the new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) has exceeded all expectations among small and mid-size school dDistricts (3310) Key Area 3 - Administration 7/14/2015, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Ballroom ACE Speakers: Nadine Mann, PhD, RD, Zoe Neuberger, Stacy Koppen and Susan Ehrhart, SNS The national roll - out of the new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) has exceeded all expectations among small and mid-size school districtsdistricts.

So if a city or county is smaller than a congressional district, try to put the whole thing in one district.

With her experience in housing, education, criminal justice, small business preservation, and disaster preparedness, she is ready to fight for District 2 in the City Council and improve the quality of life for every resident.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

City Council Races 2017: Small Business Survival in the East Village (Council District 2), via Gotham Gazette & WNYC

The over-representation of London is partly due to the city having all - out elections while most of the smaller district councils in Leave leaning areas have just one - third of their council seats up for election.

Though it is the country's smallest Congressional district by area, New York's 13th District has consistently played a larger - than - life role in city and state politics — marked by momentous wins, sometimes - bitter conflicts and historic aldistrict by area, New York's 13th District has consistently played a larger - than - life role in city and state politics — marked by momentous wins, sometimes - bitter conflicts and historic alDistrict has consistently played a larger - than - life role in city and state politics — marked by momentous wins, sometimes - bitter conflicts and historic alliances.

For the two years before his federal indictment, Lipsky was one of the most prominent voices in defending Willets Point United, a coalition of small business and property owners in Willets Point who have sought to fight the city's plans to replace the 62 - acre district of auto repair shops and factories with a $ 3 billion development project.

Public Matching Funds in NYC Amplify Voices of Small Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for candidates who can raise a certain number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their distSmall Donors New York City's public financing program provides matching funds for candidates who can raise a certain number of small - dollar contributions from constituents in their distsmall - dollar contributions from constituents in their district.

She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

In 2003, a proposal to exempt small city school districts from constitutional debt limits failed, despite support from the influential teachers union.

The New York City Board of Elections lists his vote total as 726,361 with 98.4 percent of districts reporting, which could wind up resulting in the second - smallest total garnered by a victorious Democrat in the past century.

There shall be district committees for each of the following political districts within the County of New York: Congress, State Senate, Assembly, City Council and Civil Court (where the District is smaller than the district committees for each of the following political districts within the County of New York: Congress, State Senate, Assembly, City Council and Civil Court (where the District is smaller than the District is smaller than the County).

In November 2003, we were instrumental in defeating the «non-partisan election» ballot question in New York City and the raising of the debt limit for small city school distriCity and the raising of the debt limit for small city school districity school districts.

So there willl continue to be cuts... but especially upstate, they were disproportionately hit in terms of rural districts and small city school districts.»

Powers, a Democratic district leader, has also shown strong fundraising and believes that the city must decrease taxes on small businesses, and also better protect tenants.

«Mark Levine ain't Puerto Rican or black,» Vincent Morgan, a former Rangel aide and challenger, said of the recently elected white City Councilman whose Upper West Side district also includes West Harlem and a small section of Washington Heights.

(Fordham Road, NY)-- On Friday, April 15, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer was in the Bronx with the Fordham Road Business Improvement District, local community leaders and advocates to visit small businesses.

Easton, with AQE, says he's also hopeful about a newer lawsuit, filed in 2014 by eight small city school districts in New York, now winding its way through the courts.

An Albany County state supreme court justice has ruled against plaintiffs from eight «small city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state aid.

The parents and children in Utica and seven other upstate school districts involved in the so - called «Small Cities Lawsuit» say their fight for obtaining more education funding is not done yet.

He says he will work with the city's Department of Small Business Services to formalize merchant associations and business improvement districts to strengthen businesses along the Westchester Avenue and Castle Hill Avenue corridors and will work to ensure that the implementation of new ferry service is community oriented.

«I ran for NYC Council in 1997 after a career as a teacher, city planner, small business owner, district manager of a community board, and having held a number of civic leadership roles.»

UPPER EAST SIDE — The field of candidates for Jessica Lappin's District 5 City Council Seat has grown smaller.

In 2011, 60,420 people voted on school budgets in 37 suburban and small city school districts in Erie and Niagara counties.

A flurry of lawsuits related to school aid is already in motion: An action brought by so - called «small - cities» districts is scheduled to go to trial in September.

State Sen. Joseph Addabbo (l.) defended himself against attacks on his small business record by his opponent for the 15th Senate District, City Councilman Eric Ulrich.

Contained primarily within Cheshire East [36] and Chester West & Chester [37], with small portions along the borders of the Halton [38] and Warrington [39] districts, towns and cities such as Chester, Macclesfield, Alsager, Congleton, Northwich, Ellesmere Port, Knutsford, Warrington, Poynton, Disley, Neston, Wilmslow, Runcorn, and Widnes are either surrounded wholly, partially enveloped by, or on the fringes of the belts.

«At this point we need to come up with a plan even if it is smaller or phased in,» for the project located in her city council district, she said.

Little is one of a handful of attorneys working on behalf of eight districts that largely serve low - income students in Maisto vs. State of New York, or the «Small Cities» case.

But in its final post-trial submission filed this year, New York argued the formula does not represent the funding needed to give all students, including those in the small - city districts, the opportunity for a «sound basic education» under the New York Constitution, according to the alliance.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about the University at Albany / CDTA bus incident and school funding for eight small city school districts including Kingston and Poughkeepsie.

Eight small - city districts — including Jamestown, Kingston, Mount Vernon, Newburgh, Niagara Falls, Port Jervis, Poughkeepsie and Utica — sued in 2008 to force compliance.

The city's 59 Community Boards represent slightly smaller areas of the city than city council districts, of which there are 51, and focus largely on qualify of life issues.

Years after the Kingston City School District joined seven other small - city school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough moCity School District joined seven other small - city school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough mocity school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough money.

The issue of equitable aid was at the heart of the $ 1.11 billion lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Quality Education on behalf of 26 students in eight small city school districts, including Kingston, in 2008.

«The court concludes that the plaintiffs have failed to establish their claim that the state has not met its constitutional obligation to provide the students in the eight small city school districts with the opportunity for a sound, basic education,» O'Connor wrote in her ruling.

Easton said he's also hopeful about a newer lawsuit, filed in 2014 by eight small school city districts in New York, which is now winding its way through the courts.