Sentences with phrase «so neighborhood leaders»

Central City residents are already concerned about the Orleans Parish School Board's deliberations over the fate of Mahalia Jackson Elementary, James said, so neighborhood leaders are seeking a stronger role in other educational options.

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He hopes to be involved with this project as the community leader so that can help build the neighborhood into a tighter knit community.

The mayor is currently seeking a second four - year stint in office, and Mark - Viverito is term - limited after December, and so the next administration and a future Council leader will have to endure the arduous duty of siting the numerous smaller replacement jails in neighborhoods around the five boroughs and dealing with local backlash.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

«For months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statement.

According to a press release his office sent out on Friday: «New York City tenants, housing advocates and clergy and community leaders [will be]... chanting slogans, waving placards and criticizing so - called advocacy groups as being out of touch with the needs of tenants in poor and middle class neighborhoods.»

In other words, DeFrancisco wants a leader who's not afraid to slash political fat, who can inspire idealistic families to stay in the city, who knows when to pat a head or to give a kick in the behind, who can build a bridge to needy neighborhoods, who can touch off the changes so many residents are longing to see.

It also had a social networking application, sort of like Facebook, so that people could connect with other people in their neighborhood teams or their team leaders, and interact, like soliciting rides to events, that type of thing.

The searing heat and high unemployment rate has some self - appointed leaders in the African - American community confronting the Italian owner (Danny Aiello) of a pizzeria about why he should have a restaurant in a neighborhood with so few black - owned businesses.

• Engage Detroit's land developers, investors, mayor, and community leaders to address safety and transportation issues so families don't have to default to their academically failing neighborhood school just because they have no way to get their child to a safer, more effective school.

«Rather, public school leaders should look to their successful programs — charters, magnet, and neighborhood schools alike — and apply the lessons learned to other schools so that the choices parents and students have will all be good ones.»

15:20 Dr. Montecel closes her speech: «The Quality Schools Action Framework speaks to the need and possibility of engaging citizens, leaders and policymakers around high quality data that call all of us as members of the community to act, to establish common ground, to strengthen education, and finally and most importantly and fundamentally, to align our values with our investments in the school system: fundamentals and features that we know are needed — from teaching quality, to engaged students, engaged parents and families, and a high quality, authentic curriculum so that students in every neighborhood and of every background can in fact have equal educational opportunities.»

This involves things like people who help others with tech (SO many of our Insiders help their schools, neighborhoods, forums, and companies with tech decisions and problems), people who do cool Surface art on the devices in the stores, people who are teaching interesting classes, in general... people who really stand out as creative leaders in these communities.