Sentences with phrase «speaks up for urban»

I really like the fact that it supports urban education and speaks up for urban education.

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10:00 AM — Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. speaks at the Center for Urban Future's Scaling Up Small Businesses Panel Discussion.
Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.
Assemblages by John Outterbridge like Ragman, Urban Man, and No Time for Forgiving (with that NO in block wooden capitals) speak of the same streets and of Llyn Foulkes in the burbs or Ed Kienholz up in the Bay Area, as does Raymond Saunders with his waste of news clippings and a flag, and anyway Purifoy worked at the new Watts Towers Arts Center, opened in 1970.
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