Sentences with phrase «struggling city neighborhoods»

Why she says you should vote for her: Hudson said she has worked hard to try to improve struggling city neighborhoods and to boost employment.

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Residents of Baltimore's less affluent communities have been complaining for years about tax incentives for waterfront development and crumbs for neighborhoods struggling to survive, and no amount of explanation about the difference between tax increment financing and direct city subsidies can...

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

Although you stressed the problem in minority and economically stressed areas, you neglected to touch on the fact that a number of middle - class neighborhoods are still struggling to secure equitable park programs — most notably on the far Southwest Side of the city.

Also at 11 a.m., struggling small businesses owners from low - income neighborhoods of NYC join leaders and members of Real Affordability for All in opposing de Blasio's housing and rezoning plan, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

As city residents continue to file complaints about rowdy college students in their neighborhoods, members of the Common Council are struggling to find solutions.

The Land Bank makes our city safer, builds community, improves property values and lifts up struggling neighborhoods.

Lighthouse Point is part of a trio of projects — including the New York Wheel and Empire Outlets — near the ferry terminal that city, state and Staten Island officials say will revitalize the borough's struggling North Shore and the immediate St. George neighborhood.

In several cities, we're working together to fix, not close, struggling schools and to wrap services around those schools — because we know this helps kids and ensures that neighborhoods are not hollowed out.

The Community Schools Initiative proposes to boost student achievement by providing struggling schools with wraparound social services via city - sponsored partnerships with neighborhood organizations.

And the movement of blacks into suburbs very often re-creates the economically struggling neighborhoods they have left in the cities.

Ms. Hardy — who is in her first year as principal — has staked her career on improving the culture and upping the test scores at this struggling elementary school, located in a gritty part of New Orleans» Central City neighborhood.

Bravo - Willey will get her chance this fall when KIPP Miami Sunrise Academy opens in Liberty City, a vibrant Miami neighborhood that struggles with poverty, drugs, and gun violence.

This district public school, which is located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, has historically struggled to engage parents in its educational efforts, and welcomed Family Playlists as a potentially effective tool to do so.

The Woodrock Youth Development Program is a highly - structured afterschool program in Kensington, Philadelphia — a long - struggling neighborhood that harbors over 40 % of the drug trade in the whole city («A Profile]»)-- that has improved student social and behavioral skills by adhering to the CASEL framework.

The fate of neighborhood schools in big - city school districts is perhaps the most sensitive education topic out there, given their historic role in disadvantaged communities, their struggle to educate children to high academic levels, and the process of gentrification and the disruption of the traditional education system via charter schools.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

However, youths growing up in impoverished, inner - city neighborhoods face obstacles to conventional development.1, 2 Many African - American adolescents are caught up in the subculture of «the streets» and, in the transition to adulthood, risk becoming school dropouts, premature parents, marginally employed adults, welfare recipients, and struggling family members.

But while the city grew and prospered, Asheville struggled with two problems shared by many older cities, a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing for local residents for whom even the $ 127,000 median - priced home was unattainable.