Sentences with phrase «than the resident schools»

Other than the resident schooling big eye trevally and barracudas, which make for a great photo opportunity, there's colorful gorgonian fans, whips and soft corals.

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Clustered around Kerrisdale Arena and Point Grey Secondary School, the residents here are craft beer enthusiasts (16 % of them drank one in the past month) and more than a fifth are downhill skiers.

Another story in The Sun, about racial covenants in Rodgers Forge («Residents of Towson neighborhood confront racist legacy of covenants,» Sept. 10) was significant because, repeatedly, new residents remark that they moved to the neighborhood because of good schools and because taxes are lower than in BaltimResidents of Towson neighborhood confront racist legacy of covenants,» Sept. 10) was significant because, repeatedly, new residents remark that they moved to the neighborhood because of good schools and because taxes are lower than in Baltimresidents remark that they moved to the neighborhood because of good schools and because taxes are lower than in Baltimore City.

Public schoolteachers in central cities are far more likely than the average central city resident to send their own children to private schools.

Only 73 % of county residents graduated from high school, and only 8 % have a college degree, one - third the Tennessee state average and less than one - third the U.S. average of 31 %

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

Good schools — private and public — also attract and keep families, while a wealth of community services allows residents to look no further than their back yard for help and fun.

Because of traffic and other concerns, residents and Park Board members have said previously that the Chicago Avenue site would be better than building a school on Norfolk.

According to 1990 census data, more than one - third of all Arlington Heights residents have completed high school and have received a bachelor's degree from college.

On Thursday night, more than 100 residents from Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast crowded into the Lincoln Park Library to express their anger over construction of the $ 2 million field, most of the money for which is being provided by the private Latin School of Chicago.

More than 150 residents of the Logan Square neighborhood, which includes Palmer Square, expressed concern at a meeting Monday night in St. Sylvester's Catholic School.

Renovations on more than a dozen city schools will be completed largely by minorities, women and Syracuse city residents, according to the terms of a new labor agreement.

She claims Mr. LaValle has not been effective in bringing the East End its fair share of school aid and says the amount of money East End residents pay in state taxes is more than what they get back in state services.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says that approximately 53 percent of full - time SUNY and CUNY in - state students, more than 210,000 New York residents, are going to school tuition - free thanks to the addition of students receiving the Excelsior Scholarship.

And, although more than one - third of the residents 25 and older had attained a Bachelor's Degree or a higher level of education, more than one - quarter of local residents in the same age group had not obtained a high school diploma.

Haber said that if elected, he would work to provide tax relief for Nassau residents, improve the quality of schools and press for passage of the Women's Equality Act, which would strengthen equal pay laws and extend the prohibition on sexual harassment to businesses with fewer than four employees.

Council Member King, who reviewed his 12 - Point Plan for the 12TH Council District with more than 700 Bronx residents, friends and special guests in attendance, discussed upcoming and future projects, which include affording housing for working families through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity, the renovation of Agnes Haywood Park, capital funding to schools in the 12th Council District, expense funding to community - based organizations, funding for NYCHA developments and youth programs as well as DOT and DSNY needs in the 12th Council District.

«I trust this elected (school) board to work with the community for real reform much more than I trust a two - person junta of mayor and superintendent, with no checks and balances,» said Charlie Dee, a 34 - year Milwaukee resident and parent of a former MPS student.

The special event will feature a performance by the P.S. 83 school choir and more than 200 Valentine's Day cards and goody bags prepared by children at Bronx schools will be handed out to residents.

For any school or municipality that raises taxes by less than 2 % the state will send rebate checks to those residents equivalent to the tax increase.

Walking the neighborhood's streets and parks, visiting its schools, restaurants and offices, talking to its residents, no one could argue that the change is anything less than dramatic, in just about every -LSB-...]

He's an old - school green foe who has voted against clean energy and environmental justice, sided with polluters rather than residents, and consistently sought to block the protection of endangered species and our natural heritage.»

More recently, public debate over the circulation of guns in Westchester reignited after a gun store opened in Harrison less than 1,000 feet from an elementary school late last year, spurring a torrent of backlash from residents, and an online petition garnering 3,500 signatures.

«The NYPD initiated a yearlong investigation that dismantled a drug dealing network that peddled crack cocaine less than a block from a middle school and instilled fear in local residents in and around the Sterling community,» Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a press release Thursday.

At the same time, Nassau residents quickly became livid about the cameras, which they believed were designed more to generate revenue than to ensure safety in school zones.

Given that Rockland County has the third highest property taxes in the nation in, of which school taxes represent more than 70 percent, a tax levy increase of 3.62 percent is simply unacceptable and will only make things worse for our North Rockland residents and businesses.

For the great number of Long Island residents who no longer have use for the schools, who are underwater with their mortgages, and who are living in neighborhoods that look a lot different than they used to — well, they're not sure what they're paying for anymore.

The Physician Scientist Training Program in Internal Medicine, a research - oriented residency training program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has reported that more than 80 % of the residents who completed the program remained in academic medicine, and about 70 % of those had faculty positions at Washington University (4).

«This study looked at more than 2.3 million ED visits among children with asthma, and we identified some interesting trends that give a baseline to find better ways to help children with asthma control this very treatable disease,» said Aparna Roy, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and resident at UH Rainbow and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Fruin's team at the Keck School of Medicine and the University of Southern California suspected that residents near LAX, the sixth busiest airport in the world, were getting exposed to excessive doses of pollution from airplanes even farther from the runways than previous research had considered.

Low - income housing residents who live in «green» buildings that are built with eco-friendly materials and energy - efficient features appear to have fewer «sick building» symptoms (SBS) than residents of traditionally constructed low - income housing, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

OK, its launch alongside an untested and in many quarters untrusted console ensured pretty weak sales, but the fact that Ubisoft chose to give its Wii U horror debut the spirit of old - school Resident Evil rather than Left 4 Dead is one hell of an interesting sign.

Susan Wloszczyna: Few films are more of the moment than From Nowhere, as it encapsulates the rising fears of undocumented U.S. residents in the form of three very different Bronx high schoolers as uncertain legal circumstances stand in the way of their achieving their hopes for a better future.

As a resident of Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years, Ottaway became alarmed watching repeated education efforts to improve the city's schools fail.

In Chicago, residents of neighborhoods where Catholic schools closed had «less cohesive and more disorderly communities than residents of neighborhoods with open Catholic schools.»

This week, eight candidates are competing for just three slots on the local school board, a larger field than most residents can remember.

And tens of thousands of New Orleans residents, their homes and livelihoods destroyed, fled the city; Houston public schools alone absorbed more than 5,000 of the refugee students.

HCZ is a full - service community organization, comprised of charter schools, preschools, afterschool programs, parenting education, and employment and technology centers for children and residents that currently serves more than 13,000 children and adults.

In the District of Columbia, for example, where nearly 100 charter campuses are educating more than one - third of the public school students, charters are increasingly accepted as an integral part of the public education delivery system: Sixty - three percent of D.C. residents know they are public schools.

Besides handling the usual administrative work, Kloczko was also a busy tour guide: The school drew more than 2,800 visitors in its inaugural year, including school administrators from other states and Paul Newman, a Connecticut resident.

A new survey suggests that most Milwaukee County residents favor electing their school superintendents rather than permitting local school boards to appoint them.

Parents also give low - scoring schools far lower ratings than do other local residents, but this difference narrows and eventually reverses direction as proficiency rates increase (see Figure 3).

It seems that this hasn't gone unnoticed by Connecticut residents, as more than 40 percent of resident polled say the state should ease restrictions on charter school enrollment to accommodate kids on waitlists.

Calls for tighter gun controls surged in other parts of the country after the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where a former student killed 17 people, but they barely registered in gun - loving Texas, where more than 1 million residents are licensed to carry handguns.

A lifelong resident of the area and 11 - year member of the school board, Bennett thinks that Senate Bill 8 has split the county more than any other issue he's ever seen his county face.

More than 20 percent of Waynesville's residents live below the poverty line, according to U.S. Census data, and federal education officials have designated Central Elementary a Title 1 school, denoting that it serves a heavily low - income population.

Suburban residents in Wake County likewise clamored for splitting Wake County Schools, which enrolls more than 160,000 students.

Local school districts will hold Truth in Taxation hearings over the next two weeks to hear public input on proposed property tax increases, but most residents may end up paying less than last year.

Initiative 42 first got its place on the ballot after more than 200,000 residents signed a petition asking the legislature to enforce the 1997 law known as the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP), which determines the threshold funding necessary to make schools effective.

The numbers are hard to track but between the two towns alone, we're talking about more than 50 Connecticut residents, people who, for the most part went to Connecticut's colleges and universities, and then stayed here in Connecticut to help strengthen Connecticut's schools.