Sentences with phrase «turning around the city»

Can LeBron James turn around a city once derided as «The Mistake by the Lake»?

But Say Yes to Education may hold the key to turning around the city's troubled school district.

The other major initiative, the Renewal School program, is Mr. de Blasio's effort to turn around the city's most troubled schools.

HARVARD STUDY FINDS GAINS IN NEWARK: Seven years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other philanthropic organizations poured $ 200 million into Newark, N.J., with the goal of turning around the city's failing schools.

The basic rationale for founding the NYC Leadership Academy was to prepare a cadre of new principals capable of turning around the city's most challenging schools.

But he is simultaneously relieved to have the power to make changes and worried that he won't be able to go far enough if the district doesn't allow him to make outside hires.Quitman a school of 493 pre-kindergartners through eighth - graders in Newark's high - crime, high - poverty Central Ward has become a symbol of Superintendent Cami Anderson's new push to turn around the city's struggling schools by closing down the worst of them and replacing staff at others.

Quitman a school of 493 pre-kindergartners through eighth - graders in Newark's high - crime, high - poverty Central Ward has become a symbol of Superintendent Cami Anderson's new push to turn around the city's struggling schools by closing down the worst of them and replacing staff at others.

RSD had been established in 2003 to turn around the city's failing schools, but before the 2005 deluge it had taken over only five.

In an op - ed for the Commercial Appeal, principal Rodney Rowan argues that the strong preparation many Memphis principals have received through New Leaders has been key to turning around the city's lowest performing schools.

The state hired Paul Vallas, veteran superintendent of Philadelphia and Chicago, to turn around the city's troubled schools.

It is hard to imagine how a principal with any less can actually succeed at turning around the city's worst schools.

Not exact matches

That message should put him in good stead with residents, but turning around a stadium is different from managing property, particularly when the city is scrutinizing his every move.

Carol Scott, a web developer, fired off a tweet addressed to city officials, saying that she watched an elderly couple sidle their way around a Bird scooter turned over on a sidewalk.

The Women's March is an example of this, where a grandmother with an internet connection wrote a post that led her friends to start a Facebook event that eventually turned into millions of people marching in cities around the world.

Before Oklahoma City, Van Rysselberge had worked with Morrison to help turn around Shreveport, La., when he was CEO of the Chamber there.

It will attract entrepreneurs from around Atlanta to compete for a prize that will turn ideas and startup companies with high growth potential into funded enterprises in our city.

What happened to turn the city around to its present vitality commonly described as its golden age?

The world will progress just fine (even better) and scientific achievements will accelerate like nobody's business once Vatican City gets turned in to condos around 2050.

You can't turn around in a city without seeing bell towers for three Catholic churches.

The shootings happened earlier this morning as the officers sat in separate patrol cars around 1 a.m. in the closely situated Iowa cities of Des Moines and Urbandale when Urbandale police were called to reports of gunfire that turned out to be one of their fellow officers.

If you're up for it AND you have access to bicycles, one of the most fun off - the - beaten - path things I did was to take a bike ride up the canal (it's in the northeast corner of the city, starting in the 10th arrondissement), turning around at Parc de la Villette and going back down until we somehow ended up on Rue des Rosiers in the Marais.

General Mills has been working to turn around its yogurt business and is starting to see slow signs of improvement but «there is more work to do,» CEO Jeff Harmening said during the CAGNY (Consumer Analyst Group) conference in New York City.

Whilst the conditions outside (all grey skies and rain) are hardly conducive to the consumption of frozen desserts, it is summer here in the southern hemisphere and our fair city, infamous for her erratic weather patterns, could quite easily turn on the sunshine by the time afternoon rolls around.

As with years past, the famed Grand Tasting Event (this year presented by Kia K900) turned the San Diego's Embarcadero Marina Park North into an epicurean epicenter where the city's preeminent chefs and other distinguished culinary masters from around the nation converged with an international showcase of the world's premiere wine, beer and spirits purveyors to showcase tasty new food and drink trends and innovative techniques.

7 p.m., Brooklyn Nets (19 - 15) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (15 - 20), YES, Comcast SportsNet Philly: The Nets actually do seem to have turned things around under P.J. Carlesimo: Sure, the majority of their games have come against sub-par opposition, but they did knock off the Oklahoma City Thunder by 17.

There has to be a fan revolt at this club for things to turn around or i'm telling you it will be very slow progress, chelsea / utd / city will only improve this summer so i hope we do the same.

Schneiderlin had given the Saints the lead but Stoke turned it around and with Man City winning yesterday, they are now eight points adrift of fourth.

Kansas City seems to have turned things back around.

After two League defeats in a row, Arsenal had a fight on their hands against an improved Hull City to turn their fortunes around.

Trailing to Manchester City may well see us come unstuck next weekend, but I'm certainly happy that our team is playing with the desire and intensity needed to turn these sort of matches around.

Recently, the Manchester - based side have been linked with a move for Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez, who is rated at around # 35M according to the Telegraph, a move that would improve the goal - scoring prowess of United and turn them into a serious threat to rivals City.

When the players arrive in Belfast each season — and imports turn over almost every year — Little takes them, in groups of two or three, around the city.

He spent four seasons as the Chiefs» GM and was the man in charge when Kansas City traded for Smith, and that helped the team turn around quickly.

Around the turn of the year, they were only 6 points behind, had just beaten City and Klopp said «Can you imagine how annoying it is when you win 13 games in a row and there is still one team only six points behind?»

While their defence left plenty to be desired in the first leg and will need to be much better this time round, they will be confident that they have the goals in their line - up to turn the tie around and dump Guardiola and City out of the Champions League on Wednesday night.

Now this is just my opinion on the matter, the season is young and things could very well turn around as last season City and Chelsea were separated only alphabetically by January 1st so the fierce start of City doesn't phase me.

Arsenal then turned it around and lead 3 - 1 in the final minutes before City pulled another goal back in rather sloppy fashion from Arsenal's part.

With only one win in the last 6 PL games at Old Trafford against Manchester City, it will be interesting to see if the Portuguese can turn the fortunes around and get the campaign up and running.

Leicester City fought valiantly against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night, but were unable to turn the tie around.

Having said that, City has won all of the previous 9 meetings between the two and it will be a exciting game where Guardiola will be hoping to turn things around and keep the pace at top of the table.

If we where treated with penalty awards, as Man City are for example, how would a ratio turn around of FORTY penalties equate to points?

Liverpool have turned down Manchester City's follow - up bid of around # 40m for Raheem Sterling, according to Sky sources.

They are behind leaders Leicester City by a massive 13 points, and with just five games left to go for them, that's a difficult deficit to turn around.

Man City's season seemed to have stagnated around the turn of the year, but they are now favoured by bookies to finish second behind runaway leaders Chelsea.

Arsenal have turned their season around after slow start to the league campaign and now they are one of the most inform team in the league alongside Manchester City.

City find themselves 3 - 0 down after a humbling reverse fixture at Anfield, but Fernandinho is confident that his side can turn that deficit around.

Still struggling at the bottom of current league standings, Crystal Palace will be hoping to turn things around this weekend as they travel to face fellow newly promoted side, Hull City.

Allardyce began to turn Sunderland's fortunes around with impressive victories against Crystal Palace and Stoke City.

Inter took on their city rivals today in the Derby Della Madonnina hoping to turn around 2016.

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has reportedly turned down a move to China that could have earned the midfielder around a staggering # 430,000 - per - week.