Sentences with phrase «urban communities»

Particularly in urban communities with limited high - quality options, families will often apply to multiple public charters hoping to get a space for their child.

The collapse of urban communities caused by factory - closings is another.

These days, you need different retail layouts and sizes for urban communities versus small neighborhood communities.

My mission is to influence the educational system by ensuring children from urban communities receive an excellent education regardless of their financial status.

Corporate sponsors, celebrities, foundations, and initiatives have all responded to the tragedy and the lack in many urban communities by coming to the aid of the students in need of resources.

I submit that the political right is less interested in the plight of poor urban communities than in establishing an educational marketplace and destroying teacher's unions.

The 122 - year - old nonprofit kicked off its first - ever gut renovation this month — with the goal of creating the quintessential urban community center.

The measure will revive the program for one year under a new distribution formula, which will make newer urban communities eligible for the aid for the first time.

An extension of the studios and classrooms, the department fosters vibrant environments for students to interact, exchange ideas and view and showcase bodies of work within the larger urban community.

Yet in most urban communities the number of available «choice» seats is very small when stacked up against the number of kids in failing district schools.

I included the creation of land banks in my urban agenda as a way to help transform our struggling urban communities.

The annual award honors individuals and organizations that work to save endangered wildlife, improve urban communities, and educate young people on environmental issues.

Her older sister attended an independent high school, thanks to a program that helped students from low - income, urban communities get into private schools.

Sometimes your most valuable asset is your parking lot in a tight urban community.

We have given up on [students in urban communities].

It's clear that education in urban communities does not rival what families in many suburbs receive.

This guide, while helpful for the developing world, is also geared towards urban communities in the developed world as well.

At present, urban communities contribute up to 70 percent of energy - related greenhouse gas emissions globally.

I like the sense of independence that comes with having the tools for a job, because I can not rely on a vast urban community to provide those.

For the most part, reform touches lower - income urban communities that tend to vote in lower numbers.

Its mission is to be the premier bank serving urban communities by promoting financial literacy and offering affordable financial services.

Since 2000, our mission has focused more sharply on improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged youth, particularly those who attend schools in urban communities.

NYS Homes and Community Renewal provided $ 71.7 million in fixed - rate, tax - exempt bonds and a mortgage loan — including a $ 20.8 million permanent loan — through its Housing Finance Agency (HFA), Low - Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), $ 7.5 million in Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) funds, $ 1.5 million in Urban Community Investment Funds (CIF) for the construction of the retail component, and additional subsidy.

Course requirements if you obtained a teaching license through CU Denver's Urban Community Teacher Education program Course requirements if you obtained your teacher's license in any other way.

We also tracked him down for his tip about a few things that can be done daily to make a significant change, and spied him helping the effort to save the largest U.S. urban community garden in L.A.. He's lent his signature to the No Nukes petition against the 2007 Energy Bill and rocked a green music festival in San Francisco.

The student body of Democracy Prep reflects the diverse urban communities where our schools reside.

I urge you to vote «Yes» on Question 2 to provide families in Boston and other urban communities with a better option.

A national membership organization of city and county health departments» MCH programs and leaders representing urban communities in the US.

As seen with the tremendous growth of charter schools within urban communities and even in films such as The Lottery, these families will support school reform with their feet and with their voices.

Robinson, Lloyd and Rowe noted that: «Instructional leadership theory has its empirical origins in studies undertaken during the late 1970's and 80's of schools in poor urban communities where students succeeded despite the odds... these schools typically had strong instructional leadership, including a learning climate free of disruption, a system of clear teaching objectives, and high teacher expectations for students.»

Examining the potential of new organizational frameworks like co-operatives, multi-stakeholder constructions, local - regional partnerships and networks for the success of such transitions, this book presents the key ingredients of a sustainable urban community as a viable concept to address current global financial, environmental and social challenges.

EPA also plans to launch an urban waters initiative in connection with HUD and DOT to help urban communities revitalize their waterways and restore neighboring communities.

From the time of desegregation forward, disillusionment with integration and the failure to improve education in many urban communities led to the development of «independent black schools.»

As part of a new approach, the Center for Urban Community Services, a nonprofit, will announce this week that under a $ 33 million contract with NYC, it will lead a consortium to reduce street homelessness in Manhattan.

Promoting positive identity development for urban community college students: Implications for outreach and implementation of services.

FLEX Literacy Personalized Learning Brought Students to Grade - Level at Urban Community Schools in Cleveland, OH

Through its profile of Rainey, this long - range project (filmed over a decade) delves into important issues facing urban communities.

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan announced Friday that it plans to close up to 38 underperforming schools in Detroit and other urban communities, potentially affecting 18,000 students and marking the first time that the state could close traditional public schools explicitly for academic reasons.

To sell their ideas, neoliberals promise that heroic teachers and «no - excuses» principals combined with competition, technology, and high - stakes student, teacher, and school evaluations, will «disrupt» sclerotic bureaucracies, rein in unions, and liberate oppressed impoverished urban communities from «failing» schools.