Sentences with phrase «whose visits to the state»

It has a deep and long tradition of painting and photography best known through the work of a group of artists including Ansel Adams, Thomas Cole, Walker Evans, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Eliot Porter and Paul Strand, whose visits to the state created the enduring «picturesque» paradigm of Maine and Maine art.

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I was very excited to visit this vegan haven in the middle of a state whose food scene mostly revolves around meat and barbecue.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Here is the story of a man whose first pivotal memory is as a young servant picking cotton at a farm in the South, helplessly watching his father being murdered in cold blood for daring to call out the owner for raping and beating his mother, and whose final scenes in the movie see him visiting the White House after voting for the first African American President of the United States.

While talking to India Today, Marie — whose movie career started in 2009 with I Love You Beth Cooper — said she got an opportunity to connect with Lord Krishna in this visit and got to know India more closely than she ever could've while living in the United States.

Creasman and his peers discuss these needs during site visits of schools in the state and through the Kentucky Educational Development Corporation, a local cooperative of school districts whose members jointly negotiate with vendors to reduce costs for education technology.

Pope Francis's trip to the United States in September will include a visit to a New York City school whose leaders are among those trying to save Catholic education with charter school innovations and other education reforms.

They include Kai - ming Cheng, a professor at Hong Kong University who has been a member of the Hong Kong Education Commission, is intimately familiar with the Shanghai reforms and was recently appointed to the China State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform; Tom Corcoran, Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Commission.

Mr. Bruni also spoke to Kate Walsh, the head of the self - appointed national «watchdog» on teachers and teacher preparation, National Council on Teacher Quality, an organization whose caliber of research into the state of American teacher preparation is so rigorous that they mostly read course catalogs and syllabi available online without bothering to visit a single campus.

California has been fortunate to have had eight BES fellows start schools in our state, including Hrag Hamalian at Valor Academy and Penny Schwinn at Capitol Collegiate Academy, whose outstanding schools I've had the opportunity to visit in recent months.

A visit to forgotten-ny.com gives a glimpse of a town whose personality even many Manhattanites wouldn't recognize; and a visit to BookBrowse's New York reading list (one of over 100 themed reading lists available to members) will uncover over a hundred exceptional books set in the State of New York, most of them in New York City - past, present, and even future.

My advice to one pet owner whose grandchildren were coming to visit from out of state was to board her dog when they were here.

Last summer, the artist Chris Martin, whose giant one - person show recently closed at the Corcoran and whose current first institutional show outside the United States has just opened at Kunsthalle - Duesseldorf, paid a visit to Norte Maar.

Gorey did not explain why he donated the work to the museum, but he often visited the Atheneum and was passionately devoted to the work of choreographer George Balanchine, whose immigration to the United States was sponsored by Arthur Everett «Chick» Austin, who was director of the Atheneum from 1927 to 1944.

After their usual Sunday afternoon practice, Rail Publisher Phong Bui visited the Carroll Garden studio of Rosamund Morley and Larry Lipnik, two members of Parthenia, a critically acclaimed New York - based viol consort whose ethereal, spirited and virtuoso performances of sixteenth to twenty - first century music has delighted audiences across the United States and Europe.

«I may state that in this connection I heard the name of a rather well known painter whose work strongly resembled Vincent's paintings in this period,» Stokvis recalled, following a visit to Brabant in the early 1920s, «that some dealers snapped up everything he produced, obliterated his signature without his knowledge, or altered it, and presented the pictures to the world in this way.»