Sentences with phrase «with city year»

Cassie's experience working and leading in the education non-profit sector began with two years of service as a full - time AmeriCorps volunteer with City Year in Washington D.C. and Milwaukee, before she joined the City Year Milwaukee staff.

After having graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, Dan's first real experience in education came while serving as a Corp's Member with City Year Greater Philadelphia.

Schools that partnered with City Year also gained the equivalent of approximately one month of additional learning in math and ELA.

Students benefit from near peer relationships with the City Year members, learning from the young adult tutors and mentors, while teachers and principals benefit from having a second team of adults in the classroom and throughout the school.

Our Community Learning Center (CLC) extends services to our Mitchell families beyond school hours and our partnership with City Year enhances both school - day and after - school programming.

Our community learning center (CLC) extends services to our Mitchell families beyond school hours, and our partnership with City Year enhances both school - day and after - school programming.

After her year of service with City Year, she worked as an English and math tutor at City on a Hill Charter School.

Reducing or eliminating funding for these programs would also be especially harmful to charter management organizations that recruit heavily from the AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the program.36

Prior to Brooke, Mrs. Schaefer completed a service year with City Year Boston where she served as a near - peer / mentor to students in a fourth grade classroom.

Previously, she served as a corps member with City Year Boston in a fifth grade classroom.

She spent two years in the classroom as a kindergarten teacher, and worked as a Founding Senior Corps Member with City Year Milwaukee as their Training project Leader.

During my time with City Year, my supervisors continually stressed that change is hard.

Before becoming a Hunger Fellow, Sakeenah completed a year of service in Seattle with City Year.

Not exact matches

Though the Harper government has been maligned for paring the CTC's budget to $ 58 million a year — less than that of New York City — it did negotiate Approved Destination Status with China prior to the 2010 Olympics.

According to the same report, over last 10 years, the cities with the fastest growing rates of wealth were San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Sydney.

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

This year marks the 50th anniversary with events being held in Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.. Each city will offer tips, tools and trainings for small businesses to start, succeed and grow.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

Average home prices in Dandong rose nearly 1 percent in April from March, according to data from the China Real Estate Association, compared with a 0.5 percent decline in the same period a year earlier, although city - wide averages tend not to fully reflect big price fluctuations at individual projects.

Within a few years, the company said, the suburbs will be just as connected as cities, with riders able to pay one monthly price, hop in and hop out as needed, and easily get to metro areas without ever needing to drive.

When my family started City Wide Maintenance more than 50 years ago, we never dreamed that it would turn into a successful franchise with nearly 40 nationwide locations.

One of the liveliest cities in Europe, Barcelona's streets are filled with locals and tourists singing and drinking in the hours before and after the New Year.

Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.

National Small Business Week runs from May 12 to 16 this year, with events being held in cities from San Francisco to Washington.

Breaking with tradition, Melania Trump and 10 - year - old son Barron plan to remain in New York City at least until the end of the school year.

With a burgeoning tech industry that's expected to grow by more than 15,000 jobs over the next four years, Vancouver makes the ideal location for the first Red Academy, but Gilbert says she and Mansell hope to take the concept beyond B.C. and open locations in other major Canadian cities.

The South African city has gone three years with hardly any rain, and is warning that it will be forced to turn off most of its taps at an unspecified date in 2019, leaving people to queue up outside for their water.

The First Lady has remained in New York City with her son Barron, reportedly to finish out his school year, while the President has relocated to the nation's capitol.

Tourism icon The Fremantle Markets could receive a makeover if a proposal before the site's owner, City of Fremantle, to provide the current lessee with a new 21 - year lease worth at least $ 1 million gets the go ahead.

Last year Calgary's superstar mayor Naheed Nenshi suggested to Maclean's last year that municipal government is the most crucial level for most citizens, and it seems that with startups it's the absence of city engagement that causes problems.

Barbara Corcoran took an interest and six years later, Cousins Maine Lobster has become a national lobster franchise with 20 trucks in more than a dozen cities and some brick - and - mortar restaurants as well.

«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.&racity that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her pitch for the program, ending with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.&raCity: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.&racity, but if you want to make a difference, come to Detroit.»

The Challenge: Howard's is a small Kansas City grocery store, with a twist: The store, which opened in 2012, sells memberships for $ 60 per year; members get a door code allowing them to access the store 24/7 and pick from the locally grown produce and organic foods in stock.

With a five - year growth rate of more than 19,000 %, Pac - Van tops Inc.'s inaugural ranking of the 100 fastest - growing inner - city companies.

Also driving the trend is a collective cultural disgust with «obscene comp programs — the Monopoly money, the pay schemes that screw the little investor» — that have been proffered in recent years, says Charles A. (Chuck) Coonradt, author of The Game of Work and CEO of a consulting company by the same name in Park City, Utah.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

The moment I land in Tallinn, my phone pings with the city's free Wi - Fi network, which rolled out more than 15 years ago.

A dozen years back, Santa Monica was the toast of the town, with families and singletons alike flocking to the storied seaside city.

In the past year, major cities have occasionally seen bidding wars — not for homes but for prime rentals, with choice units renting for higher than asking price.

«As has been clear for several years now, the cities that do best in this ranking are mid-sized conurbations in countries with low population densities.

Now Stamford, Conn., may become the second U.S. city this year to combat the problem with fines.

Bayou City committed $ 256 million to an Oklahoma drillco with privately held Alta Mesa Holdings LP [ALMEH.UL] last year.

Late last year the company signed a deal with Microsoft, giving its global and marketing teams access to its own custom - designed space at two WeWork locations in New York City.

Since that time, the Washington, D.C. - based company has opened five new stores in New York City, Boston and Philadelphia, with plans to open two more New York stores before the end of the year.

Even though only about 6 percent of Chinese people have a passport, China has become the world's largest outbound tourist market, with more than 135 million departures a year — and Angkor Wat is an easy two - or three - hour flight from many cities in China.

There are no statistics to show whether texting played a role in any of the fatalities, but «when you keep records for 40 years and see two consecutive years with the back - to - back largest, that tells me there was a game changer,» said Richard Retting, a former traffic safety commissioner for the New York City Department of Transportation who worked on the report.

It's a cause that Perry, a former L.A. councilwoman who has served in leadership positions with the city for nearly 25 years and ran for mayor in 2013, has long championed.

A new $ 32.1 million bus - only bridge will be built in the CBD to ease congestion and get buses out of the city faster, with construction set to begin early next year.