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...students toward a diploma. Transfer schools--small, personalized high schools specially designed for kids who have fallen seriously behind--had a 56% graduation rate, compared with 19% for such high-risk kids at ordinary high schools, and some transfer schools were graduating nearly 70%. Another program, Young Adult Borough Centers (YABCs), which operates in the late afternoon and evening for students 17 or older, was enabling about 40% of these last-chance students to graduate...
...board-based trivia challenge, according to Corker. Since then, the Southwark connection has continued to play an important role. The pub commanded a significant Southwark presence last Friday, evidenced in the accents of Nicholas Stanton and Annie Shepperd of the town’s London borough. The pair had traveled to Cambridge to bring paintings of the original “Queen’s Head” for display in the pub. Both expressed their pleasure at the venue’s attempts to foster historical allusions. “It’s making the connection about where...
...pub’s first pint of 1636 will go to Councillor Nick Stanton, the leader of the London Borough of Southwark—home to John Harvard’s original pub. A delegation from Southwark is planning to fly in for the pub’s opening night gala, Gross said...
Green Lanes is in London's Haringey borough, which has a population of 224,300, almost half of them ethnic minorities. The borough includes South Tottenham, an area researchers at University College London recently proclaimed the most ethnically diverse in Britain - and possibly all of Western Europe - with 113 ethnic groups living in it. Integrating Haringey's residents, who together speak around 193 languages, is too complex for big government to handle from above. Here, getting along is up to the people themselves...
...York City borough of Queens, 44 BigBellys have cut down on pickups 70% since the city deployed the units a year ago. "We're very pleased," says Joseph Leary, spokesman for New York Power Authority. "People appreciate the equipment as a sensible application of renewable-energy technology...