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I'm a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here

A parody of the TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, it is set around a teacher's trials and tribulations, in an inner city school, from training to teaching.

Ink Well Foundation

A similarly named but unrelated organization, the Inkwell Foundation, serves disadvantaged inner city youth in Virginia.

New Community Corporation

Although community development corporations such as the New Community Corporation will continue to play a significant role in addressing the needs of low-income inner city residents, their promise as the "magic bullet" against the cycle of poverty is now in doubt.


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A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die

Released on February 28, 1992 and produced by Crazy C and Scarface, "A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die" made it to two Billboard charts, peaking at 69 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks" and 13 on the Hot Rap Singles. The song features a sample of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues".

A56 road

The A56 continues north-eastwards into inner city Manchester, taking on the additional name of Deansgate, one of Manchester's main shopping streets.

Alice Elliott

Her first movie, Diamonds in the Rough, is an hour long documentary about a gifted, inner-city high school baseball team located in the largely Dominican, Washington Heights neighborhood, of New York City.

Anna Ouroumian

In 1993, Ouromian was selected along with 1,500 young people to heed President Bill Clinton’s call to help serve inner-city youth across America as part of the pilot Summer of Service program, the precursor to AmeriCorps.

Arnold Atienza

He was the Presidential Adviser on Youth Affairs from 2005 to 2007 and was concurrently the head of the Manila sports development office and inner city development program from 2001 to 2007.

Belváros

Belváros means "inner city", "city centre" or "downtown" in Hungarian.

Biberach an der Riss

The districts of Biberach comprise the inner city (with the quarters Bachlangen, Bergerhausen, Birkendorf, Burren, Fünf Linden, Gaisental, Hagenbuch, Jordanbad, Mumpfental, Reichenbach and Wolfentalmühle) and its suburban, integrated villages Rissegg, Rindenmoos, Ringschnait, Stafflangen and Mettenberg.

Chongwenmen

The gate stood in the southeastern part of Beijing's inner city, immediately south of the old Beijing Legation Quarter.

Christian Kalkbrenner

Münden, nowadays called Hann. Münden, an old town with a historic inner city, is situated 17 kilometres north-east of Kassel.

Effective schools

George Weber, and later Ronald Edmonds, conducted research in inner-city U.S. schools where students of low socio-economic background were able to equal or surpass the national average.

Eilenriede

In Germany, the Eilenriede park is part of a group of inner-city or city near forest areas, like the Rostock Heath (6000 ha), the Dresden Heath (5900 ha), the Frankfurter Stadtwald (4800 ha) or the Berliner Grunewald (3000 ha).

Ekka

The Ekka is organised by the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland (RNA), and is held at the RNA Showgrounds in the inner-city suburb of Bowen Hills approximately two kilometres north-east of Brisbane's city centre.

Fabian Hamilton

He made his maiden speech on 23 June 1997, in which he explained that his constituency stretches from the inner-city Leeds district of Chapeltown all the way out to Harewood House, the stately home of the Earls of Harewood.

Faith47

Her Freedom Charter project, which featured phrases from the iconic freedom charter document on inner city streets, is a good example of this.

Far right in the United Kingdom

They have never achieved representation in the House of Commons, although they have had a number of local councillors in some inner-city areas of east London, and towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, such as Burnley and Keighley.

Gerry Hutch

Born in central Dublin, his criminal career started at the age of 10 when he joined and later led the 'Bugsy Malone Gang' of inner city youngsters (named after the fictional feature film) whose crimes in the 1970s included "jump-overs": they would jump over bank counters, grab whatever cash they could and run out the door.

Gordon Institute of Business Science

The Illovo campus is served by the Rosebank Gautrain station, with a nearby Gautrain bus stop and the inner city campus by the Johannesburg Park Station.

Headnoise

Originally based in Orange County, California, they eventually moved to Illinois in the year 2000 to join Jesus People USA (aka "JPUSA"), an intentional Christian community and urban ministry serving inner-city Chicago with national and international branches of ministry.

Hugh Marsh

with Bruce Cockburn – "Humans", "Inner City Front", "Christmas", "Waiting for a Miracle", "You've Never Seen Everything", "Big Circumstance", "Mummy Dust", "World of Wonders".

Indre Østerbro

When Christian IV expanded the fortification of the inner city, he also moved the gate to near Kastellet, thus introducing the confusion that the Eastern Gate is located more northerly than the Northern Gate.

Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye

Inner City Blues: the Music of Marvin Gaye (also known as Inner City Blues: A Tribute to Marvin Gaye) is a tribute album to soul singer Marvin Gaye who died in 1984.

Inner City Press

Inner City Press' executive director is Matthew Lee, who is the author of the non-fiction book Predatory Lending: Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City and the novel Predatory Bender and an accredited journalist at the United Nations.

Inner City Unit

Steve Pond, Dead Fred and Mick Stupp still play together in a band called Krankschaft, sometimes joined by Nik Turner and Dave Anderson and Dino Ferari to perform Inner City Unit songs as a tribute to Judge Trev Thoms.

It Only Happens Every Time

It Only Happens Every Time is a 1977 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra with singer Monica Zetterlund in Helsinki and Stockholm and released by EMI in Europe and by Inner City Records in the US.

Jack Hyles

Matthew Barnett, while discussing his work at an inner-city Los Angeles ministry, explained how he learned from Jack Hyles.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps

JVC serves others across four continents and can be found in inner-city neighborhoods like Brooklyn, New York, a rural reservation in South Dakota, and about 40 other sites throughout the U.S.

Kalervo Gulson

His evidence was drawn from two case studies of recently implemented policies - London's 'Excellence in Cities' program and the 'Building the Future' program in inner-city Sydney.

Kettenbrücke-Walzer

Its title commemorated the construction of the first chain bridge over the branch of the Danube through the inner city of Sophiebrücke in Vienna.

Knowledge Is Power Program

KIPP began in 1994 after founders Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg completed their two-year commitment to Teach For America and launched a program for fifth graders in a public school in inner-city Houston, Texas.

La Princesse de Clèves

The novel is the basis of Regis Sauder's 2011 film Nous, princesses de Clèves, in which teenagers in an inner city school are studying the novel for their Baccalaureate exam.

Lawrence Langowski

After Chicago 2016 dissolved he worked with World Sport Chicago, Chicago 2016's legacy organization, to impact inner-city at-risk youth in the Chicago Public Schools system through sport.

Leicester South by-election, 2004

The constituency is diverse, covering leafy suburbs such as Stoneygate and Knighton along with inner city areas with a strong Asian community.

Madeleine Orr

Charles Orr was a caterer and hotelkeeper by profession, and he and his wife ran a succession of inner city hotels in the early twentieth century including the City Court Hotel and Tattersall's Hotel, both in Russell Street, Melbourne.

MC Eiht

The song, "Streiht Up Menace," which chronicles the unfortunate downturn of the film's protagonist within the pathological conditions of American inner city life, is considered by many critics to be Eiht's magnum opus.

Micheal O'Siadhail

She was for most of her life a teacher and later head mistress in an inner city Dublin primary school until her retirement in 1995 due to Parkinson's disease.

Mimic 2

After three men are discovered hideously mutilated (their faces have been removed) and strung up among New York City's high-tension wires, Detective Klaski (Bruno Campos) stumbles upon a link: Each of the men knew entomologist Remy (Alix Koromzay), a teacher at an inner-city high school.

Natalie Robinson Cole

For much of her career, Cole taught inner city children in the Los Angeles area.

Pankow

The borough named after the Panke river covers the northeast of the city region, including the inner city locality of Prenzlauer Berg.

Rabbit in the Moon

As remixers, Rabbit In the Moon has reworked songs by artists such as Depeche Mode ("Waiting for the Night"), Tori Amos ("Precious Things"), Sarah McLachlan ("Fear", "Possession"), Orbital ("Are We Here?"), Smashing Pumpkins ("The End Is the Beginning Is the End"), Goldie ("Inner City Life"), White Zombie ("Blood, Milk and Sky") and Delerium ("Euphoria").

Rasheed Wallace

Wallace was born and raised in the inner-city neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he began his basketball career and attended Simon Gratz High School.

Stockbridge Village

Musician Paul Rutherford, a member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood (whose "Relax" and "Two Tribes" hits topped the UK charts in 1984), also grew up on the estate after moving there from an inner-city slum area during the 1960s.

Suburbia bashing

When Miranda Devine refers to the elites, she refers to an inner-city population.

The Higher Mortals

On the day that education secretary Mrs Fry (who somewhat resembles the then government minister Virginia Bottomley) arrives to speak at the school's Speech Day, she is kidnapped by the inner-city children and tells them, incorrectly, that she will announce that the scheme of sending inner-city children to Crabbe College was a pointless waste of time and that the school was outmoded anyway.

Tommy the Clown

Johnson and his followers have performed at birthday parties ranging from inner city communities to celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, and Cedric the Entertainer.

Urban Freestyler

The Title is set amongst the inner city streets of London and features performances by Freestyle Football World Champion Abbas Farid, Billy Wingrove, Mike Delaney, Dan Magness, Rob Walters, Faton Gerbeshi, Paul Wood, Joe Davies, Scott Griffiths, Craig Dobson, Al Johnson and Basketball Freestyler Tommy Baker.

Viveka Davis

Discovered at age 11, by Alan Parker in an inner city school in south central Los Angeles, her career spanning 25 years so far has showcased her dynamic talents for drama, comedy, music and dance, won her praise and got the attention of many of the biggest names in Hollywood.

William Wedge Darke

For a time Darke located his caravan at the seaside in what is now the inner city suburb of Port Melbourne after cutting the first track through the tea tree scrub.

红山

Hong Shan (Pinyin : Hóng Shān, Red Mountain), an inner city mountain in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China