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AS IT IS

 

To Kick Off

The Great Depression Tour

January 2019

 

 

With Support from Sharptooth, Hold Close and Point North

 

Tickets On Sale Now At https://asitisofficial.com/

 

As It Is are excited to kick off 2019 with The Great Depression Tour. This will be the band's first return back to the United States since their run on the 2018 Vans Warped Tour. Fans will have the chance to hear tracks from their recently released and critically acclaimed album The Great Depression for the first time. With support from Sharptooth, Hold Close and Point North, the tour will be kicking off in Los Angeles on January 17th and traveling to cities across North America before wrapping up back in Southern California on February 22nd in Anaheim. Tickets and VIP packages are available at http://asitisofficial.com.

 

A full list of upcoming North American tour dates can be found below:

 

Jan 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom

Jan 18 - Ventura, CA - Rock City

Jan 19 - San Diego, CA - Soma

Jan 20 - Mesa, AZ - Club Red West

Jan 22 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad

Jan 24 - Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street

Jan 25 - San Antonio, TX - Jack's Patio Bar & Grill

Jan 27 - Houston, TX - The Secret Group

Jan 29 - Dallas, TX - Prophet Bar

Jan 31 - Nashville, TN - The End

Feb 1 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Hell)

Feb 2 - Tampa, FL - Crowbar

Feb 3 - Orlando, FL - The Social

Feb 5 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506

Feb 6 - Richmond, VA - Canal Club

Feb 7 - Philadelphia, PA - The Voltage Lounge

Feb 8 - Amityville, NY - Revolution Music Hall

Feb 9 - Asbury Park, NJ - House of Independents

Feb 10 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East

Feb 11 - Toronto, CA - Velvet Underground

Feb 13 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection - The Stache

Feb 14 - Columbus, OH - Woodlands Tavern

Feb 15 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean

Feb 16 - Saint Louis, MO - Fubar

Feb 17 - Kansas City, MO - Encore at The Uptown Theater

Feb 19 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive

Feb 20 - Salt Lake City, UT - Loading Dock

Feb 21 - Las Vegas, NV - Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Feb 22 - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction

 

The upcoming tour is in celebration of the band's third studio album, released earlier this Fall. Produced by legendary producer MACHINE (Lamb Of God, Every Time I Die), The Great Depression is comfortably As It Is' most layered, technically accomplished and certainly most aggressive release to date. All of which adds up to a record that establishes the band as one of the most daring creative forces in their scene. Music videos for "The Wounded World", "The Stigma" and "The Reaper" further prove the creative and storytelling power of the Brighton-based quartet.

 

From public perception, to internal war, the band unflinchingly confronts the most difficult questions around depression, the value of life over death, and whether the rhetoric around 'reaching out to talk' is ostensibly hollow, if no one is prepared to hear those words. The Great Depression is available to stream and purchase at https://asitisofficial.com/.

 

As It Is is Patty Walters (Vocals), Benjamin Biss (Vocals, Guitar), Patrick Foley (Drums) and Alistair Testo (Bass).day and W

=================With the unemployment rate at an eighteen-year low of 3.7 percent and employers expecting to hire 16.6 percent more college graduates from the Class of 2019 than from the previous graduating cohort, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best Places to Find a Job as well as accompanying videos.

To determine the strongest local job markets in the U.S., WalletHub compared more than 180 cities across 30 key metrics. The data set ranges from job opportunities to employment growth to monthly average starting salary.
 

Best Cities for Jobs

 

Worst Cities for Jobs

1

Scottsdale, AZ

 

173

Detroit, MI

2

Columbia, MD

 

174

North Las Vegas, NV

3

Orlando, FL

 

175

Fresno, CA

4

San Francisco, CA

 

176

Stockton, CA

5

Colorado Springs, CO

 

177

Brownsville, TX

6

Portland, ME

 

178

Shreveport, LA

7

Plano, TX

 

179

Toledo, OH

8

Washington, DC

 

180

Newark, NJ

9

Boston, MA

 

181

Las Cruces, NM

10

Chandler, AZ

 

182

Fayetteville, NC

 
Best vs. Worst

• Gilbert, Arizona, has the highest median annual household income (adjusted by cost of living), $92,175, which is 3.5 times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest at $26,495.
   
• San Jose, California, has the highest monthly average starting salary, $5,270, which is three times higher than in Brownsville, Texas, the city with the lowest at $1,728.
   
• South Burlington, Vermont, has the lowest unemployment rate, 2.0 percent, which is 4.7 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 9.3 percent.
   
• Plano, Texas, has the fewest part-time employees for every 100 full-time employees, 32.86, which is 3.6 times fewer than in Burlington, Vermont, the city with the most at 118.23.
   
• Fremont, California, has the lowest share of workers living in poverty, 1.84 percent, which is 10.3 times lower than in Huntington, West Virginia, the city with the highest at 18.86 percent.

To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit: 
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-jobs/2173/  

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75 New Resources to Help You Transform Education in 2019

As we launch into 2019, take a look at these 75 resources on quality, opportunity and innovation ExcelinEd published in 2018.

Use, bookmark and share these resources to transform education for children in your state, and look forward to more great resources this year!

QUALITY

Early Literacy

• Policy Summary
• Fundamental Principles
• Model Policy
• Fundamental Principles State Analysis

Education Funding

• Issue Brief: Performance Funding
• Conceptual Framework for Performance Funding
   

Every Student Succeeds Act

ExcelinEd and the American Federation for Children (AFC) co-published two reports on modernizing Title I funding allocations.

• Bringing Title I into the Twenty-First Century
• Exploring Title I Portability: A Comprehensive Guide to Relevant Provisions of the Title I Program of Education for Disadvantaged Children

School Accountability

• Policy Summary
• Fundamental Principles
• Communications Toolkit
• Workshop Presentation

School Report Cards

ExcelinEd's Know Your School initiative offers an online report card prototype to assist states as they reimagine their public reporting tool.

• Know Your School Overview
• Data Solutions for States
• Open Source Code for Online Report Card Prototype

OPPORTUNITY

Policy Resources

• Education Choice Overview
• Private Education Choice: Vouchers, Tax-Credit Scholarships and ESAs
• The Research on Private Education Choice
• Using 529 Savings Plans for K-12 Tuition

Public Charter Schools

• The Case for Public Charter Schools: Ten Studies and Data Sets for Policymakers
• Time to Change Course:   A Case Study of Texas Charter Schools

Education Scholarship Accounts

• Policy Overview
• Model Policy

Tax-Credit Scholarships

• Policy Overview
• Policy Design Considerations
• Model Policy
• Brief: Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program
• Issue Brief: IRS Guidance on Tax Credit Programs
• Brief: Federal Law and Scholarships for Students with Special Needs

Opportunity Learning Hub

ExcelinEd's Opportunity Learning Hub addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about education opportunity through short, informative videos.
 

Education 101

• What is education choice?
• What is private school choice?
• What does the research say about education choice?

Education Scholarship Accounts

• What are Education Scholarship Accounts?
• The history of ESAs: Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account
• How students use Education Scholarship Accounts

Public Charter Schools

• What are public charter schools?
• What is a public charter school authorizer?

Tax-Credit Scholarships

• What are tax credit scholarships?
• How are tax-credit scholarship programs designed?
• Parent satisfaction with tax-credit scholarships in Florida

Education Choice and Special Needs

• Private education choice programs for students with special needs
• What do parents need to know about private education choice programs?

Policy Updates

• What are 529 Plans and how are they changing?

INNOVATION

College and Career Pathways

• College and Career Pathways Policy Summary
• Policy Brief: Industry Certifications
• Brief: Perkins V Reauthorization Opportunities and Challenges for States
• Course Access Policy Summary
• Course Access Fundamental Principles
• Course Access Model Policy
• Brief: Course Access Opportunity Incentive
• Civil Rights Data Collection Analysis: Equity And Access

 

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