Sentences with phrase «gist said»

«I believe that public charter schools provide us with a wonderful opportunity to innovate and test new ideas about how we can best serve our students,» Gist said.

Gist said Tuesday that she is not satisfied with all of the state's charter schools, and some could be closed as a result of poor performance.

Improving schools is critical to the economy in Rhode Island, a state with nearly 13 percent unemployment, since students who drop out will struggle and be a cost to society, Gist said in an address to the General Assembly.

«Gaining support from all districts and unions will surely help us in our Race to the Top,» Ms. Gist said in a statement.

Not exact matches

In fact, there's been some dire economic news lately, the gist of which says sales are down across most industries.

The gist of TRID is that mortgage lenders must send particular paperwork to mortgage borrowers 72 hours prior to closing, and that changes to any of the documents require a re-disclosure of said terms and another 72 - hour waiting period.

@Christine, Points well - made; your criticisms are indeed valid in some respects, arguably way off in others, but I get the gist of what you're saying.

Because I think you do get at least the gist of what he was saying.

@tru — Yes, you got the gist of what I was wanting to say, except that I attempted to explain as best I could what you summarized in the first two points, but as for the «don't ask» part, I still think this is a very important question.

Not fully sure I grasped all you were saying there, but I think I get your gist.

People offered their prayer requests from the pews, and the ministers would report back to the congregation the gist of what had been said, using the pulpit microphone.

JUSTICE AND PEACE FOR SOME Dear Father Editor The Daily Telegraph recently published a short letter of mine the gist of which was that I had recently «visited the website of every Roman Catholic diocese in England and Wales, to see what its Justice and Peace Commission was saying about the Embryology Bill and abortion.

Since pressure of other work has prevented my writing a special essay on this, I have put together the gist of what I said by taking extracts from my contributions to the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University in 1971/2 and 1972/3 (The Nature of Mind and The Development of Mind by A. J. P. Kenny, H. C. Longuet - Higgins, J. R. Lucas and C. H. Waddington; Edinburgh University Press, 1972 and 1973).

As to the article's ethical deficiencies, he says that «the gist of the article is that harvesting for laboratory experiments can be clearly separated from the rightness or wrongness of abortion.»

I could have maybe said that better, but you get the gist.

But I got the general gist and he was basically backtracking in saying that Sanchez would stay even if he left for free next year.

Tomlin said that the gist of the conversation the team will have with Brown is that incidents like this don't help him as a player.

He just happens to be able to do more than that, not to say Hayes couldn't but Hayes had the luxury of playing with the likes of Vasquez all four years as well as Milbourne, and other players like Gist and Strawberry and others before that.

Maybe they'd say it a little nicer than that, but you get the gist of what I'm trying to say.

Michel fudges, but says the gist of the advice was that the secretary of state was to be unbiased.

But he said the gist of the call was that Cuomo had created a commission to investigate public corruption by elected officials, and made specific mention of Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo, alleging she has bilked taxpayers out of more money than «some of us take home in a year.»

That's the gist of it, that last paragraph especially is why, if anyone says anything anti-constitutional, they get attacked and booed viciously.

Was pretty much the gist of what Chris Huhne said on the Marr programme yesterday.

That was the gist of the message a source says former Gov. David Paterson sent his ex-girlfriend Pamela Bane when their relationship ended late last year...

«The gist of what he said is that Ruben is a common - sense guy,» an attendee told the news service.

He told them he continued to consider his position but the next day he wrote an article for the Sunday Mirror which appeared to back Brown — though his aides sent corrective text messages afterwards saying that was not the gist of his piece.

We are thankful for our families who don't flinch when we say that we need to go into the lab at midnight, even though the gist of this sentiment is that we're choosing bacterial cultures over them.

If committee members can get the gist of what you're saying from a figure without wading through your impenetrable prose, your odds of getting interviewed shoot up.

Wreck This Journal is about helping kids find their creative voice and redefining mistakes as opportunities for growth, at least that's the gist of what the 2,600 five stars review on Amazon say.

But I would say, after getting that gist from the Power Plate, that you do more what Toxins suggests: find those recipes / sources that you trust that are truly healthy meals.

But my skills at researching are limited (perhaps by Karl Lagerfeilds fame & the phenomenal amounts of sites dedicated to things he said) So instead I'm going to have to give you the gist of his words instead... Karl Lagerfeild high fashions King of extravagance was quoted to say in reference to his collaboration with H&M (something along the lines of)

One in five newly committed couples met through a dating site, says Match.com [PDF](and... The gist: This one seems reputable, if a bit skewed toward 40 - year - olds who like swimming with the dolphins.

Battlestar Galactica isn't the sort of standalone episode show like, let's say, StarGate: Atlantis, where you can simply drop in somewhere in the middle of a season and can still catch the general gist of things.

They can't hear each other, but through gestures and mouthed words, they can get the gist of what the other is saying, but between them is an immovable object that prevents a full understanding of what they mean to say.

If for any reason you're unable to watch the video right now, the gist of their statement is that a juror from the Avery trial contacted Ricciardi and Demos to say that he / she believes Steven Avery was not guilty, framed by law enforcement, and had voted to convict because of fear for his / her personal safety.

But the gist of what Richard Widmark said that weekend, and the eloquence with which he said it, will always stay with me.

TV programmes; the 12 - hour clock; saying what you and your friends do after school; understanding an interview about a young sportsperson; talking about an after - school trip; reading for gist and detail.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

President Barack Obama has called the firings an example of the need to hold failing schools accountable, and Gist on Wednesday said failing schools will continue to need drastic action.

Rep. Joseph McNamara, a Warwick Democrat, said he respected Gist's aggressive approach to failing schools.

«We can not thrive in a knowledge - based marketplace if 45 percent of our high - school students can not do math and 39 percent can not do science at the very basic level,» said Gist, who is in her first year as commissioner of elementary and secondary education.

«The quality of our student learning objectives was not where we ultimately want them to be,» said Rhode Island education commissioner Deborah Gist in an interview with The Hechinger Report last year.

«The need to focus on graduation rates was pretty obvious,» said Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist.

House Speaker Beth Harwell, who with a number of other Republican state lawmakers flanked the governor for the announcement, said she was «very pleased» with the gist of the vow.

Such flexibility is one of the benefits of blended learning, say supporters, who include Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist, (who is expected to depart for the Tulsa superintendent's job later this spring).

«They were asked to calculate the mean percentage of words recalled and then given data to do this from a maths test containing only numbers, is the gist of it,» she said.

Ryan said, «A benefit of using Checkpoints was that it saved me time in being able to really see who got the gist of what we were doing and who needed a little more scaffolding or reinforcement.»

The gist of it lies in its name: T, says VW, brings it closer to its Touareg and Tiguan peers, although the T - Roc is smaller than both of them as it sits below the Tiguan.

That may be a slight oversimplification, but I think you get the gist of what I'm saying.

If you can get the gist of what is said above (and more importantly appreciate the satirical humor of it) you'll be in good shape to take on the half of The Book of Dave which is set in the future (and for that matter some of the slang dialogue in the parts set in the present).