Sentences with phrase «new schools exchange»

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The school added two new exchange partners this year: Nagoya University of Commerce and Business in Japan, and Yonsei University in South Korea.

Even before Wharton officially announced the new team - discussion admissions test, The MBA Exchange had introduced its new $ 395 service to help applicants prep for the novel addition to the school's MBA application.

John Yap, minister of advanced education, innovation and technology, said the new school will also attract international students, «which is so important for our economy and for the whole opportunity of global exchanges.»

The New York Stock Exchange has a solid lesson plan here for high school students that focuses on trading.

As a Director and member of the management committee of Inland Real Estate Corporation (NYSE: IRC), he helped to ring the New York Stock Exchange bell instead of a school bell.

Local Councillors have expressed criticism of the Labour council who made the deal with the church in exchange for turning their old building into a new school.

The new contract spells the end of the district's short - lived foray into the National School Lunch Program, which provides federal reimbursements in exchange for offering healthy free or reduced - cost meals to low - income students.

As I reported in two stories in the New York Times this spring, lunch shaming is the practice of singling out children in the cafeteria over school meal debt by offering them alternate cold meals such as a cheese sandwich, marking them with a wrist band or hand stamp, or, in rare cases, requiring them to do chores in exchange for a meal.

An new report from an education advocacy group accuses members of the state Senate's eight - member IDC of betraying traditional public schools in exchange for campaign donations from charter school supporters.

That was the same year legislators did a deal with then - GOP Gov. George Pataki that raised their base pay by 38 percent to its current level ($ 79,500) in exchange for agreeing to forgo their paychecks in the event of late budgets and the creation of charter schools in New York.

Just weeks before Daniel Loeb, an outspoken charter school proponent and one of the biggest donors in New York politics, unfavorably compared a top African - American state senator to the Ku Klux Klan, he exchanged a separate series of caustic and racially charged emails with a top official in the de Blasio administration.

He gets a vote on the Franchise Concession Review Committee, which gave Stringer leverage in his opposition to the Parks Department's plan to let private schools get prime playing hours on Randalls Island, in exchange for underwriting much of the construction of new ball fields there.

Speaking to an overflow crowd at New York Law School, Mr. Bharara dismissed the accusations that it was «business as usual» for Mr. Silver to receive millions in kickbacks from law firms in exchange for directing clients with relationships with the state their way.

He also said the city should sell air rights above public school buildings to create new development sites in exchange for money from developers to repair the schools.

BEDFORD - STUYVESANT — Students in three Brooklyn schools are tossing their textbooks in exchange for iPads as part of a new pilot program geared toward digital learning.

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In the final hours of this year's legislative session, for instance, the Republican - controlled Senate demanded a number of concessions for charter schools in exchange for granting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio a one - year extension of mayoral control of city schools.

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After graduating from Longview High School in 1988 — where he was voted «Most Handsome» — McConaughey signed on for an exchange student program, spending a year living in New South Wales, Australia.

According to the comic books, the comic book character Gwen Stacy is a blonde haired / blue eyed American, but this new version could perhaps be a foreign exchange student who ends up attending Peter's school.

The new law includes provisions implementing a proposal Mr. Bush made in last year's gubernatorial campaign to allow for the creation of «home rule» school districts, which could vote to operate under fewer state regulations in exchange for promising to improve student achievement.

At route of the event is the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with your colleagues from academies, maintained schools, local authorities and education charities across the sector — something that can be done in abundance at the brand new «Central Networking Area».

Debra Evans initiated a New Zealand Teacher Exchange Program (see video at the top of this page) with a school in Rotorua after connecting through the Middle Years of Schooling Association (MYSA).

The charter school movement and the push for universal preschool hold the potential to be «important partners» in improving education, but they generally operate on separate tracks with little cooperation or exchange of ideas, says a new report issued by a pro-charter group.

[Debra Evans initiated a New Zealand Teacher Exchange Program with a school in Rotorua.

Washington — Students from 30 U.S. high schools and a like number of Soviet schools will travel to each other's country early next year as the first participants in a new exchange program, officials announced last week.

That combination of freedom in exchange for accountability is not new in the public school world, but it's nothing short of transformational for Catholic schools.

The goal is to recruit 7,000 outstanding new teachers into high - need public schools by giving them scholarships in exchange for a commitment to teach.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan made the announcement in a speech at the Policy Exchange, saying that rural schools and coastal schools will be the focus on the new plans, which will see teachers offered higher salaries, future leadership roles and relocation costs as incentives.

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We put out a statement congratulating the new schools, and the Long Island Exchange shared it.

In exchange, they receive more autonomy, although all public schools, charter or traditional, use the same course content (Common Core, renamed «New Jersey Student Learning Standards) and the same tests (PARCC, which, by the way, just got an «unconditional thumbs - up» for accurately measuring student growth).

This week, Facing History's Learn + Teach + Share blog featured a series of blog posts from the students and teachers involved in an exchange between two Los Angeles middle schools: Sinai Akiba Academy, a Jewish day school, and New Horizon School, a Muslim day sschool, and New Horizon School, a Muslim day sSchool, a Muslim day schoolschool.

He sees the key to this new structure in the chartering model, in which nongovernmental organizations are granted extensive autonomy, by a government - appointed, independent authorizing board, to operate schools in exchange for positive student achievement outcomes.

Tom Bennett, Founder of ResearchEd and Chair of the Department for Education Behaviour Group John Blake, History Consultant & Leading Practitioner at Harris Federation Christine Counsell, Director of Education, Inspiration Trust Anthony Denny, Parent & Governor, Jane Austen College Rachel De Souza, CEO, Inspiration Trust Toby French, Lead Practitioner, Torquay Academy Claire Heald, Executive Principal, Jane Austen College Karl Hoods, Chairman of Governors, Harris Academy Beckenham Hywel Jones, Head Teacher, West London Free School Michaela Khatib, Executive Head, Cobham Free School Mark Lehain, Principal, Bedford Free School Stuart Lock, Head Teacher, Cottenham Village College Helena Mills, CEO, Burnt Mills Academy Trust Munira Mirza, Former Deputy Mayor of Education and Culture for London Dan Moynihan, CEO, Harris Federation Libby Nicholas, CEO, Reach 4 Academy Trust Sara Noel, Parent and Governor, Cottenham Village College Martyn Oliver, CEO, Outwood Grange Academies Trust James O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Floreat Education Academies Trust Bruno Reddy, Maths Social Entrepreneur & former Head of Maths at King Solomon Academy Martin Robinson, Educationalist & author of Trivium21c Mark Rose, Governor, Great Yarmouth Primary Academy Jo Saxton, CEO, Turner Schools Multi-Academy Trust Tony Sewell, Founder of Generating Genius Jonathan Simons, Head of Education at Policy Exchange & Chairman of Governors, Greenwich Free School Luke Sparkes, Principal, Trinity Academy Alex Wade, Parent and Chairman of Governors, Fulham Boys School Claire Ward, Parent, Cobham Free School Rachel Wolf, Founder of The New Schools Network & Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister for Education

Today's Policy Exchange «research» conveniently released a bunch of positive facts about free schools on the exact same day that David Cameron announced 49 new ones and committed to opening 500 more.

Student facilitators from Student Voice Collaborative led a new workshop this year, Tackling Engagement Together: A Student - Staff Think Tank, during which adult participants were joined by student representatives from their schools to exchange ideas on how to keep students involved and invested in their education.

The exchange has the Cache County School District swap an acre of land by the new, as - yet - unnamed high school location in North Logan for an acre of land that is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints adjacent to Bridgerland Applied Technology CoSchool District swap an acre of land by the new, as - yet - unnamed high school location in North Logan for an acre of land that is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints adjacent to Bridgerland Applied Technology Coschool location in North Logan for an acre of land that is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints adjacent to Bridgerland Applied Technology College.

The company runs online schools or offers curricula to online schools in various states and trades on the New York Stock Exchange (click here for its current quote).

The disclosure comes at an awkward time for the government, which wants universities to commit to sponsoring or setting up new schools in exchange for freedom to charge their own higher fees.

In exchange, states were forced to agree to a US DOE school improvement agenda that focused on overhauling low performing schools, adopting more rigorous teacher evaluations and new college and career ready academic standards known as Common Core.

The issue - unhappiness about a reduction in personal planning time in exchange for school - wide staff development in the new teacher contract - mobilized the kind of teacher turnout not seen at board meetings since the mid-1990s when labor strife was more common.

Policy Exchange acknowledges in its report that a number of other factors could contribute to performance of other schools, such as a new headteacher, change in staffing, or financial difficulties.

Awards of $ 6,470 are made to students attending school at the undergraduate and / or graduate degree level in exchange for five years of full - time employment as math or science teachers in secondary education in the state of New York.

-- Universities will be asked to commit to sponsoring or setting up new schools in exchange for the freedom to charge its own higher fees

New research by the think tank Policy Exchange has revealed that free schools are helping to raise standards for pupils in other schools across the local community.

The charter arrangement could result in a new type of school, Dr. Budde said, that would give teachers increased responsibility over curriculum and instruction in exchange for a greater degree of accountability for student achievement.

If you would like to donate to the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) to support the French Dual Language Programs in New York City Public Schools, simply click on the following link.

Much of the new accountability language within the proposal reinforces the commitment of providing charter schools greater flexibility in exchange for higher levels of accountability for student outcomes.

In an effort to tighten up performance benchmarks that schools, districts and states may have to reach in exchange for federal funds, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has proposed a new rule that would increase accountability while also giving grant recipients some new flexibility in meeting the mandates.