Sentences with phrase «schools and states keep»

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The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

Post-1980s, the state relied on hukou, or housing registration, to keep tabs on where people lived, worked, and sent their children to school.

Florida governor Rick Scott sent a statement, saying that he «will be organizing meetings with state and local leaders in Tallahassee next week to discuss ways to keep Florida students safe, including school safety improvements and keeping guns away from individuals struggling with mental illness.»

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

What must be done is to keep insisting on the right to teach the Bible as history and as literature in the public schools until this not only is permitted but becomes as widely practiced there as in the state universities.

She lives in a paralyzing state of «constant and fear» and it's forcing her to keep her children indoors and out of school.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

I think that, in keeping with the separation of church and state (which is a good policy, I think), we should not observe ANY religious holidays, including Good Friday, which is widely observed by public schools throughout the US.

State District Judge Steve Thomas of Hardin County implemented a temporary injunction Thursday in favor of the Kountze High School cheerleaders, and by setting a trial date of June 24, 2013, Thomas effectively allows the cheerleaders to keep displaying Bible - quoting signs at Kountze athletic events through the end of this current schoolSchool cheerleaders, and by setting a trial date of June 24, 2013, Thomas effectively allows the cheerleaders to keep displaying Bible - quoting signs at Kountze athletic events through the end of this current schoolschool year.

I'm an American and our country was founded on keeping religion separate from state and though I think its taken to extremes, I can understand not hanging crosses in schools or courts or government buildings here.

If you want to misuse the whole separation of religion and state thing as it is consistently applied to keep ANY semblance of religion out of our schools, government buildings, and veterans monuments, then you must also equally misuse it in application to this situation.

I quickly realized that there was no way that I could keep up with the smooth, consistent swings off Smotherman and his friend and former high school teammate, Eric Ash, who will start his second year of school and golf at Sonoma State University this month.

We, Clemson, Ohio State, and a few elite others will and do pay absurd money to keep our best coaches, which forces other aspirant schools to pay out for hopes, dreams, and prayers, often with poor results.

After transferring from NC State, the Martins are older prospects with a bit less upside, and are keeping open the option to return to school.

It was the continuation of a trend that has kept some power schools anchored to the bottom of their conferences and made outsider programs like Cincinnati and Boise State constant postseason presences.

But my high school daughter and son keep me up with the state of the art, racing in colorful contrasting spikes.

And the dairy industry has been quite candid in stating that this «petition was and continues to be a direct attempt to keep flavored milks in school cafeterias.&raqAnd the dairy industry has been quite candid in stating that this «petition was and continues to be a direct attempt to keep flavored milks in school cafeterias.&raqand continues to be a direct attempt to keep flavored milks in school cafeterias.»

The Orland Park school has a streak of seven years of winning at least one state championship and the softball team is the last hope to keep that alive.

FRAC is committed to working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, state agencies, advocates, and school districts to keep up the momentum and ensure all students start the day with a healthy breakfast.

He made the assertion in Ibadan, Oyo State capital in an address at the opening session of the Training Workshop on the Use of Curriculum Guides, Record Keeping, Guidance and Counselling and Multigrade Teaching Techniques for Nomadic School Teachers in the South - West Zone.

«Our Senate Republican Majority is hard at work on a comprehensive school safety plan that will ensure the state provides the support necessary to strengthen school security and keep students safe,» he said.

«We take school threats very seriously and will continue working closely with New York State Police and other law enforcement agencies to keep our children safe,» Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. says.

Martins, a former state senator, says he'd get rid of the county guarantee that makes Nassau pay tax refunds to school districts and other municipalities on money it collected but never kept.

Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. said, «We take school threats very seriously and will continue working closely with New York State Police and other law enforcement agencies to keep our children safe.

The shadow education secretary said private educators should be sharing their expertise to help state school pupils get into top universities, and should set up joint school programmes such as combined extra-curricular activities, if they wanted to keep receiving government subsidies in future.

«We are currently having important discussions about a comprehensive school - safety plan that will ensure the state provides the support necessary to strengthen security and keep our children safe,» is all Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif would say on gun control Tuesday.

If tommorrow the State determined we should keep schools open 24 hours a day and provide 3 meals, snack, with reacreation and daycare then who do you think would pay for it?

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions, and school administrators, say the state's schools need and additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

Leaders of state - level education organizations have estimated that lawmakers need to approve an overall aid increase of $ 1.7 billion just to meet payroll raises and other expenses and to keep school programs running at current levels.

The bills backed by Democratic state Sen. Jeffrey Klein would keep level two and three sex offenders whose victims were under 13 from being within 1,000 feet of a pre-K or kindergarten school.

Adopted by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state lawmakers in 2011, the property - tax cap mandates that school districts, town boards, county boards and other local governments keep the growth of their tax levies at 2 percent or the rate of inflation — whichever is lower.

He touted a number of accomplishments through the years, from keeping town and school budgets under the state tax cap to successfully obtaining grants to fund infrastructure upgrades.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions and school administrators, said the state's schools need an additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

Schools will see a $ 1.1 billion increase in state aid, and $ 340 million will be devoted to starting pre-kindergarten programs, with a commitment to keep that level of funding for five years.

While I strongly disagree with the court's ruling and the short term ramifications it has across our great state, it emphasizes the need to pass our legislation and keep registered sex offenders away from our schools.

Donohue said instead of cutting resources to teachers and support staff who keep schools running, the state would be better off eliminating the financial perks school districts have been lavishing on law firms they hire to represent them against their workers.

Before Cuomo's State of the State address last week, both the U.F.T. and New York United Teachers had kept their criticism of Cuomo largely focused broadly on the need for more school aid.

Besides delaying school aid, Mr. Paterson tried to impose a temporary freeze on state employee salaries and to furlough about 100,000 government workers — both moves have been struck down by courts — in steps that the governor insisted were necessary to keep the state afloat.

«The inclusion of competitive tax parity, a plan that keeps the three Western New York racetrack casinos as vital partners to state and localities, and the assurance that our two successful downstate partners can continue providing good paying jobs and generating significant funding for schools are significant improvements from earlier drafts of this bill and critical to our support,» said Association President James Featherstonhaugh in a statement.

Carl Paladino can stay on the Buffalo School Board — for now — after state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia rejected requests from other board members and a parent's group to keep him away from meetings and activities until she rules on their petitions to remove him.

Gov. David Paterson announced this week he would delay at least $ 60 million in school funding to New York City schools in order to keep the state's finances afloat, and...

With Republicans in charge of Albany things like the MTA payroll tax were kept at bay and resources like state school aide disproportionately stayed in wealthy districts, including many on Long Island.

There are numerous private nonprofit organizations and foundations across the state, many at SUNY schools, that contend they operate outside the state's open government laws, keeping their records out of reach from the public and journalists.

Working with input from educators, parent groups, and school administrators, the Governor will launch a weekly interactive webcast series called «Albany at Work» aimed at helping high school students learn about and keep updated on the workings of New York State government.

StudentsFirstNY, a charter schools group, and REBNY, a deep - pocketed trade association, plan to spend millions of dollars during the next month in hopes of keeping the Republicans in control of the state Senate.

Education advocates and the state teachers union says at least $ 1.5 billion is needed for schools just to keep existing services for teachers and students.

Albert said the biggest reason that districts have been able to adhere to the tax cap and keep afloat is that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature have increased school aid each year in the state budget.

«It's not sustainable, and what they do is they keep pushing the cost down to the local taxpayer, saying, «We cut at the state level», which is true, but somehow it has to get funded, which really pits the taxpayer against the school district,» Brown said.

Their dispute has made it all the way to the State Supreme Court, where a judge issued a temporary restraining order against the district and school board, to keep them from replacing those teachers.