Sentences with phrase «vashon island school»

Family: Sand, married; Anderson and Guerrero, single Education: Anderson earned a degree in fine arts and industrial design at Rhode Island School of Design in 1982.

They make an unlikely duo — Donahoe, 53, was an econ major at Dartmouth, got an MBA at Stanford, and worked at Bain & Co. for nearly 20 years; Chesky, 32, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and started Airbnb to help pay his rent.

The billionaire met cofounder Joe Gebbia while the two were attending The Rhode Island School of Design and later decided to explore entrepreneurship after they'd quit their jobs in San Francisco.

Airbnb, whose website rental listings range from private rooms to manors and islands, has expanded rapidly in the eight years since it was founded in 2008 by a trio of graduates â $ «Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk â $ «from the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard.

For example, shortly after I joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers from my post as the President of Rhode Island School of Design, six other venture capital firms brought in designers into their partnerships.

Think of lead contaminated water at Vancouver Island schools, asbestos exposure at a school in Abbotsford and delays in upgrading seismically unsound schools across the Lower Mainland.

«This exhibit was one we intentionally made very broad, because it covered the 230 - year history of music and politics in the US,» says the exhibition's guest curator Daniel Cavicchi, who also serves as an associate professor of American Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Dr. Goethals is director of graduate studies and professor of art history at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

A graduate of Island School, a private institution on the island, McEvoy heard from friends that «there's always something valuable to learn at Kauaʻi CC.»

They told me about their artistic backgrounds — Perez - Gallardo studied studio art at Bard, and Black studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

He is currently on the editorial board of VMSD magazine and has spoken at SXSW, Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard, IRDC, Globalshop and POPAI Brazil.

The Mercer Island School District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student safety.

David Jaacks, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and his Smithfield Company have come up with a design for a small enclosure for nursing moms, a «lactation suite,» that could soon spread to public areas including airports and malls worldwide.

L.I.F.E Lopez Island Farm Education Orca Garden - Seattle Orcas Island School Garden Quilcene School Garden & blog Franklin Pierce School District Natural Science Resource Center («the Farm»), Tacoma, WA

Phoebe Wahl (Issues 1 - 9) Phoebe is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration.

The Whole Systems Design client list includes The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Cape Eleuthera Island School, Bahamas; Vermont State Prison Farm; and a significant installation at Teal Farm / LivingFuture in Vermont.

Indeed, I learned of one Rhode Island school that several years ago actually experienced three choking incidents in a single month, leading the school to adopt a controversial «no talking» policy in the cafeteria.

«We can just watch as critical funds are taken from our Long Island Schools and given to New York City schools,» he said in the ad.

Five Long Island school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more than twice as many as last year, according to the state comptroller's office.

A pencil drawing on a classroom desk in a Queens high school last week was the source of a social media post displaying a threatening message that disrupted Long Island school districts on Monday, the New York Police Department said.

A candidate for the Eastport - South Manor, Long Island school board who has a manslaughter conviction said last night he planned to stay in the race, according to a text message he sent during a candidate forum and read aloud by the event's moderator.

Leaders of the New Suffolk school district, the only Long Island school system to propose piercing the state's property tax cap, said last night that doing so is necessary to preserve key educational services.

On Sunday, a top Cuomo aide cited a Newsday report as evidence that most Long Island school districts used union - endorsed scoring to «skew» results and «ensure that their teachers are rated only «effective» and «highly effective.»»

The GOP redirected that money to upstate and Long Island schools districts.

CITY HALL — The «Too Good for Drugs» program will expand to 47 Staten Island schools with $ 70,000 from Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The number of threats against Long Island schools reported to police have surged this year, most notably since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, officials say.

Flatley said educators have worked with police, parents and students to develop and practice drills to protect children if a shooting occurs at a Long Island school.

In backing Martins, Flanagan cited his work to repeal the MTA payroll tax, pass ethics reforms and bring in additional funding for Long Island schools.

Prevention efforts in his proposal include expansion of a Staten Island school prevention program Citywide, creation of a «Synthetics Task Force» with federal, state and city law enforcement and «develop [ing] clearer standards for prescribing opioids.»

She also served the community on the Friends of Grand Island Memorial Library Board, Grand Island Historical Society, St. Stephen's Church, Grand Island School Business Alliance (GISBA), and the Grand Island Relay for Life: Survivor Tent.

In response to Cuomo's push for a property tax cap, a Long Island school district has proposed cutting teachers and hiking taxes.

About 20 percent of the Long Island school districts that said they tested for lead in water at their schools reported finding the metal at levels that caused them to shut down fountains and replace fixtures, according to a Newsday / News 12 Long Island survey.

«John will take that enthusiasm for helping the public to Albany where he will work to clean up government and help struggling Long Island schools and taxpayers.

If all the gambling revenues went to education, why are our Upstate and Long Island school districts supported by property taxes?

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

Miller Place school authorities confirmed they have assigned armed personnel to each of the district's four schools, joining a growing list of Long Island school districts clamping down on campus security.

The Southampton, Long Island school district is investigating allegations against its superintendent, according to a message posted on the district's website.

Now they are threatening him to keep Long Island schools whole in the education budget — and I fear he will shrink before them.

Long Island school districts stand to recover more than $ 117 million in lost state financial aid during the coming year, according to the region's education leaders who say the money will help compensate for tighter state property tax limits.

Five Long Island school districts, all in Suffolk, are asking voters to approve an override of their state - imposed property tax caps — more than twice as many as last year.

While Kerr was at the Staten Island School of Civic Leadership, the school was the highest - ranking elementary, middle school and pre-K in the city, Oddo said.

Rose Kerr, who was head of the Staten Island School of Civic Leadership in Mariners Harbor, will help develop new ideas and proposals for education in the borough and serve as a liaison between Oddo and the Department of Education, Oddo announced Wednesday.

Summons totals from Staten Island school zone speed cameras from the months of June through October, according to New York City's open data website.

Reif is right that Long Island schools would be cut at a percentage slightly higher than their usual share of the state budget, while New York City would fare better.

He also announced plans to buy salad bars for seven Staten Island school cafeterias, funding for a mobile command vehicle for the Sanitation Department during snowstorms and emergencies, and the Department of Transportation's plan to replace many of the boroughs lights with LEDs.

Thiele said Long Island school districts would face the increases in their LIPA bills even as they labor under the state - mandated 2 percent tax cap.

Three Long Island schools were selected as among the best in two states — New York and Colorado — in a pilot program honoring campuses that «put students, not test scores, first.»

Educators are pushing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to install state troopers at certain Long Island schools, making a rocky start for the quickly hatched proposal.

Three Long Island school districts — Levittown in Nassau County, and Montauk and South Huntington in Suffolk — should not have built up multimillion - dollar budget surpluses, state auditors said in separate reports released last week.

Flanagan defended the overall budget deal, arguing that Republicans were able to secure an extra $ 155 million in state operating aid for Long Island schools and a tax cut for households earning up to $ 300,000.