Sentences with phrase «about a dozen school»

On average, each CMO operates about a dozen schools, with future growth projected to reach just over 20 schools each.

The decision was supported by Richard Atkins, former president of the Association of Colleges, who said that to be successful, multi-academy trusts (MATs) run by colleges needed about a dozen schools.

Because owners of cottages pay the same amount as owners of office buildings, about a dozen school districts have explored other approaches to spread the burden, like charging by the lot size or a building's square footage.

That's because the complex teacher evaluation process remains, so far, as a pilot program in about a dozen school districts.

A florist let him use a delivery truck to transport his sculptures to about a dozen school classrooms, where he spoke to kids about art.

The book is unique in its coverage of international and transactional issues as well as traditional intellectual property law and policy, and has been adopted by about a dozen schools beyond the home schools of the authors.

Not exact matches

The investigation was prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has found to be «credible» and «serious,» these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was not yet public.

Under the rallying cry #NeverAgain, dozens of students and staff who survived the Florida school shooting departed earlier Tuesday for the Capitol, where they hope to speak with lawmakers Wednesday about school safety and gun control.

Parkland, Florida, school - shooting survivor David Hogg was able to get about a dozen advertisers to boycott «The Ingraham Angle» last week after host Laura Ingraham tweeted that he had «whined» about not getting into the colleges of his choice.

In January 2013, just weeks after 20 children and six adults were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., three dozen law enforcement officers gathered at the Johns Hopkins University for a series of informal discussions about...

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

In the immediate aftermath of the shooting in a Parkland high school that killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others, pressure mounted for Congress to actually do something on guns — and Trump seemed enthusiastic about the idea.

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

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.

The money goes to pay for the buiding, the utilities, the maintenance, salaries for the staff (2 people including the pastor who makes less than the average member), supplies and office equipment, donations that our church sends to other churches around the world, money we send to a native American school in New Mexico, and about a dozen other groupls that we help to support.

Every year he assembles about a dozen male students — some former high school players, most fast and strong, several quite tall — and has them scrimmage against the women.

During his senior year at nearby Exeter High School, Barbato's team ran the old - school Straight - T offense and threw the ball about a dozen times aSchool, Barbato's team ran the old - school Straight - T offense and threw the ball about a dozen times aschool Straight - T offense and threw the ball about a dozen times a game.

From a recent article in The Bay Citizen I learned that about two dozen small, affluent public schools in the California Bay Area have opted out of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and instead have hired small catering companies (such as... [Continue reading]

There were about a dozen middle schoolers in all, taste testing new school - lunch ideas.

About a dozen parents of pupils in School District 13's before - and - after - school day - care program are protesting a proposed change in provSchool District 13's before - and - after - school day - care program are protesting a proposed change in provschool day - care program are protesting a proposed change in providers.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

About half a dozen groups are applying to open Steiner Free Schools from 2015.

The new schools chancellor has spoken about the issue almost daily, the mayor has been asked about it repeatedly, and there have been dozens of articles, editorials and debates.

The union and its allies, he noted, pushed back against about a dozen pro-charter school proposals that state Senate Republicans made a concerted effort to include in the final budget bill.

Dozens of residents turned out for the meeting, furious about recent events in Ramapo, including an FBI investigation into St. Lawrence as well as a state investigation alleging that town fire inspector Adam Peltz allegedly failed to report serious safety violations at several private schools.

Dozens of charter schools were closed for the morning; parents and children, the vast majority from Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network, were handed matching oversize T - shirts, granola bars and water bottles, and encouraged to chant and dance for about two hours in a show of strength and enthusiasm.

WBFO»S Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley attended a session at South Park High School where only about a dozen parents and community members attended.

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

At a meeting this week, SUNY trustees vented about how long it has taken to finalize more than two dozen contracts between campuses and their supporting foundations, which solicit funds and hold property on behalf of the schools.

Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the question of how to attract the best teachers and what teachers are lacking in their current contracts.

State Senator Marc Panepinto and administrators from about a half - dozen local school districts gathered in Hamburg to discuss Common Core, standardized testing and how their tied to teacher evaluations, and how to fix what they collectively believe is a flawed system.

But Fariña, Merriman and about a dozen attendees told reporters that no details about those proposals were discussed over the course of the two - hour meeting at the Charter School Center.

One by one, more than a dozen people spoke passionately Wednesday evening about why they feel Buffalo Schools needs to adopt a gender identity policy.

Council members Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan) and Antonio Reynoso (D - Brooklyn) held a rally with about 30 school children and dozens of environmentalists outside City Hall to announce a voting majority.

The controversial charter school leader, whose Success Academy schools spread to about two dozen locations across the city under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has been rejected from a plan to share space with three additional public schools this fall, officials said.

Later in the afternoon a half a block away, about a dozen people including Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan turned out for a «State of Our Community Meeting»... «When I go into our schools, our kids are saying the same things that the adults say.

Since then, two IDA boards, four school districts, hundreds of Valley Stream taxpayers, and about a dozen state and local lawmakers have become embroiled in a controversy over the mall's tax incentives that have been blamed for steep tax hikes for residents.

Moskowitz answered about a dozen questions, with topics including whether there is any potential mayoral candidate who embodies what she wants in a candidate, whether she plans on being involved in the 2017 election, why she is «such a lightning rod» for criticism, obstacles ahead, the City's pre-K program, whether she'll run for office at another time, whether she reflexively criticizes all education - related actions of Mayor de Blasio, whether she's concerned that her influence on state government will diminish because of her decision, discipline and suspension polices at Success Academy schools, her plans for other projects and her view on potential mayoral candidacies of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

And at a high school in Sayreville, N.J., a district official said about two dozen teenagers joined the National...

The Niagara County Crime Analysis Center receives live feeds from two dozen fixed surveillance cameras operated by the city, as well as an undisclosed number of mobile cameras and about 200 cameras mounted at the city's public schools.

Whether or not SUNY Poly actually has any confidential partnerships — Bob Megna, who runs the school's affiliated nonprofits, literally told the Times Union last year, «I don't know what deals Kaloyeros cut with people» — it seems noteworthy that a public university could mistakenly mark about a dozen (or more?)

Morrow is coming from Brown with about a dozen people, including a high school student who is working with him for the summer, undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and colleagues Julie Kauer, professor of neuroscience, and John Robson, administrative director of the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute.

I have a gazillion photos from my trip to download onto Miss Mac, about a half dozen more loads of laundry to wash and fold, an entire week of school to catch up on, and my first IIN test to study for!

Off topics — We have been advised by our county health department and at our school to get the pertussis vaccine because about a half dozen of our 1200 students have been diagnosed.

When I went to school I would fear every day because everyday there were about a dozen people who's mission in life seemed to be making me feel terrible about myself and embarrassing me.

When I began volunteering at Sequoia Academy, a new private school of about a dozen students, in Janesville, a medium - sized working class city in southern Wisconsin, I never imagined that I would end up as a lunch lady.

When coupled with my rather lacklustre dating history, consisting of one brief fling in high school and about a dozen attempts since then that amounted to nothing, my morale when it comes to dating is pretty low.

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A heist - style drama about genius high school students and their task to pull off the ultimate, cheating scam on behalf of dozens of wealthy peers doesn't quite sound like the nail - biter Bad Genius ends up pulling off, but here we are.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Girl Next - Door Becomes Playboy Playmate in Raunchy Teensploit Released on DVD High school seniors Eugene Pratt (Zach Cregger) and Tucker Cleigh (Trevor Moore) are best friends, despite the fact that the former is a celibate nerd, while the latter is a popular player who openly boasts openly about having already slept with a dozen different women.