Sentences with phrase «against bigger schools»

The Knights again scheduled games against bigger schools and perennial regional powers such as Sacramento, Bishop O'Dowd, St. Francis - Sacramento, Pleasant Grove, and St. Ignatius - San Francisco, making them playoff ready.

Not exact matches

I secured advertising by calling up big brands from the school phone box, telling them their rivals were already advertising with us and playing them off against each other.

With a recent client list including Goldman Sachs, Princeton University, Deloitte, the 2015 Pan Am Games and the Kellogg School of Management, KPMB is proving it can compete and win against some of the biggest «starchitects» in the world.

Ironically, the offensive against too - big - to - fail seems to be encouraging the minnows to school.

Now, the survivors of the Florida school shooting are taking a stand against gun violence in a big way — and their efforts have spawned a boycott of the NRA.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

This is a big win for student loan borrowers, who have been unfairly stopped from raising their claims against predatory schools due to the arbitration clauses that most for - profit schools slip into their student enrollment agreements.

Drew Singleton will be in Ann Arbor this weekend as Paramus Catholic High School opens their 2016 - 17 season against St. Frances High School in the Big House this Friday.

The school suspended him, and worse, his parents held him out of the season - opening flag football game against his team's biggest rival.

In 1907, against a mix of big and small schools, SLU was almost as proficient.

Bisconti, a high school junior at the time, had just received a call to join the U.S. National Team — not the junior team, but the BIG BOYS — for a June exhibition series against Serbia.

One of the biggest surprises of the week came when Oklahoma Christian, an NAIA school playing a rare game against an NCAA Division I team, came through with a 90 - 76 triumph at Memphis State.

But Michigan State won a non-Playoff version of the Cotton Bowl in the Cowboys» stadium last year, against Texas school Baylor — so the Spartans aren't likely to be intimidated by a big point spread.

«I'd had success in high school playing against guys who were going to big - time schools,» says Linehan, who was averaging 11.9 points at week's end for 13 - 10 Providence.

Besides his lack of experienced polish, one of the biggest knocks against Davenport by old - school football thinkers is that he does not have a traditional football - obsessed, uber - confident mindset.

Bama tends to play up to their opponents while failing to cover bigger spreads against lesser schools, so if you can get Bama below -14 this weekend that's probably the sharper side.

How does his team keep finding ways to win games like these, against bigger, stronger athletes from much larger schools?

Most don't expect to win every game, but most do want to go up against the big boys knowing that we can but in something more than school boy stuff.

In the 20 - game conference schedule, teams will play home and away games against seven Big Ten schools.

Jenna Rosenthal Watch: With eight assisted blocks against Creighton in the Big East tournament semifinals, Rosenthal surpassed Peggy Gross» school record of 118.

Joe Milton celebrated Senior Night at Olympia High School in Orlando, Fla., in a big way last Friday, leading the Titans to a 51 - 0 victory against Windermere.

Probably the most exciting part of the matchups is seeing how the lesser - known schools do against the big guys that are favored to win -LSB-...]

He also claims — without any support — that Perdue is in Big Food's pocket, too, willing «to cater to the food industry lobby against any school meal regulation.»

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But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

MORRISVILLE — Two students from Morrisville - Eaton High School have been nationally recognized for their part in the fight against big tobacco...

The new plan also appears to go against Miner's work to encourage the big tax - exempt, non-profit schools and hospitals to contribute money instead of taxes to support roads, police and other basic city services.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Basil Smikle Jr. has a lot of ideas about how to address Harlem's most vexing problems, from crime to housing to underemployment, but his biggest asset as he runs for state Senate against Bill Perkins may be that he supports charter schools.

The big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

Shelley Mayer is the Change We Need From Yonkers to Bedford, from White Plains to the Sound Shore, Shelley knows our communities and has always been willing to stand up against the status quo to protect Westchester, Her children all attended public schools here, so she's always been an advocate for better school funding and tuition relief, She fought the NRA to pass effective, common - sense gun laws, and defeated big pharma to give us better tools to fight opioid abuse.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Privately, they conceded that passing the measure was an attempt to derail a threatened big - ticket political campaign against them by Mayor Bloomberg and other prominent charter - school supporters that could cost them their razor - thin majority in the November elections.

Some advocates said there is no room to allow for a big jump in charter schools seeking space in traditional public school buildings, and argued against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to expand charters.

Then, as it turns out, most viewers will guess the Big Twist, and be annoyed at how ludicrously it plays out in an endless scene that again feels more out of «Hedda Gabler» by high schoolers on speed than anything, as Penn and the assassin shriek at each other as the assassin pushes a gun against the dictator's head.

Despite a turn for intensity at the end of this trailer, do not be fooled, Trespass Against Us is kind of Sundancey - cute for all of its big themes of sins of the father, academia - vs - «school - of - life» and the United Kingdom's social isolation of gypsies.

Tom Holland actually made his big screen debut as Spider - Man, once again a hapless high school kid just like in the original comics, in Captain American: Civil War, recruited by Tony Stark to be his secret weapon against Captain America's rebel heroes.

Soon on a winning path, it is headed for the big game against the Coventry School, where Joe once played.

I honestly relish going up against the «big, bad school districts» on behalf of individual struggling students.

The flaws that were recently exposed in New York state's high school exit exam may be generating a big enough backlash against the program to give its critics the ammunition they need to lessen the stakes on the tests.

It is true that nearly a third of the nation's 9th graders — and about half those attending dangerous big city schools — have voted with their feet against the disastrous state of the modern public high school.

The campaign to take on The System and its schools also enjoyed the services of a handful of intellectual spokesmen whose written works outline a case against education bureaucracy that remains brilliant in many small ways, if repulsive in several big ones.

Minnesota's largest districts are pitted against school systems in other states that can afford to offer bigger salaries and better raises for top jobs.

This would constitute a big change in Delaware's charter sector, which has, to this point, operated as quasi-free-market with schools competing against each other for students.

Schools have made big changes against a tight clock, a consequence of the program's genesis: the 2009 stimulus package, which sought to pump job - boosting federal money into the economy.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against increased regulations on schools, there doesn't seem to be any immediate plan by legislators and «Big Ed overlords» to reduce the burden.

And so while some people see, in highly publicized departures like Deasy's, or that of Michelle Rhee from the Washington, D.C., schools in 2010, a sign of a backlash against «reform,» the bigger picture is much more complicated.

But it has always been extremely politically sensitive - with the expectation that there will be losers as well as winners - and the prospect of individual schools facing big funding cuts is going to be difficult to set against promises to protect school spending.

Walters categorically says, «No,» and he cautions against deriving big conclusions from this study, which may be the first attempt to look at whether student - centered instruction works for high school math.

People are finally raising up against the oppression of mayoral control of schools and the big corporate money that backs it.