Sentences with phrase «apply to a school because»

The two neighborhood schools both offer ten or more AP options, but suburban families can not apply to these schools because they are not a part of the interdistrict network.

Not exact matches

«I've had business - school graduates here because I feel like the longevity of the company really depends on competing, using the rules of business,» says Griswold, who'd applied to business school but kept deferring when the chance to sell the beans of Mexican coffee farmers presented itself.

If elderly taxpayers needn't contribute to schools because they don't use them, shouldn't the same apply to health care?

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

5:22, 23) So, those who adhere to true worship can be identified because they sincerely endeavor to apply Bible standards in their lives not only at their places of meeting but in their family life, at their secular work, in school, and in recreation.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

But it didn't apply as far as the school that wanted to deny access to women was concerned either because their school wasn't open to persons, it was open to men (or boys).

Did you not go to medical school because you just weren't smart enough and realised it was better not to apply, or because you were this rude and obnoxious in the entrance interview and they decided not to let you in?

We know that the tide is continuing to move because we see how many people visit the Lunchbox.org for support materials, we see how many schools are applying for our grants, and we hear from schools that are pushing forward with change.

While these schools would not be responsible for writing any children off — because they would be taking such a small amount of children in the first place — gifted students should be able to apply at more suitable times.

But because of a legal loophole, the actions taken by Cuomo that day do not apply to public schools.

New York City schools and community based organizations will have to apply for funding as well, but the city's Department of Education is arguably more prepared, because expanding pre-K has been a major priority of the de Blasio administration.

I considered applying to medical or dental school because I liked the idea of being a health care professional, but realized I would not enjoy the work.

After hearing many teachers say that they did not encourage their students to apply to institutions like ICL because they saw it as beyond reach, Richards decided to encourage state schools to «do more to push their students to aim for the top.»

«Switchable glass available today is quite expensive because it uses transparent conducting layers to apply a voltage across the entire glass,» said Paul W. Leu of the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, leader of the research team.

â $ œWe canâ $ ™ t be that hard on Penfield, because the number of cases where he was able to study head movement was quite limited, and studying head motion as he did, by applying an electrode directly to the brain, creates some challenges, â $ says lead author Buz Jinnah, MD, professor of neurology, human genetics and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine.

I applied to many different schools and ultimately decided on one that was five hours away because I had family there and didn't want to be in a new city by myself.

The program emailed me to [basically] tell me they were impressed by my application but mystified as to why the hecks I was applying, because given my home address (CA) and school (WV), it just seemed all sorts of random.

I only applied to the local state school because I had a boyfriend that I wanted to stay close to (and I am no longer dating so that was pointless) and I didn't want to give up riding my horses.

Now she has quit her job and is focusing on applying to nursing school, which she always wanted to but could not think of it because she didn't have enough money even to help her meet the two ends in life.

Establishing this relationship between data, that apparently is independent and that humans are unable to connect so quickly, gives us the chance to come to a conclusion in real time and apply some kind of solution to the cause of the problem, because you know that the child will not go to school and you have to fix this.

But because the law applied only to schools and not to other public employers, such as police and fire departments, teachers unions argued that it engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

Focusing on lottery applicants is nonetheless useful because it enables us to hold constant whatever unmeasured differences lead some students to apply for a seat in a charter school and others to remain within the district.

Winters notes that the special education gap in kindergarten is much smaller in Denver than in New York City, possibly because Denver uses a universal enrollment system in which charter schools participate, while in New York City families must apply to individual charter schools.

Because Maryland charters are not their own local education agencies, however, this would seem to require that their host school district apply on their behalf.

Supporters and critics, in their various approaches to discerning NCLB's impact, share a significant problem: because NCLB applies to all public school students, researchers lack a suitable comparison group and so have been unable to distinguish the law's effects from the myriad other factors at work over the past eight years.

Because students in schools are absorbing and applying knowledge to pass a test.

Activist Learning: Students at Da Vinci High School, in Davis, California, applied their school's project - learning approach to enlist community support for Da Vinci teachers selected to be laid off because of budgetSchool, in Davis, California, applied their school's project - learning approach to enlist community support for Da Vinci teachers selected to be laid off because of budgetschool's project - learning approach to enlist community support for Da Vinci teachers selected to be laid off because of budget cuts.

Colleges are reporting record numbers of applications for admission this year, primarily because students are applying to more institutions than ever before, admissions officers and high - school counselors say.

However, more than 20 percent of all schools are likely to fail, because the threshold will apply not only to the school as a whole but also to all the subgroups in a school.

Glenn Davis, 26, who teaches 6th - grade math at KIPP LEAD in Gary, Indiana, says he'll apply to the Fisher Fellowship program in two years, because he hopes to start a high school for his current students.

My stay was brief because the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown — and the companion decision in Bolling v. Sharpe, which applied to D.C. — outlawed public - school segregation in the nation's capital and across the country in May 1954.

This conflicts with ESSA's stated goal to identify the schools where support is most needed, as the support system would effectively focus on only one type of school because the indicators used to measure performance would not apply meaningfully to that school type.

Approximately 1/3 of the schools in the Salem City High School peer group are not peers because they get to select their students or apply conditions that result in high levels of student attrition.

Slavkin said officials may ask the state to increase the district limit because fewer than 30 schools statewide have applied.

These three major reforms did not achieve their promise because they tried to bring about improvement through external means — adding programs on top of school districts» regular education services, applying market mechanisms to sift out bad schools, and exerting pressure to raise test scores.

But because the NCLB escalating performance goals also apply to subgroups - including special education students and English learners - even the best schools nationally have struggled to keep up and avoid being designated as «failing.»

Studies comparing student achievement in charter schools with that in regular public schools are difficult to do credibly, however, because students who apply and their families are presumably more motivated to succeed in school than those who remain in regular schools.

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A source close to Mr Gove said delays had occurred because every school which applied for funds had been visited to verify its needs, unlike in the case of BSF.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample sizTo get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample sizto the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample sizto constitute a reliable sample size.

Because Baltimore has both K - 5 and K - 8 elementary schools, parents can be very confused about whether and how their children can apply to middle school.

Instead of finding this process exhausting or frustrating, these educators come to enjoy the unknowns and enigmas that crop up each school year because they get to apply their creative problem - solving skills in fresh ways on an ongoing basis.

Indeed, when I visited one of their professional learning sessions and talked with new staff at the start of the school year, I was thrilled to hear many of them say that one reason they had applied was because I had communicated to them how important the program was to me and others in the system.

School board vice president Nick Melvoin requested the change at Tuesday's board meeting because he said the added requirements, known as benchmarks, were being applied unfairly to some schools that were showing...

As you apply to colleges, it's important to not underestimate yourself and rule out good schools simply because you don't think you can get in.

A report by WBEZ - FM this week said the estimate «significantly overstates demand» because it «counts applications, not students, meaning if a student applies to four schools, he or she is counted four times.

He said the rules would not apply to private schools, which also employ teachers without professional qualifications, because «you pay your fees and you take your choice», but children using taxpayer - funded schools had a right to expect basic standards.

But because city schools often have multiple assistant principals, with different people focusing on instruction and operations, applying a single set of criteria to their evaluations could be complicated.