Sentences with phrase «around a dozen schools»

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Bridge International Academies, the subject of a recent New York Times Magazine piece, operates in hundreds of schools around Kenya and Uganda, with dozens more of its low - cost schools scattered through Nigeria, India, and most recently Liberia.

As the deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, which killed 17 and injured more than a dozen others, sparks a national conversation around gun control, the White House is pushing Congress to actually pass gun control measures.

A few dozen companies around the country have ended or scaled back promotions for members of the NRA after the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 at a Parkland, Fla., high school.

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.

The staff consisted of Dave's daughters and around a dozen hacky - sack - playing Highland Park High School students.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

With the ascendance of Betsy DeVos and the passage of school - choice legislation in dozens of states around the country, for the time being at least, it appears that the school choice — first crowd has the upper hand.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

El Sistema is applied now in a dozen schools in New England, in hundreds around the world.

The countdown has started to NGfL winding down at the end of July, when broadband procurement, safety, safeguarding and digital literacy services will no longer be available to around 450 local schools and dozens of other sector providers.

This fall, faculty at a dozen public schools around the country started combing the ULC's stacks for the first time — reviewing and responding to an early pilot version.

The Louisiana legislature in 2008 gave teachers in that state's public schools the legal right to raise questions about evolution — and a dozen or more states have K - 12 science standards that pussyfoot around the topic.

Over the last year we've designed the tool with feedback from more than 40 schools and experts, and this spring we built the beta version in collaboration with a dozen middle schools and high schools from around the country.

In addition to this, there are not many books and educational resources around so, whereas the average middle class British child has dozens of books before they are 1 year old, the average Sierra Leonean secondary school student can probably only produce a handful of scruffy exercise books on request.

An industry has grown up around courting public - school decision makers, and tech companies are using a sophisticated playbook to reach them, The New York Times has found in a review of thousands of pages of Baltimore County school documents and in interviews with dozens of school officials, researchers, teachers, tech executives and parents.

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students dSchools is linking together parents, educators, students, school staff and community members in dozens of cities across the country on and around February 17 as they WALK - IN to support the quality public schools that all our students dschools that all our students deserve.

Dozens of parents, students, advocates, and other community members signed up to give comment around Los Angeles Unified School District's proposed budget at the its school board meeting thisSchool District's proposed budget at the its school board meeting thisschool board meeting this week.

Then their efforts kicked into higher gear in 2014 when P.S. 123 became part of New York City's broad efforts to turn around dozens of low - performing schools by injecting them with a range of health, social - emotional, and academic support services for students and their families.

D'Agostino: It's already working in Catholic schools in dozens of places around the country.

This year, more than two dozen paid lobbyists are running around the State Capitol and Legislative Office Building working to divert more money to charter schools, while supporting the Common Core SBAC testing scam and other «education reform» agenda items.

Along with students from half a dozen high schools around the city, they work to affect the changes they wish to see in their schools and to support one another along the way.

Although 46 states applied for the money, only a dozen were awarded funds for innovative proposals to turn schools around and improve educational quality.

One of the the many draws to Lake Atitlan are the dozens of nonprofits and international schools around the lake.

«State of Mind» will appeal to those in the know before it appeals to the general public — Tom Marioni's Process Print (1969) failed to capture the attention of the dozens of school kids running around the day I visited, as did Chris Burden's video piece, Documentation of Selected Works (1971 - 74), in which Burden talks about most of his iconic performance pieces (Bed, Shoot).

(He said the company is also building about a dozen shelters for schools around Joplin, Mo., which was ravaged by a tremendous tornado in May, 2011.)

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