Sentences with phrase «as pilot schools»

Some teacher groups, opposed to charter school expansion, submitted bids to take over eligible choice campuses as pilot schools.

Over the past two years, the 270 - student William Smith High School has reinvented itself as a pilot school with an intense focus on union - district collaboration, expanded learning opportunities, and community outreach.

In its first year, the Gallogly Family Foundation selected the OU College of Law to serve as the pilot school for the Foundation's fellowships.»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

He noticed there was an opportunity to develop such modules, as well as virtual reality simulators, for so - called «ground school» training for helicopter pilots or the maintenance crews working on military airplanes such as the Royal Canadian Air Force's Hercules transport.

Canada Student Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students with children, and introduced a three - year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several years in the workforce with an additional $ 1,600 in grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.

JP finished school in the Top 1 % of his state, earned a technology degree with First Class honours at UNSW, completed a distinguished 10 year career in the Australian Air Force as an officer and pilot before founding a technology company in 2015.

Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue.

One of the biggest dairy - related stories to break this month was the announcement that as part of their commitment to increase the availability of healthy, American - made food products in schools, the USDA is expanding its pilot program for Greek - style yogurt for the National School Lunch Program in SY 2014 - 15.

Feedback from more than 200 participants involved in the pilot has been overwhelmingly positive, with 94 % rating the resource as «excellent» or «good» and just under two thirds (65 %) intending to make a change to their school food culture as a result.

In addition to the Barrow Brainbook education module, the full program piloted by the five Bay Area high schools will incorporate a formal exam, which students will need to pass before beginning a sport, as well as ImPACT cognitive testing.

Citation: Hanks AS, Just DR, Wansink B (2014) Chocolate Milk Consequences: A Pilot Study Evaluating the Consequences of Banning Chocolate Milk in School Cafeterias.

Although salad bars and pilot programs, such as the First Lady's Go for the Gold campaign, are positive steps, they tend to mask the larger systemic problem, namely that children can't learn if school districts continue to serve sub-standard food, day in and day out.

But on visiting each of the three classrooms, I brightened — seeing the joy and hope on the girls» faces as they talked about what they loved studying (e.g., Amharic, English, science, math), what they hoped to be (e.g., pilot, doctor, engineer, driver, teacher, community mentor for BiruhTesfa), and what the best / worst parts of their days are (unanimously, best = being at school, worst = work hours).

The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Prschool meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch PrSchool Lunch Program.

We are currently doing a pilot in grades 6 to 8 offering French four times per week as we explore changes in our French program to reflect the new curriculum requirements for French in Ontario public schools.

Those are, I think, serious issues that groups like the Rudd Center should be discussing with representives of school food service professionals, who, as we speak, are swarming over Capitol Hill trying to convince their lawmakers that this particular provision of the child nutrition re-authorization should be put on hold and pilot tested.

The program started as a small pilot and was evaluated along the way by the School of Applied Sciences.

As a peace offering, Brizard had asked the union to work with the district to identify 25 schools that could pilot a longer day in January.

We are going to be keeping tabs on the five school districts previously mentioned and helping them tell their stories as they implement universal breakfast in the classroom pilot programs.

The program was created in 1968 as a pilot program to provide food for students when school was out of session.

In addition to program support, Dawn and Shedd will roll out a pilot education - based program for Chicago Public Schools in early 2017 as part of the larger Dawn Helps Save Wildlife campaign.

As part of its commitment to improve athlete health and safety at all levels of sport, the NFL Foundation has launched a pilot grant program to increase the number of high school football players with access to an athletic trainer.

12.35 - As Clegg gets ready to sell his free school meals policy in his speech, it's worth taking a look at the evidence from the pilots carried out so far.

Anne Spadone, Superintendent of the Lackawanna City school district, added, «Lackawanna Public Schools is very excited to be part of this pilot program, having a CPS worker housed within our district will add a new dimension as we directly link our students with the very critical services needed.»

As part of the pilot, Suffolk County will supply approximately 1,000 recycling bins to 11 schools.

NEW YORK — Twenty city public schools will implement longer school days for thousands of high - need students across the city as part of a pilot program this fall, the Department of Education and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday.

«We appreciate the important reforms lawmakers made to the property tax cap, such as excluding some BOCES capital costs and including PILOTs in the tax base growth factor,» The New York State School Boards Association said in a statement Friday.

The governor says the rules of the tax cap do not take away local decision making, but he says it does end the previous system, which the governor says was on «automatic pilot» as school taxes went up year after year.

His office trumpeted a pilot program that will introduce iPads in select Brooklyn schools (Mr. Adams said he wants to be known as the «tech» borough president).

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.»

BEDFORD - STUYVESANT — Students in three Brooklyn schools are tossing their textbooks in exchange for iPads as part of a new pilot program geared toward digital learning.

Students in kindergarten through third grade at nine low - income New York City schools will receive more than 24,000 books they can take home, as part of a pilot literacy project launched Tuesday by the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Department of Education, First Book, The American Federation of Teachers and The New York Community Trust.

In his State of the State speech on Jan. 9, Gov. Cuomo announced an ambitious education agenda for 2013 that includes full - day pre-kindergarten in the poorest areas, community schools such as those being piloted by the UFT this year, and a «bar - like exam» to qualify future teachers that was first proposed by the AFT.

This week in Nature, a team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania detail a molecule that acts as a molecular pilot light required to turn on the brown fat furnace.

As a strategic unit located within the Faculty of Science and Health at Dublin City University, the School of Biotechnology boasts state - of - the - art teaching, research, and pilot plant facilities.

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

The effects are very good and the performances by a host of old school British thesps on auto - pilot are as reliable as you'd expect, but Radcliffe / Potter is still an annoyingly smug little brat and Rupert Grint does nothing but sniffle and yelp like a yappy lit...

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

And so it was with my recent introduction to the world of the Mission Hill School, a Boston area public pilot school, as captured by the filmmaking team of Tom and Amy VSchool, a Boston area public pilot school, as captured by the filmmaking team of Tom and Amy Vschool, as captured by the filmmaking team of Tom and Amy Valens.

As one of 10 (now 26) Massachusetts schools initially participating in a first - of - its - kind, statewide pilot initiative that allows schools to expand hours by 30 percent, the Edwards School is being watched around the country.

During the four - year pilot period, A + schools showed growth on North Carolina's accountability tests, relative to the state, as well as improvements in organizational capacity and community partnerships, and increased channels of communication.

Pupils» questions around what life as a spy was like, how do codes work and where were the secret operatives based, were all answered through the teaching activities piloted and developed in collaboration with Godolphin Junior School, in Slough, Berkshire.

The advisors, which cost around # 400 a day, are being recruited by the Department for Education, and will enter schools from January as part of a pilot.

The pilot will also ensure systems are in place to share appropriate information between CAMHS and schools, shared care arrangements are agreed for those young people requiring more intensive support, and that arrangements are in place to escalate / de-escalate as the young person's needs dictate.

Oklahoma created a pilot pre-K program in 1980, also with school districts as gatekeepers.

It began in November 2016 as a pilot across 10 districts, and has since rolled out nationally across England with over 1,400 schools participating following positive feedback from teachers and pupils.

UK secondary schools are being urged to put themselves forward as potential candidates for a ground - breaking pilot, which will...

Across the pilot schools, teachers used the national curricula as a starting point to plan the use of digital materials.