Sentences with phrase «away as some school boards»

Pennsylvania's property - tax - increase season is two months away as some school boards are licking their chops over building plans that include new stadiums with synthetic turf, and they're going to confiscate the money to do it by raising property...

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That I was not aware, while working out my philosophy of religion, how much I was repeating some aspects of the paternal train of thought was partly a consequence of the facts that, from the age of fourteen on, I was much away from home at boarding school or college, in the army, studying in Europe, as instructor or research Fellow at Harvard, or otherwise occupied, all of which meant that I was seldom exposed to Father's sermons.

While a number of factors combined to establish this as a specialty — complete with three - year medical school residencies and national boards and certification — it represents a definite move away from treating human beings piecemeal.

Because of illness I did not go away to boarding school until I was 12, and my life was very different from the standard accounts of many Americans who grew up in the Far East, such as John Hersey.

«I am willing to stand up at a school board meeting and explain to them why, we, as students would like to see individual rankings done away with.

As a longtime school nutrition director and SNF board member, Joanne Kinsey has a passion for professional development and she says Jessie stood out right away.

Buffalo Public School Board member Carl Paladino, who continues to be a staunch defender of Donald Trump even as fellow Republicans shy away from the increasingly controversial presidential nominee, is taking to the air — literally — to represent his candidate in Florida.

Principal James Weimer backed away from becoming school board's majority choice as the next superintendent.

Following a role as Dustin Hoffman's moll in Robert Benton's Billy Bathgate (1991), and a supporting turn as a snotty boarding school senior in the masterful Flirting (1991), which teamed her with Duigan a third time, Kidman collaborated with Cruise on their second film together, Far and Away (1992).

It's not hard to picture J.K. Rowling reading The Little Broomstick as a child, getting swept away by the story of a regular kid (who's really not regular at all) attending a boarding school run by witches and warlocks.

When puberty hits, Alex Lawther (the young Alan Turing in «The Imitation Game») takes over as Christopher Robin, whose fame makes him an irresistible target for bullies after he is sent away to a boarding school.

The inspiring and extremely able Paymon Rouhanifard, the new superintendent, began his tenure with a 100 - day listening tour and came away encouraged and with steeled resolve, as described in his op - ed (coauthored by school board's president) responding to the Rolling Stone article.

Instead almost all district boards, superintendents, principals and teachers saw chartered schools as organizations that were taking away «their students.»

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

Two weeks ago, the EAS board hired away Kansas City, Mo., schools superintendent John Covington to serve as chancellor of the experimental district.

take power away from the US Department of Education, which he often refers to as our country's «national school board.»

The school board lacks any kind of leverage with the NHA, as NHA owns all of the school's property and could take everything away if the school board decided to fire the NHA.

Like so many other famous writers, he describes his boarding school experience (especially the early part) as being downright terrible and possibly traumatic: He later said: «I wouldn't send a dog away to boarding school at age seven».