Sentences with phrase «because of the number of school»

Perhaps 2011 was an unusual year for school reform only because of the number of school - choice programs enacted, which was significant by any measure, but not because students swarmed to the new programs (Indiana is a notable exception).

Like public or charter bus transportation, school bus accidents are very serious because of the number of school bus passengers who, in most cases, are unsupervised and unrestrained children.

Not exact matches

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

Because the Financial Times and The Economist, which both rank 100 institutions, include many non-U.S. schools in their rankings, a larger number of very good MBA programs at U.S. schools remain unranked by those two publications.

When Berkeley first agreed to offer an executive program in the early 2000s, the school decided on a partnership with Columbia because it was in the midst of a number of initiatives and administrators were concerned about stretching the school's resources.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the number of students killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February.

Some of these launching pits are located in areas near hospitals and schools in the heart of populated areas and institutions attended by a large number of people, making them difficult to attack because of the risk of civilian casualties.

Look it up for yourself: the GOP has cut school lunch programs, Aid to dependent children, Planned Parenthood health care which provides medical care for expectant mothers (under the guise that they perform a limited number of abortions annually), Medicare programs which provides health care to the children who were born in the past because they weren't aborted, WIC which provides food to Women, Infants and Children... one could go on.

My own preference is for number one simply because there are a number of thinkers whose ideas, though not directly influenced by the Chicago School or Whitehead and Hartshorne, yet bear such a striking family resemblance that they merit classification in the process sSchool or Whitehead and Hartshorne, yet bear such a striking family resemblance that they merit classification in the process schoolschool.

A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

It's gotten a huge number of hits, appparently because of a controversy I didn't know about over the Waldorf School.

Others, who also see the situation only as a result of human failure, believe that ministers and schools have been deflected from their purpose and have lost their sense of mission because they have succumbed to the temptation to improve their personal and professional status by doing anything that might make them pleasing to the greatest number of people.

When discussing student performance on achievement tests, Barton notes that private or religious schools account for a disproportionately high number of National Merit Scholars and says that is because «one school utilizes religions principles and one does not.»

Give it a rest, because even a bully in a school yard would know that out of nothing nothing happens, but of course it would take the nerd to conceive what the bully would not get even perhaps at a ripe old age, that what was always before the something which lead to the «thing» on the bully's hand was the Infinite and that what's on the bully's hand can be infinitely divided, or that between the bully's pinky and thumb exists an infinity in itself, as is between the number 1 and another number 1 (one unit and another unit), which make 2, or that the bully's hand will at one infinitely minute point in time disolve into the INFINITE, give it a rest Tom, Tom with the spelling, since you can not comprehend what lays between the fine letters, let alone conceive the truth, and distill knowledge from the ore your inadequate imagination fails to mine.

Traffic on the Ohio Turnpike is a coffle of tractor - trailers as Golden Flashes coach Gary Waters argues that the RPI, that mystical set of numbers the NCAA tournament committee consults when it hands out at - large bids, should R.I.P. Every mid-major coach is sympathetic to Waters's argument, because big - time schools insist on playing nonconference games in their own arenas, with officials of their choosing, and the RPI doesn't penalize them for refusing to go on the road.

It seems like «state high school talent level» is not one of the top criteria because men's soccer and volleyball based on sheer numbers may actually be the highest scoring in that category.

It has been some time since I was at school, Arsenal fans, but I was pretty good at maths and I am sure my memory has not failed me to the point where I can not do a simple sum like adding and subtracting, but maybe it has because the numbers concerning the amount of money available to Arsene Wenger to fund the transfer deals he wanted this summer just does not add up.

Next year's regionals will involve only one game per day because of the smaller number of schools in each draw.

High school sports are valuable not because of newspaper stories or scholarship offers or the number of students who watch from the pool deck, but rather for what the process of playing at a competitive level teaches those who compete.

What the small but growing number of successful schools demonstrate is that the public - school system accomplishes that result because we have built it that way.»

To give you some numbers: 22 million kids receive free / reduced price meals during the school year and during the summer, more than 80 % of those kids may go hungry because they don't have access to school meals.

I am surprised though how these students admitted to it and even boldly pointed out to the school administration that the number of tests and work they assign contribute to their desire to cheat because their workload is so great.

Publicity about latchkey kids has been plentiful in recent years, but the number of young children who must care for themselves after school because their parents work is relatively small, according to American Demographics magazine.

The number of students who qualify for a free or discounted meal based on income levels also matters because schools and entire school systems may qualify for grants and other federal funding based on the reported level of need among students.

I've worked with a number of families who have sent kids to school in their pajamas because it was the only way to get them out the door in the morning.

Although numerous parents choose public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option depending on the school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering -LSB-...]

Although numerous parents choose public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option depending on the school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering the benefits of choosing another option, such as private school or homeschooling.

Because ground beef is a staple of school menus and has suffered a number of product recalls in recent years, AMS pays particular attention to the food safety of ground beef.

This is probably because of a number of factors, including that there is a lot less conformity and rigidity at home which encourages thinking, they have time to explore things more, they have more conversation with adults, etc., but whatever the cause, it's strong enough that even non-home schooling people, including many university professors, have observed it.

Because our of small school size, only a limited number of openings are available for a grade in any given year.

At the other end of the economic spectrum, there are some schools which, because they have very low numbers of low income students, choose to forego participation in the Federal school meals programs altogether and just run their own meal program under their own rules.

It's important to know these numbers, because a school or district with a substantial number of students on «paid» status may be generating a significant portion of their revenue from the paid price for meals, especially if they are charging a paid price around $ 4 or even higher.

The number of children who go to school because now there is a secondary school in their community?

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

Because of the cap on the number of schools, «Zombie Charters» remain an impediment to opening new charter schools.

The issue of mayoral control was deadlocked because the Republican - led Senate wanted to tie it to an increase in the number of charter schools allowed to operate in New York City.

De Blasio said that issuing up to 50,000 parking placards to NYC public school workers is not a big deal because the number of reserved spots around schools won't change.

Silver's attorney suggested that Taub's referrals — which were to a number of firms in addition to Weitz — were done in the most altruistic manner, and noted that he'd fought to retain his tenured position at Columbia despite being removed in the wake of Silver's arrest, because — as he said in his suit against the university that brought a temporary injunction against the school — he believed he had done nothing wrong.

If large numbers of students can't go to school because of a holiday, they should not have to be marked absent.

Lawmakers say the legislation is needed because some schools, especially those in Asian communities, have a high number of absences on the Lunar New Year, which begins on Friday.

In response, President Mahama, who extolled the school as gender - friendly because it has an encouraging number of female students with 740 girls and 690 boys, promised to satisfy the tractor proposal.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

Garcia reached the runoff mostly because of an anti-Emanuel vote, fueled by irritations ranging from an increase in the number of tickets being generated by Chicago's red light cameras * to the tumult in the school system to Emanuel's abrasive personality.

A number of city and state elected officials told The Post they left a meeting at City Hall Friday angry after mayoral aides said the reason it was too late to honor the holiday next year was because the school calendar had already been published.

Three PFI schools have been forced to close because of low pupil numbers, but local authorities are still financially tied to the private financiers.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

Charter schools — which already are permitted to have a limited number of uncertified teachers — have pressed for reduced certification standards because of sky - high teacher turnover rates.

The letter also says that «we feel the need to alert you and every member of your organization, because Senator Lanza's obstruction is allowing an untold number of pedophiles in Staten Island to remain at - large — free to roam the streets, work in our schools and churches, coach local sports teams, and abuse again.»