Sentences with phrase «big schools into»

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major proponent of turning big schools into small ones, provided grant money to Olympic.

That is why the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the last decade breaking down big schools into small academies (it has since switched strategies, focusing more on instruction).

Not exact matches

For - profit schools have become big business in the United States, especially as the unemployed seek a way back into the work force.

«My biggest concern is people who put serious weight into these rankings, make decisions about where to choose to apply, where to go to school, what tuition to pay when there's so little tangible, evidence - based information that lies below that ranking.»

If you want to employ parents who need to drop their kids off at school at 7:45, allowing them to come into the office at 8:30 instead of 8:00 can make a big difference in their week.

TV is a big brand driver for Old Navy and we're back on that as we look into Q2, and then certainly into Q3, and line up for back - to - school.

This is a big win for student loan borrowers, who have been unfairly stopped from raising their claims against predatory schools due to the arbitration clauses that most for - profit schools slip into their student enrollment agreements.

Since Tandon is making a big push into technology for virtual and augmented reality, the school gets its new students involved by sending them cardboard VR headsets and NYU - designed science apps.

Then, when my parents thought that I was ready to be thrown into the big bad world of high school, they enrolled me in a small private Christian school.

Overcoming the intrusion of materialism into our schools is probably the biggest obstacle a Christian educator faces.

The bigger our schools grow, the more respected a faculty we attract, the better we implement a Trivium - based curriculum, and the more accomplished our graduates become, the more we will be tempted to slip into something of a prep school mentality.

Throw a new home, graduating from baking school, and becoming adept at toilet repairs into the scheme, and messing with a cranberry bread recipe is just not that big a deal.

In addition to school lunches, MaMa Rosa's is expanding into the vending market — «We see that as a multimillion - dollar platform and big opportunity for us,» Mackin says — as well as further into the Mexican, Indian and Canadian markets.

In addition to us taking basketball power forwards and converting them into Tight Ends, I think we should look into big and athletic small - school wide outs that didn't have to learn or weren't taught route running but who are still smart and try converting them into safeties.

Each conference school received an equal allotment of tickets to sell, Amtrak operated what amounted to a Big East Express from Boston, Providence, New Haven, Washington and Philadelphia right into Penn Station, which is conveniently located in the bowels of the Garden, and all four of the main sessions were practically sold out months ago.

Ingle first spied Hamed from the top of a Sheffield bus in 1981, when he looked down into the playground of the Wincobank Nursery and First School and saw a small boy scuffling with three bigger ones.

After Texas and four other Big 12 schools bailed on a plan that would have transformed the Pac - 10 into a 16 - team superconference, Pac - 10 commissioner Larry Scott plucked Utah, the upstart Mountain West program that has produced two undefeated seasons and BCS bowl wins over the past six years, to join previous invitee Colorado and form a 12 - team conference.

Arthur, a highly talented big man coming out of high school, had earned All - Big 12 Rookie honors as a freshman, but opted not to return for one more season to try and play his way into the lottery a year latbig man coming out of high school, had earned All - Big 12 Rookie honors as a freshman, but opted not to return for one more season to try and play his way into the lottery a year latBig 12 Rookie honors as a freshman, but opted not to return for one more season to try and play his way into the lottery a year later.

This episode provides insight into running backs Chris Evans and Karan Higdon, who has a bigger responsibility than football or school in his life, as well as the relationship between offensive coordinator / offensive line coach Tim Drevno and the offensive line.

The big boys are back to school and the younger three are settling into a bit of an inside rhythm.

Regardless of how your child navigates both the final year of high school, the transition to college and his or her first year there, you can be certain that much of what is happening is their best attempt to step into shoes that are big and unfamiliar.

The biggest push by fast - food vendors into school lunchrooms has come from Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Subway.

Good social skills is a life skill that can make a big difference in your child's success throughout school and into adulthood.

Take school schedules into consideration, and avoid moving when other big changes (like potty - training or sleeping transitions) are happening, too.

Shifting back into rules and expectations and school work is a big change, and one that many kids need time to adjust into.

There can be a big difference between kids who enjoy occasionally scooting to the park or school and those that get into stunt and trick riding.

I wonder if it was because she'd have to leave home and go out into the big, scary, evil world to attend a real nursing school.

We're in the same situation; our «baby» is going to attend kindergarten at the same school his big brother (going into 4th) has been attending for years.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

For specialty crop growers, the biggest boost could come from $ 500 million over 10 years that the USDA proposes to spend to put more fruits and vegetables into the national school lunch and breakfast programs.

But as young twins prepare to start school, parents may find themselves facing a bigger problem: a school that insists on separating their children into separate classes, and children who are devastated that they can't be together.

But parents» busy work schedules, after - school activities, and homework can all cut into family time on school nights and can have a big impact on how much a child sleeps.

We've made it through lots of transitions in the last 6 months — started full day nursery school, potty trained, moved into a big kid bed — and although each of those changes had bumps in the road, we are in a good spot except going back to sleep at night.

Lunch Tray readers come from all over the U.S. (and the world), so I don't want to get too deep into a Houston - specific issue, but then I realized that this correction could be a springboard for a bigger discussion about the future of school food in America.

From helping your child take their first steps on their own, to sending them off on their first day of school, and beyond — we know how many moments, big and small, go into the experience of parenting.

The food would be as good as school meals in Rome or in France, and while tucking into their fresh, wholesome lunches, these newly food - savvy kids would wonder why they ever wanted that Big Mac in the first place.

WHAT GREAT PARENTS DO: The small Book of BIG Parenting Ideas began as a workshop in local schools and soon grew into a class attended by thousands of parents at schools and organizations, including Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, UCSF Benioff / Children's Hospital, and San Francisco Zen Center.

Another big question is whether children exposed to healthier choices, such as the ones at Burgess - Peterson Academy, will continue to make healthy eating choices as they progress to middle and high school and into adult life, he added.

A few times a week, I feel like I see a big box of cupcakes or donuts being carried into the school.

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Your top three campaign promises?Firstly, I would bring back the Routemaster bus; and phase out those big fat cars like the super 4X4s; and, given the state of our economy, would introduce happiness lessons in schools because we are turning into quite a miserable lot.

De Blasio has placed his biggest bet on the Renewal program, which has pumped extra money and other resources into a group of the city's most troubled schools, at a cost of $ 582 million.

Just one quick question for ol' Mike: I seem to remember that Huckabee is a born - again Christian and a full - fledged minister, and at least in my long - ago Sunday School lessons, we learned that Christ was big into helping the disadvantaged, a goal which providing health care to people who don't have it would seem to further (Matthew 25:40, «Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.»).

Academy schools, the military covenant enshrined into law, a refreshed right - to - buy, the biggest welfare - to - work act since the 1930s, and the biggest - ever increase in the basic state pension are just a clutch of tasks achieved.

There's a young lawyer, he goes to law school, works very, very hard, he wants to be a success, does well in law school, earns good grades, gets into a big firm.

Supporters of a charter - school network run by Eva Moskowitz that is in de Blasio's cross hairs are pouring big bucks into the campaign coffers of Cuomo — a friend of charter schools.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

Then came the big one: school aid cuts, authorization to sell wine in grocery stores and a property tax cap, all rolled into a single extender.

On a day when he rallied in Albany for his pre-K plan, Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who has developed into something of a frenemy of the mayor's — held an even bigger rally in favor of charter schools.

He could of course try to transform himself into a more conservative Conservative — championing an EU referendum and big tax cuts and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights and new grammar schools and no gay marriage and no more onshore wind farms, and so on.