Sentences with phrase «days at the failed schools»

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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.

Or your preteen daughter seems unmotivated at school and fails Algebra, and you start wondering if she'll be able to graduate high school, or even hold a job some day.

Since Chua also has a day job as a professor at Yale Law School — hardly a part - time gig — and since she fails to indicate that she's been taking speed to stay awake 24/7 to keep up with her duties, something doesn't add up.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

«Chronic wounds occur when healing fails to progress normally and persists for more than 30 days,» said Jeffrey Litt, D.O., assistant professor of surgery at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

The students at a previously failing school have made big gains since all of their teachers started using these strategies every day.

That may not appear to be much these days, when a single failed firm may gobble up $ 85 billion in government money, but recall that this was a school district, in 1984, of 37,000 students (it had fallen from 51,000 at the beginning of the case), with a budget of less than $ 100 million.

«At the heart of our commitment to delivering real social justice is our belief that every pupil deserves an excellent education and that no parent should have to be content with their child spending a single day in a failing school.

That grant helped establish the STEM center, but also led to a longer school day for at - risk students in four elementary schools and an intervention program designed to help middle school students in danger of failing math.

For decades, American schools have been engaged in a failed experiment, attempting to cram more content into a typical teaching day than humanly possible, asking children to learn overwhelming content at younger and younger ages without taking the time to build the foundation skills needed for learning success or behavioral success, and creating anxiety - filled classrooms in which children are less likely to fall deeply in love with learning.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, while announcing the bill, said «we think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when children's education is at stake».

Last year, Policy Watch reported that state officials, at the behest of the virtual programs, agreed to nix daily attendance reporting requirements, meaning schools would only lose state funding if a student failed to show activity for ten consecutive days.

Appearing on national media when the Education and Adoption Bill was unveiled on Wednesday, Ms Morgan said: «We think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when their education is at stake.»

The public needs to know that the Santa Clara County School Board will not approve charter schools that are likely to fail and that they will hold their approved charter schools to the level of accountability of all public schools — not just at a renewal hearing or an annual report — but on each and every day that children attend sSchool Board will not approve charter schools that are likely to fail and that they will hold their approved charter schools to the level of accountability of all public schools — not just at a renewal hearing or an annual report — but on each and every day that children attend schoolschool.

Morgan said at the time: «We think a day spent in a failing school is a day too long when their education is at stake.»

«Everyone knew this day was coming, and now it is upon us, and we need to have an open, honest debate about the consequences of a law that will label a majority of our schools as failing,» Justin Hamilton, press secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, said in an email.

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The attorney for Anthony Borges, 15, and his family said the Broward Sheriff's Office, the school resource deputy, the Broward County school system and the principal at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School failed to protect students from a former student who killed 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others on Valentine'school resource deputy, the Broward County school system and the principal at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School failed to protect students from a former student who killed 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others on Valentine'school system and the principal at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School failed to protect students from a former student who killed 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others on Valentine'School failed to protect students from a former student who killed 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others on Valentine's Day.

Now, I love languages, but suffice it to say, as I hard as I tried to speak with an accent, I never fail to butcher the words into small little pieces to the point where people stare at me like they are listening to a three year old trying to describe her first day of pre school.