Sentences with phrase «dozen schools»

A major class - action settlement that gives LAUSD teachers layoff protection at several dozen schools in high - poverty areas has been invalidated by the California 2nd District Court of Appeal.

Its student population, at close to 85,000, dwarfs all but a few dozen school districts in the country.

Ashland is one of the several dozen schools across the country that operates a varsity esports program, having announced plans for intercollegiate competition in League Of Legends and Overwatch earlier this year.

Melissa Mallinson, program manager for education outreach for Old Town School of Folk Music, says their school has partnerships with about two dozen schools around Chicago, including CPS elementary schools and high schools and private schools for students with special needs.

Money will also be used to install anti-idling technology in two dozen school buses in the Tooele School District and replace 21 older buses in five school districts.

The company was mostly concentrated in District 2 during the 1990s, but since then, AUSSIE consultants have spread from a few dozen schools and department of education programs to more than 300.

Under former mayor Michael Bloomberg, the city's charter sector was nurtured from a fledgling system of two dozen schools into a robust 200 - school system, including a number of nationally - recognized multi-school networks.

Indiana's education leaders say they want to be «more proactive» in turning around the state's worst - performing schools before takeover becomes necessary — not just the two dozen schools on the state's failing list, but the 100 to 150 schools with the lowest performance scores.

Roughly 39.1 % of the incoming students at these top dozen schools are women, with several schools reporting record levels of female enrollment.

Miller, a mammoth of a human being at 6 - foot - 8 and 290 pounds, said he credits Osterhout with «really like 95 to 99 percent» of the reason why he has been offered by Arizona State, Arizona and Texas Tech among the near dozen schools seeking his services.

Competing for the chance to replace your departed second - round NFL Draft pick quarterback, who holds a half - dozen school records and the conference record for attempts, are:

Based in Allentown, Pa., Langman has interviewed and profiled several dozen school shooters in the United States and other countries.

According to the Governor's office, there are currently less than three dozen schools statewide that offer comprehensive health and social services on - site.

About two dozen schools adopted a longer school - day schedule, she said, and the city has invested an extra $ 5 million in making schools more fun, through extracurricular activities, arts, more sports and field trips.

Newark closed a half - dozen schools last year Anderson's first and activists filed a federal civil rights complaint that the closures were destabilizing neighborhoods and targeting minority and especially low - income populations.

Educators from several dozen school districts on Long Island and in New York State have benefited from Richard's sustained work within their districts.

More than 250 angry parents — who had found out just days before that their children's schools could be shuttered next fall — drowned out the efforts of a Rhee aide to use a PowerPoint presentation to explain why the chancellor and Mr. Fenty say they must close or consolidate two dozen schools across...

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

«Under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the city's charter sector was nurtured from a fledgling system of two dozen schools into a robust 200 - school system, including a number of nationally recognized multi-school networks.»

According to the Asheville Citizen - Times, more than two dozen school systems have passed resolutions urging lawmakers to delay the implementation of A-F school grades in order to reexamine the formula.

I just finished spending the day with about 220 students, and 60 adults, representing several dozen schools from across the Metro Vancouver area (including all three secondary schools in West Vancouver).

In comparison, First Round's fund, called the Dorm Room Fund, invests just $ 2 million over four years, spread across startups at a dozen schools.

In graduate schools, involving medicine or other critical sectors, international enrolments are higher still: 57 per cent at Windsor University, 50 per cent at Memorial University and 40 per cent at Concordia University and another dozen schools.

Four parish youth / Confirmation groups and almost a dozen schools have taken par t in sessions during which more than 1500 young people have had a chance to dialogue with married couples about what makes their marriage work.

For instance, MET - Rx, a leading supplement manufacturer, has deals with more than a dozen schools, including Arizona, Florida State, Stanford, Syracuse and UCLA.

He had his pick of a dozen schools, but chose a place where both home cooking and playing time were in easy reach.

Don't forget, the 2004 team featured prolific quarterback Willie Tuitama and five other players who signed with Division I college programs, while Franks» 2008 squad went to a State Bowl during the era when fewer than a dozen schools throughout the state were selected.

Nearly a dozen schools in HISD that I have visited have either never served or have stopped serving the alternative lunch.

The D.C. Council also unanimously approved D.C. Central Kitchen to provide meals for a dozen schools in Ward 7.

FOX Sports obtained the concussion management plans from more than a dozen schools across all divisions.

Schools do not take an official count until later this month, but Tribune interviews with two dozen school districts suggest the demand for a free school lunch continues to grow.

In 2012, Chartwells's parent company, Compass Group USA, paid $ 18 million to settle allegations by New York's attorney general that the company overcharged more than three dozen school districts by failing to pass along discounts required by their contracts.

Roughly a dozen school districts remain closed, many others are on delayed opening.

Students at more than a dozen school in central and northern New York are expected to take part in a national high school walkout today to demand action on gun control.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that the state will award more than two dozen schools a combined $ 35 million in matching grants.

Now, more than a dozen schools throughout Brooklyn are participating in the «Meatless Mondays» pilot program across the city, starting in the spring 2018 semester.

More than a dozen school workers, including at least two in the Bronx, have been terminated since 2009 for falsifying excuses for missing work.

Over a dozen schools have already signed on to include the webcasts as part of their lesson plans.

Shaker was one of more than a dozen schools across the area that participated in a walk - out last week as part of a push for action on gun violence.

DOWNTOWN — The city's teachers» union and the NAACP announced they will file a lawsuit Wednesday to try to halt the city's proposed closure of nearly two dozen schools and plans to force more than a dozen others to share space.

They may weigh less than a penny or more than a dozen school buses.

The research involved 1,903 children in grades 1 through 12 at a dozen schools in the large southern Chinese city of Guangzhou near Hong Kong.

With action to back up her talk, Rhee swiftly closes two dozen schools, drawing local wrath.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

Federal and state prosecutors in New Jersey have charged a dozen school officials and bus contractors in a widening statewide investigation of corruption in the pupil - transportation industry.

The What Works Clearinghouse, which the U.S. Department of Education operates, lists more than a dozen school interventions that have shown significant effectiveness in rigorous evaluations, several of which used random assignment.

On average, each CMO operates about a dozen schools, with future growth projected to reach just over 20 schools each.