Sentences with phrase «earn enough»

Data released Thursday by D.C. Public Schools shows that 42 percent of seniors attending traditional public schools are on track to graduate, while 19 percent are considered «moderately off - track,» meaning they could still earn enough credits for a diploma.

If someone told you that they were going to invest their money, but if that money didn't earn enough interest, they were going to take your money to make up the difference, would you think that was fair?

An ongoing whine from teachers unions and their fellow travelers is that public school teachers don't earn enough money.

Six of 10 ninth - graders fail to earn enough credits to advance to 10th grade, marking a «critical tipping point» for them, the application said.

However, Brown decided to leave the profession last year after six years of teaching, and the reason was simple: He did not earn enough money to support his family.

When store staff earn enough Badges they get real - world pins to wear on their lanyard.

One official explains, «Sure, we've promised to punish for - profits if they enroll students who don't graduate or earn enough after completion, but we just assumed they'd find ways to ensure that these students get a degree and a good job.»

The athlete, we discover, is relegated to dead - end remedial courses and is allowed to persist in his delusion that his athletic prowess will win him a full ride through college; his experience prompts Maran to explore in some detail how academic tracking and other more subtle differences in teachers» expectations contribute to a situation where 60 percent of white Berkeley High graduates attend a four - year college, while only 14 percent of black students earn enough credits to do so.

In the past two years, more than 95 percent of Hidalgo students completed high school, and, starting with the class of 2010, students can earn enough college credits to graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree.

«You're helping the mothers earn enough money to buy the sanitary pads for the girls to go to school.

And faculty members often admit that students can earn enough points to pass without demonstrating the aspects of standards intended to be developed in the course.

It costs just # 3,995 (you would spend the same on a basic plumbing course, stuck at home, in your local college) but once employed students can typically earn enough money in a year to fund the cadetship.

If they earn enough credits to graduate before the school year is over, the services coordinator steers them to mentorships, trade training, or jobs.

However, the loss from mobility continues to widen in the following years, as the teacher who stays becomes eligible for earlier and earlier retirement, while the teacher who moves does not earn enough service credit to advance the pension from age 60.

Charley's world turns dark when his dad is severely beaten by the husband of one of his girlfriends and he is forced to earn enough money to keep up the household.

Here, the director takes an unflinching look at unflattering characters and develops them into reasonable people who are simply trying to earn enough money to either survive or keep their families alive.

Paddington gets into comic scrapes doing odd jobs to earn enough money to purchase the book, the dastardly thespian deploys all the costumes in his closet to steal it, framing Paddington in the process.

To dramatise this struggle, Loach typically features a single protagonist with a simple goal: Cathy (Carol White) of Cathy Come Home fights to keep her family intact once they become homeless; in Kes, Billy (David Bradley) adopts and trains a hawk to avoid the influence of his failing family and school; Janice (Sandy Ratcliff) of Family Life (1971) tries to preserve a personal identity amid domineering parents and psychiatrists; Stevie (Robert Carlyle) leaves behind a petty criminal past and adopts an assumed name to get hired as a labourer in Riff - Raff; Bob desperately scrambles for the funds to buy his daughter's communion dress in Raining Stones; Liam (Martin Compston) of Sweet Sixteen sells drugs to earn enough money to rent his mother an apartment upon her release from jail.

The bear wants to get the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, so he decides to take some jobs and earn enough money to buy a prized, antique pop - up book of London.

For its part, the popularity of the game itself didn't seem to be a problem, as Yo - Kai Watch Wibble Wobble has a pretty dedicated fan base, but I think this is a case of the monetization not being aggressive enough to earn enough money to keep things going. . .

To get them all done, she enlists her drug - and alcohol - addicted father, Henry (Malcolm McDowell), who devotes most of his sober moments to spouting verse that rhymes with «ring - dang - do,» and her mother, Minerva (Cathy Moriarty), an addicted gambler who's trying to earn enough money to pay off her bookie («Gong Show» emcee Chuck Barris) without having to sleep with him.

20th Century Fox and the filmmakers were just hoping to crack $ 40 million opening weekend and earn enough money for a sequel.

Will Django earn enough money to buy back Broomhilda, or will the barbaric Monsieur Candie have other plans?

Christopher is unsure of the plan, but does it to earn enough money to impress high school sweetheart, Chloe Grace - Moretz.

The dark horse in this giant mess of talent is Paul Greengrass — who wasn't even expected to be nominated for this 9/11 drama, «United 93» — and could very well earn enough votes for his unflinching portrait of American heroism to make the difference.

This purpose expedites wonderful character development for Paddington, whose delightful innocence reminds viewers of their first piggy banks, to earn enough money to buy the book.

Owen ends up losing the competition he felt sure to win, but feels he can't go back home empty - handed, so he tells the folks back home he won, while he sticks around hoping to find a way to earn enough cash quickly.

Eventually, Elizabeth decides that it's time to move on, literally, by making her way across the country, working at dive bars and diners in order to earn enough for her next move.

There may be characters in Jean Renoir's Toni (1935), but here is a film first and foremost about a time and mode of life between two world wars when a man's home country was «wherever I can earn enough to eat.»

The goal in each of the three regions is to earn enough Resistance Points to hit three milestones, and subsequently have three encounters with three lieutenants of the Eden's Gate cult, with the ultimate goal of reaching their leader, Joseph Seed, «The Father».

(In Portuguese and English with subtitles) Marigold (PG - 13 for brief profanity) Cross-cultural comedy about a struggling American actress (Ali Larter) who reluctantly accepts a role in a Bollywood production in order to earn enough money to return home from India.

Often times I felt I didn't earn enough of the drops and when the battle came around my opponents wiped the floor with me.

Nash doesn't like it, but he needs the money, and hopes he can earn enough to get back his family home, but his conscience is troubled that he's doing it with money gained from the eviction of good families down on their luck, very much like his own.

The longevity of Lollipop Chainsaw relies on how much time gamers want to practice combos to finish levels faster and more cleanly than other players on the leaderboards or earn enough silver coins to purchase a closet's worth of outfits for Juliet.

I am a very unique and caring soul who is working very hard to become debt free so I can find my freedom from the mainstream way of life:) The dream is to earn enough money to pay for my own land where I will build my dream homestead mortgage free as I can afford it.

Events are tough, risky, and don't earn enough money to be worthwhile.

Senior women who have attained the age of sixty generally earn enough money to live comfortably.

Does the prospect earn enough to consider paying the $ 3,000 matchmaking fees?

Hi, I'm bharat Vohra from delhi india, businessman and earn enough too live a good life.

Despite the fact that the series» highest rated film received a lowly 33 % on Rotten Tomatoes, the series has managed to earn enough money to somehow warrant six films.

If we look in the past that time higher education was not much necessary and you can get job just learning and getting education from high secondary schools and few diplomas and earn enough money for look after yourself and your family in the positive way but now it not enough...

Teach your little ones how to save and then once they earn enough money, bring them out to get an ice cream or other special treat

Or are they able to earn enough to afford it?

Here is my wish list for 2013, I'm going to make sure I earn enough money to afford all these things by this time next year!

My elder son saved money from doing his chores to earn enough to buy his baby brother a rattle.

Only when they earn enough to start eating tastier and / or western style foods do the bad numbers go up.

In addition, pickers are unable to earn enough money to improve their livelihood in any meaningful way.

To a large extent, the research in these countries is supported by the private sector, with an expectation that technologies will earn enough revenue for further research and development.

Bevirt spent hundreds of hours cleaning up nails and performing other odd jobs at construction sites to earn enough for the costly mountain bikes and computers that would feed his technology habit as the years went by.

Chinese academics do not typically earn enough to support a middle - class lifestyle and must moonlight.