Sentences with phrase «fair than at school»

Protagonist June Elbus, a fourteen - year - old who is more at home at a Renaissance fair than at school or a party, is devastated by the death of her adored uncle Finn Weiss and plagued by the stigma of its cause.

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Kids spend more hours at school than working adults spend at work, so it's fair to say they have earned a break during the summer.

11 A seventh grader in Florida recently won her school science fair by proving there are more bacteria in ice machines at fast - food restaurants than in toilet bowl water.

Drawing upon a base of over 35,000 students at more than 1,000 local school science fairs, more than 1,100 students in grades 5 — 12 from nearly 300 schools will be evaluated this year on their scientific research and communication skills.

Many schools have a lottery system in place to make sure that all eligible students have a fair chance at getting in when the demand is greater than the available seats.

Principal David Rogers says the whole school policy is about «genuine inclusion» and providing students with «equal, fair access» to facilities at all times, rather than teachers only using the sound system or switching on captioning when they have a deaf student in class.

«On Fair night, parents and family members are invited to view the students» projects and watch their presentations,» said Patricia Green, adding, «This fair is a longstanding tradition at the school and usually attracts more than 300 people.&raFair night, parents and family members are invited to view the students» projects and watch their presentations,» said Patricia Green, adding, «This fair is a longstanding tradition at the school and usually attracts more than 300 people.&rafair is a longstanding tradition at the school and usually attracts more than 300 people.»

For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years ago.

More than 4,500 copies of the student cookbook and thousands of brochures were distributed at the annual Kids» Fair, City Hall, the local farmers» market, and schools.

More than 60 percent of employers rate high - school graduates» skills in basic English and math as fair or poor; one study estimates the cost to a single state's employers for remedial training at nearly $ 40 million a year.

Jenny Denning, whose daughter was a year 8 pupil at DFS, said: «It would have been much fairer had they given our governors the option of a new sponsor, rather than closing the school in the middle of the year.»

In response, the governing body at Saltley School said it believed two Ofsted reports published last year gave «a far more accurate and fair description of the school» than that published on MSchool said it believed two Ofsted reports published last year gave «a far more accurate and fair description of the school» than that published on Mschool» than that published on Monday.

It will require more than a few local efforts like the one in Milwaukee to make the American school system more inclusive and fair; it will require a much larger cultural shift and an about - face from government at all levels.

One DCPS official told a concerned parent in an email that a longer testing window has allowed schools to rotate smaller groups of students through tests rather than testing everyone at the same time, «so that instruction, student services, field trips, science fairs, performances and the like can continue.»

More than 500 hopeful charter school job seekers flooded GCSA's Saturday March 9th Job Fair held at Ivy Preparatory Academy's Kirkwood...

Contributing to the poor perception of school culture, less than half of all students report that they feel discipline at their school is fair, and experiences vary widely by self - reported race / ethnicity.

Most of the Yale students noted the «Application Assistance» booth was the busiest booth at the fair, which suggests that parents at the fair had more questions about the choice process, rather than about schools within the system.

At the New Haven school choice fair that the EDST 240 Yale students attended, there was very little printed information leaflets available in languages other than English, despite the fact that 16.8 % of New Haven's population was Hispanic or Latino in 2014 (Census 2014).

At the New Haven school choice fair that the EDST 240 Yale students attended, there was very little printed information leaflets available in languages other than English, despite the fact that

Last year, we provided care for about 2,000 animals in our shelter, responded to more than 7,000 citizen calls, answered over 50,000 phone calls, and did community outreach at schools, fairs, and events.

For high school students living in Jackson, Cameron Park, Placerville, Galt, Lodi, Folsom, Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova, Orangevale, Fair Oaks, Rosemont, La Riviera, Carmichael, Florin, Garden Acres, and Citrus Heights, drivers education can now be taken online at prices lower than ever before.

Differential selection is measured by including respondent's gender (female; male), respondent's education at the time of entry into marriage (high school graduate; some college; college graduate), spouse's education at the time of entry into marriage (less than high school education; high school graduate; attended but did not complete college; college graduate), father's occupation (unskilled labor; farming; skilled labor; white collar; professional), and childhood health (fair or less; good; excellent).

Indigenous adults aged 18 — 34 years who had completed Year 12 were more likely than those who had left school at Year 9 or below to rate their health as excellent or very good (57 % compared with 45 %), and were less likely to rate their health as fair or poor (10 % compared with 16 %).