Sentences with phrase «few dozen schools»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Wyrwas, 25, was working with tumors at Weill - Cornell Medical School, a few dozen blocks away.

As gunshots rang out in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a teacher guided a few dozen students into a tiny classroom near the culinary area.

A few dozen companies around the country have ended or scaled back promotions for members of the NRA after the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 at a Parkland, Fla., high school.

We had a teacher in a Catholic school who became a priest, and then sure enough a few years later there were dozens of accusations, from when he was a teacher and also a priest.

With a royal helper, I managed to make a few dozen muffins to keep in the freezer to pull out for quick breakfasts, lunchboxes, and after school snacks.

The facilities would discredit the average high school: the track is often as hard and baked as a sandlot infield: the locker rooms, built in the 1920s, have been condemned several times; the permanent stands consist of a half dozen rows of splintery, sun - bleached wood, plus a few well - warmed and precarious seats on the tin roof of the locker rooms.

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.

Dozens of studies in the past decade have found that teenagers who regularly eat dinner with their families are healthier, are happier, do better in school, and engage in fewer risky behaviors than teenagers who don't regularly eat family dinners.

Dozens of Chicago Public Schools food service workers rallied Tuesday afternoon to call for an end to quickly prepared frozen meals that can be readied in smaller kitchens by fewer workers.

Some of the schools could begin September with just a few dozen freshmen.

A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and provide the resources coming to the city schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol in Albany in an act of civil disobedience.

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science back in February, I ran into a few dozen high school students, who were presenting their research in a big poster session.

I hate to say this, but I have complimented dozens of hideous and / or inappropriate items over the past few years at work and in law school (a satin pastel yellow suit comes to mind, but there have been so many others...)

Principal Patricia Green considers herself fortunate that the local Kiwanis Club has taken a leadership role in hooking up the school with a few dozen businesses.

Over the past few years, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education has funded dozens of school - based randomized trials at the local and national levels.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

I was musing on all this over the weekend, having had a chance on Thursday to spend a couple hours with a few dozen of the nation's leading ed school deans.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

By keeping things simple and operating each branch just a few hours a week, just eight full - time financial - education employees are needed to lead nearly four dozen programs in central Michigan elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools at no cost to the schools involved.

Heisler consulted with neighborhood groups and with the whole Pie Ranch community, now including several teachers at Mission and dozens of kids, before she sold her house and purchased a building at 25th Street and Mission, just a few blocks from the high school, and turned a small downstairs apartment into a café.

Dozens of Atlanta contractors are nearing completion of stadiums, housing, and related facilities for the games, and the few companies willing to bid on school projects demand top dollar.

From their one - room, one - teacher origins with as few as a dozen students, American schools grew ever more complex and larger, with as many as four thousand students in one Chicago school.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

At Cedar Heights Junior High School in Port Orchard, Washington, principal Patricia Green considers herself fortunate that the local Kiwanis Club has taken a leadership role in hooking up the school with a few dozen businSchool in Port Orchard, Washington, principal Patricia Green considers herself fortunate that the local Kiwanis Club has taken a leadership role in hooking up the school with a few dozen businschool with a few dozen businesses.

We have a few dozen studies of bona fide school choice programs that look at both achievement and attainment.

When the deal was negotiated, no one bothered trying to bring the rates for old copper T1 lines down, because fewer than two dozen schools in the state were still using them.

They started 20 years ago with a few dozen fifth - graders in Houston; today KIPP is a nationwide network of public schools with more than 58,000 students.

Community leaders at the conference Monday included Jack Daniels, president of Madison Area Technical College, and Floyd Rose, president of 100 Black Men of Madison, Inc., plus a few dozen parents, children and school staff.

Over the course of a few days this summer, the East Bay Times spent time with Connie and more than a dozen other African - American parents and caregivers as part of a fellowship encouraging parent involvement in schools.

Here you'll find dozens of free printables and a few science products for the upper elementary or middle school science classroom.

With traffic congestion on the forefront of concerns in Park City, is it acceptable to have very few students on a school bus that could fit dozens more — simply due to school district policy?

Some of the schools could begin September with just a few dozen freshmen.

Courts will be the new arena where it will be demonstrated that Title I charters are not keeping pace with Title I traditional public schools and for every one of the few and isolated successful Title I charter schools, we will provide dozens of successful traditional Title I public schools.

Please take a few minutes to watch our short film, Power of Leaders, which features a dozen students talking about the impact their principals have had on their lives and takes us into their schools to see their work in action.

Dozens more school employees have faced ethics sanctions in a case that has rocked the city of Atlanta for the past few years.

Yesterday at the Utah Capitol only a few bills moved, but two committee hearings drew dozens of public education supporters to the Capitol to hear reports about the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind and a proposed statewide online education program.

There are over 130 CMOs in the United States serving 250,000 students.55 While some CMOs are very large, operating dozens of schools serving tens of thousands of students, many are relatively small, operating fewer than five schools serving just a few hundred students.

On a recent Monday afternoon, as a long school day stretched into the darkness of a fall evening, Mr. Larry Kartz was holding the attention of a few dozen teachers as they rotated through his center on cultivating growth mindsets among elementary students.

LAPD Has Few Easy Answers on School Safety The dozens of educators packed into a police station meeting room Wednesday had a lot of questions about how to protect their students.

Smaller fish travel in schools (schoolies) which can range from a few fish to several dozen.

To book a rental there are a few options, the official site is www.las-gaviotas.com (way old school) but I have rented homes off it over a dozen times without any issues.

A few years ago, it was common for students graduating from high school to receive dozens of credit card offers in the mail.

But Avila — who directs the National Voting Rights Advocacy Initiative at Seattle University — contends the need for the law is demonstrated by studies such as one that depicts dozens of school districts in California with a majority of Hispanic students but few, if any, Hispanic school board members.

Over the past 10 to 15 years, transactional law clinics have gained some traction — there were fewer than two dozen a decade ago, and now half or more law schools have them.

This creates a situation where demand clearly surpasses supply: dozens of firms competing for a handful of diverse students at a few law schools.

As a graduate level professor I got to know plenty of attorneys at a university whose law school graduated dozens of them each year, very few displaying the integrity and trustworthiness that Mark displays in his work and communication.

There's a few dozen students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School making their way through the Capitol today.

I welcomed her initially, and sent a dozen roses to her at home, wishing her much success, a boost to her ego, and in a few months again, more flowers as her daughter graduated high school.