Sentences with phrase «first public course»

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But they also maintain their equipment, educate the public, work with other first responders, and of course, do paperwork.

Our agency's roots are as a public relations firm and in the course of providing media relations services (pitching journalists to write stories about our clients) the goal of being covered in a relevant industry publication was first and foremost.

Of course they won't admit it in public and love to poke fun whenever possible, but deep down they believe, even if it's when they have their first child, or when they reach old age and start to hope that there is more than just this.

Even though I attended a public high school, where I took two biology courses, my teachers essentially skipped the first few chapters of our science textbook and declared them «too controversial» to teach.

Yet at least one student, in every Bible - as - literature course I have taught in a public high school, looks around conspiratorily the first day and asks in a stage whisper, Can we get away with this?»

Of course, the courts must uphold the First Amendment provision against any and all who wish to capture the public schools for their own sectarian teaching.

The theses were of course at first a controversial technical matter, intended for debate, and intended no doubt to focus public attention on the undoubted abuses, theological and practical, involved in the preaching of the indulgences.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

The first nine holes of Buffalo Grove «s new municipal golf course will open for public play Tuesday, but village officials got to try the course a day earlier.

The blog will include contributions from the first ever cohort of students on the Blavatnik School of Government's Master of Public Policy course, who originate from 19 different countries, as well as members of the Commission and scholars at Oxford and Cambridge.

The Tompkins County Public Library will hold an eight hour course on mental health first aid next month.

«I welcome this initiative to train 2,000 black men in Mental Health First Aid, and I applaud First Lady Chirlane McCray's continued dedication to charting a course towards better mental health, both in public policy and on the ground, in the everyday lives of our communities.»

His claim that unemployment will fall rather than rise in the course of this Parliament is based on the OBR assessment, rapidly rushed out to give ammunition to contest the anticipated Harman attack (incidentally providing the first suspicions about the OBR's objectivity), that whilst 600,000 public sector jobs will be lost by 2015 - 6 and a similar figure (though unspecified) in the private sector as a result of the public spending cuts, some 2.5 m jobs will be created over the same period in the private sector.

Connect moved quickly to offer the first training course for public affairs professionals on how to engage with Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.

Following Maze's death, Orangetown purchased his golf club and made it the first public golf course in Rockland County.

«Under the new law, anybody, whether acting in concert with a public servant or not, who engages in a course of conduct to defraud a state or local government would be guilty of a crime ranging from the fourth degree (class E felony) to the first degree (class B felony), depending on the amount defrauded,» a release from the governor's office said.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Bardonia — For the first time since Hurricane Sandy, the miniature golf course at Germonds Park in Bardonia is accessible to the public.

In the article, he wrote that catching «a glimpse of the forces supporting the Countryside Alliance: the public schools that laid on coaches; the fusty, belch - filled dining rooms of the London clubs that opened their doors, for the first time, to the protesters; the Prince of Wales and, of course, Camilla... and suddenly, rather gloriously, it might be that you remember [why you voted Labour] once again.»

My first real job was a real job: teaching 4 courses of Biostatistics and Population Genetics in the School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh.

I took a required public speaking course my first semester of college.

Since many senior couples have their first date as a result of their meeting on a senior dating dite, that means, of course, you two should meet in a well - light, public venue.

Instead, you should always meet for the first (and even subsequent times) in a public place, such as a restaurant, movie theater, miniature golf course, shopping mall, etc..

We'll just have to wait and see how the general public takes to the movie, of course, since that may truly determine if this film ends up being included as part of Universal's new monsters movie universe - or, if it gets left out and Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy reboot winds up being the first official brick in that wall.

It really is a tremendous creation and it is up to Chris Columbus to steer the first movie (and with a fan - base this big, of course, there is going to be a movie), into the public eye and appreciation, a daunting task if there ever was one.

Of course, public awareness and acceptance of transgender people is much greater now than it was when Boys Don't Cry — Kimberly Peirce's significantly more insightful film about Brandon Teena, a transgender man coming to terms with his self - described «sexual identity crisis» — debuted in 1999, thanks largely to visibility campaigns and presidential announcements (Barack Obama is the first sitting President to use the word in a state - of - the - union address).

First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.

She more or less goes her own way in teaching the course, but after the first year of «Civics in Action,» the Boston Public Schools introduce standardized, districtwide midterm and final exams for it, and Levinson worries how her students will do.

Here the norm is that the student first takes a methods course and then spends time in a public school classroom.

In July, the first batch of online courses — the majority of which are free — were opened to the public in 30 topic areas, with names like iPhone Tips, Swine Flu Facts, and Physical Exam Essentials.

In January 2014, Abdullahii Mire, one of the 25 students undertaking the same course, hopes he will graduate with a Diploma in Public Relations and Journalism from the first university in the world situated within a refugee camp.

We use a private course with our faculty but have made the first two episodes public.

We deliver First Aid at Work (FAW) and Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) courses for the workplace and also run Basic Life support / CPR and A.E.D (Defibrillator) courses to both the public and Health Care Professionals.

The very first secretary of that «board of commissioners» was, of course, Horace Mann, often termed the father of public education in the United State.

For example, last year over 90 urban public high school students in New Orleans took advantage of Louisiana's new Supplemental Course Academy (SCA) to complete credits for their first year of college through Bard Early College Campus, a satellite campus of Bard College in New York.

This move toward quality control could be the first step back toward renewing the drive for national curriculum standards that flared up and flamed out in the 1990s in disputes over ideology, pedagogy, course content, and control of the public schools, speculated Bruce Johnstone, former chancellor of the 64 - campus State University of New York.

In the course of working with thousands of children in the public schools, giving lectures, teaching at the university level, and consulting with parents, we have experienced first hand the importance of learning to read.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

For the first time, seniors had to complete and pass all of their A though G courses, which are required for acceptance into California's public universities.

Online courses first appeared in public high schools in the early 1990s.

Of course, as readers will already know, Stefan Pryor, our State's Education Commissioner, is well aware of all of this information as he helped to create Achievement First and was one of its Directors until he resigned to take on the role of running Connecticut's public education system.

Of course, it's worth remembering that what led to the state's first voucher program in Milwaukee in 1990 was, well, poor student performance in the Milwaukee Public Schools.

These reports, which are limited to outcomes from Tennessee's ACT - tested public and private high school graduates, track college enrollment, first - year college GPA, average ACT courses, and median course loads.

We had only the Vsport for our first drive, which included many laps of GM's Milford Road Course (known colloquially as the Lutzring) and a lap of the public roads surrounding the facility.

Mikkola gave the car its first public outing on the Algarve rally in 1980, when it acted as the course car.

We meet such characters as Nian Guangjiu, an aspiring entrepreneur who sold melon seeds, and was arrested for «corruption,» «misuse of public funds,» and «hooliganism» over the course of his career, before finally being named in 1998 as one of ninety - six «Heroes of Reform»; and Li Xiaohua, the first man in China to buy a Ferrari, who was arrested for peddling watches before a hair - restoring potion made him a millionaire.

Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in North London, an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant café, a liberal public school, a sleek science institute.

Of course, Brantley did clarify that statement by saying that we must first take away the death - blows to budgets as a consideration before we can say that things are going well in the public library sphere.

(1) A credit services organization, its salespersons, agents, and representatives, and independent contractors who sell or attempt to sell the services of a credit services organization may not do any of the following: (a) conduct any business regulated by this chapter without first: (i) securing a certificate of registration from the division; and (ii) unless exempted under Section 13 -21-4, posting a bond, letter of credit, or certificate of deposit with the division in the amount of $ 100,000; (b) make a false statement, or fail to state a material fact, in connection with an application for registration with the division; (c) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer; (d) dispute or challenge, or assist a person in disputing or challenging an entry in a credit report prepared by a consumer reporting agency without a factual basis for believing and obtaining a written statement for each entry from the person stating that that person believes that the entry contains a material error or omission, outdated information, inaccurate information, or unverifiable information; (e) charge or receive any money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available to the general public; (f) make, or counsel or advise any buyer to make, any statement that is untrue or misleading and that is known, or that by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading, to a credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with respect to a buyer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity; (g) make or use any untrue or misleading representations in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization or engage, directly or indirectly, in any act, practice, or course of business that operates or would operate as fraud or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; and (h) transact any business as a credit services organization, as defined in Section 13 -21-2, without first having registered with the division by paying an annual fee set pursuant to Section 63J -1-504 and filing proof that it has obtained a bond or letter of credit as required by Subsection (2).

I'm incredibly grateful to all those who have supported us along the way and who continue support our growth and development as a team - Linda Barter as matchmaker and puppy raising mentor; Kim Wurster as breeder of the best dog ever; Nancy Haverstock Abplanalp and Donna Hill as our primary professional training support; Sandra Walther as public access training buddy; Christy Corp - Minamiji and clan as second family who gave him stability when I was in the hospital for weeks; the UCD vet behavior team (I think Michelle Borchardt was the first one who told me I could do it); my online training mentors in crime, I mean, um, um (Patty Aguirre, Cheryl Bloom, Karen Johnson Lawrence, Jo Butler, Carol Hall, Micha Michlewicz, Lynn Shrove and many more); my family, who financially backed this questionable startup and took him on countless walks and dog park trips; all of the local people who helped socialize and puppy sit him; and of course his entire online fan club, who made me laugh and supported me when I was feeling down about training and life in general.

100 % of the 3 hour course directly addresses emergency planning, preparedness and first responder (and public) safety when dealing with large animals (horses and livestock) encountered on - scene of an emergency or disaster