Sentences with phrase «first student in the family»

Time4Learning, a website aimed at families that homeschool, also offers a comprehensive online preschool program, available to parents for $ 19.95 a month for the first student in the family who enrolls, with a discounted rate for additional students.

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Over the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationally.

For those students who are the first in their families to attend, quality advice is thin on the ground, but even if your parents are grads, much has changed in the worlds of work and education since they sat in a lecture hall.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

Investments in education, college readiness, and technology for schools College Track is the education nonprofit Powell Jobs co-founded in 1997 to support teens who hope to be the first college students in their families.

How that entrepreneurial ah - ha moment evolved for us stemmed from each of the co-founders seeing first - hand how the students, teachers and families in Maine reacted to the laptop initiative.

I recognize I've been lucky in certain ways: I didn't graduate with student loans, thanks to my family's generosity, and I've benefitted from the long - running bull market: The first time I checked my 401 (k) balance, I had annualized returns of 19 percent!

OCD is a real and sometimes debilitating condition that I have witnessed first hand in my family and in several of my students.

No varsity teams are permitted to work out here where students and their dates, as well as faculty families, participate in everything from square dancing to roller skating — some 41,000 of them during the first semester after the plant opened.

I feel honored since I can see that there are so many incredibly dedicated coaches all around me at every race.I love coaching because I've seen first hand how mountain bike racing and this community can be life - changing in wonderful ways for some students and often for their families as well.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

An Arizona community college wants to tackle poverty by helping its students and faculty members celebrate being the first in their families to attend college.

«Any legislator stubborn enough to turn down that type of windfall for New York City students and teachers is forgetting about the families who elected them here in the first place.»

New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

«As the first in my family to go to college, I understand the message that initiatives like SAT School Day and College Awareness Day send to our students — we believe they have the potential to go to college, and we're going to give them the support and resources to get there,» Fariña said.

A Tuition Assistance Program award of up to $ 5,500 for qualifying students with the rest of tuition payments waived by the State University of New York for students with family incomes up to $ 100,000 in the first year rising to $ 125,000 by the third year.

There are many reasons why applying to college seem overwhelming to some city high school students; reasons like not speaking English well, or being homelessness, or being the first in their families to consider college.

First, it was argued that college students and their families wanted «predictability» in tuition costs, so that annual increases could assure them that hikes would never exceed a predictable, annual amount.

Maria Comella was first brought into the administration to help craft the 2017 State of the State agenda, which included a mix of proposals such as raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York to 18 and a free college tuition program for students whose families earn less than $ 125,000.

The 911 initiative is the result of a court order in October that prevented the D.O.E. from sending students to emergency rooms for disruptive behavior without first allowing a family member or staffer to intervene.

CUNY supports hundreds of thousands of students, many of whom are new to our state or our country, or are the first in their family to attend college.

With Cuomo's signature, New York will become the first state in the country to fund free tuition for students at community colleges or four - year public institutions, as long as their families make less than $ 125,000 a year.

«It was clear from the beginning — when I first learned about homeless students being shuffled in and out of our local schools without the proper services they needed and about the homeless families that were essentially stranded in these suburban communities — that it was not appropriate to use these hotels as temporary shelters,» Matteo said.

«The Chancellor's first priority is doing what's best for kids and we will ensure our next steps support students and families in receiving a high quality education,» Devora Kaye, a DOE spokeswoman, said in a statement.

FAMILIES FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS FIRST MADE an issue of school safety in February, shortly after the New York Times reported on controversial student discipline practices at Success Academy, the city's largest charter network, which maintains close ties to FES.

First, the students in Mirela Milescu's lab investigated the thermosensitivity of these proteins and identified one member of the family, called Gr28bD, as a prime candidate for thermogenetics.

Many of NMSU's students are the first in their families to pursue higher education, however, and as of 2014, only 46 % were graduating within six years.

First - generation college students, pupils from public (as opposed to elite private) high schools, and students from financially disadvantaged families are all underrepresented in the undergraduate population.

By competing and succeeding in a truly challenging course at a real university, students who have no other connection with higher education — because they often are the first in their families to complete high school, let alone consider college — receive an emotional boost and a realization that college is possible for them.

The study, conducted between 2008 and 2012, targeted first - grade students and their families in 52 elementary schools in Phoenix and San Antonio.

The Higher Education Research Institute reports that 40 % of incoming first - year students in the fall of 2004 come from families making more than $ 100,000, despite «need - blind» admissions policies at the 42 most selective state universities.8

Two pronounced characteristics of our students are their ethnicity — 86 % of the UTEP population is of Mexican - American origin — and their lack of exposure to higher education — most are the first in their families to attend a university.

Many of our students are the first in their families to attend college.

First established in 2003, the Research Education Office at the Child & Family Research Institute organizes education and networking events for trainees, coordinators and the public, including the annual Mini Med School series; administers trainee funding competitions; and manages the institute's summer student research program for undergraduate and medical students.

RISE targets under - represented minority (Hispanic, African American and Pacific Islander) and low - income students or those who will be the first in their families to attend college.

He has implemented research days for medical students to promote research in family medicine and was the founder and longtime coordinator of the White Coat Ceremony for first - year medical students.

Im an aspiring beauty school student i want to be the first person in my family to complete schooling but finances have put a hault on that.

In Raw, a school ritual of initiation — the gateway outside of loneliness — turns the young first year student into a cannibal, preventing her from developing relationships with anyone but her own family of cannibals.

First up from THR is the report that McGregor has joined August: Osage County as «Bill Fordham, Roberts» estranged husband and Streep's son - in - law, a college professor who left his wife for one of his students but wants to be there for his family.»

The first film will be Antlers, a story about an elementary school teacher who takes in a troubled student that harbors a mysterious family secret with deadly consequences.

In «Tokyo Knights» (1961), a college student takes over the family business in the field of organized crime, while «The Man with a Shotgun» (1961) marks Suzuki's first entry into the territory of the «borderless» Japanese WesterIn «Tokyo Knights» (1961), a college student takes over the family business in the field of organized crime, while «The Man with a Shotgun» (1961) marks Suzuki's first entry into the territory of the «borderless» Japanese Westerin the field of organized crime, while «The Man with a Shotgun» (1961) marks Suzuki's first entry into the territory of the «borderless» Japanese Western.

Set in northern Italy during the early 80's, the story is based on André Aciman's 2007 novel about 17 year - old Elio who is jolted by his first glimpse of his professor father's visiting American doctoral student who arrives to spend the summer at the family's villa.

You'll see that in this exclusive clip from director Luca Guadagnino's beautiful Sundance hit, which shows the first stirrings of a connection that's maybe more than platonic between precocious teen Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), the grad student Adonis spending the summer at Elio's family's summer home in northern Italy.

Many University Park students are the first in their families to go to college and don't have experience with the college application process.

Students who are the first generation of their families to attend college lag behind children of college - educated parents in earning bachelor's degrees, according to a federal study.

All black and Latino college students aren't necessarily the first person in their families to complete college.

JDO: Magnolia graduates 97 percent of its students, and 65 percent of your college - going students are the first in their families to do so.

All students who participated in the study during the first semester, including those who did not receive a tour, were provided with a coupon that gave them and their families free entry to a special exhibit at Crystal Bridges.

Many of the students in Rebekka L. Stone's biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from high school.

Once students can identify positive, productive qualities in others — first in books and media, then in friends and family — they soon recognize and develop those same positive attributes in themselves.