Sentences with phrase «for majority students»

«There are lots of other opportunities for majority students on this campus who want to do research,» says Tischler.

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According to a recent Google Consumer Survey, conducted for the education company Upromise by its financial services parent, Sallie Mae, the majority of students expect to continue receiving financial support from their parents for up to two years after their college graduation.

The vast majority of student loans are of the federal variety, explained Lauren Asher, president of the Institute for College Access & Success.

The majority of the student loan holdings are private, but each holds a contract with the federal government for publicly held student loans.

For instance, if you've heavily invested in stocks for the majority of your plan's lifetime, you may want to shift to a more conservative portfolio as your student nears college - aFor instance, if you've heavily invested in stocks for the majority of your plan's lifetime, you may want to shift to a more conservative portfolio as your student nears college - afor the majority of your plan's lifetime, you may want to shift to a more conservative portfolio as your student nears college - age.

If you signed up for a variable interest rate, like the majority of federal student loans approved before July 1, 2006, then you're probably going to see your interest rate inch upward after some time.

The majority of this debt is in the form of federal student loans, offered by the Department of Education to borrowers in need.However, the amount owed in private student loans is growing as students are in more need of financing for their education than in years past.

According to the national economics standards, students should be taught only the «majority paradigm» or «neoclassical model» of economic behavior, for to include «strongly held minority views of economic processes risks confusing and frustrating teachers and students, who are then left with the responsibility of sorting the qualifications and alternatives without a sufficient foundation to do so.»

For instance, one study found that Jewish college students» pet dislike was fair - skinned groups with a dominant majority; Catholics disliked non-Christians, particularly Orientals; Protestant students disfavored people in lower status groups.

Read the book and cheer for the 25 percent of college students in private schools, but then weep for the majority who attend public universities where Big Questions are largely off the table.

It didn't matter that the majority of Liberty students and faculty would consider Beck's Mormonism to be outside the bounds of Christian orthodoxy or that Beck had a reputation for sowing discord, what mattered was that he shared their conservative voting habits.

That reading Twain — and more specifically, in participating in a class discussion dominated by the interventions of the white majority students in the class — could cause significant discomfort for African American students in the room is certainly an understandable expectation.

A new YouGov poll for UCU suggests that a clear majority of students stand in solidarity with strikers.

For the first time, a majority of the country's public school students — 51 percent of them, to be precise — fell below the federal government's threshold for being «low income,» meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunFor the first time, a majority of the country's public school students — 51 percent of them, to be precise — fell below the federal government's threshold for being «low income,» meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunfor being «low income,» meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunfor a free or subsidized school lunch.

[i] While certainly there are many factors responsible for what has become an epidemic of emotional problems, the fact is that the majority of students name «school» as the single greatest stressor in their lives.

Here in Houston ISD, for example, Aramark (our FSMC) has put really lovely «made to order panini bars» in several Houston high schools, but the food is totally out of reach for the majority of our students, 80 % + of whom are F / R.

More than 70 percent of District of Columbia Public School students are eligible for free and reduced price lunch, and many of these students acquire a majority of their total daily nutrition at school.

As the vast majority of students who eat school lunch are qualified for free / reduced, it really doesn't cost any more to also make that meal available for purchase by students whose families don't qualify for govt subsidy.

In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

Although this might be true in poorer schools among poorer children, this is not the case for the majority of students.

The students who like and have always liked fruits and veggies are the ones who are benefiting, which is a very good thing for them, but for the majority who never did take fruits or veggies and probably never will when forced up on them... its a waste of time and money....

Greeley's Weld County School District 6 serves over 19,000 students, the majority of whom are low - income — 60 percent of students qualify for free or reduced meals.

More important, however, is the fact that the vast majority of HISD students are unaware of these nutritional modifications; to our children, there's little difference between HISD's beef taco nachos (which, I believe, use reduced - fat cheese and baked chips) and the beef taco nachos they get off campus (except for the fact that the latter may taste better).

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of parents of school - age children support strong national nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold to students during school, according to a poll released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the American Heart Association (AHA).

The survey found that since 2014, when the majority of updated nutrition standards for school meals were in effect, more school meal programs have launched initiatives to market healthier school food choices and increase their appeal among students.

In the District, a majority of students are poor, and many rely on the school nutrition program for meals.

«Mayoral control hearings are necessary to provide transparency, accountability, and a better understanding of the long - term vision for educating all of New York City's students,» said Majority Leader John Flanagan.

The majority of NYC's public school students are poor; an astonishing 75 percent (780,000 children) were already eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

They also argued that Paladino's statements create a hostile and intimidating environment in a district where the majority of students are minorities, something they believe is a violation of the state's Dignity for All Studestudents are minorities, something they believe is a violation of the state's Dignity for All StudentsStudents Act.

By Saturday afternoon, more than 5,700 people had signed an online petition calling for his removal from the school board in a diverse district where the majority of students are black.

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

The number of state school students entering the university system is at record levels, and the vast majority of universities are very grateful for this.

President Donald Trump's son Barron is a student there, and the tuition per year is close to $ 48,000 a year, out of reach for the vast majority of New Yorkers.

«It's important that we consider additional steps to protect students while they are at school and away from their families, and anything we can do to improve security has to be right at the top of that list,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate's GOP majority.

It reminds New York that part of the agreement for receiving what are known as Title I funds was that the majority of students take the standardized tests.

I thank Attorney General Schneiderman and Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle for remaining steadfast in their support of Rochester's students and schools.»

«Student visas account for the majority of non-EU migration to this country,» he notes.

In years past, when fourth - year UB medical students gathered at Match Day to find out where they would perform their residencies, the vast majority learned that they were headed for New York City, Boston or other out - of - town destinations.

Also at noon, leaders of the 4201 Schools Association will present the Award of Merit to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer for their long - standing and sustained support and advocacy for member - schools and their students, Wellington Hotel Banquet Hall, Eagle and State streets, Albany.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

With state leaders racing to finalize a new state budget by the Saturday start of the new fiscal year, a majority of New Yorkers say tax the rich, keep teens out of adult prisons and offer free tuition for some public college students, a new Q poll found.

Recall the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress has garnered much publicity for its call to increase the federal minimum wage and decrease interest rates for college - student loans.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

The majority of New Yorkers support our issues: marriage equality, banning discrimination against transgender New Yorkers, and making sure schools are safe from bias and harassment for all students.

Union - appointed experts reviewed exam items released last year and concluded that the great majority were valid measures of student achievement and age - appropriate for those tested.

Those being sued include: Superintendent Joel Klein, Assistant Superintendent for the Office of Special Student Services and Funded Programs Elie Wizman, the district attorney, Albert D'Agostino, the five current members who are part of the Orthodox and Hasidic majority: school board President Daniel Schwartz, Vice President Yehuda Weissmandl, Moses Friedman, Moshe Hopstein and Eliyahu Solomon.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

The supposed «progressive majority» was found to be a few boroughs of London famous for intellectual left - wing politics, and some student areas.

«As chair of the Assembly education committee, I know our majority and Speaker Carl E. Heastie have consistently fought for more state funding so that all of our students can finally receive the sound, basic education they desperately deserve.»