Sentences with phrase «from getting to school»

Throughout the country, schools and communities have been able to reduce absenteeism when they monitor attendance data and work together to identify and address barriers that keep children from getting to school every day.

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Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

«If I had to pick one question that we get from anyone is really how safe are schools?

«Three minutes when the kids wake up, three minutes when they get home from school, and three minutes before they go to bed,» explains Ryan.

While many people believe that spring break is nothing more than an excuse for wild college debauchery, it is actually the ideal time to get away from work, school, and cold weather — no matter your age.

In my previous job, I remember front section editors asking me to report on a story about children in Ontario supposedly getting sick from the Wi - Fi in their schools.

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

And there's always the most old - school fix of all — simply seize control of your schedule and guiltlessly do nothing for an hour, a day, or even a week to get away from all those grocery lists and presentations, giving your creativity space to run wild.

I got to sample a lot of food from the places that we lived or visited and during my middle school and high school years in Nairobi, Kenya, where I went to an international school.

We talked to Srinivas R. Myneni, DDS, PhD from the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine to get the low - down on the most common mistakes most of us make when brushing our teeth.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

«We are getting calls from superintendents from big districts saying their community is demanding answers to how the school is prepared, and the superintendents are looking to us.»

With a 1.7 high school grade point average and unable to get admitted to any degree - granting institution, Kalin faked an MIT student ID and then used a letter of recommendation from a professor he met there to get himself admitted to NYU.

«When I was going to school in Chicago, I got one of these old - school department store cards — and went from getting 10 percent off on jeans to owing more than $ 500 and getting calls from collectors.

Kenna's ability to get local businesses to buy ad space in his high school's literary magazine and his ability to get some of Hollywood's hottest celebrities to climb the tallest peak in Africa come from the same part of Kenna's personality: his ability to talk to and connect with almost anybody.

One Argentine entrepreneur I met recalled having to take a day off from school every time his mother got paid in order to help her spend her paycheck as quickly as possible.)

Moreover, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has indicated that Intel plans to get involved on a primary - school level with the intention of giving girls a clear path to becoming engineers from a young age.

They get on board the bus from school, and that's our time to chat about the day so far.

The idea for the product came from listening to my kids complain that their blueberries got warm and mushy at school, despite using insulated lunchboxes with frozen gel coolers tossed inside them.

«Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works.

What's worse than getting rejected from all five business schools you applied to?

But back in the day, in 1998, she was just an 18 - year - old computer geek, sitting in her dream class at her dream school, getting the stink eye from her computer science professor and trying not to cry.

Though the Ivies are notoriously tough to get into — their regular - admission acceptance rates range from 5.2 % to 13.96 % — you might be surprised to learn that other schools have even lower acceptance rates.

We fail at something, we don't achieve what we set out to do, we don't get what we expected we would, we experience a loss, we get exhausted from our work or school responsibilities.

For international students, getting an MBA from a Chinese business school provides unique opportunities — entry into a 1.3 billion - person economy, for example — and poses considerable challenges — such as trying to say «forecasting the aggregate directly» in Mandarin.

And — after getting return calls from Harvard Medical School and Purdue University — he began mixing vitamins and minerals to make a compound to ease his symptoms.

Dawkins, who was allegedly negotiating directly with the player's family, said he had to «get more» from Adidas to secure the high - school athlete's commitment to the university.

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

They make an unlikely duo — Donahoe, 53, was an econ major at Dartmouth, got an MBA at Stanford, and worked at Bain & Co. for nearly 20 years; Chesky, 32, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and started Airbnb to help pay his rent.

According to Richard W. Nesbitt, former chief operating officer of CIBC and current adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, the sector has changed quite a bit from when he first got his start.

She once arranged for supermodels Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Christy Turlington to surprise a teenaged Prince William at the top of the stairs when he got home from school.

As a way to get schools on board, Microsoft is letting schools upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 for free.

Its website was populated with reviews of colleges written by students from 280 U.S. universities, but College Prowler wasn't having much success getting high school seniors to shell out the $ 39.95 annual fee for unlimited access to the content.

James said the proposal will help address the issue of poverty, noting that individuals are prevented from going to school, getting jobs, seeking employment and seeing their doctors if they are unable to afford train fare.

From Uber to Equifax, this was the year the world's most powerful institutions got schooled by hackers.

«At no time have we said students can not make a statement peacefully while staying in school,» Gray said, adding that he had not gotten requests to participate from any students or student groups.

I set it to automatically lock after a few minutes so I know kids are safe and sound when they get home from school.

Rinearson understands the male - dominated culture of both finance and tech can lead some women to shy away from jumping into the industry, so she's made it her mission to get more women involved — starting with high schoolers.

«Families across Los Angeles have shared with us what a relief HopSkipDrive has been for them - in addition to getting kids to and from school and activities,» said HopSkipDrive.

If he were to refinance his student loan with SoFi, which recently raised a whopping $ 1 billion in funding from Softbank to help make student loans even cheaper, I'm sure he could get lower than 5 % because he went to William & Mary, Columbia for his Master's in Public Health, Yale for Medical School, and Cornell for his residency!

I came from a middle class family and attended The College of William & Mary, a top state school with no rich uncle to help get me started.

In order to register for company DRIPs, you'll need to get an actual, old - school stock certificate from the company to apply — and you'll need to hold onto that certificate as proof of your share ownership.

His patrons were almost all from a school that was located just down the road, where children and teachers would come for their lunch hour or to get a snack after class had ended for the day.

Afterward, he got a law degree from the little - known Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan and was admitted to the New York bar in 1992.

Nearly 300 volunteers, including 42 from Dr Pepper Snapple Group and more than 40 students from Marquette University High School, eagerly got to work assembling the new playground, which featured a «Tripple» Racer Slide, stationery buttons, a range of climber and interactive panels, a playhouse and even a playdozer!

Those just registering for the app would share their Facebook information, and Bumble got their name, age, occupation, school, and photos from the social network to build a dating profile.

SO... now that you know how many plans we get from portolio companies, laywers, recruiters and entrepreneurs in general (not to mention business school classmates, other VCs, professors, etc.)... still think your plan randomly submitted has a good shot of getting you a meeting?

that has driven so much of life from getting into a good school to finding a good job — on the Internet.

Whether it's an intro to marketing course or a senior leadership class, a night class speaking engagement that takes 30 minutes give you some goodwill from the college community, gets your name out there, and most likely a link from either the course syllabus, teacher's page, school events page, etc..

Trump responded to the series of emotional stories from the survivors and parents of victims from the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by pledging to get to work on school shootings «two minutes» after the listening seSchool by pledging to get to work on school shootings «two minutes» after the listening seschool shootings «two minutes» after the listening session.