Sentences with phrase «gap year programs»

Check out the summer schedule for camp — they have programs in NC, WY, CA, and FL and even take international trips — and their academic and gap year programs.

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«To work well for less - advantaged students, gap year programs have to be structured, with the expectation of postsecondary planning baked in,» Savitz - Romer says.

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Check out the many other opportunities and programs offered at Timber - lee including parent / child weekends, family camping, Leadership in Camp Ministry internship and a new Gap Year program for recent high school graduates.

We also work with Dynamy, a gap year program, and Worcester Technical High School to host interns at our site.

We are excited to be able to support students to find their path after high school, whether they choose college, trade school, the military, or a gap year program.

It was wonderful to be together as a family for such an extended period of time, especially since our son is headed out to college in two weeks and our daughter leaves soon for an international gap year program.

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Advantagewa, an award - winning program aimed at bridging the gap between university and the business world, has earned its creator, Tracey Hodgkins, the 2005 Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year award.

Fresh from his high end gap year, Simmons launched Learnirvana in 2012, a web tutor program that helps users learn languages.

The Conservatives program review this year will close the gap in expected revenue and spending growth somewhat but will still depend on rather dramatic growth rates in tax revenues.

The program, created more than 25 years ago, allows American companies to fill gaps in the workforce from overseas with highly skilled employees, who can't be found in the U.S..

It is imperative that this gap in the USDA food program be closed, so that we may continue to support breastfeeding mothers, their babies, and their care providers, whether their breastfeeding relationships are measured in terms of months or years.

Some of the programs and policies that can fill in the gaps to help parents reclaim this missing year are explored in a separate report from Promundo - US.

We also supply Naviance's Family Connection platform - used by 8,000 schools nationwide and abroad - with «Enrichment Program» listings (summer, gap, post-graduate year, and community service).

As we know, summer feeding programs bridge the hunger gap for millions of children and this panel will explore ways for you to utilize the SFSP and the CACFP to make sure kids are fed year - round.

It is imperative that this gap in the USDA food program be closed, so that we may continue to support breastfeeding moms, their babies, and their care providers, whether their breastfeeding relationships are measured in terms of months or years.

At 9:30 a.m., the de Blasio Administration and elected officials will announce that the Department of Homeless Services has ended the use of more than 42 percent of cluster units citywide as part of the its commitment to phasing out the 18 - year - old stop - gap cluster site program, 1146 Ogden Ave., the Bronx.

After these reductions, which represent $ 2.85 billion of gap - closing benefit for the State Fiscal Year, School Aid will continue to represent the largest State - supported program, accounting for 29 percent of General Fund spending.

«The Summer Food Service Program helps to fill the gaps when students are off for summer break, making sure they get the good nutrition they need all year round.

By early next year, the Western New York Women's Foundation hopes to announce its own program, called «All In,» that would narrow the wage gap and raise more women to leadership positions.

In the fiscal year that starts July 1, says Mayor Bloomberg, the city must close a $ 1.3 billion gap, forcing more than 11,000 people out of work and shortchanging programs that are the lifeblood of the city.

In the pursuit of fairness, the mayor pledged to expand his universal preschool program to 3 - year - olds, put a body camera on every NYPD cop in the next two years and eliminate the gender - based pay gap (though he didn't specify how he'd achieve that last goal).

Years of research has found high - quality preschool programs to be especially beneficial to children of low - income families, children with disabilities, and children of color, since all often face learning gaps when entering kindergarten.

And budget analysts on Thursday continued to criticize de Blasio for his spending plan's lack of a «program to eliminate the gap» or «PEG,» a budgeting practice common under all de Blasio's predecessors dating back to former Mayor Ed Koch, which requires city agencies to identify a specific amount of money they could cut in the coming fiscal year.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

«Budget monitors and rating agencies have all applauded this administration's fiscal prudence, with reserves at unprecedented highs, out - year gaps at lows, and a strong $ 1.1 billion citywide savings program for FY15 - 16 that we'll build on this year in collaboration with the Council,» said Amy Spitalnick, spokesperson for the Mayor's Office of Management and Budget, in a statement to Gotham Gazette.

The $ 163 million program calls for existing funding gaps to be closed, and would provide free tuition for up to 940,000 families statewide, covering those who earn up to $ 125,000 per year.

After a gap year spent as the assistant project director for a chimpanzee field site for ecological research in western Uganda, I began graduate school in my first - choice neuroscience program.

Given these obstacles, it's not surprising that, although about half of all enrollees enter community college intending to transfer to a 4 - year institution, only about 25 % actually do — a gap that programs such as NIH's Bridges to the Baccalaureate and NSF's Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation aim to remedy.

Perhaps the most urgent space issue our nation faces in the next few years is the human spaceflight gap between the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the start of Constellation Program operations.

The Commercial Crew Program, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flightsProgram, building on the success of NASA's commercial cargo program, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flightsprogram, has been working to end the gap in the United States» domestic access to space, which will end up being more than seven years by the time the first human flights occur.

PennPREP (Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program) fills the gap between undergrad and grad school, with one - to two - year research experiences for students who have completed their undergraduate degree and are interested in pursuing a PhD in biomedical sciences.

When I was on the GAPS Introductory Diet five years ago, my gut detoxed so quickly that I couldn't eat anything but Stage 1 (soups) foods lest I felt like dying (alone, in the bathroom...) and stayed the program course as designed over the period of a few months.

Through my books, online programs, and 12 years of clinical practice, I have helped thousands of women to bridge the gap between mediocre and optimal health.

TheWrap touched this week on the blazing dominance of women in Cannes this year, from jurors Cate Blanchett and Ava DuVernay protesting on the Croisette to Monday's pledge from festival organizers to level a massive programming gender gap.

The University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill runs its own service - oriented gap program, offered with financial assistance to a small number of its incoming students who wouldn't otherwise be able fund such a year.

It would do this by covering the gap between tuition and existing financial aid (not including mandatory fees) for full - time students from families earning less than $ 125,000 per year, who have not exceeded their program's designated time to completion.

03, cofounder of Thinking Beyond Borders (TBB), a gap - year program focused on international development, advocates for another lens on the situation.

He agrees that questions of economics and equity are essential in any discussion of gap years, but he also believes there is a breakdown in how our education system prepares most high school students for adulthood — and that gap - year programs offer clues toward a corrective of this breakdown.

Harvard College has encouraged the practice for decades, and Princeton, Tufts, and the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill have all recently launched programs that help incoming students participate in gap years.

Since then, Global Gap Year has evolved somewhat (it's now six countries in 28 weeks), and TBB has launched semester - long programs as well, one focused on food security and public health in Asia and another focused on empowerment and sustainability in South America.

Specifically, Pendoley says that effective gap - year programs (and he is quick to point out that not all gap - year programs are, by his definition, effective) give students two key opportunities they aren't finding at school.

There are a growing number of programs and opportunities that increase access to gap years, she says, and that number will only grow.

94, says her father, Cornelius, had banked on «interim year» or «interim time» when he founded the Center for Interim Programs, the country's first gap - year counseling organization, in 1980.

These programs are not categorized as gap years because «they're designed for lower - income students,» Savitz - Romer says.

The best gap - year programs, he believes, provide students with the independence, curiosity, and sense of purpose to help them negotiate this predicament.

There are cheaper ways to take time off — paid volunteer programs like Americorps and City Year are often described as «funded» gap years — but Pendoley believes that «unless there is a major change in how we fund undergraduate education,» gappers will never account for more than 3 to 4 percent of the college - bound population.

With more than 26 years teaching at Harvard, Ferguson's research focuses on the racial achievement gap, education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development.