Sentences with phrase «get more public schools»

So how can we get more public schools to have swing?

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The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

She poured marketing resources into the product, and embarked on an awareness and political campaign to get more EpiPens into schools and other public institutions.

Nice point: our public students ARE getting more ignorant, and our church - supported private - school students are making all the difference in the world.

The more young, orthodox Catholics we can get on the faculties of parish or private schools — heck, even public schools — the better prepared our children will be for life as faithful and thoughtful Catholics.

We think it is a great priority and can not wait to continue working with Director Brackett to get more salad bars in Dalton Public Schools!

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so loGet started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so loget yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

Donna travels the world to promote Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and the Academy, but she is still happiest eating lunch with Burke County Public School students, out standing in collard fields with organic farmer Sam Adderson, or planning new ways to get even more local products, like grits, onto school lunch trays and farmers market shoppingSchool students, out standing in collard fields with organic farmer Sam Adderson, or planning new ways to get even more local products, like grits, onto school lunch trays and farmers market shoppingschool lunch trays and farmers market shopping bags.

We think it is a great priority and can not wait to continue working with Director Brackett to get more salad bars in Dalton Public Schools!

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

At many public schools today, kids are lucky to get more than 15 minutes to eat.

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

I briefly told you about the Get Food Education in Every School initiative when it was announced in May, but now you can read more about it in this week's Huffington Post editorial by Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the folks behind Food day).

I only wish that more freshly made soups and stews were served in public schools, where the kids get a steady diet of processed convenience foods.

The real goal seems to be to take more and more children from the public schools and put them into private schools and shrink the funds that would be available to the public schools that give all of America's children the chance to get ahead.

He is now testing that approach to the limit and his membership, which reads The Guardian more than any other newspaper, is getting to see him portrayed as Pinocchio, public school fag to the Bullingdon boss and Private Pike for his trouble.

Buffalo Public Schools are buying more and more computers for students, as the district works on a $ 56 million technology plan to get one laptop or tablet to every student and install WiFi antennas on the growing network of community schools to serve the surrounding commuSchools are buying more and more computers for students, as the district works on a $ 56 million technology plan to get one laptop or tablet to every student and install WiFi antennas on the growing network of community schools to serve the surrounding commuschools to serve the surrounding communities.

More public school teachers are getting tenure under the union - friendly de Blasio administration, statistics released Friday by the city Education department show.

The Buffalo Public School District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builSchool District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builschool budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their buildings.

De Blasio's key challenges now include renewing mayoral control of the public schools and getting the state to live up to more of its court - ordered funding obligation.

More public school teachers are getting tenure under the union - friendly de Blasio administration, statistics released by the city Education department show.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

The CFE sued in order to get more state money for the New York City public schools and to guarantee a sound education for all students.

In October, I met Wiley at her office at the New School to discuss what inspired her to get into public service in the first place, whether progress is actually possible in such a divisive time in history, and why it's so essential we see more women in office.

An Independent Budget Office study suggested that charter schools actually get more overall aid than regular public schools when factoring in the free rent or subsidy they receive from the city.

The freeze on charters» per - pupil funding won't officially end for another year, but these innovative public schools will get direct state grants to reduce the gap this year — and also get markedly more facilities funding.

At last count, New York State public schools» unfunded mandates numbered more than 150 — 150 unfunded mandates that cost schools money in time and resources — yet most of us get our budgets passed while staying under our tax caps.

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

In addition to potentially using library and NYCHA space, the mayor's office plans to generate the needed seats through a combination of converting the more than 27,000 existing half - day pre-K seats in public schools and community - based programs, as well as getting non-Universal Pre-K-compliant programs into the fold, sources said.

More to explore «Animal Mimics: More than just camouflage» from Scientific American «Ugly Animals Need Love, Too» from Scientific American «Animal Mimicry» overview from Alleghany County Public Schools If You Can't Run, You've Got to Hide!

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.

The Institute of Medicine's recommended daily amount of fiber is 25 grams or more, depending on gender and age, but the average American gets only 15 grams a day, says the Harvard School of Public Health.

New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio

The soy industry hired Norman Robert Associates, a public relations firm, to get more soy products onto school menus.

The film doesn't have a release date yet (but is in post-production)-- and Baumbach also is in post-production on «Untitled Public School Project» with Greta Gerwig — but one way or another, we'll get us some more Baumbach (or double the Baumbach) by year's end — and maybe on the festival circuit as well?

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

Our CRPE colleagues Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim have proposed a more radical solution: a new institution (a community board) that would oversee all public schools and get the school district out of the business of oversight (the district would become a school operator, much like a charter management organization).

Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to realize more of the gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.

More than twenty years ago, Paul Hill wrote Reinventing Public Education, a landmark book that argued that school districts should get out of the business of running schools directly and contract with for - profit and non-profit providers instead.

Sadly, the more name calling you do («privateer,» «hoax, destroy, privatize,» or this doozy: «corporate interests, hedge fund managers and billionaires starve public schools and services of resources and suck up as much profit as they can»), the more press you get.

«We're trying to get a more serious atmosphere and get students more serious about their education,» said Nancy Vaughn, a spokeswoman for the Waterbury (Connecticut) Public Schools.

For the comparison among charter, public, and private school teachers, I assumed that charter and private schools face more competition than public schools, since a greater share of charter and private schools get funding only if they attract students.

These families were more likely to get what they needed from private schools, even though they had no legal rights to specific services from those schools; they were less likely to get what they needed from the public schools, where they were legally entitled to those services.

As I noted in a blog post yesterday, public school districts began innovating with blended learning before most charter schools did, but charter schools pioneering blended learning get far more attention for their innovations.

The result is that good business managers can get a lot more money doing the same job outside of the public school system (see Figure 4).

«Every public school girl should have a chance to play the part of Saint Joan before the age of 12,» he explains, «because the older you get, the more difficult it is to hear the voices of Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine calling you.»