Sentences with phrase «get to school by»

The goal of the project is to encourage people to use alternative forms of transportation to get to school by providing them with a convenient way to get around the large campus.

Delia's parents agree to get her to school by 7:20 a.m. Time is precious at KIPP schools (Knowledge Is Power Program) and the whole idea is to give students as much time in school as possible.

He gets to school by 8a and I get to work by 805a.

Not exact matches

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.

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

By the time early - riser Sheryl Sandberg gets to the office at 7 a.m., she's already fitted in an hour of responding to emails, a morning workout at her home gym and dropping her two kids off at school.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

Expect more prestige schools to get into this market which, by and large, is the province of unaccredited, for - profit schools.

Proud to be in business Most of the current batch of ceos either went to business school or intended to (but got sidetracked by a business opportunity).

If a high school baseball player gets to play in college, there's still only a 0.6 percent chance of being drafted by the majors.

It helps doing the simplest things like going to the grocery store before the tourists get here for the weekend or getting your kid out of school early or simply just getting some downtime at the beach by yourself.

Desmarais got his start in 1951 by quitting law school to buy his family's struggling bus line for $ 1.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

When conflict comes, we don't want to get burned by the fire so we duck and cover — just like we were taught in school.

If you go to a less expensive college, get excited about «the opportunities a school will give you beyond college because you're not going to be burdened by debt,» said education consultant Klemmer.

As Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program Executive Director Sharon Block said to me in an email: «I don't think we can be limited in our thinking by what can get through Congress now — nothing can.

He said that while a school like Harvard might have only 6,000 students a year but some 50,000 alumni in the city, each one of those grads is getting contacted by 100 students or more, asking to meet or go for coffee.

By the time he or she gets to high school, it is time for a heart - to - heart about college.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

Students at California schools have a leg up when it comes to getting hired by the top tech companies.

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.

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

Yeo visited Rotman's career center and attended interview and resume prep sessions hosted by the school's Management Consulting Association to get up to speed.

Additionally, the league has a grassroots program that aims to get a broad base of officials engaged in high school and Pop Warner games, with the hope that they will ultimately advance to more senior leagues, a similar trajectory to that traveled by players.

No one has gone to school to be a CEO — you don't learn this except by getting in there and figuring it out.»

He responded by asking if it would also make sense to change the names of your children if they got bad grades in school.

Our team is now stepping in to help with one of the island's greatest recovery needs — getting children back to school by rebuilding the Paix Bouche Primary Sschool by rebuilding the Paix Bouche Primary SchoolSchool.

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

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.

Apple is looking to reassert dominance in U.S. schools, where inexpensive laptops running software from Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft Corp now top iPad by sales, offering a cheap way to get to cloud - based productivity tools.

Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 67 timeless principles and practices used by the world's most successful men and women — proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.

A new «independent issues advocacy group» backed by Michael Sacks will launch a campaign to tell Chicago about how schools are getting better.

Whenever I got yelled at by a client or boss or had to travel thousands of miles for a one hour long meeting, I'd remember back to my high school days and smile.

Getting kids into school isn't enough to solve illiteracy so Rotary focuses on improving education by training and mentoring teachers.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

If you pay attention to what you learn in Sunday School, and not get brainwashed by a racist society, this would not be a debate.

Well, Morgan, on the way you might want to stop by every local Jr High School to so you may get a basic grasp on the proper use of the English language while you're at it.

What they mean by that is they want to get a graduate degree and get a position as a professor in a school.

PS: I blew the whistle on atrocities in Viet Nam where USA forces murdered 2 million people and was attacked by our side and I had to hide for 10 years before I was able to get into medical school.

@this lady, The whole debate is about this only — the Christians are trying to get a backdoor entry into public schools by incorporating Creationism into science textbooks!

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

(For the record: I got 9 out of 10: I would fully expect to be cuffed by the local police if I brought out a Bible in a public school classroom for any reason.

One of the main tasks of the school is competent vocational guidance, which is governed primarily not by the principle of helping the student prepare for and get the position he wants, but by the objective of teaching students to know their own abilities and the nature of their society and persuading and inspiring them to devote their energies to the tasks that most urgently need to be done.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

The US is quick to jump on Iran or Pakitan, but in those countries women can: Go to School (including university), Get a job, Vote, Drive Cars, DO NOT have to wear a Burka (hijabs are RECOMMENDED NOT ENFOCED), do not have to be accompanied by a male reletive.

However, I'm 36, and grew up in the last generation of High School students who had to get updates and spread gossip the old - fashioned way — by a locker, between classes.

They were eager to get their sons and daughters into schools and colleges and thereby into the jobs being created by «privatization,» «deregulation» and «liberalization.»

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

I had gotten a law school education by osmosis, and one of the first things law students learn is «Never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer.»