Sentences with phrase «held at a high standard»

They have more freedom to follow their own curriculum because they operate independently from the state's preexisting school system Wisconsin charter schools are held at a higher standard in order to maintain funding.

Because of this, their curriculum is held at a higher standard than public schools within the district.

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«Brands are being held to a higher standard than they have been in the past,» Mimi Chakravorti, executive director of strategy at the brand - consulting firm Landor, told Morning Consult.

«When I was the owner of the Tim Hortons chain, I held myself and my employees to the highest standards,» he said at the event announcing his gift.

We will only accomplish this goal by ensuring that we (the employees and contractors at Coinbase) all hold ourselves to a high standard of conduct.

According to a recent national survey commissioned by the Business Council of Canada and conducted by Ipsos, Canadians themselves are nearly unanimous in wanting to see this country's companies held to the highest ethical standards, both at home and abroad (93 per cent agree).

You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.

The citizens of all surrounding towns use them for hunting, protection, and recreation, they hold safety to the highest standard, even accidentally pointing it at someone while picking it up will result in immediate punishment from parents, and they are locked away after use.

The problem with most people is that we hold ministers at a higher standard on every little thing; they are human just like we are.

At the core of the problem is this — You hold your moral standard higher than God's truth revealed in the Bible.

«In reviewing our long - standing U.S. business in the wake of the many changes taking place, I felt that it was time to find our way back to a more traditional import partner who placed a strong emphasis on personalized relationships, who held professionalism to the highest level and who was committed to the highest standard of brand and people management possible,» commented Philippe Colin, Proprietor and Winemaker at Domaine Philippe Colin.

As a team of employee - owners, we hold each other to a high standard and expect politeness, kindness, and understanding to be presented to our customers at all times.

Used to think he was angry at other team mates, but I think he holds himself to such a high standard he's mad at himself.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

He held himself to a higher standard than anybody else and one can only imagine the torment he will have felt in the first year of hearing that dirge gleefully caterwauled at every game.

Even with Messi on the pitch, Barcelona weren't playing at their usually high standards and Sevilla found it all too easy to hold on to the ball.

Our representatives in elected office can and should be held to a higher standard — especially at a time when the Legislature's ethics are being questioned and the confidence of their constituents being undermined.

After the assemblyman quit, the governor stated: «Our representatives in elected office can and should be held to a higher standard — especially at a time when the Legislature's ethics are being questioned and the confidence of their constituents being undermined.»

«We're going to hold every one of the principals to the same kind of standards that our precinct commanders are held to via CompStat,» Mr. de Blasio said today at Richmond Hill High School.

«As New York City finalizes its own evaluation agreement, we implore our leaders to be just as vigilant and ensure that it too will be held to the highest standards so as to give our students the best chance at a quality education.»

«There is a troubling view taking hold that to set high standards and achieve good outcomes, we must rely on a closed, top - down model of government,» Stringer told the packed house at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown.

Students at P.S. 122Q are held to high standards, for as long as they excel within the G&T curriculum, they should be able to pursue the K - 8 education at the school.

Although I complied with the law at all times, I consider that as immigration minister, who is taking legislation through Parliament which will toughen up our immigration laws, I should hold myself to a higher standard than expected of others.

But at the same time, black teachers hold black students to a higher standard of behavior than do their white counterparts, the researchers found.

Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid testimony from eyewitnesses and participants, the film uncovers an inescapable link between the tragic incidents that unfolded in Bagram and the policies made at the very highest level of the United States government in Washington, D.C. Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney's film reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold.

(For high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every year.)

A school community that holds itself to high standards must risk such everlasting debate among, at the very least, the adults in charge and ideally all members of the community.

For those schools blessed with high - performing students (as a result of learning either at home or in earlier grades), the proficiency standard to which they are held accountable is often much too low.

To state what should be obvious but doesn't seem to be: When it comes to attendance, we should probably hold teachers to a higher standard than we hold at - risk teens.

«Educators are being held at such a high - stakes level with testing, MCAS [state standards - based assessment], and growth models.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

The report notes that changes in the proportion of students ranked «proficient» at the state level did not hold up once scaled to higher national standards.

AVID is not just another program... at its heart, AVID is a philosophy» Hold scholars accountable to the highest standards, provide academic and social support, and they will rise to the challenge»

Shelby Richardson, a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, tells StateImpact it's difficult because educators want to hold students to the same, high standards while also allowing them to pursue individual interests:

Teachers at charter schools often «burn out» due to the longer hours and higher levels of stress due to the higher standards they are held too.

Parent Llury Garcia at Weigand Elementary in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles — where the principal has been ousted and 21 teachers subsequently asked for transfers — hopes her 8 - year - old daughter will become a better reader and be held to higher standards.

However, CPS» system will hold student performance at a higher standard of 50 percent student growth measures with the remaining 50 percent based on principal practice.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

At Thinkster, we hold our online math tutors to the highest teaching standards.

Martin Ackley, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Education, said the state believes that all children can achieve at high levels and that students should be held to the same high standards.

The secret to 21st Centurys success is two-fold: the school holds students to a high standard and it utilizes the community college resources in the city rather than offering expensive advanced coursework at its own school.

While the slightly more buttoned - down Speed predictably held the line a bit better under pressure and sounded a bit meaner when we put our flying spur into it, the standard - spec Mulsanne performed more than admirably at high speeds as well.

Quality, options and care: These are just three of the many qualities that we hold to an incredibly high standard here at Fields Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM and we know that those are just some of the qualities that many car buyers are looking for.

The Corniche III was - and still is - hold in high esteem because this motor car reflected in every detail that Mulliner Park Ward's craftsmen at the Hythe Road factory in Willesden in London had attained a standard of perfection second to none.

«With a 7:08.679 lap time, we can authoritatively say that the Nissan GT - R Nismo * holds the volume production car lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschliefe, which is the gold standard of high performance achievement.»

According to an article for Pacific - Standard, Hilary A Hallett revealed that more men than ever are reading erotica, and that 42 % of romance fans have at least a bachelor's degree, which is higher than the average of 30 % of women nationally who hold the college degree.

In my opinion, those mainstream books should be held to the higher standard because, as you say, so many people look at them.

At B.R.A.G. MedallionTM, we hold indie authors to a higher standard: The decision to honor a self - published book must be unanimous among the group of our readers who review it.

Because MI selection is currently handled by the lender as part of the primary market process, the IMAGIN program sets a precedent of allowing the GSEs to participate in primary market activities while also putting the taxpayer at greater risk by circumventing the high capital and regulatory standards that MIs are held to today.

We hold our standards high at keeping this percentage, and in doing so, we ask our rescue partners and citizens to help us pursue finding our animals forever homes.