Sentences with phrase «highest pta»

The Bleecker Street release actually had the second highest PTA overall at $ 7,417.

Fox Searchlight's The Revenant by Alejandro González Iñárritu had the highest PTA of 2015, slightly outpacing with a $ 118,640 PTA in its debut in four theaters Christmas day.

Fang had the highest PTA among all reporting titles as of early Sunday afternoon, snatching $ 15,285 over the weekend, placing its average just behind Bateman's first feature Bad Words.

Last weekend, Sony Classics» The Seagull took the highest PTA among new specialties and it topped other limited releases also in their second frames.

The No. 2 title was Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name, which opened last weekend with the year's highest PTA.

The feature, starring Andie MacDowell and Chris O'Dowd, grossed $ 11,263, which gave it the second - highest PTA of the weekend as of Sunday... Read

Its re-entry in theaters actually gave it the weekend's highest PTA among all movies reporting box office Sunday at $ 12,411 ($ 24,822 gross).

Among newcomers, Zeitgeist's Theo Who Lived and The Orchard's Blue Jay technically had the highest PTAs, though they landed at just $ 5,539 and $ 5,235 respectively.

Not exact matches

Actively work to position the PTA and other high - level legislation to be more accommodating of innovative transportation models and the sharing economy.

When you've just run into the PTA president, your pastor's wife, or your high school arch enemy.)

Last week the Wentworth Junior High School PTA began a program to educate parents about gangs.

But the mix - ups made a mockery of the process, charged Michelle Gebrail of Queens, who serves as president of the Citywide Council on High Schools, a group of high - school PTA leadHigh Schools, a group of high - school PTA leadhigh - school PTA leaders.

The Parents Teachers Association (PTA), of the Tsito - Awudome Senior High School (AWUSCO), in the Volta Region, have explained that the decision to levy students despite the implementation of government's Free Senior High School Policy was a collective resolve by parents to support the school's efforts to enhance the academic performance of students.

Two days before he stepped down, PTA members at a school board meeting at the Saunders Trades and Technical High School asked that Superintendent Michael Yazurlo be given a contract extension.

She has served as PTA president for Castle Park High School and as a founding member of the Stonewalls Democratic Club, the San Joaquin Democratic Club, the Mong Democratic Club, the Chicano / Latino Caucus, and the Fresno Democratic Latino Club.

The forum, co-sponsored by the Albany City Council PTA and Citizen Action of New York, will be from 7 - 9 p.m. in the High School auditorium.

And when PTA decides to reteam with his There Will Be Blood star, Daniel Day - Lewis (here playing a controlling London fashion designer in what's rumored to be his final performance), the stakes couldn't be higher.

Amazon / Roadside Attractions» joint release of Jane Austen period drama Love & Friendship also scored in several locations Friday to Sunday with a $ 33,187 PTA, also one of the year's highest.

Any film listed in the same filmography as Magnolia and There Will Be Blood has a high standard to live up to; however, Vice doesn't share too much in common with PTA's most notable works, aside from its California setting.

Chile's Best Foreign Language winner A Fantastic Woman played 77 additional locations this weekend, taking in $ 287,277 in 166 theaters, averaging $ 1,731, which is actually a bit higher than the title's $ 1,688 PTA last weekend in 89 theaters.

One of PTA's best or did PTA get too high on his own supply?

Such incisive moments, though, are subordinate to the filmmakers» penchant toward deck - stacking caricature, most noxiously the character of Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate), a villainous PTA president who's so invested in her high position that she, as part of the election platform she articulates when a fed - up Amy eventually challenges her presidency, seriously advocates for a 365 - day school year, citing Genghis Khan as a model.

Harrowgate's solution was to initiate the Parent Partners Program that awards points to guardians for participating in different school events: parent - teacher conferences, PTA meetings, classroom service, any of the 40 yearly workshops, etc. «Parents responded to these new opportunities, making high parent involvement an embedded part of our culture,» writes Linda Wood, Harrowgate Elementary School Principal, in NAESP's Best from the Best.

Dianne Payne, an adoptive mother and a PTA president from Queens, asked the judge overseeing the state's 13 - year - old school finance case for $ 26,000 to remove two of her five children from what she considers inadequate public high schools and place them in private schools, where she contends schooling is better.

Among the nine task force members Mr. Christie named on Oct. 28 are a local schools superintendent, a high school PTA officer, a charter school principal, and a school choice activist.

In a service project for Northwest Classen High School's PTA, Norfar's students used algebra to analyze local cell phone plans to determine the best value.

Furthermore, schools have reported fantastic takings as a result of printed cards, making the low - input, high - outcome scheme a particular favourite with PTAs.

National PTA President Jim Accomando issued this statement on the shooting at the California high school.

· Tennessee PTA supports higher education as priority in the State — The «Drive for 55» highlights the gap between high school and post-secondary education within the state.

Unfortunately, we could not locate financial data for every PTA, so we could not identify PTA revenues for all of the most affluent and highest - poverty schools.51 Based on available information, however, we expect that, with more financial information, the total PTA revenue for the most affluent schools would be even higher, and students at the highest - poverty schools still would receive minimal parent contributions.

By and large, the nation's wealthiest PTAs are found in high - income school districts or in high - income schools within lower - income districts.

Mark recently served three years as president of the city - wide PTA in Albany, which is a small district with a high poverty rate, and more charter schools per capita than any other district in the state.

CAP identified affluent PTAs in Beverly Hills and New York City, as well as in high - poverty districts such as Oakland, California, where three - fourths of students are low - income.

She has held numerous leadership positions within Palm Beach County School District, the 11th largest district in the nation, was PTA President for four years, School Advisory Council Board Member for 8 years, District Business Partner liaison, and currently serves as Chair of the Boca Raton High School Advisory Council.

In both districts, schools serving the most affluent students received tens of thousands of dollars in additional funding each year from parents, while the highest - poverty schools received very little, if anything, from their PTAs.

Given that financial data was not available for every PTA, we could not identify PTA revenues for every one of the top 10 or bottom 10 schools.63 With more financial information, it is likely that overall PTA revenues for the most affluent schools would be even higher.

The National PTA engaged SoundOut in designing a program focused on engaging high school and college students as education policy advocates.

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In affluent and high - performing schools, PTA parents — with booster club money, political clout and enough free time — will march into the principal's office, file petitions with the district and protest until someone does something about a poorly performing teacher.

As president of New Jersey PTA, Acerra led efforts to include cameras on school bus extension arms to deter cars from speeding past; create a fairer state education funding formula; and require higher academic standards for all students across the state.

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The awards are the highest honor National PTA presents to effective family engagement.

The Reflections 50th Grant supports local PTAs offering high quality arts education activities.

Local efforts to reduce the negative effects of high - stakes testing are thus right in line with national PTA policy.

However, the National PTA has officially taken a strong stand against high - stakes testing.

The umbrella organization, which had been in existence since the 1870s, was a loose affiliation of interest groups and associations including TCTA, Elementary School Principals and Supervisors (now TEPSA), the Parent - Teacher Association (PTA), the Texas State Physical Education Association (now TAHPERD), the State Teachers College, a Deans Association, High School Principals and Supervisors (now TASSP), the Interscholastic League, and a Superintendents section.

He has served as student representative with Law Enforcement Officers» Memorial High School PTSA and chair of the Student Involvement Committee for Miami - Dade County Council of PTA / PTSA.

Plaintiffs in the Robles case are the California School Boards Association, the state PTA, the association of California School Administrators, the California Teachers Association, the Youth & Education Law Project at Stanford Law School and 60 individuals, including the lead plaintiff, Maya Robles - Wong, who was a junior at Alameda High School when the suits were filed.

Thornton also served Maryland PTA as nominating leader, board development committee chairman, and as a member of Anne Arundel County's Superintendent High Performing High School Task Force.