Sentences with phrase «in local high schools found»

Indeed, our own surveys in local high schools found that 70 percent of high school students read books to their brothers, sisters and cousins.

Indeed, our own surveys in local high schools found that 70 percent of high school students read books to their brothers, sisters and cousins.

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We remark the curious fact that just as, thirty years ago, the churches had about succeeded in excising Bach and Palestina from the ken of the new generation at the moment college and high school choirs were finding them — and church schools, afraid of the recondite reaches of the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, beheld their children at school singing «0 Magnum Mysterium» and «Ave, Corpus Verum» — so, too, the preaching fashion, having become in large part the holy branch office of the local psychiatric clinic, is now confronted with «J.B.,» «The Fall,» «Christmas Oratoria,» and the considerable theological imagery in «Four Quartets.»

The fruits and vegetables grown from local farmers contain very high amounts of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients that are not often found in school lunches, providing students with an enormous health advantage to their diet.

According to Gragnani, who was accompanied at the board meeting by his parents, Don and Donna Gragnani, the kids found a spot at Dundee - Crown High School in Carpentersville, but a hostile crowd of local kids forced them to leave, throwing rocks and bottles at them.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

To find an assignor in your area, you will need to either contact the local high school Athletic Director or local IHSA recognized officials association.

State mandated drinking water testing has found high lead levels in eleven local school districts.

«The state considers approximately one third of all districts in the state as high need, and the additional funding will benefit most school districts in the state, especially in the face of a state - imposed 2 percent property tax cap that restricts local revenues,» Moody's found.

With many local businesses struggling to find skilled workers in technical fields, a local assemblyman is pushing legislation that would create a new graduation option for high school students in New York State.

Fed up with the seeming inaction of their local and state government, or in this case the adults, the students of Hoosick Falls High School held an emergency meeting to demand that Governor Cuomo help them find a reliable safe source of drinking water, that did not come in a plastic bottle.

«Our findings present a need for broadening local food opportunities beyond the privileged, higher - income consumer, through alternative payment plans and strategic efforts that make fresh foods accessible to a diversity of people,» said James Farmer, assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies in the IU School of Public Health - Bloomington.

As a young boy (Alex Hibbert), he finds an unlikely friend and makeshift guardian in a local drug dealer (Mahershala Ali) and his wife (Janelle Monáe); as a teen (Ashton Sanders), he faces high school bullies and his first sexual encounter; and finally, as an adult (Trevante Rhodes), he moves north and becomes a drug dealer — but he still can't shake that one encounter on the beach with a friend named Kevin (André Holland).

The local fire service will audit schools in order to ensure compliance — and serious breaches of fire safety legislation can invoke prosecution as a number of high street stores have found to their cost.

By 1996 the virtual fire was beginning to blaze: an experimental WebSchool in Orange County, Florida (a precursor to the Florida Online High School), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.cHigh School), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool), offered online courses to local students; Federal Way School District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool District in Washington State founded the Cyber - School Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool Academy with nearly 50 students (both elementary and secondary); the Concord Virtual High School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.cHigh School (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool (later to be called Virtual High School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.cHigh School) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called ClassSchool) was awarded a $ 7.5 million federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant; and the University of Nebraska — Lincoln was awarded a combination of grants to research and develop Internet - based high - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.chigh - school courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Classschool courses (later marketed by a for - profit enterprise called Class.com).

Besides Finland's 50 - plus «special» high schools (which a local expert says «can just as well be called schools for the gifted and talented»), we found — especially in metropolitan Helsinki — an underground network of families jockeying to get their little ones into primary and middle schools that have impressive track records of high school and university admission.

One possible way forward is through partnerships with local school districts, such as Powderhouse Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts, 1 of 10 recent winners of the XQ: The Super School Project, the $ 10 million high - school redesign competition founded by Laurene Powell Jobs (see «Will the XQ «Super Schools» Live Up to Their Name?&school districts, such as Powderhouse Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts, 1 of 10 recent winners of the XQ: The Super School Project, the $ 10 million high - school redesign competition founded by Laurene Powell Jobs (see «Will the XQ «Super Schools» Live Up to Their Name?&School Project, the $ 10 million high - school redesign competition founded by Laurene Powell Jobs (see «Will the XQ «Super Schools» Live Up to Their Name?&school redesign competition founded by Laurene Powell Jobs (see «Will the XQ «Super Schools» Live Up to Their Name?»

We compared how districts fund schools that are eligible to receive federal Title I dollars with other schools in their grade span — elementary, middle, or high school grades — and found vast disparities throughout the country in how districts spend state and local dollars on Title I schools.

In its second annual survey of top state, county, and city officials» salaries, the national biweekly City & State found that several school chiefs ranked among the highest - paid state and local officials in the countrIn its second annual survey of top state, county, and city officials» salaries, the national biweekly City & State found that several school chiefs ranked among the highest - paid state and local officials in the countrin the country.

The analysis found that the portion of teacher evaluations that local districts solely control is heavily weighted in most Long Island school districts toward ensuring teachers to score high enough to get an overall «effective» rating.

The CSFB alumni survey found scholarship recipients enrolled in college at a higher rate than either the Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local stSchool (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local stschool graduates who were tracked in two local studies.

DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).

Like in many small towns, Kankakee businesses couldn't find the workers to fill local jobs, and the high - performing students in the school district had to seek careers away from home — and sometimes in another state.

This followed an earlier study from the department finding that «many high - poverty schools receive less than their fair share of state and local funding... leav (ing) students in high - poverty schools with fewer resources than schools attended by their wealthier peers.»

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

In our 2018 Local School Finance Study, we found that the ten highest spending counties spent on average $ 3,103 per student compared to $ 739 by the ten lowest spending counties, a gap of $ 2,364 per student.

This doesn't address the other class size challenges in higher grades, and it doesn't provide funding for much needed school construction which many local districts will find a significant challenge.

The 2014 Local School Finance Study, released today, found that in 2012 - 13, the state's ten highest - spending counties spent an average of $ 56,758 more per classroom than the ten lowest - spending counties.

As schools and districts across the country struggled to find high - quality, well - prepared leadership capable of improving learning, a need emerged to identify and support home - grown, innovative ideas generated by local nonprofit and community organizations, and to create new learning networks through which knowledge about improving leadership could spread to others in the field.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

Even more specifically, Boston's charter schools were found to be the highest performers in the country, when compared to local district public schools.

The charter school was founded in 2003 by LASD parents who were determined to have a high - quality public school option for their children following the closure of their local public school.

(Alexandria, Va. — August 23, 2015) In its advance review of the newly - released 47th Annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased to find strong public support for local governance, resistance to vouchers, and high marks for local sSchools, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased to find strong public support for local governance, resistance to vouchers, and high marks for local schoolsschools.

In his late wife's hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high schooIn his late wife's hometown, he finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at the local high schooin at the local high school.

The eldest, Faruk, a dissipated historian, wallows in alcohol as he laments his inability to tell the story of the past from the kaleidoscopic pieces he finds in the local archive; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgün, has yet to discover the real - life consequences of highminded politics; and Metin, a high school nerd, tries to keep up with the lifestyle of his spoiled society schoolmates while he fantasizes about going to America - an unaffordable dream unless he can persuade his grandmother to tear down her house.

And even those of us who live in (or just outside of) major metropolitan areas have only one reliable way to find out that, for example, yard waste collection has been delayed by one week, the local high school's drama club is selling tickets for their latest performance, or what's open and what's closed on a given holiday the local newspaper.

The answer is quite simple: the publisher keeps sending them to us, and we're suckers for anything that brings us back to the high school awesomeness that was finding Flowers in the Attic (plus the rest of the series) in the local library.

You can probably even find the local high school's colors just in time for fall football playoffs.

While you deal with the struggles and pitfalls of being the new kid at the local high school, you also find yourself involved in the quest to solve a series of murders in town.

Ian Lee, an assistant professor at Carleton University's school of business in Ottawa says it won't be easy to find a niche in local, high - quality food, but he maintains that's the way Loblaws will compete successfully against Wal - Mart.

Our school was founded in 2003 by Gary Embree, a local high school driver's education teacher.

Find all you can about the demographics of your area — the number of high schools, the student populations at all levels in local schools and / or school systems, as well as the availability of driver education and driving instruction in those schools.

Back in 2012, Prior likely would have never guessed that within months she'd find herself speaking at a local high school's «career night» But she has no doubt that the volunteer experience helped her develop both professionally and personally.

«Tutor a beginning mechanical engineering student, or find a local high school or non-profit organization that's encouraging interest in science and engineering.»

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If you don't find promising leads that way, contact an employment agency, run an ad in the paper, post a notice at high schools or colleges, or solicit leads through the local real estate licensing school.