Sentences with phrase «into local high schools»

Here I am, still wholesaling tea, but I've taken my restaurant & youth teaching experiences into a local high school as their culinary arts «vocational» educator.

In elementary school, he had learned to play the trumpet, and even at that young age, he managed to syncopate his way into the local high school marching band.

Not exact matches

Standing on a stage set up on a high school football field, Rutan and Paul Allen, the multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder who has sunk some $ 25 million into SpaceShipOne, struggled with the kitchen - table - size ceremonial check as some 600 local space fanatics cheered lustily.

The two met as teenagers, riding the bus to their high school in Montreal's South Shore, and almost immediately went into business together designing websites for local schools.

The girls» high school golf season will ramp up immediately when school starts in August, allowing some of the local junior golfers the opportunity to carry the momentum of elite competition from the summer into league and section play.

Once upon a time Italians, Poles, Germans, Lithuanians and Croats turned Omaha's south side into the meat - producing capital of the world and lent the local high school its nickname.

In addition to the Tri-Valley Elite WC, the staff is committed to coaching at the local middle schools that feed into Granada High School as well.

The USDA holds Wansink's ideas in such high esteem that his Smarter Lunchroom Initiative has even been woven into federal regulations: the new federal rule on local wellness policies specifically informs school districts that

Since moving into private practice, I have been applying this approach to working with individuals, local high schools and youth sports programs.

Load the kids into the car and drive to the track at your local high school in the evening or on the weekend when it's empty.

There aren't a bunch of Waverlys slamming lockers shut at the local high school or bumping into each other at story time at the library.

The New York City Community Schools initiative, a central aim of the de Blasio administration, seeks to transform local schools in high - needs areas into central community hubs, in which personalized instruction, family involvement, and community partnerships are priorSchools initiative, a central aim of the de Blasio administration, seeks to transform local schools in high - needs areas into central community hubs, in which personalized instruction, family involvement, and community partnerships are priorschools in high - needs areas into central community hubs, in which personalized instruction, family involvement, and community partnerships are prioritized.

And instead of beating up on local governments for high property taxes, the state should bring school districts, the chief driver of escalating property taxes, into the conversation when it comes to sharing services.

The moment Nikolas Cruz was taken into custody by local law enforcement after killing 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Fla..

I was at the local grocery store today and one of my high school buddies ran into me at the store we started catching up on some things and seeing how life has been since school and after I told him about my weight loss journey he then went on to make a statement about him losing weight by lifting weights.

There were three Catholic grade schools that fed into the one local Catholic high school, and since that high school and my high school were rivals, in middle school we considered all of those grade schools to be our «rival.»

But when his girlfriend (Diane Venora), a teacher at the local high school, is assaulted after a gang leader threatens her, Berenger decides to take matters into his own hands.

Pippa Bianco / Share (U.S.A.): In this cyber thriller, a disturbing video — leaked from a local high school — throws a Long Island community into chaos and the national spotlight as they try to unravel the story behind it.

What started as a high school student's idea to create a greenhouse for a retirement home in Bozeman evolved into a mobile classroom that visits local elementary schools that want gardens but can't afford them.

turns high school students in Arizona and Montana into local historians.

For instance, the manager of the local general store had problems handling his Web site, so he and a teacher at the high school got together and decided it would be a good idea for the kids to help with the store's Web marketing, and they moved into the basement of the store.

The school district in Anne Arundel County, Md., this spring entered into what appears to be a unique contract with the local teachers» union over struggling Annapolis High School: Teachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three school district in Anne Arundel County, Md., this spring entered into what appears to be a unique contract with the local teachers» union over struggling Annapolis High School: Teachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three School: Teachers will work year - round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three school for three years.

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.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

That means that parents in areas of high demand can't get their kid into a local school.»

There will be many outstanding schools in areas with a high proportion of underperforming schools that would rightly be outraged if they were forced into academisation for the sin of being located in a such a local authority area.

1973 — A complete tax base equalization program is enacted that provides a much higher appropriation of equalization aid to relieve local property taxes; discontinues general flat aids; institutes a power equalizing program providing for «negative aids»; and separates the shared cost into primary and secondary levels with a two - level system of state aid in which school costs which exceed the statutory ceiling of aidable costs are supported at a lower level of state aid to serve as a disincentive to high levels of spending.

The centerpiece of Brown's plan is the Local Control Funding Formula, which rolls virtually all of the state's current maze of spending on schools into a more simplified block grant system where districts with higher numbers of English learners and students receiving subsidized meals would be provided additional dollars.

Know this: for nearly 30 years, Ms. DeVos has fought for education reform that works — putting students» interests ahead of special interests; supporting rigorous standards that lead to higher outcomes; loosening Washington's grip on local education policy and putting more power into the hands of parents and families; and, expanding access to high - performing schools.

The reauthorization of ESEA would force legislators to make key changes in the law that helps transform public schools into high - quality learning centers by recognizing the shared responsibility among local, state, and federal governments.

And retired principal John Roskosky relates how he worked individualized tutoring into the school day in an El Paso high school, including hiring local university students as tutors.

This could include taking schools away from local authority control, converting them into academies - directly funded by central government - and putting them under the leadership of high - achieving head teachers.

The unprecedented federal intervention into local schools has been welcomed by some cash - strapped states, but it's also meeting resistance from high - achievers like Minnesota and Massachusetts, which wonder whether the second round of Race to the Top is even worth winning.

UPDATE 12:50 p.m.: Two days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Broward School Superintendent Robert Runcie told local reporters that no student will walk back into the building where the shooting took place.

Gov. Jeff Colyer went to a Topeka high school early Tuesday — a performance he planned to repeat later in the day in Wichita — to sign into law a plan to balloon the money sent to local districts by $ 500 million - plus over the next half - decade.

Volunteers deliver hands - on nutrition education, build and tend school gardens, and bring high - quality local food into public school cafeterias.

The Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support (SAILS) program, known as TN SAILS, began as a collaborative effort between a single community college and the local high school, designed to increase the number of students who are college ready in mathematics so that they can enter directly into credit - bearing postsecondary coursework.

«It's going to make it even more difficult simply because these principals know that if they go into these schools, these at - risk schools, high poverty schools, that there is a possibility that the cost of that growth model piece, that is going to affect their salary,» said Amanda Bell, Local Board of Education Advisor.

BEECH GROVE, Ind. — A local high school student is taking school security into her own hands by launching a fundraising effort for her district.

People already are raising concerns that some state officials are too eager to close low - performing schools, expand charters, or intrude into local decision - making — and that schools serving high - poverty communities undoubtedly will feel accountability measures target them for scrutiny.

Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on July 1, 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending decisLocal Control Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending decislocal school districts with more control over spending decisions.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

A lender that gives back to the community: Unlike for - profit banks, proceeds from the EDvestinU Loan Programs go right into supporting local New Hampshire public high schools

I just moved into an apartment in Le Cap d'Agde, a small seaside town in the Languedoc - Roussillon region of south - central France, because I got a job as a teaching assistant at a local high school.

They can be tailored to all ages and all abilities whether this be for a weekly school sport option for our local primary and high schools or for secondary school students studying a subject like Marine Science and a school wants a practical component integrated into the curriculum.

At the AT&T - sponsored event, BGS members were paired up with teams of local middle - and high - school students to help them learn what goes into making a game by creating one with them.

SYC has grown into a national youth environmental coalition with members in all regions of Canada, and local groups operating out of high schools, universities and communities.

When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students to organize a local program to keep drugs out of the environment that may well serve as a model for others across the country.

Built as an extension for a local high school, this new urban space blends into its tree - lined surroundings.