Sentences with phrase «into school affairs»

Don't let the mayor or aldermen sink their grubby mitts into school affairs.

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No doubt when Gordon Brown selected Sir Thomas, 74, to conduct an audit of MPs» expenses since 2004, he was hoping for something in the same whitewash brushstrokes as his earlier inquiry into the arms to Sierra Leone affair, which was an exquisite example of the British «nothing - to - see - here» school.

But the Department of Education plans to move a high school without specialized admissions requirements from elsewhere in Manhattan into the space instead, said Lenny Speiller, the DOE's executive director of public affairs.

NYMC learned of the court documents as a result of an inquiry by ScienceInsider, and a public affairs representative said the school would look into the matter.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Insaffairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental InsAffairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Adapting a short - story collection by James Franco, Coppola preserves the episodic structure of the book, allowing her camera to move among the characters with a breezy sense of freedom: April (Emma Roberts), the intelligent yet vulnerable good - girl lured into an affair with her charismatic but creepy soccer coach, Mr. B. (played by Franco); Teddy (Jack Kilmer) who's in trouble with the law and in love with April; Fred (Nat Wolffe), Teddy's cocky, bad - influence sidekick; and Emily (Zoe Levin), the profoundly sad school slut who freely dispenses blow jobs in place of genuine connection.

Writer - director Hannah Fidell's debut feature, A Teacher, tells the story of a high school teacher who enters into a sordid love affair with her underage student.

«They know that going into high school, if they perform at this particular level at this GPA and class rank, they can get into the University of Colorado guaranteed,» said Jack O. Burns, the university's vice president for academic affairs and research.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

How These Students Got into Every Ivy League School (CNN) Professor Nancy Hill discusses how academic success can be a family affair.

An investigation into an education trust and one of its schools, involved in the «Trojan horse» affair, has found no evidence of fraud.

High - quality early education has a strong, positive impact well into adulthood, according to research led by Arthur Reynolds, co-director of the Human Capital Research Collaborative and professor of child development, and Judy Temple, a professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

The following statement was issued directly to press by Claire McCarthy, Director of Public Affairs at Cooper Union, at 1:35 PM this afternoon — just 35 minutes into a rally organized by current students in support of «deferred» applicants to the School of Art.

Then there are the governmental costs; a lack of local lawyers means that small town governments and public entities (school boards, county commissioners, etc.) must pay outside lawyers to travel into town to handle local affairs.

In this edition of the Boston University School of Law podcast, host and media veteran, Dan Rea of WBZ - Radio 1030 welcomes Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor Ward Farnsworth, to discuss his ongoing research into the role of politics and judicial philosophy in legal interpretation at the Supreme Court.

«This Government has established three clear priorities in Indigenous Affairs; getting children to school, adults into work and ensuring communities are safe.»