Sentences with phrase «last school year because»

Specifically, we asked youth to tell us if they had stayed home from school at any time during the last school year because they were being (1) bullied at school or (2) bullied online.

Victoria Olvera, a junior at the school, said Cruz was expelled last school year because he got into a fight with his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.

I started doing this last school year because the kids were always hungry at pick up time.

District Supt. Rosemarie Carroll said Aramark expects to make an additional 2.5 percent from the total contract than it did during the last school year because it projects higher sales of a la carte items.

Not exact matches

Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

«Because of the recent events, not just this year but even the last few years, all school districts I think are forced to be prepared for that,» Daggett says.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

Because I want to see them «one last time» before the craziness of the school year starts.

So when said husband encouraged me to go on a health and wellness retreat last week, I frantically packed my bags before he could change his mind and ran out the door (OK that's not true, I argued with him about the what, when, where for each kid and the logistics of leaving a 9 month old who's nursing around the clock and a 9 year old who's out of school for weeks because her teachers are on a strike that seems like it will never end.

The Children's Miracle Network Classic — or the Disney, as Tour players have always called it because the tournament is played on the Magnolia and Palm courses at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — is the last official Tour stop of the year and the place where harsh reality is doled out right next to Fantasyland: Finish outside the top 125 on the seasonlong money list, and you're going back to dreaded qualifying school, the Nationwide tour or worse.

It's been a weird couple of weeks, I've been feeling quite sad that my littlest is now half way through Year R and a little unsure about what to do with myself, which is odd because every second of every day is completely full, it's not that I'm bored, it's more a restlessness, an unsettled what do I do now feeling... last Monday I spent the day in school with Hannah in Year R, it was a lovely insight into her school life, but again I came away a little sad.

I was holding a 6354 dollar check to give him at his work gate Christmas day with the first vacation that any one knew of since his sophmore year of high school He had been violent the last eleven years the last Christmas in 2008 forcing two men out of the back of his fathers car at 45 mph on asphalt trying to get him into work and choking his father unconsious with another man hitting on the hood of the car from inside, He was just not being in the least cooperative with any thing he had not since 2001, Things were deadly by that point all because he wanted it his way.

Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ last year, or the small restaurant operator and local school superintendent this year — is easier and less risky than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....

Naper Settlement educators first offered a holiday day - care program two years ago, but they skipped last year because the school vacation calendar wasn't conducive to scheduling the program, Bucksath said.

When I told my son last night we were having a snow day because of the blizzard, he jumped up and down cheering and all my local pals and I chatted on Facebook about our snow day plans, just like high school years ago!

A gym teacher is now suing the park district, Schneider said, because a parks supervisor allegedly had him unlawfully arrested after the two disagreed over use of a soda vending machine at a school dance last year.

Last school year, Neuqua Valley moved girls soccer games to North Central College in Naperville because of the condition of the field at Neuqua, Barrows said.

According to the Times, last year an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the ammonia - treated beef was used in the National School Lunch Program, in part because — big surprise — it's cheaper than other ground beef.

The second is Lake Park High School District 108, which has told park officials that this will be the last year the Park District can use the school's fields on the west campus because of renovations slated for nextSchool District 108, which has told park officials that this will be the last year the Park District can use the school's fields on the west campus because of renovations slated for nextschool's fields on the west campus because of renovations slated for next year.

Last year, I was literally bouncing from store to store the night before school started because I thought my son would still... [Read more...]

In a Facebook post last year, Loeb said Stewart - Cousins has done «more damage to people of color than anyone who ever donned a hood» because of her support for public school teachers union.

In papers submitted by the UK Government last year in the case and seen by the BHA, the Government attempted to argue that there is no breach of EU law because «if a teacher brought a claim against a school (on the basis that the school, as an employer, had discriminated against them in their remuneration, for example), then the court or tribunal would consider the legislation in this wider context.

This is because 96 percent of the state's teachers were rated effective last year but only 38 percent of high school graduates were deemed college - ready.

Klug said Wadleigh's middle school students didn't have physical education last year and lost their only guidance counselor and math coach because of budget cuts.

«So, in the last 5 years, before my government came, every year, over 100,000 young Ghanaian students were unable to transition from Junior High School to Senior High School, largely because of money.

StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis is calling on the Mayor to issue an immediate retraction of those comments saying quote: «Last night Mayor de Blasio claimed that closing failing schools doesn't work because it «left kids in the lurch in all those transition years and a lot of those schools were not necessarily better.»

The Utica City School District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak EnSchool District settled a lawsuit over its treatment of young refugees, who, the suit filed last year by NYCLU charged, were being excluded from the city's lone high school because of their age and because they did not speak Enschool because of their age and because they did not speak English.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

The state's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams because they will be different than last year's tests.

«I believe also that this particular special edition is going to go down as a historic edition and I don't want to miss that point because it's something that we must be able to put in all our institutions so like I said we are going to get many copies to be able to give to embassies, our hotels, our schools, our libraries, all our institutions, in the secondary schools and also to be able to keep for those yet unborn to be able to see in pictorial form of the things we have tried to do in the last 50 years and maybe inspire some other people to do greater things than what has been recorded here,» the Governor said.

Bing said he got involved in the issue during last year's budget process when his community school district seemed about to lose 19 percent of its teachers because of layoffs.

In New York City, the achievement gains of the last 15 years were possible only because there was room «for the leadership of the school system to act and to make change and to not be sort of negotiating those changes with dozens of local boards or even the central board,» he said.

Here's the six school districts in Onondaga County that lost the most aid in last year's state budget because of GEA reductions.

The Liverpool Central School District had its state aid reduced by $ 2.3 million last year because of this state budget trick.

Cuomo seemed to have shifted left in 2013, when he included a high - volume plea for gun control after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and proposed a 10 - point Women's Equality Agenda that stirred two years of controversy — and electoral sniping last year — because of proposed changes to the abortion statute.

Spano, a Democrat who campaigned for mayoral control last year and even convinced the Senate majority conference to include the change in its state budget proposal, said the issue isn't as urgent for him now because the city recently merged some of its administrative offices with the school board.

New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.

Those victories were made possible because throughout these last four years, the UFT held true to what we knew schools and teachers needed to succeed.

Grace Kipesa, a local resident who plans to supply biomass to the plant, told Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper last year that the onetime nuisance species has become «a blessing» because «it is now enabling us to pay school fees and settle bills with ease, while our villages get lit up.»

Although the ID debate was not an issue in most congressional races, voters may have punished Santorum because the once - vocal ID supporter tried to distance himself from the movement after a federal judge struck down an attempt last year by the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board to insert ID into the curriculum.

Keyonta missed dozens of school days last year because of his illness, staying home so often that Summerville had to quit her cooking job to care for him.

On the other hand, it is completely terrifying because school has been a huge part of my life for the last 16 years.

I was a swimmer in high school last year but now in college I just workout on my own and was looking for a super intense calisthenics workout because it seems to me weightlifting is hard to make more intense w / o risking injury.

It was bittersweet because it is her last year at that school.

This year the first day of school is especially meaningful to me because if everything goes as it is supposed to... it's my last first day of school.

She is really looking forward to that because there are outfits and clothing that we had purchased last school year that she wasn't able to wear because she had outgrown them due to not being able to wear them to school.

As some of you might know I started this DIY «Project Re-Design» collaboration with bloggers on monthly basis last year but I had to put it on pause because I got very busy with being full time in school as well as working part time and having to complete a part time internship.

I think the best part of being an actor is that to me it feels like I've been in the best film school for the last twenty years because not only do I see the director work on set, I see how the producers work, I see how the DPs work, I see how the gaffers work, I see how the costume department works, I see how the production office works.