Sentences with phrase «late opening of schools»

The financial improprieties were only one of a long string of misjudgments and crises, which included the hiring of a 26 - year - old insurance salesman with no college degree or education experience to establish a school for troubled teenagers; the withdrawal of a $ 14.5 million National Science Foundation grant; and the late opening of schools due to fire - code violations.

Not exact matches

By the end of the day Johnson and Bergh had agreed to open 700 similar Levi's boutiques inside Penneys in time for the back - to - school season in 2012 — less than a year later.

For example, here's a story about a business that used the weather as a reason to create a relevant marketing message: I happened to learn that my kids» schools were opening late because of a snowstorm a few weeks ago from the Twitter account of a car wash in town.

In the late summer, the group threatened violence should the school open, and, assuming that the generally quiet modern - Orthodox community would continue its pattern of political passivity, the mayor decided that the school should relocate.

It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

As an attempt to reach out to the Pope and other Christian leaders in order to find common ground, made on behalf of all the main Islamic schools, this latest open letter is unique in the history of Islam.

Whether these efforts provided the centripetal force for a new «school» per se is open to various modes of interpretation, but the attention to the Whiteheadian system and its many implications, to interdisciplinary routes of inquiry, to the latest insights from the emerging sciences, and to process - relational modes of thinking identified Chicago with a progressivism and excitement in theological study which many found appealing.

My mother - in - law worked in school nutrition as a manager, and she knew of someone who had an opening, so I started out as a substitute and was hired at that same school about two months later.

«We spend $ 22 billion on the New York City public school system, so to say we aren't devoting resources is ridiculous,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at Washington Irving High School later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cschool system, so to say we aren't devoting resources is ridiculous,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at Washington Irving High School later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cSchool later Tuesday, where he celebrated the opening of 54 new schools in the coming school year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been cschool year, 19 of which will replace schools that have been closed.

SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a.38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

She has repeatedly accused de Blasio and city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña of being late to approve deals concerning her network, and has threatened de Blasio administration staffers with press conferences and open letters when she perceived that City Hall was dragging its feet in finding space for her growing charter network.

More recently, public debate over the circulation of guns in Westchester reignited after a gun store opened in Harrison less than 1,000 feet from an elementary school late last year, spurring a torrent of backlash from residents, and an online petition garnering 3,500 signatures.

Dr Marco Andreoli, a Research Fellow at the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a member of the Hypatia research team says, «When Hypatia was first found to be extraterrestrial, it was a sensation, but these latest results are opening up even bigger questions about its origins.»

There are serious «back to school» vibes in the office, so this week we bring you a bumper crop of the latest beauty launches and openings.

Her school, opened in the late 50's, provided real movement training for all genders and ages, with the expectation of hard work and self respect.

The Gifted doesn't really need to provide an elaborate reason why teenager Lauren Strucker (Natalie Alyn Lind) and her brother Andy (Percy Hynes White) aren't approached by Xavier or his associates in the opening moments of the series; surely the School for Gifted Youngsters doesn't catch every single young mutant before it's too late.

In the opening scenes, her father exits the home in a torrent of violence and vulgarity, and her newly single Mom later accepts the offer of a scholarship at the local parochial school for her daughter.

In the latest installment of this superhero franchise, Andrew Garfield stars as Peter Parker, who's just trying to figure out his way through high school adolescence when a discovery about the disappearance of his parents changes his world and opens the door to uncertainty and an unexpected destiny.

Later, we hear sounds of voices coming from an open window and we are taken into a school room that contains a class of young children, anticipating director Nicolas Philibert's 2002 film Être et avoir (To Be and to Have).

Opening in the late 1980s, senior Mike O'Donnell (played as a teenager by Zac Efron) is the basketball star of his Los Angeles high school.

The film opens with the audacious birth of Oscar Wilde, who drops from the heavens from a flying saucer and later declares while attending boy's school that he'd like to be a pop idol when he grows up.

She might be crazy, or she might be prophetic, as her series of numbers is put into a time vault at her school to be opened 50 years later.

However, it did not deny the right of the state to oversee the education of its citizens, leaving open the question as to just how much regulation could be imposed on private schools — or, later, on homeschoolers.

Like Catholics, German Lutherans were not welcomed with open arms into the growing public schooling movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so they turned to establishing their own schools.

Ryan says although some working parents find the later school hours difficult, there is still the option of getting to school early because the grounds open at 9 am for students to catch up on work or spend time with friends before lessons.

While SEED - SCALE has been an influence for much of the work by the Taylor family, it has also been a «guiding process» behind the latest venture, University of the World (UOW), which aims to globalize higher education by opening opportunities to the world's most underutilized asset — the 100 million secondary school graduates not attending college.

It's a legitimate concern, and one I share... the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

Schools in the nation's capital will open late for the third time in four years, triggering questions about whether the retired Army general hired to overcome the system's past management woes will offer more of the same.

* This lack of synchrony leads to bizarre situations, such as an arts - keen kid finding a program that's right for him at one level but only in science, or maybe nothing, at the next level and youngsters welcomed into «gifted» program as late as ninth grade who find no openings in suitable high schools starting in tenth.

Charter teachers work longer hours because their schools stay open later, and some ask teachers to be at the other end of a phone when students are stuck on a homework problem.

Nearly two years later, on August 28, 2006, the United for Success Academy opened in one section of the old Calvin Simmons Middle School.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

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Knowledge - based schooling puts the emphasis of early education on teaching and learning an enabling core of broadly shared knowledge — enabling because it builds strong foundations for later learning and opens doors to effective participation and mutual understanding in the wider society.

But I can also imagine that the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

It featured an essay by Clay Christensen and Michael Horn (C&H) that anticipated a full - length account of the best way to disrupt a classroom, opened its forum to Terry Moe and John Chubb (M&C), who made a case later fleshed out in Liberating Learning, and ran an excerpt from my Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning.

The charter schools are opening following the passage of a law late last year that gradually lifts the cap on these alternative public schools.

Almost one hundred years later, open plans embodied the post-Summerhill, free - school yearning of 1960s educators.

She held the position of Executive Director of a Sylvan Learning Center, opened an alternative 6th - 12th school in Okaloosa County, FL, and later was actively engaged in Florida high school redesign and career education reform, providing technical assistance across the state.

In a letter dated May 3, dozens of advocacy groups asked Brown to recommit to closing the academic achievement gap for high - need students as he considers an opening on the State Board of Education and a new plan for measuring school performance later this year.

ECC's current plans are for an initial pilot involving a small group of schools rated «good» or «outstanding» by Ofsted, with a view to opening membership to all schools in the county later on.

The latest round of the Race to the Top grant competition will be open to school districts for offering more personalized instruction for students.

Preparatoria Iberoamericana University (Prepa Ibero), a Jesuit high school located in Mexico City, opened in 2010, and one year later became the first international member of the Innovative Schools Network.

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Liberation is smaller than many of the small schools that have opened under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with only 189 students and 10 teachers in 2011, according to the latest data published by the state education department.

This is the latest evidence of performance improvement at the controversial school, which had a tumultuous existence in the first few years after it opened in 2012.

In a small proportion of cases, we agree with the school's proposers that the school should open later than they had originally planned.

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The recent release of When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program elicited strong reactions from proponents of after - school programs.

Although overshadowed by more spectacular conflicts over desegregation, community control, and open schooling, the movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s generated more than 70 state laws seeking to create educational accountability and hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and books about how to create more efficient and accountable educational systems.