Sentences with phrase «less state school»

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Less - well - off people who attend state schools, community colleges, or no college at all are already way behind the entrepreneurship curve before they've even hit their 20s.

The Florida state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school.

Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.

Less than three weeks after the MSD shooting, Schachter stood in a conference room at the Coral Springs Marriott surrounded by 25 school safety experts from across the United States for the inaugural meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission, a personal project that predates the state panel he was appointed to thisschool safety experts from across the United States for the inaugural meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission, a personal project that predates the state panel he was appointed to thisSchool Safety Commission, a personal project that predates the state panel he was appointed to this week.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Students attending faith state schools in England are less likely to be absent from school than pupils... More

The study found that during those three years, only 17 states plus D.C. required some level of background check and in those states, there were 45 percent less school shootings compared to the other states.

I thought college would be different — less confusing — because I elected to go to a private school over a state school.

Only 73 % of county residents graduated from high school, and only 8 % have a college degree, one - third the Tennessee state average and less than one - third the U.S. average of 31 %

Whether larger and less rigorously Catholic state schools would be motivated to find a solution rather than capitulating is more of a worry.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

The story behind Russia's vast success at Squaw Valley was the same as it had been at Cortina: a massive sports program enveloping schools and clubs and labor unions and the military service, state encouragement, frequent outright aid to the specially talented, a fierce desire on the part of the individual to triumph, less for himself or his organization than for Mother Russia.

Puerto Rican schools didn't have an infrastructure that could compete with the high schools and colleges in the contiguous United States, which meant that less talent was getting developed.

After transferring from NC State, the Martins are older prospects with a bit less upside, and are keeping open the option to return to school.

By stiffening the rules against dangerous play in ice hockey and giving referees less discretion in calling penalties, the Minnesota State High School League has taken an important first step to reduce the number of catastrophic injuries in the sport.

Considering this is a school that has a less - than - stellar reputation when it comes to sexual misconduct during the last few years, one would think that Penn State might be a bit more proactive on this front.

And our Big Government - hating new Agriculture Secretary is currently attempting to return deep fat fryers to our schools, an effort which scored big points for him on Fox News but might be a tad less beneficial for the 36 % of kids in my state who are already overweight or obese.

«USDA has continued to show flexibility in implementing these new standards, and Congress should focus on partnering with USDA, states, schools, and parents to help our kids have access to more healthy food, not less.»

Some babies with sensory feeding aversions suck 100 times less frequently during a feeding than typical babies, states Dr. Irene Chatoor, a professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine, as published on the Zero to Three website.

Nearly all of the state's 54 school districts have signed up for the program, and the schools are buying Alaska food they couldn't afford when they received only federal support amounting to less than $ 2 a meal.

Rather, in response to the new federal Smart Snacks rules governing competitive foods and beverages (the snacks and drinks sold to kids during the school day, not the treats given to them in classrooms), our state repealed its own (and far less nutritionally stringent) rules which had been in place since 2004.

State policy now requires schools to have a licensed athletic trainer or lesser - trained first responder on hand at all football practices and games.

(Mr. Moore says in his voiceover in «Where to Invade Next» that although the French school he visits serves scallops and lamb, the chef «spends less per lunch than we do in our schools in the United States.»

School board officials said The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 requires them to change pricing because the law states that schools must charge on average no less for paid student meals than the district receives in federal free meal reimbursement.

There is a long - standing trend within the Parliamentary Conservative Party that privately schooled and Oxbridge educated MPs are more likely to be socially liberal and less Eurosceptic than their state - schooled and non-Oxbridge educated colleagues.

All his experiences have led to a commitment to raise standards in state schools and help children from less privileged backgrounds maximise their potential.

Albany Law School Prof. Vin Bonventre has also been critical of Bharara, writing on his blog: «The United States Attorney owes it to his office, and to the justice system he is entrusted to serve, to conduct himself less like a crusading politician and more like an ethically restrained prosecutor.»

Local school districts are preparing for another tight budget season this year, with minimal state aid increases projected in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tentative spending plan and a cap of less than 2 percent on tax levy growth.

Theresa May's government has fewer women than Gordon Brown's had a decade ago and the proportion of ministers who attended state schools has fallen to less than half.

«Which said very simply, free tuition to a state two - year school or a four - year school if you come from any family earning $ 125,000 or less, the state will provide free tuition,» Cuomo told a cheering crowd on Jan. 3.

He says schools saw a record increase in state aid in the state budget, and no school has been punished with less state funding for not enacting the new teacher evaluations.

We have a skills gap that continues to grow; 41 % of New Yorkers have a high school diploma or less and the young adult unemployment rate is more than double the state rate at 10.5 % with New York City at a rate of 14 %.

Flanagan has been less receptive for state oversight when it came to installing a monitor in East Ramapo schools, where tensions have flared over the district's leadership from the Orthodox Jewish community.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

The rest of the project tour, the Osogbo Government High School, one of the 11 avant - grade public schools springing up in different locations of the state; and the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, are no less impressive symbols of developmental governance.

With no discussion and in less than two minutes, the state's Smart Schools Review Board approved the second round of funding allocations to 36 districts from the $ 2 billion Smart Schools bond act approved by voters in 2014.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

Suffolk County school superintendents stepped up efforts to halt the state's next round of Common Core standardized tests, now less than a month away, with a direct appeal to Cuomo.

The $ 530 million includes $ 254 million that the city has to contribute to an $ 836 million short - term emergency plan unveiled by MTA chairman Joe Lhota to fix the city's beleaguered subway system — which has been plagued by delays and service problems over the last several months — and $ 140 million less than the city had expected to receive in state aid for city schools.

That's less than half the Island's 1.88 percent average increase for the current school year, and the lowest estimated boost for any region in the state.

The state would spend $ 18 million less, or 2.4 percent, on two - year schools such as Nassau Community College and Suffolk County Community College.

Cuomo says under his plan the state operating budget increases by less than 2 percent while increasing school aid and Medicaid funding at approximately 4 percent.

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

That means districts will be almost entirely dependent on the state to cover rising salaries and other education costs, school administrators said, and Cuomo's budget provides less than half the financial aid needed.

A downturn in the economy means less money for the state, and less money for New York means less money for schools constrained by the cap.

Cuomo defended to reporters the agreement in the state budget that is aimed at providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for students whose families earn less than $ 125,000 a year, which has come under criticism from some lawmakers and yes, The New York Times.

Growth in school taxes statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses, according to the state comptroller's office.

What Hammond's analysis of school funding fails to account for is that New York State's share of the burden for supporting K - 12 education has fallen from 49 % in 2001 to less than 40 % in recent years.

Anticipating less state aid and property tax revenue, the Syracuse City School District is counting on its own fund balance and state legislators to make up the difference in next year's school bSchool District is counting on its own fund balance and state legislators to make up the difference in next year's school bschool budget.