Sentences with phrase «local high school kids»

Instead, we spent our days exploring local hot springs, teaching English to some local high school kids, while getting to know the locals.

Black also hosted a series of informal «town hall» gatherings on college campuses, inviting college students and local high school kids to talk about how they see their futures.

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It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth - gaps, reduces high - tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids» schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high - tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

Although the issue of homeschool student participation in public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers who could contribute to the success of our local high....

As a local business, «We support local kids» high school [activities],» he says, noting that this includes agricultural groups, sports teams and drill teams to name a few that compete with other schools.

Developed by a local high school culinary student in partnership with Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, El Fenix's Kids Fit Menu allows kids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple juKids Fit Menu allows kids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple jukids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple juice.

Or, head to the local high school track and have your kids play soccer or catch on the field while you run laps.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

According to Gragnani, who was accompanied at the board meeting by his parents, Don and Donna Gragnani, the kids found a spot at Dundee - Crown High School in Carpentersville, but a hostile crowd of local kids forced them to leave, throwing rocks and bottles at them.

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.

That's why she loves homeschooling her kids, leading Sunday school for two and three year olds and teaching at the local homeschool group's coop for students from grades kindergarten through high school.

That latter permutation has really been sticking in my craw ever since I saw last year a beautiful, made - to - order «panini» bar at a local Houston high school, where the free / reduced population was so high that only a fraction of the kids could afford this a la carte luxury.

«I'd get kids from local high schools and talk to them about what's going on in the community,» Schulman said.

We went to a Halloween event for kids at a local high school with games and crafts, too.

He's Jerry, a beguiling stranger who moves in next door to high - school student Charley (Anton Yelchin), an event that coincides with local kids going missing.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

He does two kinds of schools: high schools that are tech related, where the kids are engaged in projected based learning and discovery, and that have deeply embedded partnerships with local industry; and also schools that are K — 8 flex programs, in which students attend school two days a week, work from home two days a week, and one day is an enrichment day.

Local high school students designed science lessons — connected to the district's science curriculum — to teach elementary kids about photosynthesis and plant anatomy as they garden.

At last year's «Kids Love a Mystery Night» at the store, the bookstore's owner arranged to have the local high school's drama class act out short mini mysteries for the students.

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.

We work with local high schools in the sense that we want the kids they'd likely struggle with — those students who are disengaged, bored, and falling behind.

In the Rio Grande Valley of rural Texas, where half the students at Edcouch - Elsa High School are children of migrant farm laborers, kids are reclaiming their heritage through oral histories, compiling a local business directory, and producing a monthly civic - affairs newsletter in Spanish and English.

Those programs allow high school kids to take classes at a local college, often earning college credit.

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

Not long ago, students learned welding and other trade skills at New Jersey's county vocational - technical schools while college - bound kids got the best academic training at their local high schools.

63 The percentage of parents surveyed who chose «social problems and kids who misbehave» as the source of the most pressing problems facing their local high schools.

We take you to one small city in Pennsylvania where, despite its one high school failing for the past six years and despite only 50 % of kids being at grade level, the local union refused to be part of Pennsylvania's application.

One of my kids (now 29 years of age and very accomplished - ok I am his dad), was struggling in the 9th grade and the public high school was not responsive to his needs, and my wife and I — because we are lucky enough to be able to do so — took him out the public schools and sent him to a local private school.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

Either directly through prescriptive laws, such as ones that mandate precisely how local boards of education must evaluate their employees, or indirectly through schemes and mechanisms that place high stakes on invalid and unreliable tests such as the SBAC, we rank and sort kids, schools, and teachers based on test scores.

We did have a democratic high school for several years that served the needs of many kids for whom the local high school wasn't a great fit, and we currently have a very small project - based alternative high school, but it's got fewer than 20 students enrolled.

Some gifted kids, especially early entrants, find that they can attend a local state university or other less prestigious college for undergraduate work, and save the dorm experience and high profile school for their graduate experience.

Provided, of course, you're ready for the attention — like the four high school kids who followed me to a local grocery store in their Fiat 500X just to take pictures of the car.

I can't be the only kid who used to dig through the spinner racks at the local supermarket, started to visit a comic shop regularly as a pre-teen, and then drifted away from the medium entirely in high school and college.

We advocate for change by addressing key provisions of federal, state, and local policy that will best help kids pursue education after high school and attain the credentials they need for career success.

Local schools in our area are rated amongst the highest for Florida & Georgia, giving you the flexibility to put roots down for your kids in either state.

Here are a couple of suggestions: Donations of cash to the local high school «Ocean Academy» or to the village chairperson «Enelda Rosado» to help support the elementary schools kids lunch program.

While you deal with the struggles and pitfalls of being the new kid at the local high school, you also find yourself involved in the quest to solve a series of murders in town.

Monbiot was inspired to put together this fact sheet for a local school that was experiencing high levels of air pollution from parents driving their kids, sometimes as little as 100 meters (330 feet) up the road!

3:30 pm — 4:45 pm PDT: To get young people interested in environmental activism, two of the Prize recipients will be sharing their stories with kids from local groups such as the City Arts & Tech High School, Youth United for Community Action and the Alliance for Climate Education.

Because the political conversation on the state, national and local level is, for the most part, about the kids who died at the high school in our backyard, and what ought to be done to make sure it doesn't happen again.

A couple of weeks ago, the local high school in my town challenged some of the kids in the senior grades to study and...

A couple of weeks ago, the local high school in my town challenged some of the kids in the senior grades to study and debate the issue of national unity.

In addition, if they have children, the letter can state how they anticipate sending their kids to high - quality local schools.

Combined with the 11yo starting high school this year and having to organise after school activities because the local after school care doesn't take high school kids, it was a nightmare but a friend of mine said that the new routine and will soon become normal and a bit of extra travel time is better in the long run if the outcome is better overall for the kids.