Sentences with phrase «more open admission»

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More than 200 investors and startups today added their names to an open letter opposing President Donald Trump's recent executive order that restricted travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven Muslim - majority countries and suspended refugee admissions.

Our whole theological scene might be more open and humane if we all made such admissions more often.

Learn more about how Waldorf education can benefit your child by attending an Open House or arranging for a private tour with the Admissions Staff.

We are particularly concerned that the additional freedoms that Academies and Free Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever before.

Lorraine Mullally is Director of Open Europe and argues here that the Europe Minister's admission that she has not bothered to read the Lisbon Treaty in its entirety makes it all the more urgent that British voters are given the opportunity to have their say in a referendum.

An open admission that he has used cocaine in the past is an admission that he has thwarted the law himself but is introducing more of them in order to restrict our freedoms even further.

This exciting learning opportunity is free with museum membership or admission and is open for two more weekends, October 1 - 2 and October 8 - 9.

Open Tuesday to Saturday between 10 am and 5 pm, and with free admission, you'll be able to look back in time about your local Town and find out more about Worthing through the ages.

The AMC chain reported Sunday that 80 AMC locations, more than 10 % of its U.S. circuit, have set an admissions - revenue record for a single title on opening weekend.

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

In that case, the argument for mandating open admissions is much more compelling, but it is still not necessary.

Students in the United States, she notes, are more open to the concept of «collective merit» admissions — where a person contributes something to the collective merit of the cohort — taking into consideration factors beyond pure academic performance, such as athletic prowess, race, or legacy status that adds to the overall diversity of the group.

New York City will open three new specialized public high schools for top students in the fall, the first expansion in more than three decades of the city's competitive - admission school program.

By 2010, NSNO had incubated 10 citywide, open - admission charter schools, the basic integer of local reform, and provided key personnel and services for dozens more.

Since 2002, New York City has closed more than 20 underperforming public high schools, opened more than 200 new secondary schools, and introduced a centralized high school admissions process in which approximately 80,000 students a year indicate their school preferences from a wide - ranging choice of programs.

He went on to serve in the New York City Department of Education, where he helped open new, high - quality district and charter schools, support the turnaround of struggling schools, and advocate for admission and enrollment changes that led to thousands more New York City students being better prepared for college and careers.

Find out how you can be part of our school community with details of admissions, open evenings, and more

Open positions include beverage operations, grounds operations, admission, security, and more.

The Fordham report looked at two schools that used lotteries for admission, two with open enrollment and two — John Hay and the Cleveland School of Arts — that select their student body, but found that selectivity alone couldn't explain success, particularly since more than 60 percent of students in both Cleveland schools were from poor neighborhoods.

When there is more interest than available openings, admission is determined by lottery.

Charter schools are open to all children on a first - come, first - serve basis unless there is more demand than available seats for the school, in which case a blind lottery is held to determine admission.

For the first time in history there are over 70 open admission No Kill shelters spanning more than 200 cities, towns and communities.

Far from meaning more animals will be turned away, for both limited - and open - intake shelters managed admission is often associated with serving more, rather than fewer, animals over time.

And the more shelters in a community, whether open admission No Kill or limited admission No Kill, keep those animals out of kill shelters.

I know that limiting intakes is not part of the No Kill equation; but in this case strategically engaging their community on many levels could very well mean the Richmond SPCA is able to outperform (through keeping pets in homes, increasing s / n uptake and improving the rate of adoptions) their previous performance, actually saving more pets than when they were open admission.

Built to house up to 500 dogs and 100 cats, the Xinwu shelter ---- like most open - admission animals shelters worldwide ---- is reportedly almost always operating near maximum capacity, seldom with more than enough space available than is necessary to accommodate the next emergency impoundment.

Many Open Admission shelters boast thriving foster programs, and a healthy relationship with rescue organizations and other facilities that can transfer the animals to their care and schedule intakes to distribute a more even flow of animals into the shelter.

Iâ $ ™ ve volunteered with local shelters, have fostered hundreds of kittens, served on the Board of Directors of a humane society, was Director of Operations for one of the largest and most successful shelters in the nation, was Executive Director of an open admission animal control shelter which created the nationâ $ ™ s first (and at the time only) No Kill community, and have consulted with dozens more, including some of the largest and best known in the nation.

HSBV is an open admission municipal shelter which has achieved a 92 % live release rate and strives to be innovative to save more lives.

Some shelters feel that adopting managed admission means they're not truly «open admission» anymore, but instead, it allows more animals in the community to be better - served, as well as lives to be saved.

Even with open - admission shelter policies that encourage the public to turn in cats at any time without restriction, few shelters take in more than 10 % of the community's free - roaming cats each year.

Two days ago, PETA reported that out of 2,047 animals it took in or rounded up in 2015, it succeeded in placing «545 adoptable animals in permanent homes or delivering them to shelters with high foot traffic for adoption, in addition to referring many more adoptable animals directly to open - admission shelters.»

Being consistent with our mission, forming a transfer coalition allows us to provide an opportunity for open - admission shelters to save more animals by transferring a portion of those to Simply Cats, as space allows.

I've opted to include just information about dogs and cats — but KCPP is an open admission facility and takes in everything from animal control — so we have saved more than 250 chickens, goats, alligators (I'm not kidding), ferrets, pigs, owls, rats, and snakes over the past 12 months also.

At our large open admission shelter, which I've been at for more than a dozen years, we have never, ever seen this to be a problem.

Far from meaning more animals will be turned away, for both limited and open - intake shelters managed admission is often associated with serving more, rather than fewer, animals over time.

The open - admission shelter reaches tens of thousands of children and adults in the community each year through its rich roster of educational programs — all while generating more than $ 160,000 in direct revenue.

These agencies prefer their more accurate designation — «open - admission» shelters, so called because they accept every single animal who shows up at their door.

Compare the open admission shelter in Lynchburg, VA, which took in more dogs and cats that PETA on a fraction of its budget and had a live release rate of 97 % for dogs and 86 % of cats.

RENO, Nev. (May 1, 2018)-- Dutch Bros Reno locations came together Sunday, April 29 to raise more than $ 5,200 for the Nevada Humane Society, the only open - admission, no - kill animal shelter in the state of Nevada.

Even with open - admission shelter policies that encourage the public to turn in cats at any time without restriction, few shelters take in more than 10 % of the community's free - roaming cats each year [9].

Learn how making a few small, easy - to - implement changes can spiral into more programs, lower intake and decrease euthanasia at an open admission adoption center.

They handle more than 16,000 dogs and cats at their two open admission facilities, cat - only adoption center and five cat habitats at area Petco stores — and sterilize more than 15,000 dogs and cats annually.

KCPP has had a live release rate of more than 90 % for four consecutive years while remaining an open - admission shelter, making KC Pet Project one of the largest open - admission no - kill shelters in the nation.

As the region's largest and only open - admission animal welfare organization, Lollypop Farm takes in more animals than any other organization in the area.

We know that open - admission municipal shelters can save 90 % and more of intake, and shelters across the country have proventhat.

More and more shelters are managing to be both open - admission and no - kill, which is a revolution in animal shelterMore and more shelters are managing to be both open - admission and no - kill, which is a revolution in animal sheltermore shelters are managing to be both open - admission and no - kill, which is a revolution in animal sheltering.

We are Maryland's largest companion animal shelter and Baltimore City's only open admission shelter, caring for more than 11,000 animals per year.

Only a holistic approach will reduce the number of animals entering Greenville County Animal Care and increase adoptions over euthanasia, say shelter officials and a nonprofit devoted to helping open - admission shelters save more than 90 percent of the dogs and cats they house.

However, the open admission shelter takes in thousands more felines into the shelter annually than it can adopt out.