Sentences with phrase «moving the school closer»

As we move the school closer to a true project - based learning paradigm, we are actively working as a team to address those core issues.

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The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

I moved the family closer to the kids» schools and rented... for a few months.

For the record, a quick list of things that need to be done: Sell or rent your current house, find your new home, squat in temporary accommodation in between, pack and move, close out old utilities, set - up new utilities, update your health insurance and driver's license, ditto with banking and vehicle registration, deliver said vehicle to new location, ensure spouse and children have jobs and school / daycare placements, find childcare in between if necessary, settle everyone in.

He experienced, in rapid succession, blows of the sort that can send a disturbed, isolated young man hurtling into a spiral of instability: forced to move out of his lifelong home, spurned by a girlfriend, bounced from school to school, then suddenly losing his mother, his closest companion, to a fatal illness.

And while these issues can not be discussed without considering other deeply troubling problems such as mental health treatment and school security, they need to be discussed if our country is going to move any closer to authentically providing our children with safe spaces to learn.

I know, let's just close the schools down — all together — and move quicker to third world status; because, 1) It's a burden on the economy as we, clearly, don't have the money to continue educating future generations; and 2) It doesn't appear they're learning anything anyway, except how to harass little children and make their lives as miserable as possible for writing on their desks.

«Unlike businesses and schools we can't close down, we still have a lot of in - patient care going on so [we're] moving patients away from windows, boarding up windows and making sure supplies are all in place if the hospital does get cut off and transport becomes very difficult,» he added.

Presumably because such changes help to meet this need, the study seems to approve the tendency it sees in theological schools to move toward closer affiliations with universities.

My son (21) called to say he would like to come for supper and we discussed what we should have as he was on his way out to our home (we live just outside a major Canadian city and he just moved into the city to be closer to school but likes to come home once in awhile for a meal).

He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95, keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.

Originally from Reno, Nevada, the Ngatas moved to the Folsom area following middle school in order to be closer to family.

Thursday, Emmert made it clear that the schools (not him) are the ones who don't want to move to something closer to the Olympic model, which might help mitigate some of the issues in men's basketball and football, and might have kept the NCAA and the conferences from yet another court battle they probably won't win.

After finishing up her undergrad, Sarah headed west to Seattle, Washington, where she worked for the Highline School District before moving back to New York to be closer to family.

And as this work moves forward, School Food Focus will officially close its doors as an organization.

Buffalo's Common Council is moving closer to making the Michigan Street Baptist Church and what is now I - Prep at Grover Cleveland High School official landmarks, not just landmarks in their neighborhood and in history.

Mayor Bloomberg is moving ahead with plans to close 33 low - performing schools, but remains optimistic about a deal with the UFT on teacher evaluations.

... but even some close allies of the teachers unions, which are generally foes of charter schools, questioned SED's move.

The DOE is also moving forward with plans to close and re-open 26 additional schools, which could bring the total number of new schools as high as 80.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor — over the protests of countless community members — wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

On the merits, Carranza should junk Renewal now, and move to close those schools.

In rare cases, where charter schools violate laws or face serious problems with academics or safety, charter authorizers may move to close schools.

Water main breaks recently closed down one Syracuse high schools this week, and Miner said some downtown businesses have told her they may have to move if more breaks continue.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «The Government is effectively proposing to allow more of our schools to become closed - off, single - faith enclaves, and the level of opposition to this frankly unthinkable move should therefore not be surprising to anyone.

On May 18, a fatal car accident occurred when a tree fell on top of a moving vehicle on North Broadway in front of the Upper Nyack Elementary School, causing the school to be closed for thSchool, causing the school to be closed for thschool to be closed for the day.

«This debate has always been about ensuring that school children in New York City receive a first - class education that prepares them for the rest of their lives, and this agreement moves us closer to that goal.»

Buffalo Interim School Superintendent Amber Dixon could be moving closer to assuming her position on a permanent basis, though she'll first need to beat out two other finalists for the post.

«It's a bizarro world,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew, when a school is closed as it's moving forward.

City school officials said they have taken action on those schools, moving to close 18 and giving added resources to another 53.

As state lawmakers move closer to finalizing a new budget for the coming year, it looks as though the Buffalo Public Schools could get a big lift in funding.

The voucher program began in the 1970s as a means of breaking up pockets of poverty and allowing poor recipients to move closer to quality schools and job opportunities by offering subsidies to be used on the open rental market.

The Department of Education announced on Dec. 8 that it would move to close or downsize 15 struggling schools, and that more schools would be added to the list.

LOWER MANHATTAN — The new elementary school proposed for the Peck Slip Post Office site is moving closer to becoming a reality, the Department of Education said Thursday.

And in some cases, freeways and other facilities are moving closer to existing schools.

After a month we will move on to New Zealand, where I intend to find a good job teaching science in a secondary school situated close to a good surf spot.

Schools were closed across much of the area affected by the cold snap, including in the Twin Cities on Monday, and there were closures and delays yesterday in much of the Southeast as the weather moved south.

A friend of mine managed to stay close to home for grad school, but now she has to pick up and move halfway across the country for a postdoc, leaving her daughter with her parents for a while.

She also wanted to move to New York City, where she could be closer to Crickmore; they had been spending only 3 days a week together since he had left New Jersey to start graduate school at Columbia.

That dream moved closer to reality last January when Roger Gosden, a reproductive biologist at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, announced that his team had transplanted into seven rats ovaries and fallopian tubes that had been frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen.

We spent numerous years going to school together, and although, we have both moved on and moved out of our childhood homes, we have still managed to remain close.

I've never been a big watch guy, but now as I finally am close to being done with medical school and moving on to actually being a doctor, it's important to have a professional, elegant look, and the Jord watch definitely fits that profile.»

I'm a little worried about being back at school because I don't have the freedom I do when I'm home, the desire to pretty up or my family close by to support me, but all I can do is keep moving forward.

I recently moved from phoenix to mesa so I could be closer to work and school.

I really just want some friends who live in my area for now because its difficult to find Anime peeps who live close to a small town like mine that have not moved away and are not in high school.

I was born in mexico city, When my first granddaughter was born I moved to Texas and I think this was an excellent decision, the people are wonderful, warm and friendly, I studied high school in Mexico City, I live in the dallas area very close to my beautiful daughter and my 3 wonderful...

Though McAdams» early screen roles found her specializing in the bitchy teen princess to maximum effect, closer inspection reveals a skilled dramatic actress who no doubt has the talent to move beyond the high - school trappings of such comedies as The Hot Chick and Mean Girls.Born to a truck driver and a nurse in London, Ontario, Canada, McAdams warmed to the spotlight early on by taking up competitive skating at just four years old.

The success of today's diversity movement hinges on our ability to move diverse schools closer to true integration.

A federal commission voted last week to spare two military facilities in New England that the Pentagon had recommended closing, a move that relieved local school officials who would have faced a loss of students and federal impact aid had the bases closed.