Sentences with phrase «not taken over the schools»

Chu explained that contractors will only study, monitor, assist, and engage the community in the first year, and not take over the schools in question until year two.

If the mayor had not taken over the schools 20 years ago, where might we be now?

Not exact matches

One thing that is tough is when you think the government will take over something you start but they don't — we had that with a school lunch program.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

«We want to show that it's not, like, taking over our schooling.

«The Mayors» Council plan not only quickly improves transit service with 25 % more buses, it will give those driving to work or school the option to leave the car at home and take transit, which is better for our environment,» McGarrigle said, adding that the BC Federation of Labour, representing over 500,000 unionized workers across the province, unanimously supported a resolution Unifor Local 111 introduced to endorse a Yes in the referendum.

«Hi, I'm from the government, and if you don't teach your children that sodomy is normal, and withhold from them the knowledge that sodomy is responsible for spreading a deadly disease all over the world that has killed millions of people, we'll shut this school down, and maybe we'll take your kids from you»

But we must never allow a curriculum for school to replace a curriculum of life; schooling mustn't take over the education of living.

So I'll make you a deal... stop trying to take over my goverment, control the bodies of women who don't share your extreme beliefs, force children to pray to your gods in schools, destroy scientific and medical advances that I depend upon, and I'll be more than happy to go back to ignoring you.

If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

The Gospel of Thomas (not the one recently discovered in Egypt) reports the childhood of Jesus in a similar vein — a series of miraculous events such as making twelve clay pigeons fly or taking over the first grade at school to lecture on mystical meanings of the alphabet.

Holiday events, parties and festive things galore have taken over in the last few weeks ---- not to mention all of the little things adding up through school that my boys need to have taken care of before the end of the 2015 and the holiday break begins — ugh!

Holiday events, parties and festive things galore have taken over in the last few weeks ---- not to mention all of the little things adding up through school -LSB-...]

It's been almost eight years since Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney launched Meat Free Monday, and since that time the campaign has grown phenomenally, with individuals, businesses — not to mention over a thousand UK schools — taking part.

For our 20th, since we didn't get to take a big trip or anything (he taught for the summer session of school), he surprised me with a bunch of my favorite concerts over the last month, including New Kids On The Block / Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, the Utah Symphony and GENTRI and we got to spend some time together in Salt Lake City.

its awful to see kids at school get wrecked like that... school should be a place that you happily go to and enjoy your time there, not be scared for your life looking over your shoulder that one may take a gun out and shoot you

Assistant Jack Lopez (1970 -» 76) then took over the head position the following season when Bronzan was promoted to an administrative position at the school (at the time, Administrators were not allowed to be in a head coaching position).

Stanley took over the USC women's program in 1989 but left that job in 1993 because the school wouldn't give her the same salary it was paying George Raveling, then the Trojans men's coach.

Am reading all over the net and hear as well that people are blaming the players fabianski for not getting his angles right, he had an ok game but a top class keeper would not be beaten at his near post, song who out of nowhere has become an attacking midfielder, chamaka for missing two easy headers, diaby for taking too long on the ball, Squillaci, Koscielny i know they new but they are making some mistakes that school boys would not basic mistakes rosciky for blasting a penalty over the bar when a cool head was needed, deneilson your team leading 1 nill late in a game and you shoot rather than take or pass the ball to the corner i can go on almunia whose technique is horrible and you say this team has improved.

The school is not as far as downtown but some mornings it takes over an hour to get them to school.

We spend a lot of time with high school students, and there is one thing we know for sure: they don't want the college application to take over their lives and result in non-stop strife in their families, but they just don't know how to avoid it, and, frequently, neither do their parents.

So when it comes to improving school meals, health advocates logically want to remove the items that win out over healthier fare: nixing sugary chocolate milk, for example, so kids have to take white milk, or making sure pizza isn't offered on the same day as a healthier entree.

The changes did not take place in 2010, but were rolled out over the next few years to give schools and communities time to understand the guidelines and adapt as needed.

The staff at the grade school didn't take her allergy very seriously though until a child died the next county over and then my child had a serious reaction to candy a teacher gave out at the end of the day as the kids were getting on the bus.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

Telling your spouse that you want to become a single income household so you can stay home isn't something you should blurt out as you're dashing out the door to take the kids to school or while they're screaming at each other over who has more mashed potatoes during dinner.

A few months ago, the blogosphere was in a tizzy over an episode in which a North Carolina «government inspector» allegedly forced a child to trade in her home - packed lunch of a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice because the meal did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines; instead the child was forced to take the school meal of chicken nuggets.

We are educating young people to make sure they understand that high standards are not the problem — school cafeterias where no cooking takes place, the power of processed food industries, and lack of control over our food systems are the real problems.

The House of Representatives won't take up the controversial school food waiver issue until next week, but there's still news to share regarding the fight over healthier school meals:

But the gravy wasn't just spooned over the mashed potatoes; our lunch ladies (today referred to as School Nutrition Specialist) would take an extra moment to create a well in the potatoes with the back of their ladle, and then pour the turkey gravy over the top.

When Assistant Superintendent Olivia Zepeda took over the Nutrition Services department in Gadsden Elementary School District # 32 she noticed something right away about her schools» breakfast — students weren't eating it.

Immediately, she insisted suggested that we take Baby on over to the school and try to squeeze in an appointment with the Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP), breezily insisting that she didn't think anything was WRONG with him, but that on the off - chance there was, early intervention could make all the difference in the world.

Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy insists his push for control over the public schools isn't dead even though the Legislature departed Albany without taking it up.

The latest fight between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and Buffalo Public Schools is heating up, this time over incentives like ice cream socials to persuade kids to take state - mandated tests and threats of punishment for those who don't.

Glick argued that the state didn't try to take over schools in New York City during the 12 - year Bloomberg administration, even though some of the same schools that the governor calls «failing» now were struggling under the former mayor's leadership, as well.

Shettima, who also said he can not but praise Tinubu for finding time to come over to Maiduguri on a two - day visit during which he inaugurated 432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully furnished estate with 26 apartments of five sets of three - storey buildings for medical doctors, recalled that he succeeded in taking control of the Borno APC in 2015 largely because Tinubu refused to support the game plan of a wealthy tyrant.

As decisions affecting my constituents are taken, however, they will be furious to see that, although they can not have their new school buildings or road improvements for now, more and more of their hard - earned money is being handed over to Europe.»

Knowing that religious selection in admissions creates segregation along class and ethnic lines, having a clear policy in favour of inclusion and taking great care not to allow any state - funded faith schools to have control over its own admissions would also make sense for a Labour approach.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

President Akufo - Addo noted that if the programme had not taken off, over one million youth who qualify for senior high school would still have been at home because of their inability to afford senior high school education in five years time, explaining that for the past five years an average of 100,000 qualified pupils could not enter into senior high schools for financial problems.

Thirty - one NYC schools have been taken off the state's «persistently struggling» list even though they haven't seen much in the way of improvement over the past six months.

Yes, I am willing to talk tactics of how we do this (I would start with restoring LA oversight and local democratic accountability over all state funded schools), but until we get to grips with the disaster of academisation we don't deserve to be taken seriously on anything else.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Nine out of 10 schools deemed to be struggling are not being taken over by the state as they have another year to implement turnaround strategies.

With less than a month before the first day of school, the state's 10 remaining «persistently struggling» schools still don't know if they've made enough progress to avoid being taken over by an independent receiver.

Isn't it strange that Harriet Harman was never heard saying polls have shown over and over again that the majority of voters want the railways taken back into public ownership or that they think that local authorities should be responsible for schools?

At a breakfast in March, Moskowitz said she was a «little bit less of a policy wonk than I used to be,» and declined to comment on Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to take over failing schools, saying she hadn't seen the specifics.

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

«Receivership is code word for privatization and New York City schools are not for sale,» said Councilman Mark Treyger (D - Brooklyn), in reference to Cuomo's plan to take over troubled schools.