Sentences with phrase «of aging school»

The referendum will seek $ 115 Million in funding for three school construction projects, major renovations and repairs, continuation of CCSD's National award - winning technology program, replacement of aging school buses, land acquisition with a focus on a solution for Cherokee High School overcrowding and, «the No. 1 priority»: continued retirement of bond debt from the last 15 years of construction projects.

«It's appalling that students in the Vancouver school district will be stuck with leaking roofs and damp classrooms because the premier is playing politics rather than looking after the needs of aging school buildings in B.C.,» said New Democrat education spokesperson Rob Fleming.

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She is also a craft beer enthusiast and homebrewer, and a mentor with the Digital Mentoring Program at Girls Write Now — an organization that fosters a community of mentorship between professional writers and high school - aged girls in New York.

Appreciation might be considered an new - aged management strategy as most companies still apply the old - school methods of «divide and conquer ``, but researchers and world - renown managers are all on the same option — it is worth the try!

Netflix description: «Two groups of high school misfits — the AV club and the drama club — collide in this quirky coming - of - age story set in 1996 Oregon.»

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

Though the pair were close in age and geography — they went to the same elementary and middle schools — they had never met before collaborating on this semi-biographical piece of work that has so resonated with audiences.

Indeed, on Wednesday, EverFi will announce that it has raised $ 190 million in new funding from a host of magnates to help bring schooling into the digital age.

For our company, it is clear that our target market of high school and college - aged women value extraordinary life experiences, yet lacked the means to fund them.

Gates showed an interest in computer programming at a very young age, spending all of his free time creating programs on the teletype terminal computer his school had donated.

A math whiz from an early age, in high school he interned at O'Reilly Media, a publisher of technical books which also produces geeky events like Foo Camp and Strata.

The labor force participation rate has fallen due to cyclical factors such as workers temporarily dropping out of the workforce because of discouragement over job prospects, but also due to structural forces such as the Baby Boomers reaching retirement age and younger workers staying in school longer.

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

The case definitely raises legitimate concerns — particularly, in an age of social media where so much information is suddenly available about anyone online, says Neal Hartman, senior lecturer and head of the managerial communications group at MIT Sloan School of Management.

«Anyone here — if you're in school or out of school, or if you're any age — can start a business from home,» he told the audience of The Martha Stewart Show in early 2008.

This age category includes many young people who dropped out of school and have never been regularly employed.

Many believe that part of the solution is to treat software development education similar to how foreign languages are taught at a much earlier age, instead of waiting until university or high school to begin learning.

Linda Brown, who at the age of 9 became the cornerstone figure in the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down segregation in the nation's schools, has died.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

Corinne skipped her last two years of high school in Ohio to go straight to college at age 15, enrolling at Mary Baldwin University's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted in Virginia.

However, beyond what many of us were exposed to in high school, and as most are generally familiar, Physics actually branches out expansively, into numerous realms, many of which philosophers have played around with for ages.

After all, he understands better than anyone how important resources are to veterans transitioning to civilian life: Parsons enlisted in the Marines at age 17, heading to Vietnam straight out of high school.

The second reboot — featuring a younger and more accurately aged Parker in high school — takes place briefly before and during, but mostly after the events of «Civil War.»

The Trump administration has opted out of a global, standardised test which would assess whether school - age children can identify fake news.

He survived the Rwandan genocide, dropped out of school, and lived out of a suitcase selling computers in Uganda at age 15.

We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

The jobs require applicants to be born and raised in Saudi Arabia, between the ages of 25 and 35, and hold a high school diploma or valid equivalent.

Moreover, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has indicated that Intel plans to get involved on a primary - school level with the intention of giving girls a clear path to becoming engineers from a young age.

Her high school teachers remember a mix of precociousness and humility — and an ability to multi-task at a very young age.

He grew up in poverty during the Great Depression and dropped out of school at age 16.

At age 30, reports ESPN, he took advantage of an NFL lockout to go back to school and finish his degree.

You can think of the obvious problem with that: Imagine if you're a marginal high school student and you know that when you turn 18 or a certain age you're going to get an income whether you graduate or not.

Her latest company, Future Design School (FDS) takes young people up to high school age through the innovation process of ideation, validation and prototSchool (FDS) takes young people up to high school age through the innovation process of ideation, validation and prototschool age through the innovation process of ideation, validation and prototyping.

And there are other incentives: Facebook funder and PayPal founder Peter Thiel is currently offering 20 college - age entrepreneurs $ 100,000 to drop out of school.

At Harvard Business School, for example, the average age of an MBA at graduation is 29 years old.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

In an age of electric razors, multi-blade cartridges, Axe body spray, and canned shaving foam, old - school barber - style shaving is making a big comeback.

That is MBAs of any age from any school.

The announcement followed Dick's Sporting Goods announcement it wouldn't sell assault - style rifles in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. and WalMart's decision to raise the age to buy firearms to 21.

Still, this last week I was accepted (at nearly age 50) to the Graduate School of Business at Fordham University in New York City.

«When we researched it, we discovered that 67 pounds of lunchtime trash is created by each school - age child each school year,» Claxton says.

Though survival may not be a burning issue for most firms at the moment, the seeds of the next age for cost control may already be sown, according to Wil Uecker, an associate dean at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston.

Mayer left school at the age of 12 and stepped into the role of breadwinner at a young age, supporting his parents and four siblings by, among other things, collecting heavy scrap metal for resale during brutally cold Canadian winters in New Brunswick.

Jon Kasselman of the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy explored the ramifications of enlarging the CPP, including its potential (in concert with the Guaranteed Income Supplement) to eliminate taxpayer - funded Old Age Security, and the possibility of making the enhanced portion of CPP coverage voluntary.

They grew up in the age of branding, and many were literally schooled on how to merchandise themselves through social media for college applications.

Gordon L. Flett, a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, says more than 50 percent of today's Western school - aged children exhibit the perfectionist traits hinted at above.

Part of that decline has been due to difficult economic conditions after the financial crisis of 2008, but part of it is also due to simple demographics: The baby boomers are hitting retirement age, and young people are more likely to go to college or graduate school, meaning that fewer people will want to work.

«Nine Out of 10 Families at Risk of Homelessness in Toronto's Aging Rental Highrise Buildings,» declares the title of a recent report from the University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash School of Social Work.