Sentences with phrase «of local community schools»

The guide draws from the work of local community schools initiatives that are directly impacting student achievement, attendance, family engagement, and other factors.

Recchia was the target of Jon Stewart's biting wit on «The Daily Show With Jon Stewart» last month after the challenger was caught on camera apparently having trouble answering questions from NY1 political reporter Courtney Gross about a U.S. trade agreement and then bragging that his role in setting up an international student exchange program during his days as a member of a local community school board gave him credentials to understand international issues in Congress.

political reporter Courtney Gross about a U.S. trade agreement and then bragging that his role in setting up an international student exchange program during his days as a member of a local community school board gave him credentials to understand international issues in Congress.

I have a high - school senior daughter who decided about 3 months ago to go to a private four - year college instead of our local community school, which means pine nuts are officially out of our budget FOREVER.

A primary solution, according to these education reformers is to remove public schools out of the control of local community school boards and hand them over to boards made up of corporate leaders or even hand them over to private management companies.

Panel Discussion: Systemic, Integrated and Sustained Family Engagement Following Dr. Mapp's presentation, a panel of local community school experts talked about the strategies their districts and agencies use to engage families.

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Consequently, the pool of talent created at the local community, school and university levels, leaves much to be desired both in terms of size and quality,» said Arun Navaratna, senior economist at Australia New Zealand Bank (ANZ).

It broke ground in March that year with the help of teachers and students from a local school and, to this day, continues to work with the community, donating some of its 2,000 pounds of produce each year to local organizations.

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

Significant support is given to the local primary school and Talison Lithium employees are involved in a number of joint environmental and community based projects with the school including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue prschool and Talison Lithium employees are involved in a number of joint environmental and community based projects with the school including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue prschool including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue prSchool's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue project.

There exists a myriad of learning opportunities available to students outside of the regular school day, whether on campus, through local museums and science centers, or elsewhere in communities across the country.

«Agents provide community health education through regular community health talks, especially leveraging connections with local community groups, schools, places of worship, and support from local leaders and council members.»

Take more budget - friendly education options into consideration, such as community colleges and state schools, opt for night classes at a local university, or enroll in online programs to further your education without spending a lot of money.

During school I held a myriad of jobs: psychology labs, hostessing and then finally as a community manager at a local mobile startup.

It gives an Inclusivity Award to schools which make a positive impact to the unity of the local community, whose students interact with and respect each other and actively reject prejudice and discrimination.

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

We saw the names of some who had been students at the local high schools and community college; we saw the names of friends with whom we had grown up, members of our track teams and little league; some of us saw the names of family members.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

Furthermore, under the general welfare provision of the Constitution, the Federal Government offers financial assistance to states and local communities for a variety of educational purposes, ranging from subsidies for school lunch programs to salaries for teachers of agriculture and loans for school building construction.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

That's a great distinction... I am part of a community who seeks to follow Christ; this community is both local, my friends at school and the church, and distant, my friends across the country and world; I interact with both to further my walk with God.

Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

There are millions of Americans from my generation who volunteer in their community groups, their local schools, or USAID, or Peace Corps to improve the lives of their fellow men.

It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.

Plain persons are those characterized by everyday practices such as sustaining families, schools, and local forms of political community.

The turbulence of a rapidly changing scene surrounds us, and the same forces that are creating turmoil in the cities, on the campuses, and in the local schools are shaking up this infant movement — community mental health.

This week, we talk with Teresa Goines about Old School Cafe, how it's making a difference in the lives of young people and to actually effect change in local communities.

(Wellesley, Massachusetts) A Wellesley Middle School field trip to a local mosque has sparked controversy in the affluent community west of Boston after a video surfaced showing some of the students praying inside the hall.

The charity also supported local partners to rebuild schools, repair damaged water systems, help communities restore their means of making a living and prepare for future disasters.

Since that time we were allowed to hold our services at a warehouse held by the local high school and though its not so much the building that matters for a religious body, the dilapidated premises were certainly having a notable impact on the strength of our community.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Therefore, what is now needed is some media - related equivalent of the local school board which can monitor the educational aspects of television in the community.

At the beginning of the Minnesota course, Smith and Bodin ask students to identify religious agencies (synagogues, churches, hospitals, schools), places and persons that they know in their local community.

A bitter row has broken out on the Isle of Skye over a new # 10m Gaelic school, which one local councillor has dubbed a «disaster for community relations».

For instance, while each store's interior is a crisp white with orange accents, Travis encourages store owners to incorporate murals of community landmarks or local high school mascots and to source ingredients that appeal to the locals» unique tastes.

«We're doing a lot of outreach with local community colleges, technical and trade schools and military programs, where retired military people who have learned great skills are able to bring some of those to us,» he explains.

«Whether through sponsoring local high school activities, being an active supporter of the county 4 - H program, educating youth through the dozens of tours given at the mill each year, providing flour for various service organizations» fundraisers, helping at the area health fair or providing equipment for the volunteer fire department, we believe that a healthy community builds strong, productive citizens.»

A total of 50 children attend the school, of which a third come from the local community and not from the estate.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is excited to be celebrating National Farm to School Month this October, paying homage to the hard work and dedication of food service professionals, farmers and educators across the country who are connecting their communities with fresh, healthy and local food.

In September 2015, children and parents joined the Accolade Wines team to formally open the local pre-primary school following the addition of four new classrooms, two store rooms and a number of toilets, as part of the company's ongoing support of the Kayamandi community in Stellenbosch.

As an advocate of the community, Pollo Tropical has raised thousands of dollars through benefit nights system - wide for schools and local organizations, giving them 20 % of proceeds.

From sourcing organic products, to obtaining fair trade certification, to greening our facilities and operations, to funding tree planting at schools in our local community, we are constantly seeking ways to better protect our environment and ensure a better quality of life for employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

GNA is dedicated to preserving the historical character of Gramercy, as well as its residents, local business and schools, by developing a sense of community through various projects, events and initiatives.

As part of MacKenzie River's mission to support education in local communities, the company invites schools to participate in one of the easiest (and tastiest) fundraising promotions.

It's more about giving back to the local communities and letting as many local schools, their players and their fans get the experience of playing and being inside the stadium.

On Thursdays, I now volunteer at a local school as part of the FA Community hub programme.

Our pupils will make the most of it, and it will help enormously to develop and increase the popularity of the game in school and in the local community.

I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative ways, organized presentations for parents in the local community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about how Challenge Success ties into Jewish values at my Hebrew School.

Maybe children won't benefit any less if they stay in their local communities, but when they get to the high school level and know what sport they want to concentrate on, then they should travel to national tournaments in hopes of being seen by college scouts.