Sentences with phrase «of public middle»

As discussed in the article, Jackson (2012) actually studies data of all public middle and high school students in North Carolina and finds that absences and suspensions affected teacher quality on non-cognitive skills can be determined by analyzing absences and suspensions.

«However, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that fewer than 20 percent of public middle and high schools in the U.S. start at the recommended time,» Owens says.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Not exact matches

Yet it seems to do so with the underlying intent of softening up the public for another «intervention» in the Middle East.

Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.

Not in the sense of being Indiana Jones in the middle of the desert or anything like that, but in the sense that what he believed in was public education and multi-disciplinary programs where you're working with many different groups of scientists, doing expeditions to exotic places, and so on.

Yet, according to financial reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that same year Trump received $ 583,333 in compensation from the then - named Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, the company Trump had taken public in the middle of that year.

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.

It also placed viewers in the middle of an event that is still an intense topic of fascination for the American public, with director Kathryn Bigelow calling the death of bin Laden «one of the great stories of our time.»

Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan is renowned for championing education, public health, and women's rights in the Middle East and around the world.

This borrowing will materially worsen the government's debt position: Moody's now expects Spain's public debt ratio to rise to around 90 % of GDP this year and to continue rising until the middle of the decade.

State - sponsored hackers had a big year, the Middle East continued to spiral out of control, numerous beloved public figures died, and venture capital stopped gushing at its previous levels, among a long list of other things.

They allow lower and middle income families to shield their retirement savings from high rates of taxation and clawbacks of public pensions, leveling the tax «playing field» compared to high income families with access to many tax - planning strategies.

The White House has failed to find traction on a middle ground that would allow meaningful reform to thrive while protecting the constitutional right to bear arms — a compromise that would enjoy broad public support and still represent a practical way of regulating the firearms industry.

Instead of traditional venture capital firms investing in startups from PowerPoint to IPO, there are angel investors and seed rounds on one end and traditional public market investors investing in private unicorn rounds on the other, with venture capital firms somewhere in the middle.

Bill Robson, president of the C.D. Howe Institute, a public policy think - tank, said one of the greatest challenges for the middle class is saving more for retirement at the same time wages aren't growing nearly as fast and household debt piles up.

Results of the Monmouth University Poll also indicate there are potential hurdles for selling this proposal to the American public since most feel the middle class has not been seeing any benefits from Pres. Donald Trump's policies so far.

For a company that is in the middle of cutting its losses as it prepares to go public, having tens of thousands of cars on its balance sheet isn't exactly ideal.

As mentioned, SKYFchain is in the middle of its public token sale.

Primary Underwriting The new issue public finance pipeline provides a diverse offering of municipal products, including major governments, agencies and authorities, local governments, essential services, healthcare, housing and redevelopment, education, corporations, middle market corporations and economic development issues.

The banks should be nationalized, at least temporarily, and every person and institution involved (otherwise known as the elite banksters and politicians who served and supported the government and «quasi» government decisions) in each of the bailouts and heists of the taxpayer's (i.e. the «common» mans) money, should be divested of their personal assets and earnings and put in a stockade for public viewing, smack dab in the middle of Wall Street, to be pelted with rotten vegetables.

In the middle of its worst recession in 25 years, BBC also notes that Brazil is also suffering from a record public sector deficit, inflation of over 10 %, and a fragile investor mindset amidst the scandal surrounding Petrobras, the country's state - owned oil giant.

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

In the public market, CIT, which provides financing and advisory services to small businesses and middle - market companies, sold $ 1 billion of senior unsecured notes due 2019 at an interest rate of 3.875 %.

They have lost the capacity to develop a middle - class narrative against the Democrats» cultural libertarianism as part of an agenda of pro-family public policy.

But Salam Al - Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which consulted on «Tyrant» scripts, said the show doesn't present Islam or the Middle East as a monolith.

«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

The key to the strength of Victorian virtues was that those virtues were not, in fact, just middle class but were shared by nearly everyone: from the Queen down to the poorest Cockney, nearly everyone believed in the public good that came from observance of the national ethic.

Allegedly some of his proclamations, made in the middle of a long service of preaching and healing, were based on intelligence gathered from medicine containers in the bathrooms of parishioners or records on file in some public agency or doctor's office.

Both were middle class products of the English public school system and elite universities; both were journalist - adventurers, disillusioned socialists, contrarians, and iconoclasts.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

Every day, I see that birdhouse out of my kitchen window, I see it when I go to bed at night, a small white and blue birdhouse, in the middle of a forest, empty and beautiful, our own road to nowhere, the birdhouse without birds in a forest behind our fence, public land.

When I think about the public application of ashes, I have to stretch and strain against the powerful prescriptions to be private, prescriptions which are made more complex by the deepening middle - class commitments to privacy and to the supreme value of personal freedom.

When Newbigin wrote this in 1941, one of the main «social facts» in the United States was that public norms were dictated by a distinctly American Protestant culture in the white middle class.

James was raised with middle - of - theroad Anglican churchgoing as the norm, predominantly through his public school education.

I am tired of them being offended by our flags, our customs... I am Canadian and in Canada there is a group that tried to have our anthem changed to have Arabic in it... and our flags in public was offensive... oh and they wanted to have turbans as a part of our National Police Force uniform... I would get my head cut off if I made those demands in the middle east.

Originating in a popular program in aid of a «submerged middle class,» Boston's projects had become untenable warehouses for those public neighbors toward which proper Bostonians were most ambivalent.

Those are the two extremes, but even in the middle, where most of us here today are, we often disagree on how to dress, whether it is okay to drink alcohol or not, what music, movies and other entertainment is appropriate, whether to run for public office, and on and on and on.

You have made your own scholarship accessible to the church and the wider public, as in the television series you've worked on for the BBC on Jesus and the Middle East and your new series of «New Testament Guides for Everyone.»

Nevertheless, it was also the «sole medium of intellectual life» and could become again, incidentally to the process and quite unintentionally, a way of access to the heritage of pre-Christian Roman culture and classical Latin literature (Erich Auerbach, Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages [Pantheon.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

As public passions mount, more than 100,000 soldiers embark for the Middle East, confident of a swift and easy victory.

Mark from Middle River Some people find that the swastika gives them a sense of «hope» too, but we've put a limit on that one being displayed in public.

In the Middle Ages, which did not know the idea of progress, either in public life or in aesthetics, the old and the new were not opposed: New texts incorporated old texts.

The purpose of the caucus is to educate Congress and the public, and to [speak out on behalf of] religious minorities — Christians being a large number of them — in the Middle East.

True believers in the dominant model tell us that the solution of our problems is to reduce taxes on corporations and the rich, reduce government services to the poor and middle class, improve the climate for business by reducing work place and environmental protections and minimum wage requirements, privatizing public services, and facilitating the investment of capital overseas.

Perhaps because Cicero happened to translate that particular dialogue for his aristocratic Roman public and thereby unintentionally made it one of the few texts from Plato available to the Latin West in the early Middle Ages, this image of God as Artificer proved to have a tenacious hold on the medieval imagination.

Muslims surveyed in South Asia and the Middle East - North Africa region are more likely than Muslims elsewhere to consider suicide bombing justified,» according to the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, a survey of 38,000 Muslims in 39 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

The locker room offers the appearance of privacy, but at the same time elicits public performance (as every awkward middle school student knows too well).

I made the mistake of making my choice public in middle school.