Sentences with phrase «of supporting schools»

At Jostens, we have a history of supporting schools, capturing stories and celebrating achievement.

With the aim of supporting schools to access these benefits, the «Increase Your School Meal Take Up» programme is being delivered by FFLP in the Midlands, North of England and London.

«And the unfortunate thing is instead of supporting schools, they're trying to find ways to destroy schools,» one teacher said.

It's frightfully complicated and does not address the root causes of high taxes - costly mandates and a fundamental, long - term shift of the burden of supporting schools and municipalities from state to local taxpayers.

Facilitating workshops, attending progress meetings, providing regular project updates and email reminders or just picking up the phone and having a chat are various ways of supporting the school.

«The president is so wildly unpopular among Democrats that his support for some of these policies — which we've been working on for literally decades — had made the politics of supporting school choice much harder than it needs to be,» said Derrell Bradford, the vice president of 50Can.

As a result of her extensive volunteerism, Bonnie understands the kind of support a school board must provide to both teachers and students, in order to cultivate an environment where educators, learners and parents all participate to help each child reach their maximum potential.

To meet the goal of supporting school - based administrators and teacher leaders in their instructional leadership roles, Christina School District's professional development team turned to ASCD and their customizable and sustainable Capacity - Building solution.

At all levels, verify the type of support schools will provide.

Warren Simmons, a senior fellow at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, said test scores can't offer policy makers much guidance in the absence of qualitative assessments — of the curriculum, of teacher training, of the support a school is receiving from the district and state.

Each year, the UCEA Executive Committee invites member university faculties to select a distinguished school administrator who has an exemplary record of supporting school administrator preparation efforts.

In August next year, the government also intends the commissioners to take over from local authorities the job of supporting school improvement and intervening in failing schools.

Learn more about the developers of the Supporting School Success program!

Not exact matches

-- Stacey Boyd, founder and CEO of Olivela, a luxury e-commerce site which has grown revenue 240 percent this year, and founder of Schoola, an online retailer that sells gently - worn clothing to support schools in need

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Nicole Haggerty, an associate professor of management information systems at the Ivey School of Business, listened to hundreds of support calls while researching corporate helpdesks.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The idea was proposed by a Nebraska high school student named Shelbi Klingsporn as part of a private education program partnership with NASA and is now being supported by Medtronic.

New York City — which, through the Bloomberg years put outsized emphasis on boosting the startup ecosystem, and finding solutions to a dearth of programmers — has been quick to show support for The Flatiron School.

It also funds the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is based out of the London School of Economics, and it supports Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

She brought along the lizard and bird to inspire the audience to support her business, which consists of school and birthday party activities and a «rent - a-reptile» program.

She co-founded and is the chair of the African American Student Union at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, an organization that supports African - Americans working in architecture, real estate and urban planning.

Microsoft gave a timeline of how it plans to stop supporting Flash for its old - school Internet Explorer browser and its newer Microsoft Edge browser.

But she and her husband have since had to postpone their retirement by a couple of years to help support their 21 - year - old daughter, who's now going off to university, and their 27 - year - old son, who's moving back home to pursue culinary school.

Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

«In the northeast corner, the supporting pillars at the bottom had virtually no cement in them,» says Doug Miller, professor of ethical fashion at the University of Northumbria's design school in Newcastle - upon - Tyne, U.K..

She was pulled out of high school by her parents to help support their family.

«This implies that the comparatively low degree of emotional support business undergraduates appear to receive in school has lasting consequences, as Gallup has established that there are differences in well - being and employee engagement among alumni who have had these experiences.»

Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently large number of shareholders that had not cast votes to support the deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.

David Vogel, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, supports regulation of greenhouse gases as a way to shift business incentives.

Thanks to the surprise factor of Loyola - Chicago, along with the team's lovable 98 - year - old chaplain Sister Jean, the school's fans have come out in droves to show their support during March Madness.

«We're staffed to really support not just independent private schools like ourselves, but in the future, public schools where the majority of kids are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.

Those four questions are at the core of a fascinating (and slim) new book, Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, by John Quelch and Emily Boudreau — which grew out of a conference of the same name held in April at Harvard Business School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Building programs that support STEM education, vocational schools and skills training for underrepresented groups will grow the pipeline of more diverse potential candidates for everyone down the line.

Now a new study from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has come up with some fairly compelling ammunition to support this view.

The systematic gutting of publicly funded education — be it in elementary schools or in colleges — was done by officials we've elected, many of whom have received strong support from members of the business community who regularly complain about the lack of a prepared workforce.

We don't have much of an endowment like the schools that we compete against which have terrific endowments to support their activities.»

Shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, 89 % of the U.S. population, including 84 % of gun owners and 74 % of NRA members, supported universal background checks.

«As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets.

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.

He continued: «As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets.

All three of us are really passionate about supporting local businesses as well as giving back to local schools and organizations.

For example, we would have a ton of support from public school teachers, young men and young women who were social workers or probation officers.

After all, school administrators seek diversity in their classrooms because when a student of one race or ethnicity «supports» a student of another — intellectually, academically, or otherwise — it's a transfer that transcends whatever words or gestures are shared.

After high school, Tracy Lauren Marrow — aka Ice - T — found himself without many opportunities, often dealing drugs on the streets of Los Angeles to support himself.

Be Great Fest plans on offering support to Pencils of Promise, a local nonprofit that builds schools and education programs abroad, by donating $ 25,000 of the proceeds to the organization.

After many a group brainstorming session, Brian and his partners wrote down Public Supply's mission — «We create writing essentials in support of public - school arts» — but they didn't consider their job finished.

Sauder, which is currently the highest ranked school in North America for the international mobility of its graduates, according to the Financial Times, emphasizes the importance of global experience through its course content, as well as the support services it provides to students and graduates seeking work outside of Canada.

Pilots and crews of the Werewolves flew out in support of Fort Hood's Air Assault School in order to certify pilots and crews, and to also support the school's training of their stuSchool in order to certify pilots and crews, and to also support the school's training of their stuschool's training of their students.

The program, called PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism Through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports & Education), began after Republican - proposed legislation directed school districts away from zero - tolerance policies that led to expulsions and law enforcement referrals for «petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors.»