Sentences with phrase «out by former students»

The law gained traction last year when the Department of Education used it to cancel loans taken out by former students of for - profit chain Corinthian Colleges Inc..

The attack was carried out by a former student wielding an assault - style rifle who strode into one of the school buildings and opened fire.

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Hundreds of students at the school, just over the county line from the site of last week's school shooting, came together Tuesday morning for a moment of silence and to make sense of the deadly assault carried out by a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student.

Veteran analyst of the press (and former presidential press secretary), Bill Moyers, considering a classic moment of media failure, concluded: «The disgraceful press reaction to Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations [on February 5, 2003] seems like something out of Monty Python, with one key British report cited by Powell being nothing more than a student's thesis, downloaded from the Web — with the student later threatening to charge U.S. officials with «plagiarism.»»

Inspired by the Oscar - winning film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Kat Sullivan, a former Emma Willard student who was raped by her history teacher at the elite Troy private school, rented out three electronic billboards — one of which is in Albany — to highlight her experience and support the Child Victims Act.

Independent review The independent review of student funding, led by former BP boss Lord Browne, which could pave the way for higher fees, is due out in the autumn.

Wednesday's national walkout — which lasted 17 minutes — was organized in the days after the deadly rampage carried out by former Stoneman Douglas student Nikolas Cruz, 19, who police said used a semiautomatic AR - 15 rifle.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

In light of the Aurora, Colorado, shootings, which resulted in the deaths of 12 people and was allegedly carried out by a troubled former graduate student in neuroscience, it's a compelling question.

These categories describe two low - probability but statistically significant scenarios that could play out by century's end, in a new study by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and his former Scripps graduate student Yangyang Xu, now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

It stood out as the biggest ever donation given to a university's sports department by one of its former students.

As advocated by the 22 - member panel chaired by former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, both bills would expand the Congressionallymandated National Assessment of Educational Progress to provide state - by - state data, measure learning in more core subjects, include out - of - school 17 - year - olds, and provide a larger sampling of private - school students.

In work published in 1997, Susan Mayer, former dean of the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies, tried to answer this question by carrying out a variety of tests, each of them an attempt to see exactly how much changes in income directly affect student achievement.

I think about a former, Polynesian student of mine, who was completely immersed in black hip - hop culture, yet seemed worried she would offend me by saying my race out loud during a class discussion on immigration and ethnic backgrounds.

Plays about the President: George Washington asks students to remember more than just a few facts about our country's former leader by acting out a class play.

As the former principal of this school, which follows the Big Picture Learning philosophy of — one student at a time — and seeks to connect students to their interests and passions, I know the other variables at play, e.g. over 75 % are chronically truant (not a new practice they develop but one that's existed for some time), thought the school serves about 140 students, it's not unusual that nearly double that figure are served in a given year (it's the nature of serving students in foster care and others that are highly mobile), over 2/3 are transfer students who were «counseled out» by other LAUSD district and charter schools.

The two other teachers left the school and now it is solely operated by Miller, who teaches her granddaughter, a neighbor's child and a student with special needs out of her home in rural Thomasville, 30 minutes away from its former location.

As more and more facts come out about Michael Sharpe, the CEO of the Jumoke / FUSE Charter School Management company, parents, public school advocates and the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut are turning their attention to the decision by Paul Vallas and former Bridgeport Board of Education, Chairman Kenneth Moales, Jr. to hand over Bridgeport's Dunbar School, its students, staff, parents and millions of dollars in public funds to the disgraced charter school fraud.

Karen Miller, parent leader in Texas and a former state PTA legislative chair points out: «Texas was one of the first states to reduce class size, with caps of 22 students in grades K - 4, adopted by Governor Mark White and the Legislature in 1984.

Outside of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington D.C.Navient, the nation's largest servicer of federal and private student loans, was charged by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with cheating borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans, resulting in higher interest rates and balances.According to CFPB, Navient, the former -LSB-...]

This is an unofficial site assembled and maintained out of respect and admiration by one of Nick's former students, Larry Groff.

Former students who have been dismissed by the Academic Standards Committee or to whom the Academic Standards Committee has given permission to withdraw in lieu of dismissal and who have been out of The Cooper Union for more than two years (four semesters) must apply through the regular admission procedure at the time of anticipated return.

[A] paper by a former University of California Energy and Resources Group faculty member and a student now on the faculty at Stanford [«Risks of the oil transition,» A. E. Farrell and A. R. Brandt] lays this out in a figure where each axis alone is cause for major worry, and together, the carbon intensity / barrel combined with the fact that if unconventional oil is now part of the resource, we have a not near «peak oil, but are, in fact, only about 1 / 50th of the way through this resource.

Assisting former employees of a closed steel works and advising the homeless were among the examples of work carried out by winners at this year's LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards.

The point, said Agarwal, a former global head of product marketing at Google (s GOOG), is to help kickstart college students» careers by pushing opportunities to them, rather than by forcing them to search for or seek out alumni and opportunities they probably don't even know exist.

Emma Gonzalez, whose speech in favor of gun control went viral four days after 17 people were killed by a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, spoke out against her state's Republican senator, Marco Rubio, who has doubted that proposed gun laws would have prevented the massacre.