Sentences with phrase «own vast schools»

Buffalo's vast school rehab program is winding down, with the Joint Schools Construction Board slated to go out of business June 30.

Earlier this week, an Assembly bill was approved that extends the ability of counties to keep a higher sales tax in place, while also continuing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over the city's vast school system for another two years.

The Design team worked to compile and organize the agency's vast school improvement resources into a toolkit Effectiveness Specialists can use and share with clients.

The principals and teachers of our schools are well - educated, motivated and committed people who are eager to share their faith and talents with the children in our vast school system.

This is where you can expect a great number of large pelagics, including vast schools of scalloped hammerhead sharks, manta rays, golden rays and dolphins.

We also used to see vast schools of spiny dogfish sharks in the San Juan Islands.

Vast schools of fish inhabit the waters around the coral heads, and the waters attract a plethora of wonderful sea life.

Walls crammed with colourful life and activity, sharks, turtles and vast schools of fish such as barracuda and jacks, and all the while the possibility of seeing something really exciting such as hammerheads or thresher sharks; this is what scuba divers from across the world flock to Pulau Sipadan to see.

Other world - class destinations on the Belize Barrier Reef include Shark Ray Alley, a section of the enormous Hol Chan Marine Reserve that is a natural cut in the reef where vast schools of harmless nurse sharks and stingrays transit from the deep ocean to the gentler interior side of the Caribbean.

Natural channels in the reef serve as «superhighways» for fish and other marine life, drawing in vast schools of stingrays.

Scuba divers do not come to South Male to look for pristine hard corals but rather to investigate colourful caves and overhangs, be surrounded by vast schools of reef fish, spot large pelagic fish, and marvel at the variety of colourful soft corals.

For snorkelers, the eerie blue waters and vast schools of fish nestling in the shelter of the atoll make Lighthouse Reef a must - see destination.

Vast schools of hammerhead sharks, colonies of sea lions and even gray whales are common here in this aquarium - like marine haven.

Every spring, vast schools of migrating whale sharks visit the outer part of the reef, consuming enormous quantities of fish spawn and plankton.

There are walls to dive, vast schools of fish to admire and marvellous macro marine life to hunt out on a muck dive.

Explore some of South East Asia's most famous dive sites... Apo Island, Siquijor and the Dauin Marine Sanctuaries are just some of the world class dive sites that delight with pristine corals, vast schools of fish and muck diving.

So far we've seen verdant forest settings and a spectacularly detailed underwater mission, complete with coral reefs and vast schools of fish, ducking beneath the Spec Ops divers as they stalk an enemy ship.

Not exact matches

It's intended to give graduates a solid background in both economics and finance, and like Schulich, has a vast network of partner schools you can opt to study abroad in.

Overall, the school admits 35 % of the candidates, turning down the vast majority of those who want to come to BU.

I'm on record as predicting the iPad and other e-readers will benefit old - school publishers less than they would like, even as they create vast new opportunities for non-traditional media creators.

Other companies now use OkCupid's vast trove of social data, and Yagan, a self - professed introvert who is married to his high school sweetheart, stands as the foremost authority in a fast - growing $ 2 billion industry.

While the number one slot on this list will shock absolutely no one and the rest of the top ten contain plenty of big name schools, PitchBook is at pains to point out that, while the most famous schools might produce the most successful founders, the vast majority of entrepreneurs bagging VC funding have more down - to - earth names on their degrees.

Every year the funding database sifts through its vast trove of data to product a report detailing which schools produce the most VC - backed founders, but this year's iteration draws on more data than ever before.

Blame it on their helicopter parents, Instagram, or the way the educational system has been schooling kids via group activities for decades — the vast majority of Millennials have no qualms about being the center of attention.

During their time at UPenn, students can take advantage of the school's vast resources, including 6.38 million books, 1.16 million e-books, and 136 research centers and institutes, which are accompanied by an annual research budget of $ 878 million to boot.

Having already read the book and shared some of its hiring tips, I knew Finkelstein, professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, gave Hillary Clinton high marks as a superboss, especially for her ability to develop a vast network of talent.

«Things like student loans and college expenses leave young people with vast amounts of debt before they even get out of school.

The vast majority of MBAs take the slightly more expensive GMAT exam, which is exclusively designed for graduate business school applicants.

The vast majority of these prizes have been given to Chicago School economists who are in effect shills for the financial sector.

It means we will be able to use that money to invest in our priorities at home, such as housing, schools and the NHS, and it means the days of paying vast sums to the European Union every year are coming to an end.

At the time, a movement was building to rein in zero - tolerance policies that had resulted in severe consequences for in - school infractions, the vast majority of which were only misdemeanors.

Once you join NYU's Stern School of Business, you'll become part of a vast international network of global entrepreneurs and self - starters.

WASHINGTON — Standing before vast crowds from Washington to Los Angeles to Parkland, Fla., the speakers — nearly all of them students, some still in elementary school — delivered an anguished and defiant message: They are «done hiding» from gun violence, and will «stop at nothing» to get politicians to finally prevent it.

A vast majority of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income kids, because their public schools tend to have the most problems.»

The vast majority of registered faith schools in England have a Christian faith designation, but there are also a small number of schools with other faith designations - including Muslim, Jewish and Sikh.

The reality of the situation is that the vast majority of the children in public schools in Saudi are muslim, and the statistic for non-muslims would be far less than 1 %.

The Church's public presence lifts people's hearts, and the service she gives — in Catholic schools, homes for the elderly, chaplaincies in prisons and hospitals, and the vast range of projects for the poor and disabled and so on — is generally appreciated.

They create schools for their «intelligent» children to attend, they pay for test preparation programs and tutors, they spend countless hours volunteering in their children's schools, they raise extraordinary amounts of money for these schools, and they call on their vast network of friends and relatives to get their children into preschools and magnet schools and universities.

They were built mostly after Independence in 1948, when the new government's policies of providing primary schools on a vast scale wiped out the missionary institutional efforts prior to that time.

If teachers, administrators, school boards, and parents catch a vision of schools as lifelong growth centers, the humanizing impact of this vast network of schools can be immense.

The vast majority of people who are educated beyond the level of high school know that evolution is far more reasonable and has more evidence to support it than do creationism or intelligent design.

In the following decades the vast expansion of higher education would take place overwhelmingly at state or municipal schools.

Professor Gerard V. Bradley has an interesting and thoughtful piece up today over at NRO, in which he laments the demise of numerous Catholic colleges / universities and encourages Catholics to bring the faith to secular schools (where the vast majority of Catholics are now being educated):

The University has recently opened a Benedict XVI Centre specialising in Catholic social teaching, and is proud of its particular links with Pope Emeritus Benedict, who addressed a vast crowd of children gathered there from schools across Britain on his State Visit in 2010.

In addition, the vast majority of religious people I know don't even contemplate this (which tells you their pastor, Sunday school teacher, etc. isn't bringing it up).

Chad Sarno has brought his unique culinary style to a vast array of projects throughout his career before joining Rouxbe Online Culinary School as VP of Plant - Based Education.

Today he runs a cooking school, sharing his vast knowledge of plant - based cuisine with the world.

The vast majority of people already see this regime as a success because «We won the NIT» and «We aren't a basketball school.»

The New Orleans Times - Picayune reported Miles» time at LSU «may be coming to an end,» with a highly ranked source saying a «vast majority» of boosters wanted him gone and listing potential replacements the school was targeting.

The story behind Russia's vast success at Squaw Valley was the same as it had been at Cortina: a massive sports program enveloping schools and clubs and labor unions and the military service, state encouragement, frequent outright aid to the specially talented, a fierce desire on the part of the individual to triumph, less for himself or his organization than for Mother Russia.