Sentences with phrase «pilot schools by»

Using this approach, BPS has created a network of small high schools, which includes 19 pilot schools (with plans to expand to 25 pilot schools by 2007); two Horace Mann charter schools; new, independent small schools; and schools with small learning communities.

King also discussed implementing a unified enrollment process that will make it easier for families to choose charter, magnet and pilot schools by putting them all on the same schedule.

Not exact matches

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.

Pilots, flights instructors engineers must complete secondary school and be certified by a flying or aviation school.

Pilots, flight instructors and flight engineers must have completed secondary school and be certified by a flying or aviation school.

Whether you are a practicing or retired pilot, you can share your aircraft flying knowledge and skills with others by setting up your own flight school.

Fuller, for example, was surprised by how positive the interaction and community - building has been among their online students, so the school began piloting Fuller Formation Groups, spiritual and leadership formation groups that meet virtually.

Adopted by the State Board of Education, the action guide includes lessons learned from the state's school nutrition policy pilot projects to help inform districts in implementing and developing their wellness policies.

He also said the village is forecasting even more savings thanks to a part of the pilot program that combines the individual newsletters sent out by the village, park district and School District 35.

In addition to the Barrow Brainbook education module, the full program piloted by the five Bay Area high schools will incorporate a formal exam, which students will need to pass before beginning a sport, as well as ImPACT cognitive testing.

Schools can participate by calling or emailing OSPI Child Nutrition Services: [phone] Fill out the USDA Pilot Project School Application Form OSPI will work with you to help you determine how much entitlement you would like to set aside, and making the allocation.

Wheaton — Sandburg Elementary School will host a presentation of a pilot lunch program prepared by the American Heart Association from 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 27.

By the end of the year, all 80 elementary schools will have them, and then they'll start piloting in the middle schools, followed by high schoolBy the end of the year, all 80 elementary schools will have them, and then they'll start piloting in the middle schools, followed by high schoolby high schools.

But that study helped stimulate a similar three - year pilot program in 15 schools statewide by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training program, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In a pilot venture with SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Stanford is launching two talk programs hosted by faculty members: The Future of Everything, focused on engineering, science and technology, and School's In, focused on teaching, learning and education.

These pilot programs were funded through the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom; along with SNF, the partners include the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF), and National Education Association Health Information Network (NEAHIN), and funded by the Walmart Foundation.

The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Prschool meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch PrSchool Lunch Program.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

The evaluation revealed that the nutrition integrity project had a positive impact beyond the schools that participated in the pilot; once the benefits of combi ovens were explained and publicized, other schools wanted to follow suit, either through the program or by finding other creative ways to finance their purchases.

The program started as a small pilot and was evaluated along the way by the School of Applied Sciences.

The non-fresh produce most typically offered by these schools during the pilot were dried cranberries, raisins and trail mix, along with canned mandarin oranges and applesauce.

Fullbloom Baking Company is owned by an amazing woman, Karen Trilevsky, who worked for months with the help of her team to develop recipes for the pilot universal breakfast program in the Berkeley Unified School District.

«This funding will be available to give relief to the city, school district and Chautauqua County and their taxpayers who would be severely hurt by the loss of the payment - in - lieu - of - taxes (PILOT) from the NRG power plant,» Young said.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone (middle) meets and speaks with children at New Lane Elementary school in Selden to mark the start of the Suffolk County School Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarschool in Selden to mark the start of the Suffolk County School Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarSchool Recycling Pilot Program, an initiative spearheaded by Bellone that seeks to to help school meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewarschool meet their NYS recycling mandate, reduce costs, and promote environmental stewardship.

«BE IT RESOLVED that the New Paltz Central School District Board of Education declares its opposition to any PILOT agreements that result in a reduction of real property taxes versus full taxation based on a full market value assessment determined by the New Paltz assessor's office; and

Last year, he announced a pilot pre-K program funded by $ 25 million in competitive grants which will serve 27 of New York's roughly 700 school districts.

There was just one unfunded recommendation, based on a free school meals pilot commissioned by the Labour government in 2009.

In terms of the mayor's statement about «serious negotiations» surrounding teacher evaluations, he is the one who walked away from $ 70 million in federal money by refusing to negotiate a 33 - school pilot program of the new evaluation system.

Students in kindergarten through third grade at nine low - income New York City schools will receive more than 24,000 books they can take home, as part of a pilot literacy project launched Tuesday by the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Department of Education, First Book, The American Federation of Teachers and The New York Community Trust.

In his State of the State speech on Jan. 9, Gov. Cuomo announced an ambitious education agenda for 2013 that includes full - day pre-kindergarten in the poorest areas, community schools such as those being piloted by the UFT this year, and a «bar - like exam» to qualify future teachers that was first proposed by the AFT.

Another challenge identified by the school is the limited use of Kotoka International Airport (KIA) for training their student pilots.

The small pilot study was led by Jeff Elias, MD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and also was conducted at Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle.

Almost two decades later, Meltzer, out of a wheelchair and walking without a cane, was one of 14 women with moderate disability due to MS who participated in a pilot trial conducted by the Rutgers School of Health Related Professions.

In order to better understand how to screen pilots and their supporting units for mental health concerns, Wayne Chappelle, chief of aerospace psychology at the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, has conducted research on the potential psychological issues faced by drone operators.

A team at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has succeeded in launching 50 drones that were all piloted by a single person

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

The effects are very good and the performances by a host of old school British thesps on auto - pilot are as reliable as you'd expect, but Radcliffe / Potter is still an annoyingly smug little brat and Rupert Grint does nothing but sniffle and yelp like a yappy lit...

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

And so it was with my recent introduction to the world of the Mission Hill School, a Boston area public pilot school, as captured by the filmmaking team of Tom and Amy VSchool, a Boston area public pilot school, as captured by the filmmaking team of Tom and Amy Vschool, as captured by the filmmaking team of Tom and Amy Valens.

As one of 10 (now 26) Massachusetts schools initially participating in a first - of - its - kind, statewide pilot initiative that allows schools to expand hours by 30 percent, the Edwards School is being watched around the country.

NAVARRO: During our check in for our governing council a month ago [note: each pilot school in Los Angeles is supported by a governing council], the first one of the year, my assistant principal asked the council, «Why Humanitas?»

On January 6, a team of researchers, led by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Thomas Kane and MIT Professor Joshua Angrist, released the results of a study of Boston's charter, pilot, and traditional public schools.

This reminds me of a study carried out by Rising Stars and Dave Whyley, headteacher and consultant of Learning Technologies at Wolverhampton City Council who ran an eBook pilot Learning2go project with schools, to assess their impact on engagement and reading.

The advisors, which cost around # 400 a day, are being recruited by the Department for Education, and will enter schools from January as part of a pilot.

Researchers looked at 67 schools where Mr. Hornbeck's education - reform plan was piloted last year and found that, in general, changes were taking hold and were viewed favorably by those involved.

This report, developed by Catherine Awsumb Nelson, synthesizes the findings of a four - year evaluation of the A + Schools Program pilot in 25 North Carolina Schools.

Nairobi, Kenya 5 March 2015 — A new report launched today by Future First Global shows the transformative impact alumni are having in the employment potential for secondary school students Nairobi, The report «An Alumni Community for Every School: Learning from Kenya pilot programmes» examines a two year pilot programme across fifteen schools in Naschool students Nairobi, The report «An Alumni Community for Every School: Learning from Kenya pilot programmes» examines a two year pilot programme across fifteen schools in NaSchool: Learning from Kenya pilot programmes» examines a two year pilot programme across fifteen schools in Nairobi.

In 2016, the GLC initiated a pilot project to develop practitioner action research to investigate problems of practice identified by each school in their strategic planning documents.

New American High Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategies.

This approach has been welcomed by the 13 primary schools involved in the pilot.