Sentences with phrase «public during most of the year»

Open to the public during most of the year, this is truly a sight to behold.

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«This year we decided to air this new commercial during the middle of the harvest season, while awareness is high and we are most apt to capture the public's attention with the important message that Idaho Potatoes are extremely good for you,» said Frank Muir, President, CEO, IPC.

Its economic woes aside, the horse racing industry has reached a critical state in regard to public confidence — that is, among the millions who watch it more for pleasure than for profit — and it has reached that point over the last few years because of the near carnage that has been taking place during some of the game's most celebrated events, most notably in the nationally televised Breeders» Cup itself and the Triple Crown.

During the last school year, most Chicago public schools did not offer recess, regular nutrition classes or more than 40 minutes of physical education a week.

The report's most shocking revelation — that Ponte had traveled out of the state, often to coastal Maine, 28 times during the course of 2016, and had been out of the state on personal business nearly a quarter of the calendar year — led to a public outcry.

During the years of the Pataki Administration, the state raised its tobacco tax, enacted one of the nation's most sweeping restrictions on smoking in public places and in work environments.

The amount appears to be more than double the previous record for spending by any lobbying client during these months, a time of year when most political activity is directed toward elections and lobbying campaigns rarely top a few hundred thousand dollars, according to information maintained by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

«I am confident that she will fight for the issues most important to New Yorkers just as she did as Speaker of the City Council and during her many years as a public servant and advocate.»

The other, with an attractive and comfortable district in Queens, containing my political base and longtime roots, most of which I have represented during my 34 years in public office.

In recent years, initial public offering (IPOs) have been in the limelight, and during the IPO boom of 1999 and early 2000 this was the most glamorous and visible type of exit route.

Despite a wave of patriotic fervor washing over the country during the past year, most Americans expect schools to teach children the bad as well as the good about U.S. history and government, a survey by Public Agenda reveals.

During the 2005 — 06 school year, the most recent year for which U.S. Department of Education data are available, the nation's public schools spent $ 187 billion in salaries and $ 59 billion in benefits for instructional personnel.

Most of the incidents were said to have occurred during the 1990 - 91 school year and to have involved students who graduated from the public school this...

During the eight years (2007 to 2014) that the Education Next (EdNext) poll has been administered to a representative sample of American adults (and, in most of these years, to a representative sample of public school teachers), we have seen only minimal changes from one year to the next on such important issues as charter schools, merit pay, teacher tenure, teachers unions, and tax credits that fund private - school scholarships.

And, in fact, Nocera ignores most of the last 150 years of American history, during which time our public school system did rather well educating poor people.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Most public school teachers participate in some form of professional development (PD) during each school year.

Scheduled time during the contract year (e.g., weekdays in which students were not in school, allowing teachers to participate in professional development activities) was the most prevalent type of support that public school teachers received for professional development, provided to 79 percent of teachers.

The STAAR is taken by most Texas public school students in spring of each year during grades three through twelve.

The STAAR, State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, is taken by most Texas public school students in spring of each year during grades three through twelve.

But during the last year, ever since the Mayor meekly crawled to Albany to beg for a one - year extension, the sticking point in negotiations over the renewal of mayoral control has been the urgency of expanding NYC's public charter school sector, de Blasio's favorite whipping boy, which now serves one out of ten students in NYC, most of them poor and of color.

In public education, for example, most research points to teachers dramatically increasing their effectiveness during their first few years of teaching and then maintaining that effectiveness throughout their career.

For example, the most recent annual report from the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives states that 89 percent of the students attending public schools in New Orleans during the 2012 - 2013 school year were black and that 82 percent of all students qualified for free or reduced price lunch, a common measure of poPublic Education Initiatives states that 89 percent of the students attending public schools in New Orleans during the 2012 - 2013 school year were black and that 82 percent of all students qualified for free or reduced price lunch, a common measure of popublic schools in New Orleans during the 2012 - 2013 school year were black and that 82 percent of all students qualified for free or reduced price lunch, a common measure of poverty.

Subscribers Only — Most service - dog organizations rely heavily on volunteers to welcome the organization's puppies into their homes — and hearts — for more than a year, during which time the volunteers are responsible for teaching basic obedience, impeccable house manners, and how to be confident and calm in a variety of public settings.

Most service - dog organizations rely heavily on volunteers to welcome the organization's puppies into their homes — and hearts — for more than a year, during which time the volunteers are responsible for teaching basic obedience, impeccable house manners, and how to be confident and calm in a variety of public settings.

The exhibition introduces a wide public to a new generation of British artists, providing a vital overview of the most exciting art produced in this country during the previous five years.

While most prestigious museums disdain the art of the moment or restrict it to the occasional one - person exhibition, the Whitney attempts the nearly impossible task of telling the public what has been going on in art over the past two years and, theoretically, what might happen during the next two.

That's because they are busy organizing this year's Bushwick Open Studios, our beloved annual event where artists working in Bushwick invite the public into their studios during what is always one of the most exciting weekends in the neighborhood.

In contrast to most of the other works — wall - mounted sculptures and works on paper spanning about 20 years — that will go on public view during Friday night's reception Number 28, once it's completed, will look like it's in a state of collapse, with the bags tumbling into the viewer's space.

Headlines like «2014: The Most Dishonest Year on Record» have been posted on climate skeptic blogs, such as Watts Up With That, and a commentator for the popular British newspaper The Daily Mail all but accused NASA of lying to the press and the public about global temperatures, despite the open discussion of uncertainties both in NASA's press materials and during a press conference with audio that is publicly accessible.

During 16 years of public service to the City of Palo Alto, Kathy created one of the most successful Safe Routes to School programs in the nation, and it has been a model for many others.

During his career at Bombardier Recreational Products, a manufacturer of motorised recreational vehicles that was formerly part of the wider Bombardier group, Langelier has played an important role in the company's initial public offering which was selected as the most successful IPO of the year in Canada.

Long the most notable ethereum project, The DAO, short for distributed autonomous organization, raised $ 150m in ether - the cryptocurrency of the ethereum network - earlier this year during a public crowdsale.