Sentences with phrase «public school years ago»

He learned English himself while attending a Los Angeles public school years ago.

Rhee implemented a teacher evaluation and merit pay system known as IMPACT before she resigned from chancellor of Washington, D.C. public schools a year ago.

Not exact matches

Harvard Business School did a study: If you invested a dollar 20 years ago in a select portfolio of public companies focused just on growing their businesses, that dollar would've grown to $ 14.46.

These worlds were needed hundreds and thousands of years ago to explain mysteries that today are explained and understood as nature in public school classes.

Several years ago, the National Education Association reported that about twenty percent of our public school teachers could profit from psychotherapeutic help because of minor emotional difficulties.

This line of separation has become less acute than it was fifty years ago when the famous Dayton trial over the right to teach evolution in the public schools took place, and in the same year of 1925 Harry Emerson Fosdick had to leave the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City because of his theological views.

But the same thing happens in school gyms and soccer fields and ice rinks that happened in that public pool all those years ago: my faith in humanity is restored.

When the Supreme Court struck down «balanced treatment» of creation and evolution in public schools ten years ago, the Justices hoped they had closed the issue.

This is your standard school - type English 11 textbook, of the sort I haven't used since I taught English 11 in public school twenty - three years ago.

Twenty years ago, when I wrote the amicus curiae brief for the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA) in the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman — the landmark case on aid to parochial schools — I truly believed we could win.

When Culinary and Nutrition Service Director Bertrand Weber joined Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) two and a half years ago, implementing a salad bar program was a top priority.

As someone who «accidentally» became a homeschooler (bad public school experience), and as someone who only intended, three years ago, to homeschool for a few months, I would say homeschooling is definitely worth trying.

When we started our search for kindergarten for our daughter 8 years ago, we were overwhelmed with the complexity of the admissions process of the public schools.

I know it may sound a little weird, but ever since Laurel entered the public school system 7 years ago, I've thought a lot about school supplies.

In March, the Boards of Directors of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education and the Association of Waldorf School of North America signed a letter renewing the mandate of the Joint Venture Committee, formed one year ago, to implement... more

Although Waldorf - methods education is relatively new to American public schools, the Waldorf education movement began over 80 years ago.

So when she took over the Berkeley public school cafeterias three years ago, she nixed junky chicken nuggets, burgers, and fries.

20 years ago when we started our public school adventure with our severe allergy child there were really no rules in place for allergy kids like ours.

In truth, what I'm most worried about is not deep fryers, since schools may not want to invest in equipment they only just got rid of a few years ago, but instead the clear message coming from the TDA, through Mr. Miller's public statements, that junk food is not a big deal.

When Culinary and Nutrition Service Director Bertrand Weber joined Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) two and a half years ago, implementing a salad bar program was a top priority.

While California banned smoking near playgrounds and on beaches years ago, Deerfield made the first such foray in Illinois in 2005, restricting smoking in parks, open space, school grounds and public sidewalks within 25 feet of an entrance.

Two years ago here on BrightonYourHealth, we focused a lot of energy on this topic and fueled the public's interest by providing a successful analysis comparing thirty days of typical school menus in France to America (interested in seeing these articles click on category: school lunch on top of this page).

There was once an NPR segment a few years ago about the school lunch program at the Berkeley public schools that was great.

Just about one year ago, we were checking in with some of our Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom districts to see how their first year of breakfast - in - the - classroom was progressing; check out what Sandy Huisman, Director of Food & Nutrition Management in Des Moines, Iowa and with Amy Dennes, Regional Assistant Superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools, had to say about the value of BIC.

When Zephyr Teachout, then a little - known Fordham Law School professor, challenged Cuomo in a primary four years ago, one of the state's largest public workers unions, PEF, endorsed her, while NYSUT decided to sit out the governor's race entirely, declining to pick a favorite.

Three years ago, when the public perception was of a normal «kinda» guy who took his children to school and made it home for bath - time, 36 per cent of women backed the Tories, compared to 31 per cent for Labour.

«Since my first day on the job a little over a year ago, I've been listening to parents, teachers, school administrators and the public — seeking their expertise on how we can improve.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

That is part of the ideology Fried had when putting together the Buffalo Public Schools All City Jazz Ensemble years ago.

The budget also provides an overall funding increase for public schools of 4 percent, although for some districts, the increases will not make up for a budget maneuver enacted seven years ago during a financial meltdown in Albany.

Long Island's public schools, after more than $ 80 million spent on cleanup, repairs and renovations from damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, still lack adequate safeguards against flooding and power losses that caused massive disruptions of classes five years ago, educators said.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D - Manhattan)-- who has been pushing legislation since June that would require the city to install bollards in front of schools, public plazas and busy corridors — said the bike path should have been made safer years ago.

A source close to Nick Clegg said that it was a matter of public record that he had attended Westminster school and that he had «no idea» whether the school employed any unqualified teachers thirty years ago.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

He pointed out that 96 percent of the state's public school teachers were rated effective or highly effective under the teacher evaluation plan he proposed two years ago.

Both main parties persist in favouring faith schools despite their wide unpopularity — a poll a year ago showed that 80 % of the public wanted to keep the cap (including 67 % of Catholics) and an earlier poll for the Westminster Faith Debates found 45 % against and only 32 % in favour of any government funding of faith schools.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

«Quebec introduced an insurance - based drug coverage system 20 years ago that was supposed to save taxpayers money,» said Steve Morgan, a professor in the school of population and public health at UBC and lead author of the study.

While an HPV vaccine became available over 10 years ago, a study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds that there is «substantial» room for improvement in the way it is recommended and discussed.

«We had the idea for this study more than seven years ago, but it took the laboratory three months to finish quantifying telomere length for just 100 samples, which was not enough to draw any meaningful conclusions,» said Yuan, also a professor of epidemiology at Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

Five years ago, the small community that studies dengue began discussing challenge trials, which made some people nervous, says Anna Durbin of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

This was more than 15 years ago in a public school in Colombia; I did not have access to computers at that time and my text books were not advanced enough to have all the explanations for all the experiments we conducted in the lab.

Right before my birthday 8 years ago, I went to volunteer at our local public school but they offered me a part time job.

When Mayra Valle entered YES Prep North Central in the public charter school's first sixth - grade class six years ago, it was a shock to her system.

As just one example, interviewing students in a San Francisco Bay Area high school a few years ago I was repeatedly told about a known student drug dealer who administrators were hurriedly trying to help graduate rather than risk exposing the school to a public scandal.

Fourteen years ago, after 20 years in public education, I was hired by a private school that let me teach what I wanted, how I wanted.

Located along Michigan's southern border with Ohio, the Bedford Public Schools (BPS) recognized several years ago that to better prepare students for the future workforce, it must refocus on developing critically thinking problem solvers who can communicate effectively.

Ransome points to well - known public, diverse, all - girls success stories such as Baltimore's Western High School, founded in 1844, which boasted a 100 percent college placement last year, and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, established nearly 200 years ago, which counts among its graduates a federal judge, an opera singer, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the first female head of the Black Panthers.

The arrival of a new superintendent, Dr. David Gayler, in the Charlotte County (Florida) Public Schools about three years ago also shifted the district's focus to customer service, according to Michael Riley, a district spokesman.