Sentences with phrase «quality schools because»

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Ours is showing you good people for you to meet regardless of whether they're down the block or across the city, and because of the accountability and transparency that's in Hinge — we show first name, last name, where you work, where you went to school, all these different aspects — it's much more geared towards quality interactions.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

As Kevin Concannon, the USDA's Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services recently told me, «A quality and nutritious school meal program can insure that all of the investments we're making in the buildings, in the materials, and in the teachers will pay off because there's lots of evidence showing that kids who eat healthier will learn better.»

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

Because the USDA houses the National School Lunch Program, and the agency's main job is to sell highly subsidized conventional crops (like corn, soybeans, rice, and wheat) and farmed foods (like dairy and beef), behemoths like Chartwells wind - up pushing cheap, low - quality surplus food into our schools.

Because of USDA's existing interlocking rings of protection, there have been no foodborne outbreaks in schools associated with USDA - purchased products in over 10 years, and USDA foods are equal to, and often exceed, the quality of their commercial counterparts.

Because students are much more selective, food service managers must market the school lunch programs, providing quality food and variety, Cinnamon says, or «they «re going to brown bag it or go out somewhere else.

Schools that offer poor - quality food because it is cheaper are telling children that what they eat is not important.

In high school, we were allowed to go off campus to eat lunch (this meant lots of Blimpie's subs and slices of pizza for me), which was just as well because the cafeteria food wasn't as good as it was at my previous schools, both in terms of taste and quality.

More than 6,300 youth organizations and 1,100 high schools signed up for Heads Up Football in 2015, improving the quality of the sport for their athletes (because they fell for our marketing).

«Because my school has a closed campus, it's either bring your own, buy low - quality food you don't like, or go hungry.»

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif said, «We are confident we're going to keep and grow our majority because Senate Republicans are focused on the issues that hardworking Long Island families are focused on — taxes, schools and quality of life.»

The redesigned School Quality Reports give high marks to schools with pass rates in the single digits because the administration would rather give parents a falsely rosy picture than admit schools are not performing.

State Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. says he is taking the unprecedented step of forcing Buffalo to send students from two high schools to take classes outside of the district because the city appears «incapable» of running «quality programs» there.

Lafayette, who served for 32 years in the Assembly before retiring, said he endorsed Dromm after years of working personally with him and also because of Dromm's «commitment and effectiveness on the issues that matter most to me, — better schools, more access to doctors and health care, and improved quality of life».

Basically, school quality varies because schools predominantly draw from quite narrow geographic areas and neighborhoods are extremely segregated by education, income, race and other demographic factors, by design.

Negron told reporters earlier in the day he met with two Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who sustained grievous injuries but had survived because of the quality of the care they received following the shooting.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

Currently however, due to shortsighted state policies, a new immigrant that does succeed likely does so in spite of his or her schooling, rather than because of the quality of his or her public education.

But there is persistent concern about the quality of some of the construction and this is because, local officials sometimes take bribes and allow construction companies to build things below standard and so we have a situation in the Sichuan province where the earthquake occurred, where schools were collapsing and collapsed at a much greater rate than other government buildings and the suspicion is of course that local officials have taken bribes and allowed the schools to be built this way.

Their quality of life suffered too, as those with higher genetic risk missed work and school more often and were more often admitted to the hospital because of asthma.

«I think that this research is going to have a long - term influence on how the community evaluates air quality and climate models, because the pH of particles is so important, yet mostly overlooked,» said Athanasios Nenes, a professor and Georgia Power Scholar in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and another co-author.

«White parents may be avoiding school districts where black and Latino children live because they use racial composition as a proxy for quality of a school and a neighborhood,» she said.

I started PMI Health Coaching School because I was sick & tired of the state of our health care system, the lack of knowledgeable and accessible coaches and the real obstacles health enthusiasts were having with NOT finding a cost conscious, quality health coaching sSchool because I was sick & tired of the state of our health care system, the lack of knowledgeable and accessible coaches and the real obstacles health enthusiasts were having with NOT finding a cost conscious, quality health coaching schoolschool.

However, I do agree that quality of education for public schools shouldn't vary, but unfortunately in NYC our teachers are paid close to nothing (constantly getting laid off because of budget cuts), as well as our NYPD.

There's so little jobs, and people expect you to have so many qualities you haven't had time to build up because you were in school.

But the pivotal question is does he suddenly care about spending quality time with her only because she's making him money, or will he also remember to attend her Fall Sing recital at school where she'll be soloing during the big finale, The Beatles» «All You Need Is Love.»

Despite the rhetoric dominating the national media, which gives the impression that our schools are struggling and that educator quality is to blame, 71 percent of parents give the school their oldest child attends an «A» or «B» (these numbers drop substantially when it comes to the national level, perhaps because of the media's rhetoric — a mere 18 percent give the nation's schools as a whole an «A» or a «B»).

Commenting on the project, Tony Halsall, Director of Business Services at the school, said, «At first it seemed an impossible task because we needed extensive high quality teaching and study facilities in a matter of weeks.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

Because prior research has shown that children from low - income families may be more sensitive to changes in school quality than children from more - advantaged backgrounds, we also separately examine the effects of spending on low - income and nonpoor children.

Chronic Absenteeism: Because the link between attendance and students» long - term success is so clear (and because most states already collect attendance data), chronic absenteeism is an obvious candidate for the «school quality» indBecause the link between attendance and students» long - term success is so clear (and because most states already collect attendance data), chronic absenteeism is an obvious candidate for the «school quality» indbecause most states already collect attendance data), chronic absenteeism is an obvious candidate for the «school quality» indicator.

People have been very slow to accept the fact that test scores are only weakly correlated with later life outcomes because it would be so convenient if readily available and relatively inexpensive test scores could capture something as complex as school quality.

Despite government's best efforts, the education quality has not improved in schools because of various reasons.

And because there are so many high - quality management organizations interested in expansion, little attention has been paid to providing support and incubation for new school operators.

School construction is a significant policy issue because without major renovations, upgrades, and new facilities, many schools are in such bad physical shape that they can not even begin to offer students a high - quality education.

Perhaps because of limited experience with different science disciplines, the girls closely associated their high school teachers» personal qualities with the attributes of the traditional scientific disciplines.

I have seen urban schools which incorporate cutting - edge approaches to teaching, but because of hiring or firing practices, the quality can vary greatly within the school.

These within - school differences likely understate the overall import of teacher effectiveness because, as recent evidence suggests, there are also differences in teacher quality across schools.

Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.

In her interview with Philanthropy Roundtable, she pointed to Florida as the great school - choice success story because of its «strong focus on offering high - quality options as a fundamental part of the choice program.»

He continued, «I think each class at HGSE has a defining quality, and I have come to think of your class as exceptionally big - hearted, in large part because of what I saw of your collective character after the election» — actions which included organizing a solidarity rally, participating in a dean's challenge looking to reduce bullying and discrimination in schools, and creating an art installation titled «Love in the Time of...».

Sir David said the system needed MATs to be able to take on good schools because «you want their capacity, you want their quality, you want something that they do which is different to come and join you».

Because these customized standards - based tests were designed (almost always with the assistance of an external test - development contractor) to be aligned with a state's curricular aspirations, it would seem that they would be ideal for appraising a school's quality.

And special education vouchers even improve the quality of services for the disabled students who remain in public schools because those schools risk losing students to the voucher program if they do not serve the students well.

People often claim that PM is different because its mission is only to maintain the quality of the portfolio of schools, not interfere in their operations.

She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»

Hernandez argues that because the developers of early childhood apps are trying to please parents and kids rather than school bureaucracies, we could see higher - quality apps emerge more quickly in this sector.

This is because many factors aside from the quality of a school district contribute to students» academic performance.

We actually disbanded the hierarchical structure, and one of the things that you will see is that we actually have an operational strand, because one of the things in a school is that there are so many operational things that have to happen day to day, every day, that have to run like clockwork so the teachers can do their quality teaching and learning.