Sentences with phrase «regular public system»

At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.

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With only 20 percent of the system working a month later, public utility companies can not restore regular water, internet, and phone service.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Back in April we detailed a system for betting against the public during the regular season that has gone 314 - 380 (+112.45 units, 16 % ROI) since 2005 including a 16 - 13 mark (+11.72 units, 40 % ROI).

Because it's unrealistic to bet every match with this system due the sheer volume of games in the regular season, filtering the public betting percentage down to < 23 % of moneyline bets results in a much higher ROI of +7 % and more than +60 units won (overall record of 325 - 538).

To create a winning system for College Basketball Betting Against the Public, we first created a new spread system and set the season type to include both regular season and postseason games.

Even that's not necessary, as the public transportation system on the island is excellent — with big, new, clean buses on a regular schedule.

With all the talk of Gov. Andrew Cuomo potentially pushing to reunify the IDC and so - called «regular» Democrats as payback for the Republicans» refusal to support a statewide public campaign finance system, I thought it would be worth checking it with the lone Democrat who is actually conferencing with the GOP: Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System is offering six hands - on eReader informational computer labs in addition to all of the regular computer training classes scheduled in libraries this spring and summer.

It has been found that eight months after its introduction 19 % of participants were regular users of the public bicycle system, increased their weekly energy expenditure significantly and reduced their body mass index (BMI).

Many of the parents who initially supported the idea of integrating special education students into regular education classrooms in Portland are now worried about how the Portland Public School System is doing it.

Only two schools in the entire state earned the top designation under Arizona's school ratings system unveiled Oct. 15 — in a place that's home to 1,800 regular public schools and about 500 charter schools.

Systems for public grading of samples of students» regular class work would carry the concept of standards - based assessment still further.

Unified open - enrollment systems that encompass as many choices as possible from the regular public, charter, private, and virtual school universes are essential to the expansion of choice and competition in K — 12 education.

The system routinely provides $ 29,000 for high - income students attending regular public schools.

EdSource Today is tracking the six unified districts — Elk Grove, Garden Grove, Fresno, San Jose, Santa Ana and Visalia — and the Aspire Public Schools charter system as a regular feature of our coverage of the Common Core State Standards.

Transforming education in the District of Columbia into an all - ESA district — establishing a truly universal policy to create education savings accounts for every DC student — would transform the existing school finance system from one that is based on student enrollment counts in boundary - defined regular public schools to one that is student - centered and responsive to the needs of individual families.

We're often accused of being hostile to the regular public - school system, but our real gripe is with its near - monopoly — which leaves it free to keep on serving the interests of its «stakeholders» rather than the students.

Instead of funding a system of schooling that remunerates regular public schools based on enrollment, funding for K — 12 education in DC could go directly into a parent - controlled education savings account.

If that meant departing, even radically, from the regular public school system, then so be it.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner called last week for a moratorium on new charter and cyber charter schools, pending an overhaul of a funding system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in how taxpayers finance those alternatives to regular public schools.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

In fact, the U.S. media often reports on problems with the public education system, with regular news stories, investigations and analyses.

«Otherwise it creates a downward spiral, where every public school has an incentive to convert to a charter and / or every family has an incentive to choose a better - funded charter school, leaving fewer and fewer students — and less and less funding — in the regular school system to cover the legacy costs.»

Public Employees» Retirement System, Summary Plan Description for Regular Members Enrolled on or after July 1, 2015.

Appointed in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein transformed the city's public - school system by promoting privately managed charter schools to replace regular public schools, by increasing the consequences for principals and teachers of standardized tests, and by attacking union - sponsored due process and seniority provisions for teachers.

About 93 percent attend regular public schools and 7 percent attend schools administered by the U.S. government's Bureau of Indian Affairs, a system of 184 schools for educating American Indian students spread over 23 states.

The funds for charter schools are removed from regular public schooling budgets and paid to various private firms and organizations (and sometimes other parts of a state's education system) to provide a wider choice of schools.

Adopting a system of regular and open communication with customers, dealers, employees and the public, starting with a designated service line and website, as well as a letter to each affected customer.

Greater Victoria is one of the few places in North America where double - decker buses are used in the regular public transit system.

Technical equipment includes such facilities as regular power supply, stand alone water supply system with additional water filtering, combined air conditioning system: individual conditioner in hotel accommodations and central conditioning in the premises of public use.

Mexico City has many modes of public transportation, from the metro (subway) system, to suburban rail, light rail, regular buses, BRT (bus rapid transit), «pesero» minibuses, and trolleybuses, to bike share.

[105] This is problematic since regular disqualifications impose a cost on both the justice system and the public.

➜ Achievements • Implemented a tally system at the airline for manifest to on - board count which reduced manual counting labor • Trained 20 new employees regarding departure documents verification • Maintained professional public relations with regular passengers, enhancing business by 10 % in one year

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