Sentences with phrase «running schools by»

For as long as anyone can remember parents have played a part in running schools by being governors, that could now end.

In addition, the teachers» unions objected to running schools by means of a governing body, saying it would diminish the status of the principal and undermine the teacher's professional authority.

Our team can help evaluate the business of running a school by reviewing financial infrastructure and identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement all while freeing school leaders to focus on their mission — educating kids.

Not exact matches

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

I made sure to mention BYU, knowing that David Neeleman is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints and has ties to the school, which is run by the LDS Church.

Beth's email to members of Yale's administration triggered the school's sexual - assault adjudication process, which is run by the University - Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.

Likewise, Key Clubs run by dedicated school administrators or instructors can become catalysts for volunteering and fundraising.

The EMBA program offers students consulting experience through SFU's Learning Strategies Group, a consulting service run by the school.

Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.

Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.

For his part, Abe is facing cronyism scandals in Japan related to the discounted sale of government land to a private school and the approval of a new veterinary school run by one of the Prime Minister's friends.

To find them, we decided to visit Web sites run by the top 50 U.S. business schools.

Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school — as well as boost their entrepreneurial education by forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.

It's run by the school's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and contains over 1,000 anole lizards from six Caribbean islands.

Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

In this film, the pastor and a nun, played by Ingrid Bergman, attempt to save a run - down parochial school on the verge of being closed down.

Both are business - oriented by nature; Lindahl juggled five jobs to pay for New York University and Simmons ran a Web development shop in high school.

Run by the Harvard Business School's Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social Enterprise Initiative, the HBS New Venture Competition provides an integrative learning experience for all participants.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

From being a straight D student in high school, to building a real estate colossus she'd sell for $ 66 million, to reinventing herself in media topped by her star - turns on «Shark Tank,» Barbara Corcoran runs on pluck, gumption, street smarts and lessons her mother taught her, which she shares on this memorable episode of «All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett.»

Run by EduAce Services Pvt. Ltd, the startup works with schools and students on their co-scholastic learning needs.

Another important cooperative venture is the Community Co-Mingled Recycling Scheme which is jointly run by Talison Lithium and the school.

CasePlace.org was run by the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, which is dedicated to helping business schools prepare their students to be responsible stewards of the environment and society.

Apple is looking to reassert dominance in U.S. schools, where inexpensive laptops running software from Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft Corp now top iPad by sales, offering a cheap way to get to cloud - based productivity tools.

They have taken on the toughest customers by rolling CareMessage out in the most underserved communities, some of which include charitable clinics run out of the back of a church or free clinics affiliated with a medical school.

But here's what this data really means: Each year, nearly every student at an American public school is trained to cower under a desk or run for their lives to avoid being murdered by a gunman.

And Robert Locke recently wrote a book on business school education pointing out that the whole focus of business school education now was to have industrial companies run by financial managers — not salesmen, not production end, not lawyers, but financial managers.

The fund is still in operation, being run by current graduate students at the school.

The New York Post: Wheel strict: Hasidic schools banning bikes Hasidic schools run by the United Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn are putting the brakes on kids riding bicycles to school, warning parents in a letter that students will be expelled for any free - wheeling offense.

Private schools have more leave - way, but still if they are funded by multiple groups, they run the risk of offending one if they exclude them.

This is one reason, when looking for a catholic college for my children, we will steer as far away from schools run by Jesuits as possible.

I am a Catholic (by Catholic I mean, regularly attend church, send my children to Catholic school, and work in many ministries) I also use contraception, but I don't think that organizations the church runs should have to pay for anything they oppose — even it I don't oppose it.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

Mormons do not run religious schools that take public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that is a practice approved by the Supreme Court in states with substantial numbers of parochial schools.

Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would be the uncontested law of the land, every school child would be indoctrinated in the joys of gay sex, home schooling would be prohibited, church schools would be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool children would be mandatory, churches would not be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would be a criminal offense.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

3rd, It's a little confusing that the adult entertainment industry, one of the most socially destructive industries there is, is highlighted but foster and adopt ministries, hospitals, schools, relief organizations, homeless ministries, special needs ministries, nursing home ministries, pregnancy crisis ministries, prison ministries and a host of other ministries, most often sponsored and run by the organized churches of multiple denominations, is ignored.

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

For example, if their USA school was one run by the Westboro Baptist Church, it's likely that Christian children would not be representative of Christian children as a whole!

Cameron is a long - time supporter of faith schools, and he oversaw the introduction of free schools, a number of which are run by faith - based organisations.

The Humanists, or the militants among them, and the neo-modernists who run by their side, are the most active in calling for the abolition of «divisive» schools.

we were locked up in christian run schools that were often staffed by people that had been excommunicated from thier respective faiths because of abuse and corruption.

Many of these institutions are known for excellence: seven of the leading 25 part - time law school programs in America are Catholic (five are run by Jesuits).

At the age of fifteen, he became a pupil in a school at Niesky, which was run by Moravian brethren.

Elmhurst was a small, then - unaccredited school run by his denomination, the Evangelical Synod of North America, now part of the United Church of Christ.

Here's a thought — so long as schools are «public», e.g. run by the government, which is supposed to NOT favor any religion, how about we not have ANY religious holidays.

I quote from the «executive summary» of the report's cold and methodical scrutiny of schools run principally by the Christian Brothers but also by some other Congregations, written after an examination in detail of the documentary evidence of abuse contained in the records of the establishments concerned.

The city these days was full of high schools run by the government, and by other religious groups, the Hindus and Sikhs.

The Catholic school where I teach has been run by a religious order of brothers for the last forty years.