Sentences with phrase «school about a block»

There's a newer charter school about a block away across the street.

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«A New Hope» is a brutally dark anthem about the days after Columbine, only a few short blocks from the bands practice studio, and it is disclosure into the thoughts of high school students.

- Christian liberal arts college which forced at least two professors to resign for legalistic reasons - Non-denominational church in which several of us who were leaving after a Sunday School class to attend worship services at another church were confronted by the main pastor in the parking lot who literally blocked our exit until we satisfied his curiousity about why we were leaving.

That being said, Goedert is from a small school and his blocking ability is suspect as well, not to mention he's been hobbled since the Senior Bowl, so I have reservations about us taking him at 27.

Turnaround for Children, the school - transformation nonprofit that produced the building - blocks paper I wrote about earlier, tries to address similar wounds in the young people it serves.

Back in early April, right before episode one of the current season aired, I posted a comment on TLT which said: «My biggest gripe is about the way JO portrays the schools as being the stumbling block, rather than the lack of funding.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

He lets them walk about a mile to school from his house but somehow them on the bus (which drops them off a block from their friends house that they walk to school with) is bad, bad, bad.

We're not that hard on the thing - walking about ten blocks to school three - ish times a week, and maybe two other outings in the neighborhood in between.

Things like sing along music and nursery rhymes, books and toys which help teach children about their world help to create those initial building blocks which will be the foundation for a happy school life in years to come.

The National School Boards Association and the School Nutrition Association, which represents 55,000 school food workers and gets about half of its revenue from the industry, backed a rider in the last omnibus spending bill to block future limits until there is more science to justifySchool Boards Association and the School Nutrition Association, which represents 55,000 school food workers and gets about half of its revenue from the industry, backed a rider in the last omnibus spending bill to block future limits until there is more science to justifySchool Nutrition Association, which represents 55,000 school food workers and gets about half of its revenue from the industry, backed a rider in the last omnibus spending bill to block future limits until there is more science to justifyschool food workers and gets about half of its revenue from the industry, backed a rider in the last omnibus spending bill to block future limits until there is more science to justify them.

(For the uninitiated, the Fort Orange Club, which is within about a block of the state Capitol, is a regular hangout of Senate Republicans — particularly those of the old school — while Prime is the preferred dinner / dinks locale for Klein and his fellow IDCers).

The second item was about some school district «carve out» blocks on 12 Street North — residents of these blocks were unhappy about being zoned out of PS 41.

«If David Cameron is really serious about protecting our children he should stop blocking compulsory sex and relationship education in our schools which could teach all our children zero tolerance of violence in relationships and greater resilience against online abuse,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said.

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit claiming that refugees in Utica, a Rust Belt city located about four hours north of New York City, have been illegally blocked from attending the local high school.

Tello says he was about three blocks from the school when bullets tore into the truck.

The Buffalo Public Schools have been hit with a lawsuit claiming the administration of McKinley High School actively blocked the formation of a Gay - Straight Alliance at the school and the district is not doing anything about the discriminSchool actively blocked the formation of a Gay - Straight Alliance at the school and the district is not doing anything about the discriminschool and the district is not doing anything about the discrimination.

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

But it's also reminded me that citizens, when they come up to you, and they want to talk about a situation on their block, or at their child's school, or something going on at their job site, that that's what this campaign is all about — and I'll never forget that.»

He did not refer by name to Moskowitz or her Success Academy, but he did speak about «a charter school with 194 children,» which would appear to be Success» Harlem 4 school, which was one of the blocked co-locations.

He said the activity of sand winning has affected the provision of public infrastructure such as school blocks, affected farming activities and brought about various...

Later in the afternoon a half a block away, about a dozen people including Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan turned out for a «State of Our Community Meeting»... «When I go into our schools, our kids are saying the same things that the adults say.

Public School 24 Assistant Principal Manny Verdi slapped state Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz with the $ 9 million suit Tuesday, claiming Dinowitz tried to push him out of his job and made false statements about him in retaliation for exposing an alleged scheme to block new students.

The final deal reached between the de Blasio administration and local City Council Members Vanessa Gibson and Fernando Cabrera is projected to bring 4,600 new homes to the 95 - block rezoned area, according to the mayor's office, and includes two new schools, about $ 56 million in parks investments, and other community benefits.

Now cancer researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, have shown that blocking LDH - A, using a technique called RNA interference (ScienceNOW, 10 November 2004), lowers the growth rates of cancer cells by about 100 fold.

We are taught in Acupuncture school about Qi and the meridian system and how when Qi is blocked there is pain and disease.

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Really, the unspoken subtext of «Old School» is anxiety — about women, about commitment, about settling for a mundane life, about becoming dismembered (and I use the term quite precisely) when a fraternity prank involving rope and concrete blocks goes horribly wrong.

Kid stuff: On My Block: Season 1, a drama about four friends in South Central LA, is a high school series for teens and tweens.

While schools often are required to ask students for proof that they live within a district, school officials essentially are barred from asking about immigration status and can not block a child's access to a public K - 12 school based on such status, under a landmark 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plyler v. Doe.

The site had a school dating from about the 50s or 60s — a collection of small classroom blocks, singular, traditional, cellular classroom forms, single - storey, in fairly poor condition.

Enter most schools and you will hear about literacy instruction or the «literacy block.»

[content block] «Our math night came about because we were looking for ways to improve our state assessment scores,» says Sherry Everitts, the school's parent partnership coordinator.

And for the 2004 - 05 school year, the Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center, in Fort Worth, Texas, scheduled four blocks of about nine weeks each and fall and spring intersession workshops, allowing its K - 5 students time for hands - on arts, science, and computer projects or sports in addition to language arts and math enrichment.

Education World examines the research about block scheduling in junior and senior high schools.

«Only one of the 201 schools that implemented a block schedule in Virginia during the last nine years has returned to a traditional schedule,» noted the authors of «What We've Learned About Block Scheduling.&rblock schedule in Virginia during the last nine years has returned to a traditional schedule,» noted the authors of «What We've Learned About Block Scheduling.&rBlock Scheduling.»

About one in three high schools use some form of block schedule.

Education associations and school - reform networks report a steady flow of inquiries about block scheduling, and many are planning workshops and publishing articles in response.

Reality Check: The school year at the Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center, in Fort Worth, Texas, consists of four blocks of about nine weeks each.

We talked to Harvard Graduate School of Education senior lecturer and chair of the Harvard Seminar for New Presidents, Judith Block McLaughlin, who has known Bacow since he was chancellor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), about his appointment, his time as president - in - residence at HGSE, and the challenges facing university presidents today.

Seeing how much her students learn with the help of technology, Venosdale admits she «cringes» when she hears about schools that block access to digital tools.

In schools, the study of algorithms includes learning about the ways that information and processes can be represented systematically, the common building blocks of algorithms, such as loops and conditional statements, and patterns in the design of algorithms.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

The state's charter block grant helped the school to back - fill that loss with about $ 385 per student, for a total of more than $ 800,000 per year.

Gov. Sam Brownback, whose «block grant» school finance plan is at the heart of the dispute, also issued a statement criticizing the court shortly after the decision was handed down about 5 p.m. Friday.

Community groups and parents had also expressed concern about locating a new charter within a few blocks of an existing public school, Oakland Technical High Sschool, Oakland Technical High SchoolSchool.

The union blocked the expansion of pilot schools for two years — a move that Payzant complained about but did not take dramatic action to undo.

Join the thousands of teachers and school districts throughout the U.S. and internationally who are using these innovative resources to engage students in thinking about important fundamental ideas in science and mathematics that make up the building blocks of enduring understanding.

Last week, a lower court judge blocked the mayor's office from ordering the school's closure, but U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker ruled the mayor was right to close the school after serious concerns about the schools academics and finances emerged.

A few years ago Schools Week ran a front - page story about an alternative provision school that locked pupils into rooms, refusing to let them go to the toilet, and blocking fire exits.