Sentences with phrase «school against school»

Coleman theorized that because most athletic events pit school against school, the achievements of star athletes bring prestige to the entire school, which benefits everyone.

Competition is all: student against student, school against school and university against university.

FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A battle over new classroom space at 26 Broadway is pitting a high - performing lower Manhattan high school against a school from the Upper East Side.

«It's just how we implement it and what we do with these extra minutes... I don't agree we should entice one school against another school,» Cullerton said.

The debate pits parents against parents, schools against schools, and communities against communities.

Not exact matches

These reputable schools serve as a protection against the darker side of body brokers.

Students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. have organized gun protests and been joined by millions of Americans that have railed against gun violence, assault rifles, and the NRA.

Catherine Lhamon, the Department of Education's assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement that the government would «vigorously enforce Title IX's prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity, in every applicable school.»

«What we want students to know is schools are serious about this, that they have gone out of their way to make sure they have the legal ability to discriminate against LGBT students,» said Sarah Warbelow, the campaign's legal director.

I secured advertising by calling up big brands from the school phone box, telling them their rivals were already advertising with us and playing them off against each other.

Eventually, the police notified my parents that there was a legitimate threat against my life, so I had to go away to a private school in Alberta.

Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

ACLU attorney Joshua Block said the main practical impact of the decision is that it would prevent the Obama administration from carrying out administrative enforcement actions against schools on transgender issues.

Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.

«I think it's a shock to see the school system getting on board with the changing Ireland we live in and it becoming the «norm,» which helps the cause against bullying so much,» Ryder told INSIDER.

Say school lets you try 20 subjects, ranking you against thousands of other children.

At a recent Michigan State board of trustees meeting, a Larry Nassar victim came forth and accused the school's interim President John Engler of attempting to get her to agree to a payoff in a meeting without her lawyers so she would drop her civil lawsuit against the school.

The school would be shut down after five years and, earlier this year, a $ 25 million settlement was finalized with former students who filed a lawsuit against Trump's real estate academy for predatory practices.

The ACLU also contends that schools may not punish students for expressing political views, and plans to defend students of schools take action against them.

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

The Brooklyn - based attorney was in the news two years ago for filing complaints against New York City schools for actions taken against female students who'd alleged sexual attacks by male students.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

The good: B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

On the one hand, B - schools rely on rankings as a benchmark against their peers, a third - party guide for students, and a marketing tool.

Schools across the country have been considering whether or not to arm some educators as a way to protect against mass shootings.

In the year ended June 30, the school's revenue came in at $ 106 million against a target of $ 102 million.

It started with a petition against the school's decision.

We don't have much of an endowment like the schools that we compete against which have terrific endowments to support their activities.»

With a recent client list including Goldman Sachs, Princeton University, Deloitte, the 2015 Pan Am Games and the Kellogg School of Management, KPMB is proving it can compete and win against some of the biggest «starchitects» in the world.

A five - year - old lawsuit against the Ivy League school, filed by its neighbors, is challenging its tax - exempt status, Bloomberg reports.

Mueller's office's move to dismiss last week's charges against Gates appear to be in step with the plea deal the former Trump adviser coordinated with the special counsel's office, said Jens David Ohlin, a vice dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal law.

Striving above all for efficiency, the government coldly weighs every move, from school curriculums to foreign relations, against cost - effectiveness.

Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.

Steven Kaplan, a professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, warns against trying to serve too many masters.

Young entrepreneurs may fret that their barely - out - of - high - school looks could work against them when starting up.

Ironically, the offensive against too - big - to - fail seems to be encouraging the minnows to school.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

The Broward county school system, where Marjory Stoneman Douglas is located, has had a program with the goal of limiting outsized disciplinary measures against minority students since 2013, a year before the Obama DOE's guidelines were issued.

At one point she was even pulled out of school for over a month and hidden with family friends in the south of France because of a surge in death threats against her father.

The daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark against the young woman exhibiting too many of her dad's literary tendencies.

They donated $ 25 million in the fight against Ebola last year, and they gave $ 100 million worth of Facebook shares toward improving a New Jersey public - school system.

Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business marketing professor, discusses Amazon pitting cities against one another as the company chooses its second headquarters home.

Now, the survivors of the Florida school shooting are taking a stand against gun violence in a big way — and their efforts have spawned a boycott of the NRA.

The FT survey is so biased against U.S. schools because of its methodology that no one should take it very seriously.

We'll stand against UCP's job - killing, gay - outing, school - cutting, health privatizing, backward - looking, hope - destroying, divisive agenda.

Roy D. Simon, a professor emeritus of legal ethics at Hofstra University School of Law, suggested that the practice has helped «level the playing field» by providing resources for people to mount cases against big institutions that would be impossible otherwise.

We'll get to that in a minute, though, because also on stage was David Carroll, the associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York who filed a lawsuit against Cambridge to find out what data the company has about him.

David and Francine Wheeler, whose 6 - year - old son Benjamin was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the weapon used in the mass killing.