Sentences with phrase «school days in»

Like many of the clients she sees, Mattoo came to Canada with her husband as a sponsored bride — they knew each other from law school days in India.

For example, Section 6, Clause g states, «The flag should be displayed during school days in or near every schoolhouse.»

Most of what Fabo bas brought together is young work, in every sense — still busy with image appropnatiorn and the death of originality, which were in vogue during the artists» school days in the 1980s, and still heavily indebted to such exemplars of post-modern painting as David Salle, Julian Schnabel and Ross Bleckner.

Additionally, many adults are going back to school these days in hopes of acquiring more education or training to get a job promotion, earn more money, or find a more rewarding career.

I especially doted on those bearing the name Walt Disney: there was School Days in Disneyville, for example, and let's not forget Donald Duck in South America.

In short, charter schools may remove a child with a disability who violates a code of student conduct from his or her current placement to an appropriate interim setting or suspension for up to 10 consecutive school days in a school year.

Inspections can take place at any point after the end of 5 working school days in the autumn term.

«If we're unwilling to increase the number of school days in a year — or the average number of hours in a school day — then we have to focus on the attendance crisis,» he says.

Typically defined as missing at least 10 % or more of school days in a year for any reason, excused or unexcused, chronic absenteeism affects as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school drop out.

«It is unfortunate that the state budget crisis has put districts throughout the state in the position to need to reduce school days in order to balance our budgets,» Superintendent Steven Lawrence said.

Students in special education can be suspended for up to 10 consecutive or cumulative school days in a year to the same extent that suspension is used for general education students.

A chronically absent student misses at least 10 percent of the school days in an academic year.

The annual ceremony is among a host of incentives the Pittsburg Unified School District uses to encourage attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism, defined in California as missing more than 10 percent of school days in a year for any reason — excused, unexcused or suspension.

The district is among a growing number nationwide working to reduce chronic absenteeism, defined in California as missing 10 percent of school days in a year.

This means 100,000 students in Washington State are forced to spend their school days in temporary structures rather than real school buildings.

Millions of teenagers coming of age during the war years documented their school days in much the same way students still do today: in school yearbooks.

After reflecting on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's efforts to adopt longer school days in CPS schools, I can't help but consider the controversial question:

Providing computer access for their students was difficult for Mike, Cheri, and other teachers in their school, because the computer labs were booked for over 80 of the 180 school days in order for students to take state and district - mandated standardized tests in math and reading.

According to Every Student, Every Day: A National Initiative to Address and Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism, the problem is «typically defined as missing at least 10 % or more of school days in a year for any reason, excused or unexcused, chronic absenteeism affects as many as 7.5 million kids a year and is a strong predictor of low academic achievement and high school dropout.»

I also found further evidence of the impact of additional school days in Minnesota, a state which altered the day it took its state tests six times in six years.

School days in Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and several other nations in sub-Saharan Africa are now just that for more children than ever before.

With only 180 school days in the year, her students find it nearly impossible to earn hundreds of PAWS cards.

I don't know about you, I can't remember many school days in particular but I'm sure I can remember every school trip or off - site visit.»

Multiply that by 70 people and that's 210 bad days, which is more than the 180 school days in a year.

In addition to providing her students with opportunities for online collaboration and constant feedback from native Hindi speakers, Mishra has designed her class thematically so that each unit (Gandhi's life, school days in India, or Indian tourism, for instance) is paced according to its various projects, such as skits, PowerPoint presentations, or travel brochures.

Attendance records showed that Terrell and Norris's oldest child, a middle schooler, missed 14 percent of his school days in September 2009, 45 percent in October, 50 percent in November, and 71 percent in December.

His own impressive teachers from his school days in North Carolina sparked a passion in him for education.

There are 17 days to open — all the school days in December before Christmas.

We find that increased spending that leads to reductions in class sizes, increased teacher salaries and more instructional school days in a year improved outcomes.

While watching Richard Linklater's (Before Sunset, The School of Rock) semi-autobiographical homage to his high school days in Dazed and Confused, it's almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of a time and place for teenagers in an older era, George Lucas's American Graffiti.

Dave (Dennis Christopher) and his working - class friends Cyril (Daniel Stern), Moocher (Jackie Earle Haley) and Mike (Dennis Quaid) spend their post-high school days in Bloomington, Indiana, sparring with snooty students from the local university, chasing girls and — in Dave's case — dreaming of competitive bicycle racing.

With her feature debut «Lady Bird» (A24), a semi-autobiographical story from her high school days in Sacramento starring Saoirse Ronan and the superb Laurie Metcalf as her mother, Gerwig finds herself in the Oscar race as writer and director.

I'm a software consultant and played EQOA dating back to my high school days in 2003.

that I've never abandoned since my high school days in the seventies.

I can't recall owning a single red piece of clothing since my elementary school days in my puffy red coat.

Not too long ago, adding a shirt to my shopping cart would have been the last thing I would have done, considering I haven't had use for one since my primary school days in Zimbabwe.

Additionally, after - school activity participation was also associated with 60 percent lower odds of missing seven or more school days in a year.

EPA health analyses found that a 60 - ppb standard would prevent nearly 2 million child asthma attacks and missed school days each in 2025, versus more than 300,000 each at 70 ppb, the groups note.

Wheeler's dual interests in biology and technology date to her high school days in Westlake, Ohio, near Cleveland, where, she says, she had an abundance of good teachers and mentors.

And in the book I trace this back to his school, his school days in Bristol where Sir.

I allow my 4 year old ONE a day only on school days in her lunch box.

CPS also has one of the shortest school days in the nation.

BUFFALO GROVE — Cracking down on Stevenson High School students who have been parking on nearby residential streets, the Buffalo Grove Village Board this week banned parking from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. school days in the Mirielle Phase I and Tenerife subdivisions and along Millbrook Drive.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard tries to make a case for longer school days in «A push for longer school days; It is time for adults to deliver more to Chicago students» (Commentary, June 10).

His former Spurs teammate and close friend Danny Rose is just one month younger than Walker and they played against one another during their school days in Yorkshire.

I'm a Lebanese American who grew up in the Orthodox Church of Antioch and was transformed by Christ during my high school days in Wichita, Kansas, through the leading of evangelical friends.

But that's not really the point of the yarn theory (or spaghetti theory as I seem to remember it from my high school days in the Methodist Church).

Reed said there are other ways the district could make up minutes without tacking on extra school days in the summer.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

Additional Content Requirements: The State Board of Education adopted a rule for Minimal Nutritional Standards for Items Sold or Offered for Sale during the School Day in Grades K - 8 (2005) that includes specifications for allowable foods.