Sentences with phrase «school efforts in»

He is a veteran of touchstone organizations behind the efforts to remake public schools — Teach for America and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and its superintendent training program — as well as the hard - charging charter school efforts in New York City.

Click here to read Community School Financing: Aligning Local Resources for Student Success, and learn from five different communities about how they financed their community school efforts in the midst of the recession.

Donors in Oklahoma and Idaho are seeding charter school efforts in their states.

New Yorkers For A Balanced Albany is led by Angela Dickens, the general counsel for StudentsFirstNY, a group that has backed education reform and charter school efforts in New York.

Farm - to - school programs a hot topic at the moment, thanks to USDA's new, $ 5 million farm - to - school grant announcement, which means we will be hearing a lot more about farm - to - school efforts in the new year.

New Visions for Public Schools, a nonprofit established in 1989, launched a small - high - schools effort in New York City in 1993 with Annenberg's help.

Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III announces the opening of the Nicholas Academic Center, an after - school effort in Santa Ana, Calif..

In 2001, Murnane began helping the central office of the Boston Public Schools to better support the schools efforts in learning from student assessment results.

If you are engaged in a Community School effort in the Bay Area, and are not already a member of the Bay Area Community Schools Network, it is a vital source of knowledge, networking and support.

Not exact matches

Whether the president's efforts to strike a better deal for America results in redemption or disaster, a Wharton School researcher recently uncovered evidence that it may have already altered how Americans — and American men in particular — approach negotiations.

People use online dating because they feel like they're not meeting enough of the right kind of people in their daily life, and if they were, then they wouldn't use an online dating site, that's why you don't use it when you're in college or a lot of people don't use it when they're in grad school because you meet so many great people all the time, I wouldn't join an online dating site, but it's when you don't have those opportunities to have those interactions that people feel the need and I think things like Hinge, and even Tinder to some extent, allow you to meet just a lot of people so that you don't have to go through that process, which is a lot more effort, to do an online dating site.

Public schools are continually reducing their commitment to art and music classes for students, so you can try to work with the public school system to supplement their efforts in those areas.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

In a steroid - tainted, reality - TV era, Jeter, the son of two Army veterans, continues to stand out because of his old - school approach: Never offer excuses or give less than maximum effort.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

In 2011 she launched Uncharted Play in New York City and began selling the product to businesses as part of their corporate social responsibility and marketing efforts, as well as to schools and governmentIn 2011 she launched Uncharted Play in New York City and began selling the product to businesses as part of their corporate social responsibility and marketing efforts, as well as to schools and governmentin New York City and began selling the product to businesses as part of their corporate social responsibility and marketing efforts, as well as to schools and governments.

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 NRA briefly suspended its online ad efforts after a February school shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Flschool shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FlSchool in Parkland, Florida.

We live in a time where high school students are leading our nation's efforts for gun reform.

Congress seemed poised to act after the 2012 massacre of 20 six - and seven - year - olds and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, but the effort failed.

Starting this weekend, many states around the country will go on sales - tax holiday in an effort to ease the consumer burden of back - to - school shopping.

Business schools are reaching for real - life examples to teach old - school business practices in an effort to engage their students.

Since Nicky is home - schooled, he's not able to work full - time on the company, but hopes to become more involved in the company's marketing efforts.

MinecraftEdu is part of Microsoft's growing effort to use the popular video game as a teaching tool in schools worldwide.

Beginning this September, schools across England will begin teaching children over five to code in an effort to stave off rising youth unemployment.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

We're not only supporting companies, we're also building a community around us, opening our space to middle - and high - school students in an effort to create more entrepreneurs and makers.

And in fact, Siddall's efforts are now taught at Harvard Business School.

However, many companies have approached this effort in very much the wrong way and are stuck in old - school, ineffective loyalty approaches.

But her effort to better understand the lack of female representation in tech fields — especially given what she observed in schools while on the campaign trail — ended up changing the course of her career.

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.

In an effort to be a more family - friendly workplace, many companies grant mothers and fathers the freedom to leave the office earlier to pick up their children from school, attend their daughter's soccer game or watch their son's orchestra performance.

«In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools.

Well past the midway mark on the veterans and military hiring front, Starbucks is also expanding its efforts to hire Opportunity Youth — 16 - to 24 - year - olds who are neither employed or in school; an estimated 5.4 million young Americans.

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

Volunteers from all around the world join us in our efforts toward putting families back in homes and kids back in schools in Kathmandu, Sindhupalchowk, and Nuwakot.

Despite support and encouragement for such laws from President Trump and the National Rifle Association in the wake of a Florida school shooting that left 17 dead, just one of those efforts has succeeded.

Wide ranged efforts to promote deeper learning in the STEM subjects will also help ensure that all students are ready for college or for the workforce when they graduate from high school and that they are prepared to take their place as productive, full participants in society.

Dick's Sporting Goods DKS, -3.41 % ending sales of assault rifles after a gunman at a Parkland, Fla., high school killed 17 people is a prime example; so is Starbucks» SBUX, -1.01 % damage - control effort in the wake of a racially charged incident at one of its Philadelphia stores.

Already we see hints of that: in the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to eliminate malaria; in Mark Zuckerberg's efforts to improve schools; in Sean Parker, the founder Napster, pledging $ 600 million for research into cancer and malaria, among other causes.

In the days after the shooting, conservative blogs picked up a narrative later promoted by everyone from Limbaugh to Laura Ingraham that Broward had adopted a bleeding - heart disciplinary program because of a liberal, Obama - led effort to keep crime statistics down and criminals in schoolIn the days after the shooting, conservative blogs picked up a narrative later promoted by everyone from Limbaugh to Laura Ingraham that Broward had adopted a bleeding - heart disciplinary program because of a liberal, Obama - led effort to keep crime statistics down and criminals in schoolin schools.

It's increasingly common to find Narcan with law enforcement and on school campuses, thanks in part to Adapt's efforts to give the drug away or at a discount.

There was no shortage of creativity in our fundraising efforts, which included partnerships with Denver restaurants and shops, such as Chick Fil A and Alex and Ani, a wine party for friends and family with tickets and raffles, spirit week at Denver schools, as well as email and letter writing campaigns directly to prospective donors.

In fact, Mylan had recently started a major lobbying effort to encourage schools to stock EpiPens by arguing that people with serious food allergies are always at risk, and that EpiPens were a necessary supplement to emergency medical treatment.

Many such big names are building or leasing massive super-regional centers that stock a wide variety of products in close proximity to customers or stores in an effort to compete with the likes of Amazon, said Ravi Srinivasan, assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Loyola University Maryland's Sellinger School of Business & Management.

«This funding will allow us to together rebuild safe, resilient schools in areas most impacted by recent natural disasters to keep children safe, but also to ensure that these communities are not forgotten when the emergency response efforts are complete.

Buffet is supporting a financial literacy effort aimed at children in elementary school.

Jesuits hid Jews in the houses and schools of the society throughout occupied Europe, and Lapomarda does a real service in documenting many such efforts, as in the fascinating story of the forty - three Jews concealed by Jesuits in Rome at the Oriental Institute and in the Gregorian University.

Jesuits are known for their work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits, and for their missionary efforts.