Sentences with phrase «school efforts like»

Yet the enduring value of YES Prep and charter school efforts like it may ultimately be measured in outcomes elsewhere: Will they effectively feed the reform efforts at struggling schools like Hogg and the Academy?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The degrading of learning in the US is almost entirely due to vigorous efforts by christians to ram their belief systems into the school system and replace topics like science with non-thinking dogma.

Like any effort to understand, a theological school's effort to understand God is a matter of conceptual growth guided by certain interests that may themselves be transformed in the process, and like any effort to understand, those guiding interests are themselves socioculturally situaLike any effort to understand, a theological school's effort to understand God is a matter of conceptual growth guided by certain interests that may themselves be transformed in the process, and like any effort to understand, those guiding interests are themselves socioculturally situalike any effort to understand, those guiding interests are themselves socioculturally situated.

There is no guarantee that investment in youth ministry, after - school programs, or other such efforts will necessarily change the fate of people like Tracy and Evie.

Women, like blacks and members of other oppressed groups, must break their inner bondage and gain self - esteem if they are to use fully their potential in collective efforts to change the systems of injustice (discriminatory laws, pay scales, admissions policies to professional schools, among others).

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

During the third annual Food Waste & Hunger Summit, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack drew attention to efforts like The Campus Kitchens Project, which engages college and high school students to gather unused food from dining halls, grocery stores, restaurants and farmers» markets and deliver it to the less fortunate.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

What we'd like to see with the passage of the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act is a concerted effort by schools — whether at the state or local level — to find the best practices that work for their system, their resources, and the type of programs they already have in place.

I would also like to think that MomsTEAM's continued efforts to educate parents about concussion risk management and our PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,» which aired on over 300 stations last fall and which will be broadcast on almost all 387 stations in the fall of 2014, has played a role in increasing awareness.

He supports KIPP's efforts to engender resilience, persistence, and other character strengths in its students, both in school and then beyond through support programs like KIPP Through College.

Gee, let's see, we now have a $ 15 billion food and beverage industry directly marketing to kids that's undermining our parenting efforts... pummeling junk food messaging incessantly (like PopTarts and Pizza Pockets being hawked at school lunch concession stands STILL even though many thought that was long gone, sigh).

Take your efforts elsewhere, Jamie — like to those 745 parents who sent emails to the school on your behalf.

I also actively seek out conversations with moms and teachers at my kid's schools as well as on social networking efforts like Twitter and FaceBook.

School food advocates said they like the extra attention these efforts bring to the issue of school food, but they worry it's not eSchool food advocates said they like the extra attention these efforts bring to the issue of school food, but they worry it's not eschool food, but they worry it's not enough.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bSchool Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bschool district is more than six times bigger.

With efforts like «Are You an SNA Member Who Supports Healthier School Food?

If your teen is struggling and not responding to your efforts to help, you may need to consider a full time solution like a therapeutic boarding school.

In a nutshell, this article describes the efforts of one Wisconsin town to improve their school food by removing soda machines, adding water coolers, providing fully stocked salad bars and the like.

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food regulations, the new food safety law and the new voluntary guidelines for marketing junk food to children, along with funding for food assistance programs like WIC.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

History: As much as the GOP would like to hang this on Obama, the effort to improve the quality of school meals dates back decades.

The president also intensified his calls for arming highly trained teachers as part of an effort to fortify schools against shooting massacres like the one that occurred in Parkland, even as he denounced active shooter drills that try to prepare students to survive a rampage.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

Generally speaking, the Assembly's proposal, which allows for the cap to be overridden by a 60 percent majority of a local school district and is directed particularly at areas with crushing property taxes like Long Island and Westchester County, is similar to that of the Governor, who said today that he applauded their efforts.

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The school nurse offices have been stocked with Plan B emergency contraception and others like it in an effort to combat teen pregnancy, according to a statement from the Department of Education.

In September, he joined thousands of Bronx families and advocates like me at the #PathToPossible rally in Prospect Park, giving an inspiring speech about the power of a great public education and supporting our effort to grow New York City's public charter schools to 200,000 students by 2020.

At a recent debate with Eldridge at Miller Middle School, Gibson repeatedly name - checked Kingston projects like the Irish Cultural Center and Gallo's midtown revitalization effort.

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aSchools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aschools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

The best efforts of a trained armed guard present at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School did not prevent the terrible tragedy that unfolded last week, which shows that a proposal like this will only provide an illusion of safety.

We tried to do that with things like the affordable housing plan, the rent freezes, the efforts to give people lawyers to stop eviction, pre-k, after school, paid sick leave.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

One thing about me is that I like putting effort into my outfits for school, but of course I have my lazy days.

I was really antisocial in middle school, tried to make some efforts in high school but I was still quite reserved: / Anyways, I really like the jewelry, especially the ones you're wearing with the first look!

The San Diego Film Critics Society would like to congratulate all the students in the San Diego High School IB Film Program on their outstanding efforts with their Film Festival!

I can just imagine what it was like the day Tom Hanks (Cast Away) decided to make Larry Crowne, his latest directorial effort about a man who loses his job at a local department store and goes back to school.

Traditionally, the U.S. Department of Education has steered clear of broad school construction efforts (with the exception of one - time appropriations like the $ 1.2 billion infusion approved in 2000 for school building renovations and emergency repairs).

Despite all of Mr. Hartwell's efforts to help her look on the bright side, Sarah imagines the worst: She liked her old school.

A continuous improvement approach, like that adopted in California, would track progress on all of the measures in the dashboard, using scale scores to better measure growth and progress for all students, so that schools can continually assess and fine - tune their efforts.

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posSchool District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posschool system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

Together with smaller environmental initiatives at the school, like widespread installation of energy - efficient compact fluorescent «twisty bulbs» and automatic light sensors, the various components of the Bloom effort have begun to save the school thousands of dollars in energy costs while simultaneously helping many of the school's 1,700 students understand the science behind the climate crisis.

Findings like this demonstrate the need to keep race and past and present racial discrimination an explicit part of conversations and policy efforts related to schools, transportation, health, and housing.

And it means that the district provides teacher leaders like Golden to support them in that effort — teacher leaders who meet monthly with the district's academic services division for professional learning to equip them with the skills they need to help schools succeed.

«Efforts to treat principals like professional managers and to hold them more strictly accountable for the success or failure of the school and students at the school is commendable,» adds Jack Burns.

Congress should adopt a bankruptcy - like mechanism that permits school districts to petition for relief from vendor agreements, contractual obligations, and other impediments that constrain their efforts to improve schooling.