Sentences with phrase «school end of»

In the May issue, I noted that it was crunch time for school accountability in Texas, as the Texas Legislature wound down to final decisions on several bills, most significantly one that would drastically reduce the standard for high school graduation as measured by standardized high school end of course assessments.

Not exact matches

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management, and Bill Smead, Smead Capital Management, discuss the news that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is stepping down from the position but will remain in the company to focus on higher - end stores.

They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

Delta's move to end discounts for NRA members came in the wake of this month's deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead and reignited the gun control debate in America.

Schools supplier Campion Education has agreed to purchase the stock of one - time market leader Wooldridges, bringing to an end any hopes of reviving the Wooldridges business and delivering a return to its creditors.

That is, instead of specifically penalizing one industry, it requires everyone to pay their share, industries and end users, down to the Edmonton parents pondering whether to enroll their five - year - old in the neighbourhood school or the one with a performing arts specialty across town.

Breaking with tradition, Melania Trump and 10 - year - old son Barron plan to remain in New York City at least until the end of the school year.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Friday sent a letter to the airlines» employees, explaining the company's decision last week to end the discount it provided to National Rifle Association members in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

One school of thought says she should just plow ahead with her environmental agenda; history will be on her side in the end, since no one today (outside of maybe a few U.S. Republicans) doubts that the question of phasing out fossil fuels is not a matter of if but when.

On one of Branson's last days at school, his headmaster is reported to have told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.

«It is just not acceptable to ever think that it should be commonplace in our country for people to send their kids to school in the morning and not know if they're going to come home at the end of the day,» Deutch said.

I'm specifically referring to the kind of high - end training provided at schools such as Tribeca Flashpoint College.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

Fahlman says his smiley face, made from a colon, hyphen, and end parenthesis, spread from CMU to other schools, using the computer networks of the early 1980s.

It is like waiting for the storms to end, and for the sun to come out — only you don't really know when that will be — especially because the CTO you just hired right out of grad school in exchange for equity is shaping out to be a horrible meteorologist.

At the end of the day, she drives to her son's school, then drives him home, in the bright pink truck.

By the end of the school year, Dell had dropped out and started his company.

To that end, we have teamed up with the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School — a recognized leader in online business education — to create an innovative executive certificate program called: Change the World: Leading with Purpose.

«And my mom really, without a college degree, went back to school [and] showed us, «Hey, this is not going to end like that, and every one of you are going to have a chance.»»

Born in the former Yugoslavia, in what is now Croatia, Bruic immigrated to Canada during the conflict in the Balkans in 1992 and joined the Canadian Forces at the end of high school.

It's not unusual for business school students to hold views that are on the left end of the political spectrum.

«Studies show that the slower the tempo, the slower people walk through the store, so the more they put in their baskets and the more they end up buying,» Deborah MacInnis, professor of business administration and marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business, told the LA Times.

In the end I chose to study at Boston University, a private college that promised a ton of scholarship money to help me pay for school.

Professor Robert Wolfe, of the Queen's University School of Policy Studies, says that Friday's breakdown is not the end of the line for CETA.

In 2003, Tammy Kinley, an associate professor in the school of merchandising and hospitality management at the University of North Texas, measured 1,011 pairs of women's pants, and found that high - end retailers» clothes tended to fit more loosely than those in bargain stores.

Depending on your dorm, there's a good chance you might not have air conditioning, making the beginning and the end of your school year pretty rough.

A 2012 study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Cornell University suggests most workers find comfort in traditional hierarchies because they're predictable and familiar, and their asymmetries create concrete «end points.»

«That person usually ends up being a white guy from a very specific set of schools.

Kim Jong Un is looking for a «drawn out, open - ended negotiation process to buy time and money,» says Lee Sung - Yoon of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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

The university and the business school are keeping Saloner on as dean until the end of the academic year, and then he will go back to being a professor.

By the end of the day Johnson and Bergh had agreed to open 700 similar Levi's boutiques inside Penneys in time for the back - to - school season in 2012 — less than a year later.

After the mine ended his sniping career, he established the Marine Sniper School at Quantico, teaching Marines how to «get into the bubble,» a state of complete concentration.

Male and female elementary school teachers both make roughly $ 95,000 at the top end of the pay scale.

When I left school and embarked on my first real business adventure, Student magazine, it was at times a real struggle to keep our small group motivated and make ends meet, though we didn't want our readers to be aware of this.

The students presenting the KIN solution to the New York City government, at the end of their DO School course, said they felt it was crucial to have the two complementary components of events and a video competition.

The findings are skewed by the high numbers of students who enroll in for - profit schools and end up dropping out before they finish their programs.

The data showed that graduates from schools like University of California, Berkeley, UC San Diego, Stanford, and California Polytechnic Institute end up at the top tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Vacations are over, the kids are off to school, people are re-energized and looking to get stuff done before the end - of - year craziness.

The Smith School of Business offers an intensive one - year schedule that begins one January and ends the next.

«It can be tough when the end of the summer collides with the reality of heading back to school,» Chipotle's director of communications, Chris Arnold, said in the press release.

«They've been uniquely successful in building a niche — going from a discount store, essentially, to a high - end branded retail outlet,» says David Dunne, an adjunct professor of marketing at the Rotman School of Management.

President - elect Donald Trump says he's moving to the White House soon, but his wife and young son will follow him at the end of the school year.

«If you're a son of a doctor and want to become a doctor and end up as a pharmacist, it's a big disappointment,» says Laurent Lapierre of the HEC business school in Montreal, who lectures on the Jean Coutu phenomenon.

For me, the end of school meant the beginning of my dream job at Microsoft.

During the end - of - year pitch competition at UConn, she won a $ 1,500 award and promptly founded Diverse IT LLC to provide diversity training and bullying - prevention curricula to K — 12 schools.

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.

But at the end of the year, you write your own ticket if you're talented because now you have experience and it cost you less than your law school loans!