Sentences with phrase «school folks like»

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Schools were scrambling to find enough English - speaking teachers to fill their classrooms, and they needed folks like the Freys to find candidates.

The four - year - old project pairs teams of visiting consultants (graduate business students from top schools like Stanford plus folks from companies such as Google and Salesforce.com) with local start - ups to help grow the businesses.

If folks like you believe that u have the right to pray wherever the heck you want to in public and ask for schools to observe holidays at your convenience, then the rest of us have the right to question this nonsense.

Just like I was asked to leave Sunday school back in my youth when my folks forced me to go.

Portable and easy meals, like the classic tuna salad sandwich, are an essential for folks heading off to school or work for the day.

It might sound suspiciously like «educational fun,» something we learned in school to be wary of, but still: Chipotle manages to book enough eager bands that enough folks turn out hoping for free burritos and it works.

Everyone on here moans about the lack of pace for Ozil to do what he does best and now we get it in Sanchez, Walcott and Wellbeck and folk like you still have a primary school girl type hissy fit.

Ok, first off I'd like to say I'm relatively new to this entire topic of food reform and particularly school food reform — but since one of the things everyone seems to be trying to do is to attract / educate / interest more and more folks, maybe my newbie perspective could be important.

We have a campaign right now — No Kid Hungry «This Thanksgiving» — asking folks to set a place at the table for kids this Thanksgiving with a $ 46 donation that helps connect the child with food all year round through resources like school breakfast and summer meals.

Like a lot of folks interested in school lunch, I started following Mrs. Q's fascinating blog in early 2010.

Finally, check out the #schoollunch hashtag on social media platforms like Pinterest and Instagram to see what other folks are doing to promote their school lunch programs.

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Switching to another genre, writer / director Victor Salva enjoyed a measure of box office success with Jeepers Creepers, an eerie if rather jumbled tale of two very stupid high school grads hunted by a demonic, bat - like creature which emerges every 23 years to hunt the most fear - prone folks of a small mid-western town.

Although some progress had been made since the horrors of unhealthy school lunches had been made public by folks like celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, interest in hot lunch had plummeted to a dismal 43 percent of students, with schools losing money and making up costs from other parts of the budget.

In addition, among charter schools, the kinds of schools that high - regulation folks like the most are the ones producing weaker long - term outcomes.

A billion dollars feels like a lot of money to you, me, and the folks at foundations, but to a public school system spending over $ 600 billion annually it is not nearly enough to get them to do things that they don't already want to do nor enough to purchase things that they can't already buy.

For all I know, Finland's success is a function of the heavy concentration of reindeer, South Korea thrives because of delicious kimchee, and Massachusetts is blessed with excellent human capital to staff its schools and has had super folks like Sandra Stotsky and Bob Costrelll to direct its efforts.

Jargon may be the mother tongue of educators, said Sean Duffy, a spokesman for the secretary, but «schools belong to Moms and Dads and teachers, and talking like some of these folks do is outrageous.»

«Folks like this use comedy and music and are fun, but in the midst of their humor, they have really good substance,» said Fred Morton, superintendent of the Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia, who has used Wavelength in his current and former district.

But then again no one calls for the public school system to be shut down as a result of these scandals like folks are calling for an end to McKay.

As much as federal officials would like to do more, it may well be that dramatically improving lousy schools is simply beyond the purview of folks sitting in DC office buildings, no matter how smart and well - intentioned.

Joan also wrote, «Every time I encounter an idea like unbundling, I'm struck by this thought: This is an idea that some folks think would be great in urban schools, but they'd never accept it in affluent suburban communities.»

Like most of the folks on the trip that were new to New Zealand schools, I wondered just what «morning tea» might look like and what its effect was on school climate and cultLike most of the folks on the trip that were new to New Zealand schools, I wondered just what «morning tea» might look like and what its effect was on school climate and cultlike and what its effect was on school climate and culture.

Similar to Prior Lake in both size and demographics, Bamberger's Pennsbury seems a throwback to a time when working folk led prosperous lives and built thriving communities around local institutions like the public high school.

«In these schools,» McCarty said, «folks are wishing for things like file cabinets that aren't locked shut without keys; or that the cracked old empty pool — a stark reminder of what the children do not have rather than an asset to the physical plant — would be magically filled in and planted with a tree; and that the air and heat worked.»

Although Adubato's book doesn't focus specifically on education, I'd like to highlight some of his key ideas about buy - in and relate those to getting folks on board with social and emotional learning at your school.

Maybe his time, given his varying roles, would be better spent a. Getting his Trust to produce a detailed case - study with a breakdown of all the cost - savings made, for other schools to scrutinise and benchmark against... and b. actually making sure that the folk setting up his much trumpeted «national deals brokered by the government to help schools save money on energy bills and hardware like printers and photocopiers» do a better job.

In the past few years, folks like Nikole Hannah - Jones (formerly of ProPublica, now headed to the New York Times) or Ta - Nehesi Coates of The Atlantic have reminded us of things like resegregation of schools in the South and the policy decisions that created the American ghetto.

He said, «If I remember right, seems to me like you reformers used to take great joy in seeing traditional school districts pilloried by John Stossel and folks like that?»

Joyce claimed that Williams had told him she didn't much like White folks, and that she kept referring to school choice as «a Catholic movement.»

While the teachers, districts, and the folks in Sacramento all have the luxury of five years (as Michael Kirst likes to say) to figure things out with Common Core and the new wave of standardized tests, what about the 6 + million students in school right now?

And those are all decisions that are made in school board meetings and district offices about what's convenient for adults, what adults need, whatever the folks feel like is the way they've always done things.

That clearly didn't work because folks like NOLA advocate Josh McCarty replied: «moving the left end of the performance curve to the right through regs has gotten more kids in higher perf schools.»

Although all schools want to pay their teachers more — and all teachers would like to be paid more — the folks at Edkey Inc. are «committed to fiscal responsibility with the funding available to increase compensation for all staff at our schools,» Plitzuweit said.

But like other cities, New Orleans» private, public and charter schools are as much a vehicle for segregation as our residents» attitudes toward black and poor folk.

But for folks here in this quirky swath of tech - start - ups, shopping malls and renovated artist studios, the citywide plan has proven to be less of a solution and more of cautionary tale, a lesson in how hard it can be to take a community schools dream and turn it into a workable reality, even when almost everyone likes the idea.

They value their school and their students and they are willing to put up with all the criticisms that are heaped upon them from folks like you.

If you ask those folks whether they like the idea of being able to pick the school that best meets their needs, the answer is a resounding yes.

While I am somewhat new to the design thinking process, it feels remarkably like kin - folk to Harvard Project Zero's Teaching for Understanding (TfU, a curriculum design framework my colleagues and I used at North Oakland Community Charter School).

As school - reform firebrand Michelle Rhee put it, «I've heard some recent rumblings from folks who say we don't like it when the federal government is telling us what to do... You know what you should not like?

(Thus the recent appearance of programs like «Teach for America,» whose theory folks preach that a kid's home life should never be blamed for his or her performance in school, and that teachers need to step it up.

In a much - heralded democratic concept like parents choosing the schools they want their child to attend, you wouldn't think folks — especially liberal white folks — would protest it so vehemently.

«A final piece of the decision making process for us is to get eyeball - to - eyeball with folks, parents, teachers, folks in the community and hear what they have to say about the school to feel like we've got a full picture before we make a final decision,» said Chris Barbic, superintendent of the ASD, who said that, among the schools» struggles, there are good things happening in each of the buildings.

Do you want people running your schools like Charles Hurwitz (world class scumbag) or folks who make their living at Bain Capital?!

Folks who like school choice have done the reverse.

Folks who don't like school choice can highlight this study or that that «proves» school choice doesn't work.

I like to explain the difference between these two terms by looking at the gap between high school grads and folks who graduate from college.

Its ok, although more and more often im having to mute entire lobbies of games now, sometimes its like being back at primary school but thankfully due to the forum i have a good set off folk to game with so its not all bad.

it looks like Tisdale's theatening to school Tamino... Better secure those hot beverages, folks — laptop keyboards aren't cheap to replace.

Even noted film and media scholar Patricia Aufderheide, professor of Film and Media Arts in the School of Communication at American University and director of the Center for Social Media, noticed, tweeting: Dueling documentaries; looks like the big - biz folks aren't as good filmmakers... http://wapo.st/qwM4N7 @hotcoffeemovie