Sentences with phrase «school gets less»

Compared to the larger public schools around, this school gets less funding, which means less supplies and other necessities teachers need in the classroom.

«The charter schools continually get more money and the traditional schools get less.»

These cuts are primarily driven by three factors: overstaffing in the previous school year; nine schools getting less federal funding for after - school programs; and the District moving the management of Measure G library funds from school budgets to the central office budget.

They know that their children's schools get less funding and that when low - income students of color succeed, it is largely due to two things: their own hard work in the classroom and support from family at home.

Funding inequity: Study finds local charter schools get less $ $ per student Silive.com, New York, August 29, 2017

Charter schools get less than 2 / 3rds per pupil than public schools.

Also, the schools get less per - student state aid than do public schools, and the money can easily be whittled during times of fiscal stress or by political whim.

Not exact matches

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

If you go to a less expensive college, get excited about «the opportunities a school will give you beyond college because you're not going to be burdened by debt,» said education consultant Klemmer.

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.

Columbia's average scholarships, for example, are $ 10,000 — a third or less of what MBA students get at Harvard, Darden, or the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School.

My brother, through his work on disposal of our country's nerve agent stockpile years ago got to know a geologist on the same project, a product of the Colorado School of Mines no less.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

God, you're so feckin» stupid I can't figure out how you even graduated from high school, much less got into a college.

Less time than many who teach Sunday school and do not get paid!

Poor children are less healthy, less involved in school, more likely to drop out of school, more likely to get in trouble with the law, and much more likely to die prematurely.

In a piece for the Washington Post entitled «Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,» Chua explains how her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violin.

Creative writing in schools gets very mixed treatment: while it is privileged at key stage 2 and, to a certain extent, at key stage 3, it usually receives less attention at key stage 4 and almost none at key stage 5 (though there are signs of change here with a renewed emphasis on recreative writing as an A Level coursework option).

It also means that schools communities really get to know a range of vegetarian food selections which they might be less likely to if meat was still provided every day.

Fall is soon approaching lots of things are changing — the evenings are getting cooler, the beaches are becoming less crowded, kids are going back to school, and we are moving!

Board Game Equivalent: Not a board game, but you remember in P.E. in elementary school, when about 100 kids held onto the parachute and had to work together to get it to do something, and the result was still entirely mediocre and less than fulfilling?

Puerto Rican schools didn't have an infrastructure that could compete with the high schools and colleges in the contiguous United States, which meant that less talent was getting developed.

From birth through high school through college through a 12 - year major - league career, he got to stay in the same area of the country, a luxury that most Americans never have, much less baseball players.

Indiana's Big Three — Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame — also get their share of the cream, but the boys well realize that they can't all be stars at these schools and thus are attracted to less competitive areas.

Bama tends to play up to their opponents while failing to cover bigger spreads against lesser schools, so if you can get Bama below -14 this weekend that's probably the sharper side.

In addition, the smaller schools are less likely to have access to lighted fields, and during January, will have to start games at 3 p.m. — which means players will have to leave school as early as 1 p.m. to get to games, and that really doesn't help anyone's academics.

And a classmate pulled Maddy aside to thank her for getting involved with the Challenge School team — she, too, was less anxious due to the new schedule.

Getting an active child to sit down for a meal of any kind, much less a well - balanced, made - from - scratch meal with the entire family, as he rushes off to or home from school, sports practices or games, or other activities that cram virtually every nook and cranny of a child's day, has become virtually impossible for many families, especially those headed by single parents.

Bigger, more established providers like schools and health visiting services can be the hardest to get on board, she adds: «We had a particular problem with health visitors because what we wanted was something more significant than just handing out a leaflet, but less «formal» than a referral.

Maybe children won't benefit any less if they stay in their local communities, but when they get to the high school level and know what sport they want to concentrate on, then they should travel to national tournaments in hopes of being seen by college scouts.

As boys get older, and approach mid-elementary school years, most will pull back and express less emotion.

In an experiment in the Minneapolis area, when schools started later, students felt less sleepy, got higher grades, had fewer depressive feelings, fewer conflicts, and less bullying — and SAT scores went up.

My children get about 20 minutes to eat lunch, less if they take the school lunch.

Each year going forward, Wansink says, his center will focus on promoting two lunchroom changes that will cost less than $ 50 to implement, and try to get schools to adopt those two changes, through his website, newsletter and speaking engagements.

Not only does that mean less vegetables getting trashed, but also, and more importantly, it means the students at Cloverleaf Schools are eating more fresh fruits and vegetables every day.

Many schools have two «nutrition breaks» so labelling foods with «1» or «2» might help if you've got a child who needs one less decision to make in their day!

Well the good news about school lunches is that a school can actually spend LESS money and get far superior food!

Less than twenty percent of kids who are getting that free or reduced - price lunch during the school year are getting access to summer meals that are available to them.

They are less likely to finish high school or get a college degree.

Cosmas, the Buffalo Grove mother of two, was instrumental in getting her school district and park district together after an acquaintance, a single father, told her how much less he was paying for child care through a school - park program in a neighboring community.

Getting to grips with these skills before your little one starts school will all help them settle that bit easier and be less daunted by the experience of starting school.

I had to start bringing my own lunch from home because whenever I got school lunch, I often had less than five minutes to eat.

Everything, from getting ready for school to packing lunches to managing the after - school backpack explosion and weeknight cooking, got easier and took less time (which meant more time to relax).»

Now that he knows he has to finish his lunch before he can get anything else, he's started to eat more at school (and complain less at home!)

Make sure your teen is aware that without enough sleep, she is more likely to get into an accident and she'll be less likely to excel in school.

«Chocolate milk is the most popular milk choice in schools,» according to the campaign's pitch, «and kids will drink less milk and get fewer nutrients if it's taken away.»

Spending a little bit of time getting things ready for the next day, whether it's making packed lunches or laying out your little ones» outfits for school tomorrow, will give you less to worry about when it comes to going to bed.

Children of involved parents are less likely to get into mischief, have emotional problems, or have problems in school.

«Some may be OK until school starts up again... but we know many others are missing meals and getting far less food than they should.»