Sentences with phrase «school seats in»

As reported by the Statesman, my nonprofit organization, Bluum is committed to what we call the «20 in 10» strategy; creating 20,000 new high - performing Idaho school seats in 10 years.

The fact is that while the number of high - performing high school seats in Denver is growing there are very few open seats (most are filled at the sixth grade for the good 6 - 12 grade schools).

The Superintendent, Aresta Johnson, was told by the State Department of Education that she had until August 4, 2017 to file a written reaction to the Capital Prep Harbor School plan to expand the number of charter school seats in Bridgeport.

In partnership with the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, Bluum plans to help create 20,000 new, high - performing school seats in Idaho in 10 years.

Governor Deval Patrick and the Legislature attempted to narrow the gaps six years ago when changing state law to allow for the doubling of charter - school seats in the lowest - performing districts.

As a result of her efforts, Espinoza helped open what will be 1,620 new high - quality charter school seats in Richmond.

This is important to us because we work with the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation in their efforts to create 20,000 new high - performing school seats in Idaho by 2024.

Ryan, who has worked in education since 1990, was hired in 2013 to help the Albertson Foundation create Bluum, and the independent nonprofit now has five employees in downtown Boise and a mandate to fulfill the foundation's goal of «20 in 10,» or 20,000 new high - performing charter school seats in 10 years.

Subsequently, using its successful Harlem model as a starting point while accounting for key operational and cultural distinctions, Democracy Prep opened thousands of high quality public school seats in Camden, the South Bronx, the District of Columbia, Baton Rouge, and Las Vegas.

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

And with recent changes in state law, it becomes possible over the next several years to double the number of charter school seats in Boston from the current 5,200.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed funding more than 38,000 new public school seats in his preliminary budget for the coming fiscal year.

Joined by supportive politicians, the rally called for 200,000 charter - school seats in the five boroughs by 2020.

States would have the obligation to create and offer those children in the worst schools seats in better - performing schools.

The NYC Charter School Center reports that «there are now 4 applicants for every charter school seat in Harlem and the South Bronx — an example of insufficient supply and overwhelming demand.»

Not exact matches

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

With 600 seats and hundreds of thousands of databases, books and periodicals, the school also has the largest bilingual business library in the country.

But the real kicker is how the businesses get around — in colorful school buses whose seats have been replaced with padded floors and walls for a unique play environment.

Still, Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's school integration ruling, and long refused to visit South Africa while its white regime insisted on racially segregated meetings.

Just about every time I went out with friends during high school, my mom would tell me on the way out: «Be in the driver's seat.»

The school recently added the N. MurrayEdwards Finance and Trading Lab, an18 - seat facility equipped with stock - tradingand risk - management technology to aidstudents enrolled in Haskayne's investment, risk management and capital - budgetingcourses.

Buffett admitted that in high school and college he held a deep - seated fear of public speaking.

The mother of one of the students killed in the Parkland school shooting has confirmed that she will be running for a seat on the Broward County School school shooting has confirmed that she will be running for a seat on the Broward County School School Board.

In 1989, when Mr. Jobs visited the school to give a speech, he found himself seated next to her.

In its first year, the event included five schools and was held in the 590 - seat Amaturo Theater at the Broward CenteIn its first year, the event included five schools and was held in the 590 - seat Amaturo Theater at the Broward Centein the 590 - seat Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center.

In 2012, John was elected to a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education (MD), the nation's 17th largest school district, where he advocated technology modernization across over 200 schools.

«Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this, we call BS,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzales in a speech that went viral this weekend.

Yet New Testament studies became increasingly isolated in the nineteenth century as the study of rhetoric was given a back seat in school curriculums and limited to the study of style and ornamentation (Watson names Nils Lund's Chiasmus in the New Testament as a notable exception).

Ellery Schempp, at 16 years of age in 1956, stayed in his seat while the rest of his high school class stood to recite the Lord's prayer; he flipped through the Koran while his homeroom teacher recited ten verses from the Bible.

In another sermon denouncing the Nazis he said, «We see and experience clearly what lies behind the new doctrines which have for years been forced on us, for the sake of which religion has been banned from the schools, our organisations have been suppressed and now Catholic kindergartens are about to be abolished — there is a deep - seated hatred of Christianity, which they are determined to destroy.»

And to realise your mission, seek to cultivate an intimate friendship with the divine Master, enrolling yourselves in the school of Mary, Seat of Learning.»

one of the more notorious western towns in America's collective imagination, claimed by its second year schools for one thousand children, three theaters, and a two - thousand - seat opera house where Italian operas were favored.»

But she was persistent and Brryan was finally allowed to attend school, subject to various conditions: he could only come for half a day and couldn't drink from the water fountains or use the toilets (in the 1990s, people thought you could catch AIDS from a toilet seat, Brryan explains).

Even though he's handsome, his affinity for comic books, video games and Death Cab For Cutie have landed him an outside seat to the goings - on of his rich counterparts in his high school.

Pastors and parents need a seat at the table for district and state decision making so we can advocate for high academic standards in every school.

Maybe it's an ingrained snacking habit from the countless bars eaten in the back seat of the car before ballet practice all through grade school.

After going to culinary school and working in some of the hottest restaurants in town, he partnered with his two best friends and opened Garde Manger to rave reviews and packed seating.

Hakkasan will feature a 25 - seat curved bar; two private dining rooms; a main dining area, enclosed in latticed «cage» partitions filled with Chinese screens; and a 50 - seat Ling Ling, a signature feature of Hakkasan, reflecting the old - school decadence of Chinoiserie.

The facilities would discredit the average high school: the track is often as hard and baked as a sandlot infield: the locker rooms, built in the 1920s, have been condemned several times; the permanent stands consist of a half dozen rows of splintery, sun - bleached wood, plus a few well - warmed and precarious seats on the tin roof of the locker rooms.

Outdated ideas, bad rotation, tactics, system, plays players out of position, does not make the necessary signings to strengthen the team in the transfer window, is uninspiring on his warm seat, talks media school b@llocks in press conferences and is generally aloof.

Though home games are still held in a splendid old whale - shaped building near the heart of campus and the audience still includes gray - haired men in tweed jackets who rise to their feet to celebrate Bulldogs goals, now these old - school types must jostle for standing room when the 3,486 - seat Ingalls Rink opens an hour before face - off.

Thursday night is Face Time at Harpo's, the appointed hour for a massive exchange of check - outs: J - schoolers in their Woody's wear, Ag - schoolers in their pointed boots, athletes in their motley styles, lady professors in their tight jeans — they all crowd in by nine, all the seats and booths taken and the waitresses lost in a hive of table - hoppers and minglers.

They had grown accustomed to looking forward to a Saturday spent in the purple seats at «The Bank,» willing the Mighty Ducks to make history for the city and the school.

Why he was in Montreal is uncertain, but he definitely got hooked up with some great seats in a box for the old school Original 6 rivalry.

In Section 105, Row 6, Seat 11 in rightfield, Greg Ourednick of Crown Point, Ind., a 16 - year - old who once wrote a school report on Jackson, was hoping his favorite player could somehow get a hiIn Section 105, Row 6, Seat 11 in rightfield, Greg Ourednick of Crown Point, Ind., a 16 - year - old who once wrote a school report on Jackson, was hoping his favorite player could somehow get a hiin rightfield, Greg Ourednick of Crown Point, Ind., a 16 - year - old who once wrote a school report on Jackson, was hoping his favorite player could somehow get a hit.

A native of Mitchell, S.Dak., small forward Mike Miller played his high school games in the Corn Palace, a 3,500 - seat amphitheater whose exterior murals are made from 300,000 ears of maize.

The new seats — about 12,000 of them, which will bring the stadium's capacity to 44,500 — are being built because of the school's recent football success and because of the complaining of former coach Tom Coughlin, who thought Boston College could never become a big - time football operation while playing in a dinky stadium.

A bunch of schools with coaches on hot seats, such as Tennessee and Texas A&M, come to mind as being potentially interested in Petrino soon.

Most sat on their arse for fifty years after leaving school and polished the leather seat until you could see your face in it.

Settle into your seat to watch the four - star softball program at Alhambra High School in Martinez and prepare to be dazzled.