Sentences with phrase «school year holds»

The inconsistency prompted Wilson County Director of Schools Donna Wright to declare the 2015 - 2016 school year a hold harmless year for TN Ready scores in the district.

The graduation rate during the 2015 - 16 school year held steady from the previous year at 90 percent, increasing from 86 percent in 2011 - 2012.

Not exact matches

Kevin Reilly: Each year, many of the schools hold special ceremonies honoring the donors.

Last year, Diversity Lab held a Women In Law Hackathon in collaboration with Stanford Law School and Bloomberg Law, in search of new, scalable inclusion ideas.

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

Late last year, Western University's Ivey Business School held a conference to review its Future of Canadian Manufacturing project.

We do that through a conference called SheBiz we hold every year for high school girls.

About two years ago, an armed student threatened the school, holding students hostage for more than an hour.

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

Nikolas Cruz, a 19 - year - old who had been expelled from the school, is being held without bail in the Broward County Jail, accused of 17 counts of first - degree murder.

These managers range from those whose time horizon is measured in minutes to those who hold positions for years; from those who knew they wanted to invest when they were back in grade school to those who still aren't sure investing is their calling; and from those with impeccable academic credentials to those without any degrees.

An old school complaint pertaining to exchange traded funds, specifically the equity - based variety, is that ETFs are unlikely to outperform the best - performing stock in their respective lineups over a year or longer holding periods.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commYears with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commyears with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

He worked in a machine shop for a couple of years after school, and has also held jobs at a battery factory, a sandpaper manufacturer, and a restaurant, where he was a cook.

The Broward County school district has been holding annual lockdown drills at its schools for more than 10 years.

Broward County schools have enhanced training for teachers to cover active shooter situations, but — 19 years after Columbine and five years after Sandy Hook — there is no requirement that schools hold an active shooter drill for students.

She didn't shrink from questions Sunday about a new sexual education curriculum for elementary schools, saying she intends to revamp it nearly three years after some controversial changes forced Premier Dalton McGuinty to put it on hold.

The minister added the initiative last year - the first event ever held - put more than # 10,000 into the hands of local schools.

That's the kind of reasoning that used to get you into trouble in legal method courses during the first year of law school for failing to distinguish between the actual holding of a case and the obiter dicta of the judges.

Looking back I feel I was held hostage in our (American) school system until I was sixteen years old.

I saw her sweet, Sunday - school faith progress to a real, vibrant, going - after - God kind of faith that would hold her close to Him in the years ahead.

Children lose 272 million school days each year because of diseases related to unsafe water and poor hygiene; they lose 200 million years of school days because of worm - related illnesses, which can be held at bay with good sanitation practices.

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

We hold prayer sessions every Monday morning for every week / month and year of their high school experience.

The idea of Satan is something talked about frequently in Sunday School — largely because the concept of a mystical super villain is a good way to hold the attention of 7 - year - olds.

The Archbishop also called upon the president to do «everything possible» to secure the release of Leah Sharibu - the 14 - year old Dapchi Christian school girl still held captive by Boko Haram for refusing to convert to Islam.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Additionally, Ms. Bazán served as a community advocate before the North Carolina General Assembly for several years and held positions at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

One school reported holding a position in homiletics open for 12 years.

The Hansen Group recently celebrated its 60th anniversary in conjunction with the Annual School Nutrition Show, held this year in Atlanta.

An end of summer restlessness has been holding me close the last few weeks, and I needed an escape before the school year started up again.

Neumark is the founder of The Sylvia Center, which holds year - round programs in schools and New York City Housing Authority community centers to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands - on learning experiences on the farm and in the kitchen.

For years, these hand - held devices have been the tool of choice for restaurants, food vendors, schools, and some meat processing plants looking to provide shredded meat options to their customers.

For over a decade The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) has collaborated with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH)-- Department of Nutrition to research, plan and stage the highly acclaimed Worlds of Healthy Flavors leadership conference held each year at the CIA at Greystone in Napa Valley, California.

With school comes relief and a bit of anxiety for what the year holds for our kids.

At least a couple dozen of those people will be at Black Sesame Kitchen — the Beijing cooking school - cum - restaurant I founded in 2008 — where every year we hold a Chinese New Year's Eve payear we hold a Chinese New Year's Eve paYear's Eve party.

Similar tournaments are held every year at Army, Air Force and Notre Dame — McNally has tried, without success, to arrange a dual match between his brigade winners and Notre Dame's Bengal Bouts champions — but none of the other schools match the zeal for boxing at Annapolis.

30 + years after the original Dupont Pavilion fiasco VU had the choice to do something right that would be hard or to do something very wrong and then try to sugarcoat it to say that the school was held hostage by Radnor and Finneran.

Before he could reach for the school's front door, a group of 12 - year - olds — held back three school years because of serious behavioral problems — would pounce on and strip him.

Even though Babiak more than held her own, and will be one of the top golfers in the Bay Counties League - East this spring, she wasn't happy with her first year in high school golf.

Years later, Barkley held a grudge over Burfict's play in high school and accused him of attempting to injure.

But for me, the start of the next high school football season has always been the Northern California Nike Football showcase event that has been held on the third weekend in May for more than 20 years.

Purchase this MP3 to hear API Co-Founder and co-author of Attached at the Heart Barbara Nicholson and former NBC anchor Lu Hanessian discuss parenting in the school - age years with Hold On To Your Kids author Dr. Gordon Neufeld.

We also run Fathers» Story Week, a «taster» event held in schools and early years centres, during the week of Father's Day every June.

When I was in graduate school my counselor told me something (actually many things) that has helped me these past 20 or so years... «The only way to get out from under the crap that's holding you back and making you miserable... is to go right through the heart of it.»

I was holding a 6354 dollar check to give him at his work gate Christmas day with the first vacation that any one knew of since his sophmore year of high school He had been violent the last eleven years the last Christmas in 2008 forcing two men out of the back of his fathers car at 45 mph on asphalt trying to get him into work and choking his father unconsious with another man hitting on the hood of the car from inside, He was just not being in the least cooperative with any thing he had not since 2001, Things were deadly by that point all because he wanted it his way.

Being held back a year in school is usually a result of a child just not being ready for the next grade level — yet.

James is a husband and father of three; he has a master's degree in education, and for ten years he held a position equal to a school superintendent in his country.

Dear Abby: Years ago, when our daughter, Stacy, was in the 8th grade, a contest was held at her school to see if they could win one of the flags that had flown over the U.S. Capitol.

Even though she didn't have formal training as a cook, Mari's lifelong passion for food inspired her to work her way up from dishwasher to line server to assistant cook at Mound Westonka High School in East Minnetrista, Minnesota — a position she has now held for three years.