Not exact matches
Last year, a high
school in Ohio named more
than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
Sales of
school - and college - related items — all those backpacks and binders, tablets and smartphones — brought in more
than US$ 80 billion in the U.S.
last year.
B -
school grads are poised to earn more in 2015
than they did
last year, as the median starting salary breaks into the six digits.
Several major U.S. companies have dropped their associations with the National Rifle Association in the
last few days, less
than two weeks after a 19
year old with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people in a high
school in Florida.
The only other
school that has sent more
than one finalist over the
last three
years has been Purdue University, with two.
You'll save more this way since back - to -
school sales don't
last all
year, and oftentimes buying in bulk is cheaper
than buying an individual item multiple times.
There have been lapses in this program, most notably
last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more
than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high
schoolers as young as 14
years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.
-- Newfoundland and Labrador
schools have lost a third of their students since 1996; more people have died
than were born in the province for each of the
last three
years and the average age is almost three
years older
than the Canadian average of 41.
A student who says she reported warning signs about the suspect in the Parkland
school tragedy more
than a
year before
last week's mass shooting said her friendship with him quickly turned to fear in the
years leading up to... Read More
The provincial government has boosted
school maintenance funding by more
than $ 20 million over
last year, and has increased the AFG for the first time since 2004/05.
The minister added the initiative
last year - the first event ever held - put more
than # 10,000 into the hands of local
schools.
Live, you don't suppose that the sophisticated weaponry that has been designed in the
last 50
years may have more to do with it
than your assertion that each and every one of these shootings were caused by prayer being taken of
schools?
While our
schools will need to be a lot better
than they were, in terms of spiritual and intellectual power, thirty
years ago, we will also need a theological formation much better
than the nebulous waffle which has passed for formation in catechetics this
last ten
years.
Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more
than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary
school, who receive free
school lunches and breakfasts during the
school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.
Last year, Three Square distributed close to 40 million pounds of food and grocery product — more
than 33 million meals — to more
than 600 program partners, including nonprofit and faith - based organizations,
schools and feeding sites.
It looks like they will
last longer
than one
school year, it always seems to be holes in the bottom from draging them on the bus or broken zippers!
We're down to the
last couple of weeks of the
school year, and I have to admit that it seems like it's been crazier this
year than in any of the previous 16
school years that I have completed (sixteen!!!
The
last time I baked bread, I was in junior high
school, which is more
years ago
than I care to count.
In the
last two
years, MacKenzie River has donated more
than $ 50,000 to area
schools through this exciting program.
That the Tigers —
last year's biggest surprise with a 12 — 2 record and a No. 4 finish in the AP poll — were anything less
than elated after a win over a Top 25 team that played in a BCS bowl
last January shows how expectations have dramatically changed at a
school that hasn't won a conference title since 1969.
During the
last week of December, from Dec. 28 - 30, a number of these
schools will be host sites to the largest high
school girls basketball tournament event in the country — the West Coast Jamboree, which in its 18th
year will include more
than 160 teams.
The NCAA scholarship limitation that went into effect
last year means that quality players are available to
schools other
than Division I juggernauts.
Rick Telander (Raising «Canes, Jan. 11) suggested we «forget that
last year Oklahoma had more academically ineligible freshman players
than any other
school.»
The Dragons don't have to win to have their best team in
school history, but hope to do better
than they did when they played NCS Open Division runner - up Freedom - Oakley
last year.
In a paper presented
last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry in Houston, Dr. Coddington reported that he had elicited confidential family information from more
than 700 New Orleans high
school players
last year while their coaches kept detailed injury records.
Tech offensive coordinator Brad Cornelsen rushed for more
than 2,000 career yards as an eventual
school hall - of - famer at Division II Missouri Southern, so he was able to figure some things out with the skill set of
last year's starting quarterback, JUCO transfer Jerod Evans.
Last year, 32 public
schools spent more
than $ 6 million each on their staffs, per USA Today.
Sarah:
Last year, after more
than ten
years of teaching full - time in a Waldorf
school, I was discovering that my two teenage boys needed me as much (if not more)
than they did when they were younger.
But now we need to focus on the reality of our kids starting a new
year, maybe a new
school, and how we'd like to tweak this
year to make it better
than last year.
Probably because that kind of change is hard, and demonizing the little guy — the local student nutrition director and local radio DJ
last year, or the small restaurant operator and local
school superintendent this
year — is easier and less risky
than taking on the real «bad guys» — the elected officials, the giant Agribusiness players, the networks that broadcast all of those fast food and junk food ads to our kids and also, oh yes, broadcast Jamie Oliver's shows....
The change means pizza purveyors such as Pizza Hut and Domino «s could get a slice of the
school lunch program, which served up more
than $ 432 million in frozen pizza
last year.
Last year, Sheridan Shore Sailing
School taught more
than 400 students from 27 communities, the website says.
Considering this is a
school that has a less -
than - stellar reputation when it comes to sexual misconduct during the
last few
years, one would think that Penn State might be a bit more proactive on this front.
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Last year, we served more
than 13,000
school - aged children.
If you are trying to be a savvy shopper, getting the best prices on
school supplies while ensuring your child has what they need, and maybe even a few fun or special items, you need a complete strategy rather
than just buying from the
school supply list that comes out during the
last months of the old
school year.
When classes resume next week,
school will start at 7:30 a.m. and the dismissal bell will sound at 2:30 p.m. — 30 minutes earlier
than last year.
Stevenson High
School, meanwhile, spent $ 478,000 on its food service last year and made a profit of more than $ 21,000, said Jim Hintz, the school's business ma
School, meanwhile, spent $ 478,000 on its food service
last year and made a profit of more
than $ 21,000, said Jim Hintz, the
school's business ma
school's business manager.
Although Tanner's goal is to have 75 percent of students eating the
school lunch, that number is now 53 percent, 2 percent lower
than last year.
District Supt. Rosemarie Carroll said Aramark expects to make an additional 2.5 percent from the total contract
than it did during the
last school year because it projects higher sales of a la carte items.
I remember dreading it
last year but the first day of
school was easier for me emotionally
than the
last day of preschool had been.
During the
last school year, most Chicago public
schools did not offer recess, regular nutrition classes or more
than 40 minutes of physical education a week.
The bad is that fewer
than one in five children eligible for the program nationwide use it - 2 million a day
last summer, compared with the 12 million who get free or reduced - price meals during the
school year, according to federal estimates.
Each
year for the
last decade, students have planted more
than 2.5 acres of prairie grasses near the high
school, creating a living laboratory they can observe and study.
According to the Times,
last year an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the ammonia - treated beef was used in the National
School Lunch Program, in part because — big surprise — it's cheaper
than other ground beef.
The death
last week of Damon Janes, the 16 -
year - old Brocton high
school football player who suffered a devastating on - field head injury, has raised more questions
than answers.
By contrast,
last school year, the district's food service staff fed more
than half of Milton high
school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle
school students and around 100 staff members regularly.
I'll be honest, our schedule isn't quite as home centered as I'd like it to be, but we're definitely home more often
than we were
last school year.
Last school year, more
than 4,600 CPS students scored below the 24th percentile on a portion of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and were required to attend summer
school before moving to the next grade level.
Reduce and Reuse — the great thing about
school supplies is that some of them actually
last longer
than a
year.
In
last year's inaugural Illinois 5Essentials Survey, 87 percent of all
schools in the state met the 50 - percent participation threshold to receive a Report with participation from more
than 70 percent of all teachers and eligible 6th through 12th graders across Illinois.