Sentences with phrase «school year than the last»

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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.

«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 maSchool, 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 maschool'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.