Sentences with phrase «schools and the state of»

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

Not exact matches

Our universities generate lots of smart people, but so do schools in the United States, Europe and Asia.

«The current state of affairs is a free - for - all,» said Angela McArthur, who directs the body donation program at the University of Minnesota Medical School and formerly chaired her state's anatomical donation commission.

I attended a spectacular conference Friday at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, whose Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State hosts an annual discussion of antitrust and competition issues.

Such an option would raise the costs of exporting to the EU for UK firms and it would decrease the access to EU markets for UK companies, a joint research paper from the London School of Economics and the think tank Centre for Economic Performance stated.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

HB 2899, by Republican state Rep. Ron Simmons of Carrollton, would have gutted cities and school districts» trans - inclusive bathroom policies.

To learn about the state of financing for women - owned ventures, I spoke with Vonda White, serial entrepreneur and founder of Camp Pillsbury, a Minnesota - based boarding school that White acquired after overcoming all the hurdles associated with securing business funding.

«I realized that I wasn't going to be able to have the kind of life people have in the States — a good house, a nice car, maybe a summer house — if I finished school and went to work for a company,» Fuks says.

Since the 19th century, companies have built company towns across the United States — municipalities where they own large percentages of the housing, stores, schools, churches, roads, and parks.

A new report from Yale Law School and the Association of State Correctional Administrators released Wednesday tries to fill the gaps in what we know about the use of solitary confinement in the United States.

Parents and students should first determine their earliest deadlines for filing for aid and whether their school or state uses a first - come, first - served system for any of its aid, Chany said.

The combination of old - school driving pleasure, state - of - the - art tech, and refined luxury make it a compelling option for anyone looking for a vehicle in this genre,» Ben wrote in his review.

At a recent Michigan State board of trustees meeting, a Larry Nassar victim came forth and accused the school's interim President John Engler of attempting to get her to agree to a payoff in a meeting without her lawyers so she would drop her civil lawsuit against the school.

State schools have between 20,000 and 50,000 students, he noted; so with 40 or more years of history «those alumni spread out pretty far.»

In the Penn State scandal, the NCAA fined the school $ 48 million, reduced the number of football scholarships, barred the team from postseason play and invalidated 112 victories.

A penchant for holding onto everything that might come in handy in the future, plus a generally nomadic existence (home to the midwest for the summers, back to New York for school semesters), meant that I lived in a semi-permanent state of bare - boned survival and clutter.

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, discusses the need for states to bolster education spending and fund the American school system.

«This issue of having young people out of school and out of work is the most important issue we need to address in the United States,» Hoplamazian said.

Both were founded in 2005, the school being the biggest piece of bait national and state governments used to lure Bombardier Aerospace to Mexico.

Only three institutions (Cincinnati, Texas and the University of Miami) received As for being above average when compared to peer institutions and at least one school, Oklahoma State, didn't have any women head coaches for women's teams.

«We are committed to working with state and local leaders to secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health,» he said.

The Gülenist network of businesses, charities, schools, and other organizations is wealthy and well - connected, in Turkey and the United States.

For several years, Erdoğan and his allies have accused the elderly Gülen, who has been in the United States since 1999 and runs a large network of charter schools here, of plotting the subversion of the Turkish state.

He asked them to rank a list of 10 law schools, ranging from Harvard and Penn State to John Marshall.

Property taxes in the U.S. are a complicated patchwork of different policies set by states, cities and counties as well as local school boards, fire departments and utility commissions.

The business schools at University of Maryland and Arizona State University are among a handful of other American institutions that have established ties with China to offer EMBA programs.

Writing for Quartz recently, a team of business school professors summed up the current state of the research on personality and career performance, highlighting the many fascinating ways your personal traits are likely affecting your work and your bank balance.

On August 30, he delivered the annual State of the School address and laid out the school's mission: To develop and educate global, principled leaders in service to business and soSchool address and laid out the school's mission: To develop and educate global, principled leaders in service to business and soschool's mission: To develop and educate global, principled leaders in service to business and society.

Alaburda graduated from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2008 and passed the state bar exam soon after.

«What is your approach and philosophy on K - 12 education, and how would you characterize the state of our K - 12 public school infrastructure?»

On Thursday, the storm grounded more than 3,000 flights, prompted states of emergency in parts of New York and New Jersey and closed schools from Philadelphia to Boston.

With the rapidly rising price of college tuition, many top students are realizing you don't need to pay an arm and a leg for a quality education, and that state schools are just as great.

«Increasing access to capital for small businesses, and getting rid of Dodd - Frank — it's not a one - to - one,» adds Mills, now a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and the lead author of a comprehensive 2014 working paper on the state of small - business lending.

The Scott campaign, meanwhile, has run TV ads accusing Crist of raising tuition at state colleges and leaving K - 12 schools in worse shape than when he took office.

Last October Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist pop culture critic and a notable target of Gamergate vitriol, canceled her talk at Utah State University after the school received a detailed threat promising a «Montreal style massacre» if she spoke as planned.

Zarin Mehta, Green Music Center, and Sanford Weill, former Citigroup chairman & CEO, discuss how Weill's $ 12 million donation to Sonoma State University will help the school finish its music center and develop one of the best music programs in the country and attract some of the best students in the world.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.

What's more, California is home to 13 of those schools (the other is in Washington state), including several private universities and four University of California (UC) schools.

The president of the United States needs to be calm and needs to act presidential,» said Burns, who has advised Republican and Democratic presidents and is now a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

«There is no doubt that the economy and the labour market have been strengthening,» said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at California State University's Smith School of Business.

It has also run pilot programs, with San Jose State University, and the University of Central Florida, that included week - long studies with small groups of students at each school.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

«Given that she states her goal is accuracy and verification, that sounds like the language for an audit,» Ned Foley, the director of Election Law at Moritz at Ohio State's law school tells Business Insider.

For example, I live in the Phoenix area, home of Arizona State University and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

The EBV has since expanded to UConn and six other schools: Florida State University, Louisiana State University, Texas A&M University, Cornell University, Purdue University and the University of California, Los Angeles.