Sentences with phrase «schools available just»

In Nashville, where upper - income whites played the key role in recently switching the school board to an anti-choice stance, the issue appeared to be about protecting exclusive access to high performing schools available just to those homeowners.

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By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.

I am always amazed that there just happens to be a piece of land available for the Mormons to buy adjacent to every single school that is built.

Some Protestants claimed that public schools were just as available as public beaches for all, and if any wished to use private beaches or private schools, they had to pay their own way.

Rather than having just one or two vegetarian options, they will have a wider choice of vegetarian foods not always available in school meals.

It has been some time since I was at school, Arsenal fans, but I was pretty good at maths and I am sure my memory has not failed me to the point where I can not do a simple sum like adding and subtracting, but maybe it has because the numbers concerning the amount of money available to Arsene Wenger to fund the transfer deals he wanted this summer just does not add up.

We don't do a la carte lunch because that just stigmatizes the poorer students who can't afford the a la carte selections; instead we offer many choices to our middle and high school kids, all full meals and all available to anyone.

But wait just a minute: The researchers didn't have data on milk waste from the previous year at the 11 Oregon schools, so they used results from five New York City elementary schools (where chocolate milk was still available) as a comparison.

It may have been available for some time now, but I just discovered this audio recording of a session at the most recent Aspen Ideas Festival regarding school food, «Beyond a Full Belly: Revolutionizing School Lunches and Getting Kids to Like... [Continue reschool food, «Beyond a Full Belly: Revolutionizing School Lunches and Getting Kids to Like... [Continue reSchool Lunches and Getting Kids to Like... [Continue reading]

I hate uniform at the moment, in a school where they can only wear one particular shirt available from just one local shop they had my daughter's class drawing with oil pastels and no aprons!!

A study from the Economic Research Service arm of the USDA found that just making more fruit and vegetables available in school cafeterias led to black and Hispanic students, students from Spanish - speaking households, younger students and females all eating more of these healthy foods.

It is a very special school for many reasons, not just the options available for attending... the staff at Hollinsclough have a very flexible approach to teaching and learning and they treat the children as individuals and value their diverse experiences, while also creating a group of children who are very close to each other.

For example, if your child chooses to spend his entire allowance on a new CD, then remembers that school tee shirts are available for purchase, resist the urge to just throw money at him.

Homeschooling may not be the right path for every family for a panoply of reasons, but just as parents spend a lot of time contemplating and researching the public and private school options available to them, homeschooling should be another reasonable education choice for families to consider.

At Aramark's next corporate event, they should serve their own chicken parm and, just like with the the school kids, the only available utensil should be a plastic spork.

«If a school district wants to purchase ground beef from an approved vendor, without LFTB, it's practically impossible because it's just not available — most of the beef contains the low - grade filler,» Cooper says.

This recent article by San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow describes the struggles of some districts in California to meet not just the new federal mandate to have drinking water available, but also a California state law requiring the same thing.

Realistically, the only way we can do this is to create a very small number of state schools that have the freedom to select the most gifted children regardless of their wealth — perhaps just several thousand in a given year - and which provide these children with the most academically demanding education available anywhere in the country.

Indeed we believe this choice should be available to all schools who think it is right for them, not just those defined as outstanding, which risks perception of elitism,» the NAHT stated.

This was contained in a memo issued and made available to pressmen by the leadership of the institution's SRC just as copies of the statement were pasted around the school premises.

LOWER MANHATTAN — While schools in TriBeCa and Battery Park City cope with a shortage of school seats and a sweeping rezoning, hundreds of available seats are sitting unused just a short walk away in Chinatown, the Department of Education said this week.

Gur advises graduate students and junior postdocs in the neurosciences to push themselves to get what they need from their program or school rather than just accepting the resources available.

Better eating rates This article was so informative and interesting, I just wish this kind of food was available in all our public schools.

This is just one example of how school leaders are forced into tough decisions every year about how, and what, subjects will be made available in each school.

A new analysis from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center finds that the graduation rate for America's public schools stands just shy of 75 percent for the class of 2010, the most recent year for which data are available.

Half of the problem While at BESA, we continue to encourage schools to consider the total cost of ownership and not just the initial price tag, it is important to remember that there are lower cost tablet devices available, rather than having to pay the premium price tag for the big name consumer brands; some offer schools the ability to purchase twice as many devices for the same cost of another brand and as long as they are BESA members they are more likely to be good products.

If our schools are to continually improve, we need to gather data and make it available not just to schools, school districts, and parents, but also to independent researchers, who can comb the databases for correlations and any underlying causal connections.

The school is dedicated solely to newcomers, but is just one of many options for students who are still learning English in the highly diverse, 56,000 - student San Francisco district — a «multiple pathways» approach representative of the options available to ELLs throughout other states.

In Aldine, that YES Prep program will be available to all high - school students, not just those sharing space with YES Prep students.

Just recently, Comcast launched Internet Essentials, a low - cost Internet service for families receiving free school lunches that is available wherever Comcast provides services.

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

In fact, I think it'd be great if, instead of just a one - off test, the government money were invested in software available to all schools to use for regular testing and tracking of tables knowledge.

We are only just getting started, with several models available; we aim to save local authorities million of pounds for their new school accommodation.»

Even with just 8,600 schools in need of improvement, it is not possible for state education agencies to develop and implement effective turnaround strategies, no matter how much money is available.

Lori Shelton, assistant project manager for one of San Francisco's Green Schoolyard Programs, notes that «just because funds were available didn't mean that a school community was ready to embrace the program.»

Just 6.5 million children attend after - school programs, but the parents of another 15.3 million children say their kids would participate if a program were available.

Run by the Children's Food Trust with its partner organisations, this support is available to schools in the South East, South West and East of England and for will help just under half of the 2000 eligible state funded schools in England.

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The long - running Edible Schoolyard project just launched a beautiful new website a few days ago serving up a searchable network of school gardens, kitchens, and lunch programs worldwide, and made all their resources freely available.

Just imagine how the kids in the family can, at home, become the teachers to help their parents, from their pre-internet schoolings, to smoothly get up to speed not only only the learning available, but also on all things digital.

They were having real issues coping with Windows 7 and I knew we needed to increase the capacity of printers around the school as it just wasn't appropriate to have students wandering around looking for an available printer.

For undocumented students at ECSU, a public school in Willimantic, Conn., that's home to 104 DACA recipients — and just over 4,000 full - time undergraduate students overall — both institutional and personal support are readily available.

With the tools that are now available and seemingly ubiquitous access to the Internet, connectedness should be the standard, not discounted or just an option for school leaders.

One school made its application available just one night a year; Davis - Jones had to leave work early, forfeiting income, to pick it up.

This article touched on just a few of the many virtual school options available.

States must make their exit criteria for identified schools transparent and publicly available, just as districts must ensure that school improvement plans are publicly posted to build awareness and understanding among the local community.

Within the limitations of available data and methods, the empirical evidence is very encouraging for private school choice on ethnic segregation — just as it is on academic outcomes, effects on public schools, fiscal effects and effects on civic values and practices.

Just as important, OCR's demand that each school district provide a detailed accounting of resources available to schools with varying racial demographics is more likely to overwhelm school officials with administrative burdens than to create a groundswell of support for redistributing education funds.