Sentences with phrase «schools figure more»

Private (and thus Catholic) schools figure more prominently in postprimary education.

This rule is working perfectly for us who don't have the high school figure any more.

Not exact matches

«I really haven't decided between the two of those yet, and that's something I'm looking to figure out more in grad school.»

For years, some business schools have gotten away with just providing a textbook education but companies are looking for more than facts and figures.

When Kyle Kashuv, one of the more prominent figures in the ongoing debate about what to do to reduce high school mass shootings, went to a shooting range with his father last Friday, the first thing he did was post some pictures and some pro-Second Amendment comments on Twitter.

Beginning with Columbine 19 years ago, more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus, according to a Washington Post analysis of online archives, state and federal enrollment figures, and news stories.

Statistics have for decades shown that children are far, far, far, far more likely to be abused by a family member or by a school authority figure than they are by a member of the clergy of any religion.

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS), which includes more than 270 institutions in the US and Canada, found that extension enrollment has dipped by about 26 percent over the past decade, according to self - reported and adjusted figures, while online numbers have more than doubled.

Government figures reveal that 339,000 state school pupils were excluded in England in 2015/16 - twelve per cent more than the previous year.

Von Balthasar often commented that be found more vitality and originality in the writings of literary figures like Georges Bernanos (author of Diary of a Country Priest) than in much of the neoscholastic theology he was taught at school.

Of course the television world does not completely exclude the real world, but families watch more than 45 hours each week, and in households with cable and subscription services the figure jumps to 58 hours, while most adults spend only 40 hours at work and children spend only 30 hours in school.2.

I don't know if it's ever occurred to any of speakers that all those kids are someday going to vote, or might have to figure out their change at the Taco Bell if the computer goes down, or might be passing out pills in the rest home, so the better schooling those kids get now, the more helpful they'll be to them in the future.

It's as new figures from the Department for Education have revealed faith schools make up a majority... More

Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.

It escalates, and through the slurred speech I figure out what they're arguing about: Which school had the more dominant football team in the»90s, the University of Miami or Florida State.

I long ago coined the term «Glen Mason Territory» to describe when a school gets tired of only being good, fires a good coach (instead of figuring out how to give him more support), and plummets out of existence because of its impatience.

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

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.

As they became a focal point of my high school figure, I despised them even more.

Since we aren't a big public school with tons of resources, we have had to figure out ways to stretch an already thin budget even more.

If you want your school to purchase more local foods, you need to understand the challenges and opportunities involved, so that you can work with key school decision - makers and the school meal program staff to figure out how to overcome them.

The most recent estimates from local authorities put the number of home schooled children in the UK at more than 36,000 — a figure which has increased by 65 % over the past six years.

Once he got a little bit older to figure out how could I continue to breastfeed a very busy male child when I had another child so again baby wearing definitely helped in those situations and now that I have my third child and I'm home schooling and everything the support of my sons father he is super supportive, he is like «ok well while you are nursing I will talk to the children for a minute» or you know, I'll tie him on and he will nurse while I'm teaching my elder two children so the more children I have the more complicated it becomes.

We spent some more time watching TV with him, but when it reached after school time he started snapchatting and texting his friends so we figured we may as well head back to the hotel for some rest.

And they used to be used for pet foods until meat packers figured out that selling them to USDA for school lunches was more profitable.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

The House version is more expansive and would provide $ 8 billion for school nutrition programs, a figure more in line with the president's request for an unprecedented $ 10 billion in the FY2011 budget to overhaul the Child Nutrition Act.

Research shows that when fathers / father - figures (resident and non-resident alike) are more involved in the school community beyond just attending sporting events — volunteering, attending class, grade and whole school events, showing up for conferences and getting involved in the parent association — children have been shown to get better grades, go further with their education and actually enjoy school more.

Since the 2012 - 13 school year (SY), districts nationwide have raised the nutritional quality of their offerings across these venues to better support children's health, readiness to learn, and lifelong eating habits.1 Multiple studies show significant progress toward these goals: Kids are selecting more nutritious meals and eating more fruits and vegetables.2 (See Figure 1.)

For instance, when researchers tracked American middle and high school studies over 18 months, they found that kids who identified their parents as more authoritarian were more likely to reject their parents as legitimate authority figures.

When a troubled teen fails to respond to outpatient treatment or efforts by the authority figures in his life, it may be time to consider a more intensive program such as a therapeutic boarding school.

But as for water, schools are now going to have to provide drinking water in cafeterias, although implementing what seems like such a simple requirement is proving rocky for some schools and some are claiming that they need more time to figure out how to do it in a cost - effective way.

He's spent most of them figuring out how to get mass quantities of appealing food from a central kitchen to schools that are ill - equipped to do more than run the lunch line.

5) It doesn't take a kid very long to figure out that there isn't time to have a bathroom break during school and if they drink things that need to use the restroom more often.

One of my schools was even serving more breakfasts than lunch for a while — that figure may have dropped after the newness of the program wore off, but it's still pretty impressive.»

AD children usually seek to pit school versus home, in which typically makes the AD children consider their teachers as more preferred parental adult figures than their actual parents.

I can't figure out how on one hand... the schools are claiming the kids are learning (scores rising) and w / the other hand — they're saying we need more money.

«To use these figures to justify more funding of free schools shows a basic lack of understanding of the data.»

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

He eventually told Rayner that the figure was «520,445 primary school pupils in England alone in classes of 31 or more».

Speaking on the community cohesion figures, Mr Copson continued, «These figures indicate the need to encourage a more inclusive approach to community cohesion, and abolishing divisive «faith» schools would be an important place to start.

City Hall disputed Cuomo's figures Including proposed spending for the upcoming fiscal year, de Blasio has has increased funding to schools by $ 3.1 billion — an increase of about 21.2 percent, more than the state has, said mayoral spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein.

However, separate figures from the Department of Health (DoH) show more children are eating five or more portions off fruit and vegetables a day, thanks to schemes offering free fruit in schools and a clampdown on junk food.

The NASUWT has commented on figures released by the Labour Party showing school spending on supply teachers has risen by more than a quarter in the last two years.

New Government figures show more than 200,000 youngsters are being taught in under - performing schools.

Mattituck - Cutchogue School District Superintendent Anne Smith said in an email Tuesday that while school districts are just starting to evaluate how the latest proposed tax cap and state aid figures will affect their budgets, efforts are already underway to advocate for more fuSchool District Superintendent Anne Smith said in an email Tuesday that while school districts are just starting to evaluate how the latest proposed tax cap and state aid figures will affect their budgets, efforts are already underway to advocate for more fuschool districts are just starting to evaluate how the latest proposed tax cap and state aid figures will affect their budgets, efforts are already underway to advocate for more funding.

While Tory politicians are more likely to send their children to private schools, Labour figures who have used them include Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the former lord chancellor, the left - wing MP Diane Abbott and Ruth Kelly, the former transport secretary, who sent her son to one because he has dyslexia.

Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.And that figure doesn't represent the full extent of resources put into the races, since some candidates have neglected to file their final financial reports and others failed to report ca...

A collaborative effort between Western New York STEM Hub, AT&T and the Girl Scouts will allow more than 200 Buffalo Public School students, Girls Scouts and teachers to see the movie» Hidden Figures» Saturday.

More than a fifth of England's schools were closed on Thursday during a strike by the National Union of Teachers, according to government figures.