Sentences with phrase «schools had in a day»

The research focused on the level and type of involvement fathers / male carers of children who attended Thornbury Primary School had in the day to day care of their children.

Students in the online charters have less live contact with a teacher in a week than students in conventional schools have in a day.

Analysis by Mathematica revealed that online schools «on average provided students with less live teacher contact time per week than students in conventional schools had in a day.»

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«A person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in February.

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

I was tapped out and felt utterly insolvent in a way I hadn't since my grad - school days.

It'll take long years of expensive schooling before you can have your days in court.

The decision comes, of course, in the wake of the massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida earlier this month that killed 17 people and sparked demonstrations and renewed debate that has raged for days.

She advocates for rejiggering students» school schedules to allow to for more sleep, such as having classes start later in the day.

On one of Branson's last days at school, his headmaster is reported to have told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.

«Don't put the person in a position of having to ask permission like a child when they need to miss a day of school and have to get a doctor's note,» he says.

Even all these years later, I still don't think any other service — Snapchat, Facebook, whatever — I don't think anyone else has had a million users in day one because it's so cool and so innovative to say, «Oh, my god, I can grab my kid's school roster and I can Zillow everybody at my kid's school and see what everyone's house is worth, see what everyone paid for the home.»

One Argentine entrepreneur I met recalled having to take a day off from school every time his mother got paid in order to help her spend her paycheck as quickly as possible.)

The Needville Independent School District in Texas, for example, warned that participants would be suspended for three days.

«I would like my legacy to be represented in the fact that no one inside of McDonough doubts that we are a premier school, and every day we wake up and behave that way, not with arrogance but with a focus on being the best.»

By the end of the day Johnson and Bergh had agreed to open 700 similar Levi's boutiques inside Penneys in time for the back - to - school season in 2012 — less than a year later.

«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statemenIn terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statemenin water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statemenin animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statemenin the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statemenin Australia, said in a statemenin a statement.

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.

We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten.

But when I was in medical school, I got called to the dean's office one day — and I had bought one of those Motorola brick phones — and I would go out of surgery, and I would call the office and check what's going on.

I grew up in West Vancouver, and on the last day of school each summer I'd go to the barbershop and get my hair shaved off, so I wouldn't have to worry about ticks.

Founder and CEO Richard Gusella, an old - school iconoclast who'd been through the oilpatch's booms and busts, fashioned a strategy to build the company in increments, one 10,000 - barrel - per - day SAGD (steam - assisted gravity drainage) plant at a time.

The rest of my time is spent working on launching a beer school series in Toronto and preparing to speak at beer festivals — the latter of which involves coming up with fun ways to talk about beer to people who've been drinking it all day, which is challenging.

But this Presidents Day weekend, the commander - in - chief fired off an unprecedented 14 tweets about the Russia investigation — declaring his innocence, suggesting the FBI could have prevented last week's Florida school shooting if it hadn't been working on the investigation, blaming Democrats and former President Barack Obama for Russia's interference in the election, and accusing the former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia.

The Needville Independent School District in Texas issued a warning Tuesday that anyone who participated in a walkout or other political protest would be suspended for three days.

From 1966 to the Valentine's Day that my school proved to be less than bulletproof, nearly 1,100 people have been killed in mass public shootings in the U.S..

A day before her 17th birthday this year, Alexis came home from school and told her mom she wanted to join the U.S. Army and she had an appointment with a military recruiter in an hour.

As long as you have a valid email address on file and at least one unsubsidized loan, we will send you a quarterly email while you are in school detailing the amount of interest that accrues each day on your loans.

Nearly 200 advisors, plan sponsors, consultants and recordkeepers attended the one - day conference, held in the rarefied atmosphere of Chicago University's Booth School of Business — named after DFA cofounder, chairman and CEO Booth, who had made a $ 300 million donation to the sSchool of Business — named after DFA cofounder, chairman and CEO Booth, who had made a $ 300 million donation to the schoolschool.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

Five years ago today, on Feb. 27, 2013, while Premier Christy Clark was posing in a pink shirt with high schoolers on anti-bullying day, the man who would succeed her rose to speak in Question Period.

According to a police report, she said 14 - year - old Nikolas had refused to go to school that day, so she took away his Xbox «privileges» and stashed the computer game system in her vehicle.

It has produced videos around everything from «Back to School», Halloween, Super Bowl, National Dog Day, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and all points in - between.

I had been taking Pure Barre classes religiously throughout school, and found that my 55 minutes in class was quickly becoming my favorite time of day.

Waterloo High School was forced to close Wednesday because of a threat the previous day for which police had one person in custody.

I spent a few days filling in templates that I had from B - School.

In the days after the shooting, conservative blogs picked up a narrative later promoted by everyone from Limbaugh to Laura Ingraham that Broward had adopted a bleeding - heart disciplinary program because of a liberal, Obama - led effort to keep crime statistics down and criminals in schoolIn the days after the shooting, conservative blogs picked up a narrative later promoted by everyone from Limbaugh to Laura Ingraham that Broward had adopted a bleeding - heart disciplinary program because of a liberal, Obama - led effort to keep crime statistics down and criminals in schoolin schools.

As profits continued to grow, in 1908 Walker opened a factory and a beauty school in Pittsburgh, and by 1910, when Walker transferred her business operations to Indianapolis, the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company had become wildly successful, with profits that were the modern - day equivalent of several million dollars.

Breakfast Club of Canada programs ensure children in Canada have access to breakfast, feeding 167,000 students every day in 1,455 schools across the country.

In what apparently is the latest incident in a campaign to push children toward becoming LGBT - rights activists, a teacher has instructed a middle - school student to sign up for «recurring text messages» associated with an LGBT «Day of Silence» campaigIn what apparently is the latest incident in a campaign to push children toward becoming LGBT - rights activists, a teacher has instructed a middle - school student to sign up for «recurring text messages» associated with an LGBT «Day of Silence» campaigin a campaign to push children toward becoming LGBT - rights activists, a teacher has instructed a middle - school student to sign up for «recurring text messages» associated with an LGBT «Day of Silence» campaign.

Elected to the provincial legislature in 2007, Charles has been instrumental in securing new hospital expansions, full - day kindergarten in local schools and seeing work completed on south Mississauga's Lakeshore West GO line to add a third track.

His previous communications director, Dimitri Soudas, and his wife had three children during his nine years on Harper's staff; he made a point of resigning in time to walk his daughter Georgia to her first day of school on Sept. 6.

Students in Brevard missed three days of schools last year due to Hurricane Matthew and didn't not have to make up any of them.

Broward School Board member Robin Bartleman has been forced to ponder the conflict between troubled students and their sometimes - vulnerable peers intensively in recent days.

Before Nikolas Cruz's shots rang through her high school building last week, Catania recalls spending the day stressing about a test she would have in the fourth period.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

If you spend a good portion of your day in a building like an office or a school, chances are good that you've participated in a fire drill...

Had everyone who knew of his struggles sat down in a room and compared notes about his recent past, perhaps an alarm would have sounded ahead of what emerged on Valentine's Day, when Cruz allegedly walked into a suburban South Florida high school and carried out one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.