Sentences with phrase «schools spend years»

The first objective is important as many schools spend years designing a new school model in theory without testing any aspect of that model in advance.

After lawmakers consented to his steep cuts to health care and school spending this year, he held a news conference to call the New York Legislature — for years the butt of late - night comics and a target of editorial pages — «the best legislative body in the nation.»

«The Cartel» really took on the notion that public education in America operates solely and purposefully «for the kids,» and it showed exactly what can go wrong when you are consistently first or second in school spending every year (as New Jersey is) and lots of interest groups have placed the economic advancement and security of the adults above the kids.

Can you tell me, for example, how much your local public school spends each year?

This was the highest total of any lobby client during the years for which records are available, but it was only 48.34 percent of what Families for Excellent Schools spent this year.

The second largest public school system in Massachusetts will operate with a $ 346 million budget in the next school year, a 2.4 percent increase over what the Springfield schools spent this year.

After graduating from high school he spent a year hitchhiking around the United States, hopping freight trains and traveling with a circus as a prop man, then attended Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for fiction.

Not exact matches

After graduating from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, she spent five years working in international operations management.

To become a lawyer, you need to complete a bachelor's degree, take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a laSchool Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a laschool, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyer).

The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

Following her graduation in 2009, Toshack spent several years working at the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney before enrolling at Harvard Business School.

After the Philippines trip, Evans spent an academic year at Woodstock, an international boarding school near Dehradun, a town close to the Himalayan foothills in India.

And who knows how many people would have become more ill, or even died, had Riley waited until he was done with college, or grad school or spent years in the workforce before pursuing his goal?

The irony of spending years in high school and college before getting a job is that what employers want most isn't any specific (or even highly specialized) body of knowledge; they want employees who can learn on the job.

But the first lesson of business school is to tap into your natural network, and veterans, who have often spent years overseas cut off from regular society, often don't have the contacts they need to make the transition into civilian business.

High Definition Video — In 2007, after spending a couple years teaching high school math and working in the non-profit arena, I went to work for an HD video conferencing start up developing a training and certification program.

The provincial government is spending $ 19 billion on infrastructure such as roads and schools over the next three years.

The average back - to - school shopper will spend $ 688 this year.

Forget business school or years as a consultant, Cooke spent most of his 20s competing in memory championships, winning competitions by performing heroic mental feats like memorizing the order of 16 decks of playing cards in under an hour.

According to data collected by USAToday.com, the schools with that make the most money in college sports spent an average of just $ 12.0 million (10.2 %) on scholarships last year.

Bruic spends her days now working at the Afghan army's two - year - old signals school, where she advises Afghan officers on communications networks and training.

So, I spent a lot of my time during junior and senior years of high school researching the process and trying to find «secret» ways to get the most financial aid possible — all the strategies I assumed my peers were already taking advantage of.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

Two years ago, when most American Gen Zers (defined as survey respondents who are 22 years old now) were still in school, they were distinctly cool to the idea of spending adulthood in an office, but that's changed quite a bit.

If you were born before the 1990s and are like me, you probably spent most of your grade school years trying to build a secret alphabet to exchange messages with your friends.

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

This is not intuitive to people who have not spent three years in law school.

To earn some spending money while attending Thomas Jefferson High School in his Brooklyn neighborhood, Blankfein worked as a lifeguard and got himself into better shape, after years of struggling with his weight.

Back - to - school spending is expected to be substantially lower this year, which has retailers expanding their themed sales beyond expected school staples to unexpected items like mattresses and fine jewelry.

During the past 12 years, I've taught more than a thousand millennials at Harvard Business School, spending countless hours to help them understand their aspirations and motivations.

But you'll rack up lots of student loans first: after a four - year BA, you must invest in three years of law school, then spend a year articling before taking the bar exam.

She will spend the 2004 - 2005 academic year as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Robert Kozinets, who spent years teaching in the U.S. before joining the Shulich school, can barely contain his glee at the thought of having a Target near his home again.

Training and expense costs are tax deductible for Olympians but most Olympic competitors spend years working regular jobs or going to school while enduring grueling practice sessions that push bodies to their breaking points.

It was founded in November 2013 by David Munczinski, a 2005 Harvard University graduate who spent two - and - a-half years as a marketing manager for Ralph Lauren before adjourning to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School for an MBA.

Shaken, he quit school and spent three years in the Coast Guard.

I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.

Honestly, it sometimes seems like everything we learn in years of schooling and training is boiled down into a series of broad stroke rules about how much you should save, spend on a house, set aside for taxes and on and on.

I would disagree with the sentiment that «Few people would not run a cost / benefit analysis of college or graduate school before spending years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars.»

This means the 10 % of income going towards student loans for 10 - 20 years after school will massively reduce discretionary spending for 20 - 40 year olds compared to prior generations.

Having spent the past 12 years living and working in 10 countries on four continents, she is spending a year as an international student attending the executive MBA program at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Lawmakers also decided to set aside $ 400 million in new spending on school security and mental health after a troubled 19 - year - old brought an AR - 15 rifle into the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educschool security and mental health after a troubled 19 - year - old brought an AR - 15 rifle into the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educSchool in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 students and educators.

Joseph began at Credit Karma in January 2015, after spending four years as the Chief Financial Officer for TAL Education Group, one of the largest K - 12 after - school tutoring services providers in China.

«After 26 years of nonstop work since MBA school, I am going to step back and spend some time with my family and let someone else take this amazing company to the next level as CFO,» Callinicos said.

«My daughter is in middle school; my wife has been supportively waiting to spend time with me for 28 years.

The returns have been scary - bad, not even keeping up with the pace of the schools» spending in the past year.

Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Mr. Tilson spent five years working with Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter studying the competitiveness of inner cities and inner - city - based companies nationwide.

Did you spend several years of your adult life completing graduate school?

After school, he spent a year as a stringer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, then moved to Texas to take a job as a metro reporter for the Ft. Worth Star - Telegram.