Sentences with phrase «several big school»

So have several big school districts in Florida, including Broward County, the sixth - largest district in the United States.

Now Bill Gates, who in recent years has turned his attention and considerable fortune to improving American education, is investing $ 335 million through his foundation to overhaul the personnel departments of several big school systems.

Not exact matches

As reported in Chapter 5 of JPMadoff: The Unholy Alliance Between America's Biggest Bank and America's Biggest Crook, Ms. Fleischman is a graduate of Cornell University Law School and, in 2006, after several years of practice at a large Wall Street law firm, she was hired by JPMorgan Chase as a transaction manager.

Several local authorities, including big ones like Essex and Hertfordshire, are taking away free transport for Catholic schools, something the schools have had since before the Second World War.

While the exposure to the big money and bigger reach of major - league stars has helped US Cryotherapy work deals to provide equipment to several NBA franchises and major universities, the company understands that a grassroots approach which includes high school athletes will yield its greatest growth in sales and recognition.

Rashan Gary, Jabrill Peppers and several other Michigan coaches and players are at the Big House Friday evening watching the Paramus Catholic St. Frances High School game.

Trice, already big in high school, played football on several very good teams at East Tech under a very good coach, Sam Willaman, who had starred at Ohio State.

Benning has had several offers from bigger schools at a higher salary but says, «I don't want to be some big school's showpiece Negro.»

Several big ticket items are up for renewal in Albany this June, including mayoral control of city public schools.

Fluent in Spanish and an accomplished mariachi musician, Carranza had been coveted by several big - city school systems.

Paterson rejected nearly $ 200 million in member items, including $ 5,000 grants promised to Central New York non-profit groups like the Onondaga Oswego Chapter of the Red Cross and the North Syracuse Babe Ruth League, and bigger amounts for Syracuse University, the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club, the Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Jubilee Homes and several libraries and schools.

To block heat illnesses, several big - time high school football states have new policies for practicing in intense heat.

Josh dated his high school sweetheart Ellen Fenster for several years after making it big as an actor, but the two broke up for good in February 2004.

From my perspective, targeted teaching is a form of differentiation that is specifically concerned with student's learning needs in relation to several «big ideas» in number, without which their progress in school mathematics will be seriously impacted.

The chairman of the House education committee released a proposal late last week that would allow states and school districts to transfer money between several big - ticket programs contained in the main federal K - 12 law.

In the annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll on attitudes toward the nation's schools, the public has, for each of the past several years, ranked discipline among the top three «biggest» problems.

The fast - growing Clark County, Nev., school district has named a new superintendent, while leadership changes in several other big - city systems, including New York and Pittsburgh, continued to unfold last week.

«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.»

Two big changes in American education policy over the past several decades have been good for the country and for kids in general, but not particularly good for Catholic schools, especially the urban variety.

According to a recent article in the U.S. News & World Report, several big - city public school systems face immense fiscal challenges.

The campaign to take on The System and its schools also enjoyed the services of a handful of intellectual spokesmen whose written works outline a case against education bureaucracy that remains brilliant in many small ways, if repulsive in several big ones.

As you will see in the summary report (by Fordham's Dara Zeehandelaar and Amber Winkler) and several technical papers to follow, economist and pension expert Robert Costrell and education - finance expert Larry Maloney parsed the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree - health - care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

Single - gender education has long been a pillar in the world of private schools, but in the past decade, several big - city school districts have opened all - boys schools designed to improve academic achievement and social - emotional skills for non-white students.

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The release of a new California School Dashboard — featuring ratings of schools and districts according to several accountability criteria — was big news recently.

Schools in England have been told to expect big variations in their GCSE results because of the largest set of changes to exams for several years.

While the Georgia ruling was widely seen by charter proponents as a big setback in that state, several experts said it was not necessarily a harbinger for blocking charter school commissions elsewhere.

The commission acknowledges that its paper does not grapple with several big hurdles in developing more - comprehensive assessment systems, among them the cost of developing complex test items and the widely disparate digital infrastructures of the schools that would use the tests.

The American Federation of Teachers is actively seeking a bigger role in charter schools and has helped to unionize several.

The study also examined household incomes for private school families and public school families and found that Florida has one of the biggest income gaps in the nation, despite several state programs such as the Florida Tax Credit Scholarships and the McKay Scholarships that direct tax dollars, directly or indirectly, to private schools.

The biggest signifier of success though is that we have already carried out further collaborative activities — several sports fixtures and a geography workshop — and have sought to broaden this to other subjects and year groups in our schools.

A development of 10,000 homes would constitute «a pretty big village», Trobe said, adding that each community would need several primary schools and at least one secondary school.

In many ways high schools present the biggest challenge, because by the time students enter, many of them are several grades behind.

E4E is making a big push in New Haven to advocate for improving school climate, and several schools have seen significant improvements instituting some teacher...

Paul Emerich has devoted several years to one of the most high - profile Personalized Learning schools out there: AltSchool, a Silicon Valley wunderschool that was backed by big names like Zuckerberg, Emerich, a National Board Certified Educator with little classroom experience, an International Education Consultant, a blogger, and he's getting attention right now for his piece repudiating the Gospel of Personalized Learning.

Several of the schools that made big gains still have relatively low overall test scores, with less than 20 percent of students scoring at the levels of proficient or advanced on state assessments.

You have several important measures that together provide you with the big picture of how prepared your child is for the new school year.

In a report on school safety released last October, Eden reached the conclusion that New York City's charter schools were «safer» than traditional district counterparts not by comparing raw data from the Big Apple's school climate survey or even using more - objective data such as incident reports over a period of several years.

It's been one of the biggest dramas of this spring's legislative deliberations, with momentum building for several bills that would slow, if not stop, the state's use of new testing tied to the Common Core standards in evaluating teachers and schools.

Jumoke Academy in Hartford traded school bells for barks Wednesday as several four - legged guests took part in a very special and very big reveal.

Those who opt to self - publish in the e-book format have several platforms to choose from specifically designed for illustrated books, but this doesn't solve a much bigger issue for children's book writers of all categories: distribution to the school & library market.

We hooked ourselves to the rocks and admired several grey reef sharks, big school of jackfish, yellow fin barracudas, emperor fish and couple of black tip sharks.

Serious divers will be pleased with plentiful marine life like big schools of fish, stingrays, manta rays, whale sharks, dolphins, sea turtles and several kinds of sharks.

Though its only a small slice of what promises to be a much bigger game, the demo should prove heartening to old - school fans who'd been angling for a return to Ghost Recon fundamentals after several off - model installments.

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I attended a Big Sandy Montana traffic school course several years ago.

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During the last several years I have been providing volunteer service and support initiatives for Big Brother Big Sister of Florida, and providing mentorship and guidance to Broward County, Florida as a high school mentor.