Sentences with phrase «sponsored schools spent»

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(Regeneron, by the way, just announced it'll spend $ 100 million over the next decade to sponsor the nation's largest high school science competition.)

Braaten spent several years in the 1970s engaged in ecumenical discussions, sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School, that brought together leading academic theologians from across the spectrum of mainline Protestantism.

The Newfane Republican, who represents Niagara Falls and Niagara County as well as Orleans County and western Monroe County, told YNN Buffalo's Sara Serafin Tuesday that he's sponsoring a bill that would exempt the money schools spend on security from being calculated in the state's two - percent property tax cap.

And then there is the much bigger rump that could not get access to good schools (down under Labour), good apprenticeships / sponsoring companies, also down under Labour and lastly betrayed by a Labour Govt that seems to think spending vast amounts of money on snooping campaigns to catch benefit cheats is a better investment than educating and reskilling the un-employed, who on going out to do the jobs that must be done find themselves up against foreign labour sometimes willing to work the most brutal conditions (and maybe less than min wage because it is still better than home).

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

A study sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development found that only 4 percent of first - grade class time in American elementary schools is spent on science and only 2 percent, on social studies.

In an attempt to reward good schools, the district offered last week to let them skip certain requirements in training, such as centrally sponsored staff development, and in curricular initiatives, such as spending two hours a day on reading.

The webinar, jointly sponsored by UCEA and the Wallace Foundation in collaboration with NASSP and NAESP, features a new Wallace Foundation Report, «Making Time for Instructional Leadership» as well as two celebrated principals who will discuss strategies they use to implement instructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructional leadership.

The two proposals come forward as lawmakers consider legislation sponsored by the California PTA that would strengthen requirements that schools engage parents in spending decisions over the use of billions of dollars in state aid to targeted students — English learners, low - income students and foster youth.

Individual advisors may have spent months or years supporting particular schools only to have them handed over to a sponsor, potentially one without any proven track record of school improvement in that area.

Supporters of a charter - school reform bill passed last year, House Bill 2, and of new evaluations for school sponsors say they aim to bring more accountability and transparency to a charter system that spends about $ 1 billion annually to educate more than 120,000 Ohio students attending 374 charter schools.

In the landmark legislation, which CTA sponsored, the state pledged $ 3 billion over eight years to spend on extra resources at 499 schools.

During the 2016 election cycle, the CCSA spent $ 30,282 to re-elect Matt Dababneh to the California State Assembly after he sponsored a bill that would have limited the ability of school districts to conduct independent investigations of charter schools.

Rep. Ken Weyler sponsored a bill (now sent to a study committee) to fund the regular public charter schools at 50 % of average public school spending (he later proposed 47.5 %).

Further research by NAESP and partner organizations revealed that principals spend less than 1 percent of their workdays per year in a state - or district - sponsored professional development, and almost half of principals in the profession report that their state does not provide tailored professional learning opportunities for principals and other school leaders.

The fund will also sponsor Pratt School of Art faculty fellowships at the American Academy in Rome, allowing Pratt faculty to spend time working in one of the most culturally rich cities surrounded by the Academy's accomplished artists, writers, designers, and scholars.

Thomas earned a master's degree in art education from Columbia University in New York, an MFA in painting at American University in Washington, and spent a summer in Europe on a study tour sponsored by the Tyler School of Fine Art at Temple University.

A company sponsored CDL program on the other hand allows you to begin a new career as a professional truck driver without the burden of having to pay thousands of dollars to attend school or spend hours looking for and applying to trucking companies after you obtain a CDL.