Sentences with phrase «start of last school year»

NEGREET, La. — Shortly after the start of the last school year, Sharon Lane said it became a fight to get her son out of the house.

Before the start of last school year, she met with school counselors to find out what service programs the school already had in place and which potential community - service topics would be of greatest interest to the school's grade 6 - 8 students.

«I have really noticed a change in what is on a student's tray now compared to the start of last school year, «Collins said, «Some students choose milk, bread, and fill the rest of their tray with a scrumptious salad and all the fixings.»

Not exact matches

He started his first business, a paintball company, in high school, and his second, a Vernon, B.C. — based pizza - by - the - slice joint called Growlies, in lieu of finishing his last year of business school at the University of Victoria.

Thiel made headlines last year when he announced he would fund a group of college start - ups, provided the students left school for two years.

Launched last year, the Start Here Initiative is a collaboration with the University of Arkansas Clinton School for Public Service and the Arkansas Association of Black Professionals.

An end of summer restlessness has been holding me close the last few weeks, and I needed an escape before the school year started up again.

Because I want to see them «one last time» before the craziness of the school year starts.

Just want to have a great last year of high school and start something great and new at Michigan can't wait Fr

And to adjust for more recent picks who haven't had the chance to start three seasons or play four, if a pick from the last few years is still in the league or has a string of recent starting gigs, I counted them toward his school's total in those two categories.

As an arsenal fan i feel as if i am a student starting the new school year in the same old clothes of last year, while everyone is passing me by in their new outfits and gears for the new school year, with your mom telling you your old clothes can do for the school year.

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.

But now we need to focus on the reality of our kids starting a new year, maybe a new school, and how we'd like to tweak this year to make it better than last year.

my kids do participate and the candy lasts forever * we usually end up throwing out the last of it when school starts the following year *.

I am so proud of how far my boy has come on in the last year, play school has been so good for him and he has really thrived since he started going for 3 days a week.

It means backyard barbecues and basking in the final days of summer sun, one last hurrah before the leaves start to fall and the school year gets into full swing.

Although Zoe hasn't officially started school yet, we loosely began last fall and have been experimenting with various curriculums, trying to figure out what will work best for our family and the official «first day of kindergarten» later this year.

She will quickly start to get the first of her 32 permanent teeth at about the same time, although the last of the permanent teeth (the wisdom teeth) may not erupt until the high - school years.

Lee Guse, president of Preferred Meal Systems, the food supplier to Westchester Elementary and other area schools that have started offering vegetables instead of foisting them upon students in the last several years, said savings amount to around 3 percent.

When we started home education, it was my older son's last year of primary school, when we moved abroad.

The hospital visitation program, which started last school year, was put on hold in fall 1997 by the departure of a club member who set it up, but Stachiw was instrumental in restarting it in February.

Whether kids are just starting kindergarten or entering their last year of elementary school, there are many good reasons for parents to volunteer at school.

One of our big things last year was the Pedometer Challenge, with a goal of 10,000 steps a day, and it started with employees but made it to the student level — at the elementary level it prompted some schools to form walking clubs, where students were able to do a lap around the park and walk back to school.

The developer was set to build a dormitory adjacent to SUNY Poly's campus — and started buying the land to do so several months before the school asked for bids — and has given at least $ 200,000 to the Cuomo campaign in the last three years, some of it from LLCs and the spouses of executives.

Bierwirth, a former Herricks school superintendent, was tapped as Distinguished Educator by State Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia last year and has been advising Hempstead since he started in October.

That is as valuable investment as educating your own people, and possibly more effective - since in order to prepare a local student you'd need to pay for 15 - 20 years of schooling, starting from kindergarten, but to prepare an «imported» student you just pay for the last couple years in university.

Last month, GhCampus.com reported that, the Director - General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor at a press briefing in Accra indicated that a total of 42 Community Day Senior High Schools (SHS) are expected to start admission of their first batch of students for 2016/2017 academic year.

A former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Kwakye - Ofosu, has questioned the basis of government's decision to use part of Ghana's oil revenue to finance the free senior high school policy started last year.

Inaugurated last year with the first annual Buffalo Public Schools Science Week, this year's greatly expanded program begins at the start of the new academic year.

A handful of US schools — in Iowa for example — have also started using them within the last two years.

At the meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Poland last year, Paul Mathews and Rebecca Sear of the London School of Economics reported that women in the UK are more likely to start a family if they have strong kin ties, particularly if the relatives live within 80 kilometres and are in regular contact.

The Lake County Florida school district, in the land of sun - kissed oranges, figured they would get a jump start and implemented the new rules last year.

Let's start off with DKNY the brand was revived last year when Maxwell Osborne and Dao - Yi Chow duo of Public School became creative directors and wow just speechless.

Kendra Scott for example (one of my favorites being she graduate from my high school) started her company in 2002 — but didn't really get popular until like the last 5 or 6 years... it seemed like she came out of no where (an «overnight success») but it was years of hard work and hustle.

As some of you might know I started this DIY «Project Re-Design» collaboration with bloggers on monthly basis last year but I had to put it on pause because I got very busy with being full time in school as well as working part time and having to complete a part time internship.

Hi my name is Nicole I am a 22 year old full time student on my last year and a half of school so I figured why not have a little fun and meet a few new people before I graduate and start getting my butt kicked by the real world Lol..

Elizabeth Olsen The younger sister of the famous Olsen Twins, Elizabeth only started auditioning last year while finishing her senior year at NYU «s film school.

Last year's War and Peace was a ratings triumph for the BBC, Dickensian found a new way of tapping into the world of one of our greatest ever story - tellers (he would surely have started, like Dickensian writer Tony Jordan did, on the staff at Eastenders had he emerged today) whilst the one - off «old - school» Sherlock episode The Abominable Bride was one of the most acclaimed shows over Christmas.

If your school has a robust project - based program, or at least the teachers your students had last year did a lot of PBL, starting your class with a project sends a message to students: let's get right to it, this is how we learn here.

Her son passed the required test and started kindergarten there last year — the school's second year of operation.

The first cohort of 30 teachers started last year, training for one month during the summer, plus monthly workshops during the school year, lasting for two years total.

But last Aug. 20, just before the start of her junior year of high school, Ms. Kirtman died in a car accident.

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The Head Start program has needed a radical overhaul for the past 45 years, i.e. ever since its founding and its near - immediate demonstration that it doesn't do much lasting good by way of readying poor kids to succeed in school.

In a survey of all school districts conducted between July and September, the Connecticut - based market - research firm found that 31,069 schools started using computers in classes last year, and that almost 56,000 public schools now use them.

The grant would last one year only, to contribute towards the initial recruitment costs, but we would then expect the role to become self - sustaining as the schools start to reap the benefits of that expertise.»

In addition, the start of a new school year can provide opportunities to reiterate some of last year's great successes and build upon them a plan for continued success.

«At the end of the last school year, we looked at every student who started reading below grade level.

Last September, Ryan officially started as dean at the Ed School after teaching law for 15 years at the University of Virginia.