Sentences with phrase «students as of last year»

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«We found that our students are happy with Lululemon clothing they bought maybe four or five years ago, but they aren't as happy with the selection or quality of what they bought in the last year or two.»

The investigation is the latest problem for a six - year - old company, known until last year as Trump University, that already faces a string of consumer complaints, reprimands from state regulators and a lawsuit from dissatisfied former students.

For the last seven years he has served full - time as president of Cristo Rey Brooklyn HS, which educates minority students, mostly immigrants or first - generation Americans of modest means.

In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

It makes little sense to award executives on a biased short - term basis when the effects of their actions can last for years, or to award directors on the basis of time — or, as one of my students put it, «showing up.»

The finance sector's allure has held strong at the University of Virginia's McIntire School, where 47.8 % of students accepted jobs in the field in 2014, nearly the same number as last year, said Tom Fitch, McIntire's associate dean for career services and employer relations.

Debuting last month, Discovery Channel's Killing Fields follows a retired Louisiana detective as he reopens a cold case: the 1987 unsolved murder of Eugenie Boisfontaine, then a 34 - year - old graduate student, in Louisiana.

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

Other income for the Direct Banking segment decreased $ 21 million from last year's second quarter as a result of lower late fees, lower transition services revenue related to the Student Loan Corporation and a decline in protection products revenue.

As the Trump administration rolls back the greater regulatory scrutiny the for - profit college industry has faced during the last several years, it is private equity that stands to benefit the most, posing continuing dangers to students, taxpayers, and the integrity of the federal financial aid system.

For example, last year, FLPC students developed fact sheets on date labeling, tax incentives, and liability protections for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Mass DEP) and Recycling Works as it rolled out its organic waste ban across the state.

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 yeaAs 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 yeaas 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.

Early last year, I told you about a Houston man, Kenny Thompson, who generously paid off the cafeteria meal debt of 60 students at the elementary school at which he serves as a mentor and tutor.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

Last year, school nurse Sarah Smith noticed an increase in the number of students visiting her clinic complaining of hunger; Smith brought the issue to her administrators, and grab - n - go breakfast was proposed as a solution.

An LLC tied to SL Green, which declined to comment via a spokesman, made monthly payments from April to December of last year, as regularly as if they were student loan payments.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

The number of students who applied to SUNY schools this fall jumped 6 percent compared to last year as word spread that New York will offer free tuition to income - eligible students.

The circular released the fee items the government has absorbed for all day public senior high school students in the country in line with its commitment to implement the progressively free secondary education policy as expressed in President John Mahama's State of the Nation Address last year.

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.

As a result, nearly a third (32 %) of headteachers said support for these students has become more difficult to access over the last year.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Cuomo also appeared to soften his rhetoric substantially from last year on the causes of public schools that are deemed to be «failing» as learning centers for their students.

De Blasio has spent the last year positioning himself as a vocal opponent of President Donald Trump, while touting a universal pre-K program for all city students and historically low crime rates across the city as some of his major first - term accomplishments.

Though the administration touted last school year as the safest on record — with the de Blasio administration discussing the possibility of reducing the number of schools with metal detectors — the experience of students at Wildlife Conservation reveals a different story.

Plattsburgh City School District Superintendent Jay LeBrun attributes the overall decrease to the link between student scores and teacher evaluations — a major sticking point last year as educators battled with the state Department of Education and the governor over reforms that would have wedded the two.

«The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators was thrilled to learn that the students of P.S. 19Q in Queens will soon see the last of the trailers that have served as classrooms for years,» added MARK CANNIZZARO, Executive Vice President of the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators in a statement.

In addition, 15 percent of Success Academy students last year were listed as children with disabilities, he said.

As for last year's testing opt - outs, Farrell said the district saw only a small percentage of students refuse to take the state tests despite low class sizes which easily skew the data.

At Success Academy Harlem 1, as the original school is now called, 23 percent of the 896 students were suspended for at least one day in 2012 - 13, the last year for which the state has data.

He spent his last year as a Lisbon student studying cell - cycle regulation in yeast at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, with an Erasmus scholarship from the European Commission.

This is because over the last 20 years a number of countries have focused national attention on their students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive global economy.

This year, Purdue will welcome a 1st - year class of 37 nuclear engineering students — well over twice as many as entered the program last year.

Last spring, meeting with students and faculty at Emory, where Price trained as a bone surgeon and later returned as an assistant professor, he didn't rule out a proposed $ 2 billion «bump» for the $ 32.3 billion NIH in the coming fiscal year, wrote Quinn Eastman of the Emory Report.

During this year's excavation campaign, covering an area of 600 square meters on the property and thus twice as large as last year, the 20 students ensured that the soil was carefully removed, findings surveyed and documented, and objects recovered and packaged carefully.

A process revealed last year by Martí and lead authors Chengmin Jiang, a graduate student, and Avishek Saha, a Rice alumnus, starts with negatively charging carbon nanotubes by infusing them with potassium, a metal, and turning them into a kind of salt known as a polyelectrolyte.

A growing number of parents are withdrawing their children from the annual state tests; the epicenter of the «opt - out» movement may be New York State, where as many as 90 percent of students in some districts reportedly refused to take the year - end examination last spring.

All courses last 1 academic year, and financial support may be available if you are applying as a mature student (anyone over the age of 24) and you have not had funding for a postgraduate course from the government already.

Along with some 2500 Korean students who received advanced degrees last year in science and engineering, she was seeking her first research job just as the country's economy took a nose dive and thousands of workers were being laid off.

I offer a variety of personalized and group focused coaching programs based on the extensive work I have been deeply immersed in over the last 10 years as a transformation coach, holistic optimization specialist, nutritionist, and a student of life.

Lynn Comella, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at University of Nevada Las Vegas, told the Associated Press last year that it is not unusual for students to turn to sex work such as stripping, prostitution or webcam work to pay for school.

In Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Frank Langella is heartbreakingly good as author Leonard Schiller, a once - celebrated author forgotten in the years since his last novel and flattered by the attention of an appreciative graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) intent on reintroducing his work to the world with her thesis.

As one example, Dr. Valdes recently videoconferenced with our Resident Entrepreneurs, teams of students that formed last year during our seventh - grade capstone activity in our Digital Shop in partnership with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Until last week, the North Carolina Community College System, which as of the 2006 - 07 academic year had 112 degree - seeking undocumented high school graduates among about 800,000 students of all kinds at its 58 campuses, followed the same policy.

The teacher will have a thorough material on marketing, that will let him or her achieve a significant improvement of the student's knowledge on this area, and additionally is a material cumulated during my last 8 years teaching the subject, fundamental on achieving classes with high grades as per our IB international standards.

I saw an example of the power of making this last school year when some of my students, who'd normally struggled in a traditional class, created things such as a working catapult fashioned out of popsicle sticks, rubber - bands and cardboard.

EducationCity, the award - winning online teaching, learning and assessment resource, will be running a PlayLive Maths and English competition as part of its annual Challenge Week (18th - 24thJune), which last year saw over 18,500 students get involved!

Finally, I return the lists to the students in the last week of the school year — partly to remind them that taking care of them was a year - long endeavor, but also to show them that telling future teachers about their needs as learners and people can help them be successful.

The program, known as Project SEARCH, enables students with disabilities to spend their last year of high school interning at the hospital.

As I have had the privilege to visit 100 + schools and interact with several thousand educators in the last two years, I have distilled key elements of this transition, and the deeper I look, the more I am convinced that THE key element of a successful redefinition of learning requires a reboot of the fundamental relationship between teacher, student, and knowledge.