Sentences with phrase «than state school»

I put myself through four years of college at a private university (at the time I thought it was a better education than a state school, but now I realize there isn't much difference in the real world unless we're talking about Yale or Harvard or something!).

Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but also free room and board for top students from poor families — meaning it can be less expensive for these students to attend Harvard than a state school or a community college, says Caroline Hoxby, an economist at Stanford who tracks these students.

Consequently, independent school students have clearer career goals than state school or academy school students.

David Bann, the study's lead author, suggested that pupils from private schools are more likely to have extra money to invest in extracurricular activities than state schools, which could help them develop healthy habits that benefit them late on life.

«Many times, students might be under the impression that private schools are always more expensive than state schools because they look at the sticker price,» McGill said.

«Not only are their educational outcomes better but, on the best available evidence - value - added scores - independent schools (on average) progress their children more during their school years than state schools.»

He quoted figures hailed by the DfE earlier in the year which said three - quarters of the first free schools were rated good or outstanding - which a spokesman pointed out was a significantly higher proportion than all state schools.

Which is actually higher than some state schools and SUNY.»

Not exact matches

Today, the patented system is used in more than 5,000 schools districts, therapy centers, hospitals and homes in the United States and Canada.

At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

The Director of Clinical Operations for the Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute, Ettinger is described as «one of the best students I have seen in more than 30 years of teaching Executive MBA students» by Dennis P. Sheehan, the school's faculty director for MBA programs.

I graduated in 1986, from a small state school in northern California, Humboldt State, known more for its partying than its stustate school in northern California, Humboldt State, known more for its partying than its stuState, known more for its partying than its studies.

On Thursday, the storm grounded more than 3,000 flights, prompted states of emergency in parts of New York and New Jersey and closed schools from Philadelphia to Boston.

That's $ 23,830 higher than the average cost for public, four - year, in - state schools.

The Scott campaign, meanwhile, has run TV ads accusing Crist of raising tuition at state colleges and leaving K - 12 schools in worse shape than when he took office.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

The Florida state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school.

Less than a week after 17 people were fatally shot at a Florida high school, the state House has voted down a motion to take up a bill that would ban assault rifles, effectively killing the measure for this session.

With more than 35 years of experience, Clean Harbors performs a wide range of environmental and emergency services for State government clients, including state - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United StState government clients, including state - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United Ststate - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United States.

The survey — conducted in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead — also finds that significantly more Americans believe mass shootings in the United States are due more to mental health issues than inadequate gun laws.

, the state pension plan does, too, and school districts, towns and villages, and other participants get a larger - than - normal bill.

Less than three weeks after the MSD shooting, Schachter stood in a conference room at the Coral Springs Marriott surrounded by 25 school safety experts from across the United States for the inaugural meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission, a personal project that predates the state panel he was appointed to thisschool safety experts from across the United States for the inaugural meeting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission, a personal project that predates the state panel he was appointed to thisSchool Safety Commission, a personal project that predates the state panel he was appointed to this week.

For that reason, the school tax rate is higher in Burlington than in much of the state, at 1.6358 %.

Major Arizona school districts in metro Phoenix and Tucson were still closed for the day on Thursday following Gov. Ducey's signing of budget legislation providing more than $ 300 million in raises for many of the state's striking teachers.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Beginning with Columbine 19 years ago, more than 150,000 students attending at least 170 primary or secondary schools have experienced a shooting on campus, according to a Washington Post analysis of online archives, state and federal enrollment figures, and news stories.

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

More than 200 people attended the protest outside a Bronx public school where Bloomberg was giving his annual State of the City address.

«But it has prevented new Catholic schools from opening, which are more successful, more popular and more ethnically diverse than other types of state school.

Each year more than 1.7 million visitors download more than 7 million documents from this site, including requests from more than 400 colleges, universities and schools of theology in the United States, and another 200 throughout the world.

Students attending faith state schools in England are less likely to be absent from school than pupils... More

Government figures reveal that 339,000 state school pupils were excluded in England in 2015/16 - twelve per cent more than the previous year.

Joel has stated in previous interviews that he has never attended seminary school or taken religious studies but he REALLY needs to because he is sounding more foolish than ever.

1) seperation of church and state; state funded public schools can't teach anything that is directly influenced by religion other than just touching on that kind of topic.

I grew up with over 30 % of my high school being muslim, with the largest Mosque in the States being just a few miles away, and with students learning more Arabic in high school than spanish.

If schools close for something other than recognized Federal and State holidays then yes, they should close for Muslim holidays.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

According to studentsfirst.org, in the United States of America today, more than a quarter of students fail to graduate high school in four years.

According to the NWLC, black girls are suspended from school five times more than white girls in the United States, but the offenses are usually the same — usually dress code and general behavioral infractions.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

The community is more than the state.48 The creative and redemptive work of God we may readily admit depends perhaps more basically upon the voluntary associations, the communities of artists, the scientists, and the schools than upon the political order.

They are all «church schools» rather than state institutions in distinction from many European theological faculties; but the word «church» may mean denomination.

This deficiency is strikingly apparent in the Supreme Court's church - state jurisprudence (where the landmark cases more often than not involve the family, children, and schools).

You Said:» Good thing the United States declared its independence from England or else we would have bullsh.it propaganda like this making its way through our home schools trying to teach a lot more than just «creationism».

Major premise: Creationism is religion rather than science; therefore, according to the principle of separation of church and state, creationism may not be taught in public schools.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

And I believe that many independent centers of power (church, media, economy, schools, the state) rather than one center of state power controlling all the others leads more surely to peace, justice and freedom.

They cite first - hand accounts of children returning to school in a worse educational, health and developmental state than when they ended the previous term.

Yet another sign of the flourishing of AATS - member graduate professional schools in the United States was the astonishing — from the vantage of the 1990s — statistic that despite the intervening economic depression they averaged three times as much endowment per student ($ 6,103) as all privately controlled academic institutions ($ 2,040), and more than ten times as much as publicly controlled institutions ($ 455).13