Sentences with phrase «than the school down»

Pay more than the school down the road to secure your maths teachers?

Its astonishing how the direction of this school has changed in a few years from a school that values its students education to a «football school» thats education is no better than the schools down the road (Eastlake & Skyline).

Not exact matches

The blaze shut down schools and forced more than 200 patients at two city hospitals to evacuate.

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.

«The guy was filled with rage,» said a person who has visited the school building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where Cruz fired a squall of more than 100 rounds from his AR - 15 into classrooms and down hallways at terrified kids.

To find a high - ranked school offering one of these executive MBAs for under six - figures, you have to reach down to the No. 9th ranked University of Texas at Austin which has an EMBA program for a bargain rate of $ 80,169 — less than half the cost of either Wharton program (See the full list of the top 50 Executive MBA programs in North America on the next page).

By and large theological schools are still bogged down in traditional academic concerns designed more to produce scholars than strategists.

As the Jesuit high school where I work began to wind down for the year, I reached a point where I needed clarity, something to bring calm to the chaos of the closing weeks and to center me in a reality more timeless than the NBA playoffs.

Before you say another word, think for a minute about how members of your faith continuously push for legislation to force others to your way of life, force your morality, spark witch hunts for radicalized members of other religions even though it's more often than not white guys gunning down crowds in schools, theatres, grocery store parking lots, etc..

It was up and down and there were certainly parts I really liked, but I remember crying in my car asking my parents if I could quit and switch schools on more than one occasion.

We're down to the last couple of weeks of the school year, and I have to admit that it seems like it's been crazier this year than in any of the previous 16 school years that I have completed (sixteen!!!

After I fumbled through each school day — doing more to slow down my brilliant co-teacher than to help her — I came home and I cooked.

I have made more chocolate malt shakes than I can count during a high school job I had at a soda fountain in the town I grew up in, and I could down a box of Whoppers like nobody's business during my teens.

Will Blythe has inadvertently captured the essence of the UCLA - USC rivalry, right down to the less - than -15-mile separation of the two schools and their liberal (UCLA) vs. conservative (USC) orientations.

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

He'd say, «Go with the flow,» and though he had enough competitive fire to go more than a year in high school without losing an 800 - meter heat, his dad was always startled to see how Kevin could shut down the fire.

What you want more than anything else is the ability to sit down with that decision - maker, grandma or mama or the uncle, right before the time comes and say, «Hey, we know that old so - and - so from [rival school] has come to see you.

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

I have graduated from college and graduate school but have yet to nail down gainful employment making more than I do now to be able to plan a life without him.

-LSB-...] No Child Left Behind, public school lunch periods are shorter than ever, with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire -LSB-...]

Lunchtime — 25 or 30 minutes (school secretary couldn't remember which)-- rather than 20, and no hot lunch program to slow things down.

The building, in which the Head Start program used 10 classrooms, was the former Dunton School, which was closed down more than a decade ago.

But rather than spending more on food, the school's costs went down drastically when they switched from the horrible foodless junk to real food.

Hmm, well it is clear to see that Leo is hoping he will be doing a lot more playing than sitting down in a classroom and learning when he starts school.

The decision to tear down the school built in 1962 was made this year after the New Lenox Elementary District 122 School Board learned repairs and drainage requirements for an addition would be less economical than a new sschool built in 1962 was made this year after the New Lenox Elementary District 122 School Board learned repairs and drainage requirements for an addition would be less economical than a new sSchool Board learned repairs and drainage requirements for an addition would be less economical than a new schoolschool.

And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.

We focus more on play these days, rather than «sitting down» for «school.»

Sage Homeschooling is an informative read if you are considering something different than the traditional school setting and easily breaks down the options you have and how to get started.

From challenging school curriculums to being teased on the playground to body image issues, demands and anxiety are causing today's children to be weighed down — more than ever before.

I also considered the fact that higher - risk foods like carrot sticks, hot dogs and grapes are commonly found in kids» lunches, and that, thanks to No Child Left Behind, public school lunch periods are shorter than ever, with some children getting as little as fifteen minutes to scarf down their entire meal.

Research by Alison Brooks at Harvard Business School shows that people who reframed their performance anxiety as «excitement» performed better than those who tried instead to «calm down.»

I understand your point, and not all situations are the same, but if you feel this way than you are effectively cutting down daycare, babysitting, school, visiting relatives and travel with children and I don't believe that you don't participate in any of that.

But if you are anything like me, you are way more than halfway to your breaking point, and you are starting to count down the days until school begins.

But the reality is that there are many things that would affect that other than just individual parenting skills — like a long line of trickle - down societal expectations; the way kids are treated at school; not to mention a high - quality, state - funded daycare system that most parents choose over staying at home permanently with their children.

For example, if you have a highly active child who'd rather run than read or who has to touch and feel an object to really understand its function, then a strict, buttoned - down Catholic school that emphasizes discipline and basic skills may not be the best choice.

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, we compiled a list of more than 90 discounts for teachers at bookstores, retail chains, school supply outlets and more, which can help cut down on their out - of - pocket expenses.

«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release

They have traveled farther afield and had many more life experiences than their high school classmates, many of whom married early and settled down near our small town.

Up and down the country there are many good examples of hospitals, schools, roads, housing and administrative services being successfully and efficiently delivered at less cost and with greater efficiency than the public sector was able to do.

Success Academy Charter School head Eva Moskowitz will be shutting down all of her schools this coming Tuesday to join more than 2,000 charter school advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their scSchool head Eva Moskowitz will be shutting down all of her schools this coming Tuesday to join more than 2,000 charter school advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their scschool advocates from across the state in Albany to push lawmakers to support their schools.

When there is no proof that academies improve children's education, certainly no more than any other school with extra funding, and with several academies in special measures, it is particularly irresponsible to push more schools down this route.»

In place of Labour's hopeless acceptance of mediocrity in education, which has seen Britain tumble down the world league tables just when we need our children to be doing better than those in other countries, we will offer the hope of a decent education for every child, with immediate action to raise standards and radical reform to end the state monopoly over new school places.

Another pet project of de Blasio's, which would raise taxes on New Yorkers making more than $ 500,000 per year and use those funds to finance pre-kindergarten and after - school programs, was also shot down by Cuomo.

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

Iris Chen, director of the city's Fund for Public Schools, resigned this week — making her the seventh top official to step down from the de Blasio administration in less than two years.

In January 2011, 6.6 per cent of classes in state - funded secondary schools contained more than 30 pupils, down from 6.5 per cent in January 2010.

In January 2011, 9.4 per cent of classes in state - funded primary schools contained more than 30 pupils, down from 9.5 per cent in January 2010.

More than 15 protesters dressed in black essentially shut down the meeting from the start, each taking turns reading statements or comments in opposition to Paladino — while School Board members debated whether to walk away, call the police or try to talk over them.

Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, an educator who is well - known nationwide, has turned down an offer to serve as the next New York City schools chancellor less than a day after news broke that he was tapped to head the country's largest school Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, an educator who is well - known nationwide, has turned down an offer to serve as the next New York City schools chancellor less than a day after news broke that he was tapped to head the country's largest school schools chancellor less than a day after news broke that he was tapped to head the country's largest school system.