Sentences with phrase «than typical schools»

Charters need to be more heavily regulated than typical schools, not less.

«We hold our charters to a higher standard of performance than typical schools because there are extra costs associated with charters.

Our price point is far higher than the typical school lunch (most of our full meals cost in the mid - $ 4 range), and as a result, we have more money to spend on ingredients and making meals from scratch.

The most socially selective primary schools tend to use more complex oversubscription criteria than the typical school, which uses about five criteria.

During an investment analysts call in October, Mr. Packard boasted about results at Agora, calling them «significantly higher than a typical school on state administered tests for growth.»

Second, the country's most segregated school districts are larger than the typical school district.

You will actually be spending more hours than a typical school day in the classroom, planning, teaching and consulting with your teacher.

The non-profit company, which now has 125 schools, operates on a model that demands much more of students, parents and teachers than the typical school does.

This is 5 - 10 times more professional development than a typical school spends on developing great teachers.

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Decades later, Warren Buffett still sits at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway and his annual reports contain more investment advice than your typical business school textbook.

A typical black student gets up at 5 a.m. and rides a bus for more than an hour to get to the school.

Arsenal was celebrating it's 125th anniversary, and who better than Robin van Persie to score the winner, in a typical - old - school - rugby - style - Arsenal -1-0 win.

The Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that a typical high school lunch contains more than twice the recommended limit for sodium intake, too many calories from sugar and saturated fat and too few fruits and vegetables.

Some babies with sensory feeding aversions suck 100 times less frequently during a feeding than typical babies, states Dr. Irene Chatoor, a professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine, as published on the Zero to Three website.

Another study found that a typical kindergarten birthday celebration at school could include more than 400 calories — that's about a third of what such young kids need in a whole day.

School lunch menu is about more than taste, price Anna Lappé San Francisco Chronicle When asked to picture a typical school lunch, most of us think of sad - looking chicken nuggets or soggy french School lunch menu is about more than taste, price Anna Lappé San Francisco Chronicle When asked to picture a typical school lunch, most of us think of sad - looking chicken nuggets or soggy french school lunch, most of us think of sad - looking chicken nuggets or soggy french fries.

School buses don't need seatbelts because the seats are designed to cocoon children larger than a typical 4 - 5 year old.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

There is a large group of kids that attend their school that are racially and religiously different than what you might find typical in this particular area.

This is more typical in homes than in schools.

We had already worked out that about 3 hours per day would be more than sufficient to cover the amount of learning in a typical school day, by the time we had subtracted lunchtime, the various breaks, Assembly, PE, lining up, registration etc - not to mention the waiting around while the teacher spoke individually to other children.

Every now and then, an article will appear somewhere touting a «school food miracle worker» who is able to serve what appears to be healthier, higher quality food than what is typically found in school lunch programs, and sometimes the claim is made that the meals cost no more than what a typical school district spends on a less healthy meal.

«This is just an ideal way hopefully to get these soldiers who are mature, who probably have a better idea of where they're going... than the typical student coming out of high school.»

Led by graduate student Sandra Rincon and her advisor, Haluk Beyenal, professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, the researchers developed a unique biofilm reactor that recycles gasses and uses less water and lower light than typical reactors.

Compared to typical get - out - the - vote activities, having a failing school in the neighborhood had a smaller effect on turnout than face - to - face contact, but a noticeably larger effect than campaign phone calls and mailers.

Although it is an inherently less structured system than the typical undergraduate experience, there are rules that can help you have an enjoyable and successful graduate school career.

One of the many reasons we decided to homeschool our children is that we felt we could give them a more detailed and diverse education than they could get in a typical school system.

A typical lunch gear order donates more than $ 10 to the supporter's school.

Smelling his fear, everyone in the class acted like the typical high school students that knew more than everyone else in the world (let me tell you when I was 18, I was the smartest I will ever be in my entire lifetime.

I just love a good towel that makes pool pictures better, folds up thinner than your typical old school towel, and is usually much larger than a regular towel.

At my school the graduation is more than a typical cap and gown ceremony.

WHY: Based on Jojo Moyes» bestselling novel of the same name, «Me Before You» isn't much different than your typical Hollywood tearjerker; it's a cloying and all too predictable romantic drama from the school of Nicholas Sparks.

Director Stanley Tong (Swordsman II, Rumble in the Bronx) and superstar Jackie Chan (Around the World in 80 Days, The Medallion) reunite after nine years with an old - school adventure tale in The Myth, a special effects powered martial arts extravaganza that seeks a larger worldwide audience than your typical Hong Kong fare.

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

The latest data for 2014/15 suggests that spending will increase by an average of # 130 to # 2,510 and the outlook for 2015/16 is also positive, albeit less significant, with the typical school spending # 60 more than in 2014/15.

The nation's largest for - profit manager of public schools is well acquainted with controversy, but it has experienced more than its typical share of bumps in the past month.

So those 13 schools ended up saving more energy than a typical elementary school uses in an entire year.

The typical Wake County student begins school earlier than more than 90 percent of American middle - school students.

If a company needs 30 principals, the average hire is more apt to resemble the typical principal than the renegade that a stand - alone charter school might seek.

Sacramento — A typical California student, on graduating from high school, has received one and one - third fewer years of instructional time than the average U.S. student, according to a new state study.

The course of study at the Parker School, where the focus is on developing students» intellectual habits, runs narrower and deeper than the typical high schSchool, where the focus is on developing students» intellectual habits, runs narrower and deeper than the typical high schoolschool's.

In Wake County, students who start school one hour later have 1.3 fewer absences than the typical student — a reduction of about 25 percent.

Theater licensing agencies estimate the play could be produced at more than 600 schools during a typical year.

When students at a particular school are outpacing the typical student in the rest of the state, most people would agree the rate of learning is, at least, better than average.

School and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sSchool and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sschool and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving skills.

Adequate, fair funding: University of Arkansas analysts report that the typical charter gets 28 percent less funding per pupil than nearby district schools, in large part because few charters share in the locally generated portion of K — 12 funding.

In rural Ghana, a typical private school might consist of an open - air structure, often no more than a tin roof supported by wooden poles, on a small plot of land.

At the average college or university, only 51 percent of Hispanic students graduate within six years, while the typical six - year graduation rate for white students is 59 percent, says a new report that explores why some schools are more successful than others at graduating Hispanic students.

Teachers in faith - based schools say they have the worst work - life balance, with 74 per cent reporting a typical week is «less balance than they would like» or «not balanced at all».

The closure schools also had a much higher concentration of students who were older than the typical student for their grade (indicating that they may have been retained in a prior grade).