Sentences with phrase «tier schools where»

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After graduating from Harvard Business School, Spier made a «spectacularly foolish» decision to join D. H. Blair — a third - tier firm that was eventually shut down by regulators — where he was exposed to a «snake pit» of Gordon Gekkos and bankers that pushed boundaries.

(A parental dispensation only possible for kids who haven't entered the high - school pressure cooker where — as with Sara Notte — summer homework is graded and can directly affect a student's chances to enter a top - tier university.)

After school, Joey found his passion for triathlons, where he qualified for the USA championships in the sprint and Olympic distances, ranking in the top tier.

Managing director Graham Shennan said: «We've taken the time to look at what's really important in education and settled upon a two - tier approach, where we can offer development solutions through Community Plus alongside a new range of model schools.»

David Simmons, head of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, commented that: «School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary foods.

Where vouchers are in place — Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida — a two - tiered system has been set up that holds students in public and private schools to different standards.

By placing all district and charter public schools into these quality tiers, the Association is now poised to investigate where students lack access to quality schools.

A great example of this type of tiered strategy is in an elementary school classroom where kindergartners are at the reading center.

If a student continues to miss school after the contact home, he or she is identified by the school's Building Intervention Team (which serves as the school's Tier 2 and Tier 3 team for academics and behavior) for participation in an intervention where he or she is partnered with a positive adult to check in daily and reflect on weekly attendance.

Baltimore is not alone among large urban districts in essentially having two tiers of high schools: a handful of selective enrollment high schools and a larger group of lottery - admission or neighborhood schools where fewer graduates go on to college.

The three - tier system of education, where pupils move between lower or first schools, through middle schools and then high or upper schools, gathered popularity in the 1960s, but it's no longer widely used after many areas moved back to a traditional primary and secondary model.

In communities where the shift has been mandated — high schools in and around Portland, Me., for example — it has faced considerable resistance from parents and teachers annoyed that the time - consuming, and sometimes confusing, change in classroom life has come from top - tier school administrators.

And in Worcestershire, where there are 73 first schools, 18 middle schools and two combined middle and upper schools, a spokesperson insisted there are no ongoing discussions about converting to two - tier.

It warns of the need for co-ordination from this «middle tier», between individual schools and central government, particularly in areas where schools are at risk of underperforming.

In February, Northumberland Council launched a seven - week consultation which set out plans to completely overhaul the education system in the west of the county, where there is a 30 - per - cent surplus of places, and many schools still run on a three - tier system.

Ensure there is a democratically accountable «middle tier» to support schools where problems are identified.

Northumberland is one of just a handful of counties that still runs a three - tier system of education, where some pupils move between first, middle and high schools at ages eight and 13 respectively, while others go to primary and secondary schools.

At the next tier down, schools where 60 to 80 % of students are proficient or advanced, housing prices aren't much lower: median sale prices vary from the high $ 600,000 s to over $ 1 million.

By the time you get to a median price of under $ 500,000, the map is a ribbon along the eastern edge of the District, where most of the schools fall into the lowest three tiers.

I know of one middle class school system where the second tier system is run by an individual with experience as a correctional officer.

These admission policies threaten to turn public schooling into a two - tier system where the students who need the most resources receive the fewest.

When the data is analyzed, the Vallas Turnaround Model is not a tribute to improving public education, but a lesson in privatization by replacing failing public schools with failing charter schools and creating a two - tiered education system where certain students get access to higher performing institutions, while leaving all the other students behind.

Pank Patel (pictured), regional schools commissioner for the West Midlands, approved applications for two secondary schools in the Worcestershire town to expand the age range of their pupils, moving them from a «three - tier» system that includes middle schools to «two - tier», where pupils go straight to secondary school from primary school.

This doesn't bode well for the two - tiered school system in New Orleans, where massive charter expansion is already destroying the neighborhood school system.

As The New York Times summed up the situation earlier this week, law firms» decisions to cancel or downsize summer programs is having an impact even at top tier schools, where firms traditionally drew the majority of their summer classes:

We look at resumes from any law school, we're not snobbish about where a student goes to school, but if a candidate is from a so - called second tier school we'll probably be looking for high level of success, although we're looking for success regardless of the schools we draw from.

In the United States — where tuition at top - tier law schools is universally unregulated and commonly exceeds $ 50,000 per year — the class of 2016 is expected to graduate into a collapsed job market with average personal debt upward of $ 215,000.

I've heard from various sources that a certain fourth - tier law school is in fairly imminent danger of being shuttered by the central administration of the university where it's located.

Stoneman Douglas is a top - tier public school under the state rating system, where most students take advanced - placement classes and the curriculum includes yoga and culinary arts.