Sentences with phrase «toward building new schools»

Salaries and benefits rose by more than $ 18 million, and new bills, such as the $ 10 million annual contribution toward building new schools in the city are also pressing the budget.

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With 23 restaurants across the globe and 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse continues to create restaurants for our times, to build schools, to push the boundaries of his profession toward new horizons with his boundless curiosity.

With 23 restaurants across the globe and 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse continues to create restaurants for our times, to build schools, to push the boundaries of his profession toward new

Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd's When Schools Compete builds on this resemblance to draw lessons from New Zealand's experience that will help Americans mimic its successes and avoid its flaws if we quickly move toward a major expansion of charters and choice.

By the time a new $ 100 million T.C. Williams was being built in 2005, the pendulum had swung away from comprehensive schools and toward «smaller learning communities,» in part because of support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Fusion approach builds on what education experts see as a trend toward highly personalized education, often aided by new technology, that is increasingly taking root in public schools or other traditional classrooms.

That's why The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building on their work to foster a network of test beds across the nation that will: focus on helping students achieve desired learning outcomes by developing personalized learning products and accelerating their adoption; put teachers and school decision - makers at the center of the shift toward personalized learning; lower risks and barriers to all parties of adopting new, potentially transformative products; and encourage the rapid development of a healthy, transparent market for highly effective learning technologies.

«Since Cooper Hewitt first acquired Joris's design school thesis project, the Heat Wave Radiator, we have keenly watched him build a body of work that abolishes traditional distinctions between the natural and machine - made, decorative and functional, and points toward an exciting new future for design,» said Cooper Hewitt Director Caroline Baumann.