Sentences with phrase «turning around more»

There were not enough effective, entrepreneurial principals to turn around more schools.

While in New York he served as Deputy Chancellor, launching the Innovation Zone, a network of 100 21st Century schools that use technology to personalize student learning, and leading the city's efforts to turn around more than 100 failing schools and start 500 new charter and district schools.

Several of the award winners have turned around more than one previously failing school.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that Indiana will receive $ 9.3 million to turn around more of its persistently lowest - achieving schools through the U.S. Education Department's School Improvement Grants (SIG) program.

«We have also introduced the pupil premium - worth # 2.5 bn a year from this April - and turned around more failing schools than ever before,» the spokesperson added, referring to the additional money paid to schools in England with deprived children.

On the heels of new information about how effective the U.S. Department of Education's controversial School Improvement Grant (SIG) program is, Secretary Duncan announced that nine states — Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania — will receive additional SIG funding to turn around more of their persistently lowest - achieving schools.

It turns very easily in small spaces - if I have to make a U-turn in a small area it turns around more easily than other cars.

Turned around more than a few spots in the year of 2002 such as technical director, floor manager, assistant director and audio engineer

Not exact matches

The hedge fund, founded by Barry Rosenstein, is putting more pressure on the grocer's management to turn around slow growth.

Around the turn of the millennium, Fernandes was sitting in a London bar, when he saw entrepreneur Stelios Haji - Ioannou, who is famous for creating easyJet, a low - cost airline which now flies more than 75 million passengers annually, across 31 countries.

The Crown corporation is in desperate need of turning its financial performance around, or it risks causing even more problems for its balance sheet, the government and Canadian taxpayers.

On the surface, Papa seems to have gotten an extraordinarily generous deal to turn around the beleaguered drug company: Not only is his salary more than twice what it was when he was CEO of Perrigo (prgo), a company nearly three times as valuable as Valeant (vrx), it's also especially good considering Valeant's stock price has fallen nearly 67 % since he took over.

Hinge founder Justin McLeod describes how he laid off more than one - third of his team and turned the dating app around.

And Ruby Tuesday was recently forced to close more than 95 locations and is on the hunt for a new CEO to turn business around.

What was then a simple school social networking site has turned into a platform that connects more than 1 billion people from around the world.

Psychologists have also shown that seeing friends is one of the simplest and more effective ways to turn around a bad mood.

«We turned that relationship around — collaborating instead of taking an adversarial stance can do so much more,» says Sellyn.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

Packed into a Toronto hotel ballroom, a crowd of more than 350 shareholders and others watched as Ackman introduced Harrison, the retired executive credited with turning around both Illinois Central Railroad and Canadian National.

Still, owner Hank Maarse refused to give Lemonis his share of the company, even after Lemonis had spent more than the agreed funding to help turn the florist around.

J.C. Penney's operating margins plunged in the first quarter on weak sales and heavy clearance deals, but CEO Myron Ullman pledged to offer more promotions to turn things around.

Ackman is joining Valeant's board and has said he is taking a more active role in trying to turn around the troubled drug company.

The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).

More visible women investors will help to begin to turn around the dreadful track record of diversity in venture capital, they hope.

«But if you turn it around and say to the customer, «If we have this information about you, we can make this a lot more convenient for you,» he or she will give you the data.

Hollande hopes to turn the euro zone's second - biggest economy around with reforms cutting corporate payroll charges and a bill currently in parliament that would open many professions up to more competition.

Generation Z shoppers — those now aged between 14 and 19 and sometimes nicknamed «centennials» because they were born around the turn of the centurey — are more pragmatic than their elders generations, according to «Redefining loyalty for retail,» a report published in June by Ernst and Young.

To turn things around, Sweden needs students and parents to care once more about striving, perseverance and success.

«Practice condensing it more and more and stripping away more and more so that the person receiving the information is going to have a full - picture — not feature-wise, because features are a separate thing — but so that when you're finishing explaining your product to somebody else who's brand new to it, they can turn around and explain it to their friend without much problem.»

The index dropped more or less steadily until the worst moments of the financial crisis in fall 2008, causing the full - on crash, and it began to turn around only in March 2009.

With trade war anxiety rising, it's worth taking a step back to get a sense of where the market stands in terms of valuations, and what could lie ahead if trade policy around the world turns more protectionist.

It is a mindset seeking to turn around our conception of good business towards a more holistic vision of profit and purpose.

This past weekend a million or more people around the world turned out for the March for Our Lives...

But Mr. Paulson made it much more difficult sought to turn things around in this way.

More people spending and fewer foreclosures will be helpful but will not turn unemployment around.

We even have experience «turning around» coworking spaces that are under - performing, implementing best practices, better technology and creating a business model that is more valuable and sustainable.

The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

As Yahoo's chief executive, Ms. Mayer acquired more than 20 companies, but ultimately struggled to turn around the web pioneer.

It seems like it's starting to turn around, but I still feel like we need more retail options here.»

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If you can't take one more day paying high interest rates on your student loans, refinancing them can be an excellent way to turn the ship around.

The primary reason for the mushrooming number of automated trading robots is that they can continue to work around the clock exposing traders to larger financial markets and in turn making more significant profit.

«BC Ferries spent $ 15 million refitting the Queen of Chilliwack, then almost immediately turned around to sell it at more than a $ 13 million loss,» said Holman.

«It's incumbent upon us to turn the conversation around to be more positive again.»

Taken together, Mr. Trump's actions demonstrate his resolve to turn away from a decades - long move toward open markets and integrated world economies and toward a more starkly protectionist approach that erects barriers around a Fortress America.

In addition, you'll want to spread that money out over a dozen or more companies, with the idea that you only need two or three of them to turn around in order to achieve spectacular returns.

Wealthy people invest money into companies that turn right back around and hire workers to produce more products.

Both the US and Europe may choose print more to slow the appreciation of their respective currency, and in turn, shockwaves will be felt around the world.

An interesting fact is that when there is a substantial sum in the dividend return many investors will then turn the investment around and purchase more shares to add to the every growing portfolio.

Although it will take many years to turn the business around, we now believe Panalpina has a management team with sufficient industry experience to generate financial performance more in - line with its peers.