Sentences with phrase «which time he left school»

He was 11 when the Cultural Revolution was launched, at which time he left school to work as a farmer, and began to work in a cotton factory when he turned 18.

Not exact matches

By the time he can leave school and go to work — at a job which does not interest him at all but pays him some money — he is likely to have a long start toward being a chronically frustrated individual.

Well, I nixed Oregon because it was too far for my first time flying out of the nest, my brother went to U of R and even though he said it was a great school for what I thought I wanted to do he suggested I go somewhere not in the city in which we grew up, so that left Michigan State and Ohio State.

Any other coach but Adolph Rupp would have been satisfied with an 18 - 7 record, but The Baron, audibly piqued because Kentucky wasn't tournament - bound for the first time in seven years, took occasion to blame his troubles on 1) the school band, which stopped tooting for the Wildcats after midyear exams left most of its members on probation; 2) student fans, who were absent in droves for the final game; 3) the lack of a more intensive recruiting program.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

School - age children are usually gone at least six hours a day, leaving only a relatively small amount of time in which babysitting is needed.

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And since experts say school - age children roughly need about 9 to 11 hours of sleep — which means they need to go to bed around 8 or 9 o'clock, depending on what time they need to get up — that doesn't leave much time for anything besides dinner, homework and reading one short book chapter together.

Following the rules not only makes sure all of the children get to their respective destinations safely, it can help make the whole process move along much smoother, which will leave you with a lot more time for a yummy after school snack.

The impending move marks the first time a gun manufacturer is actually leaving New York due to the SAFE Act, which Cuomo put forth in response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and the ambush killings of two firefighters in a suburb of Rochester a few days later.

Negotiations over an extension of soon - to - expire mayoral control of New York City schools have sucked most of the oxygen from the proverbial room — though not the room, of «three men» fame, which sat empty for months, until Monday — leaving little time and attention for de Blasio's other top priorities needing state action.

Pine described becoming a cloud chamber expert at Cornell, which landed him a position at the Stanford Linear Accelerator doing «big - time physics» and then taking on a physics position at Caltech, which he left when his growing interest in neuroscience led him to the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, where he studied mammalian cell cultures and neurons using data - recording electrodes.

McCarthy has a far wider acting range than Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School, yet eventually Life of the Party falls victim to script and tonal issues, leaving too many conflicts to be resolved in too short a period of time, which then prompts the tone to lurch unsteadily from comedy to drama.

The requirements of No Child Left Behind - which include, for the first time, real consequences for schools that do not show academic progress for all students - are beginning to break the stranglehold that entrenched interests have had on our schools for far too long.

With little time left before the Sept. 21 preliminary election — which will narrow the field to the top two vote - getters — the candidates began debating whether the contract is affordable and delivers the reforms needed to improve the Boston schools.

Displaced teachers who could not find a school willing to accept them were put on paid leave for 12 months, after which time they were placed on unpaid leave.

And without a comprehensive examination of the education market in which these companies operated, the reader is left unsure whether these firms were bad ideas or just badly timed investments — or whether students and schools have gained or lost anything as a result.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

Ironically, on the left, Shanker's 1998 New York Times piece describes a quasi-marketplace where, «Parents could choose which charter school to send their children to, thus fostering competition.»

National figures state that 1:5 children starting reception year are overweight or obese, which rises to 1:3 by the time they leave primary school.

However, in cases of extended leave in which the teacher returns late in the school year and does not have nine weeks, the teacher should set SGOs for as much time as is available, provided that the teacher has an opportunity to have a significant impact on students» learning during that abbreviated period of time.

A study by the Center on Education Policy found that the time district schools spent on subjects besides math and reading declined considerably after Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NLCB), which mandated that states require district schools to administer the state standardized math and reading tests in grades three through eight and report the results.

In 2010 or so (I may have the year slightly wrong), John left Edison for a job in international consulting, which put him — astoundingly — in the Middle East much of the time advising leaders there about how to organize their public school systems.

Accumulated sick leave may be transferred from another Florida College System institution, the Florida Department of Education, a state university, a Florida district school board, or a state agency, provided that at least one - half of the sick leave accumulated at any time must have been established in the college in which such employee is currently employed.

Any full - time employee shall be eligible for participation in any sick leave pool after 1 year of employment with the district school system, provided the employee has accrued a minimum amount of unused sick leave which shall be established by rule and provided, further, a sick leave pool is established that allows participation by that particular employee.

In June of 2013, as I was leaving Baltimore City Public Schools, I wrote a letter to all students in which I paraphrased Tolstoy's beautiful parable, «The Three Questions:» Now was the most important time, because it was the only time when we have power.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that a «released time statute,» which allows students to leave school for part of the day to receive religious instruction, does not violate the Establishment or Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution or the freedom of worship or district school sections of the Wisconsin Constitution.

The speed of the introduction and then passage of the bills in both houses of Congress left no time for the school bonds cartel to put all the pieces in place to get refunding bond resolutions adopted by governing boards which were already getting ready for holidays and school breaks.

She had resigned from ALAT, which runs five schools in Cornwall, last February at the same time as she left Bright Tribe.

Charter - school supporters are concerned that a national shortage of high - quality leaders, along with programs in which to train them, could significantly slow the movement at a time when some 400 new charters are opening annually — leaving several hundred charter - leader positions to fill.

Shamsun Nahar, who came to the city from Bangladesh in 2013, said her elder son was among those who needed the help: An 18 - year - old student at a high school in the Bronx, he still has difficulty with English, which has left him socially isolated and could keep him from graduating on time.

Some schools have a set time for all students to eat a snacks — though many schools leave it up to the teachers to decide, which can create some confusion for kids.

Standardized testing has become so ingrained into her school year that Rebecca Lippy, a fifth - grade teacher at Maryland City Elementary School in Laurel, Maryland, has a hard time imagining how the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which has replaced No Child Left Behind, is going to make a difference in her classchool year that Rebecca Lippy, a fifth - grade teacher at Maryland City Elementary School in Laurel, Maryland, has a hard time imagining how the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which has replaced No Child Left Behind, is going to make a difference in her clasSchool in Laurel, Maryland, has a hard time imagining how the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which has replaced No Child Left Behind, is going to make a difference in her classroom.

* The time at which pupils are old enough by law to leave school depends on when their 16th birthday falls in the year:

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

Russell Hobby (top left), general secretary of the NAHT, which has campaigned for a funding formula for some time, said the weighting of factors within the formula would be «crucial», adding: «For schools, the devil will be in the detail.

But as I see it, the «change agent» ideas have been around for a long time and come straigbt from the Left and their «social justice» philosphy — which are backed by the unions, who were the first ones to start changing our schools, back in the 1970's; it wasn't the Broad Foundation.

But, more importantly, this must surely now trigger exam - day monitoring from the Standards and Testing Agency, and begin a series of other checks to ensure these schools, many of which will have been rated «outstanding» a long time ago and left without further monitoring, are adequately preparing their pupils for the future.

The Kindle DX has proven to be slightly less than ready for big - time school exposure so far, which leaves the field open to the nook and its related software for the time being.

The Separation agreement covered all areas of splitting assets, custody (at the time) and support, which included only Child Support (which ended when both children left school).

When a student enters the repayment period of their student loan package, which is usually anywhere from six to nine months following graduation, or within the same time period after leaving school or college or going below half time enrollment, they realize that they must send in a number of payments to a number of different places.

If your school closes within 120 after the time which you leave the school, you are also eligible.

Federal student loans allow a grace period, which is a specific amount of time after a borrower leaves school, graduates, or drops below half - time enrollment before he or she is required to begin making payments on the loan.

Wells Fargo offers a deferred repayment plan in which student borrowers are not required to make monthly payments during their time at school and for a six - month grace period after leaving school.

Busy families leave the house during the day heading to school or work, which means hours of alone time for the family dog.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

The amazing retrospective chronicles the specific period of time when Keith Haring left his home of Pennsylvania to attend New York's School of Visual Arts during which he met friends and peers such as Jean Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf.

Parental involvement should decrease relative to a child's age, which means that constant meddling in an adolescent's school assignments is age - inappropriate, and parents would do better leaving their older kids to take the initiative and learn the consequences of not getting things done on time or preparing adequately.

When Gillett was 15, Holt asked him to leave school and work full time at Holt's farm, which he did.

Learn the degree to which partners report that mentoring, law school credentials, being hired as an entry - level associate, taking leaves of absence, working part - time schedules, exceeding billable hour expectations, and many other factors may influence advancement.