"It's very upsetting, " said Alex Ragone, director of the middle and upper school at City and Country School in Manhattan, which runs through eighth grade.
"I've seen it be a real problem for families, " said Cynthia Rogers, the high-school placement director at Manhattan Country School, which charges families on a sliding scale for tuition.
Many residents are also attracted to the area by the proximity of several well-regarded private schools, including the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Riverdale Country Day School and the Horace Mann School.
Other schools said they would issue extensions depending on a family's particular situation, including Grace Church, which started a new high school this year, and Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn.
This past spring he donated a day of skiing and lunch for four to the fundraising auction for Marin Country Day School in Corte Madera, Calif.
Curriculums in every country or school system have expectations for levels of achievement, but the Massachusetts system is characterised by a particular focus on lists of specific pieces of information.
Poly Prep Country Day school in Brooklyn said it is forming an advisory committee to bolster its sexual abuse prevention efforts after decades-old allegations involving a beloved football coach flared up again in the wake of the Penn State University scandal.
"Now, don't get me wrong, we would love to have you at our prom, but there's another school in the West Clark family that deserves it more than any other school in the country, " Silver Creek High School senior Luke Gillenwater said in the winning video.
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Accidents were reported around the country and a school bus came off the road between Killearn and Balfron in Stirlingshire.
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Forbes.com hunted down the most expensive preschools in the biggest urban areas across the country using local school guidebooks, Web sites and experts to compare tuitions and programs.
To the dismay of Japan's Asian neighbours, the ministry has once again been given approval to carry on editing the country's school textbooks in ways it feels fit.
He said when he was asked to take the job as head of the Department of Agriculture, the first thing President Obama asked him to do was to improve the country's school meal program.
And last week, a scholar from the London School of Economics was barred from entering the country prompting the school to pull out of a planned conference.
The National Jurist magazine recently named Nova Southeastern as the "Most Wired" law school in the country, a designation that quickly found its way into the school's marketing materials.
The cut represents roughly 10% of all elementary school facilities in Chicago Public Schools, the country's third-largest school district.
PsomasFMG just completed work on what is currently the largest operating solar school project in the country, a 9.6 megawatt installation across 10 school sites within the Antelope Valley Union High School District.
Nam joined LG right out of Seoul National University, the country's best school, in 1976.
In China, Peking University, founded in 1898, is generally ranked as the country's top school.
Yet for the richest in the country, upper secondary school is almost universal.
Fewer than 3% of the country's secondary school students now learn French.
The loss to our great country is returning our school structure to our states and not compromised by a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington.
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On another dark August morning, way back when, in 1969, the clock radio woke me at 6am for my first high school cross country practice.
Cross country, my high school sport, apparently is making a comeback.
All across the country, classrooms and school laboratories are being renovated.
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Women in Saudi Arabia also cannot marry, leave the country, go to school or open bank accounts without permission from a male guardian, usually the father or husband.
He taught in many schools across the country including Uddingston Grammar School and Dunfermline High School before becoming lecturer in history at Dundee College of Education in 1967.
Women in Saudi Arabia also cannot marry, leave the country, go to school or open bank accounts without permission from a male guardian, who usually is the father or husband.
In my 2010 piece, I quoted a release from the Kent County (Mich.) prosecutor, who refused to press charges relating to sexually related hazing by members of a high school cross country team.
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New York City, the country's largest school district, is one of only a handful of districts in the state that lost money because it failed to hammer out an agreement with its union by a Jan. 17 deadline.
Richmond's primary schools are also known for getting the best test results in the country - but the school opened in 1952 to serve this council estate in Ham faces the type of challenges more usually associated with more deprived boroughs.
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