From the playgrounds to the high schools to the University of Memphis, the city loves its barbecue, blues and basketball.
Crawford noticed the proximity of the schools to the fertilizer plant when he came down from Dallas to interview for the superintendent job.
The main bone of contention is representation for the Protestant Transferors, the clergy who handed over their schools to the state in return for a say in how the sector is run.
It also offers the freedom to set working conditions outside the restraints of local authorities and the teachers' unions, giving heads more capacity to tailor schools to the needs of their particular pupils.
Government-supported initiatives such as UK NetYear and the planned National Grid for Learning have focused on the process of connecting schools to the Internet and providing online materials, rather than on setting lower-rate or free access.
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Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council in South Wales said the main problem was that it could not be sure enough staff would be able to get to the schools to ensure the safety of pupils.
Ms Bousted accused the government of forcing schools to become academies against their wishes, "paving the way for the wholesale transfer of our schools to the private sector if the Conservatives are in office after the next election".
For example, schools to the west of London regard the area as Middlesex and want to use that as the geographical part of their name, but have been told they cannot because it no longer exists as a local authority area.
The Department of Science and Technology in South Africa generously donated IYC Global Experiment kits to the schools that attended the Big Splash as the schools lacked the equipment to conduct the Experiment.
The education minister, Letizia Moratti, who like Mr Berlusconi threatened to resign, aborted the original plan, which was to force schools to take the brunt of the savings needed to finance tax cuts.
"We fully support the recommendation in the recent NFER report that a wider pilot, using a British version of the tests, be carried out in order to see how they could be introduced without adding to the costs and workload of schools or to the uncertainties and unfairness of the present system, " they said.
The act, which specifies that telecommunications companies have to provide "services to elementary schools, secondary schools, and libraries for educational purposes at rates less than the amounts charged for similar services to other parties, " was strongly supported by President Clinton as a contribution towards getting schools connected to the Internet.
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The Serb government must decide whether to deny such essentials to hospitals and schools or to the army.
They govern everything from the hospitals we were born in, to the homes we grew up in, to the schools we attend, to the jobs we hold.
Most power over the day-to-day running of schools belongs to the roughly 1, 040 school districts.
In Britain, the example of the United States has often been used to show how free local calls and educational subsidies can encourage schools to connect to the Internet.
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He also said Malaysia planned to increase the number of technical and vocational schools to widen the pool of skilled and semi-skilled workers.
The check "is going to mean a lot of schools teaching to the test" and could leave some youngsters feeling they had failed, she added.
Medway Council said it wanted to restrict outlets near schools to remove the temptation to eat unhealthy food.
Furthermore, it is being reported that the Catholic 7 will pay the football schools to keep the Big East name and the right to continue hosting its conference tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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The Department of Education has said the grammar schools cannot draw on their normal budget to pay for the tests, but has confirmed that the schools are entitled to use the money raised from parental contributions.
The city teachers union on Friday threatened to go to court to block the Bloomberg administration's plan to replace staff at 33 troubled schools as the city moved ahead with preparations to close the schools.
In Sweden that support extends beyond those with children in free schools: most parents think the fact that they can apply to open schools forces the state to run its own institutions to their liking or else.
School clinics will also be held at all comprehensive schools in Powys, while the Vale of Glamorgan council is asking schools to help the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board organise sessions.
I've gone to the same schools, gone to the same mosque, done the same things.
Under former Education Secretary David Blunkett, the government ordered schools to reduce the number of expulsions by a third by September 2002.
The minister said this could be addressed by removing the capacity of schools to require the certificate or through ensuring fairer access to the qualification.
They are performed in public and in most cases no attempt is made by the police or schools to stop the ceremonies from taking place.
Ms Randerson asked the minister whether he already had the necessary powers to order the closure of failing schools, to which the minister replied he had.
The vast majority of the damages in the case could come from the mushrooming millions in broadcast-rights fees being paid to schools for the right to show games.
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