Laura Clancy, chief of staff at charter-school nonprofit Achievement First, has seen her share of business refugees looking for what they think will be a soft landing or a hero's welcome doing philanthropic work.
There's much to like in the new plan, beginning with the foundation's confession that version 1.0, focused on creation of small high schools, didn't turn out very well, save for several networks of high-performance charters such as KIPP, Yes-Prep and Achievement First.
Promoted by NZOA board member and UNESCO NZ National Commission member Paul Smith for several years this initiative was a significant achievement and the first of its kind.
What's so special about this - almost more than the historic achievement of a first Grand Slam in 27 years - is the guys that did it.
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The main achievement of his first term, the clampdown on crime, was achieved largely by William Bratton, the then police commissioner, introducing private-sector management methods to the police force.
The Hazard incident overshadowed Swansea's achievement of reaching a first major cup final in its 100-year history after their 2-0 aggregate win over Chelsea.
The incident overshadowed Swansea's achievement of reaching a first major cup final in its 100-year history after it held the European champions to a goalless draw to progress 2-0 on aggregate.
The "ethyl in my gasoline, " as he once described it, was an intense pride in achievement, something that first overtook him at the end of the first week of first grade when his teacher in the one-room schoolhouse in Possum Hollow praised him for mastering the alphabet in five days.
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His signature first-term achievement -- health care reform -- was accomplished despite near unanimous Republican opposition.
In his 93 years he claimed over 180 patents (the most recent of which was filed on February 1), but his greatest achievement was to invent the first practical wireless television remote control.
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Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, took home the first-ever Exceptional Achievement Award.
The Catalan side's achievement was founded on a superb first half of the season, with 17 wins and a draw despite a shock second-round defeat by promoted Hercules.
Meryl Streep's remarkable portrayal of "The Iron Lady" brilliantly captures the politician I remember and charts the immensity of her achievement in becoming Britain's first and, more than three decades later, only woman Prime Minister.
Australia had dominated the second half of the day - a commendable achievement given their toils in the first three Tests - and still believe they have time to win the match and square the series.
On education, the Bloomberg administration was among the nation's forerunners in changing the culture of public schools and testing new ideas to raise test scores and student achievement in the mayor's first two terms with then-Chancellor Joel Klein.
American swimmer Michael Phelps was recognized with the Laureus Academy Exceptional Achievement Award, which was handed out for the first time.
China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
It is the first and only app to reward users with achievement badges for reaching workout milestones.
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We will be the first state in the nation to measure student achievement against that of the rest of the world.
" Most were highly ambitious, including the goal that U.S. students would be "first in the world in mathematics and science achievement.
This was to allow them to qualify for the first intake into the single currency, an achievement many pundits considered impossible given the country's past extravagances.
As such, its achievement in taking a fifth of the votes in the first round of voting, while notable, did not indicate a sudden rise to prominence for the far right, he said.
But it is rational, sound and in harmony with sport, not as it was in the days of " Chariots of Fire, " but as it is in the twenty first century: Unrelenting, mercilessly competitive and unsparingly achievement-oriented.
Rosebud's achievement started as a campaign to decrease childhood obesity, through the First Lady's "Let's Move in Indian Country" initiative.
Swartz achieved a stunning amount in his 26 years, although the achievement he was perhaps best known for in technological circles was his first, and perhaps the one least reported by the mainstream.
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And the afterglow of that historic achievement was evident in the admirable tactical nous they executed in the first half as they stifled the Netherlands' search for fluid creativity with regimental efficiency in front of a near-full Moses Mabhida Stadium.
Each player will be battling for their guild to reach the end of the maze first, players of the winning guild will receive a special achievement.
Inaugurated in 2010, with major underwriting from the World Bank, the ANIM is the brainchild of Ahmad Sarmast, Afghanistan's first citizen to hold a doctorate in music, and his achievement is all the more remarkable in a nation where the overthrown Taliban regime had declared not just performing but even listening to music a crime against Islam.
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