With the help of Abundant Power and the U.S. Department of Energy, we are excited about continuing the program this school year, not only on our campus but as our members leave for high school, they will be able to continue the work that they started this past school year.
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In this kind of knowledge economy, giving up on your education and dropping out of school means not only giving up on your future, but it's also giving up on your family's future and giving up on your country's future.
Perhaps more troubling is that the extra homework load we subject our students to and the adolescent academic stress associated with it not only puts a damper on the after-school fun factor, but may also hurt their intellectual development.
We need to make sure high school stays relevant, not only on a media level, but to kids, where they want to spend their time.
"These subjects were not only on a killing rampage, but they were going to destroy the school, " said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone.
In fact at ten-to-nine in term time around 20% of traffic on our town centre or city roads is actually on the school run and this causes enormous problems - not only in congestion but also in terms of safety around the school gates.
Over a third of African American students do not graduate from high school on time with a regular high school diploma, and only four percent of African American high school graduates interested in college are college-ready across a range of subjects.
After many meetings, strained nerves, research and late or sleepless nights, the opportunity came when, on behalf of our group, I petitioned our school board to not only fully renovate our building, but enhance it with a Career Technology wing and a first class auditorium.
Perhaps the most influential and experienced person in the country, the Queen of School Lunch Ann Cooper and her team have now created The Lunch Box, a website dedicated to not only convincing us all that school lunch is important, but also providing critical hands-on tools a typical school kitchen needs to create great food.
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Last week, on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, I found myself in an interesting discussion with business leaders in one of our Executive Education programs at Thunderbird School of Global Management, focused on the roles of business and government in creating not only a livable and sustainable environment, but a stable and predictable society.
We aim to not only open more high-quality public schools across the country but also to have a transformative impact on the traditional school system.
Even although his father knew that he was not going to school, he refused to confront or reprimand him about his conduct and he only made it into class on 159 out of 335 school days.
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