When she was in junior high, she lobbied the principal to take shop class with the boys rather than bake muffins with the girls.

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For a number of these organizations, CLASS was their principal motivation to support national health reform, and to them, health reform that did not address the need for long-term services and supports for persons with disabilities was not worthy of the name health reform.

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Once each semester, a teacher, student or principal can invite experts to talk to the class on reproductive health.

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Streep, who has been nominated for a Best Actress award at this year's Academy Awards for her role, stars as fiercely caustic nun, Sister Aloysius, the iron-gloved principal of a religious school in a working class New York neighborhood in the 1960s.

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Just as in school, says Frederic Huynh, senior principal scientist at FICO, "even if you fail one class as a freshman, you can still graduate with honors" if the rest of your record is good.

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Over the course of a school year, each of Eagle County's 470 teachers is evaluated three times and is observed in class at least nine times by master teachers, their principal and peers called mentor teachers.

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The children were well-trained because Myhre had fainted in class before -- she'd also fainted in the principal's office, at the copier machine, at church, at a pizza restaurant and at home alone with her two small children.

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Ms. MARY LAURIE: (Principal, Perry Walker High School, New Orleans) Make sure and get to class, make sure and get to class.

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For Maria, that meant writing up a proposal for an accelerated math class, roping in 31 other students to take part, and then literally begging the principal to find the funding.

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