The rules for eligibility are complicated and depend on whether the grammar schools in question are in an area where selection is widespread.
We will not accept such behaviour in Scotland, whether it takes the form of bullying in schools or racially motivated attacks on people their property or their places of worship.
Mr Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said he had never heard of such a problem and doubted whether schools would behave in this way.
Mallory Hagan won the beauty pageant after tap dancing to James Brown's "Get Up Off of That Thing" and answering a question about whether armed guards belong in grade schools by saying we should not fight violence with violence.
The Department for Education and Skills said that, now the co-ordinated admissions scheme had been finalised, the Office of the Schools Adjudicator would decide whether or not schools could use those criteria in the coming year.
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The first contentious issue is what to do about schools: in particular, which ones to close and whether to retain selective grammar schools.
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State high school associations nationwide are debating whether to split public and private schools in the playoffs, particularly in football, because of private-school dominance that the public schools say is unfair because they, unlike their private colleagues, can recruit, er, attract players from outside a geographical boundary.
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Just 15% of the schools in the survey had an official policy about whether to do so, and more than two-thirds of those schools said they won't use the technique.
Whether or not business schools overhaul their programs in reaction to these unprecedented times, they should certainly seize upon this moment for reflection on their purpose.
In spite of occasional strikes, public services are among the best in the world, whether trains, hospitals or schools.
Whether schools had these resources when I was in college in the days of big hair and WHAM!
But the most contentious subject before it is whether to ban the veil completely, not only in schools but in all public offices.
But while the labor force may absorb Spanish-only employees, an emerging debate among policy makers asks whether their children face additional challenges in English-speaking schools.
The public servants who work in America's schools -- whether they're principals or teachers, or counselors or coaches -- work long and hard on behalf of our children and they deserve our gratitude.
Still, Democrats are asking whether the money wouldn't be better spent on schools and roads in America.
He even sounds unfussed about whether women should be allowed to wear the Islamic headscarf in government offices and schools.
But there is no question MOOCs are gaining in popularity and that many schools are trying to figure out whether to integrate MOOCs into their curricula.
Instead of being automatically offered to schools, head teachers now decide whether they want to buy it in as a means of helping their pupils.
In fact, 73 of the Forbes 400 members are involved in education in some way, whether giving money to their alma maters or starting charter schools.
In a very similar battle, schools advocates sued Mr. Christie over whether the state was providing enough funding to meet the constitutional threshold.
The reality is far different for the majority of schools, and the deal breaker is whether or not a school excels in college football.
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Tonight, Jan. 23, is the night the board of the Westerville City Schools in suburban Columbus, Ohio, is scheduled to vote on whether to eliminate all sports and extracurricular activities, beginning in 2012-13.
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The intention would be to allow schools more flexibility in using their budgets to target particular needs - whether for teachers in shortage subjects or as an incentive to keep the most effective staff.
The two players at the center of this dispute are still attending North Bergen, and feeling in limbo, unsure whether any college interest (mostly sub-Football Bowl Series schools) will dissipate because of the Ascolese situation.
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Whether they are tested on those in the first or second years is optional, but most schools and colleges seem to have opted for first year exams, Winchester among them.
Whether or not it can be implemented as intended will become clear as schools and universities reopen in September.
Critics have accused business schools of culpability in the many high-profile lapses of corporate ethics in recent years, and Dean Plowman said studying the schools' mindfulness could indicate whether they are capable of self-correction.
During candidate forums, the candidates have clashed over whether crime has ticked up in parts of the city and the quality of Jersey City's public schools, which remain under partial state control.
Rules requiring schools to report on whether they had met that target were scrapped by Education Secretary Michael Gove in 2010.
The second measure is whether a state is committed to putting effective teachers in its classrooms and effective principals at the helm of its schools.
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