Before striking, the sharks compact schools of prey by swimming around them and splashing the water with its tail, often in pairs or small groups.
For example, LAUSD's formulas for campus maintenance funds were based on the square footage of school facilities to systematically favor the newer, more spread-out campuses in suburban neighborhoods, at the expense of the older, more compact schools in the central city.
But contemporary focus on environmental issues and energy saving has led to more compact school buildings, where the teaching rooms afford little access to daylight, and where muchof the space designed for teaching lacks windows to the outside.
It is one of six compact high schools on Taft's campus, and 70 percent of its students are Hispanic.
The compact encourages schools to waive course requirements if students have already completed similar coursework in another state.
The school's priorities during her tenure have really aligned nicely with President Gutmann's "Compact". The school is focused on integrating knowledge, on increasing access to the college for undergraduates, and is very much engaged locally and globally.
We had tried so many innovative ways of increasing MFL take-up, from national Spelling Bees to Business Language Champions, Triple Literacy projects and Compact schemes with schools and local authorities.
Our compact half-term school holidays always concentrate the minds of UK families, offering rich potential for bonanza box-office over a highly compressed time period.
In an essay on teaching responsibilities, on the university's Web site, Sexton encouraged his faculty to accept the "mutual obligations of the social compact". Given the school's limited endowment and lofty aspirations, resources could not be distributed evenly.
She also makes Colombian-style cornmeal empanadas, which are compact, firm and school-bus yellow: "You gotta freeze them, then fry, otherwise they'll fall apart," Garcia says.
The compact, headed by state school board member Theresa Pena, is intended to help students succeed through collaborative efforts and is modeled on similar programs in cities like Boston and Los Angeles.
