Sentence examples for longstanding school from inspiring English sources

A graduate of Duke University and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Ms. Webber devoted much of 1999 to covering a challenge in federal court to a longstanding school desegregation program.

By Justice Thomas As part of a longstanding school aid program known as Chapter 2, the federal government distributes funds to state and local governmental agencies, which in turn lend educational materials and equipment to public and private schools, with the enrollment of each participating school determining the amount of aid that it receives.

This was the latest in a series of similar cases brought by Mr. Sussman, who is well known as the lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. on the longstanding Yonkers school desegregation issue.

The schools chancellor, Harold O. Levy, praised what he described as a "creative initiative to pay longstanding prior-year school aid claims," and said the money "should accelerate an infusion of state aid payments to meet critical local needs".

Nearly $150 million in state money, part of an infusion that resulted from a longstanding lawsuit over school financing, was earmarked last year for reducing class size, either through creating new classrooms or hiring more staff members to co-teach in a single classroom.

Our longstanding partnerships with schools, which have become national models of teacher preparation, bridge theory and practice.

In 2007, she disbanded New York's longstanding system of schools for pregnant girls, calling it an unnecessary and unsuccessful form of segregation.

Survivors of campus sexual assault and harassment have reacted with shock and dismay to the news that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos intends to roll back victim protections put in place by the Obama administration to reverse the longstanding indifference in schools and colleges to the discriminatory effect of sexual assault and violence.

Law schools today are under great economic stress, and longstanding approaches to law school organization and operation no longer work well.

Though not entirely unexpected, the move was a painful return to reality for the city after a period of optimism that difficult choices were finally being made to confront longstanding problems in the school district, most notably the closing of nearly half the schools in response to a huge budget deficit.

In Massachusetts, a longstanding partnership between Springfield Public Schools and the Springfield Education Association has allowed school leaders and teachers to prepare for new assessments and targets tied to the state's evaluation system.