Sentence examples for schools venture from inspiring English sources

The event was organized in conjunction with a group of outfits that are pushing school reform like the New Schools Venture Fund, Citizen Schools, Rocketship Education and KIPP Bay Area Schools.

Executives from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, McKinsey consultants and scholars from Stanford and Harvard mingled at an invitation-only meeting of the New Schools Venture Fund at a luxury hotel in Pasadena, Calif.

His wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, sits on the boards of Teach for America and the New Schools Venture Fund, among others, and presumably donates money to those organizations, though neither she nor her husband are listed among its big donors.

"If public schools don't adopt the same principles of competition and accountability as exist in the private and nonprofit sectors, they will continue to deteriorate," Hastings says in a statement posted on the website of the New Schools Venture Fund.

For New Haven's biotech industry to grow and prosper, more collaboration is required involving Yale, the state, and city governments, real estate developers, local schools, venture capitalists, and educational leaders, says William Ginsberg, president of the Greater New Haven Foundation and a member of the board of Yale New Haven Hospital.

John Doerr, too, has spent several years trying to rally high-impact individuals around his New Schools Venture Fund, which focused on building new charter schools.

While there appears to be no comprehensive research so far examining schools' ventures into the digital world, experts in the field report that many are becoming bolder in using social media to reveal daily life inside schools, and increasingly with the explicit aim of connecting with the hardest-to-reach parents.

Pluto Media, which was originally incubated as part of Peter Relan's YouWeb, has to date raised $2.2 million from Relan, Correlation Ventures, Jennifer Carolan from New Schools Ventures, Revolution Ventures, Rob Hutter from Learn Capital and others in series of seed rounds.

It's also a long way from an iconic preschool program to a model out-of-school venture.

But LanguageLab is the largest private language school venture and the first to be built around the integrated voice capabilities.

In fact, the National University of Singapore already has, among other collaborations, a medical school venture with Duke, a partnership with Johns Hopkins' conservatory and a New York University Law School master's program.