rDepartment of School Administration January 24‚ 2013 Dear Parents and Guardians of High School Students‚ We are pleased to report that on January 22‚ 2013‚ the FBISD Board of Trustees approved the District resolution to suspend the legal requirement to count the end-of-course (EOC) STAAR assessments as 15% of a student’s final grade in the course for the 2012-13 school year. This change is possible because of a recent ruling from the Texas Commissioner of Education to allow school districts
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Article I. A message to high school students who hate high school: Here is why you hate it Recently an article I wrote about why algebra is useless and shouldn’t be taught in high school was published on The Washington Post’s Answer Sheet blog. The hate mail that followed (written mostly by math teachers) was unbelievable. Most accused me of being irrational and incapable of thought‚ and stated that math teaches people to think. This is pretty funny because if math is supposed to teach one to
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University of Phoenix Material Weekly Guide Community Health Advocacy Project Overview. Each week you will use the Weekly Guide to guide you through the process of creating a hypothetical‚ community health advocacy project due in Week Six. The following breakdown represents each week ’s part: In Week One‚ you select an aggregate and write questions to help you identify areas of strength and of need. In Week Two‚ you focus on describing the characteristics of your aggregate and writing an action
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Introduction HS Engineering as a company is facing some potentially drastic changes to its values and identity. With the planned relocation of low-end manufacturing over to Malaysia and taking this opportunity as a springboard towards internationalisation‚ this move is seen as way to stay competitive within the automotive market and can be potentially very lucrative and help the firm grow exponentially. This is an incredible opportunity for HS Engineering to reinvent itself as a company and change
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Gatsby and Bone are both possessed by a dream which kills them. Explore the importance of these dreams in the GG and HS. Dreams are a key theme in both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover square. I will be studying Fitzgerald’s and Hamilton’s text as a whole; investigating how both authors present dreams‚ how characters are possessed and the authors possible contextual influences. In this study I will also make a critical analysis of dreams and their importance
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Please note our following comments on Health and Safety Management Plan: 1. Provide index with page number. 2. HS policy statement is more than year old and must be reviewed and resubmitted. Please provide a legible copy. 3. Roles and responsibilities of employees should highlight only safety roles and not general roles they perform. 4. Responsibilities of commercial manager‚ planning engineer‚ MEP coordinator‚ design manager not required in HSE plan. 5. Roles and responsibilities need to be
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Controls for Inflows ACC/544 7/10/2013 Controls for Inflows Internal controls play an important role in the success of any organization. The following is a proposal for appropriate controls to cover cash‚ sales‚ accounts receivable‚ inventory‚ and production. Controls Justification Cash Safeguarding Cash Cash Receipts Reconciliation Segregations of Duties Accessing cash should be restricted and kept in a locked and safe compartment. Cash should be recorded immediately upon
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Homeschooling vs. Public Education Carlie COM/155 Many parents want what is best for their child’s education and‚ one of the hardest decisions a parent has to make is where to send their children to get their education. Parents have different opinions about different types of schooling. While some say that public schooling is the best option for their kids‚ others will say that homeschooling is what is best. It all depends on what the parent feels
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Today’s business environment is becoming increasingly complex. Companies are new constantly implementing new technologies processes to help with output and efficiencies. With every technology and process the correct controls must be put in place. In addition to these self implemented tools‚ companies are under increased government regulation to validate their internal processes and controls. All of this activity needs a point person. That point person is the internal auditor. The purpose of this
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State and Federal Aid Brian Alday‚ Moises Duran‚ Nuris Finkenthal‚ and Eric Rossi Grand Canyon University: EDA 535- Public School Finance November 28‚ 2012 In the last few years our nation has been faced with enormous budget constraints. Nearly every state has either reduced education funding or has maintained funding at a certain level due to the economic downturn of the nation. School districts have needed to find ways to do more
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