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  2. Teach For America - Wikipedia

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    Teach For America teachers are full-fledged faculty members at their schools, receiving the normal school district salary and benefits as well as a modest AmeriCorps "education voucher" (which can be used to pay for credentialing courses, cover previous student loans or fund further education during or after the two-year commitment). They do ...

  3. Academic term - Wikipedia

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    By law, all state and state-integrated schools are required to be open for instruction for 380 half-days in a year (390 half-days for schools with only Year 8 students or below), meaning that the start and end of the school year is not nationally fixed to a particular date, as schools take different teacher-only days and provincial anniversary ...

  4. Pascack Valley Regional High School District - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2021–22 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 1,867 students and 172.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.8:1. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings.

  5. Year-round school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In cities, schools were open most of the year (In 1842, New York City schools were open 248 days a year, although school attendance was not yet mandatory). (Now, as of 2021, there are usually 180 days per total school year.) summers were very hot before air conditioning was invented, so upper class and eventually middle-class families would ...

  6. South Orange-Maplewood School District - Wikipedia

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    As of the 2019–20 school year, the district, comprising 11 schools, had an enrollment of 7,353 students and 576.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. [1] The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings.

  7. Success Academy Charter Schools - Wikipedia

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    www .successacademies .org. Success Academy Charter Schools, originally Harlem Success Academy, is a charter school operator in New York City. Eva Moskowitz, a former city council member for the Upper East Side, is its founder and CEO. [4] [5] It has 47 schools in the New York area and 17,000 students.

  8. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Vance Drummond (1927–1967) was a New Zealand–born Australian pilot who fought in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Posted to No. 77 Squadron in Korea, he flew Gloster Meteor jet fighters and earned the US Air Medal for his combat skills. He was shot down in 1951 and imprisoned for almost two years.

  9. Martin J. Whitman School of Management - Wikipedia

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    Website. whitman .syr .edu. The Martin J. Whitman School of Management is the business school of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Named after Martin J. Whitman, an alumnus and benefactor of the school, the school was established in 1919. The Whitman School offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as executive degree ...