boutique school

Their pay should not depend on whether they have achieved the "golden ring" of doing that job in a boutique school district.

Insworld Institute considers itself as a boutique school with teaching and learning facilities that include:

"We know our job is not to be a boutique school," said Dennis Littky, co-director of the Big Picture Company, one of the grantees.

The Parents New Demands At the Old Schools In a time of budget crises and bursting enrollment, the city's effort to found dozens of small boutique schools may seem quixotic.

Duke Corporate Education, which spun off from Duke University’s Business School in 1999 to become a boutique school with customized programs, sent 22 faculty members to work with about 1,000 of the company’s employees.

In reality, ours is a seriously ghettoized system in which boutique school districts like Bronxville and Edgemont exist cheek by jowl with the needier districts of Mount Vernon and Yonkers.

While the Toronto District School Board spends over $100,000 on pep rallies at hockey arenas and empowers the latest fad of boutique schools, science labs that need $82 million worth of repairs and upgrades are falling through the cracks.

Changes New Themes And Less Testing At these boutique schools, incubating in basements of school buildings, churches and neighborhood centers from the northern Bronx to the Rockaways, the bell does not ring every 43 minutes and students do not have three minutes to get to the next class.

Now, in an unprecedented effort to turn a boutique school success story into a national network, Donald G. and Doris Fisher, the founders of the Gap clothing chain - who know something about building a franchise - have given $15 million in seed money to create hundreds of KIPP clones across the country.