In 2003, the National Council for Spirit Safety and Education ( NCSSE ) was formed to offer safety training for youth, school, all star and college coaches.

The argument that school vouchers increases quality and efficiencies in schools forced to compete is supported by studies such as " When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement " ( Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's, 2003 ), which concluded that public schools located near private schools that were eligible to accept voucher students made significantly more improvements than did similar schools not located near eligible private schools.

She reflected on her employment experiences to a group of children in 2003, saying, " I worked as a teacher and librarian and I learned how important reading is in school and in life.

In 2003, the British theatre company Punchdrunk used The Beaufoy Building in London, an old Victorian school to stage " Sleep No More ", the story of Macbeth in the style of a Hitchcock thriller, using reworked music from the soundtrack of classic Hitchcock films.

A 2003 meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials found that spinal manipulation was " more effective than sham therapy but was no more or less effective than general practitioner care, analgesics, physical therapy, exercise, or back school " in the treatment of low back pain.

In 2003, following an international human rights ruling, the provincial Conservative government gradually introduced a tax credit over 5 years, ( when it would have been fully implemented it would have been worth up to 50 % of tuition to a maximum of $ 3, 500 at any independent school in Ontario ) in order to meet the human rights norms and expand funded choice to all interested parents.

At the time this accreditation was gained, all business programs at the college were brought together in 2003 to form St. John Fisher College ’ s first professional school, which was named the Bittner School of Business.

The group also claimed credit for the 2003 bombing of a Palestinian school in Jaba that injured 20 and was thought to be linked to the 2002 Zil Elementary school bombing.

In the final season of the show ( 2002 – 2003 ), things starts to come around for Buffy when Principal Robin Wood hires her as a school counselor for the newly-rebuilt Sunnydale High School and has repaired her relationships with Dawn and her friends.

Volume II of the similar series of novels Tales of the Slayer ( 2003 ) features two stories about Buffy ; the character battles a mummified spirit in Todd A. McIntosh's " All That You Do Comes Back Unto Thee ," while Jane Espenson's " Again Sunnydale " sees a season six-era Buffy sent back in time to high school, when her mother is still alive but Dawn does not exist.

In 2003, the universities of Sussex and Brighton formed a medical school, known as Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

Hebrew College, near Boston, includes a similarly unaffiliated rabbinic school, opened in the Fall of 2003.

The terms " old school " and " new school " have fallen more and more into the common vernacular as synonyms for " old " and " new " ( witness the 2003 Urban Dictionary entry for new school which reads, " Anything contemporary ") and are often applied in this conversational way to hip hop, to the confusion and occasional exasperation of writers who use the terms historically.

In 2003, in honor of Nielsen, Grant MacEwan College named its school of communications after him.

A 2003 article of The Journal of Negro Education said that research and reports regarding the beneficial impact of school uniforms was not conclusive.

Also, despite the Federal Government of the United States issuing a set of guidelines encouraging school uniform usage in American public schools, as of 2003 political support for uniforms varies.

Zlatarski International School from 2003, became the first school in Bulgaria to offer the International Baccalaureate.

In 2003 a devastating fire destroyed the school's facilities at, then Wodonga High School, and the school relocated to Wodonga West Secondary College ( now Wodonga Middle Years College Felltimber Campus ).

* 2002 – 2003 ( 14 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U. S .)

* 2003 – 2004 ( 29 Deaths resulting from school shootings in the U. S .)

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

His mother, Patricia ( 1930 – 2003 ), was a medical technician, and his father, Samuel Steven Seagal ( 1928 – 1991 ), was a high school math teacher.

In 1973, French dance historian Francine Lancelot ( 1929 – 2003 ) began her formal studies in ethnomusicology which later lead her to researching French traditional dance forms and eventually Renaissance and Baroque dances.

In 2003, Chad began receiving refugees from the Darfur region of western Sudan.

The economy remained sluggish until 2003, when it began to show clear signs of recovery, achieving 4. 0 % real GDP growth.

It applied in 2003, and began with accession negotiations in 2005 ( see also: Accession of Croatia to the European Union ).

They began to emerge from that dismal period into a new era of increased consistency, however, after the hiring of Marvin Lewis as head coach in 2003.

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

In 2002, one of Coronation Street's best-known storylines began, which culminated in 2003.

Todd Grimshaw began to question his sexuality in 2003, becoming Corrie's first regular homosexual character, after years of criticism about non-representation.

The group had been given a mandate to complete work on reconciliation by 2007, and in 2003 began working on a document entitled " Mutual Recognition and Mutual Reconciliation of Ministries.

Combat operations resumed in the spring of 2003, with MPSRON TWO sortieing to the Persian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and bombing operations began again, this time against Iraq.

Cartoon Network Philippines began airing Digimon Tamers around 2003, then Digimon Frontier late in 2004.

In 1996, offshore oil began flowing, and, with several US oil companies present in the country, the US reopened the embassy in October 2003.

The Federal Reserve Banks began a multi-year restructuring of their check operations in 2003 as part of a long-term strategy to respond to the declining use of checks by consumers and businesses and the greater use of electronics in check processing.

Three production prototype cars were shown in 2003 as part of Ford's centenary, and delivery of the production Ford GT began in the fall of 2004.

In 2003 the railway began the process of installing a satellite based telecommunications system.

As the economic began to recover in 2003, the government began to take steps for fiscal consolidation, and the fiscal deficit fell to 4. 8 percent of GDP.

Although FY 2003 began with the rapid decline of the gourde due to rumors that U. S. dollar deposit accounts would be nationalized and due to the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, the government successfully stabilized the gourde as it took the politically difficult decisions to float fuel prices freely according to world market prices and to raise interest rates.

All stations commenced digital broadcasting during 2003, and in December 2003, a fifth station, TDT, began broadcasting.

Subsequently Italian troops arrived in the late summer of 2003, and began patrolling Nasiriyah and the surrounding area.

Following the launch of ADSL in 2003, the importance of ISDN for data transfer began to decrease and is today limited to niche business applications with point-to-point requirements.

In January 2003, Bakker began broadcasting the daily Jim Bakker Show at Studio City Cafe in Branson, Missouri, with his second wife, Lori.

June 2003, LURD began a siege of Monrovia.

In 2003 Libya began to make policy changes with the open intention of pursuing a Western-Libyan détente.