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# Independent schools " own themselves " ( as opposed to public schools owned by the government or parochial schools owned by the church ) and govern themselves, typically with a self-perpetuating board of trustees that performs fiduciary duties of oversight and strategic duties of funding and setting the direction and vision of the enterprise, and by delegating day to day operations entirely to the head of school.
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In 1937, in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld — who also published pulp magazines and operated as a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News — Wheeler-Nicholson was compelled to take Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective Comics # 1.
# Independent research: this would be work done with core or flexible funding that allows the researchers the liberty to choose their research questions and method.
Officers of the Military of Iceland # Independent Iceland | defence force in a trench on Vaðlaheiði in 1940.
# The Anglican Communion, the Old Catholic Church, the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India, and the Philippine Independent Church.
# Many of the Independent Catholic Churches are working toward full communion with each other and with the Old-Catholic Union of Utrecht.
# Ustashi and the Independent State of Croatia 1941-1945, by Fikreta Jelic-Butic, Liber, Zagreb, 1977.
Independent School District # 12 serves the community of Circle Pines and the surrounding cities of Blaine, Lino Lakes, Centerville, and Lexington.
In the spring of 2009, the board members of The Maple River School District, Independent School District # 2135, voted in favor of closing the Amboy middle school and reorganizing the student body in an effort to cut costs.
Today Independent School District 196 (" Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan ") and the Farmington School District # 192 service portions of northern and eastern Lakeville.
The school names and grades for Independent School District # 423 are as follows: West Elementary ( Pre-1 ), Park Elementary ( 2-5 ), Hutchinson Middle School ( 6-8 ), and Hutchinson High School ( 9-12 ).
Lyle Independent School District # 497 serves both the city of Lyle and the surrounding farm community.
# and schools
# Most of the university business schools are faculties, colleges or departments within the university, and teach predominantly business courses.
* The College of Fine Arts is the second oldest college of fine arts in the United States ( behind the Maryland Institute College of Art ), and today it is a federation of schools with professional training programs in the visual and performing arts: Architecture, Art, Design ( ranked # 1 MFA program in Multimedia and Visual Communication ), Drama and Music.
In 2008, it was named as one of Newsweek magazine's 18 " public elite " high schools, and in 2012, it was rated # 16 of America's best high schools overall.
# In the first turning Shakyamuni Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths at Varanasi in the 5th century BC, which led to the founding of Buddhism and the later early Buddhist schools.
# The Mahayana tradition claims that there was a second turning in which the Perfection of Wisdom sutras were taught at Vulture's Peak, which led to the Mahayana schools.
# The Beren Campus in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan is home to the undergraduate schools for women, including Stern College for Women and the Midtown branch of the Syms School of Business, along with dormitories and other facilities.
In 2011, the medical college ( JMC ) was ranked # 42 among the nation's medical schools by U. S. News & World Report.
It has one of only two business schools in the country to have achieved a 6 star research rating and its Physics Department was recently rated # 1 in England.
In 2007, Rocky Hill was named # 35 in Money Magazine's ' Best Places to Live Top 100 ', citing easy commuting to Hartford, local job availability, strong schools, and a central location between New York City and Boston.
There are 4 schools: Grace Elementary School, Grace Junior High School, Grace High School, and Thatcher Elementary School ; they are all under the oversight of Grace School District # 148.
As of 1988, children living in the village and surrounding area attend schools in Herscher School District # 2.
District # 3 schools are small, and the elementary, middle and high school are all located next to one another.
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