Sentences with phrase «american school bus»

Accretion 32 depicts a yellow American school bus traveling along a wintry forest road.

According to the American School Bus Council, 26 million students ride a school bus each year.

The American school bus is a familiar icon of the public school system.

The other major hint for outsiders as to the goings - on was, bizarrely, a traditional American school bus — with the words «Sheffield Doc / Fest» writ large on the side — awaiting passengers as they exited the Sheffield train station.

I was a 25 year - old Cambridge graduate, and instead of sitting on the milkround conveyor belt, and training to be a solicitor in a Magic Circle law firm, I was sharing bedrooms with 7 other backpackers each night, and travelling the world in defunct American school buses, accompanied by the local farmers and their chickens.

Getting there — The cheapest way to get to Placencia is on one of the old American school buses, with a changeover in Dangriga.

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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)-- Packed into five old school buses, hundreds of Central American migrants arrived at the US border Sunday for a rally, to be followed by a planned mass attempt to apply for asylum, in a direct challenge to the Trump administration.

Will it be an American collector of Maggie memorabillia, a new age traveler with attitude, an African dictator with lots of wives or a Syrian school bus driver.

As I read that, it struck me that, years before my Mississippi elementary school was integrated via busing, I'd seen African - American and Latino characters (such as «Gordon» and «Maria») functioning as equal members of a society, on the television screen of my home.

Although Britain becomes ever more a cultural 51st state of the US, there are certain references in popular culture that remain specifically American: baseball, the yellow school bus, and that line in a Paul Simon song about «going to the candidates» debate».

For instance, an American - English speaking parent might call the yellow vehicle that takes children to school a «bus,» while the pronunciation of the same word by an Irish - English speaking parent might sound more like «boss.»

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that most child pedestrian injuries involving a motor vehicle occurred while children were unsupervised, near schools and bus stops, and in the spring months during the afternoon and evening hours.

Yet, the American yellow school bus is very much at risk.

In this essay, former NAESP president Dr. Paul Young wonders if unrealistic demands are turning American schools into runaway school buses: driving too fast without enough direction.

Every American driver's worst nightmare should involve being at fault in an accident with a yellow school bus.

Your local office of the American Automobile Association might have for you copies of brochures or activity books on a variety of timely safety topics including school bus safety, bicycle safety, and pedestrian safety.

Plenty of people disagree with Gauthier — the National PTA and the American Academy of Pediatrics support school seat belt laws — and Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives latschool seat belt laws — and Alan Ross, president of the National Coalition for School Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives latSchool Bus Safety, says getting kids in the habit of buckling up every day can save their lives later on.

N.H.T.S.A. officials last month were notified of the voluntary recalls of 46,000 school buses made by the American Transportation Corporation of Conway, Ark., and 9,000...

In my hometown of Marblehead, Massachusetts, African - American students are bussed into schools from Boston through the benefit of an interdistrict bussing program, METCO.

For many Americans, segregation is a concept of the past, the term conjuring up powerful images of the Little Rock Nine integrating into an all - white school and of the removal of the signs designating drinking fountains and bus stops as «colored» or «white.»

«Intact bussing» was a system in which African American children were bused to schools attended by white children while their schools were being renovated.

Within Black America, there is a lot of disagreement between old - school civil rights players — who continue to see integration, busing and equity lawsuits as the cure for achievement gaps between blacks and whites — and the younger generation of African - Americans, who understand that more - systemic reforms (including breaking ranks with the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers) is critical to black economic and social advancement.

One strategy was «intact busing,» a plan implemented in 1958 allegedly to ease overcrowding in African American - dominated schools.

She is the author of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Boston.

The cheapest buses are the infamous Central American chicken buses (almost always former US school buses), and they stop anywhere and everywhere to pick up and drop off passengers, so don't take these if you are in a hurry.

Throughout the entire month of August, cherished American artworks will be seen by millions of people every day when they are commuting to work, taking the kids to school, hailing a taxi, shopping in a mall, catching a bus or pursuing other routine activities.

(CNN) Every day, Americans throw away 500 million plastic straws, enough to circle the Earth twice, or fill 125 school buses.

Not only does this contribute to childhood obesity, but the American Academy of Pediatrics reports fatalities and injuries are much higher among children going to school in cars than among those who walk or ride in school buses.

Lecturer, «Litigation Strategies in Bus, School Bus, and Van Cases» (Consumer Attorneys of California, December 2014; Ohio Association for Justice, October 2014; Tennessee Association for Justice, October 2013; Kentucky Association for Justice June 2013; American Association for Justice Winter Convention, February 2013)

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), for instance, has urged authorities to require seat - belts on school buses though they are not currently required under federal law.