Sentences with phrase «schools campaign about»

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«What we want students to know is schools are serious about this, that they have gone out of their way to make sure they have the legal ability to discriminate against LGBT students,» said Sarah Warbelow, the campaign's legal director.

While waiting in the maelstrom of NYC's Penn Station, I run through what I've learned about him: where he went to school, where his sister - in - law works, and how much cash he donated to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign ($ 6,900).

Truth About Tech (the name of the campaign that the Center is embarking on) is targeting 55,000 public schools (in the US) and already has $ 57 million in capital and donated media outreach.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

His center is making resources for engineers on how to build more ethical products and starting an educational campaign, called «The Truth About Tech,» in 55,000 American schools.

A new «independent issues advocacy group» backed by Michael Sacks will launch a campaign to tell Chicago about how schools are getting better.

The survey, commissioned by the Be Real Campaign, found that just over one in four (26 %) of the secondary age youngsters questioned said their appearance is one of the biggest worries about going back to school.

It would fund campaigns to educate consumers about food waste, as well as promote efforts to teach kids in schools about waste.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

If you were to read an article about a groups advertising campaign to promote reinsti.tuting slavery, ritualized child abuse or lowering restrictions on toxic dumping in school zones are you saying you wouldn't comment because you aren't interested in engaging in any of those things?

MCC - SF also strives to educate people outside the gay and lesbian community about AIDS, through letter - writing campaigns, public presentations and workshops on AIDS, which have been given in a variety of settings, including the San Francisco AIDS Interfaith Conference, the United Methodist Consultation on AIDS Ministries, the Presbyterian Ministers Association, and Pacific School of Religion's AIDS Awareness Week.

Maddy was proud of her contributions, and to ensure continuity after she graduated, Maddy co-founded a school club where students could hang out, learn about ways to reduce stress, and get involved in CS projects, including a sleep campaign.

We are also excited about the announcement from National Dairy Council and Fuel Up to Play 60 — with support from Dean Foods and Share Our Strength — about the Spring 2014 «It Starts with School Breakfast» campaign!

Speaking of stories missed, that's what today's blog post is all about — we're featuring National School Breakfast Week campaigns, blogs, and articles that inspired us, and that we wouldn't want you to miss.

But in 2014, the SNA surprised many observers by undergoing an abrupt about - face, embarking on an aggressive lobbying campaign to weaken school meal nutrition.

Learn about their school food service program and help create a marketing and public health campaign around fresh, Washington grown fruits and vegetables in their school.

So, I'm really trying not to spend too much ink or emotional energy on this one, but... Yesterday, it was widely reported that New Jersey governor Chris Christie was asked by an 11 - year - old boy on the campaign trail what he'd do about school food... [Continue reading]

Last fall, during my (ultimately successful) petition campaign against a misleading McDonald's «nutrition education» video intended for classroom use, I also told you about another protest going on against the company's in - school marketing.

When I first broke the story here about 540 Meals, the new McDonald's documentary intended for use in schools, I could never have imagined I'd still be writing about it three weeks later - or that I'd be spearheading a 70,000 person petition campaign... [Continue reading]

NEW YORK (Reuters)- American chef Cat Cora has been traveling around the United States to raise awareness about nutrition and to promote better school meals as a part of First Lady Michelle Obama's «Chefs Move to Schools» campaign.

I see numerous campaigns and programs geared toward removing fat and cholesterol out of school lunch and reducing calories, but almost nothing is talked about in terms of serving real food to children — schools continue to serve processed, toxic, fake foods to children and there is constant wonderment about how we can improve their health because they are supposedly too sedentary.

Second, I happened to start a blog about school lunches right as the topic entered the national discussion early this year (The Let's Move campaign started in January and Jamie Oliver's show Food Revolution came out in March).

«We think that's entirely too long,» said Tricia Obester, a spokeswoman for Public Voice, the Washington - based consumer health organization that long has campaigned for improvements in the nation's school lunch programs, which feed about 25 million children a day.

This article from a local Boulder, CO paper discusses the newly - launched fundraising campaign, and points up the very issue we've been talking about so much in recent weeks here on TLT: namely, can a district offer the kind of healthful food that Chef Ann champions without extra funding (over and above what the USDA reimburses schools)?

Hosted by Healthy Schools Campaign, Cooking Up Change is a dynamic culinary competition that puts student voices front - and - center in the national conversation about school food.

I'll be participating in periodic conference calls with the campaign organizers and will share more information about Get Food Education in Every School throughout the coming year.

Rumpler of the advocacy group and others have led campaigns to educate parents and school administrators about lead exposure risks, including the school - based initiative Get the Lead Out.

And finally, I just learned about the Healthy Schools Campaign, a non-profit organization that addresses not just food but general issues of environmental health and wellness in sSchools Campaign, a non-profit organization that addresses not just food but general issues of environmental health and wellness in schoolsschools.

So it's been awhile since I've been on here, but I had to come here to see if there was any chatter about this whole twitter campaign happening with the state of school lunches today.

You can read about it in this post from the Healthy Schools Campaign.

Safe Kids and FedEx launched the America's Favorite Crossing Guard campaign to raise awareness about the tremendous contribution that crossing guards make to protect kids in school zones.

Guidelines about healthy school lunches and snacks have been rolling out for several years and are part of First Lady Michelle Obama's «Let's Move» campaign launched in 2010 to fight childhood obesity.

Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools.

Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Paradoxically, SPUC's own «Safe at School» campaign opposes what it calls the «explicit nature of sex education in schools», addressing parents across the country about the perceived harms of SRE.

Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools

It's about forcing the city to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which sued over inequitable distribution of funding among wealthier and poorer school districts back in 1993.

Think about it: when the presidential campaigns are joined by senatorial, congressional, gubernatorial, state legislative, mayoral, etc etc etc, campaigns, all down to the level of local school board candidates, everybody just step back — this thing's going to get huge.

After making her remarks at the Hilton Albany, Nixon, who has made education one of her key issues in her campaign, held a roundtable discussion with public school parents to talk about the conditions their students face.

As a matter of fact Crowley mailed a piece of campaign literature all across Queens to curry favor with those deeply concerned about Education in her bid to become your Congresswoman from the 6thDistrict, however upon research and review and confirmation from her office spokesman, she's taking credit for schools that were budgeted and started construction prior to her even being elected to the City Council.

But the Schools Secretary has been badly damaged by the revelations about McBride, who is widely thought to have been running his unofficial leadership campaign.

Green Party of New York Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins talks about key campaign issue and introduces Lee, a public school teacher and union activist, who discusses the importance of Education to the campaign.

Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Read The Times report: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article3807588.ece Read the CofE's press release: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2013/07/secretary-of-state-for-education-calls-for-continuing-partnership-with-cofe.aspx Listen to Michael Gove's comments at the event: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/data/files/resources/5093/130703-Lambeth-Education-seminar.mp3 Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Cuomo can't avoid getting tainted by the Manhattan federal court trial because «they are going to be talking about actions taken while Mr. Percoco was employed by the campaign and in state government,» said Albany Law School professor Christine Chung.

Back in political consultant school, they taught us that campaigns SHOULD spend about 70 % of their money on voter contact, nearly all of that on TV, radio, and direct mail (Hey — it was 2002 — 2003).

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

Shortly after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, Maloney launched a campaign to encourage students to voice their concerns, offer suggestions and ask questions about gun safety.

Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/