Sentences with phrase «schools campaign helped»

At Totem, a $ 10,000 grant secured by MEA through NEA's Priority Schools Campaign helped the school install a new laptop computer lab.

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We also completed a $ 50 million capital campaign a year early in 2012 which helped the school.»

Finally, while parents at elite schools only have one vote, cutting their subsidy would feel like a direct attack, and really motivate them to work against the NDP, either through donating to the UCP or helping out with their campaign.

The popularity of the Meatless Monday campaign, started by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as other cultural factors, may have helped the popularity of vegetarian proteins.

He has worked with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro to help create the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, and he's worked with the White House to implement the Chefs Move to Schools Campaign.

We have a campaign right now — No Kid Hungry «This Thanksgiving» — asking folks to set a place at the table for kids this Thanksgiving with a $ 46 donation that helps connect the child with food all year round through resources like school breakfast and summer meals.

The Play With Purpose campaign is designed to support Save the Children's early childhood development programs — Early Steps to School Success, Literacy / Healthy Choices and the SummerBoost Initiative — which help children in some of America's most underprivileged areas thrive.

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.

She shared some creative ideas on how anti-hunger groups can help school nutrition programs through initiatives like school meal application campaigns and grant writing, and she punctuated her points with success stories from DC Hunger Solutions and DC public schools, Ohio's Children's Hunger Alliance, and Project Bread, among others.

The Chef Ann Foundation's Do One Thing campaign is designed to help us to take one action each month to change the school food in our communities.

We hope our Plan and the Sunday Times campaign will help many view school food in a new light - for it to be considered as crucial in cementing a healthy relationship between our children and the food they eat, for the rest of their lives.

FOCUS and the other partners that helped CPS to do this — the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, Whole Foods Market, and Healthy Schools Campaign — are getting calls from districts interested in following Chicago's example.

Our free resources, educational events and awareness campaigns empower parents and teachers to help our children succeed in school and in life.

In addition to program support, Dawn and Shedd will roll out a pilot education - based program for Chicago Public Schools in early 2017 as part of the larger Dawn Helps Save Wildlife campaign.

As I have written before on Total Politics, a campaign to expand parents» and pupils» understanding of what the country's best schools teach and expect will also help to raise standards.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said the spokesman, Scott Reif.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

So far, his campaign relies on volunteers and friends, with around 20 other students at some of the city's top high schools helping him out.

The polarizing developer and former gubernatorial candidate spent the summer helping the Trump campaign in New York, but with students preparing to go back to school, it's back to politics at the local level.

You can not undo what has been done, but you can accomplish something very powerful and positive by creating a capital campaign that would help to fund some of the proposals put forward by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents to address gun violence and school safety, as reported in your 12/31/12 edSchool Superintendents to address gun violence and school safety, as reported in your 12/31/12 edschool safety, as reported in your 12/31/12 edition.

Cornell has called upon Janet Hasson, president and publisher and CynDee Royle, editor and vice-president of News to initiate a capital campaign, sponsored by the paper, that would help to fund some of the proposals put forward by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents to address gun violence and school safety, including needed mental health and social services and school resource offSchool Superintendents to address gun violence and school safety, including needed mental health and social services and school resource offschool safety, including needed mental health and social services and school resource offschool resource officers.

He has drawn attention in the past for his tough immigration policy after he asked for the federal government's help in a launching citywide campaign to crack down on undocumented residents, whom he said put a strain on local schools and hospitals.

The Senate GOP, which is based mostly upstate and on LI is sticking its nose into NYC schools / charters because it needs the campaign contributions of the charter billionaires, not because it wants to help anyone.

According to her campaign, she is focused on lead in public school water, the need for storm preparedness along the East River, and helping small businesses.

Gelb, 86, went to school with Bush, served as his Belgian ambassador, and helped raise campaign funds for his son, former President George W. Bush.

A campaign arm of the rebranded, left - wing group ACORN is spending hundreds of thousands to help Democrats win control of the state Senate and protect traditional, union - controlled public schools.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

[25] King's first campaign speech, at Haverstock school, focused on «engagement with young people» as a way of reducing knife crime and helping them achieve their potential.

Bradley Tusk, a political consultant and former campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg, helped organize REBNY's past alliance with the charter school group known as StudentsFirst, which also wanted the GOP in control of the Senate.

HARLEM — Two former campaign foes of Rep. Charlie Rangel have joined forced against Columbia University, saying the school is not doing all it can to help residents as part of its expansion into West Harlem.

There will be a time for campaigning, but right now my only concerns are helping our rural and small city schools, providing tax relief for middle - class families and businesses, and helping our small businesses to grow and create jobs.»

He is helped by the fact Success» so - called #SaveOurPreK campaign has failed to garner anything approaching the amount of attention as the school space battle, when Moskowitz was making front - page news regularly for declaring that de Blasio was effectively shuttering high - performing charter schools.

Christopher Faricy, assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said Hillary Clinton's ability to develop a strong network of relationships at the state, county and local level helped her campaign outlast a campaign organized by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I - Vt.).

While campaigning in South Buffalo, he pointed to city help in converting Holy Family School into apartments and pouring «millions of dollars» into projects along Abbott Road and Cazenovia Park.

«We're not surprised that the Senate Democrats, who nearly bankrupted this state, would want to force New Yorkers to spend $ 200 million in taxpayer money to fund political campaigns rather than investing those dollars in our schools or providing incentives to help businesses create jobs,» said GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

Sen. Joseph Griffo, R - Rome: No «I am opposed to taxpayer dollars being used to fund political campaigns, especially when this can be better spent on helping schools and repairing roads.

She also helped start a school in the Bronx, worked in the office of New York Councilman Corey Johnson, and has been active in both national and local political campaigns.

I will support anyone who will help to break the stranglehold that Noam and his little machine have on New Rochelle in which they divert school resources (brain power and money) to «their» schools and raise campaign cash by tapping into companies and individuals with business before the City government.

Its super PAC, the Fund for Great Public Schools, unleashed $ 718,000 — nearly three times what Small's own campaign contributed — to try to help the Democrat overcome Jacobs.

After he had begun the new job, some of his former Sharon High students encouraged him to run for the local school committee, and even helped him campaign.

Create The Good, with EIF's iParticipate campaign, is helping the Teaching Garden meet their goal to get 1,000 gardens opened in schools across the country over the next couple of years.

I would love to have lunch with Lauren Parsekian Paul, one of the founders of Kind Campaign, a nonprofit that helps educate about the powerful belief in KINDness that brings awareness and healing to the negative and lasting effects of girl - against - girl «crime» through documentary films and school based programs.

Addressing the crowd, Dean James Ryan spoke about spending the past year, with the help of colleagues, thinking about the school's mission and developing three strategies to improve education: cultivating leaders and innovators, collaborating on questions that matter, and communicating with the field, which he explained were also the school's campaign priorities.

At Saturday sessions, students do some academic work, such as SAT practice, and also help teachers organize community activities, like a carnival on the athletic field and a door - to - door outreach campaign, both designed to build the school's relationship with its neighbors.

For ways students and teachers can help, check out two free online resources: The Quick & Easy Guide to Green Cleaning Schools, an initiative of the Healthy Schools Campaign's Green Clean Schools and the Cleaning for Healthy Schools Toolkit, an initiative of the National Collaborative Work Group on Green Cleaning and Chemical Policy Reform in Schools.

- ERIC's Right to Go campaign which seeks to help schools develop policies and procedures to support children with continence problems and promote good bladder and bowel health.

campaign will help schools and teachers highlight the dangers of the road and encourage best practice for children.

The school hosts PE coffee mornings for parents to learn more about how they can help their children's fitness, whilst a healthy lunch habits campaign was recently launched in the school, to dovetail with the school's renewed health focus.

Her educational journey was transformed when she received a bursary from CAMFED — the Campaign for Female Education — which provided her with the financial help she needed to finish secondary school, as well as advice and counselling to succeed.