Sentences with phrase «after school efforts»

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The NRA briefly suspended its online ad efforts after a February school shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Flschool shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FlSchool in Parkland, Florida.

Congress seemed poised to act after the 2012 massacre of 20 six - and seven - year - olds and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, but the effort failed.

Dick's Sporting Goods DKS, -3.41 % ending sales of assault rifles after a gunman at a Parkland, Fla., high school killed 17 people is a prime example; so is Starbucks» SBUX, -1.01 % damage - control effort in the wake of a racially charged incident at one of its Philadelphia stores.

In the days after the shooting, conservative blogs picked up a narrative later promoted by everyone from Limbaugh to Laura Ingraham that Broward had adopted a bleeding - heart disciplinary program because of a liberal, Obama - led effort to keep crime statistics down and criminals in schools.

There is no guarantee that investment in youth ministry, after - school programs, or other such efforts will necessarily change the fate of people like Tracy and Evie.

They were built mostly after Independence in 1948, when the new government's policies of providing primary schools on a vast scale wiped out the missionary institutional efforts prior to that time.

For instance, Everett, a professor of ethics at Andover - Newton Theological School, notes that the confederations that eventually led to self - governance in some German cities and to democratic efforts such as the Weimar Republic after World War I had been deeply embedded in hierarchical and royal structures, with a high degree of centralized control.

After leading the Church's successful resistance to the Socialist government's effort to diminish the autonomy of Catholic schools in the early 1980s, Lustiger developed a good relationship with President François Mitterrand.

After the first year of the partnership, schools often return to our conferences to receive further guidance and support and to plan for future reform efforts.

A child at The Wright School who learns to tie his or her shoes after weeks of effort, for example, is encouraged to demonstrate this ability to multiple enthusiastic staff members.

Soon after the Civil Eats piece came out, four Nutrition Services employees devoted what must have been considerable time and effort (not to mention the taxpayer dollars that directly pay their salaries) to write a scholarly article for the Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk entitled «Sugar In School Breakfasts: A School District» s Perspective.»

Grateful for the opportunity to ease some of that financial burden through an SNF scholarship, Sarah throws herself into her schoolwork in an effort to learn as much as possible, so she can bring that knowledge back to a school nutrition arena after graduation.

«I am thrilled that Congress has taken a major step forward today in passing the Child Nutrition bill — a groundbreaking piece of legislation that will help us provide healthier school meals to children across America and will play an integral role in our efforts to combat childhood obesity,» Mrs. Obama said in a statement released shortly after the bill was passed.

In an effort to combat hunger, it would also raise the number of children eligible for free or reduced - cost meals and expand after - school snack programs to provide full meals.

Despite this promise, very little research or intervention efforts have focused on sports settings compared with research in other settings such as school and after - school programs.

After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.

After sharing some alarming statistics about the unfitness of both potential military recruits and a significant portion of those already in the military, Mission Readiness argues that «[w] ith children consuming up to half of their daily calories while at school and out of sight of their parents, schools should be a focal point in the nation's effort to combat childhood obesity.»

Long Island educators continue to struggle in their efforts aimed at making schools safer and calming the nerves of students, parents and faculty still jittery after the deadly Valentine's Day shootings in Florida.

The effort to remove Paladino underscores the long - standing tensions that have dogged the factious Buffalo School Board, tensions that escalated after he was first elected in 2013.

In Houston, Carranza was widely praised for leading the successful effort to reopen schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo school board is continuing its effort to oust businessman Carl Paladino days after he refused to voluntarily resign.

As dozens of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have gained popularity spearheading a new movement for increased gun control after a gunman killed 17 people at their school in February, Kashuv has garnered a following among conservatives for opposing those efforts and emphasizing conservative legislative initiaSchool in Parkland have gained popularity spearheading a new movement for increased gun control after a gunman killed 17 people at their school in February, Kashuv has garnered a following among conservatives for opposing those efforts and emphasizing conservative legislative initiaschool in February, Kashuv has garnered a following among conservatives for opposing those efforts and emphasizing conservative legislative initiatives.

The new laws prevent de Blasio from charging rent to charters as he had said he would, require the city to find space for charters in D.O.E. buildings or to fund those schools up to $ 40 million for space in private buildings, and implement other safeguards for charters after an intensive charter lobbying effort in Albany.

After his State of the City address, Mayor Brown commented on the students» and parents» efforts and says he also hopes both the school district and teachers federation come up with a solution that works for everyone.

In his State of the State address, Cuomo will propose spending $ 11.5 million on Long Island to thwart gang recruitment by expanding after - school programs, vocational training and education efforts.

After touring the under - performing Automotive High School in Brooklyn, de Blasio and his education team once again touted their ongoing effort to improve 94 of the city's struggling schools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 mschools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 mSchools,» with $ 150 million.

«This is not the first hurdle,» said Aelish Nealon, a town resident who runs an after - school program and who led the effort to convert the armory into an arts hub.

He described the expanded after school programs as, together with universal pre-K and the community schools program, part of his efforts at broadly improving the school system.

Enid Rey, Hartford's executive director of school choice, has resigned after several years at the helm of the city school system's nationally touted integration efforts.

Carranza won national praise for leading the successful effort to reopen Houston schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit, taking care of students, families and teachers who suffered.

De Blasio noted that in Houston, Carranza — who was de Blasio's second choice for the position — was praised for leading a successful effort to reopen schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey, which included securing transportation for students living in shelters and offering counseling for students and staff.

The effort to remove Carl P. Paladino underscores the long - standing tensions that have dogged the factious Buffalo School Board, tensions that escalated after Paladino was first elected in 2013.

We tried to do that with things like the affordable housing plan, the rent freezes, the efforts to give people lawyers to stop eviction, pre-k, after school, paid sick leave.

The change comes after two years of strategic planning efforts conducted by a committee consisting of the employees, students and parents of the Suffern School District.

It is part of an effort by state leaders in Albany to boost after - school enrollment by 36 percent, or more than 20,000 students statewide.

«There are some who whisper that our drive to tax the rich to fund pre-K and after - school is just political posturing — an effort to heap scorn on the wealthy to win an election,» de Blasio told lawmakers Monday.

In the past, we've heard from a young scientist who became a single mother after a grad school divorce, and about Germany's efforts to establish funding programs to support single - parent scientists.

For example, the model suggests that right after the strike, emergency managers should expect to see some people rushing toward ground zero, jamming the roads in a frantic effort to pick up children from school or find missing spouses.

Aside from puberty, this is a time when the school environment becomes more impersonal, academic grades are much more public, «being popular» becomes fervently sought after and efforts to separate from parents start in earnest.

«It's good, but it's not recognizing all the words or putting them all in the right order,» Shanghai high - school exchange student Tony Liu said after listening to Google's efforts at translating my English to his Mandarin, and vice-versa.

After two years of effort, researchers led by Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and his student Hosang Yoon, Ph.D.» 14, have successfully measured the collective mass of «massless» electrons in motion in graphene.

After this yearlong effort, the authors found stark statistical differences between the schools that had participated versus those that hadn't.

Now, the school will take those efforts to a new level, after being awarded a $ 1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association in a national competition aimed at accelerating change in medical education.

And so I just - I think it's so important that we focus a lot of our efforts on making sure that, you know, that food tastes great for those kids so that they learn that what - that the foods that they're getting in school not only tastes good and will fill them up, but will also make them feel good in the afternoon, after lunch and, you know, the next day as they're trying to get through their classes.

It's so easy to convince yourself that you'll make a serious effort after the weekend or the holidays or when the new school year starts.

An early, made - for - television effort from Ron Howard, Ron Howard's Skyward follows wheelchair - bound high - schooler Julie Ward (Suzy Gilstrap) as she discovers a passion for flying after a surreptitious trip to a nearby airfield.

Despite their best efforts, a mere month after she was enrolled Rupp received a letter stating that the school would indeed be adding drama to the course listings and fate seemed to be working in her favor.

After Lady Bird joins the school's theater program to find herself, she meets Danny (Lucas Hedges), the first of several men she jumps into relationships with during her struggle to find herself and her efforts to escape from her family.

Along with an especially informative audio commentary by director Karyn Kusama and writer Diablo Cody, the two - disc effort also includes a handful of deleted scenes that were likely cut for time, a short featurette on the making - of the pool scene, on - set video diaries with the cast and crew, and an episode of «Life After Film School» with Cody.

After being kicked out of her school, for basically being too much for them to handle, she's sent to a special needs school called Each One Teach One and put in Ms. Blue Rain's [Paula Patton] classroom in an effort to educate herself and try to catch up with the rest of the world and help lift herself out of this situation she's currently living.