Sentences with phrase «arms schools into»

They dislike it because, especially since the advent of No Child Left Behind, it strong - arms schools into doing things left - wing educators often disagree with or resent, like pushing phonics over whole language, or imposing standardized testing.

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Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

He distinguished himself enough to make it into West Point's preparatory school and was even offered a spot in the prestigious US Military Academy — something that would have all but secured him a long, successful career in the armed forces.

«The removal of this component, combined with the possibility of armed teachers in our schools, sets the stage for transforming our schools into prisons,» the NAACP said.

If America wants to confront its gun violence problem, then, the research suggests it should look to reducing the number of guns in circulation — not putting more armed people into schools.

What is less inspiring, however, was inserting into the bill a provision allowing school superintendents and sheriffs to arm school personnel as part of a $ 68 million marshal program.

The Florida Department of Children and Families released further details after a judge granted an order to unseal a confidential report into Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz's past that details him cutting his arms on... Read More

The Florida Department of Children and Families released further details after a judge granted an order to unseal a confidential report into Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz's past that details him cutting his arms on...

When I worked as a crime reporter in Broward County, it was normal for a school to go into a Code Yellow lockdown when police were searching for an armed suspect in the surrounding neighborhoods.

When Adam Lanza was not armed to the teeth, he didn't have the guts to even walk into that school.

I would lean against the side of the tub into Brian's arms for the contractions (he thanked his high school football coach often for teaching him a good three - point stance as he maintained it for almost 2 hours!).

(Side note: the arm that you see ladling soup into a container is mine, lol — I happened to have been volunteering on the day of filming, packing up freshly brewed soup to deliver to a local school.)

New School: Since driving around your gas guzzler spewing pollutants into the air is frowned upon today, the new school way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at theSchool: Since driving around your gas guzzler spewing pollutants into the air is frowned upon today, the new school way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at theschool way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at the hips.

Ever since the School Nutrition Association (SNA) stunned child health advocates with its flip - flop on school nutrition (supporting strong standards in 2010, then urging their roll - back two years later), the organization of 55,000 school food professionals has thrown itself into the arms of House Republicans in hopes of pushing through its new aSchool Nutrition Association (SNA) stunned child health advocates with its flip - flop on school nutrition (supporting strong standards in 2010, then urging their roll - back two years later), the organization of 55,000 school food professionals has thrown itself into the arms of House Republicans in hopes of pushing through its new aschool nutrition (supporting strong standards in 2010, then urging their roll - back two years later), the organization of 55,000 school food professionals has thrown itself into the arms of House Republicans in hopes of pushing through its new aschool food professionals has thrown itself into the arms of House Republicans in hopes of pushing through its new agenda.

Armed with self - sufficiency and self - efficacy, your teenager will be able to focus on expanding into the world — for jobs, internships, summer travel programs, to be leaders on school teams and in school clubs.

As my overwhelmed, heartbroken self was dropping my son off at school one day, a mommy friend saw it in my face and put her arm around me as we were walking our kids into class.

It's wonderful when you hear good news about school food improvements, and everyone's first instinct is to march into their district's food services director's office armed with such news, demanding loudly,» We want what they have!»

In the Assembly, Democratic Speaker Carl Heastie has said he would oppose bringing armed personnel into schools, but did not rule out additional safety measures.

Nor do I think turning schools into armed camps is a good idea.

A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school classroom» has resurfaced after a White House conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.

The New York State Sheriffs» Association this week called on the Legislature to include funding in the next state budget for at least one armed school resource officer at every grade school and high school, which could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

«All of these preparations are important,» Sheriff Murphy said, «but the MOST important thing we can do is to get an armed deputy or police officer into every school immediately.»

Others, including Sheriff Murphy and Warren County Sheriff Bud York, support the use of retired law enforcement officers as an economical way of getting well - trained armed officers into schools.

No doubt when Gordon Brown selected Sir Thomas, 74, to conduct an audit of MPs» expenses since 2004, he was hoping for something in the same whitewash brushstrokes as his earlier inquiry into the arms to Sierra Leone affair, which was an exquisite example of the British «nothing - to - see - here» school.

As teachers made their way into Tecumseh Elementary School this morning, Caitlin Seamans was juggling an infant in one arm and an excited 2 - year - old son on the other.

Let's turn our schools into armed camps,» Cuomo says.

But the budget plan also would allow school districts to enter into contract with third party organizations to install cameras on school bus stop arms.

The researchers from the Artemisinin - based Combination Therapy (ACT) Consortium at the University of Nigeria and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK split the health workers into three groups, to either receive a comprehensive RDT training or the same training plus a health campaign in schools, while the control arm received basic instructions to use RDTs.

Armed with that swelling ocean of information, nav systems are getting better at guessing at traffic - beating routes, sometimes also taking into account sporting events, weather predictions, parades, construction, and school vacations.

Two years into medical school, Laurie Steelsmith needed something for pain in her hands and arms.

But she is wise to his desperate advances, so to get off his radar she creates a plan to push him into the arms of a dorkette at the school, Samantha (Vanessa Marano).

Based on a real - life rise - and - fall story of a pair of Miami bozos who fell into lucrative Afghanistan arms dealing, the film reunites former high - school buddies David (Miles Teller) and Efraim (Jonah Hill), currently on radically different life trajectories.

Well - stocked with guns and ammo, and armed with a good nickname - the Wolverines, after the school football team - the boys make sorties into town to blow up occupied buildings and generally make a patriotic nusiance of themselves.

The dramedy about a high school student who is basically strong - armed into befriending a classmate with cancer earned a standing ovation when it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday.

The narrative follows our dippy protagonist Packouz — he's a masseur — as his former best friend from Yeshiva high school, returns to Miami to rope him into going into the arms business for a 70/30 split.

Like Catholics, German Lutherans were not welcomed with open arms into the growing public schooling movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so they turned to establishing their own schools.

Armed with a relatively empty backpack but a full lunch box, Max and I stood in the paved playground of his elementary school alongside other children, mothers, and a handful of dads waiting for that first fateful march into studenthood.

The National Center for Education Statistics, an arm of the department's office of educational research and improvement, says in a new report that it will break down future private - school statistics into nine categories, instead of the current two or three.

The report believes (per CRPE's «portfolio - district» approach) that districts can be transformed from owner - operators of schools into arms - length assessors of schools run by others.

«I will be going into our new semester - long business class, Freshmen Career Tech, to do some interest inventories, discuss all postsecondary options — work, armed forces, technical schools, two - and four - year colleges — in addition to discussing how to be successful in high school, rà © sumà © s, and the importance of getting involved in high school.»

You can't welcome the middle class into public schools with open arms and then tie their hands behind their backs.»

By nearly all accounts, the administrators, teachers, and students at Sandy Hook elementary did everything right Friday — and long before that day — when a young man armed with powerful weapons blasted his way into the school with gunfire.

They got used to having an armed police officer on the school's roof every day, and repeated threats threw the school into lockdown.

In one case, armed police officers with weapons drawn burst into a Florida middle school, terrifying staff and students alike....

Yes, this error is a logical and statistical fact, yet for decades now that is what happens, with small inspection teams going into schools pre-armed armed with data showing that floor targets have not been met.

FundEducationNow.org is determined to arm children, parents, teachers and concerned citizens with the power to speak out against the Florida Legislature's plan to defund public education, disrespect professional educators and cause deep and lasting harm to the state's 2.6 million school children.Thanks to thousands of volunteer hours and in - kind donations, FundEducationNow.org quickly grew into a statewide non-partisan alliance of dedicated advocates.

Among the questions asked were why the document had not been translated into Spanish and why the proposed $ 2.6 million allocation to place armed police officers in schools had been labeled «student safety and psych support.»

He illustrates these gaps with vivid descriptions of what he calls an «opulence arms race» among affluent independent schools, but points out that some well - to - do suburban public schools have also fallen into the trap of over-spending on luxuries that do not promote learning.

She said it was «right that school leaders have taken a stand against the onslaught of austerity that they have been strong - armed into».

The high rent rates not only divert resources from the classroom, the costs push some Imagine schools into debt, and sometimes that debt is owed to Imagine's for - profit arm.