Sentences with phrase «around school violence»

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We're tired of living under the omnipresent threat of gun violence anywhere anytime, at our children's schools, at the mall, just driving around town, enough is enough!

(CNN) As survivors of Wednesday's school shooting demand that it be the last such massacre, marches are being planned around the country to amplify the students» message that action must be taken to end gun violence.

But there are signs that this time could be different, as the high school survivors of the Parkland shooting are keeping up the pressure on Congress and planning mass protests around the country to end gun violence.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday directed State Police to increase patrols around schools statewide after officials fielded threats of copycat violence at three western New York schools two days after a mass school shooting in Florida.

More than 800 related events are taking place around the world to call for legislative action to address school safety and gun violence.

«We know that the conversation around arming teachers and other school personnel was an attempt to delay substantive action on gun violence prevention and deflect attention from real policy proposals.

The time is the future, and youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become «free fire zones» into which not even the police will venture.

Gary Ross borrowed from the Paul Greengrass school of direction when filming the original — lots of shakycam and quick - cutting — but Chasing Fire director Francis Lawrence takes a different approach, allowing his camera to glide smoothly around the action so that the viewer can take it all in, and while the violence still feels overly - sanitized, at least it's comprehensible.

Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and parents packed streets near the White House and the U.S. Capitol and marched in cities around the globe on Saturday to demand more - restrictive gun laws and decry gun violence, the latest in a series of massive demonstrations sparked by the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 people last month.

«Stephanie Jones is a gifted researcher whose work on the effects of poverty and violence on social and emotional development has already influenced policy and practice around bullying prevention and comprehensive school - based interventions,» Dean Kathleen McCartney said.

Although many of our students live with the trauma of the refugee experience, statistics around child protection notifications, the rates of childhood sexual assault, families living with violence and the rates of students beginning school developmentally vulnerable paint a picture of students in classrooms across Australia living with trauma in their daily lives.

With levels of violence and poverty rising around them, San Francisco middle school students find social and emotional healing — and a new readiness to learn — in a bold program of daily meditation.

As incidents of youth violence continue to make news headlines around the country, the plea for schools to do something is loud and clear.

«Until School - Related Gender - Based Violence is eliminated in and around schools across the world, many of the ambitious targets set by the global community through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to provide safe and supportive learning environments, to achieve gender equality and to end violence against women and girls, will not be realized,» said UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo Violence is eliminated in and around schools across the world, many of the ambitious targets set by the global community through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to provide safe and supportive learning environments, to achieve gender equality and to end violence against women and girls, will not be realized,» said UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo violence against women and girls, will not be realized,» said UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka

Students from around the nation joined in the walkout against gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School.

Concerned about a sharp increase in reports of violence in and around schools in recent weeks, New York City officials last week proposed a series of security measures — including «panic buttons» in classrooms — to protect both employees and students.

The School Superintendents Association supports the National Day of Action to Stop Gun Violence in Our Schools, on April 20, 2018, which urges teachers, families, students, and school administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their scSchool Superintendents Association supports the National Day of Action to Stop Gun Violence in Our Schools, on April 20, 2018, which urges teachers, families, students, and school administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their sSchools, on April 20, 2018, which urges teachers, families, students, and school administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their scschool administrators to engage in acts of advocacy and civic engagement in and around their schoolsschools.

School violence in Florida last month has sparked a wildfire of activism around school safety, and school administrators across the state are working to prepare for student protests planned this month andSchool violence in Florida last month has sparked a wildfire of activism around school safety, and school administrators across the state are working to prepare for student protests planned this month andschool safety, and school administrators across the state are working to prepare for student protests planned this month andschool administrators across the state are working to prepare for student protests planned this month and next.

Students have powerful ideas, knowledge and» opinions about topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, privatization, rural education, violence and safety, and year - around schools.

Perhaps the lack of attention to gun violence in urban schools will be turned around with the nation's newly mobilized young activists in communities across the country, Miranda says.

This has been accessed by a large number of pupils to explore feelings around parent separation, domestic violence, bullying, friendships, siblings and jealousy.The workbook has raised the profile of emotional wellbeing and mental health, reaching everyone in the school from the youngest pupils to the senior leadership team.

On the anniversary of Freddie Gray's death and to commemorate the anniversary of the Columbine tragedy, more than 20 mostly Black and Brown - led youth organizations, representing thousands of youth of color from across the country, published a petition calling attention to their demands in the ongoing debate around school safety, gun control and violence against youth.

We reached out to students around the United States who are working to keep their schools safe from gun violence.

She speaks around the world on the impact of violence, media and other societal issues on children, families and schools.

The CPS schools that were «turned around» have not all shown significant improvement in student achievement, and instead, have shown increases in tensions and violence inside and outside of school.

Like never before, we can hear students» opinions about topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, privatization, rural education, violence and safety, and year - around schools.

They long to talk about the things that are hurting them - their harassment from other boys, their troubled relationships with their fathers, their embarrassment around girls and confusion about sex, their disconnection from parents, the violence that haunts them at school and on the street, their constant fear that they might not be as masculine as other boys.

The exile is over and they have to return to their real life, high school, and see everything around them is violence.

Approximately 160,000 children miss school everyday due to the fear of bullying by other students according to the National Education Association and workplace violence continues to threaten the safety of employees around the world.

This program provides counseling and emotional support to women around multiple issues including residential school, substance use, cultural isolation and violence, and includes arts and crafts, healing circles, visits to sweat lodges, and mentorship from Elders.

YouTube has emerged as an important node in the national debate around gun violence and gun reform following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February.

(CNN)- As survivors of Wednesday's school shooting demand that it be the last such massacre, marches are being planned around the country to amplify the students» message that action must be taken to end gun violence.

Hundreds of sister marches were held across the country and around the world as students, teachers, parents, survivors of school shootings and celebrities took their defiant message against gun violence and the gun lobby to the seats of power.

More than 800 related events are taking place around the world to call for legislative action to address school safety and gun violence.

(Newser)-- As hundreds of thousands march Saturday in cities around the US in support of gun control, the editorial staff of the Eagle Eye — the school newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people were killed in a shooting in February — are pushing nine changes to fight gun violence in tschool newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where 17 people were killed in a shooting in February — are pushing nine changes to fight gun violence in tSchool in Parkland, where 17 people were killed in a shooting in February — are pushing nine changes to fight gun violence in the US.

The shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, inspired people around the world to take part in Saturday's demonstrations against gun violence.

Students at New Britain High School walked around the block carrying signs and chanting messages putting a focus on gun violence and school safety in the wake of a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 13 students and four adults were killed by a man wielding an assault School walked around the block carrying signs and chanting messages putting a focus on gun violence and school safety in the wake of a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 13 students and four adults were killed by a man wielding an assault school safety in the wake of a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 13 students and four adults were killed by a man wielding an assault School in Parkland, Fla., in which 13 students and four adults were killed by a man wielding an assault rifle.

KINGSBURG — While students across the nation chose to walk out of class March 14 to protest campus violence, Kingsburg High Vikings instead decided to gather in a large circle around their school's Wind Ensemble on the open quad area of their campus.

On Wednesday, March 14, around 150 Sierra Pacific High School students honored victims of gun violence by walking out of their classes.

Last Wednesday, tens of thousands of students around the U.S. walked out of their classrooms to demand action on gun violence and school safety.

According to the 2012 fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, «Understanding Teen Dating Violence,» around 9 percent of high school students said they were slapped, hit or physically harmed by a girlfriend or boyfriend in the past 12 months.

Bree is on the Board of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (New York), which provides journalists around the world with the resources and support necessary to report on violence, conflict and tragedy.

Restorative Justice is used in hundreds of schools around Australia where it's reduced misbehaviour, bullying, violence and crime and improved the overall climate for learning.

Around the country, schools are trying to find effective ways to deal with violence among young students.