Sentences with phrase «as school advocate»

The results revealed that educators supported more traditional roles for parent involvement, whereas parents supported more active roles such as school advocate.

The governor's offensive began with a Sunday statement from Budget Director Robert Mujica about a proposal to combat educational inequality not with more funding — as school advocates and Nixon have called for — but by granting the state power to review and veto plans by large districts to distribute it among schools.

Are school district reserves high enough to cover state cuts, and efficiencies in management available that would make teacher cuts unnecessary, as Cuomo administration staffers maintain, or are these areas so thin that the scale of reduced state aid made teacher layoffs unavoidable, as school advocates claim?

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She advocates for rejiggering students» school schedules to allow to for more sleep, such as having classes start later in the day.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

Not only did Gross take on stocks as an investment, he directly called out long - time stock advocate Jeremy Siegel of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School for promoting unrealistic expectations of future equity yields.

«I Cite You and John Walter Russell in My Paper as the Earliest and Strongest Advocates of This Approach [New School Safe Withdrawal Rate Research].»

He also wrote: «Schools and colleges must not support charities or groups that promote or fund anti-life policies, such as Red Nose Day and Amnesty International, which now advocates abortion».

A paper that thinks hermaphrodite rights one of the important questions of our time, a paper that editorially endorses the worship of the great nature goddess Gaia, a paper that advocates the demonstration of condoms to fourth graders in public school, a paper that condemns as religious fanatics those who favor the protection of the unborn, a paper that derides as extremist the views of a majority of Americans and of two Presidents they elected, this is simply not a serious paper.

The «Let me play devil's advocate» strategy is bizarrely inappropriate in such a situation, as it assumes that the young people in our secondary schools are so indoctrinated that they need to be shaken out of the complacency of a life of faith based on social approval.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.

On the structural side, they advocate such things as paid parental leave, flextime in the workplace, an extended school day and year, housing subsidies, tougher divorce laws, and welfare benefits favoring two - parent families.

As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than in our society, but advocates such an attitude of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility of increased contrast, richness of experience, of mutual transformation, without loss of integrity, is enhanced.

Some advocate the dismantling of the public school system, which they typically refer to as «government schools.»

Additionally, Ms. Bazán served as a community advocate before the North Carolina General Assembly for several years and held positions at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

When the Supreme Court ruled that a Christian student group could only be recognized at a small public law school if it accepted non-Christians and gays as potential leaders, some lawyers and campus advocates grew nervous.

The battle becomes considerably subtler, though, when religion is advocated not as a way of life but as something to be studied as an integral part of American culture, and is made part of a high school curriculum.

Baird's contemporary advocate of «an earnest ministry» noted that the Sunday School, the cheap tract, and the religious periodical had become «competitors» with the pulpit «for the public mind,» and concluded that the ministers would have to turn on more heat.112 Charles G. Finney, always more blunt in saying what many of his Congregational and Presbyterian brethren really thought, openly advocated the creation of excitement in order to attract the attention of the unconverted — a view with which, as we have noted, Horace Bushnell was inclined to agree.

As an advocate of the community, Pollo Tropical has raised thousands of dollars through benefit nights system - wide for schools and local organizations, giving them 20 % of proceeds.

As readers of this space well know, MomsTEAM and I have long advocated that the best way to help keep our kids playing interscholastic sports is for schools to hire certified athletic trainers (ATs).

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

We knew, therefore, that parenting programmes that foster paternal responsiveness and involvement — and interventions in maternal and child health settings, schools etc where men are viewed as allies and advocates for their children's (and their children's mothers») welfare — ought to be beneficial.

So when it comes to improving school meals, health advocates logically want to remove the items that win out over healthier fare: nixing sugary chocolate milk, for example, so kids have to take white milk, or making sure pizza isn't offered on the same day as a healthier entree.

Pope's organization, Challenge Success, advocates school policies such as holding final exams before winter break, not publishing college acceptance lists and taking steps to make teachers approachable.

And as a parent, you can advocate that having music in the schools is a priority.

Test scores go up, truancy goes down and attendance goes up,» says Joshua Simonds, the former executive director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, who devotes himself to advocating for arts in the schools as part of a well - rounded education.

It's also quite encouraging to me, as a school food advocate, to learn that SNA's troubling positions are not necessarily shared by the organization's members at large.

While I haven't taken it as far as our state board of education (see What to Do if Your School Wellness Policy Isn't Being Enforced), I will continue to advocate for healthy class parties and fundraisers.

Use the positive school breakfast messaging that comes with NSBW as a springboard to advocate for BIC in your school or district.

You'll need to collect some data on schools and school meal participation in your state, as well as days of service, and the report you generate will be a tool in your arsenal to advocate for expanding school breakfast.

As Congress weighs the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, advocates with the Healthy Schools Campaign are making two main suggestions: increase reimbursement rates and encourage the distribution of healthier food.

Accordingly, as part of a collaboration between various school food advocates and school food service directors, an open letter directed to the SNA's Board of Directors is now being circulated with the hopes of getting as many signatures as possible.

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

As the mother of a child with severe allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21As the mother of a child with severe allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21as well as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21).

When our new Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, chose as his very first act in office a bogus «lifting» of a non-existent ban on birthday cupcakes in Texas schools, parents and health advocates around the state were understandably alarmed.

More pragmatically, though, one of my core interests as a writer and advocate is school food reform, and I personally believe GMO has no place in that conversation at this juncture.

Many big issues here, including, as school food advocate Dana Woldow discussed with me in an off line email, the real stigma likely created by giving nonpaying kids something different from everyone else.

You can read why I'm referred to as a «reluctant school food advocate,» my thoughts on school food reform in private versus public schools, and what I hope to accomplish here in Houston ISD before the youngest of my two children graduates.

These highly processed foods — sometimes referred to as «copycat» junk food by school food reform advocates — bear all the same logos and brand names as their supermarket counterparts, but are nutritionally tweaked to comply with the USDA's improved school meal standards and / or its new «Smart Snacks in School» school food reform advocates — bear all the same logos and brand names as their supermarket counterparts, but are nutritionally tweaked to comply with the USDA's improved school meal standards and / or its new «Smart Snacks in School» school meal standards and / or its new «Smart Snacks in School» School» rules.

Parents around the District, as well as national school food advocates and policymakers, celebrated these changes.

As you may know from the many times I link to her writing on TLT's Facebook page, Dana Woldow of PEACHSF (Parents, Educators & Advocates Connect ion for Healthy School Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hSchool Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily in San Francisco, in which she tackles all manner of food - related topics, from school food reform to childhood hschool food reform to childhood hunger.

As a fellow parent, advocate, or other community member concerned about the well - being of school children in the nation's capital, we hope you join us in this shared cause.

Although private groups such as the Questers and the Dole Mansion Preservation Society have advocated preservation and raised money for years, the city did not establish its Historic Preservation Commission until 1996, after the pump house was abruptly leveled to make way for a school parking lot.

-LSB-...] While vocal advocates can be powerful (as school food blogger Bettina Elias Siegel recently discussed on The Lunch Tray), you certainly don't have to be an outspoken, fist - waving proponent -LSB-...]

As you may know from the many times I link to her writing on TLT's Facebook page, Dana Woldow of PEACHSF (Parents, Educators & Advocates Connect ion for Healthy School Food) writes a regular and informative column in Beyond Chron, an online daily... [Continue reading]

No advocate of irresponsibly leaving children unattended for hours, Swan nevertheless is aware more and more kids must be alone after school as more mothers work.