Sentences with phrase «boards of education»

Local boards of education would then adopt the plan by using «written materials, online training or videos or in person training,» the bill states.

Schools certainly feel the immediate costs of failing to prioritize wellness — poor test scores for students, lower standardized test scores school - wide, reduced funding resulting from absenteeism, which is why it is so important to share this report with school administrators and boards of education.

Other: Revised Statute 22-32-136 (2005) encourages district boards of education to adopt wellness policies.

Concussion and Sports - Related Head Inury: SB 771 (2011) defines concussion, student athlete, and youth recreational sports program, and requires the Departments of Education and Health, county boards of education, Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, Maryland Athletic Trainers Association and the Brain Injury Association of Maryland to develop policies and implement a concussion program to provide awareness to coaches, school personnel, student athletes and parents and guardians of student athletes.

The same law further requires local boards of education to take into consideration these Guidelines when creating their local wellness policy.

Sports - Related Drug Testing: N.J.S.A. 18A: 40A - 23 (2005) allows boards of education to adopt a policy for the random testing of the districts students in grades 9 - 12 who participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic athletics, or who possess parking permits for the use of controlled dangerous substances, including as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C: 35 - 2 and 24:21 - 2 or alcoholic beverages, as defined in N.J.S.A. 33:1 - 1.

The National Association of State Boards of Education is the only national organization giving voice and adding value to the nation's state boards of education.

The Foreign and Home Mission Societies, the Boards of Education and Publication, the Women's Home and Foreign Mission agencies, and the Baptist Historical Society were the primary national institutions.

The Supreme Court has dealt the creationists a crushing blow, and state boards of education are beginning to adopt «science frameworks.»

Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

A 16 - year - old high school student who said he was frustrated with his teachers unleashed an attack on the Osaka Board of Education server that took 444 elementary, junior high and high school networks offline, investigators said.

Last week: Linda Brown, the student in the landmark 1954 decision of Brown v. Board of Education passed away this week.

Sherry taught for the Calgary Board of Education and University of Toronto Schools before returning to school for her MBA at Haskayne.

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

In 2012, John was elected to a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education (MD), the nation's 17th largest school district, where he advocated technology modernization across over 200 schools.

The Phenix City Board of Education voted to buy the property Monday night and has a few options for its future use.

And the 2006 and 2008 elections, former Calgary Board of Education trustee Jennifer Pollock carried the Liberal banner against Mr. Anders.

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

FROM Teachingaboutreligion.org Can Not Compel students to say the pledge, nor punish them for refusing to say the pledge (resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court more than 60 years ago with its landmark 1943 decision West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette) ==========================================================================================================================================

In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

Schulman is at Columbia while Mekler is a psychologist with the New York City Board of Education, a celebrated font of wisdom regarding moral education.

On March 11, 2002 during a panel discussion on evolution Meyer publicly told the Ohio Board of Education that the «Santorum Amendment» was part of the Education Bill, and therefore that the State of Ohio was required to teach alternative theories to evolution as part of its biology curriculum.

David Barton is a history consultant for the Texas State Board of Education.

It is true that private academies for white students sprang up in the South after the historic Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

This may be a literal corporation, such as IBM or GE; or it may be a body like the CIO or AFL, the presbytery, the board of education, the Department of Defense, the state legislature, Lincoln High School, the Pittsburgh Pirates, or the Second Platoon.

Could Brown v. Board of Education have been handed down in 1924?

In 1947, all nine Supreme Court Justices - at least seven of whom were Masons - agreed in Everson v. Board of Education that the Constitution re?quired separation.

The 1983 Court decision came within a generation of Brown v. Board of Education, and its legal principles extended to private secondary schools (including «segregationist academies») that resisted racial integration.

Almost a century and a half later, in Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the Supreme Court officially adopted Jefferson's «wall of separation» as the bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment.

He served as the Chair of the Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Education, acted as a mentor to a group of young disciples, and hosted Take Over Challenge days with young people.

Ever since 1947, when the Supreme Court first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the states in Everson v. Board of Education, the court has held that government must be neutral on matters of religion.

Just ask the Pharaohs, Popes, Crusaders, politicians, Klansmen, anti-abortionists, Imams, Texas Board of Education members, Spanish conquistadors, etc etc etc..

(See Foundations of Christian Teaching in Methodist Churches (The Board of Education of The Methodist Church, 1960), pp. 13 - 15.

Or freedom from religion, but there was once an article that had Texas» Board of Education trying to make Thomas Jefferson vanish from the history books, and was he not the one who believed in «separation between church and state» as well... anyone not believing me is free to spend a few seconds to do some web searches... the articles are out there... or people can remain in ignorance, but then they still won't feel any more blissful or happier...

Now, on the other side, look up what the Texas board of education has been trying to do in Texas public schools for the past several years.

The judge issued a detailed injunction that prohibits the governor, the attorney general, the state board of education, and everyone else from permitting religious activity in classrooms, including vocal prayer, readings of the Bible, devotional discussions, and distribution of religious materials.

The Bishop of Oxford, John Pritchard, who is chair of the CofE's Board of Education, said: «Rural schools, like our country churches, are the vital heartbeat of the countryside.

Barnard served many years as secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, but his impact on the public school movement was perhaps greatest in the American Journal of Education, which he began in 1855 and edited for twenty - six years.

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

The two famous flag salute cases, Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) and West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), illustrate the point.

They arrested 17 year - old Sami Ullah in Karachi after receiving a complaint from the local board of education, said Karachi police official Qudrat Shah Lodhi.

-- Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education, whence was it?

The landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education was rendered less than 30 years ago; discrimination has lasted for over 300.

The Texas Board of Education is considering targeting history textbooks that promote a «pro-Islamic, anti-Christian» point of view, The Dallas Morning News reported.

May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, declaring segregated — «separate but equal» — public schools unconstitutional.

That change made possible Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

What would have happened, they ask, had the political branches felt themselves free to dispute Brown v. Board of Education?

The Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education required its teachers to read a statement before any classroom discussion dealing with evolution urging the students «to exercise critical thinking and gather all information possible and closely examine each alternative toward forming an opinion» regarding «the origin of life and matter.»

He criticized the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. the Board of Education, and in 1956, at the invitation of the governor, he addressed a joint session of South Carolina's legislature to support the concept of separate but equal for churches as well as for the public schools of the land.