Sentences with phrase «bolster school»

Parents on Wednesday pressed the Palm Beach County School Board to bolster school security, urging the members to add police officers, allow only one entry point and strictly check IDs after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shootings.

Cutting this funding would waste the considerable time and resources state officials have already dedicated to developing plans to bolster school leadership in their states through the set - aside.

Kamalani Academy looks for ways to bolster school spirit, while school leaders grapple with retention issues behind the scenes.

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic School in Chicago's far south side, led by EdD Urban Education Leadership graduate Bridget de la Peña, earned a Polk Leadership Incentive grant to bolster the school's supplies and increase access to enrollment through scholarships.

If the City of Monterey wanted to bolster school funding, there would be two major problems: 1.

Betsy DeVos's confirmation as education secretary has triggered intense interest over what the Department of Education will do to bolster school choice reforms like charter schools and private school vouchers.

This legislation aims to bolster school counselors» proficiency when it comes to helping students pursue postsecondary opportunities.

Under the guidance of UIC - trained principal Bridget de la Peña, St. Michael the Archangel School earned a Polk Leadership Incentive Grant to bolster the school's supplies and increase access to enrollment through scholarships.

They are pleased because the President's health - care prescription would guarantee health coverage for all Americans and include tangible benefits for schools and children, from grants to bolster school clinics to full coverage for childhood immunizations.

The 168 schools in the Nashville district collaborate to bolster school culture and instruction with social and emotional learning.

The national discussion about improving school safety evolving from the shootings in Newtown, Conn., reached a pivotal moment last week, as the U.S. Senate began consideration of a measure to strengthen school building security, and a Senate committee passed a measure that would bolster school - based mental - health services.

He is proud of the efforts to bolster school orchestras and sports teams.

Cleveland voters last week soundly rejected a levy intended to bolster the school district's finances, a move widely interpreted as a referendum on the performance of its leader, Barbara Byrd - Bennett.

Republicans in the Senate moved an alternative package on Monday, voting for bills that would bolster school security and add armed resource officers in schools.

In a statement Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) said GOP lawmakers were preparing a package of bills to bolster school safety but did not mention anything about new gun restrictions.

In Albany, lawmakers have been debating a variety of measures that seek to reduce gun violence or bolster school security, ranging from bans on bump stocks supported by Democrats and some Republicans to GOP - led efforts to expand school resource officers at schools in New York.

Carranza pointed out that the city recently allocated $ 125 million in «Fair Student Funding» to bolster school budgets, but said that Albany needs to provide more funding for the education system.

The budget resolution backed by Republicans in the state Senate on Thursday rejects $ 1 billion in tax increases while also seeking to spend $ 265 million on fighting the opioid addiction epidemic and bolster school security in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida.

Still, in Albany, the gun debate has mirrored the national discussion on the issue as Republicans have sought measures that would provide more armed school resources officers as well as metal detectors to bolster school safety.

Nutrition advocates said the first lady's comments gave them more hope that Congress will bolster the school lunch program when it takes up renewing the Child Nutrition Act, which expires Sept. 30.

MAC agreed to source local collards and sweet potatoes to Dawson Elementary, G.N. Smith Elementary, Pecan Park Elementary and Rowan Middle School in conjunction with the local FoodCorps effort to build school gardens, teach nutrition education through gardening and cooking classes and bolster the school food system with healthier and more localized options.

That's Postel attempting to bolster the school's argument that Pitino himself has yet to be fired.

The STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407 - 10 Wednesday.

The GOP conference in the Senate has supported a variety of bills for bolstering school security and safety, including money for resource officers.

Republicans in the state Senate have not ruled out new gun control legislation as well as bolstering school security in the wake of a high school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead in February.

New York State could eliminate its $ 3.5 billion budget deficit — money that could help bolster schools and other social needs — if state lawmakers closed the «carried interest» loophole favoring private equity and hedge fund managers, said UFT President Michael Mulgrew and other proponents of closing the carried interest loophole at an Albany news conference on Feb. 14.

Nigeria has bolstered school security.

Our current school funding system often bolsters school district boundaries between rich and poor, holding resources in wealthy communities and keeping low - income students from accessing broader opportunities.

The campaign is designed to facilitate deliberate conversations and strong, meaningful actions on the efforts to bolster our schools to best support the students they serve.

It also incorporates design elements recommended by a School Safety Infrastructure Commission created by the Connecticut legislature after the Sandy Hook shootings to develop guidelines for bolstering school security.

In this episode, we see Paul Vallas struggle to bolster schools and student achievement with radical plans.

While California, thanks to wakeup calls in 1906 and 1933, has pushed to bolster schools and other vital structures, there, too, experts say, there are gaps, particularly in poorer school districts.

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Tutoring has become a prime method for bolstering traditional learning... it is filling a need and offering services that parents feel schools are no longer able to provide.

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, discusses the need for states to bolster education spending and fund the American school system.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

The paradigm of Emmaus is so significant in this matter but often misused by catechists schooled in the approach of Our Faith Story to bolster up a false approach to catechetics and religious education.

I love that they pledge a portion of their yearly profits to global programs that bolster education programs for children, build schools, and provide clothes and food to those in need.

He brought in his best class to date in 2017, a 30 - man class bolstered by 5 - star recruits Donovan Peoples - Jones from Cass Tech in Detroit and Aubrey Solomon from Lee County High School in Leesburg, Ga., good for fifth overall in the recruiting rankings.

TLT: In the section on School Food Finance (or elsewhere) do you address how schools might get outside funding to bolster their programs?

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that over 95 percent of districts are now meeting the standards, which sounds like a resounding success, but to bolster its own campaign to roll back reforms, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has tended to emphasize all the obstacles districts reportedly face, from lost revenue to increased food waste.

But to the extent one can rely on the impressions of school food directors (as opposed to actual measurement), the KSHFP survey bolsters the SNA's position: More than half of the directors surveyed reported increased plate waste for fruits, and 75 percent said that the amount of vegetable waste had increased.

Kate: I agree there's an age at which we can expect kids to exercise their own judgment, bolstered by messages at home, though I still object at any grade level to the infiltration in schools of Big Food corporate interests, the sale of junk by the school itself, etc..

The lawmakers also want Veneman to support legislation that would bolster the safety of school meals by requiring mandatory recalls by USDA and swifter notification to schools by state officials, who administer the program.

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L.A. Unified to ban the purchase of chicken raised with antibiotics Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times Aiming to bolster student health, Los Angeles Unified and five other major urban school districts announced plans Tuesday to ban the purchase of chickens that have been raised with antibiotics.

Referendum proposals seeking property tax increases to bolster sagging school, library, municipal and park district budgets will be on the Nov. 4 ballot in more than two dozen towns, villages and cities throughout Will and southern Cook Counties.

Sen. Dick Durbin will introduce a package of legislative reforms Tuesday designed to bolster the safety of school meals by requiring more stringent tests for disease - causing organisms and by giving school authorities more information about the safety records of food suppliers.

A positive and supportive school culture will bolster academic achievement and minimize behavioral problems.

This huge outpouring of grassroots support bolstered efforts in Congress — led by Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D - CT) and Chellie Pingree (D - ME)-- to get language into the 2015 omnibus spending bill keeping Chinese - processed chicken out of school food and other child nutrition programs.