Sentences with phrase «boycott schools»

Almost a quarter of pupils in boycott schools received the top grade (22 per cent) compared with around 10 per cent in schools taking the tests.

In my view, boycotting school only makes the situation worse.

Intrepid school food reformer Dana Woldow actually took the time to get statistics on some of the schools reportedly boycotting school food.

The students are now trying to take their protest district - wide, asking students from around Chicago to boycott school lunch tomorrow, December 17th.

As for boycotting the school lunch, if you have the means to do that, you probably aren't eating free school lunch anyhow.

Wow, if the parents were bringing in fast food lunches for student's boycotting the school lunch, that speaks loud and clear about the level of the parents food - education.

Award - winning author, Phillip Pullman called the database «corrosive to healthy social interaction» and has threatened to boycott his school visits in protest.

With the white students and community ready to boycott the school, Boone concentrates on teaching his students something far more important than throwing a nice spiral.

In South Africa, where I had the chance to work in the early 1990s, black students who had not received their textbooks boycotted their schools.

By the same token, opponents of the reforms need to stop engaging in destructive activities (like encouraging students to boycott school, allowing vicious personal attacks, or distributing knowingly inaccurate copies of the collective - bargaining agreement to foment dissent).

On October 22, 1963, 250,000 CPS students boycotted school and thousands marched downtown.

Alana Matheson always tries to do the right thing for the environment, even when it means boycotting school meatball -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

The boycott of the National Rifle Association following its response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, came fast and furious.

David Hogg, one of the Florida school massacre survivors, is asking his 599,000 Twitter followers to boycott advertisers of Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

FedEx Corp. is maintaining discounts for members of the National Rifle Association, even as calls for a boycott mount on social media after a deadly school shooting in Florida.

The primary reason is, of all things, a commercial boycott, spearheaded by the student survivors of the recent Florida school massacre, and their supporters.

Immigrants — namely in Washington, Austin, and Philadelphia, among others — are planning to stay home Thursday, boycotting their jobs, businesses, and even refusing to send their children to school, the Washington Post reports.

Florida high school massacre survivor David Hogg, who along with some of his fellow teens have turned into fierce gun - control advocates, is asking his nearly 600,000 Twitter followers to boycott advertisers of Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Now, the survivors of the Florida school shooting are taking a stand against gun violence in a big way — and their efforts have spawned a boycott of the NRA.

NBC's «Saturday Night Live» poked fun at the recent advertiser boycott of Fox News host Laura Ingraham led by Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg.

«The only way the boycott will be effective is if it creates enough reputational damage that regulation becomes a reasonable option or if advertisers leave en masse,» says Brayden King, a professor at the Northwestern Kellogg School of Management who studies how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility and policymaking.

That consumer revolt underscored what Uber and other businesses face in a «polarizing time,» when people are sensitive to the «political leanings» of companies» actions and are willing to boycott their products and services, says Evan Rawley, an associate business professor at Columbia Business School.

Parkland, Florida, school - shooting survivor David Hogg was able to get about a dozen advertisers to boycott «The Ingraham Angle» last week after host Laura Ingraham tweeted that he had «whined» about not getting into the colleges of his choice.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.

Nearly half the student body boycotted the first day of classes, and the school received bomb threats.

The way the school handled Eustachy's dismissal led players to boycott practice because they had to find out the news on Twitter.

Fleck's successor, Tracy Claeys, lost his job after publicly backing a threatened player boycott over the school's handling of a sexual assault case involving several players.

They call for boycotting the cafeteria, or bringing in food trucks to sell to students out in front of the school in competition with the cafeterias, or even demanding that local restaurants be allowed in to provide catering directly from the cafeteria kitchen.

A few weeks ago I posted twice (here and here) about a school food boycott at Milby, a high school serving a relatively underprivileged Hispanic population in east Houston.

As an Australian who's known about and participated in the boycott since school, this was what surprised me the most - that people just didn't know.

She asked what might happen if parents organized a boycott of objectionable meals and, for example, sent all their kids to school with a sack lunch on the day «Brunch for Lunch» was served.

A lot of you saw this Saturday's front page story in the New York Times describing how students around the country are complaining about, and even boycotting, the new school food.

The Parsippany Hills, NJ high school mentioned in the Times report, at which school food is being boycotted, has about 1,100 kids, 5 % of whom — or 60 students — qualify for free and reduced lunch.

Last week, Eng updated the story, reporting that the Roosevelt students staged an impressive boycott in which over 900 kids spurned school lunch, instead eating granola, fruit and yogurt provided by outside supporters of their efforts.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

The Chicago School Food Boycott: My Thoughts In this post, published just three weeks ago, I told you how some kids at Roosevelt High in Chicago have said «enough is enough» to what they believe is terrible schoolSchool Food Boycott: My Thoughts In this post, published just three weeks ago, I told you how some kids at Roosevelt High in Chicago have said «enough is enough» to what they believe is terrible schoolschool food.

To send a message to lawmakers, Recipe for Success founder Gracie Cavnar is calling for a national boycott of the school lunch program.

Gracie and I clearly support the same goals — improved school food and the elimination of junk food on campuses — and if the boycott she proposes brings about change, that's a result we'd all welcome.

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Gracie's guest post appears here, and tomorrow I'll post my own thoughts about boycotts versus participation in the school lunch program: is it better to starve the beast, or feed it?

Yesterday I told you about a high school student, Hector Sanchez, who led a four - day boycott of school food at Milby, an almost 100 % Hispanic, relatively underprivileged high school in east Houston.

-LSB-...] I told you about a high school student, Hector Sanchez, who led a four - day boycott of school food at Milby, an almost 100 % Hispanic, relatively underprivileged high school in east -LSB-...]

While Sanchez has no firm figures regarding the boycott, he said that a cafeteria worker did tell him that there were far fewer students eating the school meal than normal.

She was interested to hear about my blog because, according to her, the students at Milby are so unhappy with HISD school food that they had planned a boycott for this week.

So when administrators announced last month that the cafeteria would stop accepting cash and required the use of a school - issued debit card that charges a 10 percent usage fee, hundreds of students staged a lunch boycott at both Minooka high school campuses.

In the spring, high school students in south suburban Minooka staged a cafeteria boycott to protest, among other things, the limited healthy food options.

At the briefing event, Rosie Boycott, Chair of the London Food Board, stood side by side with Matthew Patten, Chief Executive of the Mayor's Fund for London, along with Myles Bremner, Director for the School Food Plan, and representatives from across the GLA.

Chartwells has encountered problems in other parts of the country, including a well - publicized student boycott at a Connecticut high school last fall over the quality of the food the company provided.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.