Sentences with phrase «by arming students»

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When pressed about arming school staff, the training involved, and opposition by some students, DeVos walked away from the podium and ended the press conference without answering.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

Protect the country by serving in the armed forces and get help repaying your student loans.

Passion is a worship collective that serves as the musical arm of the wildly popular Passion movement, a series of global conferences led by Atlanta's Passion City Church pastor Louie Giglio that brings together 20 - somethings and college students, united with the mission of «worship, prayer and justice for spiritual awakening in this generation.»

A Brazilian architectural student whose arm and leg were severed by a Brooklyn subway train is now seeking to shame the MTA into installing straphanger - saving barriers.

Students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday took to the streets of the state capital over the attack on their hostel by armed robbers.

SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a.38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

The National Union of Benue State Students on Thursday, thronged the major streets of Makurdi, the state capital to express their outrage over the killing of one of their colleagues by armed herdsmen last weekend.

The insecurity is being fueled by youth employment and the so - called leaders are still think of policies that will send some students back home to HOPELESSNESS an surely armed robbery, terrorism, scams.

The workshop, held 3 to 4 October, attracted two dozen nuclear arms and security experts from government and diplomacy, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations for off - the - record discussions, followed by a presentation for about 150 Georgia Tech students and faculty members.

One of Oden's student groups began working on designing a non-electric wheelchair that could be propelled by a young man who had limited use of his arms.

The new paper, led by Steward astronomy graduate student Kevin Wagner, settles the question of the origin of the enigmatic spiral arms.

This rare two - armed spiral structure was discovered by Kevin — as a first - year graduate student — back in 2015 (and covered in a popular press release) using the SPHERE extreme adaptive optics system on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, in observations carried out in our Scorpion Survey.

EOS talk: «Extreme - AO Imaging of Disks around Intermediate - Mass Stars: Discovery of a Two - Armed Spiral Disk and a Warped Edge - on Debris Disk» by Kevin Wagner, grad student, Steward Observatory

Willie Soon continues to attend industry - funded climate denier events and detests questions that highlight the dirty energy companies funding his work: watch Dr. Soon shout at a student asking critical questions last April, at events run by the campus arm of CFACT, a well known climate denial organization.

Often students are trying for height and only using their arms which is then followed by hanging in their shoulders.

When I assist a student with this pattern, I do so by sitting behind her, holding her arms and gently pressing my foot into the dull midback to make the circular spinal movement from Upward Thunderbolt to Camel Pose more conscious.

By then, the students are so tired and shaky they can barely hold their arms up to complete a solid rep.

Advanced students can get a better sense of how to work the arms in this pose by using a block.

This series brings in some very difficult arm balances and should only be attempted by the most advanced students!

The tote bags are adored by students while the Vanessa Bruno shoulder bags can be found over the arms of Parisian fashionistas.

But when Rowley breaks his arm in an accident (caused by Greg), it is the injured boy who gets attention from sympathetic female students and is invited to sit at their table in the cafeteria.

students attach thick glow sticks to their catapults» arms, ready to launch them at targets marked by glowing hula hoops on the field.

«Data such as this is vital in arming students with the necessary information on the performance of institutions and how courses are viewed by prospective employers to help them make more informed choices on what career paths to follow,» he said.

The report by Congress» investigative arm, «School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs,» focuses on 78 such programs operating around the country that together serve 46,000 students and provide $ 60 million in tuition assistance.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — An analysis of a new report by a committee of the National Research Council (NRC), the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that average student gains from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test - based accountability measures would yield, over the next 80 years, a national economic benefit of approximately $ 14 trillion.

Computer desks should be deep enough so that the computer screen can be positioned about an arm's length from the student; wide enough to allow the keyboard and mouse to sit side - by - side; and high enough that the student can sit comfortably with unrestricted leg movement.

Let me start out by assuring readers that I'm not suggesting it takes a magical coat of arms to survive life on a predominantly white campus if you're a student of color.

From fall 2001 to fall 2003, the enrollment at private schools dropped by 218,741 students, or 4 percent, according to the center, an arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

By requiring students to take at least two credits online to graduate, Idaho is arming its kids with the knowledge and skills they will need to thrive in our increasingly digital world.

Funding allocated by the U.S. armed forces to support high school students in the Junior Reserve Officers» Training Corps is money well - spent and should be increased, an independent study released last week says.

The meeting — believed by its sponsors to be the first of its kind held in the nation — was convened to help teachers examine their «role and responsibility» in making students aware of the dangers and implications of the nuclear - arms race.

I will usually lead with a rhythm, using a plastic cup or my body, and students will mimic me by drumming the pattern on their legs and arms.

VTTs are in use by all arms of the UK, US, and Canadian militaries and have been found to accelerate training by as much as 60 percent, improve student test scores, and reduce failure rates, while also offering significant cost savings.

By nearly all accounts, the administrators, teachers, and students at Sandy Hook elementary did everything right Friday — and long before that day — when a young man armed with powerful weapons blasted his way into the school with gunfire.

Students and teachers stand up straight, let their arms hang by their sides, pretend the only way to breathe is through the soles of the feet, and take deep breaths.

And Michigan Virtual University, through its research arm the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute ™, is providing perhaps the single best data set of online courses being taken by students in any state.

At least 200 students were in the gym of the 1,100 - student John McDonogh High School shortly after 10:30 a.m. on April 14, local police said, when four young men armed with an AK - 47 semiautomatic rifle and two handguns unleashed a hail of bullets at 15 - year - old Jonathan A. Williams, who was sitting on the bleachers surrounded by other students.

Mulholland Robotics STEAM Magnet is the first in LAUSD, and has drawn nearly 200 students taught by a half - dozen science and math teachers armed with more than 300 small wheeled robots.

Instead of placing an armed School Resource Officer in every New York City school, take action now and urge Governor Cuomo and state legislators to invest in delivering proven, evidence - based mental health services to our students by opposing S. 6798!

Years of research and work in the field have shown him time and again that teachers don't cause student achievement — students do, when armed with the right learning behaviors taught and modeled by others.

Armed law enforcement officers are not educators, social workers, or counselors, and overwhelming evidence shows that when schools involve law enforcement in minor, non-violent behavioral infractions, students of color are disproportionately impacted.1 In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school coustudents of color are disproportionately impacted.1 In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school couStudents, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

Reformers and charter school supporters, including the political arm of the California Charter Schools Association and LA Students for Change, a group funded by former Mayor Richard Riordan, have spent about $ 3.3 million through their groups.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

One district deeply riven by the impact of efforts to dismantle public education is the Spooner Area School District in northwest Wisconsin, where parents, teachers and students have been up in arms over staff cuts, increasing class sizes and other indignities.

By learning the Reading Horizons methodology, every student is armed with strategies that prepare him or her for future success in reading and education.

And that's why the National Disability Rights Network, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and Association of University Centers on Disabilities linked arms with the nation's major civil rights groups to demand that the new version of NCLB, the Every Student Succeeds Act, include annual standardized assessments to measure student progress and that state compliance be overseen by the strong arm of the U.S. Department of EduStudent Succeeds Act, include annual standardized assessments to measure student progress and that state compliance be overseen by the strong arm of the U.S. Department of Edustudent progress and that state compliance be overseen by the strong arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

Lowering class size is one of only four strategies proven by the federal education department's research arm to improve student achievement, a list that does NOT include school closings, wholesale staff firings, turnarounds, or conversion to charter schools.

Race to the Top states are having differing degrees of success with what has turned out to be one of the toughest tasks required by the Obama administration's marquee competitive - grant program: crafting new teacher evaluations that take student performance into account, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office, Congress» investigative arm.

Arming educators also could result in accidents or tragic mistakes driven by implicit bias, more likely to impact students of color.