Sentences with phrase «by arming teachers»

After Parkland, there have been many calls to make schools a «harder target» — for example, by arming teachers.

CPD not only improves the quality of provision by arming teachers with the knowledge, expertise and skills to develop their own provisions and become effective» teachers of SEND», but also supports those professionals who need to extend their abilities to become the adaptive, flexible thinkers that schools and their pupils need.

However, if you slaughter your family and then take your guns to the nearest school and murder children you can expect a violent reaction from armed police so I don't think they would be deterred by an armed teacher or two.

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DeVos avoided questions about arming teachers by walking off the stage and ending her press conference.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

A plan put forth by the White House Sunday supports arming teachers, banning bump stocks, and strengthening background checks, but it does not propose raising the age to buy guns to 21 — something the president previously suggested but that the National Rifle Association strongly opposes.

Included in the proposals is a contentious, $ 67 million voluntary program to arm school staff, including teachers, trained by law enforcement to carry concealed weapons on campus.

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.

But federal lawmakers have taken limited action, and President Trump quickly abandoned a promise to pursue gun control measures, instead promoting proposals backed by the National Rifle Association to arm teachers.

Stacey Lynn Lippel, 50, a language arts teacher, was grazed in the arm by a bullet inside the 1200 building.

While applauding teachers for doing everything that they could, LaPierre asked audiences to imagine how things might have gone differently if the school had been policed by armed personnel.

You can be proactive by arming your child with knowledge on how to deal with a bully, and when to report a problem to a teacher, you or another elder — and when to let something slide.

A tweet sent by Trump in 2016 in which he denied wanting guns «brought into the school classroom» has resurfaced after a White House conversation about arming teachers as a way of stopping school shootings.

The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by a gunman armed with an AR - 15 style assault rifle has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by President Donald Trump and others to designate more people — including trained teachers — to carry arms on school grounds.

Most of the proposals being put forth by Trump and the NRA, such as arming school teachers, are meant only to deflect attention from the real problem: we allow dangerous people to own guns.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo mocked the idea of arming teachers in schools on Thursday, calling the proposal raised by President Donald Trump and others as «bizarre» and «ludicrous.»

Candidates were asked about specific legislation they would endorse to curb gun violence and if they supported arming teachers, proposals floated by Trump and the NRA since a massacre at Florida high school killed 17 in February.

Now, [she] is trying to take away local control from our school communities by advocating to arm teachers.»

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses President Trump's calls for arming trained teachers as part of an effort to fortify schools against shootings, comments by the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre and new unsealed charges against President Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort.

In a filing obtained by The Post, GOP chair Ed Cox charged that NYSUT, the state's largest teachers» union, and its campaign arms have exceeded contribution limits to state Senate Democrats and also share staff, which violates the law.

The issue is at something of an impasse: Republican - backed efforts to provide armed personnel in schools has been staunchly opposed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie as is the New York State United Teachers union.

Many of the families affected by these changes are those who are in work - 300,000 nurses and midwives, 150,000 primary school teachers and 40,000 armed forces personnel.

«While by 11 points Republicans support allowing teachers to be armed, Democrats, independents and downstaters overwhelmingly oppose it, as do a majority of upstaters and a narrow majority of gun owners,» Greenberg said.

«While by 11 points Republicans support allowing teachers to be armed, Democrats, independents and downstaters overwhelmingly oppose it, as do a majority of upstaters and a narrow majority of gun owners.»

Scott Levenson's The Advance Group played both sides of the fence by advising the political arm of the United Federation of Teachers and the anti-horse carriage group, New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets, to influence contested city - wide and council races.

It was paid for by VOTE - COPE, the campaign arm of the New York State United Teachers, and sent to voters in the districts of Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti of Buffalo and Hudson Valley GOP candidates Sue Serino and Terrence Murphy.

One month ago today, our country was once again devastated by a senseless act of gun violence that has left the entire nation grieving the loss of innocent lives and thrown us into heated debates about constitutional rights, arming teachers, and mental illness and violence.

Surrounded by 50 other Kundalini teacher trainees, we had been holding our arms straight out, one palm up and the other down, for

Surrounded by 50 other Kundalini teacher trainees, we had been holding our arms straight out, one palm up and the other down, for about 7 minutes so far.

After a brief ellipsis in which he has taken her to the hospital, Ann returns in a wheelchair, debilitated by a stroke related to an obstruction in the carotid artery, with one arm paralyzed (a particularly cruel fate for a piano teacher, though the sadness of this fact is never spoken of, only reflective in Riva's eyes).

The story, for all its cruelty, doesn't skimp on humor or optimism, and when Marina isn't being assaulted by thugs and haters, she finds relief in the warmly supportive arms of people like her sister (Trinidad González) and music teacher (Sergio Hernandez).

More likely, the adolescent, hormonal fugue state of wanting to store Lea Thompson beneath a trap door in your room, wishing your teacher killed by invading forces, and arming oneself in preparation for the indiscriminate murder of dozens of incompetent foreign stooges proved too intoxicating a cocktail to resist.

The bill is opposed by the National Rifle Association because of limits on gun purchases and by some Democrats because it would arm teachers.

As with the armed forces (or even higher education), the answer, these leaders propose, is to supply sufficient teachers by supplementing a small, permanent...

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

The shortcomings of this study, the paucity of independent research on the National Board, and the large investments being made by states in rewarding National Board - certified teachers highlight the need for a rigorous and arm's - length cost - benefit study of National Board certification.

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.

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.

Although the concept of arming teachers has received more attention than other proposals, a plurality of the bills reviewed by Education Week would encourage or require school emergency planning: more drills, more types of drills, and more detailed and dynamic plans.

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.

These new systems, we're told by our erstwhile comrades - in - arms, have infuriated teachers, corrupted the formative nature of observations, and so much more.

The superintendent of Dade County, Fla., schools has put his principals and teachers on notice that those who are not performing up to standard this year may be removed by academic «swat teams» armed with the authority to take over deficient schools and develop improvement plans.

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.

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.

By January, armed with more data, Hardy and her teachers and coaches were really poring over the test results.

Armed with a mandate to foster excellence and equity, Klein prioritized four strategies: establish the Three C's (centralized control stripped of bureaucratic inefficiencies; a coherent citywide curriculum; and capacity - building for teachers), dramatically expand school choice, empower principals by coupling increased autonomy with strict accountability, and catalyze innovation.

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.

The mailer was funded by VOTE - COPE, the campaign arm of the New York State United Teachers, which is supporting a Democratic takeover of the Senate.

As a parent, it concerns me that you have required states to expand charter schools, increase standardized testing overall, tie teacher jobs to test scores, and turn around schools by firing half or more of the staff, when the overwhelming body of evidence — including that of the research arms of the federal government — is clear that these strategies do not improve academics overall and can have serious negative effects on children and their education.