Sentences with phrase «by parents at the school»

Moskowitz is something of a controversial figure, both loved (by parents at her schools and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein) and loathed (the UFT, State Senator Bill Perkins).

The plan was announced Tuesday by parents at the school, the Partnership and LA Unified in a district press release, which said LA Unified and the Partnership signed a five - year Memorandum of Understanding for the organization to manage the school, starting with the upcoming school year.

Not exact matches

Several students and parents affected by school shootings including last week's massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, attended a listening session with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.

Old and new sit comfortably side by side in Querétaro: when parents pick up their kids when school's over, at 1:30 p.m., they'll also pick up freshly made tortillas for comida, the afternoon meal.

Mayer left school at the age of 12 and stepped into the role of breadwinner at a young age, supporting his parents and four siblings by, among other things, collecting heavy scrap metal for resale during brutally cold Canadian winters in New Brunswick.

So now it's 2015, I'm 4 months from graduating college, I'm making 70k as a project manager (been working here for 2 months), putting 10 % of my income into my 401k (currently valued at 10k, & 50 % is matched by my employer, i'm at their max for matching), living at home with my parents, I have 3k in CD's, $ 26k in savings, and have no debt whatsoever (paying $ 8k per year for school in cash, so no student loans).

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.

Trump responded to the series of emotional stories from the survivors and parents of victims from the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by pledging to get to work on school shootings «two minutes» after the listening seSchool by pledging to get to work on school shootings «two minutes» after the listening seschool shootings «two minutes» after the listening session.

Ms. Sanders told reporters on Tuesday that the session on Wednesday will include students and parents from the Florida school as well as people affected by school shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, school as well as people affected by school shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, school shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, School in Colorado and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, School in Newtown, Conn..

Along with the rainbow in the sky Monday morning, teachers heading into work to prepare for Wednesday were greeted at the school's entrance by parents and members of the Parkland community showing their support with signs.

In addition to improving their quality of life by achieving work - life balance, 93 percent of working parents say that having a flexible work arrangement would increase their volunteerism at their children's schools or organized activities.

Avoiding these questions by smugly announcing that we don't need schools and that parents can teach their own children at home simply won't do.

Jewish and Muslim students at my school always were pulled from class by their parents, therefore receiving extra days off.

For while school bells ring throughout An American Childhood, neither classes nor teachers are memorable — except, that is, for the informal instruction in joke - telling offered at home by both parents.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

And the children, when they climbed down from the trees and hurried home, were ordered by their frightened parents never to speak of what they had seen — at school, with friends, in shops, anywhere.

Since 1960, new curriculum intended to reinforce Sunday School lessons by asking parents to teach their children at home, has been introduced by several main - line denominations.

An innovative school program carried out at a mental health center in New York uses parent - tutors to assist in remedial reading, which often is needed by children showing maladaptive behavior.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

As early as World War II, the political leaders of the Free French forces had known that France would have to face up to the question of whether it was going to allow the decline of a system of schools preferred by the parents of one - sixth of all French pupils, or whether it was going to accept the hazards of open political discussion aimed at developing a new and creative solution.

If you are living with your parents, some lenders accept a letter from your parents explaining the details of your situation (for example, you are going through school and reducing expenses by living at home) and vouching for your character.

But some of the parents, survivors and others affected by the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were more interested in firm action to prevent future assaults than a presidential visit.

We were on a date, and meeting young women at their dormitories in a common lounge overseen by a house mother was a reasonable extension of dating in high school and picking a girl up at her parents» home.

Schools, clubs, churches, and other organizations can raise money by purchasing gift cards and then selling them at face value to parents and other supporters.

After watching Maura play at Miami Christian High School that weekend, Alvarez convinced his parents to stay longer for a tournament the following week in Las Vegas, where K.J. would be seen by at least 100 college basketball coaches from around the country.

By the time he was 14 Tanner was an elite competitive moguls skier, and his parents enrolled him at The Winter Sports School in Park City, Utah, where he could train with an eye to making the Olympic team.

But what the research I've described here makes clear is that intervening in the lives of disadvantaged children — by educating them better in school, helping their parents support them better at home, or, ideally, some combination of the two — is the most effective and promising anti-poverty strategy we have.

Colonial Day at my 4th grader's school required a period character costume, researched and selected by the students four weeks in advance and was specifically billed as «student - driven, parent - enabled.»

In a similar way Getting to Know Your Baby, a website and app developed by the Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit (WIFWU) at Warwick University Medical School, presents an old - fashioned view of parenting in which only mums matter.

By contrast, public schools athletes and parents seem to be a lot more willing to complain about a coach unlike a coach at a private school.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

«This document outlines essential elements that should be recognized by the athletes themselves, along with their parents, school and sports officials, and policymakers at all levels.»

Just ask the parents of an Edgewater, Florida, first grader whose life - threatening peanut allergies recently put her at the center of protests by other parents who wanted the child to be home schooled so that their children wouldn't be inconvenienced by taking extra safety precautions.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

The result of all this hypocrisy is «stealth parenting» by fathers with any ambitions at work, who lie about «breakfast meetings» when they take their children to school and «client appointments» when they sneak out to look after a sick child.

It outlines essential elements that should be recognized by the athletes themselves, along with their parents, school and sports officials and policymakers at all levels.

of parents of children age 12 to 17 years playing school sports reported a surprising lack of knowledge by parents of concussion risks, although six in ten were at least somewhat worried their children will suffer a concussion while playing school sports.

A survey by C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the University of Michigan of parents of children age 12 to 17 years playing school sports reported a surprising lack of knowledge by parents of concussion risks, although six in ten were at least somewhat worried their children will suffer a concussion while playing school sports.

In an interview, CPS parent Joy Mollet said she was appalled by the classroom breakfast program offered by her children's public preschool and does not want to see it at their grade school, Hawthorne Scholastic Academy.

Even the parents were amazed by what their children were eating at school, many observing in disbelief how their children's health slowly started to improve alongside their diets.

And then, I got reminded by many friends and other parents around the school that this was not at all a given for many parents.

Another notable feature in both the proposed and final rules — one likely to be of special interest to elementary school parents — is a requirement that wellness policies set nutritional standards for foods and beverages that aren't sold but instead made available to children at school, such as offerings at classroom parties or treats given out by teachers as a reward.

Home schooled children get a lot of one - on - one communication time with at least one adult, with the parent that is teaching them (it has been pointed out by John Holt, that most children in schools don't even get 15 minutes of direct one - on - one teaching time per week).

Then there's «Mrs. C» (whose real name is being withheld to protect her from being attacked by a mob of angry moms), publicly labeled a «helicopter parent» at her then 3 - year - old's preschool after she grumbled about a school gardening project that involved filling flower pots with crushed Oreos and gummy worms.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Children raised by married parents do better at school, develop stronger cognitive and non-cognitive skills, are more likely to go to college, earn more, and are more likely to go on to form stable marriages themselves.

As the mother of a child with severe allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21).

Parents of gifted children are invited to a free presentation, «How to Get Your Gifted Child Organized,» by Michelle Navarro, counselor of gifted children at Access to Psychological Services in Long Grove, at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Hasz Hall at St. Paul School, 18 S. School St.. The meeting is sponsored by Supporters and Advocates of Gifted Education, and the public is welcome.

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.