Sentences with phrase «by school custodians»

It's a place of joy, often filled not only with children reading books but also with balloons and pillows and even a «Reading Rainboat» salvaged from a local reservoir, lovingly restored by school custodians.

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There are more groups participating in the conversation than ever before: school food professionals, administrators, teachers, custodians, and parents, are being joined by politicians, the media, and many health organizations.

By declaring his stake in the BIC program, Leggett's principal helped secure buy - in among other parties — teachers, custodians, school nutrition staff — in the early stages of planning.

More than 10,000 city school employees, from custodians to principals, and about half of them teachers, were assaulted or threatened by students last school year, The Post has learned.

Such personal reflections are woven throughout «Newtown,» including interviews with ordinary citizens like Father Bob Weiss, who buried eight children following the tragedy, and Rick Thorne, the school's custodian, who has been hailed by some as a hero for making three calls to 911 and keeping police on the phone for 10 minutes while confronting the shooter.

The observations of the school custodian and her imagined involvement with a cleaning supply salesman were totally believable, especially because of her clean obsession and the fact that Frank could provide every recyclable anti-bacterial detergent... Esthetics and Tragedy go hand in hand... a wonderful and surprising ending... and my 2 pre-teen daughters were inspired in many ways... it is directed by a young woman, Amy Redford, (daughter of...!)

If you combine the campaign spending of all those entities it does not match the amount spent by the National Education Association, the public - sector labor union that represents some 2.3 million K — 12 public school teachers and nearly a million education support workers (bus drivers, custodians, food service employees), retirees, and college student members.

Likewise, school workers (custodians, teachers, counselors, and even principals) have learned to accept facilities, schedules, curricula, student activities, auxiliary services, disciplinary rules, and tests mandated by the central office or the state.

That program began by using test scores to evaluate students, schools and educators (and, for a time, custodians and every other adult in a school building), and included a groundbreaking performance pay system paid for by philanthropists, the spread of charter schools and vouchers, and a chronic churn in teachers and principals that Rhee saw as healthy (even though research shows children, especially from low - income families, need stability).

Via KPCC By Annie Gilbertson The union representing Los Angeles school employees — cafeteria workers, custodians, teachers» assistants and others — is launching a pilot program to help students at four schools get access to counseling and health care.

Based on empirical evidence to date, there is a remarkable rate of abuse of U.S. schoolchildren by school personnel (e.g., teachers, coaches, bus drivers, administrators, custodians).

«Breaking Study Island News» announcements of scoreboard leaders made by the principal; and even a pizza party donated by the school's custodian.

When Michelle Rhee was chancellor of D.C. public schools (2007 - 10), she was so enamored with using student test scores to evaluate adults that she implemented a system in which all adults in a school building, including the custodians, were in part evaluated by test scores.

I saw urban poor kids who were coming to school early and staying late to care for and measure the brown trout fingerlings they were raising in an aquarium in a Brooklyn classroom kept chilled with an improvised cooling system made of an old refrigerator by a custodian.

The court considers all relevant factors including the wishes of the child's parents, the wishes of the child, the relationship of the child with the parents, siblings, and any other person who significantly affects the child's best interest, the child's adjustment to home, school, and community, the mental and physical health of everyone, any physical violence by the child's potential custodian, whether directed at the child or at another person, episodes of repeated abuse whether directed at the child or directed at another person, and the willingness and ability of each parent to encourage a close relationship between the other parent and the child.