Sentences with phrase «changes to school safety»

Gov. Rick Scott signed into law sweeping changes to school safety and gun access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Nineteen districts made changes to their school safety plans, including Los Angeles Unified, which set up a plan to have police officers and other law enforcement personnel to visit every elementary school or middle school every day.

Gov. Rick Scott signed into law sweeping changes to school safety and gun access on Friday — a measure crafted in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Not exact matches

Since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, governments and businesses have made changes to gun and safety policies in response.

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Friday that he had signed the school safety bill that makes significant changes to gun laws, school security, and funding for mental health treatment.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Building on reporting for his magazine, the author interviewed economists, psychologists and neuroscientists, examined their recent research, and talked to students, teachers and principals to produce this fascinating overview of a new approach with «the potential to change how we raise our children, how we run our schools, and how we construct our social safety net.»

The multifaceted approach was introduced last month during Picente's State of the County Address, and the action taken today will help to improve safety in local schools and within the community through funding and departmental changes within Oneida County government.

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In Tallahassee, they hope to talk to legislators about school safety and gun control on Wednesday, determined to ensure that the deaths of their 17 classmates and teachers last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland bring about cschool safety and gun control on Wednesday, determined to ensure that the deaths of their 17 classmates and teachers last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland bring about cSchool in Parkland bring about change.

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Boulevard to school safety projects, to simplifying the entrance to Harlem River Park, Harlem has seen some of the most extensive and innovative safety changes ever brought to New York City's streets,» Solomonow said in a statement.

According to a statement released by the NUT, the NUT and FBU have been pressing the government since last year to reverse its proposed changes to fire safety requirements for school buildings which «show a total disregard for the health and safety of children and staff».

«The government - now more than ever - needs to make assurances that they will prioritise the health and safety of pupils and staff in school buildings and implement the changes required to keep them safe.»

No one size fits all The landscape for health and safety regulations in the workplace has not vastly changed for some time but the HSE's website is a good place to start if you need a reminder or guidance on what your school's requirements are for first aid at work.

Given that school budget cuts, coach costs, changes in the curriculum cycle, staff cover, and health and safety legislation are largely beyond the control of out - of - the - classroom attractions, what exactly can be done to make school trips as painless and pleasurable as possible for those who want to undertake them?

But the National PTA thinks the change could pose a safety threat for children traveling to school.

Health and safety Of course, hand in hand with any physical and cultural changes in a school's approach to play comes the need to ensure that all children are kept safe from serious harm when they are playing.

Or Chicago, where a 2015 study found that changes to its discipline code were associated with a decline in student and teacher perceptions of school safety.

School safety experts warn against making major changes to security procedures without thinking those changes through.

Hot on the heels of the Centre for Policy's report on the UK's litigious culture curbing educational trips, October will see teachers and adventurers, travel, legal and safety experts congregate at the annual Stretching Horizons» conference to discuss some of the ways schools can enrich education, mitigate risk and raise funds for educational journeys with a view to changing lives.

In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

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In the midst of change, RoSPA has compiled the information on this website to help schools and colleges understand the importance of managing health and safety in a proportional and planned way.

Finally, I provide the first evidence on how charter school entry may be related to changes in teacher perceptions of practices at district schools along five indexes: academic expectations, communication, engagement, school respect and discipline, and school safety.

What may result are decisions as obvious as expanding the presence of teachers and other adults to monitor hallways, restrooms, and stairwells during class changes, a simple step that can have a greater day - to - day impact on safety than anything else school leaders do.

The Jesse Lewis Choose Love MovementTM collaborates with professional educators to bring lasting meaning to Jesse's murder by developing school - based educational programs to change our current culture of violence to one of safety, peace and love for everyone in our world.

The staff's expectations and modeling of appropriate behavior and other good citizenship practices encouraged students to help promote school safety, which authentically contributed to changing students» perspectives from one of «ratting out» their friends to one of civic responsibility to their school.

«The tragedies in Marshall County and Parkland have awakened us to the fact that when it comes to school safety, the status quo is unacceptable, and we have to be the change we want to see,» said Student Voice Team member and high school senior, Amanda Byerman.

To start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislatioTo start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislatioto Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislatioto raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislation.

In addition, he will review the new school safety measures required by Act 143 with a particular emphasis on the changes needed to school safety plans and staff training that school boards will need to implement.

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

Other notable education bills signed into law related to changes to excess credit hour surcharges, postsecondary fee waivers, and school safety.

In February, Principal Sean Storch told a school community meeting school district officials were making safety changes in response to the incidents.

Frontier and Rickabaugh use an extended analogy of a traffic safety director trying (ineffectively) various reforms to improve road safety statistics to demonstrate how many reform efforts only maintain the status quo or bring transactional change (in which incentives drive change), rather than the transformational change many schools need.

While it is extremely important to learn from modern acts of school violence, we often see that the fundamental lessons in improving safety have not changed much since the 1800s.

«They focus on supporting and expanding behavioral and mental health staff, changing school climate and culture and developing safety plans and procedures to enhance learning environment safety.»

The plan will allow schools to apply for grant money to be used to make physical changes to their buildings, hire additional staff or train existing staff to improve school safety.

Several systemwide initiatives are underway to work in concert with the school - specific changes to enhance safety and security.

These changes were possible because of some additional staffing that was worked out with the other schools in the district, and have had good results so far, both in terms of strengthening our school community (improving the way students treat each other and giving us a forum to strengthen students» sense of belonging and safety), as well as strengthening academics.

The Grenadian - German Programme «Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies» (ICCAS) introduced the toolkit to 49 primary schools in the small island state and is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

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Ian McIntosh, CEO of RED Driving School highlights: «RED Driving School supports the DVSA's move to change the driving test and any other future initiatives that improve road safety.

Involving himself in this conversation in the past, with a view to effecting positive change outside of the world of RED Driving School, last year Ian joined the inGenie's road safety conference, where road safety experts and campaigners gathered to discuss what could be done to improve younger driver's road safety.

More than 1 million people are expected to attend the March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. hoping for changes to gun regulations and school safety.

In Tallahassee, they hope to talk to legislators about school safety and gun control on Wednesday, determined to ensure that the deaths of their 17 classmates and teachers last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland bring about cschool safety and gun control on Wednesday, determined to ensure that the deaths of their 17 classmates and teachers last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland bring about cSchool in Parkland bring about change.

It brought renewed urgency to the national debate over school safety, with young survivors tearfully calling for changes to gun laws, students walking out of classrooms to protest gun violence, and President Donald Trump urging schools to arm their teachers.