Sentences with phrase «community schools across the country»

Today, there are over 5,000 community schools across the country!

We hope you will take to heart the lessons from community schools across the country that we profile in this report.

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(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

There exists a myriad of learning opportunities available to students outside of the regular school day, whether on campus, through local museums and science centers, or elsewhere in communities across the country.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Stigma against people with HIV / AIDS is pretty widespread» even children suffer it in schools across many countries» and faith communities are by no means alone in stigmatizing people.

That's a great distinction... I am part of a community who seeks to follow Christ; this community is both local, my friends at school and the church, and distant, my friends across the country and world; I interact with both to further my walk with God.

, in association with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is challenging school nutrition professionals, chefs, students, parents and interested community members to create tasty, healthy, exciting new recipes for inclusion on school lunch menus across the country.»

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is excited to be celebrating National Farm to School Month this October, paying homage to the hard work and dedication of food service professionals, farmers and educators across the country who are connecting their communities with fresh, healthy and local food.

From our School Beverage Guidelines commitment to our most recent commitment, the Balance Calories Initiative, we are doing the hard work to encourage real and sustainable change in communities across the country.

The idea quickly caught on within communities, schools and organizations across the country.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Our Google Alerts have been full of stories about schools across the country opting into the new Community Eligibility Provision.

Martin speaks on school lunch reform issues to parents, school communities, and educators across the country.

It has since grown into a collaborative effort of over 700 local and national organizations all working together to establish community and school gardens across the country.

Thanks to the commitment of teachers, principals, parents and community leaders, along with No Kid Hungry's national and local partners across the country, 3 million more kids are eating school breakfast since 2010.

It has taken root everywhere from community - based book clubs and school district professional development sessions across the country to the U.S. Department of Education.

Now, however, schools across the country (even those without activist parents or community members insisting on better food) will have the tools and — equally important — the financial support to re-imagine the meals they serve their students.

Over the past year, I have met with community leaders and stakeholders from across the country — parents and teachers, school board members and principals, suppliers and food service workers — about the importance of making sure every child in America has access to nutritious meals at school.

And schools across the country are making their kitchen facilities available to the public for activities that promote health and community engagement, such as cooking classes, business incubation, and food storage for after - school events.

What does this partnership mean for HUMAN franchisees across the country: 1) Franchisees provide AACS students / future professionals with convenient access to nutrition education and healthful food and beverage options, including hot meals 2) Franchisees have increased access to high - traffic AACS schools in their area 3) Franchisees have increased visibility and impact in their local communities

As has been chronicled by nutrition, hunger, medical, national security, education and community organizations across the country, the bill is harmful to children's health, heaps administrative costs on schools, and plans to bury parents in more bureaucratic red tape, all while subsidizing well - off children at the expense of our less fortunate kids who need help.

All week long, schools across the country will take this opportunity to thank the hardworking school nutrition professionals who work hard to make their kids, their schools, and their communities healthier.

On education, Akufo - Addo again referred to the 2012 NDC manifesto, which promised the construction of «two hundred (200) new Community Day Senior High Schools across the country» by the end of 2016.

(New York, NY)-- In response to brave gun violence prevention activism by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and from communities across the country, New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Chair of American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, released the following statement:

Government is also building and commissioning more Community Day Senior High schools, to increase access and to reduce imbalance in the provision of education across the country.This is the vision of the government; to transform Ghana into a leading education hub, for the West African Sub-region, and it was also building new universities, training colleges and vocational schools across the country.

He noted government was committed in developing the human resource base of the country through provision of educational infrastructure and the construction of Community Day Schools across the country...

«Again, funding has been secured for the expansion and upgrading of facilities in 75 Senior High Schools across the country, with construction works on the existing Community Day Schools ongoing.

Right across the country, these innovative community - led schools are helping to fulfil our One Nation commitment to educational excellence for every child.

The Community of Practice provides professional development opportunities for middle and high school teachers across the country to learn more about current heliophysics research and incorporate it into their classroom.

They've put together a toolkit that helps people either start or join a school garden, so really, this great program now can be taken into communities across the country.

Martin sums it up: «Community partners, other disciplines, sports, cooking — I wish schools across the country would use this program.»

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is excited to be celebrating National Farm to School Month this October, paying homage to the hard work and dedication of food service professionals, farmers and educators across the country who are connecting their communities with fresh, healthy and local food.

The students had just found out that they — like middle and high school students across the country, boosted by fundraising campaigns and the wise support of their principals, teachers, parents, and local community leaders — were taking a school trip to see Black Panther for free.

The 2018 Pre-Oscar Gala was held at Neuehouse, a venue that is both historic and green, to raise funds and awareness for Global Green's critical green urbanism and climate resiliency work to build healthy green schools, homes and communities in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Washington DC, and cities across the country.

Right across the country, these innovative, community led schools are helping to fulfil our «one nation» commitment to educational excellence for every child.

That's why we are continuing to develop partnerships with schools to improve community access to facilities across the country.»

This money is used to leverage partnership funding and deliver a programme of new and improved community sports facilities in towns and cities across the country that schools, football clubs and communities can benefit from.

This ambitious plan will replace older schools across the country with new, modern buildings that will bring benefits to the whole community.»

Addressing the Whole Child «Across the country, school districts are grappling with the question of how they can best fuse academic instruction and community services to address...

What Bates and many other arts - integrated schools across the country are showing is that by creating a richer, more memorable learning experience through the arts, they unleash not only a rising tide of academic achievement but they lay the foundation for what it means to be a truly creative community.

Unlike countries like Australia, which randomly supplies sample schools» results across all SES and communities, if one digs a little deeper you will find Shanghai supply generally their higher performing schools for comparison.

As school communities across the country commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) has produced a set of action steps aligned with his messages of justice and equity.

«This is an opportunity for tens of thousands of middle and high schools students, teachers, parents and community members across the country to begin or continue their involvement in youth activism,» said Doug Pietrzak, Ed.M.»

Across the country, students, teachers, principals, and staff members are helping each other make sense of the mix of raw emotions happening in communities, schools, and classrooms in the wake of the 2016 election.

Since the ASD launched three years ago, it has been touted by policymakers in Tennessee and across the country as a promising approach for states looking to improve their lowest - performing schools — and criticized by some local educators and communities for not showing results quickly enough.

I was able to travel across the U.S. and Canada meeting with school boards leaders, community organizations, foundations, and governments to collaborate on initiatives that fostered civic education, and was grateful to see the collective passion that educators across the country held for the success of students.

Backed up by solid evidence that the Partnership impacts positively on children's life chances, the partnership is now offering unique, tailored solutions for local areas and delivers real, evidence - based, impact in schools and communities across the country.

We work every day to achieve this vision and have so far helped more than a thousand state secondary schools and colleges across the country to engage their community of former students to improve the motivation, confidence and life chances of the current generation.