Sentences with phrase «continued taking herself to school»

«Everyone knows they're treated differently,» said the soft - spoken Spencer, 19, who was left homeless when her mother died but continued taking herself to school and is now entering her sophomore year in college.

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As the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from now.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

Students who would otherwise take time off from school to pursue work, research, or travel can continue their studies through online courses.

At the young age of 3 years old, she began taking dance and continued to pursue her love of the art throughout high school.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

She continued to take dance classes and began practicing yoga while attending boarding school in Raleigh, NC.

«If they continue to ignore us, to only pretend to listen, then we will take action where it counts,» Delaney Tarr, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 people last month, told tens of thousands rallying in Washington.

The liberal has taken away free speech in public schools by removing Jesus while allowing all competing speech to continue.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

We wanted to know what it takes for a student to continue his or her faith through high school, college, the career years and beyond.

Did such a conglomeration of abstract terms give really the gist of our knowledge of the deity, schools of theology might indeed continue to flourish, but religion, vital religion, would have taken its flight from this world.

St Olave's said: «Following a review of the school's policy on entry to Year 13, the headmaster and governors of St Olave's Grammar School have taken the decision to remove this requirement and we have today written to all parents of pupils affected to explain this and offer them the opportunity to return to the school and continue their stschool's policy on entry to Year 13, the headmaster and governors of St Olave's Grammar School have taken the decision to remove this requirement and we have today written to all parents of pupils affected to explain this and offer them the opportunity to return to the school and continue their stSchool have taken the decision to remove this requirement and we have today written to all parents of pupils affected to explain this and offer them the opportunity to return to the school and continue their stschool and continue their studies.

Parents who continue to teach their children this are inevitably going to confuse the heck out of their children when they have to take more advanced science courses in high school and college.

A nine - year - old blogger has won the right to continue rating her school meals, after her local council in Scotland dropped its ban on her taking photographs of food dished up in her school canteen.

In an effort to continue minimizing the risk of injury in high school football, three additional rules will take effect next season to address helmets coming off players» heads during games.

Salad bars continue to be installed in some schools, and about ninety items have been taken off the district's usual USDA commodity food orders because they're now considered too processed.

While I believe all the issues on The Lunch Tray are worthy of discussion (even if some are a little sillier than others), and even though we've certainly discussed childhood hunger here and will continue to do so, any site claiming to be dedicated to «kids and food, in school and out» really ought to take affirmative steps to help kids with no food at all.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

The good news is that the waiver provision did not make it into the CRomnibus, which means that, as of now at least, schools must continue to abide by all of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act's regulations, including the hotly contested provision which currently requires students to take 1/2 cup of fruits or vegetables with their lunch instead of being able to pass those foods by.

While I haven't taken it as far as our state board of education (see What to Do if Your School Wellness Policy Isn't Being Enforced), I will continue to advocate for healthy class parties and fundraisers.

«The federal government can not continue to take a hands - off approach when it comes to the quality of school lunches and the safety of our nation's students.»

Continuing TLT's fifth annual «It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch» series, I wanted to let you know that next week the Institute of Food Technologists, a non-profit scientific society for food scientists, will be hosting two back - to - school Tweet chats about packed lunch safety.

My partner who was the co-chair with me of the committee we worked on continued as she had children still in the public school system and I took my son out for a year to homeschool (we had already spent several years homeschooling before his 2nd grade year spent in the public system).

I'm back from summer vacation in time to share some nice news: Houston ISD, the seventh largest district in the country, has announced that it's taking advantage of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to provide universal (free) school... [Continue reading]

Taking School - Food - Reform - Free Day right into the weekend, here's today's Friday Buffet: Whatever Little Jimmy Wants to Eat... The New York Times Diner's Journal blog has a funny post on crazy foods that kids like to eat (and that some... [Continue reading]

Alex showed up shortly after and took her to school, as conversations about transferring were continuing, and we didn't feel it would be wise to keep her home.

But there's another important dimension to school food that few, if any, school nutrition directors currently take into account: the environmental impact of their menu... [Continue reading]

In several posts written last year, I took the School Nutrition Association (SNA) to task for not asking Congress for more money to fund healthier school food, instead seeking only to roll - back school meal nutritional standards («School Food... [Continue reSchool Nutrition Association (SNA) to task for not asking Congress for more money to fund healthier school food, instead seeking only to roll - back school meal nutritional standards («School Food... [Continue reschool food, instead seeking only to roll - back school meal nutritional standards («School Food... [Continue reschool meal nutritional standards («School Food... [Continue reSchool Food... [Continue reading]

It's National School Lunch Week and it's no surprise that the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and its allies are taking this opportunity to press their case for gutting federal nutritional requirements that would make school food... [Continue reSchool Lunch Week and it's no surprise that the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and its allies are taking this opportunity to press their case for gutting federal nutritional requirements that would make school food... [Continue reSchool Nutrition Association (SNA) and its allies are taking this opportunity to press their case for gutting federal nutritional requirements that would make school food... [Continue reschool food... [Continue reading]

So, to summarize, fruit and vegetable waste continues to be a problem for schools, but no more so than before the HHFKA standards were implemented, and the requirement that kids take a fruit or vegetable at lunch has caused a measurable increase in both fruit and vegetable consumption, with kids showing a preference for fruit over vegetables.

For cases of very mild croup, your child may continue attending a child care facility or school if she feels well enough to take part in the activities.

Many who decide to take their children out of school — for all sorts of good reasons — continue thinking that the schooling model is basically correct.

Becoming involved with the SNA charged me up to take an advocate position with my kids and school lunches to not only continue a healthier menu but also to make sure my kids start making better decisions.

In the meantime, school food professionals have continued to take notice — and action, in increasing numbers.

I'm not sure that we can ever make school food the complete solution to every nutrient value we want kids to be taking in; even if we continue offering flavored milk and improve kids» calcium consumption, the next thing will be iron, or Vitamin A, or whatever.

Schools do not take an official count until later this month, but Tribune interviews with two dozen school districts suggest the demand for a free school lunch continues to grow.

Continuing with TLT's annual «It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch» series, today I'm so pleased to share this guest post from Maryann Jacobsen, MS, RD. Maryann is the blogger behind the excellent Raise Healthy Eaters and also the co-author (along with Jill Castle) of one of my favorite books on childhood feeding, Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

«We take school threats very seriously and will continue working closely with New York State Police and other law enforcement agencies to keep our children safe,» Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. says.

Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. said, «We take school threats very seriously and will continue working closely with New York State Police and other law enforcement agencies to keep our children safe.

Students would continue taking standardized state tests in reading and math annually in grades three to eight and at least once in high school.

Those continuing must complete the 4 - year senior high school programme (which has been changed to three years) and take an admission exam to enter any university or tertiary programme.

That, unfortunately, will take a significant effort and it's my hope these funds will help maintain a Republican majority that will continue to focus on creating jobs and economic growth, good schools and quality health care.»

The Youth Council will continue meeting for the rest of the school year and new members are expected to take their place in the fall.

In an unprecedented move UNISON and the NUT have joined forces to take legal action to protect school staff whose continued employment has been refused by the controversial, newly - formed Hawthorne's Free Sschool staff whose continued employment has been refused by the controversial, newly - formed Hawthorne's Free SchoolSchool.

«This will, therefore, continue to be used to narrow the curriculum, reducing opportunities for children and young people, and to force schools into being taken over by predatory private providers.

If the Government continues to increase the number and type of «faith» schools and while failing to take action, so will their children and their children's children.»

Buffalo Public School Board member Carl Paladino, who continues to be a staunch defender of Donald Trump even as fellow Republicans shy away from the increasingly controversial presidential nominee, is taking to the air — literally — to represent his candidate in Florida.

«I think that we should completely eliminate schools under trees... I remember that in 2010 when we did the survey, it was said that there were 4, 200 schools under trees; since then, we've kept taking them out and I must say we've taken out more than 1, 700 schools under trees; and I believe that over the next five years, up to 2020, if we should continue at the rate we are going, we should be able to take out all the 4, 200 schools under trees,» President Mahama said in an interview with Radio BAR as part of his «Accounting to the People» tour.