Sentences with phrase «for our schoolchildren on»

Simultaneously, you'll also have had plenty of time to rue the day in 2003 when another political deal promised an Olympic sporting legacy for our schoolchildren on the back of London 2012.

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Schoolchildren searching for whitehouse.com on the internet found porn in the late 1990s, and «the bottom line is it's almost impossible to protect yourself from this kind of stuff,» said Reese, a Jesuit at Georgetown University.

In a question to the Education Secretary, the MP for Enfield, Southgate, said: «There are reports that Ofsted is demanding that a Christian school invites an imam to take collective worship and that Jewish schoolchildren have been asked intrusive questions about their views on sexuality.

For the past year, the foundation's efforts have been focused on giving Hydro Flask vacuum insulated bottles to schoolchildren.

England trained in Kielce for the first time since arriving on Monday, with 300 local schoolchildren watching an open session on Tuesday.

There is no school for French elementary schoolchildren on Wednesdays, so no French menu for Wednesday, November 28.

Old Sturbridge Village is committed to developing and offering quality programs for schoolchildren with a specific focus on youth from disadvantaged circumstances.

When fast food companies, infamous for cutting corners at any cost, turn their noses up at a questionably safe ingredient that ends up on the lunch trays of schoolchildren, headlines are to be expected — and rightfully so.

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

AQE Executive Director Billy Easton heaped praise on Silver, calling him «one person who's not only been listening for as long as you can imagine to the needs of schoolchildren across the state, but has been reflecting that voice back and speaking it out in the halls of decision - making» and the «originator of pre-kindergarten.»

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

But don't look to the U.S. Secretary of Education for guidance on which candidate would be best for the city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren.

Ever since he announced his candidacy, Braunstein, 29, has campaigned on a platform of cutting spending, reforming Albany and protecting quality of life in northeast Queens, particularly for schoolchildren and seniors.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the «sham» organization was supposed to provide training for parents of schoolchildren, but existed only on paper.

«This ceaseless commitment will continue this year with a community - supported bus lane, pedestrian refuge islands and a protected bike path on First Avenue straight through East Harlem, and we will continue to push for speed cameras to make our streets and our schoolchildren even safer,» he said.

Scottish Labour would spend # 1,000 a head on schoolchildren from poor backgrounds, guarantee state grants for college students, replace council tax with a more progressive property tax and ban fracking.

But although President Barack Obama ordered the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to recommence gun research in the wake of last December's massacre of 20 schoolchildren and 6 adults in Newtown, Connecticut, federal funding for research on gun violence remains scarce so far.

For decades, schoolchildren have half - jokingly defined themselves by who or what they stuck on their schoolbooks and notepads.

We begin 50 years in the past, with a class of schoolchildren drawing imagined visions of the future for inclusion in a time capsule to be buried on campus.

Though the aforementioned schoolchildren have heard of John Brown and know that his body lies a-mouldering in the grave, probably none had heard of Newton Knight, a real character on whom this film is based, and whose heroism as a farmer who became a deserter (for good reasons) emerges when he becomes a freedom fighter.

And in the capital, schoolchildren will likely be on the streets for months, government officials warned.

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

Mike serves or has served on various advisory boards: transition teams for the past two MA governors (Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney), the National Council for Teacher Quality, Harvard's Futures of School Reform, Boston Schoolchildren's Consortium, Education Sector, and others.

The Red Cross has collected almost $ 1.5 million in a special relief fund for Afghan children after President Bush called on American schoolchildren last month to send a dollar apiece to the cause in care of the White House.

For example, if schoolchildren falter on tests, the reason must be malnutrition.

As schoolchildren absorbed lectures on state history during tours of the Capitol here last week, California lawmakers were making history of their own by passing a school reform package that will raise the stakes for teachers, administrators, and students.

Back on March 13, 2011, retired Los Angeles school district teacher Doug Lasken and I wrote an opinion column for the San Francisco Chronicle about non-compliance with the Stull Act in Los Angeles and other California districts — so I could not be happier about this lawsuit, which may finally bring some justice for Los Angeles schoolchildren after years of the district's deliberate dodging of the law.

I had caught up with him for part two of our interview in his official Trenton office, 50 miles to the south and west, where the state's education department is headquartered and where he has lively paintings drawn by schoolchildren on the walls.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

Activities will include large - sale outreach programmes, such as a # 1 million investment from Shell in the interactive Tomorrow's Engineers Energy Quest programme for thousands of schoolchildren, a children's book on engineering from publisher Usborne, and behind the scenes tours for families.

«We have priced children's tickets to ensure they are very affordable, and created a number of exciting initiatives such as our Bolt ticket for # 9.58 based on Usain's current 100m world record and our London schools offer for the World Para Athletics Championships, which gives 250,000 schoolchildren access to a special discounted package.

The resolution underscores NYSUT's longstanding, strong opposition to corporate influence and privatization in public education and calls for an end to New York's participation in InBloom, a «cloud - based» system that would collect and store sensitive data on New York's schoolchildren.

WASHINGTON — Little has changed for hearing - impaired schoolchildren in the four years since a federal commission concluded that the education of deaf students was «unacceptably unsatisfactory,» witnesses last week told a House panel beginning work on extension of federal deaf - education programs.

Another intervention, Cognitive Acceleration for Science Education (CASE), which targets «general thinking skills,» enabled British schoolchildren to outperform their peers even two years later on achievement tests in science, math, and English.

«Today's collective call to action puts the interests of our nation's 50 million public schoolchildren first, and shows how important it is for Congress to keep up the momentum and move forward on the long overdue ESEA modernization,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director.

After being handed the gavel at Annual Conference, Tuttle spoke of how he plans to focus his commitment on ensuring that public education remains vital and relevant for the success of all of our nation's public schoolchildren.

For far too long, schoolchildren in D.C. and other urban areas have been subject to a «narrative of disinheritance» — the persistent inequities of experience, resources, and perceived worth, based on race, class, or story.

So the «secret sauce» for reauthorizing ESEA is clearly to work in a bipartisan manner on behalf of America's public schoolchildren.

But his less - than - honest autobiography has been accepted unquestioningly by allies like Arne Duncan who use it, as he does, to support needless test obsession for millions of schoolchildren, on the theory that more accountability for teachers will cure our social ills.

Texas School Business magazine has chronicled the life of public education in our state for more than 60 years by focusing on best practices and on the people who serve Texas schoolchildren.

Schoolchildren from a school in Stow - on - the - Wold, Gloucestershire, head to their local pub once a week for their school dinners.

Whether it's participating in pet - facilitated therapy at human hospitals and nursing homes or visiting schoolchildren on career days, he loves to share his passion for animals with Fairfield County «s young and young at heart.

Access & Ticket Information @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will offer interpretive materials and resources for the general public and for schoolchildren, including a visitor guide and map as well as program - related activities, talks, and public tours.

Since 2015, Milroy has worked with the Vodafone Foundation's Instant Network Schools, where she initiated «Hands On», a practical art workshop programme that can be delivered through digital connectivity for schoolchildren in refugee camps.

Main sustainable development activities include organic agriculture and green tourism on the Desna river as well educational activities developed in the context of the «Desnianski Zori» ecological camp for schoolchildren.

More important, they owe our schoolchildren a heartfelt and public apology for the psychological pain inflicted on them when they and their parents saw full - page ads claiming Waubra disease could make them ill.

Education campaigners have launched legal action against a government requirement for local authorities to share sensitive personal data on schoolchildren for its «Alternative Provision Census».