Sentences with phrase «from vulnerable schools»

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The Brevard school district will spend the upcoming days preparing its 80 or so facilities throughout the county, placing sandbags in vulnerable areas, closing storm shutters, removing fabric shades from playgrounds, cleaning debris from gutters and drains, and protecting computers.

What might have happened had that contaminated meat had actually reached our children's school lunch trays, given that children are far more vulnerable to harm from foodborne illnesses than adults?

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

If we want to provide the nation's most vulnerable learners with the skills they need to prosper, then we need to create a system that supports them from birth through high school.

Parents and teachers should be aware of the falsehood of the claims made by SPUC, and the government should be more pro-active in preventing groups that persistently make false claims of this nature from having access to vulnerable children, especially in schools.»

Or to be more specific: when Balls takes the need to respect diversity away from the curriculum of faith schools, he takes away the freedom of vulnerable, young children to explore their desires without being crippled by the stigma and idiocy which faith will impose on them.

«These schools are, therefore, vulnerable to judicial review and employment tribunal claims from employees.

Since the inherited risk is based in family genetics and is therefore beyond clinical reach, McFarlane relies on multifamily group therapy and social supports at school and at work to protect vulnerable patients from environmental triggers — illicit drugs and emotional stress in particular — that might send them over the edge.

«The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently changed the status of the giant panda from «endangered» to the less threatened «vulnerable,»» said Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.

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Chronicling the post-graduation lives of high school best friends Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), this acerbic comedy mines stingingly satirical humor from the absurdities of overcommercialized America, matching its dark ironies with a tender portrait of close relationships forged during the vulnerable years of adolescence.

Exhibiting the demeanor of a strict Catholic school nun, this no - nonsense disciplinarian orders a new defensive approach to magic likely to leave the young wizards vulnerable to an attack from the Dark Arts, especially if Voldemort has really somehow been revived and returned to power.

Thus, although both groups may post lower rates of school readiness, Hispanic children from Spanish - speaking homes face the additional challenge of learning the language of the classroom, making them especially vulnerable to poor academic outcomes.

Recent advice from the Department for Education has identified mental health as a critical concern for schools as too many vulnerable young people are not receiving the support they need.

Schools «can not follow a policy of strict neutrality when their students» and families» identities are openly under attack in the civic sphere» — because failing to openly embrace students can leave them vulnerable to ostracization from their community.

Also important is universal access to high - quality, affordable, integrated early childhood education and care, especially in the year before full - time school and for developmentally vulnerable children and children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Cultural Caregiving Services must be accessed to the vulnerable groups — the oppressed, those with disabilities, those suffering from trauma, victims of war and disaster, the abandoned, the street kids, the out - of - school youth, the delinquent, the indigenous youth who feel helpless, excluded or desperate.

Common Core also «takes control of our schools away from parents and communities,» leaving schools vulnerable to «a curriculum that has been profoundly shaped around the tests and teaching materials» of the two CCSS testing consortia, Smarter Balanced and PARCC.

These actions ranged from simpler ones such as finding a safe place to stow student records, to more complex contingency planning, such as mapping of most vulnerable structures, planning for evacuation of children and their families, and provision of temporary schooling alternatives.

Talking specifically about how the GDPR will effect child data, Piers commented: «Whilst the GDPR and regulator guidance makes it clear that personal data on children is worthy of special attention since they are potentially «vulnerable», on one level, the data protection principles that apply to the processing of children's personal data by schools have not changed particularly from the current regime under the Data Protection Act.

-- A coalition of veterans» groups said that any revised policy should prohibit VA employees taking classes at for - profit schools from accepting «tuition discounts or other favors that might leave the employees vulnerable to requests from the college to help recruit veterans or influence the college's access to GI Bill funds.»

This form of collusion protects vulnerable school districts like Grand Rapids and Flint from a precipitous loss of students and revenues.

The high school, which serves children from all of New York City's five boroughs, has a very distinct and vulnerable population of students.

Coming from the world of traditional public schools, Dr. Monroe initially didn't know much about charters or the work that they do for kids in our nation's most vulnerable areas.

I want to think with you about the most vulnerable people in our schools — children from low - income homes.

In a blog post, he contended that I - 1240 would be vulnerable to a constitutional challenge because it directed money from the «common school fund» to public charter schools outside the control of the local school board.

Voucher schemes — such as those backed by President Trump and Secretary DeVos — are fundamentally positioned to funnel taxpayers» dollars into private schools while draining much - needed resources from public schools and the vulnerable students who attend them.

With the settlement, the Reed case ended up taking a different tack, switching from an effort to overturn the layoffs - by - seniority law to a negotiated agreement to protect vulnerable students from the existing law's potential impact — although for less than 5 percent of the nearly 1,000 schools in the district.

Far from being anathema to progressive values, high - quality charter schools demonstrate how to translate these educational values into practice by committing to college success, increasing teacher diversity, rethinking school discipline, and supporting vulnerable populations.

Promising new results from UChicago Impact's work with partner schools suggests «vulnerable leadership» — in which principals and teachers alike lead by reflecting honestly and openly on their mistakes and shortcomings — can have transformational consequences.

Or that the judges will be impacted by the research we cited from experts, including details about how undocumented students who are vulnerable to deportation are more likely to be chronically absent from school during periods of increased ICE enforcement.

While public charter schools with strong accountability systems can provide excellent opportunities for children, this voucher plan could leave many students vulnerable to discriminatory practices, remove critical civil rights protections, and drain funding from public schools.

My administration from day one has aggressively pursued every available federal dollar to support our state's most vulnerable students and to help protect our schools from the continuing nationwide fiscal crisis,» the governor said in a statement.

High stakes testing can pressure schools to push out low - scoring students or transfer them to vocational school, or pressure low - scoring students to leave school or parents to remove vulnerable students from the testing pool and «protect» them in private, parochial, or home school.

According to New Mexico Education Secretary Hanna Skandera, «despite the criticism from union officials, the state's plan is a product of all New Mexicans and will continue to push schools serving its most vulnerable students,» and «we want to equip and empower educators more, and we're rolling out 20 new teacher initiatives.»

But officials with GLSEN, a national network that advises K - 12 school leaders on LGBT policy, tell Policy Watch that open scorn from public officials such as James can be particularly damaging to a community that's especially vulnerable.

1) prevents absences from occurring, 2) organizes caring and early outreach to families and students before absences add up, and 3) coordinates supports and services for vulnerable students who miss the most school.

Comment from Smith: Maybe we need to ask some of the big questions... like who benefits from the way things are now (standardized tests and other pressures of accountability that make good teachers and schools vulnerable to poor practices).

«But if we're asking our teachers to open their doors, asking them to be vulnerable, to be learners, then we as building leaders also need to be willing to do it and open up our entire buildings,» says Sarah Morningstar, an assistant principal who recently moved from Rainier Beach High School to the TOPS alternative program.

Communities across the country are reducing chronic absenteeism by using a comprehensive set of strategies that: 1) prevents absences from occurring, 2) organizes caring and early outreach to families and students before absences add up, and 3) coordinates supports and services for vulnerable students who miss the most school.

The program functions similar to a traditional private school voucher, but it is less vulnerable to legal challenges because its funding comes from money that is redirected from corporate taxes — before they are collected — toward the scholarships.

For all the talk from state leaders about their support for school choice, when they have had the opportunity in recent years to open doors of opportunity to Mississippi's most vulnerable children, they have not acted.

Some (including, often, teachers unions) accuse charter school advocates of trying to privatize education, wresting it from local control; supporters see charters as offering critical opportunities for some of the nation's most vulnerable children.

But given the clear benefits that have accrued to the city's most vulnerable students, Mr. de Blasio should not shy away from the option of shutting down big schools and remaking them from scratch, particularly in cases where the school has been failing for a long time and its culture is beyond repair.

In nearly every case, our most vulnerable children are the first to be excluded from these «new» schools, while the remaining students are faced with barely - trained, inexperienced and often temporary teachers.

Charter school trends in performance are stable since the transition from the Academic Performance Index (API), as charters continue to positively serve the most historically disadvantaged and vulnerable students.

This insight is a stark reminder to us all that young people, particularly those with SEND and who are often our most vulnerable groups of pupils in school, often find themselves relegated to the sidelines and excluded from having a say in decisions that will affect them.

We hope to work with parents from ANY school in all neighborhoods, as well as community members, who want to make a difference for the city's most vulnerable students.

NEA president Lily Eskelsen García snapped: «His silver bullet approach does nothing to help the most - vulnerable students and ignores glaring opportunity gaps while taking away money from public schools to fill private - sector coffers.

Our lowest - performing schools, largely serving our most vulnerable kids, will struggle to improve without sophisticated support from experienced professionals.