Sentences with phrase «help schools fight»

And not only will this calculator help schools fight global warming by reducing their carbon footprint, but the cash schools can save through reduced spending on energy bills will help districts take action to improve the quality of education at the same time.

Not exact matches

«The problem is, I don't know whether I'm going to get the mensch or the schmuck,» Joele Frank, of the eponymous public relations firm that has helped companies fight Elliott and other activists, commented at a panel at a Tulane law school event in March.

It's available in English and Spanish and can help the students learn more about their rights, how to fight for changes in school policy and where they can get help if the policies are indeed targeting.

I get to work on Adirondack conservation issues and assist those who are fighting global warming; I've helped my wife start a new school in our town; I can teach Sunday school and help run a nationwide effort to decommercialize Christmas and sit on the board of the local college.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

He wants to join the elite US Sigilry Corps» Rescue and Evacuation Department and help save the lives of his countrymen who are fighting in World War I. To realize that dream, he must do the impossible — go to school and get proper training in the science, excel beyond others, and figure out how to get himself a position on the female - ruled R&E team.

This back - to - school season, Welch's ® Fruit Snacks, a brand manufactured and marketed by The Promotion In Motion Companies Inc., has partnered with Feeding America ®, the nation's largest hunger - relief and food rescue organization, to help fight child hunger.

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

When, after graduating, Kathleen wanted to take prep courses for medical school and fight for a spot onthe Olympic team, Don helped make it work.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

I agree that pictures and video will help instruct parents, but it will help add evidence for those who mistakenly think the School lunch fight is «over.»

I'm starting my childs life out right, my schools need to help continue that fight.

Last year's winners — six juniors from Richards Career Academy — went to Washington to help fight for the de-greasing of school cafeterias.

is the mega-message food and fitness experts hope to send next week at the first national «Healthy Schools Summit» in Washington, D.C. Worried about the weight gain among American children, the experts and educators want to share ideas to help kids fight fat.

When I used to have to do presentations in school, I would write out a whole script and practice it repeatedly, and I think that having something to go back to and envision if my mind went blank really helped me not devolve into fight or flight mode.

The fight - or - flight instinct that young children fall back on when raised in a stressful environment is not going to help them succeed in school.

We've known from the start that the HHFKA was grossly underfunded, so why isn't the SNA getting in there and fighting hard for more money, logistical help, better kitchen equipment, nutrition education and all of the other factors that would support better school meals?

You know parents who have sent their children away to school, and you wonder if a boarding school for troubled boys can help teens fight daily addictions.

We need to hold the line on property taxes, continue helping Superstorm Sandy victims get back in their homes, work to increase aid to our local public schools, and fight the scourge of opioid abuse that has plagued Long Island.

«The reason we saved Wadleigh's middle school is because the entire community worked together in unity to make sure that everyone knew, from the mayor to the Chancellor to the DOE, that we were going to stand and fight,» said State Senator Brian Benjamin, who had engaged in meetings with the DOE and helped organize a protest to prevent the school from becoming only a high school.

Most New Yorkers recognize that it was Senator Skelos» leadership that allowed us to enact a property tax cap, eliminate the MTA payroll tax for thousands of businesses and all schools, rightsize state government, expand the DNA databank to help prosecutors fight crime, mandate life without parole for anyone who kills a first responder and increase penalties for criminals who use illegal guns.

Cahill, a top aide and official in former Governor George Pataki's Administration, says as Attorney General he'd bring more focus to creating jobs and helping small business, improving education and protecting Charter Schools, and fighting crime.

Cahill says as attorney general he'd bring more focus to creating jobs and helping small business, improving education and protecting charter schools, and fighting crime.

Whether working as a bilingual city school teacher, fighting against climate change with Mothers Out Front, or helping lead St. Peter's Soup Kitchen... I Listen.

In part due to fights over charter schools, unions have spent significantly more helping Democrats than Republicans in the past couple of Senate elections, the largest partisan battleground in the state, but as recently as 2012, the reverse was true.

Also at 7 p.m., EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck will address climate change, the scope of the problem, major steps that EPA is taking to fight climate change and tips on how people can help, The College of St. Rose, Thelma P. Lally School of Education, Touhey Forum, 1009 Madison Ave., Albany.

But in 2011, Fariña indirectly pitted herself against Moskowitz in a 2011 fight for school space: after a Success Academy was slated to move into a Cobble Hill school building, Fariña helped draw up a competing proposal to create an early - childhood education center in the same location.

That's why the health department promotes Vision Zero, de Blasio's transportation initiative, believing that if the streets were safer, then more kids will walk or bike to school, and that can help fight obesity.

Sean has successfully fought for billions more in education aid, to help school districts hire more teachers, lower class sizes, and actually make investments in arts, music, and sports.

He brings a civil engineer's understanding to it, fighting for lead testing in schools and now looking to establish a source of emergency funding to help schools resolve drinking water issues quickly.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

«I've helped secure two new public schools for the district (an elementary school on 17th Street and most recently, a new middle school at 75 Morton St.), fought NYU's irresponsible campus expansion plan, established a legal defense fund for rent - stabilized tenants... and brokered a deal to renovate Washington Square Park,» he said.

Similar efforts are taking place nationwide, such as a coalition of African - Americans and Latinos stopping a sewage treatment plant from being built in their Northern Manhattan neighborhood, and a multicultural group in Boston helping local communities fight, among other things, a diesel power plant slated to be built next to an elementary school.

But new evidence in mice suggests antibiotics may help fight norovirus, a highly contagious gastrointestinal virus, report scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

They hear the horror stories about promotion and tenure decisions, the fight to secure funding to keep research going, and the drudgery of teaching introductory courses in which students only want to get the «A» that will help them get into the medical or graduate school of their choice.

«Injectable immunotherapies that use programmable biomaterials as a powerful vehicle to deliver targeted treatment and preventative care could help fight a whole range of deadly infections, including common worldwide killers like HIV and Ebola, as well as cancer,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. who is also Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

If this idea turns out to have merit, then it might help fight winter flu outbreaks by, say, simply putting humidifiers in schools, homes for the elderly, and hospitals.

«Earlier studies have shown that vitamin E can help regulate the aging body's immune system, but our present research is the first study to demonstrate that dietary vitamin E regulates neutrophil entry into the lungs in mice, and so dramatically reduces inflammation, and helps fight off infection by this common type of bacteria,» said first author Elsa N. Bou Ghanem, Ph.D., postdoctoral scholar in the department of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM).

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An American (Jennifer Connelly) at a Swiss finishing school calls on insects to help a paralyzed scientist (Donald Pleasence) fight a monster.

After Gamby gets chastised by the teachers for helping Russell keep his job — the students looking on in amazement as the teachers fling insults and curse words at each other is a great comedic touch — the episode becomes an avalanche of events that lead to the aforementioned fight through the school.

Second, scholarship tax - credit laws enable supporters of school choice to organize so that they can more effectively fight harmful regulations: Scholarship organizations can help both scholarship recipients and the donors mobilize against potentially harmful legislation.

When Skandera stepped down in June 2017 after seven years on the job, Martinez lauded her for being «relentlessly committed to helping us fight the status quo — like teachers unions and other entrenched special interests — to reform education and give our students, teachers, parents and schools more of what they need to succeed.»

How Districts Are Joining the Fight to Close a Troubling Training Gap Among America's School Leaders (The 74 Million) Professor Liz City discusses how the combination of job experience with theory and classroom learning might help to close the training gap for education leaders.

Suing for tuition reimbursement for their son's private school and then fighting to be reimbursed for the costs of the expert who had helped them win took Joseph Murphy's parents seven years.

«We're sticking with our school, and use our time and resources to help improve it — not just for our own kids, but for all the students there,» said Hewson, who regularly attends board meetings to fight to keep the school open.

The Davidsons first launched a young scholars program to provide tutoring and advocacy help for gifted youngsters trying to fight their way through school bureaucracies (the program now is funding 1,700 scholars).

«This hard - fought - for new school building lifts the spirits and aspirations of our whole community, helping our children to be the best they can be.»

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

The Clark County Social Service School Mediation Program in Nevada, during the 1992 - 1993 school year, reduced conflict among students in two participating elementary schools and helped prevent fights among stuSchool Mediation Program in Nevada, during the 1992 - 1993 school year, reduced conflict among students in two participating elementary schools and helped prevent fights among stuschool year, reduced conflict among students in two participating elementary schools and helped prevent fights among students.