Sentences with phrase «in vulnerable schools»

Evidence from Oregon, one of the states most vulnerable to great earthquakes, points out the challenge of moving from such logic, on paper, to investments in vulnerable schools or coastal communities in the inundation zone for the tsunami that will accompany the next great thrust of the Cascadia fault off the Northwest Coast.

Seven years later, a study finds that achievement by students in vulnerable schools has improved only slightly, and that there's no conclusive way to tell if the elimination of tenure played a role in that modest success.

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Choi thinks Korean teenagers, for example, may be particularly vulnerable to smartphone addiction because they spend a lot of time in school and in after - school tutoring programs.

Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

The majority of schools were equipped with either impact - resistant windows or built - in storm shutters, and sandbags were placed around vulnerable areas.

Broward School Board member Robin Bartleman has been forced to ponder the conflict between troubled students and their sometimes - vulnerable peers intensively in recent days.

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.

Beachside schools and schools in more open areas would likely be the most vulnerable, he added, explaining that a school with nothing around it would receive the full impact of winds, whereas a school tucked in a neighborhood would not.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Mr Morfin said: «We've got some fantastic teachers in our schools who are working so hard to serve these children but the reality is that the current system doesn't enable those vulnerable children to always get the education that they need.»

In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back homIn the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back homin English and in languages, have been better than most schools back homin languages, have been better than most schools back home.

One does not have to abhor homosexuality in order to understand that the recent change in law has opened a wide door that will leave the school system, and children in general, vulnerable to further legal changes that will always go towards greater licentiousness, and less protection for the vulnerable.

Ofsted, the school's inspectorate, claims St Benedict's Catholic School in Bury St Edmonds is not preparing people for life in Britain and is leaving pupils vulnerable to extrschool's inspectorate, claims St Benedict's Catholic School in Bury St Edmonds is not preparing people for life in Britain and is leaving pupils vulnerable to extrSchool in Bury St Edmonds is not preparing people for life in Britain and is leaving pupils vulnerable to extremism.

Though flung far across this tilted and spun world, studying the serving ways of Jesus — Charles brims when he gets to this part in the story — he carried in his heart the faces of the orphaned, widowed and homeless of the Rwandan genocide, and he and his wife, Florence, scrounged and squirrelled every penny to begin sponsoring vulnerable children to attend school in Rwanda.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

And perhaps we're all teachers in a way, but those of us within the walls of schools find ourselves often solely responsible for these students during their strongest times and their most vulnerable moments.

It's horrible to believe something like that, but in my vulnerable teenage years — between adapting to physical changes due to puberty and trying to fit in at school — my self image was definitely not a pretty one.

In the Harran region in the south - east Turkey, where refugee camps are home to some 14,000 Syrian refugees, Ebru Baybara Demir leads the Harran Gastronomy School Project, an initiative to improve the employment prospects of economically vulnerable Turkish and Syrian women through culinary traininIn the Harran region in the south - east Turkey, where refugee camps are home to some 14,000 Syrian refugees, Ebru Baybara Demir leads the Harran Gastronomy School Project, an initiative to improve the employment prospects of economically vulnerable Turkish and Syrian women through culinary traininin the south - east Turkey, where refugee camps are home to some 14,000 Syrian refugees, Ebru Baybara Demir leads the Harran Gastronomy School Project, an initiative to improve the employment prospects of economically vulnerable Turkish and Syrian women through culinary training.

One school of thought is that a team like the Broncos needs to get beat late in the season to make them aware of how vulnerable they can be every Sunday.

This especially true if your kids are in school, or someone in your household works in a vulnerable place like a hospital.

This is how it works: • The Children's Centre manager identifies relevant agencies already dealing with vulnerable families — for example schools, health visitors or a local homeless families unit • A simple form summarising the facilities and activities available at the Centre, and asking for a parent's contact details and a signature, is created • The manager / staff at the other agency agree, as part of their usual data recording protocols, to ask relevant service users to fill in the form.

When eligible schools use the summer and afterschool meal programs to provide free meals to all children during these most vulnerable times of the day and year, it creates new opportunities to engage in farm to school activities, and improves school meal program finances even more.

Children are our most vulnerable population and the dairy industry's desire to increase flavored milk sales in schools is not a sufficient justification for increasing any potential risks to students» long - term health.

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

Casa Central offers a network of services including Head Start education, out - of - school time support, interim housing, violence intervention and other valuable resources to vulnerable members of the community.Words on WheelsWords on Wheels volunteers to go places in their local communities to engage with at - risk babies through bubbles, puppets, music and stories.

Grade - schoolers are aware of and vulnerable to the stress of a divorce or a death in the family, a parent's loss of employment, a change in caregiver or teacher, an act of violence, or a natural disaster.

In 2006, the Nebraska Legislature stepped up to the challenge of ensuring that more of Nebraskas youngest, most vulnerable children would arrive at school ready to learn by establishing the Nebrask...

But research has shown significant positive outcomes for vulnerable families enrolled in home visiting, including improved maternal, newborn, and infant health, better educational attainment for moms, improved school readiness, and reduced child abuse.

That's why so much of my time is taken up in trying to publicize just how important it is for our lowest income and most vulnerable students to have access to the highest possible quality of food at school.

If that faction succeeds, our school meals still won't resemble those in France, but America's most vulnerable children will certainly be worse off.

Osinbajo said the Social Investment Programme launched in 2016 — comprising a jobs scheme for unemployed graduates, a feeding programme for public primary school pupils, a micro-credit scheme for small businesses, and a cash transfer scheme for our poorest and most vulnerable households, is a key component of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.

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.»

«Cameron's schools policy has delivered a vacuum in the local oversight of our schools, leaving children exposed to falling standards and vulnerable to risks posed by extremists.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.

This, she said, had made Ghana a role model for many African countries in the provision of free education and free compulsory universal basic education and free community day Senior High Schools had increased access to education for many vulnerable groups.

«The Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant helps support the learning needs of some of the most vulnerable children in our schools yet the per - pupil value of the grants has been frozen in cash terms.

«NYSUT believes strongly that the tax cap undemocratically deprives taxpayers of their constitutional right to determine local school funding levels, while exacerbating existing funding inequities that harm the state's neediest and most vulnerable students,» the union said in a statement.

Moskowitz recently angered some of her teachers when she refused to publicly state her support for undocumented and transgender students and staff in her schools, and finally relented to saying she would protect vulnerable students after a tense back - and - forth with staff members.

«Why we use this law to address the challenge and punish the criminals, we are also putting in place appropriate measures particularly in our schools and other vulnerable targets to prevent security breaches and it is important that we ensure that everything we do in respect of this anti-kidnapping law is in good faith and good spirit to eradicate the issue of kidnapping once and for all in the State.»

It would be a big mistake to make our essential public services - schools, hospitals and the care of the vulnerable in our society - the whipping boys for private failures, or to pay the price for the excesses of greedy bankers and speculators.

Buhari said his government was committed to the fight against terrorism and insurgency, adding, «The security services have since been directed to put in place further measures around all schools vulnerable to attacks to ensure the safety of our pupils / students and teachers and school workers.

In the last ten years the failed ideology of «inclusion» and the drop in special school places have left the most vulnerable more exposed,» he saiIn the last ten years the failed ideology of «inclusion» and the drop in special school places have left the most vulnerable more exposed,» he saiin special school places have left the most vulnerable more exposed,» he said.

That's the type of wishful thinking and lack of resolve that got us into the budget mess in the first place, Paterson's camp contends, but vulnerable Senate Democrats, especially those in the suburbs with school districts that will be hit hard by the cuts, are wary of a voter backlash.

«I think a 4 - year - old is just as vulnerable, if not more so, than someone in an elementary school,» Klein said.

The Committee on Education will meet at 1 p.m. for oversight on bullying, harassment, and discrimination in the public schools; there will be a particular focus on LGBT students and other vulnerable students.

Does this government still intend to go ahead with its feeding programme in schools and payment of stipends to vulnerable Nigerians despite the heavy fall in the price of oil?

He added the state government was also putting in place appropriate measures particularly in the schools and other vulnerable targets to prevent kidnapping and other security breaches.