Sentences with phrase «issues around school»

Use these points to communicate the key issues around school nutrition to other school board members, the press, and your members of Congress:

The Circle of Power and Respect (CPR, a daily community - building meeting) should allow us to create a safe space for working on social - emotional learning and addressing issues around our school culture.

Mr Hill said the move «made sense» to deal with issues around school sites.

Schools need to provide clear guidelines to avoid legal issues around school - sanctioned social media.

We must look at the wider social issues around schools.»

Education Week and Education Week Teacher have gathered years of Q&A s with some of the field's most prominent education scholars, leaders, and practitioners talking about important issues around schooling.

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At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

This included everything, from old - school telecom privacy and copyright issues, and then, increasingly, it became about emerging technology issues around 3D - printers, drones, the sharing economy, and also cryptocurrency.»

In particular, the New York - based bank is known for its expertise in the issuance of catastrophe bonds, Qualified School Construction Bonds in the US, and bonds issued to finance debt restructuring around the world.

Rachel: You note that while Catholics, African Americans, Hispanics and many Mainline Protestants have continued to be involved in public education, White evangelical Christians are largely absent, until a «culture war» issue arises --(around school - led prayer, evolution, sex ed, etc.)-- and the protests begin.

Tim ran campaigns around food access, school funding reform, ex-offender issues, and youth homelessness.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

So what can you as a parent do to relieve the pressure on your high school student (and put your own mind at ease) around the issue of college admissions?

My sources for most food reform issues are, most notably, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, by Janet Poppendieck, but also countless other books, articles, blog posts, and phone conversations with other school food reformers around the coSchool Food in America, by Janet Poppendieck, but also countless other books, articles, blog posts, and phone conversations with other school food reformers around the coschool food reformers around the country.

Overall, Pride, a strong Christian woman, thinks that the school systems tip toes around major issues to protect self esteem, resulting in a confused group of youth who do not fully understand right from wrong.

WSDA is offering workshops at 4 - 6 locations around the state, designed to discuss recent Geographic Preference Option available to schools to increase purchases of Washington - grown food, and to discuss purchasing, food safety and other critical issues in farm to school implementation.

I do remember the next meeting some 2 months later was not quite so easy as she had become more of a wriggler and a guzzler but our first assignment was complete and fourteen people around the room carried on discussing school issues regardless.

While I feel I've made a lot of strides nationally on The Lunch Tray by bringing these issues to the fore and assisting readers around the country at their children's schools, at my own son's elementary school my principal has declined to make any modifications to practices like birthday cupcakes in the classroom.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

If you're just starting to consider home education, or have recently taken your children out of school to educate them at home, you probably have all kinds of questions about what to do, how to help your children to learn, whether to use a formal curriculum, how to organise meals around home education, whether you'll ever again get any time to yourself... These home education articles address these issues and more, from my perspective having «been there, done that!».

She showed us around the school and explained how the school offers an intense therapeutic learning environment for children K - 10 with academic, emotional, and behavioral issues.

In it, she takes issue with a position paper just released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA»), the leading organization of over 55,000 school food professionals around the coSchool Nutrition Association («SNA»), the leading organization of over 55,000 school food professionals around the coschool food professionals around the country.

According to the Fall / Winter 2011 issue of Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education, published quarterly by AWSNA (the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America), «There is a drastic shortage of trained Waldorf teachers — class teachers, as well as early childhood / kindergarten... This shortage exists in North America and around the world, including in English - speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Ireland.

AC: Since kids eat lunch every day at school (whether it's packed for them at home or offered in a school cafeteria), I see it as a perfect opportunity to talk about the ways that their food is connected to their environment, their health, their community and issues of equity around the world.

The shorts (ranging from 3 minutes to 13 minutes) zoom in on intimate and revealing stories surrounding school lunch transformation and cooking - gardening education, and zoom out to the broader social issues and consequences around these changes.

So we work with schools, parents and students to develop a plan of action specific to their school around the issues of student health, well - being, and engagement with learning.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and other top journalism schools around the country have issued a letter of concern to the nation's largest owner of local television stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group.

De Blasio said that issuing up to 50,000 parking placards to NYC public school workers is not a big deal because the number of reserved spots around schools won't change.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Due to these concerns, in the first year of the Free Schools programme, officials recommended writing to all Steiner Free School proposers «confirming that we would need to resolve» the issues around Ofsted specifically before any application could be accepted.

He said the law did not take into account mental health issues and safety around schools.

Those issues ranged from a plan to cut taxes for the struggling Vernon Downs harness track in central New York to the proposal to put more speed cameras around New York City schools and legislation related to those who qualify for enhanced accidental disability pension benefits in New York City.

He said negotiations failed around three major issues, including raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, a potential cost shift from public schools to charter schools and a real estate tax abatement program in New York City.

As many school districts around the region struggling with the fight over high - stakes testing, Buffalo School Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meschool districts around the region struggling with the fight over high - stakes testing, Buffalo School Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meSchool Board members discussed the issue at Wednesday night's lengthy meeting.

«It is nonsense to say that «simply» improving teaching and pastoral support would address the issues around SEN in schools,» general secretary Brian Lightman said.

Mark - Viverito promised to help lower the rate of school suspensions, backed by a coalition of council members who have been advocating around suspension and school diversity issues.

We view this as an issue of how to provide the best teachers for schools during a very difficult time around layoffs.»

At an event in Des Moines, Iowa, all three expressed adamant support for home schooling to a group organized around that issue.

«This review provides the opportunity to ensure that issues around the redeployment of the school workforce rather than redundancy, tight fiscal accountability rather than cheque book management, and the fair and equitable treatment of employees rather than subjective and punitive management are addressed.»

This was contained in a memo issued and made available to pressmen by the leadership of the institution's SRC just as copies of the statement were pasted around the school premises.

Some mainstream Democrats, though, downplayed the political contention of issues like charter schools and the tax credit and even differences in nuanced positions regarding the Common Core standards and how the Board of Regents should be governed, arguing that those are secondary to decisions around school funding.

It was also noticeable that he called for a national campaign against the reintroduction of grammar schools - one of the few issues around which the Parliamentary Party is united.

Other areas of our work that also have human rights and equalities angles include our campaigns around state - funded religious schools, religious education, for public service reform, and on ethical issues such as abortion and assisted dying.

Kaloyeros, who has pled not guilty and maintains his innocence, is perhaps better known as the former president and CEO of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, but the charges against him center around his alleged rigging of RFPs issued by the school's nonprofit affiliates, Fuller Road Management Corp. and Fort Schuyler Management Corp., over which SUNY RF and the SUNY Poly Foundation essentially enjoyed joint custodianship.

The recent furore around the so - called Trojan Horse plot, which has seen 25 Birmingham schools being investigated over fears of a takeover by radical Muslims, raises wider issues for the already beleaguered...

Speaking to a crowd of around 2,000 who waited for hours in the cold to hear the address at Cohoes High School in the Albany area, Clinton focused on economic issues, saying she'd push for rebuilding crumbling infrastructures, and mentioning the ongoing water crisis in nearby Hoosick Falls.

Three days earlier, Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, issued an 1,100 - word statement about «fair and equitable» school funding — an issue Ms. Nixon has advocated around for more than a decade.