Sentences with phrase «most of school bus»

Most of the school bus — size satellite was destroyed, but NASA estimates that up to 26 pieces totaling about 1,200 pounds may have survived.

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It really is no surprise at all that most 3:30 pm bus passengers do nothing in the face of the unruly school pupils, even when they are in small groups, who pile into the buses that dare to stop for them at the end of the school day.

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

Now, most of those other people have been family members, but also daycare providers and school bus drivers.

In fact, the most dangerous part of riding in a school bus is getting on and off the bus.

Young said the Barefoot bus will park twice a month in designated communities, most likely in front of a school or church.

However, when student injuries involving a school bus do occur, most often they happen outside of the bus.

While most U.S. schools offer meal programs, many students do not participate in cafeteria - based school breakfast programs because of bus schedules, late arrivals to school, pressure to go directly to class or reluctance to be labeled as «low income.»

But New York's most controversial Charter School Executive Eva Moskowitz has reached a new low: tomorrow, she is planning to close all 22 of her schools and bus hundreds of students up to Albany to use as props.

«This is a guy who has passed some of the most consequential legislation in recent memory for Staten Island: Toll relief, I - stop [prescription drug monitoring], and the restoration of school buses for our seventh and eight graders.

«We, as lawmakers, can help ensure that those living below the poverty line are able to take the bus or subway to appointments, work and school by making the Fair Fares plan a reality, guaranteeing half price MetroCards for some of our city's most vulnerable.»

«Public transportation is vital to the communities of eastern Queens, where most live in a transit desert, having limited access to trains and relying heavily on buses to get to work, school or important appointments,» Rozic said.

They said the buses had come at a time most of the schools were in dire need of them to facilitate their shuttle services as most of the buses at their disposal had developed mechanical faults and were virtually not working.

The de Blasio administration and most of the education committee supported the bill, arguing that more experienced school bus drivers behind the wheel will benefit all city children who take the bus, particularly students with special needs who require trained drivers and escorts.

At the size of a school bus, it was bigger than Voyager and outfitted with the most sophisticated scientific instruments ever carried into the outer solar system.

I remember hurriedly filling out a paper copy of one school's application, even though most of the process had moved online, just so I could complete it during a long bus ride and mail it at a rest stop.

«Accidents most frequently occurred when no parental supervision was present from the time of school dismissal until the early evening hours, and were most often located mid-block,» said orthopaedic surgery resident and lead study author Alexa J. Karkenny, MD. «Injuries peaked during the warm months and clustered both near schools and bus stops located near schools.

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that most child pedestrian injuries involving a motor vehicle occurred while children were unsupervised, near schools and bus stops, and in the spring months during the afternoon and evening hours.

Most of us spend most of our day sitting down: commuting to work by car, bus or train, sitting at our desks in the office or when studying for school, college or University, sitting down to eat dinner and sitting to watchMost of us spend most of our day sitting down: commuting to work by car, bus or train, sitting at our desks in the office or when studying for school, college or University, sitting down to eat dinner and sitting to watchmost of our day sitting down: commuting to work by car, bus or train, sitting at our desks in the office or when studying for school, college or University, sitting down to eat dinner and sitting to watch TV.

I must say that this was one of the worst movies I've ever watched, «Evil Dead» was better than this mound of shit... Gareth Edwards should be banned from directing hence forth, and now I hear he's directing the new Star Wars spin - off... I'm not one to talk down to others but let's be honest, you have to be retarded to like this movie... It made absolutely no sense, the script (the most important piece to any movie) was terrible, the plot was stupid, the acting was horrible and it seemed that the actors who were chosen were acting for a different movie all together... Where was the sense of urgency, I mean there were 300 foot tall behemoths walking through buildings and all you could show us was who was going ride with the little boy on the school bus... Maybe if all the main characters died and they just let Godzilla do his thing from there on out an eyebrow could've been raised but unfortunately, there isn't one good thing to say about this movie... I'm shocked the WB handed over one their biggest names to Legendary Pictures... Let's not forget what they've done with Superman Returns... This is shameful...

10, arrived in Burma, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, in July 2011, just a year after graduating from the Ed School, the streets were nearly empty of cars and most buses were from pre-World War II Japan.

In most schools, WatchDOGS start off the day helping with bus duty and greeting students as they come in, and then tour the school's hallways and walk the perimeter of the building outside.

It was the era of integration, though, so most of us got bused to a school across town where all the kids were white.

In addition, most of the kids ride buses, so they were up early and out [of school] late.»

In the end, ACORN supported the city's proposal to limit choice to just the 48 schools and to use most of the money that would have gone into busing to fund improvements in the failing schools.

Most likely, civil rights lawyers were too wearied by the bussing controversies to think of new strategies, and many had become skeptical of integration altogether — hence the popularity of school finance litigation.»

Indeed, by removing some of the most talented students and involved parents from P.S. 121, the busing program contributed to the school's severe decline in quality in the ensuing years — a pattern repeated in many urban schools with low - income, minority student populations.

Sadly, most of those children are struck by their own school buses.

For a bus operator, there is no cargo more precious than a group of school children, so when Norwest Coaches was allocating buses for its private school run, they selected their largest and most luxurious vehicle, the Higer H9250 Midi Boss.

Most school - aged pupils would find the concept of paying a conductor on a bus laughable in the face of Oyster cards and contactless payment.

In Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik, Finn takes readers on a magic bus ride through the most momentous twists and turns of the past 40 years of education history — many of which he found himself in the middle of.

In an effort to improve school bus behavior, two elementary schools started the Bus of the Month program, honoring the bus with the most thumbs up for good behavior in one monbus behavior, two elementary schools started the Bus of the Month program, honoring the bus with the most thumbs up for good behavior in one monBus of the Month program, honoring the bus with the most thumbs up for good behavior in one monbus with the most thumbs up for good behavior in one month.

Some 25 million children ride school buses every day in the U.S. and most of those buses don't have seat belts.

We all know that being an educator today has its share of challenges and responsibilities: ensuring all students achieve at high levels, acquiring the skills and expertise to support 21st century learning, making sure that cows don't collide with departing school buses... Well, most educators don't have to address this last responsibility, unless you're in Prosser, WA - a small town located about 50 miles from Yakima.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

And despite the fact that 90 percent of the students rode the bus to school, there was no transportation for the program, so very few students participated — especially not the ones who needed it most.

«[Students] come from all over the city, from South Salem, West Salem, and we don't provide school transportation, and so they're coming by either parent transportation or most of them by city bus, public transportation.»

One student who has limited time at home because of a long bus commute watches most of his lesson videos on a smartphone as he rides home from school.

For instance, one of our interviewees described how he shared a long bus ride to and from school with a colleague, which offered one of his most important venues for detailed reflection and planning.

Schools outside of New York City: In most places, students are bused by their local public school district to any non-public school within 15 miles of their home.

In fact, when it comes to discipline issues, the bus often represents one of the most challenging environments for many schools, but since the SmartBus program began, behavior incidents at Beekmantown have declined by 50 percent.

In 2010, the 51,000 - student Columbus, Ohio, school district considered cutting busing of high school students as a money - saving measure, just as most of the other large districts in the state had done.

But the state's biggest district managed to come up with a creative solution: Instead of doing away with busing for older students altogether, Columbus eliminated most neighborhood bus stops and used neighborhood schools as centralized stops for older students.

This School Bus Book Report has been one of my students» favorite book report projects and one of the bulletin board displays that I have received the most positive comments about.

Big Trucks were also big news at the event, and with most everything imaginable done to pick - ups, builders turned their creative efforts to 1950s - era, over-the-road big rigs, ton and ton and a half behemoths with modern diesels turning at least one turbocharger, 30s era shells built to support a cooling system under the hood so that a mid-engine diesel could sit behind it, duallies spinning enough rubber to shoe twenty Minis, school buses both short and long, a whole row of utility vans, and the ever popular fast and bulbous cab - overs.

That's right, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), most of these fatalities aren't to the children on the buses, but rather to occupants of other vehicles involved in the crashes (72 percent) or to other non-occupants of the buses, such as those who are walking and biking to school (20 percent).

In 2005, Miami - Dade County passed one of the most stringent sex offender laws in the country; it stated that registered sex offenders could not live within 2,500 feet of a school, bus stop, park, or any other place that children might gather.

I have always loved the cleverness of the «Magic School Bus» — one of the most ingenious educational programs to date.

I am perfectly happy to travel in a group --- if it is a group of my choosing --- and I have done so dozens of times, but most recently using converted school buses and exploring Central America, ala the Green Tortoise.

Barbra Kruger's signatory texts were most prominent throughput as she designed all of the visual identity for the biennial alongside commissions including a skate, park Untitled (Skate), a yellow school bus Untitled (School) that moved across the city emblazoned with highly charged slogan school bus Untitled (School) that moved across the city emblazoned with highly charged slogan School) that moved across the city emblazoned with highly charged slogan texts.