Sentences with phrase «most school attacks»

A teenage student wielding an attacked several children at his school in Germany Thursday, wounding nine before he was arrested Germany has 2 distinctions 1 they have the strictest gun laws and 2 they have the most school attacks of any country.

Not exact matches

The attack was Pakistan's deadliest overall «since the December 2014 massacre at an army - run school that left 143 people dead, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians,» reports the Los Angeles Times.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

According to reports, this most recent attack was at the Government Girls Science and Technical School in Dapchi.

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

Since arriving at the Camp Nou last summer, the 19 - year - old attacking midfielder has for the most part featured for Barca B, but Spanish second or third tier football can only take him so far and now the search is on to find the youngster the best possible top - flight finishing school.

However, you can develop a strategic plan of attack that will help him get the most out of his high school education.

Or the fact that my state's Agriculture Secretary, Sid Miller (once voted the second most - conservative member in the Texas legislature — no easy feat), managed to vault himself onto the national stage just by attacking a (nonexistent) ban on birthday cupcakes in Texas schools.

Abbott on Friday called the shooting «one of the most heinous attacks that we've ever seen in the history of Texas schools.»

Stuyvesant, one of the city's most academically prestigious high schools, was on lockdown for hours after the attack, said de Blasio, who praised the school system and police for following established protocol and acting swiftly to shelter students in place.

Many on the left condemned them as so complex and demanding as to put most people off making use of them, while supporters of grammar schools attacked the Government's apparent desire to destroy successful schools that were insignificant in number.

They have joined nationalists, patronising products of public schools, and that mighty organ of the Fourth Estate, the Cambrian News, in periodic attacks on Ken Morgan for revisionism, deviationism, proletarianism... and — most heinous of all — getting modern central heating for the Principal's residence in Aberystwyth.

The way to improve student performance in New York is to fully fund schools in disadvantaged communities, attack poverty these communities, and desegregate New York's schools, which are the most segregated schools in the nation,» said Brian Jones, the recent Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor who taught in New York City schools for nine years.

New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Education became a dominant theme in the governor's race this week, as Democrats launched an attack against Republican candidate Tom Foley for education proposals they say would slash funding from schools that need it the most.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz found a new and politically expedient way to attack Mayor Bill de Blasio over space issues for her charter schools on Thursday by casting doubt on his worthiness to maintain mayoral control of the city's schools, perhaps his administration's most urgent priority in Albany.

Residents, business owners and most importantly, parents of students entrusted to the Buffalo Public Schools, have increasingly lost patience with his unceasing attacks on the professionalism and character of women and men dedicated to the education of OUR city's school children.

Sadly, most of the attacks on us made by the Tories, such as creeping privatisation of the NHS, academisation of schools, and PFI, originated with recent Labour governments.

Harvard School of Public Health researchers estimate that trans fat had been causing about 50,000 premature heart attack deaths annually, making partially hydrogenated oil one of the most harmful ingredients in the food supply (see discussion of salt).

Both the manual and training sessions are based on a study documented in The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States, which revealed that most attackers display recognizable pre-attack behavior.

But even the most successful programs have come under attack by administrators and school boards looking to cut costs.

Most importantly, she was better suited to respond to the public attacks from the union and the near - constant media criticism that would come during 2012 — 13 as CPS moved to close schools for underenrollment (see Figure 3).

The New York City Public Schools, the largest district in the U.S., and one most affected by the terrorist attacks, still forbids students to have any electronic devices in their possession.

I keep winning the competitions to perform the most important private school choice evaluations around the country, and regularly publish my results in the very best scientific peer - reviewed policy journals (see,, and here), Ravitch's ad hominem attacks notwithstanding.

Perhaps most remarkably, we've attacked schools with particularly poor outcomes.

Students and staff from the Duke of York's Royal Military School took part in the 100th anniversary Zeebrugge Raid Commemorations in Dover to remember those killed and wounded during the most audacious amphibious attack of the Great War.

Following the news that the Federal Government is contemplating changing the funding model for public schools, a round of finger pointing has ensued, most recently culminating in the Federal Education Minister attacking the Queensland State Government's stance on the matter.

Abbott called Friday's shooting «one of the most heinous attacks that we've ever seen in the history of Texas schools.»

We should be fighting together for all children, yet charters face constant, unprovoked attacks on even the most incremental efforts to address the charter funding inequity — even in years when we see major increases for district schools.

USA Today — Most non-New Yorkers know only two things about Bill de Blasio, the city's new progressive mayor: He eats pizza with a knife and fork, and Al Roker attacked him for sending students to school in a snowstorm.

This was the first time most of these parents had heard someone attack their school in a public forum.

Most had been college students when the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001, and few understood schooling outside the aegis of No Child Left Behind.

Why is it the deformers attack the most vulnerable members of the school community?

«It's a direct attack on public education,» said Diane Ravitch, a historian and former Bush administration official who has become one of the most voluble critics of vouchers and charter schools and a proponent of the term privatization.

The status quo is under attack, because most reasonable people understand that thousands of Chicago students are trapped in failing schools.

For example, the two most deadly attacks in American schools both occurred more than 50 years ago:

In Compton, the only other city where the Parent Trigger law has been tested (it's currently tied up in court due to similar backlash), an opposition built of teachers and PTA parents turned Parent Revolution's conversation about the need for instant and radical change at California's most neglected schools into a political attack on the tight - knit Compton community.

Governor Abbott called the shooting «one of the most heinous attacks that we've ever seen in the history of Texas schools».

«Teachers unions, historically one of the most powerful interest groups in American politics, are being besieged like never before — under attack from conservative GOP governors with a zeal for budget - cutting even while taking fire from some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, who has suggested he agrees that unions can be an impediment to better schools.»

(from Education Week) Most K - 12 public school IT leaders are failing to take basic steps to secure their school networks against ransomware attacks, phishing schemes, data breaches and other cybersecurity threats, according to a new survey by CoSN (the Consortium for School Networschool IT leaders are failing to take basic steps to secure their school networks against ransomware attacks, phishing schemes, data breaches and other cybersecurity threats, according to a new survey by CoSN (the Consortium for School Networschool networks against ransomware attacks, phishing schemes, data breaches and other cybersecurity threats, according to a new survey by CoSN (the Consortium for School NetworSchool Networking).

I don't know what teachers she is observing, but the teachers I see in the schools today are the best and brightest I've ever seen — and are doing heroic work in spite of the most difficult conditions we've ever faced as a profession: meager resources; dwindling budgetary support; a narrowing of the curriculum leading to cuts to music, art and PE; withering attacks from Rhee, Kopp, Gates and Duncan and friends; an obsession with standardized testing; and much more.

Stop attacking and undermining schools and teachers that are servicing the most troubled students and support them!

Most places your school isn't likely to be attacked in 10,000 years, same with your home being invaded.

Perhaps most significantly, poor air quality is a leading cause of asthma attacks, which leads to 10 million lost school days and 14 million lost work days annually, according to the CDC.