Sentences with phrase «of other schools around the country»

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After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Additional Masses are held around the clock to accommodate the thousands of school groups, parish youth groups, families, and others who find whatever way they can to make it to Washington from all over the country for the march.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

After naming its plastination source in the People's Republic of Chine and assuring us of its legality, the response continues: «Currently, human specimens in medical schools in China, the United States and other countries around the world are mainly made available via donated or unidentified bodies.»

Like most other districts around the country, it features school food formulations of highly processed breakfast items like Pop Tarts, Cocoa Puffs Bars, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal:

(And these donuts actually have less sugar than a lot of other sweetened grain items served for breakfast by schools around the country, at least before the frosting and sprinkles are added by the district.)

Maybe we share photos of superior school meals in other countries — not in the pointless and misleading way I excoriated in «Why I'm Fed Up With Those Photos of «School Lunches Around the World,» but in a meaningful way that would inform and inspire parents to demand bschool meals in other countries — not in the pointless and misleading way I excoriated in «Why I'm Fed Up With Those Photos of «School Lunches Around the World,» but in a meaningful way that would inform and inspire parents to demand bSchool Lunches Around the World,» but in a meaningful way that would inform and inspire parents to demand better?

Parents and other consumers are voicing loud opposition to the unlabeled use of Lean Beef Trimmings in ground beef, and schools and stores around the country are obviously listening and changing their practices.

SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

I've also come to personally know and like many of the people now running HISD's Nutrition Services department, as well as many other school food professionals around the country.

We look forward to NSBW every year; it gives us the opportunity to celebrate our favorite school meal of the day, and connect with other school breakfast fans from around the country.

These success stories illustrate the hard work of your school nutrition colleagues around the country; we find them so inspiring, and collecting stories like these can help you make the case — to your principal, your staff, and your administrators — for school breakfast, and other school wellness programs.

School districts and other state agencies around the country coordinate with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Or just call her Mrs. Q. That's the moniker chosen by the anonymous teacher who has vowed to eat school lunches for a year and blog the results in hopes of inspiring change at her school and others around the country.

She vowed to eat school lunches for a year and blog the results in hopes of inspiring change at her school and others around the country.

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.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

Cuomo decried the spate of anti-Semitic acts around the country and touted his proposal to provide $ 25 million in additional funding for schools and other potential targets to enhance security.

Students across the region will join others around the country in a national student walkout Wednesday to mark the one - month anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

While this may sound like an unrealistic model for other schools around the country — and it certainly costs a pretty penny to send your kids to such a utopia — Amis Cameron is on a mission to spread the MUSE method of sustainable, healthy eats elsewhere.

This style time video is a perfect guideline for what to wear for some of our state football teams, but they can easily be associated with national leagues and other schools around the country, as well as good looks to transition into the new season.

Superintendent Nick Polyak uses the Voxer app to talk to his network of hundreds of other school administrators around the country.

Like KIPP and EdVisions, part of High Tech High's scale - up work involves helping others found similar schools in nine sites around the country.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

To be sure, the population of public school children in New York City is different from that of many other school districts around the country.

Enrol your school to gain access to a wide range of memory - training resources, and to give your children the chance to test their memory skills against others from around the country.

Last year it was offered to 19 other public schools around the country as part of something called Summit Basecamp.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

When they're not working with schools and districts around the country, Nancy Gutierrez and Liliana Polo - McKenna sit next to each other in the offices of the NYC Leadership Academy.

But other parents have no way to know that; application forms at that school - and scores of other charter schools around the country - still indicate that a Social Security number is required.

Schools are changing in response to this reality, and in Transforming Schools Using Project - Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduSchools are changing in response to this reality, and in Transforming Schools Using Project - Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduSchools Using Project - Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduschools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own eduschools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own education.

Richard Stockton Elementary School of Cherry Hill NJ, a CEP National School of Character, joined forces with other CEP schools around the country to help aid the victims of Super Storm Sandy

In 2010, Steve formed Future Is Now Schools, built on the successful secondary Green Dot Public Schools model, union reform and systemic district change, to take the foundational principles, lessons learned and successes achieved on the local level of Southern California and expanded this base to other communities around the country.

Although there are other efforts around the country to bring restorative practices into public schools, this is a relatively new field of work.

Much of the expansion of school choice in other countries has centered around charter - style schools, which are called by various names in other countries.

«Local philanthropists, educators, judges, clergy and others around the country are starting local residential schools rather than just despair of the conditions so many youth live in, and fail in,» said Heidi Goldsmith, founder and executive director of the Washington - based Coalition for Residential Education.

Her choice from among leading educators and administrators from other districts around the country reflected a strong desire by the board to keep the district in the hands of someone well versed on the challenges facing the district, someone who would not need months of on - the - job learning to become familiar with issues, schools and personnel.

Excel hosts an average of 450 people annually from around the country, primarily other educators, who come to observe our schools in action.

She writes and publishes extensively, and consults, coaches, and teaches in schools and school districts around the country and in other parts of the world.

As districts and schools around the country consider implementing their own Opportunity Cultures, they want real - life examples of just how others have already done so.

Here's the challenge my community, other parents of color, and underserved communities around the country face: access to high - quality schools.

Both of these school districts, and others around the country, see the visits as a worthwhile investment of time and resources that improves the quality of both teaching and learning.

In Topeka and other school districts around the country, «our mindset is beginning to change regarding how to teach children with trauma issues,» says Anderson, who helped spearhead trauma - informed initiatives as superintendent in Jennings, Missouri, a 3,000 - student, high - poverty community outside of St. Louis.

Developed Maine's first statewide school accountability system (A-F school grades) to ensure transparency in school performance for families and students; joining other states and cities around the country who offer these grades on schools — grades that are based on information Maine already collected but that had been sitting in file cabinets at the Department of Education.

The group used the series court rulings to compare students from otherwise similar circumstances in different places around the country, some of whom attended schools where funding was increased, and others who did not.

While there were no significant overall gains among students of other ethnic groups, black students in their second year of private - school attendance improved their test scores by 6.3 percentile points — a striking advance at a time when schools around the country are trying to close a persistent gap between scores of white and black students.

Trump's nomination for Education Secretary is Betsy DeVos, who has spent millions to advance charter schools and other forms of «school choice» around the country.