Sentences with phrase «of school fires»

Over 60 percent of school fires are started deliberately and each year in England and Wales more than 1,300 schools suffer fires large enough to be attended by the fire and rescue service with costs estimated at over # 60million.

While the number of school fires has decreased over recent years, the costs associated with school fires have escalated, while the effects of loss of facilities, equipment, coursework, disruption of classes and lowering of morale also have a significant impact.

[24] He finds some evidence of an increased likelihood of schools firing teachers with frequent absences and / or lower value - added scores.

I am especially passionate about this aspect of my duties, and I have organized and implemented all of the school fire education programs in our county.

Not exact matches

Just days after a gunman opened fire at her school and killed 17 of her peers, Florida high school senior Emma Gonzalez used her voice to call national attention to gun law reform.

The NRA has come under fire in the aftermath of a horrific Florida school shooting in which 17 students lost their lives.

Whether or not their homes were among the 2,400 buildings that have burned, residents who had been laid off or whose business was slow prior to the fire are likely to use the evacuation as their cue to start fresh somewhere else, says Joseph Doucet, dean of the University of Alberta School of Business.

The school district failed to give Anderson formal notice of inefficiency or 90 days to correct his failings before firing him.

Fox 5 News reported that a group of students from Northwestern High School in Prince George County, Maryland, were traveling along the New Jersey Turnpike when the wheel of their bus caught fire, setting the whole vehicle ablaze.

Property taxes in the U.S. are a complicated patchwork of different policies set by states, cities and counties as well as local school boards, fire departments and utility commissions.

The youngest marketing professor to be hired by a North American B - school, Giesler is known as a dynamic instructor willing to go to extreme lengths to drive a point home, even setting his PhD dissertation on fire as part of one demonstration.

Amid clashes with university administration over spending measures, Doug Guthrie was abruptly fired from his post as dean of George Washington University's business school.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown professor of management practice at the Yale School of Management, and author of Firing Back: How CEOs Rebound From Career Disasters.

«The main result of this analysis is that the best clients of the aware brokers are significantly more likely than other clients to sell the stocks that the liquidating manager is offloading during the fire sale,» wrote Marco Di Maggio, assistant professor at Harvard Business School.

If Louisville had simply wanted to buy out Pitino's contract instead of firing him, it would have reportedly cost the school $ 44 million.

The co-founder of Evolution Martial Arts, a Parkland, Florida, karate school, would soon learn that more than 20 of her customers were under lockdown at the local high school, where a shooter had opened fire and slaughtered several students.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

But this Presidents Day weekend, the commander - in - chief fired off an unprecedented 14 tweets about the Russia investigation — declaring his innocence, suggesting the FBI could have prevented last week's Florida school shooting if it hadn't been working on the investigation, blaming Democrats and former President Barack Obama for Russia's interference in the election, and accusing the former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia.

Once you return, get them involved in the sorting and organizing of all the stuff you bought, and they will typically get all fired up about school.

Jesse Randal Davidson, a popular teacher at Dalton high school, is accused of firing shots in class, prompting debate on arming educators

The president made those remarks ahead of a meeting with state governors, referencing reports that an armed sheriff's deputy waited outside for minutes as a gunman opened fire within Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14.

A student took this video of classmates hiding in a classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, as a gunman opens fire.

«Their idea was that if you fire thousands of teachers, teachers» aides, school support workers, nurses, nurses» aides and people that work in the hospitals that somehow the price of oil would go back up,» she told a Unifor convention in Ottawa this week.

The combination of pent - up anger and the easy availability of a powerful, fast - firing rifle transformed a scrawny misfit named Nikolas Cruz into a murderous machine, one of a new American archetype: the mass school murderer.

«The guy was filled with rage,» said a person who has visited the school building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where Cruz fired a squall of more than 100 rounds from his AR - 15 into classrooms and down hallways at terrified kids.

When the lawsuit reached the Connecticut Supreme Court, gun control advocates, school officials and emergency doctors who treated victims of assault rifle fire submitted amicus briefs in favor of the lawsuit.

Teenagers are forcing lawmakers to consider changing their state gun laws — demanding action after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, left 17 students dead and added to the list of instances where people have opened fire on school grounds in 2018.

They will also seek a ban on «bump stocks,» which are used to make semiautomatic weapons mimic automatic weapons in rate of fire; more money to harden school campuses; and funding for mental - health initiatives and to provide trained school security officers.

-- A Georgia high school teacher brought a gun to school and fired a shot, testing Trump's theory on the safety of arming teachers.

The Company's transmissions are used in a range of applications, including on - highway trucks (distribution, refuse, construction, fire and emergency), buses (primarily school, transit and hybrid - transit), motorhomes, off - highway vehicles and equipment (energy, mining and construction) and defense vehicles (wheeled and tracked).

-LRB-...) Television stations, airports, hospitals, schools, fire brigades and social services from Spain's southernmost tip to the Balearic islands in the east are reducing headcount as Rajoy tasks regions and municipalities with shouldering 60 percent of the cuts needed to reduce the budget shortfall to 2.8 percent of gross domestic product in the next two years.

A former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

The shooter, who was equipped with a gas mask and smoke grenades, opener fire on one of the state's largest schools, officials said.

A week after a gunman opened fire with an AR -15-style assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and prompting a rash of student - driven lobbying for new gun restrictions, Mr. Trump met for more than an hour with grieving people in search of solutions.

If you spend a good portion of your day in a building like an office or a school, chances are good that you've participated in a fire drill...

The debate over what Congress and the president should do in response to mass shootings is once again confronting Washington after Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly killed 17 people at his former high school Wednesday, with authorities charging that he aimed his AR - 15 assault - style rifle and fired round after round into classroom after classroom in one of the nation's worst school shootings.

Jim Gard wondered as the fire alarm blared through the classrooms and hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The gunman started firing before even entering the school, leaving a trail of carnage across the sprawling campus, Israel said.

The attack was carried out by a former student wielding an assault - style rifle who strode into one of the school buildings and opened fire.

At the hands of bureaucrats, bosses, and judges, Christian merchants, universities, schools, hospitals, charities, campus fellowships, students, public officials, employees, and citizens have been fired, fined, shut down, threatened with a loss of accreditation, and evicted for living out traditional convictions about marriage and sexuality.

When the shooter opened fire at 7:57 a.m., bystanders fled into nearby classrooms, some out of the building, some away from the school and across the street.

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

The federal government now swept past all the barriers that once had put up resistance — as in extending controls on local schools or bringing under the review of federal courts the decisions made on hiring and firing in private businesses, even small colleges.

Thus the account from the court historians» which, interestingly enough, is also the story told to visitors of the museum on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, from which Oswald fired the lethal shots.

One of her fears came to pass Tuesday, when gunmen sought her out and opened fire on her school van, leaving her seriously wounded along with two other classmates.

Roys also accused the school of «Fostering an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, silencing whistleblowers by reprimanding, or even firing them.»

Christine and her friends navigate dating, plans for the future and the hierarchy of the high school - pecking order as news coverage of missiles firing in the desert flash on non-flat-screen box TVs which stick out like relics from a bygone era.

There was a story of a woman got fired from her teaching job at a Catholic school for being pregnant and not married.

Emmanuel School of Mission «Become who you are and you will set the world on fire.»

As was the firing of Joseph Fernandez and the effective abandonment of «The Rainbow Curriculum» in the public schools.