Sentences with phrase «of vulnerable schools»

The retrofitting and replacement of vulnerable schools and other critical infrastructure will take decades, she added.

The Los Angeles Unified School District agreed to a settlement that halted seniority - based layoffs at dozens of vulnerable schools, including the plaintiffs».

Not exact matches

Choi thinks Korean teenagers, for example, may be particularly vulnerable to smartphone addiction because they spend a lot of time in school and in after - school tutoring programs.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

The majority of schools were equipped with either impact - resistant windows or built - in storm shutters, and sandbags were placed around vulnerable areas.

Beachside schools and schools in more open areas would likely be the most vulnerable, he added, explaining that a school with nothing around it would receive the full impact of winds, whereas a school tucked in a neighborhood would not.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back home.

For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.

Though flung far across this tilted and spun world, studying the serving ways of Jesus — Charles brims when he gets to this part in the story — he carried in his heart the faces of the orphaned, widowed and homeless of the Rwandan genocide, and he and his wife, Florence, scrounged and squirrelled every penny to begin sponsoring vulnerable children to attend school in Rwanda.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

And perhaps we're all teachers in a way, but those of us within the walls of schools find ourselves often solely responsible for these students during their strongest times and their most vulnerable moments.

In the Harran region in the south - east Turkey, where refugee camps are home to some 14,000 Syrian refugees, Ebru Baybara Demir leads the Harran Gastronomy School Project, an initiative to improve the employment prospects of economically vulnerable Turkish and Syrian women through culinary training.

One school of thought is that a team like the Broncos needs to get beat late in the season to make them aware of how vulnerable they can be every Sunday.

This is how it works: • The Children's Centre manager identifies relevant agencies already dealing with vulnerable families — for example schools, health visitors or a local homeless families unit • A simple form summarising the facilities and activities available at the Centre, and asking for a parent's contact details and a signature, is created • The manager / staff at the other agency agree, as part of their usual data recording protocols, to ask relevant service users to fill in the form.

When eligible schools use the summer and afterschool meal programs to provide free meals to all children during these most vulnerable times of the day and year, it creates new opportunities to engage in farm to school activities, and improves school meal program finances even more.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

Casa Central offers a network of services including Head Start education, out - of - school time support, interim housing, violence intervention and other valuable resources to vulnerable members of the community.Words on WheelsWords on Wheels volunteers to go places in their local communities to engage with at - risk babies through bubbles, puppets, music and stories.

Grade - schoolers are aware of and vulnerable to the stress of a divorce or a death in the family, a parent's loss of employment, a change in caregiver or teacher, an act of violence, or a natural disaster.

In 2006, the Nebraska Legislature stepped up to the challenge of ensuring that more of Nebraskas youngest, most vulnerable children would arrive at school ready to learn by establishing the Nebrask...

That's why so much of my time is taken up in trying to publicize just how important it is for our lowest income and most vulnerable students to have access to the highest possible quality of food at school.

Underlying all of these incidents — no matter how misguided the particular actions of school personnel — is a laudable desire to ensure that kids, especially economically vulnerable kids, get a decent meal at school.

We advocate for early diagnosis and screening of population groups of children that might be vulnerable to developing selective mutism and encourage parents and professionals to advocate for appropriate school accommodations and other resources that may be needed to help our children.

Osinbajo said the Social Investment Programme launched in 2016 — comprising a jobs scheme for unemployed graduates, a feeding programme for public primary school pupils, a micro-credit scheme for small businesses, and a cash transfer scheme for our poorest and most vulnerable households, is a key component of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.

Parents and teachers should be aware of the falsehood of the claims made by SPUC, and the government should be more pro-active in preventing groups that persistently make false claims of this nature from having access to vulnerable children, especially in schools.»

«Cameron's schools policy has delivered a vacuum in the local oversight of our schools, leaving children exposed to falling standards and vulnerable to risks posed by extremists.

Wilshaw singled out Birmingham City Council for criticism, saying its «serious failure» to support schools had left children vulnerable to extremism and accused it of a «lack of urgency».

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.

Or to be more specific: when Balls takes the need to respect diversity away from the curriculum of faith schools, he takes away the freedom of vulnerable, young children to explore their desires without being crippled by the stigma and idiocy which faith will impose on them.

«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.»

Should the review of the procedures they have used demonstrate a failure to follow the necessary statutory provisions regarding the transfer of employees then the school will be vulnerable to legal challenge.

This, she said, had made Ghana a role model for many African countries in the provision of free education and free compulsory universal basic education and free community day Senior High Schools had increased access to education for many vulnerable groups.

«This report demonstrates that the obsessive obliteration of vital information and guidance by the Coalition Government is leaving children and young people highly vulnerable and is placing additional burdens on schools as they have to use their own time and resources to plug the gap.»

Yet, for the society's most vulnerable, Osun has pioneered this schools feeding programme, as part of its larger social safety - net agenda.

«The Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant helps support the learning needs of some of the most vulnerable children in our schools yet the per - pupil value of the grants has been frozen in cash terms.

«NYSUT believes strongly that the tax cap undemocratically deprives taxpayers of their constitutional right to determine local school funding levels, while exacerbating existing funding inequities that harm the state's neediest and most vulnerable students,» the union said in a statement.

Moskowitz recently angered some of her teachers when she refused to publicly state her support for undocumented and transgender students and staff in her schools, and finally relented to saying she would protect vulnerable students after a tense back - and - forth with staff members.

«Why we use this law to address the challenge and punish the criminals, we are also putting in place appropriate measures particularly in our schools and other vulnerable targets to prevent security breaches and it is important that we ensure that everything we do in respect of this anti-kidnapping law is in good faith and good spirit to eradicate the issue of kidnapping once and for all in the State.»

It would be a big mistake to make our essential public services - schools, hospitals and the care of the vulnerable in our society - the whipping boys for private failures, or to pay the price for the excesses of greedy bankers and speculators.

Buhari said his government was committed to the fight against terrorism and insurgency, adding, «The security services have since been directed to put in place further measures around all schools vulnerable to attacks to ensure the safety of our pupils / students and teachers and school workers.

In the last ten years the failed ideology of «inclusion» and the drop in special school places have left the most vulnerable more exposed,» he said.

The duo has also said that this measure is merely a first step, recognizing that it leaves a lot of ground untouched — like, for example, the question of private schools and other buildings where children (who are particularly vulnerable when it comes to lead exposure) are likely to be present, like libraries and daycare centers.

That's the type of wishful thinking and lack of resolve that got us into the budget mess in the first place, Paterson's camp contends, but vulnerable Senate Democrats, especially those in the suburbs with school districts that will be hit hard by the cuts, are wary of a voter backlash.

Does this government still intend to go ahead with its feeding programme in schools and payment of stipends to vulnerable Nigerians despite the heavy fall in the price of oil?

I'm proud of the work we have done — expanding and strengthening our schools, securing vital emergency services, creating the borough's largest landmarked neighborhood, and giving voice to the underserved and most vulnerable in our community.»

Clancy points out that graduate school can be a particularly «exploitative and vulnerable time,» during which doing controversial metascience research could be difficult, especially if advisers or other colleagues in positions of power are not supportive of the work.

To reduce suicide among school youth, we might consider paying closer attention to preventing their use of alcohol and cigarettes and implementing these prevention programs in school settings to reach vulnerable adolescents at risk for suicide.»

In 1995, GHI returned to Quito, publishing a report with the names, addresses, and photos of the city's most vulnerable schools — along with a list of simple repairs needed to shore up the buildings.