Sentences with phrase «on community schools in»

These mixed results are not unique to NYC but are echoed by literature on community schools in general.

First lady Chirlane McCray made her first public pitch for mayoral control of city schools on Wednesday, speaking at a parent forum on community schools in Brooklyn.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

The Shannon School of Business offers the only MBA program in North America with a specific focus on community economic development.

The state government has made further amendments to its decision to charge a $ 4,000 public school fee for families on 457 visas, after community backlash resulted in multiple delays.

People have reported hate incidents from every part of their communities: in schools, on the road, at private businesses, in the workplace.

This is not what we as a community stand for, nor is it something we will tolerate,» New School President David E. Van Zandt said in a statement, calling the vandalism an «illegal, inflammatory and hurtful influence on our campus.»

Former Intercept reporter Juan Thompson was arrested by the FBI on March 3 in connection with bomb threats made to at least eight Jewish community centers and schools and the Anti-Defamation League's Manhattan headquarters.

We're increasing enrollment in high - quality early education, raising standards in our public schools as a leader in implementing the Common Core curriculum and working with the business community on STEM programs that are relevant to the job market.

Dr. Stephens has also been highly active throughout her career in industry and community activities, including serving as the Vice Chairman of the Orange County Council and National Board member of the American Electronics Association, now TechAmerica; participating on the University of California at Irvine School of the Arts Deans Advisory Council in the area of Digital Arts; and as a Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Orange County Board member.

On that same day, he also was within 25 feet of the west parking lot of Park Vista Community High School in Lake Worth.

Six reasons Dogwood's director of community organizing is feeling hopeful about beating Kinder Morgan My sons and I pass the Kinder Morgan tank farm on our way to school in the morning and on our way home in the evening.

Mr. Kassie is actively involved in community and charitable organizations and is the Chairman of the Board of Baycrest Health Sciences and is on the board of the Richard Ivey School of Business and was formerly on the boards of the Toronto International Film Festival Group and the Hospital for Sick Children.

Moldaver is also involved in the legal community, volunteering as a guest judge on final panels for national law school moot competitions.

Community programs are tailored to meet the need of the consumers in the community and include investor education and protection programs in high schools, on college campuses, in libraries, churches, senior centers, sports venues and anywhere else in the community where peoCommunity programs are tailored to meet the need of the consumers in the community and include investor education and protection programs in high schools, on college campuses, in libraries, churches, senior centers, sports venues and anywhere else in the community where peocommunity and include investor education and protection programs in high schools, on college campuses, in libraries, churches, senior centers, sports venues and anywhere else in the community where peocommunity where people meet.

Has served for the past dozen years on the board of the KIPP Academy charter school in the South Bronx, which is part of a national network of 200 college prep public charter schools in low - income communities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

But according to a warrant, he violated probation by driving a Kia SUV on April 28 without a valid driver license and for going within 25 feet of a parking lot at Park Vista Community High School in Lake Worth.

She also holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin where she serves on the Cockrell School of Engineering's External Advisory Board and the Texas Health Catalyst Advisory Panel for UT's new Dell Medical School to foster health technology innovations across industry, academia and community.

There exists a myriad of learning opportunities available to students outside of the regular school day, whether on campus, through local museums and science centers, or elsewhere in communities across the country.

They have taken on the toughest customers by rolling CareMessage out in the most underserved communities, some of which include charitable clinics run out of the back of a church or free clinics affiliated with a medical school.

The 17 who were lost in the senseless shooting on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, leave behind heartbroken family, friends, classmates and communities.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business communitycommunity

On Saturday, survivors of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, met with high school students from Chicago to discuss gun violence and its effects on their communities, coming together to «share stories, ideologies, and pizza,» according to Parkland survivor and student activist Emma GonzáleOn Saturday, survivors of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, met with high school students from Chicago to discuss gun violence and its effects on their communities, coming together to «share stories, ideologies, and pizza,» according to Parkland survivor and student activist Emma Gonzáleon their communities, coming together to «share stories, ideologies, and pizza,» according to Parkland survivor and student activist Emma González.

At West Boca Raton Community High School, about 50 students held a «die - in» on school grounds with some of the «dead» wearing targets pinned onto their School, about 50 students held a «die - in» on school grounds with some of the «dead» wearing targets pinned onto their school grounds with some of the «dead» wearing targets pinned onto their backs.

Mourners bring flowers to a makeshift memorial created by community members outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Sun., Feb. 18, 2018.

Mourners hug near a makeshift memorial created by community members outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Sun., Feb. 18, 2018.

Chris McCormick (far right), from First Priority of South Florida, carries boxes of tissues for grieving community members outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Sun., Feb. 18, 2018.

As the community mourns, lawmakers in Florida are responding with mixed ideas on what to do to address the recurring issue of gun violence in the state and the national trend of terrorists continually targeting schools.

I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.

Here are some specifics on how this «always worship together rule» has now infiltrated our lives: Fred occasionally teaches Sunday School at my Baptist Church; I fully participation in his faith community's services and rituals during Hindu festival weekends.

You'd think that I'd focus on Dianah explaining how the pain of her dislocated hip threatened to keep her out of school until the ministry of Africa New Life found her a surgeon, a new hip, a community nurse named Rebecca who oversees her recovery and physical therapy plan, all of her school fees and complete support to keep her in high school full time.

This is one reason — perhaps the most prevalent reason — why religion fares so lamely in high school groups and on the college campus, for where the atmosphere has become predominantly secular, as it has in most communities, social pressures have enormous power.

Other similar efforts would involve him in educational efforts with churches, schools, and agencies on the community level.

Twice each year, I take two bus - loads of high school students on retreats at which they worship, walk labyrinths, talk in small groups with adults who care about them, and «hang out» in Christian community.

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

And while we love 4.0 GPAs in admissions, we also want to see that you are engaged in your community (school, family, neighborhood) and not just solely focused on the books.

An off - duty LAPD officer fired his gun during an altercation with a 13 - year - old Latino boy and group of teens in Anaheim, California, allegedly because one of the teens walked on his lawn on their way home from school, sparking protests in the area community protested the case.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

By AD 353 the Christian community in Edessa was divided by the rift between the bishop and his adherents on the one hand and the school of Edessa and the majority of the Christians on the other.

In the second place, as one community agency among many, the school also serves the ultimate social objectives indirectly, insofar as its immediate concern is to teach men who will be able to guide and carry on the activities of other agencies; so it functions as a community of teachers.

You can check out your favorite stores on BetterWorldShopper.org (they have an app, too, if you want to check it on the go) where they grade companies A-F (just like in school) based upon 5 issues: human rights, environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice.

While many schools have gone to great lengths to prevent another Columbine from happening in their own communities, most Americans don't place the blame for school violence on school officials or on a lack of security.

«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risIn the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

So when a black student at a Connecticut high school was disciplined in 1996 for wearing pants that drooped (exposing his underwear), not only did he claim a right to wear what he liked, but some community leaders hinted at racism, on the theory that many young African - American males dress this way.

Washington (CNN)- On the first Sunday after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the Rev. Gary Hall of the Washington National Cathedral called on religious communities to take a stance against gun violencOn the first Sunday after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the Rev. Gary Hall of the Washington National Cathedral called on religious communities to take a stance against gun violencon religious communities to take a stance against gun violence.

The turbulence of a rapidly changing scene surrounds us, and the same forces that are creating turmoil in the cities, on the campuses, and in the local schools are shaking up this infant movement — community mental health.

The general question is: What is the community in which the theological schools carry on their work and which they in part represent?

No other approach to an educational problem seems possible, since a school is never separable from the community in which it works, whose living tradition it carries on, into which it sends citizens and leaders imbued with that tradition and committed to the social values.