Sentences with phrase «other school attacks»

The scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the surrounding area after the shootings shifted from chaos and panic to grief, anger, and calls for swift and aggressive action to prevent other school attacks.

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Although largely a local media figure, Allman's remarks drew national attention both because of how out - of - line they were and because they exemplified a broader pattern in conservative media of personally attacking Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, and other survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people.

Like other school shootings before it, the attack has renewed the national debate on gun control.

During the past two years, reports of terrorist attacks against Christians have steadily emerged from the Muslim world: 7 Egyptian Christians executed on a Benghazi beach, 165 Christian girls kidnapped from school by Boko Haram, and 21 Coptic Christians beheaded near the Mediterranean Sea, among other incidents.

but if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

The inquest heard how, on the morning of the attack, Cornick told a number of children what he planned to do and also how he wanted to kill two other teachers at the school.

They still occassionally suffer from violent attacks upon them — like other children in this country unfortunately do when at school — but they are allowed to live as they please — and probably would have no trouble getting a passport and yes — they might have that they are a quaker on their headstones — but if they were a christian quaker — they could say that too.

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

This is the latest attack against the new, more rigorous school testing standards and goes further than other reforms offered to date.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) and Craig Johnson (D - Nassau) dismissed the AFL - CIO's distribution of leaflets that attack them for championing an expansion of charter schools and opposing unions on other pocketbook issues.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Israel over the weekend, where he spoke at the Annual Conference of Mayors, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visited recent terror attack victims, and made several other stops, including at the Western Wall and at a school educating a diverse student population.

Christians worshippers at Methodist and other churches in the area and Muslims faithful under the aegis of Quareeb Muslim Society that were having their new year eve at one of the Secondary school at Taiwo were seriously attacked by the youths during which three persons were wounded and properties destroyed.

Investigating an increase in exclusions from primary schools, school inspectors unearthed high incidences of children touching other children inappropriately and using sexually explicit language as well as swearing, attacking staff and damaging property.

The next week, UFT members at more than 500 schools came together with parents and other members of the school community to join hands in front of their schools to show their commitment to protecting schools against the governor's attacks.

Law enforcement says Cruz carried out the attack that killed at least 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and left others hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

State Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn) said the Florida school shooting is just the latest reason the state should pass his bills requiring every school be manned by an armed police officer and all schools to include emergency response drills for all situations including active shooters or other lethal attacks.

It was learnt that the farmers fled their homes in Boutsa, Demekaa and Ayoosu among others in the Keana Local Government Area of the state for fear of being attacked by the rampaging herdsmen who are currently taking refuge at Keana South Primary School.

Last week around fifty headteachers wrote this letter to the Guardian attacking Conservative plans to allow parents, charities and others to set up new state - funded schools.

Zimet did attack Cahill's stand on sales - tax policy, but on other issues, including school aid, women's reproductive rights, ethics and legislative misfeasance, gay rights, local hospitals and campaign finance reform, there wasn't much difference between these two liberal Democrats.

In the wake of the Nash Road attack, William T. Crago, the father of the victim, co-founded with other parents the North Tonawanda Coalition for Safe Schools and Streets.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

Rare mutations that shut down a single gene are linked to lower cholesterol levels and a 50 percent reduction in the risk of heart attack, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Broad Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and other institutions.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine has shown that a protein inhibitor drug prevents these blockages, and could be a new therapeutic approach to prevent heart attack, stroke and other diseases caused by blocked blood vessels.

Developed in consultation with foreign ministries, defense and education officials, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, among other groups, it stipulates that countries agree to assist victims of attacks on schools; help to keep classes running; investigate violent incidents; promote «conflict - sensitive» education policies to lessen tension among diverse social or ethnic groups; and implement various other measures.

If the area over the chest is affected, someone might mistake this new pain for a heart attack or other cardiac issue, says Salman Arain, MD, an interventional cardiologist with McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute - Texas Medical Center.

The depression, anxiety, and other strong emotions associated with grief may be partly responsible for the spike in heart - attack risk, says lead author Elizabeth Mostofsky, Sc.D., a post-doctoral research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health, both in Boston.

The other moms at my daughter's school would have a heart attack if they saw the pumpkin candy bucket.

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At one point she physically attacks two teenagers standing outside a high school, in plain view of dozens of other students, teachers and parents.

Typically these attacks seek to gain access to school data and systems, to use school systems to mount further attacks on other systems, or use school systems for illegal or unauthorised purposes, leading to reputational damage.

DC Public Schools is actively attacking the achievement gap like no other, and I am excited to be a part of the effort.

In the absence of full - time virtual schools, teachers unions and other opponents use their resources to attack blended - learning charters, even though the latter do not differ in legal structure, brick - and - mortar presence, or enrollment practices from other charter schools.

Experts Say Penn State's Former President Was a Lesson in How Not to Lead The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2012 «At the other extreme, said Richard Chait, a research professor at Harvard's graduate school of education, board members can become «self - appointed vigilantes,» looking to attack and expose an administration and delve into areas where they don't belong.»

In 2017, we witnessed a significant elevation of private - school choice as an issue and an unprecedented wave of attacks — even hysteria — from the other side.

Security is also being heightened up at the entrance to school buildings, and pupils will be taught to hide, escape and help each other should an attack happen.

The other influences were more sudden and jarring: the shootings at Columbine High School in April 1999, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

As I acknowledged earlier, expanding charter schools or other choice mechanisms certainly takes a lot of policy advocacy to get off the ground, often in the face of brutal political attacks.

Weary of what they describe as unfounded attacks and increasing criticism leveled at the nation's public schools, the leaders of several national groups convened a conference of administrators, teachers, and other education experts here this month to launch a counterattack.

We are used to attacks on multiculturalism (now so solidly established in social studies in elementary and high schools) from the right, from conservatives who are alarmed at a diminution of loyalty to the nation as other loyalties are promoted.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

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I've found the contents of this book to still be my best defense when others with whom I interact attack America's public schools, as often misinformed and perpetuated by many American politicians and journalists.

The Post's zeal to attack the United Federation of Teachers at every turn apparently resulted in your use of old math - test scores in comparing how our charter school compares with others in New York City.

A group of people, on the other hand, began attacking to these schools by making up a fiction narrative that Concept managed schools, e.g. Horizon Science Academy, Noble Academy, Math and Science Academies, are linked to Fetfullah Gulen, a Turkish schoolar who lives in Pensylvennia, and the Gulen Movement named after him.

Their education coverage, in particular, has been completely one - sided with incessant attacks on charter schools and other education reforms.

Caputo - Pearl said his «Union Power» group believes Fletcher has been too passive in fighting attacks on teachers and plans to organize the broader community to press for smaller classes, pay raises and protections for campuses against charter schools and other outside groups.

By doing walk - ins, holding community forums, canvassing parents» homes and engaging the community in the struggle, MTEA has created a model that other school districts that are under attack should replicate.

Where else in the world students can vandalized school property, curse at teachers, fight in the classrooms, have food fights in the cafeteria, come to class without any intention to learn, bring weapons to school, physically attack teachers or other students, etc. without any serious consequences?

* She's been attacked for not having a step - by - step program for fixing broken schools, as if one exists, as if any of her attackers really know the answer, and as if she claimed to be anything other than a historian.

But first, the outcome I was expecting from the first day that this «independent, objective» group announced their intentions to develop recommendations to address the shocking «crisis in our schools» using the same scare tactics that have preceded every other attack on public schools, their teachers and communities: