Sentences with phrase «people in schools around the country»

There is so much good work being done to improve school food by people in schools around the country.

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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.

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.»

Intelligence - gathering on thousands of people and the movement of prisoners around the country required extensive resources and personnel, including specialists in repression, many of whom studied at the U.S - run School of the Americas, she says.

As a Single Parent / Mother of a high school student at Detroit Cass Tech (Donovan People - Jones) here in the City of Detroit I am initiating this Petition on behalf of all students and parents around the country and even Canada.

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.

So she was thrilled to find the national nonprofit HealthCorps, which places young people in high schools around the country for two - year terms as health & wellness coordinators.

While charter schools were taking root in D.C. and around the country, it seemed few people were starting charters that would recruit the kids we wanted to serve: kids who were behind in school, who had been suspended or expelled, who had been locked up.

The Community connects members in their own school, across the country and around the world through in - person and online events, networking, idea sharing and inspiration.

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

If you are leading or participating in a school - based program that helps young people explore teaching — in secondary or postsecondary — consider joining Educators Rising to connect with peers and experts around the country who are focusing on the same issues and challenges.

Throughout the week, thousands of parents, students, educators, and education advocates took part in student - led actions and events around the country to expose the school pushout crisis and advocate for the human right of every person to a quality education and be treated wtih dignity.

And I've walked into lower - income schools around the country where test scores are posted right in the front entryway and the message is very clear: That we care about you as a person and everything, but what really matters is the score that you post in April.

Throughout the week, thousands of parents, students, educators and education advocates will take part in parent and student - led actions and events around the country to expose the school pushout crisis and advocate for the human right of every young person to a quality education and to be treated with dignity.

In addition to the digital and social campaigns, THE GREAT AMERICAN READ has sparked nationwide community engagement efforts that will offer stations opportunities to create complementary content; stage community events; partner with libraries, booksellers, charitable organizations, schools, and other entities; and deepen the conversations and connections among people around the country.

Unlike kids in high school, readers aren't in packs of 2000 in a building (or if they are they aren't aware of it)-- they are thinly spread around the country, they take months (sometimes years) to pick up a book, may take many more months (or never) to recommend one and the person who's hearing the recommendation has the same ratio of taking months (or never) to pick up the recommended book and deciding if he / she likes it.

In fact, people can obtain a dog from any of the schools, save five (which serve only their own geographical regions), and many dogs from The Seeing Eye, Leader Dogs, Guiding Eyes and the other schools work on the west coast, while many dogs from Guide Dogs for the Blind work all around the country.

On Monday, I was in Washington, D.C., at a meeting that was part of National Engineers Week and these young people from around the country — middle school students — came for the finals of this big Future City Competition.

Easily the proudest moment of that campaign and my entire year with Green Corps was the Saturday before the New Hampshire primary when John McCain, in a school gymnasium, stood up and said, «I've heard from young people all across this state and around the country, for the last couple of months about «What are you gonna do about climate change, what are you gonna do about global warming?»

Twenty years from now it's a country that has closed the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, where cultural safety doesn't begin in the health system but in our homes and schools and public discourse, and where recognition of the urgency of climate change has prompted a profound sea change around the world in the way we live and do business.

Since then, she has inspired thousands of volunteers — including college students from around the country who flock to Spartanburg to use their time off from school in a meaningful way — to complete free home repairs on more than 800 homes for low - income seniors, people with disabilities and veterans.