Sentences with phrase «protest against school»

LeClercq was once arrested for participating in a peaceful protest against the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.

Buckley also asked Cash if protests against school board member Carl Paladino have been a distraction as the district awaits a hearing next month by the State Education Commissioner.

Community leaders led protests against the schools, arguing that changes were coming from the top down and the top was made up of mostly white decision makers.

Not exact matches

Students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. have organized gun protests and been joined by millions of Americans that have railed against gun violence, assault rifles, and the NRA.

Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

But while the protests against gun violence and perceived inaction by lawmakers grow, so does the list of incidents involving schools.

Our march, Protest Against Gun Violence was inspired by the depth of tragedy in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the countless other shootings, but also the looming fear that the next shooting is inevitable, whether at our school, or any other across the country.

Some would protest against Muslims using schools as a place of worship, but there are those of us who would stand up against those who give our Christian name a bad one.

What constitutes legitimate protection of a child and what are the obligations of a family to protest against an injustice in school segregation, for example, and to open the way for better public education?

In response, France has closed its embassies and shut down schools throughout the country, as a precautionary message against protests.

This can be observed in the struggle to defend public school salaries, in forms of nonmonetary trading of goods and services, in incipient micro-banks oriented especially toward financing projects designed and carried out by women, or in protests against corruption in the public sphere.

In home schooling, women are the chief teachers, and one may think that their decision to stay at home with the kids is a protest against regnant feminisms.

Saying that in the military we can not say a open prayer and in school games can not say a open prayer Merry Christmas almost has become a curse retailers are afraid to oppose the gays and the gays protesting and violent against anyone that is in a opposing view.

Of course, the protest against inert ideas and a curriculum of disconnected subjects would be even more telling against an electronic image medium than against traditional school curricula, for the reasons Postman gives.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen bates poseidon press, 365 pages, $ 24 The 1983 protest by a group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading....

Their methods and theology were those against which the Old School protested.

* rolls eyes *) one can only hope that a protest against sex crimes, greek life, and campus rape culture won't go unnoticed by the school.

Last fall, during my (ultimately successful) petition campaign against a misleading McDonald's «nutrition education» video intended for classroom use, I also told you about another protest going on against the company's in - school marketing.

Originally written as a protest song against boarding schools, the song has gone on to be adopted by protesters in apartheid South Africa and campaigners against the West Bank barrier.

The governor and the mayor were both marking the National School Walkout, a nationwide student protest against gun violence.

The pushback against the Trump Administration continued Sunday in a protest against new policy regarding transgender youths and the use of school bathrooms.

Students of the Federal University Oye - Ekiti (FUOYE), on Monday staged a peaceful protest against the institution's directive preventing students who had not paid their school fees...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and National Union of Teachers (NUT) at schools, colleges and universities across London will tomorrow (Wednesday) take strike action in protest against changes to their pensions.

He reported that, the New Patriotic Party and the Convention People's Party's polling agents at the Bolgatanga Regional House of Chiefs polling station, protested vehemently against some police recruits, who were brought from the Pwalugu Police training school to vote.

Students of the Ghana School of Law Thursday morning boycotted a paper they were supposed to write in protest against a mix - up in the questions.

The umbrella body of Muslim faithfuls in Nigeria, the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has announced its plan to embark on a nationwide protest against the Nigerian Law School over its law against the use of hijab.

From the first time he came to mainstream media's attention in 1994 proclaiming that the Gay Games in New York that year would spread AIDS in the city, to his resignation from the Civilian Complaint Review Board because of the constant protest from the LGBT community, to his attacks on the Harvey Milk School and his bussing in evangelical Christians from the tri-state area to stage a protest against gay marriage on the steps of the Bronx County Courthouse, he has crusaded against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Following protests by school children, Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC and Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT against the Kaduna State government over sacking of 21,000 alleged unqualified...

Parents, students and teachers protested against Common Core - based state testing outside Williamsville North High School.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

New Paltz, NY — Hudson Valley college, high school, and middle school students were among the thousands nationwide to walk out of class in protest of a war against Iraq.

They protested for 17 - minutes as part of the national movement against gun violence and to honor the lives lost in the Parkland, Florida school shootings last month.

They skipped school today to protest against Donald Trump.

Educators and parent leaders from Brooklyn's PS / IS 180 and PS 231, the District 75 school with which it shares space, held an early - morning «Black Friday» protest against budget cuts and layoffs on June 17 as part of the ongoing series of «Fight Back Friday» demonstrations at schools around the city.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Dozens of school administrators gathered in protest outside City Hall on Wednesday evening against the Buffalo Public School District and Superintendent Krinerschool administrators gathered in protest outside City Hall on Wednesday evening against the Buffalo Public School District and Superintendent KrinerSchool District and Superintendent Kriner Cash.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Roughly 50 high school students protested outside the town hall against the use of metal detectors.

«Ed Balls has launched a «save free school meals» campaign, stepping up his protest against cuts to an expansion in free meals.

General News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: mynewsgh.com A photo grid of Mim SHS Teachers of Mim Senior High school (SHS) in the Asunafo North Municipality of Brong Ahafo Region, have declared an indefinite strike in protest against series of attacks on teachers by the community folks.

But Matt's silent protest against maturity comes to a screeching halt once his unrequited high school crush, Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer), walks into the store.

February 28, 2018 • As Florida high school students protest against guns, columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts answers listener questions about the effectiveness of grass - roots activism.

The increasing diversity of home schoolers and institutional configurations should not obscure the fact that many who home school still choose this option out of frustration with or protest against formal, institution - based schooling and seek to impart an alternative, usually conservative Christian, worldview to their children by teaching them at home.

At Saturday's March for Our Lives, survivors of last month's Parkland, Fla., school shooting joined hundreds of thousands of people to protest against gun violence and call for more restrictive gun laws.

Harvard Protesters Greet Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Speech (NY Daily News via The Associated Press) To Improve Education, Reallocate Funds, DeVos Urges (Harvard Gazette) Boston Educators & Allies: Stand for All Students #StopDeVos (Liberation) Protests Against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Decry School Privatization (Democracy Now) Coverage of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos» talk at Harvard, and the efforts and perspective of some HGSE protesters who attended the event.

In the state of Washington, parent protests against the adoption of several standard math curricula (like Connected Math) led a state representative to introduce a bill earlier this year to put Singapore Math in all the state's elementary schools.

As a current example of ever - larger traditional public schools, the Chicago Board of Education is closing fifty traditional schools at one time and sending their students out of their neighborhoods to ever - larger schools against continuing parent protests.

The research follows a protest last week where some parents kept their children from attending school for a day in a demonstration against primary tests in England.

The news comes as thousands of parents have kept their children off school in order to protest against the difficulty of the new assessments, as part of the Let Our Kids Be Kids Campaign.

Given the current political climate, particularly nationwide protests against the «Muslim ban» this past weekend, all school - age students, but especially Muslim students, must be feeling especially confused.