Sentences with phrase «run boarding school»

A grandmother sends her grandson to a charter - run boarding school to get him away from the streets that claimed her son and because she sees brilliance in him that his teachers missed.

Politician - designed, government - run boarding schools are not of the private ilk.

Indian agents would take children from their homes as young as two or three and send them to church - run boarding schools where they were punished for speaking their native languages or observing any indigenous traditions, routinely sexually and physically assaulted, and in some extreme instances subjected to medical experimentation and sterilization.

From as early as 1677 settler communities and then, later, the United States government, ran boarding schools that were intended to «civilize» indigenous youth through a regulated process of forced assimilation.

Chief Littlechild helped to lead a seven - year investigation by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission into the country's «saddest, darkest, most unknown history», to unveil the truth and hear the stories of the survivors, many of whom were subject to abuse in the government - funded church - run boarding schools.

Not exact matches

Now she was in high school at a boarding school in Pebble Beach, Calif., a two - hour drive away, and suddenly he started showing up to watch her run.

The mother of one of the students killed in the Parkland school shooting has confirmed that she will be running for a seat on the Broward County School school shooting has confirmed that she will be running for a seat on the Broward County School School Board.

Ms. Notley's candidacy has received a number of high profile endorsements, including those of fellow NDP MLA Deron Bilous, former NDP MLAs Barrie Chivers, Bob Hawkesworth and Jim Gurnett, former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling (who ran for the PCs in the 1997 federal election), former PC MLA Tom Sindlinger and former Edmonton Public School Board trustee Dave Colburn.

Charters are public schools that boards of local citizens can apply to open and run under state oversight, and that any child can attend.

I get to work on Adirondack conservation issues and assist those who are fighting global warming; I've helped my wife start a new school in our town; I can teach Sunday school and help run a nationwide effort to decommercialize Christmas and sit on the board of the local college.

The first time I had unsweetened yogurt was at a boarding school run by French nuns.

Michelle sees the three farms that Pat's father ran along with the feed store and the grocery store and the hardware store and the tobacco warehouse and the beauty salon, all while he was a school - board member and the county water commissioner.

Jim Kennedy, now an assistant at the University of Louisville but coach at Trinity when the first H of S board was raised, termed the treatment of the reluctant players «negative motivation,» and credited this with being one of the reasons why Trinity rose from being an also - ran to one of the state's leading high school powers.

But he visited Florida, Florida State, Georgia, LSU and North Carolina, to the chagrin of Miami message boards — so many schools that the Fort Lauderdale Sun - Sentinel ran a story on Oct. 4 headlined UM FRETS OVER A TOP RECRUIT, wondering how hard his commitment was.

I just know I personally would not send my kid to an all - day government - run pre-K and the state of the U.S. economy and public schools such as they are right now, I don't think adding more responsibilities to them and throwing more money at them is something I'm on board with.

She also served on the executive board of UNICEF in Israel and created and ran after - school programs for latch - key children.

One way suggested by forum readers was for parents to demand that local school boards run schools more like businesses to eliminate unnecessary expenses:

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Now the director of Litchfield Elementary School District # 79, Schwake got his start in school foodservice by running for school board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisSchool District # 79, Schwake got his start in school foodservice by running for school board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisschool foodservice by running for school board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisschool board after his suggestion to implement school breakfast was met with resisschool breakfast was met with resistance.

Of the 90 similar programs in the state in the 1989 - 90 school year, 29 were run by school districts and 61 by outside agencies in space provided by local schools, according to Illinois Board of Education records.

And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.

Rand Rosecrans, a chef who runs the culinary classes at the high school boarding program in Galena, said this is one government grant that should continue.

The 56 - year - old Geneva resident filed to run for three different boards in the April 9 municipal election — for the Geneva school and Park District boards, as well as the library board.

The justices voted, 6 to 3, that charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately run — are not «common schools» because their governing boards are not elected but are appointed by the founders of the individual schools.

This type of cooperative is run utilizing the parents as volunteers in the classroom and as board members that oversee the operation of the school.

This coward will NEVER run for school board.

Just wanted to flag another local candidate, Lisa Mansfield, who is running for the Akron School Board.

When Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino announced he was running for the Buffalo Public School Board, more than a few political observers found the idea laughable.

Outspoken Buffalo businessman and former Republican candidate for Governor Carl Paladino is considering running for the school board.

Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa said the $ 3.5 million will help the privately run, publicly funded schools spread their successful lessons to district classrooms.

Paladino said he was concentrating on his run for school board in Buffalo, not a possible 2014 rematch against Cuomo.

Once, I saw a slate of school board candidates that included prominent political party officials, but even then there wasn't institutional support from the political party whose name they did not run under.

«I'm running for school board right now and then I have to go clean that mess up and then I'll worry about anything else I have to do in life,» he said.

Other Democrats who have said they are considering running include Rochester Councilman Adam McFadden, Brighton Town Board member Robin Reynolds Wilt, and Rochester School Board President Van White.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

The event was organized against Austin Harig, who ran against Paladino for his school board seat last year.

Terry's career as a successful political operative dates back to 1972, when he served as the campaign manager for an 18 - year - old classmate, Thomas DiNapoli, who was running for the Mineola School Board.

-- Van White, the Rochester City School Board president and attorney, says he is also considering a run to replace Slaughter in the 25th Congressional District.

Meanwhile, the Port Washington Union Free School District, was approved for a $ 150,000 grant to resurface its running track and buy new bleachers and a score board.

Rochester City School Board president and attorney Van White confirms he's gathering signatures in the event he decides to run.

Saladino faced four opponents: Democrat and former Syosset school board president Marc Herman, who questioned Saladino's commitment to reform, as did John Mangelli, who narrowly lost to Venditto in 2015 as a Democrat and ran on the Reform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End Corruption line.

But some of New York's wealthiest schools were still given state grants to resurface running tracks and buy Smart boards, bleachers and a scoreboard, records show.

It wasn't a bad idea when Charter Schools were run by the Board of Ed.

Joshua Lafazan became one of the youngest officeholders in the state when he was elected to his local school board, now he's running for a post on the county Legislature.

Maybe people will get the idea Ulster is a pretty good place, move here, purchase homes, raise kids, start businesses, join a service club, run for school board and buy the local newspapers.

When I ran for school board the one thing that I did enjoy was there was not a label.

The Green Party of St. Paul has launched an impressive coordinated campaign effort this year, running Devin Miller for School Board, Johnny Howard for City Council Ward 1, Jim Ivey for City Council Ward 2, and Bee Kevin Xiong for City Council Ward 6.

The seven - member school board is currently run by a Democratic majority.

Mayoral control would eliminate board members» need to run on party lines, better holding the mayor accountable for the state of city schools, Lavine said.

He also ran races for Islip Town board and district court judge and won election to the Brentwood school board, where he served for three years.