Sentences with phrase «says keeping schools safe»
Noble officials and many parents defend the tough disciplinary code, saying it keeps their schools safe and keeps students focused in the classroom.
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«Organize sit - ins, teach - ins, walkouts, marches — whatever you decide will show your school and community's determination to keep our students safe,» it said.
Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February has reignited the debate about how to keep children safe from a future attack, with President Trump and gun rights activists saying the best solution is to let teachers carry guns.
Florida governor Rick Scott sent a statement, saying that he «will be organizing meetings with state and local leaders in Tallahassee next week to discuss ways to keep Florida students safe, including school safety improvements and keeping guns away from individuals struggling with mental illness.»
«We have to keep this country safe,» the mayor told reporters, addressing questions about an Associated Press report that said the NYPD was closely monitoring Muslim student associations in schools across the Northeastern United States.
The family said their lawyer has filed a notice of claim with Comptroller John Liu «s office against the school that they say had been responsible for keeping Avonte safe.
«In the days and weeks following the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, members of our community from all backgrounds have come together to support common - sense policies that will keep our families safe from gun violence,» Lunsford said.
«Our Senate Republican Majority is hard at work on a comprehensive school safety plan that will ensure the state provides the support necessary to strengthen school security and keep students safe,» he said.
«We take school threats very seriously and will continue working closely with New York State Police and other law enforcement agencies to keep our children safe,» Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. says.
He also said he agrees with State Senator Fred Akshar's (R) proposal to have a resource officer on each school's campus to keep students safe.
Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. said, «We take school threats very seriously and will continue working closely with New York State Police and other law enforcement agencies to keep our children safe.
«We are currently having important discussions about a comprehensive school - safety plan that will ensure the state provides the support necessary to strengthen security and keep our children safe,» is all Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif would say on gun control Tuesday.
«The Allentown Morning Call said it well when it wrote, «Pat Toomey puts principles over party - line obedience» — whether it's on background checks for gun purchases, job creation, or keeping predators out of schools, Pat is proud of his work across party lines to make our communities safer and our economy stronger,» Kelly said.
«This change starts with doing everything in our power to keep guns out of the hands of people too dangerous to have them,» said Cuomo, who led the passage of the 2013 SAFE Act a month after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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«The candidates are starting to say what they stand for, whether they're in favor of improving our schools, whether they're in favor of keeping us safe, whether they're in favor of keeping businesses from fleeing the city or not.
Over the past decade, much progress has been made nationally to increase enrollment in afterschool programs — programs advocates say keep children safe, inspiring them to learn and supporting working families between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. Vermont and Massachusetts have made the list of Top 10 States for Afterschool, prepared by Washington, D.C. - based After School Alliance.
«The school bell has rung so it's time for the House of Representatives to pass this common - sense, bipartisan legislation that keeps our children safe when they attend after - school programs,» said Schumer, a New York Democrat.
Changes to statutory guidance on keeping children safe that come into force today (5 Sept) will have a profound impact on IT provision for both private and state schools, says Steve O'Connell, sales director at Advantex Network Solutions Ltd, who explains more and offers advice on what to do to keep children safe.
School resource officers need the tools to strike a balance between their job of keeping schools safe and the privacy rights of students, a white paper by the American Civil Liberties Union says.
«How effectively a school keeps kids healthy and safe enough to learn, and helps kids and families learn how to keep themselves healthy and safe, depends most of all on the principal's leadership in mobilizing and coordinating external resources and community strengths not directly under his supervision,» Deutsch says.
According to a report from Herald Scotland, Education Scotland said good progress had been made by the school in developing staff skills and putting systems in place to make sure children were kept safe, but added that «insufficient progress» had been made in relation to the leadership team and the management of the school.
Fay says she created The Conies as a registered charity to help keep children safe: «We wanted to educate primary school children in road safety with the help of fun characters they could identify with.
«We have to explain to people why nurses are important to academic success and to keep kids safe in school,» she said.
School nurses say educators must recognize their vital role in keeping students safe and able to learn, and make hiring nurses a priority.
Buchanan, who is also headteacher of Ashford school in Kent, said the desire among teachers to organise trips «had not diminished» but guidance from the Department for Education (DfE)-- Keeping Children Safe in Education — updated in September last year was «less clear» on the issue of foreign exchange trips than previously and placed an onus on schools to carry out vetting and barring checks on host families in England.
Speaking to the BBC last month Education Secretary Justine Greening said a recent government review had provided schools with the latest advice in how to keep pupils and staff safe.
«The DfE has only lately come round to realising that if you don't provide funding to keep schools safe, solvent, structurally sound, legally complaint and educationally improving, you have to take the money to do it from the schools» budgets themselves,» he said.
«Since 1981, we've been working to help children get along, keep themselves safe, and become caring, responsible members of their families, schools and communities,» says Committee for Children's executive director, Joan Duffell.
«The best thing we can do to keep schools safe is invest in our relationships between students, staff, and parents,» Herman says.
«We want our neighborhoods to remain safe and stable, and a big part of that is keeping our neighborhood schools strong,» Maass says.
He said one of the ways to tackle the issue was to encourage Ofsted to look into whether school were doing «all they can to keep people safe in particular in relation to knife crime».
The report into Park View School said the academy's work to keep students safe, including from extremism, was inadequate.
Schools should teach «digital citizenship» to all pupils aged four to 14 to help keep them safe online, the children's commissioner Anne Longfield has said.
Lucy Powell, Labour's shadow education secretary, commenting on the investigations, said: «Ministers have a basic responsibility to ensure that children are kept safe, and yet despite warning after warning, they have dragged their feet on this very serious issue, leaving children in unregistered schools where they could be in harm's way.
«It is important for schools to do what they can to keep their kids and teachers safe — this will likely be different for every educational institution because all schools have unique challenges,» Hasenberg said.
However, in a statement emailed to parents, Superintendent Greg McGann said the school was committed to keeping students safe:
«Educators know firsthand what it takes to keep schools safe and welcoming, yet we're rarely consulted,» said WEAC President Ron Martin, an eighth grade teacher with expertise in restorative justice.
«Racial discrimination in our nation's educational systems persists and both the Departments of Education and Justice are failing to protect the civil rights and educational future of our Black and brown students,» said Todd A. Cox, director of policy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. «This administration must stop endangering students of color and instead ensure equal educational opportunities and foster educational excellence by upholding the federal school discipline guidance and promoting policies and programs that keep students safe.»
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said she was disappointed by the decision, adding: «When report after report following the tragic sex abuse cases in Rotherham and Oxford point out that PSHE keeps children safe, how can Nicky Morgan refuse time and time again to make PSHE mandatory in all schools.
«It is disappointing that the school chose not to work with the iconic Barbara Hepworth Gallery in the city to keep [the sculptures] safe for future generations to enjoy,» said local MP Mary Creagh.
«Organize sit - ins, teach - ins, walkouts, marches — whatever you decide will show your school and community's determination to keep our students safe,» it said.
«I have created the Alex Schachter Scholarship Fund in memory of Alex. The goal is to raise funds to support nationwide school safety to bring leaders together who are at the forefront of keeping students, teachers and administrators safe in their schools,» said Schachter.
He says the district needs the guardian program to keep students safe because Cooke County is so large (it's almost 900 square miles and runs from just north of Dallas to the Oklahoma state line) it could take sheriff's deputies several minutes to respond to something like a shooting at the school.