Sentences with phrase «school assembly on»

Lauderdale Primary School was recently recognised for its commitment to KidsMatter, at a school assembly on 16 October.

Mrs Bragg was elected Mayor in May this year and attended whole school assembly on Monday 18 July to celebrate some amazing fund - raising!

Mrs Bragg was elected Mayor in May this year and attended whole school assembly on Monday 18...

You wouldn't happen to be doing a school assembly on The Weather, would you?

Now you're writing a speech for the year's first all - school assembly on a topic outside your expertise: stress management.

Promotion of the group by the fathers already involved to other fathers is important, as is publicity in school assembly on a regular basis.

Not exact matches

I had more than one guidance counsellor admonish me for not trying harder in school, suggesting that «it would be a shame if a smart boy like you ended up working on an assembly line.»

It was a simple motion introduced on the floor of Alberta's Legislative Assembly on April 7, 2014 that would help create safer environments for students in schools.

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We created a sketch on the Prodigal Son to link with the Year of Mercy, and presented it for a whole - school assembly, after which the day was spent meeting with one year group after another for follow - up work.

Finally, one of the dangers of church - based youthwork is that the youthworker's focus can easily be on getting teens into a programme and keeping them there, and getting themselves into schools to do assemblies.

Close on the heels of Sodexo's $ 21 million settlement with the state of New York for failing to properly pass on rebates and volume discounts to the school districts it serves, two assembly members in New Jersey have petitioned that state's attorney... [Continue reading]

Three of the fathers put on a performance for the school at assembly displaying skills such as juggling and magic tricks.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Teachers aren't supposed to pick on their students, and making up a mean little award like that and giving it to a kid during a school assembly is humiliating and bullying.

They held a why - it's - good - to - walk assembly, they organized official walk - to - school days on the last Friday of -LSB-...]

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was critical on Thursday of an effort being pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have the state take over low - performing public schools, saying it could potentially lead to them becoming charter schools.

Democrat Shelley Mayer, a state Assembly lawmaker, after the shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people, spoke Sunday at a rally with left - leaning groups demanding action on gun control.

Silver didn't address any of Cuomo's policy positions, some of which seem to be a direct hit on the speaker and his colleagues — like the one that would require full disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, for example, or the lifting of the charter school cap (not popular with the teachers unions, who are close allies of the Assembly Democrats).

Assembly Democrats this year are renewing their own push to increase tax rates on millionaires in order to bring in more revenue for schools and affordable housing.

Meanwhile, Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos told the NY Post he's prepared to fight on behalf of charter schools during the ongoing budget negotiations with Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and IDC Leader Jeff Klein.

Back in 2003, for example, the Assembly and Senate overrode the governor's budget vetoes for the first time in two decades, increasing state taxes over Pataki's opposition to restore billions of dollars in spending on schools, hospitals, nursing homes and localities.

The Democratic - led Assembly on Monday approved a two - year extension of mayoral control of New York City schools that was also packaged with a series of tax extensions and icentives for local governments.

The foundation aid increase backed by the Assembly stands at $ 1.2 billion, a figure backed by public education advocates who say the state is not spending enough on poor and high - needs school districts.

Opposition continues in the Assembly even as supporters point to the dozens of lawmakers from both parties who have signed on in support of a version of the legislation, which would provide a tax credit to those who donate to public schools or to a scholarship program that benefits a private or parochial school.

Assembly Republicans are calling on Cuomo to create a new commission to study school security.

An extension of rent control regulations and mayoral control of New York City schools, as we as a renewed minimum wage push will be on the Democratic - led Assembly's agenda in the post-budget legislative session.

The Democratic - led Assembly today will vote on a measure to extend mayoral control of New York City schools for three years.

The passage of a bill meant to spur donations aimed at benefiting private and public schools remains problematic for the Democratic - led Assembly, Speaker Carl Heastie on Tuesday told reporters.

According to Mosley, who I ran into outside the Assembly chamber Monday evening just as the votes were being tallied, last week's controversial vote on the troubled East Ramapo School District was to blame.

The Assembly continues to have «concerns,» according to the governor, who said he will submit an application regardless of whether there's an agreement on lifting the charter school cap because «you never know, we might win.»

We want schools to instead provide inclusive assemblies, which focus on shared values.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

ALBANY — While the Assembly was debating a bill dealing with oversight of the East Ramapo school district on Thursday, Speaker Carl Heastie stood in the chamber's wings.

-- Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, on the state Senate's charter - schools bill

Bklyner article on Borough President Adams promoting urban agriculture and farming at the future site of a state - of - the - art greenhouse at PS 56 Lewis H. Latimer and Urban Assembly Unison School in Clinton Hill.

While Cuomo offered no firm date for when Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats might reach an agreement on mayoral control and charter schools, he expressed confidence that sales taxes would be renewed one way or another.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie flatly said Wednesday night he would not bring his chamber back into session to vote on another extension of mayoral control of New York City schools.

The fact that Bloomberg avoiding being critical of the Assembly Democrats on the charter school cap issue even as the pro-charter advocates have placed the blame squarely on that chamber and its cozy relationship with the teachers union, further proves the point.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley talked with New York State Assembly woman Crystal Peoples - Stokes who says Carl Paladino needs to move - on and not waste the school district's dollars.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley talked with New York State Assembly woman Crystal Peoples - Stokes who says Paladino needs to move - on and not waste the school district's dollars.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square) today called on the Assembly Majority to get serious about the impending Common Core standardized testing crisis in our schools and convene a special session before the first round of tests begin on April 14th to ensure parents know about their rights to have their children refuse the tests.

While the state Assembly approved a measure extending mayoral control for two years, the leader of the GOP - controlled Senate sent de Blasio a letter demanding more information on how the school system spends state funds.

But a cap on school and local property taxes is unlikely to get off the ground in the Assembly, where a critical mass of lawmakers hails from New York City — and where property taxes aren't the overwhelming issue that they are in the suburbs.

Schumer embarked on his political career by winning a New York state Assembly seat in 1974, the same year he graduated from Harvard law school.

We spoke today following a Staten Island press conference in which Malliotakis and fellow Staten Island Republican Assembly Member Ron Castorina, Jr. called for additional stop signs on roads near schools.

With talks on a new rent regulation bill going nowhere, the Assembly Democrats introduced a bill late Friday that would simply extend as is a host of expiring laws — including rent regulations for two years and mayoral control of city schools for three.

(New York, NY)-- A week and a half after the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a coalition of New York legislators and gun violence prevention advocates today urged the State Senate and Assembly to promptly hold votes on a bill sponsored by Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon that would empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence.

Fariña, who spoke at a state Assembly education committee meeting in Albany on Wednesday morning and planned to meet with Flanagan later in the day, argued that mayoral control enables rapid improvement in struggling schools.