Sentences with phrase «school buildings damaged»

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Communities can ensure sanitation pits are deep enough, collect rubbish regularly, build up levy banks and make sure homes and schools are not built near shorelines to reduce the damage disasters bring, she said by phone.

However, Theodore cautioned that, just like any other building, the schools will suffer some structural damage if Hurricane Irma were to make a direct hit on Brevard.

This is doing huge damage in terms of taking money that could be invested in companies, in new businesses, but also, it was money that could be taxed by governments in Africa to build roads, provide schools, hospitals, and so on, so this is doing real damage.»

He knows how to spend a week grooming a thin team, one built around highly sought and subsequently damaged high school prospect Kiel, making his first - ever start against a power - conference opponent.

At a press conference, the Rev. Msgr. John Maloney, pastor of Saint Anselm Catholic Church, describes the damage to the church and school building he believes was caused by strong vibrations coming from the R train running beneath Fourth Avenue.

And they will not reverse the damage done by two years of deep cuts to long - term projects like house building and the school building programme which have seen a collapse in the construction sector.»

Many parents voiced concerns about what they believe is the district's unofficial plan to shutter one or more buildings, including the Congers school, which was closed in August 2013 due to structural damage in a gymnasium wall.

Crude devices a little like this already exist; years ago I helped Joe Rosen, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Dartmouth Medical School, build one — the «nerve chip,» which was an early attempt to route around nerve damage using prosthetics.

The massive shockwaves and accompanying tsunami of the 2010 Maule, Chile, earthquake (magnitude 8.8) killed more than 300 people, affected nearly 2 million others, and damaged or destroyed approximately half a million homes, schools, hospitals and other buildings.

Historic structures at the other five sites, including ancient mosques, schools, and civilian as well as government buildings, have all been damaged and, in some cases, destroyed, AAAS reported.

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

Research developments have included development and implementation of performance - based design methods for seismic retrofit of low rise school buildings, novel techniques for regional estimation of damage to structures during earthquakes, detailed studies on nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures and methods to evaluate the dynamic characteristics of large Civil Engineering structures.

In 1957, the Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme (CLASP) was formed with the purpose of designing modular framed buildings to speed up school construction and replace older damaged buildings.

Other concerns include lack of inspections, improper anchoring (making them susceptible to wind damage), high maintenance and the cost it incurs, and, perhaps most of all, the fact that portables are brought in when school buildings are already at their maximum capacity, meaning relief from overcrowding in classrooms but a worsened situation in cafeterias, playgrounds and parking lots.

Some 85, or nearly two - thirds, of the city's school buildings had been wiped out or damaged by the floodwaters, at an estimated loss of $ 800 million.

The poor design and quality of school buildings is damaging pupils» health and learning, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has warned.

It's little known that indoor air pollution can be eight times worse than outdoors and even in newer schools, the trend in construction techniques towards tightly sealed buildings acts to trap damaging contaminants inside for longer.

This has also been illustrated graphically in numerous incidents across the United Kingdom where schools buildings have suffered disastrous damage caused by fire.

You might imagine, then, that this explosion caused vast damage to school buildings, which had to be evacuated.

(The Hyde County School Board plans to replace the moisture - damaged building with a permanent structure.)

The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld an $ 820,000 compensatory - damages award won by the North St. Paul - Maplewood school district from the producer of an asbestos fireproofing spray used in a high school built in 1969.

Five years after a fertilizer plant explosion severely damaged most of the school facilities in West, Texas, the school district has rededicated two buildings that have been saved and restored.

Posted on October 12, 2017 · Texas Education Commissioner, Mike Morath, said fixing damage to school buildings alone might cost the state roughly $ 500 million

Photo courtesy of Reed MagazineThe snowstorms that have wreaked havoc across much of the nation have undoubtedly presented a challenge to school facilities, but Reed College in Portland, Ore., sustained unexpected damage when two students built...

In New York City, 57 schools serving 34,000 of the city's approximately 1 million students are located in buildings so damaged that students will have to be reassigned elsewhere, at least temporarily, according to a Department of Education spokesperson on Sunday.

The story detailed building damage, 300 totaled — and underinsured — buses, and «grossly negligent» record - keeping that could only complicate the Orleans Parish School Board's insurance claims.

Thanks to the NAACP for stepping up to call out yet another racist scam meant to remake black and brown children in the image of white corporate millennials who know nothing about the damage they are inflicting on children to satisfy white philanthropists, ideologues, and hedge fund operators who are interested in expanding the territory of the «no excuses» hell schools like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, YES Prep, Mastery, and others that brutalize children in the interests of building business empires and fulfilling paternalistic social control aschools like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, YES Prep, Mastery, and others that brutalize children in the interests of building business empires and fulfilling paternalistic social control aSchools, YES Prep, Mastery, and others that brutalize children in the interests of building business empires and fulfilling paternalistic social control agendas.

Our task must be to build multiracial alliances in the opt out movement that can produce the kind of solidarity it will take to defeat a testing juggernaut that is particularly destructive to communities of color — while causing great damage to all of our schools.

The situation has gotten so bad that schools have suffered from chronic textbook shortages and dilapidated facilities; some news coverage has recounted stories of severely outdated, damaged teaching materials and school buildings whose broken heating systems leave students shivering in the winter.

At its core, NCLB faults schools and curriculum for student failure, but critics claim that other factors are also to blame, including: class size, old and damaged school buildings, hunger and homelessness, and lack of health care.

On the job in Houston for less than two years, Carranza helped the city's schools rebound after the devastating Hurricane Harvey flooded several buildings and caused millions of dollars in damages.

on Isaac damage to Lusher High School's Fortier building shows urgency of need for renovations, officials say

We hope the national spotlight on Chicago's schools refocuses the nation's attention on building connections between schools, parents and communities, backing research - based reforms and beginning the important pushback on damaging practices such as high - stakes testing, school closings, and flawed teacher accountability measures.

In 2016, Detroit school buildings infested with rats caused similar national uproar; 89 and ensuring that hurricane - damaged schools in Puerto Rico are safe to reopen to students will be a long and difficult process.90

According to Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) data, the number of buildings damaged reached more than 100, including houses, churches and schools.

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The outpouring of sympathy that greeted the recent fire at the Glasgow School of Art was in part a response to the damaged wreaked on Charles Rennie Mackintosh's beautiful art nouveau building, but it was moreover symptomatic of the affection and renown with which the school is regarded on a national and international School of Art was in part a response to the damaged wreaked on Charles Rennie Mackintosh's beautiful art nouveau building, but it was moreover symptomatic of the affection and renown with which the school is regarded on a national and international school is regarded on a national and international level.

The foundation has been focusing efforts on building schools in Haiti where, according to a report from the United Nations, the earthquake damaged or destroyed 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million children in and around the capital of Port - au - Prince alone.

California's Field Law, which mandates structure security for school buildings is a result of the 1933 Long Beach EQ which virtually leveled their schools and di major damage in Los Angeles.

Sylmar was at 6 am, there was damage, but proper repairs were made almost instantly, no whining over budget restrictions.Whitter Narrows was at 8 am, a small school district, parents just dropping off kids whom they just snatched up and took home.Current concern is over the many charter schools who are moving into temporary start - up quarters which may not be up to code.To not build schools to code is uncivilized.

The construction crane that fell in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood Friday morning, killing one and injuring three, damaged a portion of New York Law School and shuttered two Legal Aid NYC offices, the Innocence Project office and the New York County Supreme Court building.

Students causing damage to furniture, equipment, the building, grounds or any other property belonging to the establishment or associated with the student's enrollment, will be held responsible for any expenses incurred by CDL Technical & Motorcycle Driving School for repairs or replacement of such items.

A tornado touched down in Laurel in 2001, causing extensive damage to a historic building and to the local high school.

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