Sentences with phrase «school fights there»

Not long ago, I traveled to Los Angeles to report on the charter school fights there.

Not exact matches

There are various ways in which the church has entered the lists on the side of humanity and fought for better health systems, schools, mental health programs, and the like.

As the country becomes more ethnically and religiously diverse, there will be those who say the Church can only survive if we fight to the death to preserve our civic religion — keeping prayer in public schools, keeping the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and keeping mosques out of our neighborhoods.

Last year at my daughters high school there was this fight over a book describing «2 dads» as normal and it was wrong to think otherwise.

At most schools there's a fight over money, contracts or fans, or there's jealousy.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

No one monitors the tapes unless there is a theft, someone damages school property or a fight breaks out, according to Buffalo Grove Principal Carter Burns.

A witness said there were at least 10 fights in the cafeteria throughout the day, and at least two others in other parts of the school.

School's out for the summer, but there's a food fight going on in the cafeteria.

If there had only been one of them, I might have been able to push through and get things back on track, but I was exhausted from fighting two and had to get up early to get my then 7 - year - old ready for school in the morning.

We've known from the start that the HHFKA was grossly underfunded, so why isn't the SNA getting in there and fighting hard for more money, logistical help, better kitchen equipment, nutrition education and all of the other factors that would support better school meals?

The House of Representatives won't take up the controversial school food waiver issue until next week, but there's still news to share regarding the fight over healthier school meals:

The Buffalo School District may have hired three dozen new gym teachers for this year but there's already a fight over their future.

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

There were a lot of board comments in the fight over the Joint Schools Construction Board.

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

If there's one factor that fights prejudice, psychologists say, it's contact, like neighborly greetings and children mixing in school.

The other school would be a stretch, but it would be a smaller stretch, and Terry's ability, drive, and confidence in his prospects there gave him a fighting chance, I thought.

I might not be able to fight the back to school thing, but maybe I can fit in and join them there!

When you were a kid, there was nothing like summertime: no school for two months, water balloon fights, the classic Slip «N Slide, and frequent pool days.

Ron challenges Andy to a fight after school and hilarity ensues from there.

From there, the next ninety minutes play out as one enormous set piece inside Hogwarts, combining the fight for the school, search for the remaining Horcruxes and Harry's date with destiny into a grandiose visual spectacle.

There have been rumors that Spider - Man: Homecoming will kick off a trilogy set during Peter's high school years, as he tries to balance school work with his crime fighting activities in the Big Apple.

Would these were the only elements leading up to the battle — warring philosophical schools of fighting are all any kung fu movie has ever needed — but there's this white guy from Indiana we must endure.

Then there's Absolver, the unique online fighting game where players aren't just limited to PvE and PvP modes but can also create their own fighting school and mentor others.

There are no real action beats — even when Greg gets into his first fight ever, it's a school kids» fight: awkward and not particularly action packed.

There are some amusing moments, such as a little school lunchtime fight, but nothing that would have greatly changed the course of the film.

Almost thirty years ago, there was a sleeper comedy hit called, Three O'Clock High, in which a nerd named Jerry Mitchell got himself in hot water with the school's behemoth of a bully and found himself challenged to a fight after school.

When Steve (Michael Fassbender) confronts them there are too many to take on and nursery school teacher, Jenny (Kelly Reilly) is left fighting for her life.

There have been the fights over the school closings and the upset of a system being (rather quickly) turned inside out, but as friends predicted, Anderson's engaging personal style won many people over.

There are lots of theoretical perspectives that teachers can draw from — critical disability studies, critical ethnography, feminist theory, critical race theory, postcolonial theory and the work of the new «decolonial school» who work from the premise that we need to fight the «coloniality of power.»

As principal of a traditional high school, he dealt with fights every day; at Innovations, there have been none.

Yasmin, 14, an eighth grader, said there is no drug dealing at Csar Chvez and fewer fights compared to her friends schools.

When we talk to school providers there, they say they can still get charters authorized but the politics of district finance, combined with the saturation effect of having so many charter operators fighting over the same buildings, kids, and talent, are forcing them to look to other communities.

«We're sticking with our school, and use our time and resources to help improve it — not just for our own kids, but for all the students there,» said Hewson, who regularly attends board meetings to fight to keep the school open.

On the «managing by results» side, there has been the big battle over the use of test data for accountability purposes (CompStat for schools), culminating in the fight over value - added measurement of teacher performance.

«There has always been some fighting in schools,» he continued.

«There were too many gangs and fights every day,» she said of her middle school years.

There is the tenacious sixty - six - year - old Karyn Hecker of Immaculate Conception, who fights to keep her school financially afloat.

Walking into the school just three years ago and you would have been faced with a very different situation: «On an average day there were fights, a fair amount of bullying and no real respect for each other,» remembers head teacher Liam Nolan.

In the 1940s — but still predating Brown — there was Mendez v. Westminster School District, when a Mexican - American family fought for and won the right to attend integrated schools in California.

In 75 % of Schools using MindUP ™ there was a reduction in behavior referrals and fewer fighting incidents with other students.

When I'm sitting at lunch with somebody and they get a text that there were a dozen fights in one of our high schools, that's not an environment that's conducive to learning,» says Holtz.

The Scottish National Party, which has 54 MPs, has previously said it would not rule out a floor fight with the government, and Patricia Gibson (pictured above), an SNP MP, told Parliament today that there could be «no doubt» that grammar schools encouraged «educational inequality».

«If we make the mistake of re-introducing grammar schools in England, if there is any impact, any financial impact in Scotland, we in the SNP will fight tooth and nail in our opposition to this policy,» she warned.

But this year was different because there was a fight between a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature over school funding.

From the horrors of lynching to the injustice of forced school segregation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been there fighting for the rights of black people.

Dr. Montecel notes that there has always been a vocal minority that has fought the integration and the diversity that comes with public schools.

For every parent eager to find a school that focuses on their child's type of challenge, there are others who remember and still fight efforts to push children with disabilities into separate, dramatically unequal facilities.

Behavioral statistics show the number of fights dropped 89 percent, assaults went down 88 percent, and there was only one arrest this school year, compared to 58 arrests just two years ago.