Sentences with phrase «school safety group»

We belong to a school safety group that meets regularly to discuss county - wide safety efforts.

A school safety group says Massachusetts had more hoax bomb threats during the last school year than any other state.

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According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Both groups are meeting with legislators, urging them to pass gun control, school safety and mental health measures in the remaining weeks of the annual legislative session.

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland organized the March for Our Lives in DC, on March 24 with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

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The SEC announced last week that its working group had reviewed each member school's concussion management plans, NCAA studies, the NFL's health and safety report and sideline concussion assessment tool, along with several other studies.

This way, kids are physically active before school while enjoying the camaraderie and improved safety of traveling in a group.

She has helped with a number of health and nutrition programs in the school, including a student group to create a healthy snack program, the Smarter Lunchrooms initiative and the school's Wellness, Allergy, Safety, and Health committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school community.

ELMHURST — The Park District's newly constructed Safety Town will open to the public, as well as to school groups and other classes as soon as a schedule can be arranged, Richard Grodsky, Park District director, said this week.

In that case, district policy may require a member of the group to complete certain food safety certifications in order to assist the school nutrition supervisor.

«The mass shooting in Parkland, Florida — the 18th at a school this year alone — lays bare the all - too - tragic reality that all face: we are not doing enough to keep violent weapons out of the hands of those who are a threat and danger to public safety,» said Gounardes, referring to a statistic on school shootings by the Everytown gun control group that has been disputed as inaccurate.

The fast - growing group of companies that sell school safety equipment have ramped up their marketing to school safety officials in the wake of the shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, Fla., but schools are getting little guidance in this area from the federal government.

He supported the bipartisan gun control and school safety legislation that passed after Sandy Hook but recently told a gun rights group that he regretted his vote.

Either way, touring groups of child safety advocates made their way into schools to warn of the dangers of comics, only to give many children their first taste.

On Monday, Republican senators who hold the Senate majority with the help of a group of breakaway Democrats passed 15 bills involving school safety.

Putnam said he couldn't have signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act as it was, though he added that if he were to be elected Governor, the self - proclaimed «NRA sellout» would enforce the law that has led to a lawsuit from the gun group, and a ritual defenestration of House Speaker Richard Corcoran for pushing the gun control bill through.

New data released by the pro-charter advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools shows NYPD school safety agents seized 1,678 weapons in the 2014 - 15 school year, up from 1,508 weapons in 2013 - 2014.

Sources said the task force will have working groups in three main areas: gun control, school safety, and mental health.

For Hope Hart, Syngenta's product safety team leader, the company's commitment to social responsibility reinforces her volunteer work at local schools or community groups where she discusses the safety of GM crops or how they help increase small - farm — holders» profits.

If there's no safety net of healthcare available that emphasizes preventive care, then these disparities in the onset of the risk factors are likely to persist,» said Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D., the writing group chair and associate professor of preventive medicine (epidemiology) at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Public health messaging about the safety of e-cigarettes needs to account for the worldviews of the target audience, with different groups displaying varying levels of trust depending on the source of the message, according to a recent study by the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.

In an accompanying editorial, Andrew M. Prentice, Ph.D., of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues write that the increase seen in this study in hospital admissions among the iron supplementation group, which by definition constitutes a potentially serious adverse event, adds to the concerns about the safety of iron administration in highly malaria - endemic environments.

«The identification of these groups of victims is key for improving safety and reducing deaths and injuries in these groups, said lead author and volcanologist Sarah Brown of the University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences, in a press release.

As bombs rain down on London during the Blitz of World War II, a group of school children are evacuated with Eve, their young and beautiful schoolteacher, to the safety of the English countryside.

Understanding the industry Some teacher unions have voiced concern about transport safety among teachers and group travel organisers responsible for organising school trips by coach.

And the principals» advisory groups — also composed of high school students — help administrators address issues like school safety and academic achievement through a student lens.

In 2012, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Health and Safety called for the phased removal of all dangerous forms of asbestos from public buildings, including schools, this to be completed by 2028.

If schools and groups have taken all reasonable steps to ensure the transport company they contract has a good safety record and has not attracted attention from the Traffic Commissioner for all the wrong reasons, then if something were to go wrong, they will be able to show they have taken all necessary preparations prior to departure.

We have been working alongside others in the Education Group of UKCCIS (the UK Council for Child Internet Safety) to create new guidance for schools about managing sexting incidents.

Parents whose children used an Opportunity Scholarship also expressed greater confidence in their children's safety in school than parents in the control group.

Schools and groups need to apply best practice and need to be able to demonstrate a culture of safety.

This condition has been added in response to recommendations from the Swim Group, who reviewed curriculum swimming and water safety in primary schools.

In 2003, I learned of the research on identity safety with the Stanford Integrated Schools Project (SISP) and designed a follow - up study with a group of elementary school teachers.

«I actually wanted insight into the school's racial achievement gap,» he says, «and thought a survey on how the students perceived the school — academics, teachers, extracurriculars, safety, and social morale — would reveal differences between racial groups.»

«The trip itself was a dose of reality for everyone who went,» Roberts says of the group of teachers from the Espiritu Santo Catholic School in Safety Harbor, Fla. who accompanied him.

Where sole occupancy isn't possible for smaller groups, YHA will ensure they are located with other school groups only to ensure safety and security.

At the school level, many local organizing groups have collaborated with neighborhood schools to improve safety, increase parental engagement, open community schools, and develop more culturally relevant curricula, among other things.

The committee might be an already existing group, such as the school safety committee, or it might be a one established for just this purpose.

Both plans — from groups not necessarily considered school safety experts — come as schools have been reworking safety and security measures after the deadliest shootings on a K - 12 campus in U.S. history.

In a pre-emptive move against a school safety proposal from the National Rifle Association that is expected to include a call for more people trained and approved to carry guns at schools, a coalition of civil rights groups unveiled its own safety plan Thursday.

The Group, which was formed following the publication of the government's sport strategy Sporting Future to consider the challenges around swimming and water safety in schools, has made a series of recommendations on how swimming in primary schools can be addressed.

When teachers see a STF Assured Member Logo, they can be confident that the school group travel operator has passed a detailed audit of their operating systems, particularly focusing on safety management and education facilitation.

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After publishing its latest report, Jim Sheridan, chairman of an all - party group on Occupational Safety and Health, calls the state of asbestos in schools a «national scandal»

These guidelines are also designed to help schools to better understand what they should be doing to introduce and tailor online safety strategies across all of the age groups.