Sentences with phrase «school safety has»

No one who has been paying even passing attention to the debates over gun violence and school safety has any illusion that the solutions will be easy.

The Federal Commission on School Safety has not yet had a public meeting, has not yet publicly shared any draft agendas or meeting materials, and has no members that directly represent parents, teachers, schools, states, and / or civil rights groups.

about New Jersey School Boards Association issues new report finding school safety has improved, but districts want to do more

School safety has been a hotly - debated topic in Harrisburg in recent weeks with the House and Senate Education Committees holding hearings on how best to protect students and education workers.

Last week's televised town hall on guns and school safety has led to finger - pointing by the father of a Florida school shooting survivor and CNN.

Rather than engage with this logic, many are suggesting that a possible solution to increasing school safety would be arming teachers.

On the same day that Carmen Fariña was named the new schools chancellor — and said that school safety had «improved by and large» — the departing Bloomberg administration quietly released a two - year - old study showing that nearly a third of LGBT students in city schools reported having been bullied.

Not exact matches

By law, public school districts are required to have one certified school safety specialist.

«We have about $ 250,000 that runs through a Criminal Justice Institute Grant and so the School Safety Academy has been going on since 1999.

He added that he would ask for $ 500 million in mental - health and school - safety initiatives, and he called for a law - enforcement officer in every public school and for mandatory «active - shooter training» for students and faculty.

The poll comes at a time when the number of deadly school shootings has reached 18 thus far into 2018, reawakening debate over gun control laws and school safety initiatives.

TOKYO (Reuters)- A window fell from a U.S. helicopter onto a school sports field near a U.S. Marines air base on Okinawa on Wednesday, the Marines said, the latest in a series of accidents that have fanned safety concerns on Japan's southern island.

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.

No one was hurt, but they've been talking about school safety since.

Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

Palm Beach County schools have sped up several long - planned safety precautions since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings forced new scrutiny of school secSchool shootings forced new scrutiny of school secschool security.

One way or another, though, Mr. Scott has said he is determined to pass the gun package, which would also include significant funding for school safety and mental health measures, before the end of the annual legislative session, which is scheduled to wrap up on Friday.

During a meeting with the nation's governors on gun safety, President Trump discussed reopening mental - health institutions and said that he would have intervened in the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, even if he was unarmed.

During a meeting with the nation's governors on gun safety, President Trump said that he would have intervened in the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, even if he was unarmed.

What measures would pass constitutional muster with the Second Amendment in place, especially given that even the Republican - backed gun access / school safety bill passed in Tallahassee is now the subject of a lawsuit issued by the NRA?

Cruz's «crisis clinician» had the teen sign a «safety contract,» though the report does not specify what the contract required, other than to say that Cruz would continue with counseling and remain in school.

A funny thing happened when we asked people to weigh in on whether the new clear backpacks at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would be an effective school safety meSchool would be an effective school safety meschool safety measure.

Since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, governments and businesses have made changes to gun and safety policies in response.

They have joined leagues of other young people fighting for what seems like common sense: safety in schools.

In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and staffers — including her 14 - year - old daughter Alyssa — Lori Alhadeff has become a leading advocate in the fight for school safety.

Scott planned meetings Tuesday on school safety, and said he would announce proposals on mental health issues later in the week.

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Friday that he had signed the school safety bill that makes significant changes to gun laws, school security, and funding for mental health treatment.

Chances are that this is what most of our grandfather's use or still use to shave their faces, but now many savvy men are starting to turn back the clock and picking up an old - school safety razor for themselves — and if you're smart, you'd do well to join them.

Bitcoin has become a popular alternative option that brings more safety and less cost to people and businesses, according to a new white paper by the Chamber of Digital Commerce and the Georgetwon Center for Financial Markets and Policy at the McDonough School of Business.

Black survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more atSchool in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more atschool safety by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.

With donations from community members and others interested in the health and safety of Ramona's students, FORUS has paid for everything from batteries for AED units and vandal - proof soap dispensers at the secondary schools to roof repairs and water fountains.

• «It is difficult to understand why a person whose primary concern was the safety of the children would agree to the FBI plan,» said Alan Stone of the Harvard medical and law schools.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

The campus remains on lock down and no one will be allowed to enter or exit the campus until the police have lifted the lock down and ensured the safety of the school.

As federal officials worked with education officials in crafting new school safety rules, they also consulted clergy, Biden told a White House auditorium filled with federal officials who have worked on the issue.

The European Commission Joint Research Centre and Directorate - General for Health and Food Safety have presented a report to help authorities implement healthy food standards ensuring that they procure healthy school food.

When I got to high school and became the starting safety I was told that I would always live in my brothers shadow and even then, I was told I was no good.

You have to project talent and just like with Urlacher when he was playing Safety at a small school, you have to be able to project what a 19 year old kid who's only weakness is awareness can be.

In addition to us taking basketball power forwards and converting them into Tight Ends, I think we should look into big and athletic small - school wide outs that didn't have to learn or weren't taught route running but who are still smart and try converting them into safeties.

Three - star safety Khaleke Hudson has quite the impressive highlight tape to show for his senior year at McKeesport High School in...

He was definitely a safety in high school, but I'd love to see him give corner a shot with his outstanding size.

While his high school head coach may have spoiled his announcement, Sammy Faustin, a three - star safety out of Naples, Florida, made his commitment to the BlueBloods18 class official:

The Wolverines made the cut for four - star safety Litchfield Ajavon: I'm truly grateful for all the schools that have given me...

The Mercer Island School District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student sSchool District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student sschool teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student safety.

Devin Bush Jr., a four - star linebacker out of Flanagan High School, has two of his teammates already committed to the Wolverines (safeties Devin Gil and Josh Metellus).

Since introducing the «Hulk Up» Technique it has been successfully communicated and taught to over high school 300 high school defensive linemen with amazing safety results.

(As I have learned from long experience with youth and high school sports programs, making attendance at a concussion safety meeting voluntary virtually guarantees a lot of no - shows.)

«Player safety has been and will continue to be the top priority for members of the NFHS Football Rules Committee,» said Brad Garrett, chair of the NFHS Football Rules Committee and assistant executive director of the Oregon School Activities Association.

As a general rule, children in any setting, whether they are at home, at a relative's house or at school, need to have a feeling of safety — not only in the sense of physical safety, but also that those who are caring for them have their best interests at heart.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.