Sentences with phrase «school staffers»

The state fund provides retirement benefits to teachers and other professional school staffers, including principals, guidance counselors, librarians and social workers.

She said school staffers got to know the family because they owned a Chinese restaurant across the street from the school.

The city has also asked the state for a waiver allowing school staffers to perform classroom observations, rather than outside observers.

State data come directly from school staffers who are required to report all incidents involving students.

Still, it's usually accepted that there is a special relationship between school staffers and students, and thus a duty to protect.

Arlington Public Schools staffers see Nottingham as a candidate to become an «option school,» meaning that students from around the county would be able to attend the Northwest Arlington school, and it would offer specialized programs.

The armed school staffer program is named for Aaron Feis, the assistant football coach at Stoneman Douglas who was killed in the shooting while protecting students from gunfire.

President Donald Trump initially seemed open to raising the age limit for rifle sales, but a plan from his administration to reduce gun violence instead called for funding to train school staffers to carry guns.

The city says school staffers turned the agents away after the feds failed to produce warrants.

The principal also urged school staffers to «wear red» on Fridays to support the union's campaign against Cuomo, said a parent who heard the announcement.

When the Art Institute of Chicago bowed out of the curriculum portion of the restoration project in 2000, public school staffers took over and by 2002 developed the CPS Mural Curriculum.

Despite all that, it's as hard in England to shed incompetent school staffers as in the U.S. Besides contracts and tenure - like arrangements, European Union member countries face extra rules meant to enhance job security.

Charter school staffing ratios vary widely, but even if we assume an average of 20 employees per school, that's more than 7,600 charter school staffers added in a single year — mostly non-union.

Some parent groups recognize school staffers monthly, while others like to surprise their teachers randomly with small gifts.

School staffers hold bimonthly public meetings to show parents useful ways to support their kids, such as how to encourage healthy reading habits.

Pension costs for teachers and other professional school staffers are expected to rise about 10 percent in the 2018 - 19 school year for districts on Long Island and statewide after three years of reductions, according to estimates by the New York State Teachers» Retirement System.

An online petition created by a user known as «Nottingham Community» on April 19 is urging the board to spurn a recommendation from school staffers and maintain Nottingham's status as a «neighborhood school.»

Ninety - six percent of the nurses said school staffers had been trained on how to handle severe allergic reactions to food.

In the aftermath of the December 14th mass murder of 26 children and school staffers in Newtown, Connecticut, there has been the understandable finger pointing and a full range of suggestions for ensuring that such a horror doesn't happen again.

Another school staffer — Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach and security guard — also was credited with sacrificing his life to save students during the rampage.

Between a never - ending stream of calls from reporters and school staffers and politicians asking questions he couldn't yet answer, he dialed Sheriff Scott Israel.

As part of the new initiatives, starting in January the DOE will offer all school staffers a web - based interactive anti-bias training through Kognito, a New York - based health simulation company, in addition to anti-bias training conducted by the Anti-Defamation League for school employees.

But Floyd reiterated his suspicions over the gleaming numbers, arguing once again that school staffers aren't reporting crime.

Cuomo pushed through the SAFE Act in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre that resulted in the deaths of 20 children and six school staffers.

He is calling for every student to receive «Good Touch Bad Touch» instruction and suggests signage be placed in every school building so students know how to report an inappropriate educator or school staffer.

Gov. Cuomo pushed through the SAFE Act in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre that resulted in the deaths of 20 children and six school staffers.

School superintendents across the state had hoped that lawmakers would provide additional help, by allowing districts to set aside extra cash reserves to meet the costs of pensions covering teachers, guidance counselors and other professional school staffers.

Truancy is never the problem, school staffers, social workers, prosecutors, and police officers told me over and over.

These skills may not be in every out - of - school staffer's toolkit, but they get better with practice.

Philadelphia still needs to hire 136 teachers, and Detroit needs 135 teachers — more than 5 percent of its teaching positions — and the city has just 90 subs, so principals or other school staffers must cover most of the remaining classes, according to a Detroit schools representative.

She pledged that, if elected, she would make sure that school board decisions take into account the voices of teachers, parents and school staffers — or, as she put it, the folks «working in the trenches.»

Hopefully the president's lament about inaction wasn't really directed at the dead students and school staffers.

Instead of trying to stop the gunman who opened fire with an assault rifle — killing 17 students and school staffers — Deputy Scot Peterson failed to enter the building, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

Instead of trying to stop the gunman who opened fire with an assault rifle — killing 17 students and school staffers — Deputy Scot Peterson failed...

It also allows some school staffers to be armed.

And it allows some school staffers to carry guns if they volunteer and undergo training — a misguided response that could put more children at risk of accidental shootings.

As Stoneman Douglas survivors and relatives of victims demanded action, Scott signed legislation that raised the minimum age to buy rifles and shotguns to 21 from 18; broadened three - day waiting period for handgun purchases to include long guns; banned bump stocks, devices that can make semi-automatic guns to mimic automatic weapons fire; and allowed the arming of some school staffers.