Sentences with phrase «school walkout»

Students are planning a national school walkout on March 14 to demand action on gun control.

There's a call for a national school walkout on April 20th, which is the 19th anniversary of Columbine.

«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with students and teachers from nearby Leadership & Public Service High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

A principal explains why he issued over 100 discipline referrals after the national school walkout in March — and why he couldn't be more proud of his students.

These activists planned nationwide events to call for gun control, including National School Walkout Day on March 14 and the March for our Lives on March 24.

Students at more than a dozen school in central and northern New York are expected to take part in a national high school walkout today to demand action on gun control.

Next month, activists are calling for another national school walkout for the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting.

With national school walkout planned, reviewing gun - related fact checks since the Florida school shooting.

Deb Sherman and Allison Greenberg, of the ad hoc Gun Control Committee, announced a high school walkout at the Clinton School on March 14 in honor of a student who was killed in the recent shootout.

The town hall followed a day of school walkouts around the country to demand a ban on assault - style rifles like the one Cruz was able to buy when he was 18 years old.

Her collaged screen prints chronicle the high school walkouts organized by Black and Latinx students in Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods on Chicago's West Side between 1968 - 1973.

We have taken the media by storm through appearances and interviews, met with state and federal lawmakers to beg them to enact much stricter gun control laws, and been joined in protest by students around the nation and the world who've held school walkouts and demonstrations that exhibit the energy and power of young people in full force.

Nationally, more than 2,700 walkouts took place, according to the National School Walkout website.

One month after a deadly shooting that pushed their school to the center of the gun debate, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School take part in the nationwide school walkout against gun violence.

We saw this on Wednesday in Snap for the national school walkout protests for school shootings and gun reform.

This idea for a National School Walkout began with a high school sophomore from Connecticut.

Efforts like the recent school walkout augment national unrest rather than foster constructive discussion or substantive legislative action.

As teens across the country finalize plans for school walkouts next week, students from Chicago are welcoming the chance to draw attention to a problem they've been living with, and working to end, for years.

Another student at Central, Grace Del Vecchio, the secretary of the Student Council, has also played a key role in planning the protest, which will continue to the General Philadelphia School Walkout at Thomas Paine Plaza if students so choose.

There are several school walkouts coming up in Colorado and nationwide that I plan to participate in, most likely without my parent's permission / knowledge.

Seasoned activists have marveled at what the students accomplished so far, including a sweeping gun bill in Florida and school walkouts attended by over a million students last week, according to organizers Women's March.

Students at Catonsville High School students walked out of the school building Wednesday at 10 a.m. to take part in the National School Walkout commemorating last month's school shooting in Florida.

Last week: The one - month anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting tragedy sparked school walkouts and demonstrations across the country with students demanding gun control to stop the wave of needless violence.

Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have taken charge, posting in favor of gun control on social media and inspiring others to organize school walkouts across the nation.

In the five weeks since the massacre, the Parkland, Florida, students have been transformed into high - profile gun control advocates, leading school walkouts and meeting with lawmakers as they demand steps be taken to address the issue of gun violence in America.

In the wake of the Valentine's Day shooting that killed 17, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have been hailed for their grass - roots movement that passed comprehensive gun reform in Florida's Republican - controlled legislature and spawned school walkouts earlier this month with more than 1 million students participating across the country.

She had posted on her Instagram story about the plan for a nationwide school walkout on March 14, and I immediately sent her a direct message asking if we could plan this walkout together at the school we attend, Midwood High School in Brooklyn.

Ryan Deitsch, right, a high school senior, carries a sign that reads «love» as he joins his fellow students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 classmates and teachers were killed during a mass shooting in February, for the National School Walkout in Parkland, Florida.

A student holds up her hands while taking part in National School Walkout Day to protest school violence Friday, April 20, in Chicago.

Still, Coen Gilbert was quick to get to work along with more than 10 other student representatives from each grade, to plan the Conestoga High School Walkout, set to take place this Wednesday.

With national school walkout planned, reviewing gun - related fact checks since the Florida school shooting.

Peck, Roberts and Donato were among a half dozen students suspended as a result of the April 20 walkout, a national event that saw 2600 school districts and approximately 250,000 students participate, according to the National School Walkout website.

Also at 10 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul addresses high school students at a National School Walkout Against Gun Violence, Kings Park High School, 200 NY - 25A, Kings Park.

On March 14th, inspired by the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and in support of National School Walkout Day, students at PS 58 participated... Read More

On Wednesday, students around the country are planning to leave class as part of the National School Walkout.

«Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms or on their way home from school,» Women's March organizers, who are setting up the school walkout, said in a statement.

The walkout, «Stand for the Second,» is a response to the March 14 National School Walkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

A National School Walkout is planned for March 14, and a March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, and other cities is scheduled for March 24.

Students are also pushing for gun reform with the National School Walkout.

This has so far culminated in two planned events: the National School Walkout on March 14 and the March for Our Lives on March 24.

Students across the US are staging a nationwide school walkout to protest gun violence one month after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Before the shooting in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, and before the March for Our Lives and Friday's planned National School Walkout, Kyle Kashuv, a 16 - year - old junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, spent a lot of his time taking Advanced Placement classes and playing video games in his spare time (his favorite is Fortnite).

During the Muscogee County School Board meeting Monday night, three Columbus residents criticized the administration for the alternative activity it conducted instead of letting students participate in the National School Walkout.

The day after the Muscogee County School District conducted an alternative activity while prohibiting students from participating in the National School Walkout, an online petition calls the video conference with state legislators a «sham.»

Murdock created her protest independent of the March 14 National School walkout, which the Women's March helped organize.

With the March for Our Lives in March and school walkouts on Friday, students with highly sympathetic stories are speaking up.

Students from Chicago say that they plan on walking out of school this month, joining activists around the country in the National School Walkout and the March for Our Lives events, and they've extended an invitation for Parkland students to visit Chicago.

More than 2,500 students had planned to join the National School Walkout out at 10 am in every time zone, according to organizers.

Students pushed for gun law reform with the National School Walkout.