Sentences with phrase «school workers doing»

Education reporting on the hurricane recovery efforts in Texas and Florida was steady and strong, including this Washington Post piece about kids returning to school and a Miami Herald piece about school workers doing double duty at 42 schools operating as shelters.
They could opt out and instead pay more of their salary toward a pension than current school workers do, assuming more of the risk of underfunding.

Not exact matches

But there's no doubt younger workers are changing the interpersonal dynamics of the modern workplace, much as they've already done in high schools and universities.
Half of employees with a high school education said they could outperform their manager, while only one - third of workers with bachelor's degrees thought they could do better.
Sunday school teachers and youth workers didn't treat him differently, they didn't make him feel bad about living with mental illness; they just came along to support him.
Youngest sister Geeti's crime was to do badly in school and call social workers for help dealing with a family home in turmoil.
In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.
But Croce did not «go to the people,» did not wish to become a «national» element (just as the men of the Renaissance — unlike the Lutherans and Calvinists — were not «national» elements), did not wish to create a band of disciples who... could have popularized his philosophy and tried to make it into an educative element, starting in the primary school (and hence educative for the simple worker or peasant, i.e., for the simple man of the people).
• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.
Back during Adoption School, when being a mom was just a theoretical concept (by the way, our agency was nothing like what's been described in this thread — it told us the benefits of open adoption to the child and said we would eventually form our own relationships with first parents, which it then left us to do), I did not embrace OA because the highly - paid social workers said it was proving to be better for the child than shame and secrecy.
Being a midwifery apprentice is hardly «the easy way» if you are doing it the right way, and as someone educated who also considered being a nurse and a CNM I can completely understand changing your mind, because I did, because I didn't want to go to school for a career where I would be some mindless worker who was told everything I had to do, even if it wasn't what I believed was the best thing medically.
If it can help the circulatory system enough that the aching muscles of runners can repair themselves, then it will do a great job healing the aching legs of school workers.
One child told school workers that he was happy he didn't throw up anymore at recess.
Louise is a Primary School Teacher and part - time nursery worker, as well as blogging about the sensory and nature - inspired activities (amongst other things), she does with her son «Darth.»
And Oliver pulled no punches in expressing that disgust on camera, along with his frustration with the seemingly intransigent, ignorant school food workers who didn't share his vision.
But even as I'm forced to take sides in a fight which pits the needs of kids against the leading trade group for school food workers, I try to regularly remind everyone that those workers themselves are doing a valiant job under difficult circumstances.
The school's principal and Department of Education officials did not respond to a request for comment regarding the school workers» actions.
While Sanchez has no firm figures regarding the boycott, he said that a cafeteria worker did tell him that there were far fewer students eating the school meal than normal.
Maggie: This didn't sound blunt at all, and I'm thrilled to have a school food service worker reading and commenting on The Lunch Tray.
The reader is then left wondering why all schools don't just do what the «miracle worker» does.
Therapists, psychologists, school counselors, psychiatrists, social workers, speech language pathologists (SLPs) typically do not learn about Selective Mutism in detail during their studies.
She said that since most adolescents do not have access to information on Anaemia, it is important to reach out to them through schoolteachers, school principals, youth clubs and health workers in the community in order to achieve good results.
I don't agree with Tory plans to have more free schools, but I want an EU referendum; I agree with Labour's plans to stop the exploitation of immigrant workers, but disagree with their manifesto commitment to abolish zero - hours contracts.
If religious institutions are so keen on unionizing workers why don't they start by unionizing the workers that work for their various organizations and affiliated institutions (churches, schools, hospitals, etc...)?
The state budget approved in April had good news for schools and low - wage workers, but once again it was done behind closed doors and includes a shift of money to public authorities, a review by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli contended.
Latimer did not vote on School Funding, Raise - the - age, extending the Millionaire tax, renewing the Affordable New York tax abatement, Excelsior Scholarships to fund college expenses for middle - class families at CUNY and SUNY schools, workers compensation reform, all so he could stroll the River Thames with his girlfriend.
The law applies to most public workers, including school teachers, but does exempt most police and firefighters, local transit workers and emergency medical service employees.
«We support expanding the Displaced Building Service Workers Act, and I know we'll get it done because this is a Council that cares about working men and women,» said Van Bramer, the son of a 32BJ member who worked as a cleaner in the city's school system.
Thirty - three underpaid workers did ironwork at 11 city schools and the Queens Museum New York, NY — On Monday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer presented checks to immigrant workers who were cheated out of nearly $ 1 million in wages -LSB-...]
But if it does, New York must be ready to help displaced workers, provide temporary assistance to the Oswego County school districts and municipalities that will take a financial hit, and help the county and region build a stronger, more diversified economy.
«My students are curious on how and what is being done to put an end to the violence in places they once felt safe,» said Brittny Collins, the high school social worker at the school.
Mayor de Blasio and City Council leaders have taken policy positions that do just that: committing to non-cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), pioneering an IDNYC program, maintaining strong worker protections, and increasing funding for universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) and the Community Schools initiative.
Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.
He added: «A similar model could be used to answer a variety of questions in society - for example, how much do individuals, teams and companies affect worker productivity or how much classes, schools and neighbourhoods affect educational attainment.»
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania showed that patients who received support from community health workers (CHWs)-- trained local residents who provide tailored support to high - risk patients - had 30 percent fewer hospital admissions in one year compared to those who did not receive CHW support.
At each school, a trained site coordinator — a licensed school counselor or school social worker — collaborated with classroom teachers to evaluate how children were doing academically, behaviorally and socially, and in terms of their health.
After doing undergraduate work in Art History and French language, she worked as a mental health worker for several years before and after graduate school.
But check this out: A study done at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, found that the average worker is interrupted every three minutesâ $» thatâ $ ™ s almost 20 times per hour.
Diverse though his experiences may have been — the lanky Gorham, towering 6 foot, 5 inches, was previously a professional basketball player, a supermarket clerk, an art school student and a construction worker — he was not a perfumer, nor did he think he had the talent or the patience for the intensive training required to become one.
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I am a hard worker, which means I like to do my best in pleasing the woman that I am with.I am a high school graduate, and I have attended college...
He is currently in prison, and in the flashes of teenagers on gurneys and in body bags, police cars, rescue workers, and screaming parents outside of a high school that co - writer / director Lynne Ramsay inserts throughout the tapestry of Eva's memory, it does not take much imagination to determine what Kevin has done.
Competence models, done by organizational human resources to identify what factors make someone a standout performer, ignore IQ and school performance — they are irrelevant by the time you are competing with others on the job, where emotional intelligence skills like self - awareness, self - management, empathy, teamwork, and the like identify the best workers.
The immediate problem is that our schools are broke — a problem that workers, including teachers, did not create — and we face tough choices.
In contrast, delegates at the NEA convention voted down the leadership's recommendation to allow private school employees to join the union, although they did approve membership for workers in private preschools.
Payne's book is brilliant and should be read by all education policymakers, but today, in honor of Martin Luther King, I want to call attention to the Epilogue (as I have done before), where Payne tells the story of William J. Moore, «grandson of a fugitive slave,» who opened a «first class elementary school» in West Cape May, New Jersey, for the black «yard men, delivery «boys», dockhands, truck drivers, casual laborers, and factory workers» who serviced the white tourists of Cape May.
As a teacher, a principal, or a family outreach worker, what would you do if you found out that a parent hadn't been sending his 7 - year - old to school?
Over 6 million public sector workers are not covered by Social Security, including about 1.2 million public school teachers; in 15 states, public sector workers do not pay into or receive benefits from the system.
So it's disappointing that Weingarten did not use this opportunity to call for retirement security for all public school teachers, our largest group of college - educated, middle - class workers.
Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»
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