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Spilling out wrenching tales of lost lives and stolen security, students with quavering voices and parents shaking with anger appealed to President Donald Trump on Wednesday to set politics aside and protect American schoolchildren from the scourge of gun violence.

While hiking in the San Bernardino Mountains, in Southern California, late last month, a class of schoolchildren from Big Bear Elementary School and their guide spotted a rare and hopeful sight high above in the trees: two bald eagle parents rearing a weeks - old chick.

For more than 50 years, the Young Arkansas Artists exhibit has featured work by schoolchildren from Little Rock to Texarkana.

All that beautiful space Wave Hill is small by botanic garden standards, but for schoolchildren from New York City's five boroughs, it is huge.

«Leafy Sea Dragon National Park» was designed in Minecraft by third - and fourth - grade schoolchildren from Linden Park Primary.

Around the same time Lukwa left Telegraph Cove with a group of schoolchildren from Avalon Adventist Jr Academy in Port Hardy.

Schoolchildren from a school in Stow - on - the - Wold, Gloucestershire, head to their local pub once a week for their school dinners.

State and local vaccination requirements for school entry seek to protect schoolchildren from vaccine - preventable diseases.

«The scholarship program serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families who would otherwise have to attend an underperforming public school.»

These steps would put $ 8.5 billion into a special fund in next year's budget, sparing California's schoolchildren from further crippling education cuts.

The researchers utilized a dataset of elementary schoolchildren from a large - scale urban district where the rates of chronic absenteeism were expected to be higher compared to the national average.

«The scholarship program already serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families.»

Schoolchildren from Scotland's poorest neighbourhoods are falling further behind pupils from the wealthiest homes, new data on exam results has revealed.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

On Friday 16th March, the school hosted 400 schoolchildren from other local schools who participated in a range of activities.

The Greatest Show on Earth, it seems, is now in the business of preventing American schoolchildren from becoming the largest kids on Earth.

A study by researchers at Columbia University reports that schoolchildren from three school districts in Maine exposed to arsenic in drinking water experienced declines in child intelligence.

IN 1995, a group of schoolchildren from Minnesota discovered that half of the frogs they found in a pond were deformed.

Ann Senghas of New York's Columbia University, US, and colleagues studied three generations of deaf schoolchildren from the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.

Scottish Labour would spend # 1,000 a head on schoolchildren from poor backgrounds, guarantee state grants for college students, replace council tax with a more progressive property tax and ban fracking.

With the introduction of the new curriculum in September, the new Academy of Food website (www.academyoffood.morrisons.com) will help schoolchildren from 7 to 11 and 11 to 14 years old discover how our food is produced.

Schoolchildren from his former primary school, St Columba's, sang a psalm, and when his old friend, the businessman Brian McBride, concluded his eulogy by saying: «That's what you were Charles, one of us,» the 500 - strong congregation broke into affectionate applause.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

Schoolchildren from primary four to primary six are not among those who are enjoying the free meal.

In a presentation to the school board in January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

One day last week, in the old part of Prague, schoolchildren from the small town of Klatovy were taking a tour of the big city.

Schoolchildren from a community in the Mosquitia region of Honduras, site of a Rainforest Alliance community forestry enterprise.

Students from the metro Denver area held protests and walkouts Wednesday in solidarity with schoolchildren from across the country who are demanding stronger gun regulations and protections in schools.

DENVER — Students from the metro Denver area held protests and walkouts Wednesday in solidarity with schoolchildren from across the country who are demanding stronger gun regulations and protections in schools.

Not exact matches

A demonstrator from the group CodePink holds up a banner as National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivers remarks during a news conference at the Willard Hotel on December 21, 2012, in Washington, D.C. — one week after Adam Lanza used an assault - style rifle to slaughter 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

It's being used to help soldiers deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, to assist schoolchildren with attention difficulties and to bring stress relief from the hospital bed to the boardroom to the bedroom.

Schoolchildren searching for whitehouse.com on the internet found porn in the late 1990s, and «the bottom line is it's almost impossible to protect yourself from this kind of stuff,» said Reese, a Jesuit at Georgetown University.

When he opened a crusade in his home town of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the fall of 1971, schoolchildren, government workers and store clerks got a holiday, as the governor of the state, U.S. senators from North and South Carolina and the secretary of the treasury showed up to pay tribute.

As he moves from the ordinary suburban world of his abusive foster parents into the enchanted realm of the Hogwarts School, the bullying intensifies from nasty to mortally dangerous (a progression that U.S. schoolchildren have witnessed in real life).

In 1586, when the theologians gathered for the meeting at Wittenberg, having had to come from Eisenach and Torgau because Luther was not well enough to go there, he lectured them like schoolchildren, himself almost intolerably overcome with irritation.

He had the fun of going round with a group of other schoolchildren singing from house to house — the traditional way of earning something to help defray living costs.

Staff from GreenPalm were joined by other local businesses to use their expertise to give a group of 80 Hull schoolchildren a lesson in global trade, during an event intended to help them learn more about International business.

Other politicians are taking part, including those from the veggie - friendly state of California, where LA has already joined Meat Free Monday, and schoolchildren at public schools have also recently done so.

In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

A British - born son of Yemeni immigrants, Hamed is a huge draw in England and in his parents» homeland, where his face is plastered on everything from schoolchildren's composition books to postage stamps.

With the IAAF World Indoor Championships returning to her home city of Birmingham from March 1 - 4, the Olympic 400m bronze medallist marked the 100 days to go milestone by helping to launch a ticket campaign offering 100 local schoolchildren the chance to attend the Championships for free.

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

For more than 60 years, Drumlin Farm has given schoolchildren, families, and visitors from around the region and the world opportunities to experience first - hand the wonders of nature and learn about how our food is grown.

Old Sturbridge Village is committed to developing and offering quality programs for schoolchildren with a specific focus on youth from disadvantaged circumstances.

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«Successful meal programs have made continuous innovation and collaboration with students their guiding principles, and they've worked to improve not just cafeteria menus but what schoolchildren are taught about food, with help from principals, teachers, and parents.»

: How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World looks at meals from Kenya to Afghanistan, Russia to Brazil.

Our camps reach over 11,000 children and their families from 76 percent of cities and towns in Massachusetts, and we offer programs serving schoolchildren in 62 percent of the state's cities and towns.