Sentences with phrase «schools advocated for»

If schools advocated for its use, it could lose the «cool factor» the developers hoped it would have.

In an op - ed column in The Washington Post, the superintendent of the Prince George's County (MD) Public Schools advocated for leadership training that has resulted in «tremendous achievement gains.»

When Nicole Baker Fulgham met one of her fellow faith - based public school advocates for coffee once, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend who is a long - time elementary school principal in the Bronx.

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She advocates for rejiggering students» school schedules to allow to for more sleep, such as having classes start later in the day.

But even Gates, a vocal advocate for uplifting those in the developing world, has said the old - school model of education doesn't always cut it.

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

It may sound strange for me to advocate such a move, considering that I left school at 16 to set up my first business.

Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

Kenidra Woods, a 17 - year - old junior from St. Louis, was already advocating for more discussion of self - harm and mental health among teens before Parkland, after which she sprang into action to help conduct a walkout at her school in February in solidarity.

Not only did Gross take on stocks as an investment, he directly called out long - time stock advocate Jeremy Siegel of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School for promoting unrealistic expectations of future equity yields.

Right alongside my admiration for the public school students who have been so articulate and so focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.

Advocates for a school choice bill that faces a do - or - die vote this week crowded into the Legislative Office Building on Tuesday to make their case.

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.

US Representative Ted Deutch (D) called Marjory Stoneman Douglas students who are en route to the State Capitol in Tallahassee to advocate for gun control after the shooting that took place in their school last week.

This financial strategy was made explicit by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Jensen, who advocated that salaries and bonuses for corporate managers should be based on how much they can increase the price of their companies» stock, not on how much they increased or production and / or business size.

George Washington University will name its public health school for Michael Milken, the 1980s king of Wall Street «junk» bonds who spent 22 months in prison but later devoted himself to philanthropy and advocated for medical research.

Students across the country are walking out of their classes Wednesday to advocate for reform to gun control legislation and protest the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that occurred exactly one month ago.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the March for Our Lives protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday to advocate for gun control reform in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Our society desperately needs more advocates for public schools who deeply believe in the God - given potential of every single student.

(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

Along with advocating for better education in schools regarding reading the news, Cook says that companies like Apple have to do their part to walk the line between preventing fake news and censoring free speech.

Moe's data are sobering for the school «choice advocate, and they help to explain why so many efforts have foundered that sought to create the sort of regimen that Mr. Forstmann (and I) favor.

And of course there would be those on the right, advocating for Muslim prayer in schools, not worrying about how the few Christian children might be impacted, and doing whatever they can to write bits of Sharia into the law of the land.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

While some proponents advocate a flat monetary settlement to every descendant of a slave, others seek a social or political settlement — a percentage of the U.S. budget that would be allotted to improving schools with large minority populations, for example, or set aside for job training programs.

In a number of states, these agencies are dominated by teacher unions and public school advocates who have made it virtually impossible for some religions to operate schools in accordance with their religious principles.

(For a description of this project see L. Paul Neufer, «Our Pastors Went to Sunday School,» The Christian Advocate (October 13, 1960), p. 17.)

It is certainly time that advocates for racial justice began to insist that schools take on the high mission of developing these qualities.

David and Lisa, before reading this update, I was praying for your family this morning on my drive to school and I felt led to pray specifically for how and when you might advocate for your son.

Some are advocating for the government to subsidize a free or reduced - cost meal program in higher education, similar to what's available in K - 12 schools.

Good News v. Milford is very good news indeed for advocates of school vouchers and faith - based organizations (FBOs).

That is good news for school choice advocates.

Additionally, Ms. Bazán served as a community advocate before the North Carolina General Assembly for several years and held positions at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Pastors and parents need a seat at the table for district and state decision making so we can advocate for high academic standards in every school.

Resistance and opposition had been called for by zealous advocates of both private and public schools.

He's been an advocate for science education in public schools and an expert in making learning entertaining and valuable for children for decades.

Speaking at the Indianapolis coloquium, Dean M. Kelley, the National Council of Churches» executive for religious and civil liberty, criticized advocates of school prayer.

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

Baird's contemporary advocate of «an earnest ministry» noted that the Sunday School, the cheap tract, and the religious periodical had become «competitors» with the pulpit «for the public mind,» and concluded that the ministers would have to turn on more heat.112 Charles G. Finney, always more blunt in saying what many of his Congregational and Presbyterian brethren really thought, openly advocated the creation of excitement in order to attract the attention of the unconverted — a view with which, as we have noted, Horace Bushnell was inclined to agree.

I am not arguing for advocating religion in public schools.

He is also the Chairman of the School Health Advisory Council for Laredo, involved in the Laredo Food Coalition, and an active advocate for anti-hunger efforts through the local food bank.

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As an advocate of the community, Pollo Tropical has raised thousands of dollars through benefit nights system - wide for schools and local organizations, giving them 20 % of proceeds.

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