Sentences with phrase «schools are in trouble»

«Our urban schools are in trouble because of concentrated poverty and racial segregation,» which make for a toxic mix.

«If the economy doesn't get better, schools are in trouble,» said Jack Jennings, founder and CEO of the Center on Education Policy.

Not everyone agrees that the nation's schools are in trouble.

But many people, even when they know the nation's schools are in trouble, give their local schools an exemption.

America's urban public schools are in trouble: Student test scores are low and dropout rates are high.

The Sunday school is in trouble for reasons that Lynn and Wright spell out, plus others that one feels in the bones or can easily pick up elsewhere.

On the terrain of conservative Protestantism, especially in the regions and social classes where families remain large and strong and where leaders are motivated to send out fleets of buses to scoop up the young while parents are slugabed, any talk of the Sunday school being in trouble would not be comprehensible.

And we have shown Cuomo that if he isn't talking about funding schools he's in trouble, and he's talking about funding schools — on his lips.

The district itself recognized that the school is in trouble and put it in line for serious reforms.

Not exact matches

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Not only are those who regularly volunteer their time half as likely to turn to get in trouble, but they tend to — not surprisingly — do better in school.

It's not unusual for world class faculty to be paid so generously, but the highest paid business school professors tend to be widely known and publicly visible figures at universities that can afford them, not at a troubled school that has been in a long - term fight for survival.

The portrait of Nikolas Cruz, suspected of fatally shooting 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and wounding 15 others at his former school, is a troubled teen with few friends and an obsessive interest in weSchool in Parkland and wounding 15 others at his former school, is a troubled teen with few friends and an obsessive interest in weschool, is a troubled teen with few friends and an obsessive interest in weapons.

Late Wednesday, detectives were digging into the past of the 19 - year - old who had no previous arrests but had displayed plenty of troubling behavior before officers took him into custody after what ranks as the third - deadliest school shooting in American history.

Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County, Fla., said that the man, Nikolas Cruz, 19, previously attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland but was expelled after getting into trouble.

The attorney for the family who took him in after his mother's death said they were aware of trouble he'd earlier had at school and saw signs of depression.

Broward School Board member Robin Bartleman has been forced to ponder the conflict between troubled students and their sometimes - vulnerable peers intensively in recent days.

David Garcia, a former gang member who now Ministers at the House of Worship Christian Center, believes that troubled kids will be the ones most hurt by the ban: «In schools there's a lot of violence going on.

That's the kind of reasoning that used to get you into trouble in legal method courses during the first year of law school for failing to distinguish between the actual holding of a case and the obiter dicta of the judges.

Maybe when you were naming your kids, there was a name you thought was good, but when you mentioned it to your spouse, they were reminded of a kid they had trouble with back in grade school, and so could never name their child that.

When I was 7, I got in trouble in school for not saying the Pledge of allegience, due to the offensive phrase... until my father went and straightened out the school.

I will not give specific school names but they are in the bible belt region in Alabama and Georgia and one of the youth I taught before God showed me that I needed to be in a different church she takes her bible to school anyway at the risk of getting in trouble

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

I am even in school for Christian studies so I can help others to know the Lord, I felt so angry that I have tried so hard and now will have to go through more troubles, when I need to move on and this situation is hampering my progression.

Wood is not much troubled by the fact, which so disturbs Farley and Hough and Cobb, that the way in which academic disciplines are institutionalized in American higher education also dictates the structure of the curricula of theological schools.

It is troubling that this issue is not explored with the same intent that Farley, for example, had in building into theological schooling moments for self - examination and self - correction against corruption from such sources.

Poor children are less healthy, less involved in school, more likely to drop out of school, more likely to get in trouble with the law, and much more likely to die prematurely.

They still occassionally suffer from violent attacks upon them — like other children in this country unfortunately do when at school — but they are allowed to live as they please — and probably would have no trouble getting a passport and yes — they might have that they are a quaker on their headstones — but if they were a christian quaker — they could say that too.

The trouble began even before Ketcham entered the mission field in 1961; his behavior was sexually inappropriate as early as high school, when he admitted to «heavy petting» with an unknown number of girls, according to the Pii report.

Trouble is that many of the immigrant «communities» are doing just that, witness the islamic «curriculum» being plied in British publicly - funded schools (or independent sharia courts, or mass halal distribution, or..

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

Thirteen - year old Guled Adan Abdi has not been able to go to school consistently because of his family's financial troubles, but he has become an inventor in his spare time.

Poor performance in the School of Communion translates into failure in the classroom and trouble at work — places where the virtues gained in family life are essential for success.

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

Trayvon was a kid in trouble before he was shipped off to Sanford, FL to spend time away from being suspended from school twice in less than 6 months.

Both are high honors students (one in college and one in high school), both hold jobs, and both have never been in trouble with the law.

To speak of the Sunday school as being weak and in trouble is to slight the fact that tens of millions attend it — also on the soil of mainline Protestantism around the world.

Many observers were troubled when Andy Savage, a pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, received a standing ovation from his congregation for his admission of a «sexual incident» with a 17 - year - old high - school student when he was a youth leader at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church in Texas.

«When I arrived, I had a lot more trouble with the white community than the black community,» says Gregory, who is a high school art teacher and football coach in Reedley, Calif. «But a lot changed during my years there.

Any other coach but Adolph Rupp would have been satisfied with an 18 - 7 record, but The Baron, audibly piqued because Kentucky wasn't tournament - bound for the first time in seven years, took occasion to blame his troubles on 1) the school band, which stopped tooting for the Wildcats after midyear exams left most of its members on probation; 2) student fans, who were absent in droves for the final game; 3) the lack of a more intensive recruiting program.

If this is what American high school sports is all about, we are all in serious trouble.

Maybe it's just me, but Vince always reminded me of a grown up version of the kid from grade school you knew had ADHD, but ADHD wasn't a thing in the 70's so he was just that hyper kid who was always in trouble.

After his phenomenal high school career, Peters went to Texas A&M in 1989, where he was redshirted for his freshman year because of elbow trouble, which led to surgery in the spring of 1990.

The school admits that it is «troubled» by the contact in the document between Lewis and the boosters but dispute the fact that there is enough evidence to say Leo was paid by two of the boosters specifically.

the clown wenger, the specialist in bullying in other words has not got a clue, he is an old school guy who needs putting out to grass before we do end up in trouble.

One boy, a new arrival at Polaris that year, had been kicked out of his previous school for breaking into the principal's office, and while he was doing better at Polaris, Brady said, he had clearly not left his troubles behind; he was the only student during the round of handshakes and greetings to report (in a quiet voice) that his spring break had been red.

They fall behind on measures of cognition and language development, and they have executive - function problems, too: They struggle with attention regulation; they are perceived by their teachers and parents as inattentive and hyperactive; they have trouble focusing in school.

First of all, I am troubled by the suggestion from someone who apparently works in an elementary school that no one will get made fun of for their t - shirt if everyone is also wearing one.

* shudder * The kicker is that they were SURPRISED when their son got in trouble at school because his only strategy for solving problems on the playground was to hit other kids.

Combine all of that with changes in schools, new peer groups, or family troubles, and you quickly get a pile - up of stressors that can be overwhelming.