Sentences with phrase «schools as a threat»

Private schools also sometimes see charter schools as a threat to their finances and influence.

Some may view charter schools as a threat to local traditions and long - standing power - sharing arrangements.

In particular, the teachers union sees charter schools as a threat.

A: People see these schools as a threat to the traditional way of educating and to the existence of public / township schools.

Is The Post so virulently anti-union that it views any attempt by teachers to have a say in the running of their schools as a threat to academic quality?

Instead of seeing charter schools as threats, public school systems should see them as hot - houses for change that can be used to experiment with new instructional approaches, school structures, and visions for the profession.

«There are many good examples of local authorities working in partnership with groups setting up free schools, but too often authorities perceive these schools as a threat and end up being an unnecessary obstruction to a solution which would work for all.»

Not exact matches

Last October Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist pop culture critic and a notable target of Gamergate vitriol, canceled her talk at Utah State University after the school received a detailed threat promising a «Montreal style massacre» if she spoke as planned.

Zachary Cruz, 18, poses the same threat as his older brother — and his decision to trespass onto the Stoneman Douglas campus after school Monday is a warning sign that can not be ignored, Assistant State Attorney Sarahnell Murphy said in court.

The consequences from the shooting have reverberated far beyond school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., as schools around the nation closed Friday, or canceled activities after receiving threats.

Kashuv said he was interrogated by school security officials and law enforcement as a result, before they determined his actions weren't a safety threat.

A program designed to keep troubled students in school and out of jail kept police from identifying Nikolas Cruz as a threat to the community when they had the chance, according to the attorney for one of Cruz's victims.

On Thursday, it was revealed that the FBI also was warned in September about a possible school shooting threat from a YouTube user with the same name as Cruz, according to a video blogger.

It's as if everything has now become an imminent threat: Muslims, Atheists, Gays, The President, inner - city criminals, Hollywood, illegal immigrants, The Government, school hallways.

The new interest in defining a common content which should be included in all schooling has been perceived by some as a threat of imposed uniformity.

We can't be so naive as to think that the only threat to a child's natural innocence is unethical and inappropriate sex education at school.

Brown played point guard in high school and will never be a lead scorer at his core, but does have work to do as far as making himself a real offensive threat.

The redshirt freshman from Fond Du Lac has emerged as a dominant threat in the middle on both offense and defense for the Golden Eagles, and for her to already crush one school record in her first collegiate season is fantastic.

It's that teachers have a critical and potentially transformative opportunity, when dealing with students who perceive school as a threatening place, to disarm those threats by changing the way they communicate.

All kids, at some point in their academic career, will struggle, so try hard not to view their setbacks or anxiety as a permanent threat to their school career.

The SRC had earlier called for the school's Independent Examinations Board, which conducted the exams and was responsible for the marking of the scripts, to be scrapped, describing it as a threat to legal education in Ghana, after only 91 of the over 500 students passed the exams.

«As a mother of three daughters, I believe it is essential that we act to protect our schools and end the threat of mass shootings in our communities,» Phillips said.

As NYC schools face more violent threats, principals and the NYPD have issued more emergency orders for students to stay put in classrooms and school buildings to be locked tight.

«The mass shooting in Parkland, Florida — the 18th at a school this year alone — lays bare the all - too - tragic reality that all face: we are not doing enough to keep violent weapons out of the hands of those who are a threat and danger to public safety,» said Gounardes, referring to a statistic on school shootings by the Everytown gun control group that has been disputed as inaccurate.

Sayville school officials are moving to end the employment of a custodian accused of making a remark about bringing a gun to school that some interpreted as a threat, according to Superintendent John E. Stimmel.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York's congressional delegation to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from carrying out a threat to sanction New York schools as punishment for the hundreds of thousands of students who opted - out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests this month.

Under law, states failing to enforce that requirement risk loss of federal financial aid — a rule that many school administrators view as a threat to New York.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said a threat that was emailed to a New York City school official, as well as educators across the country, was «specific,» but not credible, while NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton called it a «hoax.»

Long Island immigrants facing the threat of deportation soon will have a new resource to aid their defense, as Hofstra University's law school is opening a clinic to help some make their cases before immigration authorities and to craft proposals that could influence the policy debate.

The recent threat by governor Nasiru Ahmed El - Rufai to summarily disengage 21,780 public primary school teachers in Kaduna State has been described as an act completely...

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

A man was arrested Friday in connection with threats made against Jewish community sites in recent weeks, as schools, cemeteries and other locations have been dealing with a rash of threats and vandalism.

He said school heads are excited about the new development because they do not have to issue threats of closing down schools as a result of government's indebtedness.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will travel to Israel this weekend as he seeks to reassure Jewish New Yorkers after a wave of threats against Jewish schools and organizations around the U.S.

On January 18th the New Rochelle Board of Education hired Vigilant Resources International (VRI) to perform a «Threat Risk and Vulnerability Assessment» of all the district's schools as

The former head of a Derby free school rated as inadequate says he left after threats were made against his family.

With the threat of 4,200 teacher layoffs still looming as the school year draws to a close, an angry Michael Mulgrew called on the delegates to be prepared to hit the streets this summer in the event that even one teacher receives a pink slip.

Calling the Albany budget crisis and its threat to rob city schools of as much as $ 600 million in state aid «the most dangerous thing this union has faced in 30 years,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the April 21 Delegate Assembly that members had to redouble their efforts to get the message out to elected officials that «children can't be made to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street.»

Parents in East Ramapo decided to take action on Tuesday against the growing problem of trespassing on school grounds, which they perceive as a threat to their children.

NEC members praised his conference speech and drew attention to Tory attacks on employment rights including access to tribunals, the paradox under which British railways can be run by states as long as they are foreign states, the need for good jobs not just any jobs, further cuts in public service pay, the threat of a new European / United States trade agreement, excessive warmth towards free schools, and expansion of food banks and payday loans into mainstream society.

Depending upon the type of medicine and where you live, the threat of falsified medications (also referred to as counterfeit, fraudulent, and substandard) can be quite real, yet the full scope and prevalence of the problem is poorly understood, say researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Dr. Bruce M. Cohen, co-senior author and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, added, «Taken together, our results suggest that the ASIC1a gene is a risk gene for panic disorder, as well as for the structure and function of the amygdala and its reaction to threat.

I prefer not to see the characters as cliches from an action movie, but more an homage to movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s which feature would - be enemies coming together in a close - quarters program (such as summer camp or high school) and working to defeat a major threat.

It certainly calls back to a time when the notion of random violence in public spaces — especially school shootings — was perceived as more of a theoretical, here - comes - the - boogeyman kind of threat.

The school's Deputy head Mr Clinton posted on Twitter: «After evacuating the premises following a threat received this morning to a number of schools, and following advice from the police, we have reopened the school and lessons will continue as normal.»

Just small steps can be taken in order to prevent against these threats, including regularly updating software and malware protection, ensuring firewalls are robust and up to date and ensuring that access to certain areas of the network are restricted to specific users — this is particularly important in schools, as students and staff alike should only be able to access a certain proportion of the network.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

Most teachers feel that educators can address even major threats to safety, such as gangs, fights, and student conflict, only by building positive relationships within the school.

The history of the school, as Gauld recounts it, was a sequence of moral dramas in which the founder insisted on clinging to the original vision in the face of threats to Hyde's very existence.