Sentences with phrase «schools closings as»

«We generally use schools closings as a rule of thumb for whether or not to go out,» he said.

For example, she says that there have been no school closings as part of her plan, and that several revisions and changes were made in response to community input.

Then Hayes dropped this: «Is this a strategy to — I'll put it on the table: School closings as a strategy to kill public education?»

Most districts also hold half days on the first or last day of student attendance, and many schools close as early as 1:00 p.m. once per week.

Though his job is on the line if the school closes as planned, he said that his main concern is for the children at the school.

And we should reject any education policy that advocates school closings as a viable educational strategy.

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The minister's actions were meant to ensure smooth travel as schools across the country closed for spring break.

They're about as close to commodities as consumer devices get,» Hal Friedlander, co-founder of the Technology for Education Consortium and former CIO for New York City schools, told Business Insider.

For ESPN host Tony Reali, the attack hit close to home, as the driver initially started right outside of his New York City apartment where his wife was and finished blocks from his daughter's school.

A look at what happens behind closed doors as the University of Toronto's Rotman School's separates the B - school applicant wheat from the School's separates the B - school applicant wheat from the school applicant wheat from the chaff.

As I mentioned in my closing ceremony speech, I truly believe Booth is a school of leaders, this world needs leaders capable of driving changes and that's why we all have to take a decisive leadership role.

Professor Peter Tuthill, at the School of Physics, Sydney University, had his own close own encounter with Stephen Hawking as a Australian graduate student studying in Cambridge.

Medbery capitalized on both: She won $ 25,000 in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education Business Plan Competition, and nabbed two of the contest's judges as close business advisors.

«In a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University.

After the shooting, there has been heightened security on campus, as staff and law enforcement officers have kept a close watch on the school that houses 3,000 students.

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.

Discharges can occur for multiple reasons such as the school that you attended closed down, or you received false certification from the college you attended.

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

Students at more than 1,500 schools have signed up so far, though that number will probably balloon as the date gets closer.

During the «Day without Latinxs & Immigrants,» thousands of workers struck and thousands of students were absent from school Over 100 businesses closed during the march (partial list here) Photos here Video here Over ten thousand people marched in Waukesha today as part of a Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants statewide general strike.

Some educators in Arizona are volunteering to care for students and holding food drives as a historic teacher strike that has closed schools stretches on.

Near the close of the school year, as they do every year, the remaining brothers climbed the gymnasium stage after the Gospel at a mass celebrating the founding of their order.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

Meanwhile, the Church in Philadelphia is undergoing a painful downsizing, as newly installed Archbishop Charles Chaput announced in early January that 48 Catholic schools (both elementary and high schools) will be closed and / or consolidated at the end of the present academic year.

Christians and human rights groups protested the killings in major cities as Christian schools nationwide closed for three days in symbolic protest.

[This spirit of sisterhood can be summed up in one of the highlights of the conference: On Friday afternoon, Emily Scott told a story about how her high school band director, surprised that she had chosen as «unfeminine» an instrument as the trombone, tried to keep her from closing her eyes and swaying to the music by literally pulling her shoulders back and standing on her feet as she played.

And while these issues can not be discussed without considering other deeply troubling problems such as mental health treatment and school security, they need to be discussed if our country is going to move any closer to authentically providing our children with safe spaces to learn.

He held them close as they took in the news coverage of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Being in close touch with its Christian roots is not viewed as incompatible with hospitality toward the many Jewish students who attend the Atlanta school.

As the Jesuit high school where I work began to wind down for the year, I reached a point where I needed clarity, something to bring calm to the chaos of the closing weeks and to center me in a reality more timeless than the NBA playoffs.

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.

In response, France has closed its embassies and shut down schools throughout the country, as a precautionary message against protests.

Closed minded petty tyrants such as Mr. Nye have successfully pushed G - d out of the public school and thus created a generation populated with teenage berserkers.

But, as we have seen, christological controversies in the Roman empire affected Edessa also and as the Monophysite influence spread strong in Edessa, the school was closed down and teachers were expelled.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

I know, let's just close the schools down — all together — and move quicker to third world status; because, 1) It's a burden on the economy as we, clearly, don't have the money to continue educating future generations; and 2) It doesn't appear they're learning anything anyway, except how to harass little children and make their lives as miserable as possible for writing on their desks.

If every religion asks for such recognition, the schools in America might as well close for holidays all year around.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

FYI, government schools in Pakistan are closed on Christmas and have been since as long as I can remember.

IMHO schools should only close for Federal holidays (aside from things like winter / spring / summer break) as that eliminates the risk of First Amendment challenges («establishment of religion» and»... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof»).

However, I will not focus on those features of the university that are clearly not relevant to the college, such as its vocational and professional schools and its research institutions with their close ties with the military - industrial complex.

But as his high school experience slammed to a close in a series of disrupted celebrations, we began to face the inevitable: drug addiction.

The schools, long closed, have been boarded up or used as centers for adult education.

If you look up Marcus Borg — the principal source of information for this article — you will find that he is a leading member of the so - called Jesus Seminar that is not only been criticized within the Christian community, but also by scholars close to the Jesus Seminar such as Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School.

As summer comes to a close and we return to the rhythm of the school year, I've been hearing from a lot of readers who are interested in using Evolving in Monkey Town as a book study for their Sunday school, college group, or book cluAs summer comes to a close and we return to the rhythm of the school year, I've been hearing from a lot of readers who are interested in using Evolving in Monkey Town as a book study for their Sunday school, college group, or book cluas a book study for their Sunday school, college group, or book club.

I have myself always felt closer to theistic Hinduism and the teachings of Ramanuja (11th or 12th century), who founded the school of philosophy known as Visistadvaita or qualified non-dualism.

If a local congregation announced today that it planned to close its church school because it did not see the Christian education of children as the legitimate task of a church, that announcement would, I suspect, produce no little criticism and consternation.

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

Today the State is closing down the state primary schools for the poor, and they are not interested in aiding private agencies to conduct such schools, because they see it as a costly exercise in social welfare which reduces money for investment in hi - tech development aimed at economic growth.

As Catholic schools around the country close, St. Benedict's growth is a counterexample.