Sentences with phrase «schools hostage»

But don't hold schools hostage to your Machiavellian budget gamesmanship.

Do not let them hold your schools hostage and only give you bad options.

An example: the Beslan school hostage crises in September 2004, where more than 300 people were killed.

Preventing a School Hostage Crisis in the U.S..

Not exact matches

About two years ago, an armed student threatened the school, holding students hostage for more than an hour.

Looking back I feel I was held hostage in our (American) school system until I was sixteen years old.

Harry remains under water because he does not trust that the school will ensure the safety of these «hostages.»

30 + years after the original Dupont Pavilion fiasco VU had the choice to do something right that would be hard or to do something very wrong and then try to sugarcoat it to say that the school was held hostage by Radnor and Finneran.

Their not - yet - fully developed brains — are held hostage to the constant exposure to these foods, both inside and outside of school.

Apparently, SU students barricaded the campus and forced the school to shut down classes, but never took anyone hostage — at least not as Bennett recalls the incident.

«Holding the public - school system hostage for charter - school expansion isn't right,» said Kallos, who represents the Upper East Side.

The search for the abducted Chibok school girls and the rescue of other Nigerians in hostage has never relapse as could be attested to in recent times where hundreds of women and children were rescued by the military through its coordinated operations.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> School district Superintendent Paul Padalino says his decision to issue a shelter - in - place for students during a tornado warning Tuesday was correct despite complaints from some parents of students that their children were being held hostage at the end of the schooSchool district Superintendent Paul Padalino says his decision to issue a shelter - in - place for students during a tornado warning Tuesday was correct despite complaints from some parents of students that their children were being held hostage at the end of the schoolschool day.

«In other words, he is holding children hostage to the demands of his Wall Street donors and his personal political motivations, while kids go to school in overcrowded classrooms without arts, sports, or counselors.

Multimillionaire commodities trader Adam Haber, who's trying to buy a State Senate seat, raised school taxes, opposed the property tax cap, and supports holding legislation ensuring equal pay for women hostage so that non-doctors can perform late term / partial birth abortions.

«Students in New York schools should not be held hostage by legislators kowtowing to the special interests that have created our broken education system,» said Tenicka Boyd, the group's Director of Organizing.

«Funding for New York State schools should not be held hostage due to the ongoing debate over how best to reform our education system.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Thursday weighed in on the education funding discussions in the state budget, saying in a statement school aid should not be «held hostage» in the ongoing effort instill education reforms.

Senator Simcha Felder had been accused by Assembly Democrats of essentially holding the negotiations hostage over an issue with religious schools before a deal was reached on Friday.

From Bruce, who missed finishing school: «Ain't the first time I'll be tied to a chair and held hostage by a group of humorless a — holes for a couple hours.»

Following his 2015 speech, New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee called the governor «misinformed» and suggested the linkage of school aid to Cuomo reforms was tantamount to holding students hostage.

He has stymied de Blasio at many turns, holding back funding for affordable housing, homelessness prevention, the MTA, and more, while holding hostage issues of rent regulations, the 421 - a tax abatement, and extension of mayoral control of schools.

Mulgrew said that the governor's ploy to hold desperately needed additional school aid hostage unless lawmakers passed his education proposals was tantamount to an «extortionary scheme.»

But Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins characterized the education measures, which were negotiated by Republicans who lead the Senate, as holding school aid «hostage» to the teacher evaluation changes.

Castle View Elementary School in Riverside, California, became the site of a hostage situation Tuesday afternoon; thankfully no children are Plainfield High School students published a dating magazine, now their teacher is in hot water.

Castle View Elementary School in Riverside, California, became the site of a hostage situation Tuesday afternoon; thankfully no children are

Julia Roberts narrates this account of the 2004 hostage crisis in the small Russian town of Beslan, where Chechen terrorists seized a school and killed over 330 innocent people, many of them children.

The wife of a gun manufacturer is held hostage in an elaborate plot by a man seeking revenge for the death of his daughter in a high school shooting incident.

A man travels with his boss to an evicted man's house where they find him holding his wife and two grade - school sons hostage; sheriff's deputies point handguns toward the house as the homeowner breaks out the picture window from inside with a rifle, glass shattering loudly as sirens sound outside, the homeowner argues with the officers, accidentally shoots into a wall, missing one of his young sons, drops his rifle after a man tells him that he cheated to get the man evicted, exits the house and is arrested and handcuffed after being forced to the ground.

With some silver tongued manipulation from Brackett, Sam finds himself taking the museum staff and an elementary school class hostage.

With a busload of kidnapped high school students, a flock of powerful parents and a smattering of high - caliber stars, NBC's «Crisis,» which premieres Sunday, seems prepared to do what CBS couldn't with «Hostages» — create a high - octane, character - driven...

Paring Maile Meloy's 11 - story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It down to a trilogy, Certain Women tells the sequential tales of Dern's Laura, a small - town lawyer called in to help defuse a hostage situation involving one of her clients (Harris); Michelle Williams's Gina, who's building a house with husband Ryan (James Le Gros); and Lily Gladstone's Jamie, a young rancher in unrequited love with night - school teacher Beth (Kristen Stewart).

Youth Crime Watch of Nigeria was established on 7th of October 2002 due to crime prevalent in schools and communities, improper dressing that leads to raping, dangerous driving among the youths, militancy, kidnapping and hostage taking in the Niger - Delta and cycle of revenge violence in all entire Federation.

The hostage crisis at a Beslan, Russia, school last month has raised questions about the safety of public schools in the U.S..

It blames the problem, in part, on school districts «too often held hostage by adult interest groups, including but not limited to teacher unions,» according to its website.

Otherwise children are just being held hostage to their schools» failings.

Canton Middle School, like too many urban schools, had been held hostage for decades — by tradition, central authority, low expectations, and ineffective leadership.

The political world essentially holds school districts hostage by tying both federal and state money to standardized tests performance.

One committee chairman in the New Hampshire House admitted in a rare moment of candor that he intends to use schools as a political hostage in his grand negotiating scheme.

«Each year, more and more education funding is held hostage by our broken pension system, so I'm glad to see a group of legislators is willing to do the hard work now to ensure school funding gets where it's intended,» Hohman said.

DDoS attacks are regularly launched on school systems to expose student records and hold information hostage.

Holding students, families and teachers hostage is no way to run our schools.

Instead, he wanted to hold the bill — and therefore the ability of the government to authorize new charter schools that the Governor and state board are ready to support — hostage to future budget negotiations.

We will call their bluff — we will not allow our children's schools to be held hostage to bad educational policy

Police rescue teacher held hostage in classroom at California elementary school washingtonpost.com/news/education...

First - person narrative poems focus on the last day of high school, when a distraught history teacher holds his seniors hostage.

The day after an estimated seventy Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Jill Wasserstrom paused on the corner of North Shore and California Avenues to contemplate the accuracy of what she had proudly declared to Lana Rovner during recess at K.I.N.S. Hebrew School.

So it was only by going to Beth's house that I knew those crazy Iranians had kept people hostage for 227 days by our second - to - last day of school, June 17.

Recent canvases (now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery's The School in Kinderhook, New York) embedded with acoustic foam respond to research into violent sounds, such as the air raid siren she heard as a child during the Gulf War; while others adopt poses from a U.S. military pamphlet filled with pictograms around scenarios involving hostages, smuggling, and weapon identification.

As AR5 SPM didn't exist until Friday, it's a bit of a demand for impossible perfection to demand the MSM to pay much attention to it, what with world events being as they are otherwise, or haven't you noticed that terrorists are invading malls and schools and chopping their hostages to bits alive in front of cameras around the world, while the US Congress is yet again voting to shut down the US government?