Sentences with phrase «schools in a given state»

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The school district is also protected from lawsuits by state statute in that plaintiffs have to give six months» notice before filing a claim.

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You can't mention your god in schools because christians in particular have a very, very nasty habit of not just mentioning it, but of trying to ram it forcibly down the throats of the unwilling, and giving them the power of the state and an innocent audience of children to practice this forced indoctrination on has never worked out well in the past.

51.428571 also god showed me this number and is in exact sequence in every personal id numbers given to me SS, date and month of birth, year of birth two state identifiers and 3 different school ids that's 7 and when divided by seven ea has a fractal remainder that is infinite so that's 490,000,00 to one odds of probability I would have better odds winning 3 lottos in a row.

The state and its agencies, including the public schools and colleges, can be true to the principle of religious liberty without giving up their primary obligation to promote the religious life, in the fundamental sense of reverent devotion.

The Protestant schools of theology in the United States and Canada along with all other schools are subject to the tensions inescapably given with this duality of academic functions.

The Supreme Court gave a boost to their conviction that secularism is a genuine competing faith in the ruling in the 1961 Torcaso case, in which «Secular Humanism» was identified as a religion, and in Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in the 1963 Schempp case, which referred to a refusal to permit religious exercises in schools as not «the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.»

A necessary consideration is that in Canon Law it is parents who are given all the rights over the education of children and not the state, not even bishops whose role is the very limited one of providing Catholic schools where they do not exist and inspecting and regulating them.

The following definition of atheism was given to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Murray v. Curlett, 374 U.S. 203, 83 S. Ct. 1560, 10 L.Ed.2 d (MD, 1963), to remove reverential Bible reading and oral unison recitation of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools:

Given that these results tally with religious and secular aims in the United States, we should anticipate that parents concerned about the direction that American culture is taking will regard faith - based schools as providing a positive environment for their children.

The State can not finance secular instruction if it permits religion to be taught in the same classroom; but if it exacts a promise that religion not be so taught — a promise the school and its teachers are quite willing and on this record able to give — and enforces it, it is then entangled in the «no entanglement» aspect of the Court's Establishment Clause jurisprudence [Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 666, 668].

Neither the schools nor the teachers have felt unfairly pressured to give up distinctive values or pedagogical methods in order to receive state assistance.

Pastors could do little more than preach, baptize, give pre-confirmation instruction, confirm, celebrate the Communion, officiate at marriages and funerals, and supervise the religious instruction which was given in the state schools.

Rather, the court had struck down the Rhode Island statute primarily because of its own model of church - state separation and its own unsupported views of what was likely to happen in Rhode Island parochial school classrooms — although the record gave no indication that entanglement difficulties would accompany the salary - supplement program.

The Guardian: Louisiana education case highlights Bobby Jindal's creationism state Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is rapidly emerging as a new «moderate» Republican voice, but a court case beginning Wednesday is set to shine light on a controversial policy in his state which sees government funding given to schools that teach creationism.

There are more than a million high schoolers playing football in the United States in a given year.

Western State College of Colorado, a small liberal arts school in Gunnison, gave Thompson an athletic scholarship, and in 1982, as a junior, he led the Mountaineers to a national collegiate cross-country championship.

Long is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia and St. Anne's Belfield School to give two seven - year scholarships to middle school students in the School to give two seven - year scholarships to middle school students in the school students in the state.

The national crusade for civil rights, a struggle still incomplete; the rise of student activism, spurred by the Vietnam war; and a couple of violent racial incidents in Ames ripened the atmosphere for the students of Iowa State to champion Trice, who had given his life for the school.

I know that you will give a kind consideration to this my humble words and grant unto me that I have stated above, and give me a book that covers basketball from A to Z.... [I am] also asking for a vacancy in your school.

Boise State gave up just 12.6 points per game in that 2008 season, and made two BCS bowl games (winning both of them) during his time with the school.

By stiffening the rules against dangerous play in ice hockey and giving referees less discretion in calling penalties, the Minnesota State High School League has taken an important first step to reduce the number of catastrophic injuries in the sport.

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Presentations: Dr. Palmer has given international, national and state presentations on the importance of breastfeeding for the proper development of the oral cavity, airway and facial form; infant caries; why tight frenulums need to be addressed; the signs and symptoms, cause and prevention, and treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea; and basics of dentistry not taught in dental schools.

However, as local, state and federal governments manage strained budgets, continued investments in the health and well - being of our children and our schools is not a given.

The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, up for a vote as early as today, would attempt to fix some of these problems through a variety of means, including allowing schools in high - poverty areas to offer free meals to all students without any paperwork, making foster children automatically eligible for free meals, and giving incentives to states that improve their certification rates.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

The Manager of the Year Award is given in honor of Louise Sublette, a leader in school nutrition in her state and in the national School Nutrition Associschool nutrition in her state and in the national School Nutrition AssociSchool Nutrition Association.

Given the state of our world today perhaps the most important things our children need to learn in school are addressed in the above list of benefits of «Massage in Schools.»

Final Rule will probably give the state agencies 1 - 2 more years to train school districts, and school districts 1 - 2 years to fully implement changes, with minimum standards for all school districts fully implemented by either September 2014 or 2015, just in time for the new Dietary Guideline for Americans to be released in December 2015.

Rather, in response to the new federal Smart Snacks rules governing competitive foods and beverages (the snacks and drinks sold to kids during the school day, not the treats given to them in classrooms), our state repealed its own (and far less nutritionally stringent) rules which had been in place since 2004.

Focusing on the bill's support of school lunches and ignoring the issue of infant formula, the e-mail boasted that the bill would give millions of children «access to nutritious food» and that it passed «without a single dissenting vote in the United States Senate.»

These two incidents were reminiscent of other, similar stories I've reported on in the past: in 2011, a Chicago school principal at the Little Village Academy placed an outright ban on home - packed lunches, setting off a barrage of criticism, and in 2012 there were widespread reports that a North Carolina «state inspector» had forced a child to give up her packed lunch of a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice because the meal did not meet USDA guidelines; instead the child was forced to take the school lunch of chicken nuggets.

«I was able to cross the whole state of South Carolina doing reviews of school districts, so it gave me a good idea of the differences in foodservice operations.

This funding can come in the form of a state reimbursement for free and reduced price meals paid on top of the Federal reimbursement; for example, the state of California is supposed to give schools an extra.219 for every meal served to a qualifying low income child (in fact, due to the ongoing budget crisis in California, that reimbursement has not always been paid for every qualifying meal in recent years.)

If you're looking for ammo, give your school principal a copy of The Use of Food as Reward in Classrooms: The Disadvantages and the Alternatives (while geared toward the state of Kentucky, a national version of this excellent white paper is in the works — so stay tuned!).

Realistically, the only way we can do this is to create a very small number of state schools that have the freedom to select the most gifted children regardless of their wealth — perhaps just several thousand in a given year - and which provide these children with the most academically demanding education available anywhere in the country.

Your top three campaign promises?Firstly, I would bring back the Routemaster bus; and phase out those big fat cars like the super 4X4s; and, given the state of our economy, would introduce happiness lessons in schools because we are turning into quite a miserable lot.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

The former secretary of state for children, schools and families can also be expected to give the inside story of the Baby P Case, which saw him intervene in the running of Haringey Social Services to order the dismissal of its children services director Sharon Shoesmith.

It is also stated that schools should give preferential treatment to Catholics for every teaching post in the first instance.

«In New York, we must act swiftly and decisively to implement additional measures in schools throughout our state to give students, parents, and teachers the resources and peace of mind that they deserve.&raquIn New York, we must act swiftly and decisively to implement additional measures in schools throughout our state to give students, parents, and teachers the resources and peace of mind that they deserve.&raquin schools throughout our state to give students, parents, and teachers the resources and peace of mind that they deserve.»

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

As a result of that decision, schools were to have received a 13 % increase in funding this year, a rate that Cuomo says is «unsustainable» given the state's dire financial plight.

She does believe that mayoral control of the New York City public school system should have been extended beyond the one year that the state Legislature gave Mayor Bill de Blasio «There is an element for the mayor to have some skin in the game,» she said.

Adonis also encouraged state schools to adopt practices of the private sector and generally believed in giving individual schools more independence and autonomy from central government and the local education authorities.

Tim Kremer with the New York State School Boards Association said while he gives the governor credit for trying to remedy the situation, there could be all sorts of unforeseen consequences in both options.

Governing bodies have discretion to give recruitment and retention allowances, Special Educational Needs allowances, training and professional development allowances and out - of - school activity allowances, as stated in the school's Pay Policy.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced No Child Left Behind, gives states considerable flexibility to craft their own accountability systems — in the process asking states to make crucial decisions about what it means to be a successful school, what rate of academic progress is acceptable, and...