Sentences with phrase «schools organize groups»

Almost all American schools organize groups of children by age.

Chicago's privately run charter schools, told in July they'd initially receive as little as 15 percent of first quarter funding, have now received the full amount from Chicago Public Schools, the head of the state's charter school organizing group said Monday.

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Another national walkout, organized by a different group of students, is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the 1999 attack at Colorado's Columbine High School that killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen more injured.

While many schools organize formal group trips for students, most also partner with leading MBA programs around the world to provide individual international exchange opportunities.

Students at the Florida school where 17 people died last week said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month and try to create a «badge of shame» for politicians who take money from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups.

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland organized the March for Our Lives in DC, on March 24 with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Arguably, this has happened in the wake of the Parkland shooting, with high school students becoming a mobilized group in their own right, a group that, like, the NRA, has nonpolitical activities and physical spaces that it can use for networking and organizing.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Since school lunches are kind of a different beast altogether, I color - coded all those standard items in green and keep them organized down the right hand side by food group, so it's easier to be sure the kids have a balanced lunchbox.

Small group discussions were organized for participants to reflect on two of the Core Principles and share how they are in evidence in their school community.

First, organize a group of like minded parents and others who care about better school food.

Children often spend large amounts of time in group settings; school, organized sports, day care, stores - even home can be a busy, noisy and crowded place.

Monday's news conference featuring the «Sex And The City» star was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that Nixon joined long ago to seek more state funding for schools.

The press conference was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that Nixon has long been associated with that advocates for more state funding for schools.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

The March for Our Lives movement was organized by a group of students - turned - activists who survived shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

In New York City, allies of Mr. Bloomberg have organized such groups to lobby for the mayor's proposals on congestion pricing, charter schools and other issues, often in opposition to the municipal labor unions.

Across the street, on the west side of Broadway, StudentsFirstNY, the local branch of Michelle Rhee's school - reform group, organized public school parents in favor of the Common Core.

At an event in Des Moines, Iowa, all three expressed adamant support for home schooling to a group organized around that issue.

The roughly 9,000 students and many of their parents will participate in a rally organized by pro-charter group Families for Excellent Schools, which will push for an «end to New York's failing schools crisis.Schools, which will push for an «end to New York's failing schools crisis.schools crisis.»

In other districts informal civic groups will organize a slate of «reform» candidates for school board, and in at least one exurban Colorado school district, a bunch of people who were also leaders in the county Republican party where the school district was located put together a slate of unofficially Republican school board candidates to square off against a teacher's union slate of candidates.

Bradley Tusk, a political consultant and former campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg, helped organize REBNY's past alliance with the charter school group known as StudentsFirst, which also wanted the GOP in control of the Senate.

Pirozzolo, who lives on Staten Island and was president of the borough's community education council (largely parent advisory groups organized through a process run by the city Department of Education), said parents should be able to choose between district and charter schools, and that both have faults.

«We are asking our city's mayor and our city's leaders to put an end to education inequality,» said Joe Herrera, of Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter group, which organized the rally.

Hudson, who last performed Friday at Madison Square Garden for Pope Francis» Mass, will sing no fewer than four songs for the upcoming rally organized by education reform group Families for Excellent Schools.

The message was made clear during a national Day of Action organized by unions, community groups and schools across the nation and New York yesterday.

«A lot of various groups have gotten together over the past few months to organize this event,» said Kate Haq, Buffalo school parent and secretary of the parent teacher organization.

Mark Pascale, President of the City of Cohoes School Board was at a news conference organized by the group.

City school officials have withdrawn a controversial proposal to co-locate a charter school at IS 285 Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to opposchool officials have withdrawn a controversial proposal to co-locate a charter school at IS 285 Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to opposchool at IS 285 Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to oppoSchool for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush after the school community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to opposchool community and neighborhood groups joined forces to organize a grassroots campaign to oppose it.

That's why she helped organize a group of students to sue the Utica City School District.

The recently organized ASU School of Life Sciences (SOLS) has as part of its mission the instigation of collaborative research and training in areas that need strong links between diverse groups, including experimental, computational, theoretical, and mathematical biologists.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

The Minority Student Caucus (MSC) at the University of North Carolina, for example, a student - led group that serves minority students in the School of Public Health, has been organizing an Annual Minority Health Conference since 1977.

The affinity groups conduct projects in K — 12 schools, provide networking opportunities and mentoring to engineering students, advise companies on best practices to support women engineers, sponsor special lectures and forums, and organize social outings.

The UAB Office of Postdoctoral Education was formed in 1999 following a series of focus groups with faculty and postdocs, organized by the graduate school.

We sought to cast some light on this heated topic with the following survey question, posed in 2008 and again in 2017: «Do you support or oppose allowing a group of Muslim students to organize an afterschool club at your local public school?»

But as transportation improved and demand for a high - school education increased, the one - room schoolhouse organized into «recitation groups» no longer sufficed.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Nonprofit groups that organize, educate, and mobilize parents to take active roles in promoting school improvement in their communities are on the rise in a number of states.

In its third year, the program at Spencer's school includes opportunities for single classes to learn the rules of organized games and for larger group play during lunch period recess.

Indianapolis — A group of educators, meeting here to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision outlawing organized prayer and Bible readings in public schools, concluded that the debate over religion in public schools has entered a complex stage requiring greater caution and sensitivity than ever by schools.

In a series of seminars led by Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Richard Murnane, Kathryn Boudett, and Elizabeth City, the group developed an eight - step Data Wise cycle as a means to help school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable School of Education faculty Richard Murnane, Kathryn Boudett, and Elizabeth City, the group developed an eight - step Data Wise cycle as a means to help school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable school leaders organize the work of school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable school improvement around a process that has specific, manageable steps.

In the Winter 2012 issue of Ed Next, Bruno Manno wrote about the growing number of advocacy groups that empower parents to take active roles in promoting school improvement in their communities, including Parent Revolution, which has helped California parents organize to pull the «parent trigger.»

Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are at work on what they say will be a leaner, better - organized, and easier - to - understand version than the 200 - plus - page set that has been circulating among governors, scholars, education groups, teams of state education officials, and others for review in recent weeks.

The resulting attacks come from three directions: state policymakers, local school systems, and organized public education interest groups.

The growing site, called School Web Clubs, offers advice to assist in founding, implementing, and organizing such groups.

Andrew Lachman, executive director of the Connecticut Center for School Change, the nonprofit that organized the rounds group in Connecticut, says Elmore made it very clear when he first started working with the group that their language needed to be strictly descriptive.

Several days after 416 children were removed from the secluded ranch compound of a religious group in Eldorado, Texas, early this month, administrators of the 14,500 - student San Angelo Independent School District organized the delivery of four truckloads of school supplies and textbooks to shelters where the children were staying in San ASchool District organized the delivery of four truckloads of school supplies and textbooks to shelters where the children were staying in San Aschool supplies and textbooks to shelters where the children were staying in San Angelo.

Citizen groups, business alliances, and nonprofit agencies of various kinds are organizing to support standards - based teaching and learning in the schools in their regions.