Sentences with phrase «schools under the gun»

That means that schools under the gun to raise test scores increasingly rely on strategies that get immediate, but short - lived results.

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We're tired of living under the omnipresent threat of gun violence anywhere anytime, at our children's schools, at the mall, just driving around town, enough is enough!

Under the rallying cry #NeverAgain, dozens of students and staff who survived the Florida school shooting departed earlier Tuesday for the Capitol, where they hope to speak with lawmakers Wednesday about school safety and gun control.

The Kroger Company will stop selling guns to customers under the age of 21, the grocery store chain said Thursday, joining two other major retailers who have raised age limits after last month's school shooting in Florida.

Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods said they would no longer sell guns to anyone under 21 years old, as two of the country's biggest gun sellers tightened their policies in the wake of a high - school shooting that left 17 people dead in Parkland, Fla..

Kroger said it would stop selling guns to buyers under 21 years old through its Fred Meyer locations, the third major retailer to tighten its policies while lawmakers continue to debate how to respond to the latest school shooting in America.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

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He said opponents of gun rights want to «sweep under the carpet» the failure of school safety, families «and even the unbelievable failure of the FBI» to prevent the shootings.

Kansas schools that refuse to allow teachers to carry guns could be held legally responsible in the event of a tragedy under a proposal drafted after last month's mass shooting at a Florida high school.

President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

Flanagan has come under criticism from conservative activists and gun - rights supporters for his support of the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package approved in the wake of a Connecticut school shooting.

Officials at a Rockland County school are under the gun to fix repairs before students return to school on Monday.

How about watching your hometown descend from a great place to raise a family to a place in which students come to school with seriously red eyes (from the drugs they take), dealing drugs, or with guns and / or knifes under their clothes.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office says a moratorium on Internet sales of ammunition won't be lifted under a deal with state Senate Republicans that modifies gun control laws enacted after the 2012 Connecticut school massacre.

WASHINGTON — President Trump — under pressure from angry, grieving students from a Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week — ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to issue regulations banning so - called bump stocks, which convert semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons like those used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.

The law, known as the Gun - Free School Zones Act, was struck down last fall by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which said that Congress exceeded its authority under the commerce clause of the Constitution when it made gun possession near public or private schools a federal offense.

Students and teachers hugged and cried as they returned under heavy police guard to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High for the first time since a teenager with an assault rifle killed 17 people and thrust the huge Florida school into the center of a renewed national gun debate.

In 1994, Congress passed the Gun - Free Schools Act, which requires that each state receiving federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act must enact a state law that requires all school districts to expel from school for least one year any student found bringing a gun to school.

In the legislative session that begins in January, Montana lawmakers will be under the gun to come up with a definition for a «quality» public education, following the Montana Supreme Court's decision last week to strike down the state's school funding formula.

Already under the gun because of high - stakes testing, as well as time and budget constraints, some educators flinch at the thought of creating such ambitious real - world projects or coordinating new partnerships with people outside the school.

Zack was later expelled for bringing a gun to school under the zero tolerance provision.

Standing in the Clover Hill High School library one recent Thursday afternoon, Democratic congressional candidate Warren A. Stewart did his best to respond as students peppered him with questions on everything from school vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted toSchool library one recent Thursday afternoon, Democratic congressional candidate Warren A. Stewart did his best to respond as students peppered him with questions on everything from school vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted toschool vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted to vote.

Utah schools could teach kids how to «respect» but not fear guns under proposed training Safety» Voluntary program would teach kids to alert an adult if they find a firearm.

Louisianans with concealed carry permits would be allowed to bring guns into schools under a proposal headed to House...

«Every school is under the gun to improve achievement,» Henderson says.

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The bill would ban the sale of rifles and long guns to youths under age 21, require a three day waiting period for the purchase of such guns, ban the sale of bump stocks, and create a voluntary program to train and arm certain school employees.

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As the teens gathered Sunday at North Community Park in Parkland, not far from the school where 14 classmates and three educators were killed Wednesday, the picnic tables under the gazebo became their makeshift headquarters to continue their campaign against gun violence.

Police said the student placed the handwritten note under the assistant principal's office door, which read: «I will bring a gun to school to kill all of you ugly ass kids and teachers bitch.

Under Ohio's concealed carry law, school employees must leave their guns in their locked car when they're in a school safety zone, unless they have written permission from the school district to do otherwise.

In the two weeks since the shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., a wave of gun - control measures were proposed and taken under consideration in various state legislatures.

A bill prohibiting domestic abusers and people under restraining orders from owning firearms became America's first new gun control law since the Feb. 14 Florida high school massacre.

The city - owned space has held the gun show for decades, but the event has come under scrutiny since the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting, and its promoter agreed not to have a March show after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

The Senate is looking at a variety of ideas under six categories: gun safety; safeguards for people in schools; stronger building security; mental health; public records access and, in conjunction with the Broward County School District, funding to tear down the building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed and 16 injured.