Sentences with phrase «stands on school»

* The NY Times reports on where Donald Trump stands on school choice, student debt and common core: http://nyti.ms/2fqVuta * What is Obama's higher education legacy?

Do you know where your state stands on school breakfast performance?

Religious illiteracy inevitably carries over into moral illiteracy and the increasing reluctance of students (and their parents) to take principled stands on school policy or student behavior.

Where does she stand on School funding?

Fantastic letter, great job standing up and taking a stand on school nutrition.

Not exact matches

They contended that the school used high - pressure sales tactics to enroll students in the costly classes, promised extensive one - on - one instruction that did not materialize and employed «mentors» who at times recommended investments from which they stood to profit.

I was also glad to see Travis Kalanik, the CEO of «Private Driver (read: not a taxi) service» Uber, stand on stage yesterday at Startup School and announce Uber TAXI, a cheaper, more taxi - like service.

Standing on a stage set up on a high school football field, Rutan and Paul Allen, the multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder who has sunk some $ 25 million into SpaceShipOne, struggled with the kitchen - table - size ceremonial check as some 600 local space fanatics cheered lustily.

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

This is not what we as a community stand for, nor is it something we will tolerate,» New School President David E. Van Zandt said in a statement, calling the vandalism an «illegal, inflammatory and hurtful influence on our campus.»

We're on a moving sidewalk and this guy standing in front of us has all these old school tattoos, back pack, boots... he was a hardcore looking dude.

Top schools retain their sound financial standing by attracting students, often through very acute business acumen on the part of administrators.

Performers dressed as Santa Claus stand posed in a line during a photo call for the media for the Ministry of Fun Santa School outside the Ragged School Museum in east London on Nov. 16, 2017.

If you went to business school, you probably learned to start a marketing strategy by analyzing your target market and competitors, then decided either to build on what's been successful for others or try something completely different to stand out.

The parents of Carmen Schentrup — a 16 - year - old junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who lost her life in the school shooting on Feb. 14 — stSchool who lost her life in the school shooting on Feb. 14 — stschool shooting on Feb. 14 — stood...

The parents of Carmen Schentrup — a 16 - year - old junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who lost her life in the school shooting on Feb. 14 — stood on the stage of the Hollywood Young Circle AmphithSchool who lost her life in the school shooting on Feb. 14 — stood on the stage of the Hollywood Young Circle Amphithschool shooting on Feb. 14 — stood on the stage of the Hollywood Young Circle Amphitheater.

Will Riley, a senior at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, launched «Stand for the Second» in an effort to speak out on behalf of young people who support gun rights.

Not far away was Scot Peterson, a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy and Stoneman's school resource officer who heard the shooting, but stood outside the building as Cruz opened fire on his classmates.

He decided to take a stand, he said, not only because of the economic implications, but also because he could not ignore the human toll that deportation would take on people who have been working and going to school legally and have mostly known only one country — the United States.

For the past month, seventeen white crosses and stars of David have stood on a stately hill along the fence outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, each festooned in posters and balloons, handwritten notes and flowers.

Students at nearby Leon High School, just blocks from the Capitol, stood on the front lawn of their school in the hundreds with their families, carrying posters saying «We love MSD» and open laptops with the desktop backgrounds displaying Marjory Stoneman Douglas»School, just blocks from the Capitol, stood on the front lawn of their school in the hundreds with their families, carrying posters saying «We love MSD» and open laptops with the desktop backgrounds displaying Marjory Stoneman Douglas»school in the hundreds with their families, carrying posters saying «We love MSD» and open laptops with the desktop backgrounds displaying Marjory Stoneman Douglas» name.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

From the moment its doors opened more than a century ago, the Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan has stood as a monument to old - school retail.

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.

In high school I was a huge Pearl Jam fan, but after becoming a Christian, the realization of the band's stand on abortion and other moral issues quickly dulled their luster.

You get to practice your silly religion all you like, it's just when you attempt to inject that into my school, my courthouse or my government that I will stand up and shout in your face, so don't act all surprised when it happens like «Oh, well, we just didn't know, we thought everyone wanted us to force our religion on the rest of society...»

About 250 people joined Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, survivors, and teachers for the «I Stand With MSD» Walk for Solidarity on Saturday, March 10.

@grist how many times has the world pushed their stuff on christians saying we cant pray in school saying we cant you persecute us all the time you take GOD's name in vein right in our faces all the time and we come out and stand up for our beliefs and we are the bad guy i'm sorry sir but you are extrtemly wrong funny everything us christians do is wrong telling us what to preach and what not to preach and you say we are pushing our beliefs on people

Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front of a class room of children, but a mere nonreligious solemnization when a President stands in front of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?

If this is left to stand, then the government can also FORCE religious schools to no longer teach creationism, government can FORCE religious hospitals to perform abortion on demand, government can FORCE a Catholic DIOCESE to recognize gay marriage, government can FORCE...

Because we sit in folding chairs in a rather drafty school gym and our tinies sprawl on the floor at our feet or perch on our hips or stand beside us and watch it all, all, all, taking it in.

[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 playeOn 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 playeon her feet as she played.

It's the woman wearing a cross on her forehead, trying to stay standing outside the school where they carried out 17 body bags on Ash Wednesday.

• In an article on the anxieties of wealthy New York parents trying to get their small children into elite preschools, a New York Times reporter writes of standing outside one of the sought - after public schools, which happens to be one of four public schools recently the subject of a sex - abuse scandal.

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

In the courtyard of a Muslim school, on the rock where another tower stood, is the first of the fourteen traditional stations of the cross.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

On the other side of the river, in Boston, stands the business school, founded only in this century, with its students eager to be catechized in the extreme free - enterprise creed.

The ideas of Socrates, as passed down, stand on their own as jumping off points for many schools of thought... open to proof or disproof of their efficacy.

A federal appeals court had ruled in favor of school officials in Plano, Texas, on the liability question, and the justices without comment let that decision stand.

where is the spirit of United we stand, this is not about Clergy or Government disputed like little kids on school and say «oh I want to be on the front» or «no you going to the back» this is about all us Americans and those want to share with us.

Moreover, Oregon has a long - standing tradition of anti-Catholicism, harking back to strong Ku Klux Klan activities earlier in the century, as well as pre-World War II efforts to prevent religious (especially Catholic) schools from operating, a movement that failed only on appeal to the Supreme Court.

Parental choice in general, and Catholic schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.

Despite his presumably sincere stand on such matters as school prayer, however, Reagan's religious position is not essentially theocratic, nor is this the basis of his ideological fit with most of the religious right.

A survey of standing based on income alone would probably place the minister close to the public school teacher and the semiskilled wage earner.

Doubtless, all your school friends will be wearing these perfectly priced brooches on the first day of class, too, so you'll want to wear two or three, just to stand out from the crowd.

One day I was standing on the sports field of a school for the deaf and I watched the kids at play.

But now that the authorities of the Catholic Church have made it clear that if a Catholic school did disobey such a law, their bishops would not support them they do not have a leg to stand on.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

Christians are the ones trying to dictate what should and shouldn't be taught in school (Intelligent Design vs Evolution); they whine when women stand up for their rights (birth control, abortion); they whine when LGBT ask for equal rights; they stand on street corners and hand out their propaganda; they literally try to step in to every aspect of the public forum.