Sentences with phrase «student fight has»

As he drives away, a call comes in: A 40 - student fight has started at a high school down the road, and he's needed for backup.

As he drives away, a call comes in: A 40 - student fight has started at a high school down the road, and he's needed for backup.

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The brothers had claimed Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social networkwhile all three were undergraduate students at Harvard, a fight that was featured in the film aptly titled The Social Network.

An area judge had stripped college students of their right to vote in local elections, and Sanders signed on with the ACLU to fight the ruling.

In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting that claimed the lives of 17 students and staffers — including her 14 - year - old daughter Alyssa — Lori Alhadeff has become a leading advocate in the fight for school safety.

The Parkland students have been facing many of these issues head - on, meeting with the survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, and now with the Chicago students, in an effort to build coalitions and expand their fight against gun violence.

«Young black people have been fighting to save lives through gun reform laws for years without the support and energy given to the Stoneman Douglas students,» Lincoln Anthony Blades writes for Teen Vogue.

As students learn the basic paradigms and the structure of biblical Hebrew, they will be able to understand and gain access to the wealth of information stored on the CD - ROM and have a fighting chance of maintaining their linguistic skill throughout their ministry.

Week by week she fought for an evangelical view of scripture, in spite of the liberal disposition of her tutors, having to work harder than her fellow students in order to defend her position in one - to - one tutorials.

For almost 80 years, Mercer County Public Schools have offered a Bible class to elementary school students and now, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is fighting to remove them.

This student could have ignored the armored man, or taken up his own sword for a fight, or pushed him aside as an insignificant bother.

Ten years ago students had to fight for one evening a week devoted to Eucharistic adoration.

Ahok's imprisonment hasn't cooled the archipelago's radical Islamist elements — almost a quarter of high school and college students recently said they would fight to establish an Islamic caliphate in Indonesia.

Food Recovery Network unites students on college campuses to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campuses and communities and donating it to people in need.

, we work hard every day to get more kids and their families cooking in the kitchen, help fight the battle against hunger, and help more public school students have an opportunity toward education in the restaurant and foodservice industry.

This major milestone was made possible because of our student leaders across the country who recover surplus food that otherwise would have gone to waste from dining halls and other locations and deliver it to hunger - fighting partner agencies in their communities.

Having failed to follow McGirt's instructions to box and move in that fight, Gatti was a model student in the rematches.

The captain of the football team declared, «He fought harder than the rest of us; he gave his life for Ames,» and then they heard Coach Willaman say, «He was a man of fine standards, a good student and one of the best athletes I have known.»

I have had dinner with a graduate student in his rooms who talked about his Ph.D. dissertation on Wallace Stevens until it was time for a replay on television of the Frazier - Mathis fight, on which he had previously bet.

The origins of the «student - athlete» lie not in a disinterested ideal but in a sophistic formulation designed, as the sports economist Andrew Zimbalist has written, to help the NCAA in its «fight against workmen's compensation insurance claims for injured football players.»

The halftime show by the visiting Georgia Southern band ended with the Eagles» fight song being played right in front of the App State student section, which went as well as you would imagine.

But for other students, those whose backgrounds have led them to experience that fight - or - flight reaction not just in occasional high - stress moments but all the time, developing a sense of belonging and connection in school may require a more immersive intervention.

Many schools now have programs to fight these problems, and teachers and administrators know more about protecting students from violence.

The gunman accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school Wednesday had previously attended the school, where he was known as a «weird kid» and «loner» who was expelled for getting into a fight with his ex-girlfriend's new beau, a current student said.

Dallas has continued its commitment to student well - being (not to mention fighting hunger) through many methods, including serving students breakfast and lunch during the most recent holiday break.

The students in Florida are fighting for their lives, and in turn fighting for our lives and the lives of our young children who have yet to find their voice.

Yet, here they are today fighting for their fellow youth, for other kids whom they have never met, that they never have to go through what the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas went through.These kids are simultaneously dealing with personal trauma, and trying to save strangers, future generations.

I feel like it is a losing battle and I have tried to fight the good fight and get better food for our students, and improvements have been made, but it still falls so short of the goal.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

«I am proud to have fought for this proposal, and to be able to provide funding for students to take free test preparation classes, in addition to investing in outreach coordinators at each of the specialized high schools.

«Senate Democrats have led the fight to make a quality higher education affordable to all New York students, and our Higher Education Ranking Member Senator Toby Stavisky has carried a bill to accomplish just this goal,» Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.

The brave students from Parkland have made it clear we must confront the scourge of gun violence, and here in New York, I'm proud to join my colleagues Senator Kavanagh and Assemblymember Simon in fighting for passage of ERPO legislation this session.»

«Governor Cuomo has assured us that he would fight for an innovative plan to help these students,» Dolan says.

MORRISVILLE — Two students from Morrisville - Eaton High School have been nationally recognized for their part in the fight against big tobacco...

The students of Pennington School in Mount Vernon have a new place to play thanks to the efforts of Senator Jeff Klein who successfully fought for $ 95,000 for a brand new playground.

The DOE had provided various teacher training grants and programs to improve academic support, he said, not to mention training programs to reduce fighting among students.

«As Democrats, the IDC remains committed to the fight for an equal education for all New York students — which the Dream Act would provide, protecting a woman's right to choose, increasing workers» wages, and enacting meaningful campaign finance reform.

As of Thursday, the U.F.T.'s homepage read, «Join the fight: Gov. Cuomo has turned his back on public school educators and the students they teach.

Both Rath and Loughran have been supporters of the new building, fighting for funding to move the project forward and better serve the students and faculty at ECC.

«We are grateful that Governor (Andrew) Cuomo and Attorney General (Eric) Schneiderman have made clear that they intend to fight this cruel decision in court, and as advocates for ensuring that all New York students are protected and supported, we join Chancellor Rosa and Education Commissioner Elia in their call to «continue to fight for our Dreamers because it is the right thing to do.»»

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

We are in it together with public sector workers, students and pensioners defending everything we have fought for for generations.

Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who has secured West, Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio as part of a speakers program at the school, said students, faculty and parents know they are facing a difficult to nearly impossible fight to keep their middle school open.

We won significant concessions on the spiteful Trade Union Bill; we defeated their attempt to sneak through changes to Sunday Trading; we fought to save maintenance grants for poorer students; and we have strained every sinew to save our vital steel industry.

In an e-mail to supporters, the WFP said Ms. Warren had taken the fight against big banks to Wall Street, cited her work creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and pushed to ease the burden of debt on college students.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

As part of a plan to fight student hunger, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed in his State of the State address that every SUNY and CUNY campus have a food pantry.

The Common Core has been one of the educational and political struggles of the year, with the fights over its standards and the tests used to study how well students are doing with its material.

Aminu Mohammed, the Spokesperson of the students, urged Nigerians to always think and act positive, stressing that Buhari had started correcting the ills of this nation and corruption was now fighting back.