Sentences with phrase «telling schoolchildren»

«I'm not sure telling schoolchildren what their legal rights are will solve the legal aid funding crisis,» said one senior figure of a well - known pro bono charity.

But PM Gordon Brown recently told schoolchildren he thought the pair «weren't very good».

It is but natural that they would be famous by now and popular, and that someone would have made motivational videos where they tell schoolchildren to exercise (that's Captain America, in a series of hilarious videos).

President Clinton told schoolchildren in his home state of Arkansas recently that he would go to bat for education as members of Congress and his Administration seek ways to cut taxes and spending.

We tell schoolchildren this every year, yet how many times have you wanted to bang your head against a wall after speaking to a client?

Not exact matches

Last November I told you about a groundbreaking initiative by Chicago Public Schools to serve chicken raised without antibiotics to that city's K - 12 schoolchildren.

Always proud of her ties to Queens, Ferraro introduced the borough to the rest of the country in her 1984 convention speech, telling how schoolchildren pass by subway stops on their way to school, residents hang flags on Grand Avenue on the Fourth of July and small businesses «take pride in supporting their families through hard work and initiative.»

2.59 pm: Vince Cable, the business secretary, told a fringe meeting at the conference that factories should open their doors to schoolchildren so that they can find out what manufacturing is really like.

Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters that he is «absolutely convinced» that there was no danger to schoolchildren in New York.

Education Secretary Michael Gove also criticised the NUT's ballot, which was held in 2012 with a turnout of 27 %, telling BBC Newsnight schoolchildren needed protection from «politically - motivated industrial action».

The schoolchildren told them, among other things, that they had more positive attitudes about school and were more inclined to aim for college.

Washington — School districts that were once racially segregated by law should remain bound by court desegregation orders until every wrong caused by the separation of races is cured, a lawyer for black schoolchildren in Oklahoma City told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

WASHINGTON — Little has changed for hearing - impaired schoolchildren in the four years since a federal commission concluded that the education of deaf students was «unacceptably unsatisfactory,» witnesses last week told a House panel beginning work on extension of federal deaf - education programs.

When even union supporters are telling AFT and its fellow teacher unions that fixes to the tenure system are needed, how long can Randi and her radical allies continue their trench warfare against America's schoolchildren?

Two colleagues and I sneaked a few games into our labs (don't tell my editors), with the Switch propped up on its kickstand, and we were as giddy as schoolchildren.

All told, there are an estimated 4.2 million American schoolchildren, ages 5 to 14, who live in regions with significant earthquake risk.

So, are you going to tell all of the schoolchildren exposed to «A Convenient Untruth» that the hockey stick was actually dead, just animated through a cartoon?

I can't tell you how many people have mentioned that they appreciate knowing where I stand on various and sundry issues, from my dislike of Common Core state educational standards (which dictate what schoolchildren should know in each core subject by the end of each grade level) to my dislike of career politicians.