Sentences with phrase «to participate in the walkout»
The complaint concerned a Facebook video that showed Mayer inside her Assembly office commending students who participated in walkouts from schools to protest gun violence.
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Stevens Won't Consider Walkout Discipline in Admission Decisions At least one New Jersey college said it will not penalize any high school student who is disciplined for participating in a walkout in connection to the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Some students at New York schools (and elsewhere) were disciplined for participating in the walkouts.
Immense frustration with this state of affairs led many of us to participate in a walkout from the Ec 10 introductory course taught by former Bush economic adviser and prolific textbook author Greg Mankiw.
«Participating in a walkout like the one planned is an individual decision that we encourage families to discuss together,» NYC DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña said in the letter.
The high school students in my district are not only planning on participating in walkouts; they are protesting in the halls and asking to use class time to strategize.
My students want to participate in a walkout next week to demand legislation that keeps schools safe from gun violence.
Schools have a right to require teachers to teach during school hours, Wizner said, and «teachers would have a very limited First Amendment right to participate in a walkout during school hours for a political cause.»
All four states are right - to - work states where unions have limited collective bargaining rights and teachers who participate in a walkout risk dismissal and even loss of their teaching credentials.
Students from numerous charter and traditional schools in L.A. participated in a walkout to express their concerns.
In regards to that last one, NPR highlights a number of grad students who participated in a walkout because the tax bill aims to have a huge impact on their student loans and taxes.
Local 10 News reporter Erica Rakow was at Cypress Bay High School in Weston Wednesday morning as 5,000 students and staff members participated in the walkout.
They weren't sure if their students were participating in the walkout when they came to the school, but Consiglio - Ryan's daughter texted her shortly after saying «I love you, I did it.»
Administrators and student leaders are also sorting through the fallout as some schools hand out discipline for those who defied school instructions and participated in the walkouts exactly one month after the massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Majory Stoneman High School student Cameron Kasky addresses students as they rally at the school after participating in a walkout in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 21, 2018.
While many school districts were supportive of the protests, some schools threatened to punish students participating in walkouts.
The Needville Independent School District in Texas issued a warning Tuesday that anyone who participated in a walkout or other political protest would be suspended for three days.
A school district in Texas threatened students with three - day suspensions if they participated in walkouts.
«For anyone who participates in the walkout, it is important to do so in a safe and respectful manner.»
In Niagara Falls, officials are asking students to register if they intend to participate in the walkout.
Cuomo himself participated in a walkout demonstration at a high school in New York City, saying he wanted to harness the activism by students to push for national gun control measures.
Student Madison Flores, 17, participates in a walkout and demonstration for gun control at Anderson High School in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 23.
It may be that students want to participate in walkouts, and it may be that they want to react or act in other ways.
The students in my district want to participate in walkouts and marches for stricter gun control laws.
Considering the vast number of students who are participating in the walkouts — as well as the numbers of their peers who support them — school leaders can not honestly argue that these actions are somehow damaging children.
Officials at the Chicago Public Schools have released a list of contingency sites where parents can take their children on April 1, 2016, when teachers plan to participate in a walkout.
Schools need to make sure students understand they're under no obligation to participate in the walkouts.
Isaiah Hamilton, who is in sixth grade at Atlanta's Inman Middle School, where students participated in the walkout, said he didn't trust teachers with firepower.
A Cobb County schools spokesman has denied claims that students were blocked from leaving classrooms to participate in the walkout.
Also, please provide on - the - ground communication with us about when, where, and how many students from your school are participating in the walkout.
Police asked students participating in the walkouts to stay on Sample Road and Coral Springs Drive.
Dulaney Principal Sam Wynkoop estimated that 700 to 800 of the school's 1,800 students participated in the walkout.
Spradlin, who is the president of the Young Democrats Club on campus, said there were three reasons the students participated in the walkout: first was to honor the lives of the victims; second was to show Congress that students care about the issue of gun violence; and third was to take direct action by registering students to vote and writing to members of Congress to demand change.