Sentences with phrase «walked out of their schools»

Pro-gun rights high school students are walking out of schools in 42 states Wednesdsay for 16 minutes in support of Second Amendment rights.

Students in northeast Ohio are planning to walk out of schools in protest of gun laws, in the aftermath of last week's shooting at a Florida high school.

Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) From Arizona to Washington, students walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students a week after their classmates were silenced by gunfire.

Congress has passed no significant gun reforms — and it still doesn't look likely to do so, even as kids take to the streets and walk out of their schools

Students from Chicago say that they plan on walking out of school this month, joining activists around the country in the National School Walkout and the March for Our Lives events, and they've extended an invitation for Parkland students to visit Chicago.

As students across the country walked out of their schools for the National Student Walkout in honor of the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, House lawmakers passed a narrow gun violence prevention measure with overwhelming bipartisan support.

Wear orange in solidarity with students, teachers, and staff who are walking out of school throughout the state (and country) to demand gun reform legislation (Various Locations)

Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, stood up in their classrooms and walked out of their schools in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida.

From Arizona to Washington, young people walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors who mobilized behind an emotional movement calling for a ban on weapons such as the one used to kill their friends and teachers.

From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month's massacre of 17 people at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inaction.

NEW YORK — Across the country, as well as across the tri-state region and all over New York City, students walked out of school by the thousands to call for stricter gun laws, and to call for an end to gun violence.

Since then, at least seven other students, some as young as 4, have walked out of their school buildings.

April 20, 2018 • Thousands of students are expected to walk out of school on Friday to protest school violence.

By some estimates, 1 million students walked out of schools to honor the Parkland, Fla., victims and call for stricter gun laws, while Republican politicians all but ignored them.

While students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people and wounding more in the Florida school shooting sat in court silently, his head bowed.

I also think that this adaptation needs to include challenges and hardships, so that no child walks out of our schools without a fair amount of grit under her belt.

To mark the one - month anniversary of the Feb. 14 deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., students nationwide plan to walk out of school for 17 minutes to demand their state and local representatives address gun violence.

In the most dramatic display of civic activism by American students in recent memory, tens of thousands walked out of their schools Wednesday and took part in somber, politically charged demonstrations marking the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 educators and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

Here's how the PBS NewsHour describes this video segment: Fifty - five years ago, thousands of African - American children walked out of their schools and began a peaceful march in Birmingham, A...

Students frustrated over the new exam walked out of schools across the state Monday in protest as the new exam was being given.

WSJ: New York - Area Students Join Nationwide Walkout, Some Risking Punishment WBEZ: School Walkouts: Teens Say «We're Fighting For Our Lives» Washington Post: Thousands of students walk out of school in nationwide gun violence protest NPR: In Gun - Friendly Montana, Student Walkout Steers Clear Of PoliticsThe 74: The Revolution Will Be Hashtagged.

On March 14, students across the country will walk out of school to demand action on gun violence.

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over 2,000 students walked out of school and demonstrated at City Hall to demand increased school funding, convincing city council to give an extra $ 15 million to the schools.

Event Description and Location: On Nov. 19th, students at Barringer High School will walk out of school in protest of the chaos and awful learning conditions at their high school under the One Newark Plan.

Last month Sac High participated in the «National School Walkout» during which students across the country walked out of school to honor the 17 victims shot and killed at Stoneman Douglas High School in February.

According to change.org, school students may participate by walking out of school, wearing orange, and protesting in their local communities and online using #nationalschoolwalkout.

One of the largest student protests against high - stakes testing in U.S. history occurred last spring when many hundreds of students in New Mexico — at schools that served 90 % Latino students — walked out of school and refused to take the new Common Core exams.

From Arizona to Washington, young people walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors who mobilized behind an emotional movement calling for a ban on weapons such as the one used to kill their friends and teachers.

If you become aware that students plan to participate in the day of observance by walking out of school and / or lobbying at the State House, you should immediately report this to the BPS Safety Services Department at [phone], as well as contact your Operational Superintendent.

Students across the country and around New York walked out of school on Wednesday to call for gun restrictions that would help prevent mass shootings like the one in Parkland.

To leverage their demands, 3,500 students walked out of school.

Students across the country walked out of schools on March 14 for 17 minutes to pay tribute to the 17 victims of the mass shooting.

Students are grabbing the education they need by walking out of schools.

When testing began on the first Monday in March hundreds of students in Albuquerque, the largest school district in the state, walked out of their schools to protest the tests and the policies surrounding them.

Students are taking a stand by walking out of schools.

ALFA Driving Schools promises that you will walk out of our school with your Department of Driver Services certificate of completion in your hand the second you finish your defensive driving / driver improvement course.

Women's March organizers have lent their voices to the call, encouraging students, teachers and their allies to walk out of schools on March 14 to protest gun violence.

(CNN)- Women's March organizers are encouraging students, teachers and their allies to walk out of schools on March 14 to protest gun violence.

PARKLAND, Fla. - As Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students walked out of school Wednesday for the first time since the Feb. 14 mass shooting, a parent walked inside with a bouquet of flowers and a card for a teacher.

Students at Catonsville High School students walked out of the school building Wednesday at 10 a.m. to take part in the National School Walkout commemorating last month's school shooting in Florida.

Students walked out of schools across Anne Arundel County around 10 a.m. Wednesday, joining an unprecedented national demonstration in favor of gun control.

-- Students walk out of school: Several student walkouts took place at schools around South Florida to remember the shooting victims and push for gun control.

From Arizona to Washington, young people walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors who mobilized behind an emotional movement calling for a ban on weapons such as the one used to kill their friends and teachers.

On Friday, about 100 students from South Broward High School walked out of school to protest gun violence, carrying signs that said «Do Something» and «Protect our Kids, Not Your Guns.»

Washington Post: «Florida students chanting «We want change» walk out of schools to protest gun violence»

Several members praised students at West Boca, Olympic Heights and Boca Raton high schools who walked out of school in recent days to support Douglas students.

He appeared in court Wednesday as students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence.

As students walked out of schools across the country Wednesday to protest gun violence, a Senate hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland, Fla., man accused of killing 17 people at a high school, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

The event was one of many like it Wednesday, when thousands of students in Maryland and across the country walked out of their schools as part of the national «#Enough National School Walkout» organized by students who survived the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland.