Sentences with phrase «walkout demonstrations»

On Wednesday, students across the country staged mass walkout demonstrations for stronger gun laws.

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.

Students link arms around 17 desks, one for each of those killed during the Parkland, Florida, shooting, during a walkout demonstration Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at Cheyenne's East High to protest the shooting deaths of students at schools across the United States.

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The walkout is just the first in a series of youth - led demonstrations of activism around gun violence.

Local high school students are planning several walkouts to demand that Congress cracks down on gun violence in America, according to Cleveland 19 News, with similar demonstrations ongoing in Columbus, Ohio, as well.

His demonstrations have included leading a walkout of a talk by the former state education commissioner and conducting a mock trial prosecuting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for denying New York students their right to an education.

But the first large - scale, coordinated national demonstration is planned for March 14, when organizers of the Women's March have called for a 17 - minute walkout, one minute for each of the 17 students and staff members killed in Florida.

As students are claiming their rightful place in today's ongoing dialogues on gun control and school safety — leading powerful demonstrations such as March for Our Lives and National School Walkout Day — there are an increasing number of educators who urge schools to allow students to voice their opinions, and make these conversations a regular occurrence.

During the 2012 - 2013 public school year, actions against high - stakes tests included a successful teachers strike in Chicago, an effective boycott in Seattle, student walkouts in Denver and Portland, demonstrations in Providence and opt - out movements in dozens of communities.

The ACLU - NJ and GSE reiterate the students holding demonstrations at school, including walkouts, have rights.

Mass walkouts by students draw attention, and in some cases, schools have received negative press after threatening to suspend youth who engage in peaceful demonstrations.

Indeed, recent demonstrations and walkouts by teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona are a reaction to years of disinvestment and potentially represent a coming wave of similar actions.

However, in this case, you could say that not the demonstration, but the walkout seemed encouraging.

But the first large - scale, coordinated national demonstration is planned for March 14, when organizers of the Women's March have called for a 17 - minute walkout, one minute for each of the 17 students and staff members killed in Florida.

Broadneck High School students Aglaia Koutsonikas, Ruth Stimely, Shawn Pollard, and Emily Clancy speak with The Capital about their just completed demonstration calling attention to the 17 lives lost in Parkland one month ago, part of the National Walkout Day on March 14th, 2018.

She organized a Feb. 20 passive walkout at South Broward High in solidarity with the victims, joining similar South Florida demonstrations.

Although demonstrations have sprung up at schools often since the Feb. 14 shooting, the idea behind this walkout originated with Empower, the youth arm of the annual Women's March.

The demonstrations followed Tuesday's walkouts at several schools including West Boca Community High School, which saw students walking several miles from their campus to Stoneman Douglas in Parkland.

The town hall on Wednesday night followed days of sit - ins, walkouts and demonstrations in solidarity with survivors of the massacre.

Last week: The one - month anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting tragedy sparked school walkouts and demonstrations across the country with students demanding gun control to stop the wave of needless violence.