Sentences with phrase «was in public school days»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life,» Albuquerque Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.

What it's like: «I never know what my day will bring,» says Jennifer Zurba, principal of William Burgess Public School in Toronto.

Last year, Ontario imposed a contract on public - school teachers that eliminated bankable sick days, while back in June, Treasury Board president Tony Clement vowed to fight federal employee absenteeism, which he said was costing taxpayers millions.

Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

From 1966 to the Valentine's Day that my school proved to be less than bulletproof, nearly 1,100 people have been killed in mass public shootings in the U.S..

Prosecutors are joining the Broward School Board in moving to block the public release of footage captured by security cameras outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during Nikolas Cruz's deadly Valentine's Day rampage.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

Bibles in every motel room God on our money Prayer before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Laws that prevent non-christians from holding public office Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in the Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Bible School and «Repent or go to He.ll» Federally recognized christian holiday Radioevangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be christian National day of prayer God in the National Anthem Weekday christian education for elementary students.

Bibles in every motel room God on our money Moments of silence (prayer) before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in The Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Brainwashing School (VBS) for your children Federally recognized Christian holiday Radioeveangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be Christian National day of prayer God in the National Anthem

I say that as a public school teacher because our students need to be in school everyday all day!

While pledging allegiance to the flag (with a more subdued physical salute) continues to this day to be routine in America's public schools, for the seventy years since Barnette it has been unlawful to compel any student to participate, and no student who elects not to participate is obliged to give any reason for that choice.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

It had been customary to pray or to read the Bible in public schools in many states throughout the Union from the founding days of the nation.

Non-christians should no sooner be made to sit in a public school room looking at a cross all day than Jews should be made to sit looking at a swastika all day.

And as far as socialism goes, I bet there are millions of those evangelicals who wallow in it every day: public schools, state highways, medicare, medicaid, libraries.

I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..

Pupils of all age ranges in about 40 schools across New York have already joined Meatless Monday, including public (state - run), private and charter schools, and the Brooklyn announcement was made at a school that serves only meat free meals — every day of the week.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

On Monday, Nov. 9, four days before the Mighty Ducks were scheduled to take on Franklin in the first round of playoffs, Baltimore City Public Schools contacted the executive director of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association to announce they were withdrawing Douglass from the state regional tournament.

In the end we went with the public school that is also our neighborhood school and he got a lottery spot in the full - day prograIn the end we went with the public school that is also our neighborhood school and he got a lottery spot in the full - day prograin the full - day program.

In many ways, Lewis, 58, a brash, tough - talking South Side product of Chicago's public school system, is an unlikely foil to Emanuel and CPS leaders in the national push toward longer school dayIn many ways, Lewis, 58, a brash, tough - talking South Side product of Chicago's public school system, is an unlikely foil to Emanuel and CPS leaders in the national push toward longer school dayin the national push toward longer school days.

We have friends whose kids are going to the public kindergarten (only 1/2 day) with the «wraparound» enrichment program for the rest of the day; their little ones are already stressed out because they have just 2.75 hours in school, during which they're basically being trampled on with mountains of «instruction,» and the wraparound program gives just 20 minutes for lunch while foregoing rest time in favor of «reading instruction» and «homework help.»

And prayer and worship can be part of the school day, as they also may be in certain private schools, but are avowedly not part of the public school schedule.

My first computer class at public school and my eyes locked with those back in the day apple computers, I just knew it was love at first sight.

We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school day, sometimes multiple times a day.

This ensures that the group is running on the day you have in mind as it breaks for public and school holidays.

During the school year that ended Friday, about 84 percent of Chicago public school students received free or reduced - price breakfasts and lunches, meaning that with summer's arrival, nearly 342,000 children are no longer receiving the meals each day in their school cafeterias.

Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean - Claude Brizard tries to make a case for longer school days in «A push for longer school days; It is time for adults to deliver more to Chicago students» (Commentary, June 10).

Our schools must share the same lunch vendor, as these are the same lunches in the same packaging that my Chicago Public Schools students must endure eveschools must share the same lunch vendor, as these are the same lunches in the same packaging that my Chicago Public Schools students must endure eveSchools students must endure every day.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel began pushing for a longer school day while he was on the campaign trail, saying Chicago's school day is the shortest in the nation when compared to public school systems in nine other large cities.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«We think that's entirely too long,» said Tricia Obester, a spokeswoman for Public Voice, the Washington - based consumer health organization that long has campaigned for improvements in the nation's school lunch programs, which feed about 25 million children a day.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoSchools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular schoschools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

I briefly told you about the Get Food Education in Every School initiative when it was announced in May, but now you can read more about it in this week's Huffington Post editorial by Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (the folks behind Food day).

(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.

While tooling around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story of Sara Salo, a public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the country to bring attention to school food reform.

His second day on the job as Minneapolis Public Schools» new top chef, Bertrand Weber stood before an audience made up of district brass who would probably sooner eat the contents of their sock drawers than anything produced in this cinderblock hell and sweetly informed them that they would soon be thinking of it as the Culinary Center.

America's public schools serve 30.5 million lunches per day in the National School Lunch Program at a cost of $ 8.7 billion a year, but many dishes are high in saturated fat, low in fiber and omit fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

Among the toilet training challenges that you might be dealing with is a child who, despite using the potty regularly at home and in public, refuses to use it at day care or school.

Kids in public schools are doused with sugar every day.

Of course, that you know the true character of a person, when in crisis, is as true now as it was in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel in which the best of British public school boys (metaphor for the best of western civilization) descended into feral brutes, just because they were marooned in a strange environment for a few days.

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña was in Albany for two days this week, updating the Legislature on the progress of the city's public school system.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneday pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneday pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneday sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banneDay Parade in uniform / with banners.

Individuals and businesses will be able to receive a total of $ 20 million in tax credits for up to 75 percent of their donations made to public schools and not - for - profits that support public schools» educational programs, including Pre-Kindergarten and extended - day programs.

He also noted that AFT President Randi Weingarten would be taking DeVos to a public school in Ohio the following day.

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From Filsinger to Aguglia, to one day potentially Jones, he is an example of the everyday heroes we see in the Buffalo Public Schools.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Parents, teachers, and anti-gun violence advocates are throwing their support behind Buffalo Public Schools students who are participating in Wednesday's national school walkout day.