Sentences with phrase «who opened the school»

Victor Hugo He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

This inspiring account tells the true story of Prudence Crandall, a white woman who opened a school for African American girls in Connecticut in 1833, despite vicious opposition.

Victor Hugo's famous quote — «He who opens a school door, closes a prison» — provides inspiration on the wall at Parkville.

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Ali, who graduated from the University of Toronto's planning school in 2012, was involved in the public engagement aspect of the project — organizing open houses, finding straightforward ways to communicate complex planning jargon and soliciting input.

That was the eye - opening opening of a keynote address given yesterday by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor of biostatistics and computational biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.

Kaitlin Roig - Debellis, who gave that first harrowing interview to Diane Sawyer just hours after a gunman stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and opened fire, killing 20 young children and 6 educators, is the mastermind behind Classes 4 Classes.

About a year later, Elon and his younger brother Kimbal, who has long been Musk's closest friend and chief co-conspirator, drew up plans to open an arcade near their school.

Opened two years ago, Potomac Law Group leans heavily on cloud technology and is itself a kind of cloud — a constellation of 40 lawyers who went to the best schools, trained at the best firms, and are now working, mostly from home, to their own schedules, for about half the price bigger firms charge.

FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

Targeting low - income high school / college students who are interested in coding, open government, and civic technology, the program offers mentoring, programming courses, resource access and an internship.

For example, Lego benefited from the Stanford graduate student who saw the opportunities in opening up the code for the company's Mindstorm robots to create a platform, transforming a toy into a tool for schools for education and experimentation.

Not far away was Scot Peterson, a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy and Stoneman's school resource officer who heard the shooting, but stood outside the building as Cruz opened fire on his classmates.

Laura will open and lead a new department for AltSchool as the company prepares to support private, charter, and public schools who will utilize the platform.

Cross-country coach Scott Beigel, who taught geography at the school, died after opening his classroom door to students, the Sun - Sentinel reported.

PARKLAND, Fla. — A heavily armed 19 - year - old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said.

The attack was carried out by a former student wielding an assault - style rifle who strode into one of the school buildings and opened fire.

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

opening Friday, tells the true story of the 2011 Iowa City West High School girls volleyball team, who attempt to rebuild in the wake of the death of their star player, Caroline Found.

The Miracle Season, opening Friday, tells the true story of the 2011 Iowa City West High School girls volleyball team, who attempt to rebuild in the wake of the death of their star player, Caroline Found.

At the first school we had a look at, the sixth former who was showing us round, when I asked whether the chapel was ever open (it wasn't) and whether the Blessed Sacrament was reserved there, asked me what the Blessed Sacrament WAS.

In a 5 - 4 decision this morning, the Supreme Court said that a California law school can require a Christian group to open its leadership positions to all students, including those who disagree with the group's statement of faith.

Whether or not school is open isn't important, what IS important is if the schools accommodate students who celebrate the holiday.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

I would be a decade older, a seminarian in a school that fancied itself sophisticated, before I would learn that people who leave coffin lids open at funerals and try to imagine what the dead would think of all the fuss are barbarians.

People who participate in the «opening exercises» of the Sunday School learn an ethos.

The University has recently opened a Benedict XVI Centre specialising in Catholic social teaching, and is proud of its particular links with Pope Emeritus Benedict, who addressed a vast crowd of children gathered there from schools across Britain on his State Visit in 2010.

In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

They opened the sanctuary for prayer, called in a local Denver seminary professor who did grief counseling after the shootings at Columbine High School and started planning joint activities with Queen of Peace Catholic Church, which abuts their property.

The road from the business plan that Altero wrote as a business school assignment to the opening of the restaurant's first location in Point Pleasant, N.J., in 2008, had some detours and a critical connection with the man who would become his partner.

More basic, homestyle cooking can be found at the house of Irma de Guerra, a grandmother who has opened her home to board students from the more than 50 Spanish language schools based in Antigua.

He was a public school teacher who enjoyed making pizzas in his spare time, and that passion led to the opening of «Ken's Pizza Parlor» in Tulsa, Okla., in 1961.

The middle schooler has been line - sitting since February, but launched the BBQ Fast Pass website this week in time for summer vacation, opening the floodgates for a deluge of customers who want to snag his services.

After attending several distilling schools across the country, Barrett, who is color blind (hence the name Black Button — the family joked that if he ever took over the button factory, they would have to switch to only making black buttons), returned to Rochester, NY to realize his dream and open the first craft distillery in the Rochester since prohibition.

Bayer was joined at the café's opening by Drexel University President John Fry, 11 - term U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah and Dean of Drexel's Close School of Entrepreneurship Donna De Carolis, who joined Bayer in pulling the café's first espresso shots.

A lot of folks in the girls high school basketball community in California know about the current Harvard - Westlake team, mostly because of the prominence of the Pepperdine - signed Ruffus - Milner twins, Jayla and Jayda, who helped lift the Wolverines to the CIF Southern Section Open Division final last season before they lost 62 - 58 to Long Beach Poly.

He goes online and looks up the top 100 high school players, then opens Facebook and sends a friend request to everyone on the list who has an account.

But more revealing was this: As the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junior.

Though home games are still held in a splendid old whale - shaped building near the heart of campus and the audience still includes gray - haired men in tweed jackets who rise to their feet to celebrate Bulldogs goals, now these old - school types must jostle for standing room when the 3,486 - seat Ingalls Rink opens an hour before face - off.

The 43 - year - old Fiori, who two weeks ago won the Quad City Classic, opened the envelope to find his application for the next Q school, which he gleefully ripped into tiny pieces....

This camp is open to all athletes who have attended at least one session of summer camp or a school year middle school session.

«Our doors are open if people want to see what we're doing and we actually have high school coaches who come to our workouts and take notes.

«We are trying to instill the team concept and develop a camaraderie and team spirit,» Iverson said of taking the program over for longtime coach Carl Massey, who retired after teaching and coaching in the El Dorado County School System for 37 years, including at Oak Ridge since it first opened in 1980.

In 1840 she opened a nurses school — one of her pupils was Florence Nightingale who took a team of Fry's nurses out to the Crimean War.

Pedro, who scored our opening goal in the 4 - 0 win over Manchester United last weekend, surprised the visitors from the NIST International School on Thursday afternoon during their penultimate day in London much to the delight of the 21 youngsters in attendance.

Similarly, what happens to the brilliant Ph.D. students who learn that there are too few openings for new professors at the Ivy League schools?

I'm a fan because I think it opens up the doors to parents who would never consider school lunch issues otherwise maybe will after seeing the Food Revolution.

This course is open to all who want to enter into an open exchange on how Indigenous education can benefit from using Waldorf education and how Waldorf schools can learn from Indigenous culture and spirituality and present it to their children in an authentic way.

The volunteers from Taco Bell have opened and processed more than 5,000 letters from schools, groups and communities all over the United States who are «adopting «units and ships.