Sentences with phrase «yearfor local schoolchildren»

Last off - season, when Umenyiora returned to Nigeria for the first timesince he left as a teen, the villagers made him an honorary chief — not for hisfootball achievements, but because of the 30 scholarships he endows each yearfor local schoolchildren.

With the IAAF World Indoor Championships returning to her home city of Birmingham from March 1 - 4, the Olympic 400m bronze medallist marked the 100 days to go milestone by helping to launch a ticket campaign offering 100 local schoolchildren the chance to attend the Championships for free.

England trained in Kielce for the first time since arriving on Monday, with 300 local schoolchildren watching an open session on Tuesday.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

The exact matches were with 2 local schoolchildren, and the close match was with their history teacher, Adrian Targett.

The scheme has made him a joke among his neighbors, though they do regard him with affection — he's sometimes invited to address local schoolchildren in his space suit.

Local schoolchildren regularly visit the centre to learn about animal welfare and the importance of demonstrating compassion and kindness towards working animals.

The artist invites all local schoolchildren and adults, tourists and visitors alike to the exhibition to create objects out of colored clay.

This year - long internship will involve research on the collection, lesson plan development and hands - on experience in teaching the plan to local schoolchildren.

The gallery will be opened by one of Margate's most famous residents, Tracey Emin, with the musician Jools Holland and a group of local schoolchildren.

Local schoolchildren and art experts from around the world travel to see works such as Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's «Cosmococas», and Matthew Barney's «From Mud, a Blade», which engages critically with the relationship between mining and nature that made Inhotim possible in the first place.

These include the much beloved fountains in Ghirardelli Square (1968) and outside the Grand Hyatt San Francisco (1973), the latter of which comprises hundreds of clay images molded by local schoolchildren, friends, and other artists cast in bronze.

Not exact matches

On the morning of the shooting, Marie led a prayer group at a local church, where they asked God to keep schoolchildren safe.

Staff from GreenPalm were joined by other local businesses to use their expertise to give a group of 80 Hull schoolchildren a lesson in global trade, during an event intended to help them learn more about International business.

Both Kheda Gazieva as Aminat, Ramasan's still beautiful but exhausted - looking mother and Aslan Elbiev as the ambivalent, mysterious Isa, who was wounded in the conflict (the actor really is missing some fingers which gives the character's dexterity as a handyman an added prurient fascination) are excellent, and the supporting cast of local neighbors, Austrian police officers, social workers and schoolchildren are perfectly cast too.

On Friday 16th March, the school hosted 400 schoolchildren from other local schools who participated in a range of activities.

The first is the provision E of a building that inspires the schoolchildren and the local community; the second is the way in which this building inspires them; and the third is the use of prefabricated materials, where possible, and simple detailing to reduce the labour and waste in order to meet the school's tight budget.»

Yet in her meetings with schoolchildren, like the class of local 4th graders that met here last week to discuss books...

NSBA will continue to work with lawmakers to prioritize the interests of our nation's local school board members and public schoolchildren as S. 1177 heads to the Senate for a vote, and approaches the finish line for the long overdue ESEA modernization.

Local newspapers carry stories and editorials about the bill, while parents, teachers and schoolchildren on both sides of the debate have contacted legislators with their views.

Flanked by a dozen schoolchildren in his Central Ward headquarters, Jeffries called for local control, longer school days, improved facilities, more teacher support and more choice for Newark's 40,000 schoolchildren.

«Their success is an inspirational example of how local school boards, as education leaders in their communities, can make a difference in the lives of America's schoolchildren.»

«Our nation's schoolchildren deserve a world - class public education, and NSBA acknowledges the positive momentum toward a bill to support local school district leadership and community ownership to ensure student success.»

The authors of the original law were wary of administrators in local districts, many of whom were actively discriminating against minority schoolchildren.

Education Reform Now: Education Reform Now is a national education reform organization that cultivates and supports leaders at the federal, state, and local levels who champion America's public schoolchildren.

Inadequate funding is robbing Connecticut's public schoolchildren of their constitutional right to a quality education, while placing an unfair burden on Connecticut's local property taxpayers.

A lot of Chicago parents with the resources to do so have followed Emanuel's lead: 17 % of schoolchildren in Chicago attend private schools, and so don't have to trouble themselves with whether or not their local public school has air conditioning, or a library (160 do not), or classes with 45 students.

Turner, who said she was speaking out mainly as a parent herself concerned for Cleveland schoolchildren, also noted that while the Cleveland Teachers Union has misgivings about the levy sharing provision, the local union has not instructed its members to raise objections to it.

State and local vaccination requirements for school entry seek to protect schoolchildren from vaccine - preventable diseases.

But the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding, a statewide coalition of municipalities, local boards of education, education associations, unions, pro-education advocacy organizations, parents, public schoolchildren and taxpayers, are working to change that once and for all.

Schoolchildren from a school in Stow - on - the - Wold, Gloucestershire, head to their local pub once a week for their school dinners.

With Alexander's nearly 400 - page draft bill, «Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015,» under scrutiny, and in advance of congressional hearings next week, NSBA calls for a comprehensive, strategic reauthorization of ESEA that provides school districts with the flexibility and funding essential to support local community public schools and our nation's public schoolchildren.

It put writers in groups and bused them around (rather like schoolchildren); it introduced them to local tourism officials; it showed them what the officials wanted them to see.

While we enjoy al - Azhar Park, we sometimes rue the fact that it is almost exclusively the preserve of foreigners, relatively well - to - do locals and groups of schoolchildren on field trips.

Education campaigners have launched legal action against a government requirement for local authorities to share sensitive personal data on schoolchildren for its «Alternative Provision Census».

Concerned about the future of the children in her poor rural community, Clary recruits local business to sponsor classrooms of schoolchildren, providing them with one - on - one mentoring, field trips, gifts and supplies, and most of all, people who care.