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Lori Alhadeff
Lori Alhadeff ('' née'' Robinovitz; born February 11, 1975) is an American activist, member of the Broward County School Board, and founder of school-safety organization Make Our Schools Safe. Her 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa Alhadeff, was murdered in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018. Alhadeff gained national attention after making an appearance the day after the shooting on CNN, pleading President Trump to increase school security and calls for gun control. Education Lori Robinovitz grew up in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, where she attended Hillsborough High School and played on the school's soccer team. She earned a Bachelor of Science in health and physical education from The College of New Jersey. She completed a Master of Arts in education at Gratz College. She is certified in the states of New Jersey and New York in health and physical education. Career Alhadeff worked for the Union Township School District over the course of four y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broward County School Board
Broward County Public Schools is a public school district serving Broward County, Florida, is the sixth largest public school system in the nation. During the 2016–2017 school year, Broward County Public Schools served 271,517 students enrolled in 327 schools and education centers district wide. The district is headquartered in downtown Fort Lauderdale. It is the sole school district in the county. History William J. Leary served as superintendent until 1988; the school board did not want him to serve out the remainder of his term, so it paid him $113,516 in severance. In 1994 Frank Petruzielo became the superintendent. School Board The current Superintendent of schools is Dr. Vickie Cartwright. The members of the school board, which oversee the district, are as follows: *District 1 – Ryan Reiter *District 2 – Torey Alston (Chair) *District 3 – Sarah Leonardi *District 4 – Lori Alhadeff (Vice Chair) *District 5 – Daniel Foganholi *District 6 – Manuel Serrano * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March For Our Lives
March for Our Lives (MFOL) was a student-led demonstration in support of gun control legislation. It took place in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018, with over 880 sibling events throughout the United States and around the world, and was planned by Never Again MSD in collaboration with the nonprofit organization Everytown for Gun Safety. The event followed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting a month earlier, which was described by several media outlets as a possible tipping point for gun control legislation. Protesters urged for universal background checks on all gun sales, closing of the gun show loophole, a restoration of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and a ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines and bump stocks in the United States. Turnout was estimated to be between 1.2 and 2 million people in the United States, making it one of the largest protests in American history. After the Robb Elementary School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas, MFOL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The College Of New Jersey Alumni
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun '' thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish American Community Activists
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, the practice of Jewish (religious) l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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