Sentence examples for halting classes from inspiring English sources

The city's 29,000 teachers have been on strike since Monday, halting classes in the country's third-largest school district, over contract negotiations that are snagged on job security and Emanuel's plan to rate teachers based on students' standardized test scores.

It was what has become a pretty standard week for him since 1995, when Congress passed a law that, by halting class action suits for securities law violations, prodded many lawyers to take up other class action complaints.

Almost every year for two decades, its strikes have halted classes for weeks on end.

The Hebrew school halted classes this year because of the dwindling number of Jewish children.

In London, traffic halted, classes stopped and people stood silent for three minutes.

Teachers in Rio have halted classes for several days to call for better pay and working conditions.

CHICAGO — Five days into a teachers' strike that halted classes for 350,000 public school students across this city, leaders on both sides of the contract dispute said on Friday that they had reached the outlines of a deal.

Racist Incidents Stun Campus and Halt Classes at Oberlin Oberlin College, known as much for ardent liberalism as for academic excellence, canceled classes on Mar. 4 and convened a "day of solidarity" after the latest in a monthlong string of what it called hate-related incidents and vandalism.

CHICAGO — Meeting behind closed doors into the evening, leaders on both sides of this city's teacher strike voiced optimism on Thursday that a deal could soon be reached, bringing an end to a walkout that has halted classes for 350,000 students in the nation's third-largest school system.

The Newport-Mesa Unifour schoolsDistrict said four schaltedhalted classes early because of the conditions: Newport Harbor High, Corona del Mar High and Middle and Back Bay High.

Newport Harbor High, Back Bay High and Corona del Mar High and Middle schools in the Newport-Mesa Unified Sclassesistrict haltearlyasses early because of the weather.