Sentences with phrase «participating children opt»

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The women and girls who participated in the focus group discussion hailing from various IDPs2 camps in Mogadishu said they live under fear due to abuses by armed groups members especially when going to the bush to collect firewood with some of them being raped or assaulted to extent that some have opted to sending their male children or relatives to the bush to collect firewood.

Title: «Authorizing a parent to exempt his or her child from participating in the statewide assessment» Sponsor: Rep. Victoria Sullivan (Manchester) Continue reading LSR 2006 allows parents to opt their children out of the statewide assessment

Under the bill, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R - Woods Cross, eighth - graders at participating schools would opt - in to the program, which would encourage children to alert an adult if they come across a firearm.

If a school has more than 65 percent of its students participating in a voucher program, the school must administer the state test to every child in the school; parents of children who do not receive a voucher may opt out of the state test requirement

Despite the growing numbers of completed assessments, pockets of parents have decided to «opt out,» refusing to allow their children to participate in mandated state tests.

If a school has more than 65 percent of students participating in a voucher program, the school must administer the state test to every child in the school; parents of children who do not receive a voucher may opt out of the state test requirement

Parents of public school students in a number of Connecticut school districts continue to report that there are superintendents and principals who are not only misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their child participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and / or the NEW SAT, but are actually telling parents that it is «illegal» for them to opt their child or children out of these tests.

Opting your child out — that is refusing to allow them to participate — is your fundamental right.

This is true, but the lack of a provision specifically providing for an opt - out does not negate the fact that parents have a fundamental right to refuse to have their children participate in the test.

With it, participating parents can choose the best academic path for each child by taking portable funds to a private school or by opting out of the traditional school model to provide a customized education at home.

Until now, the Malloy administration's primary mechanism to try and force parents to have their children participate in the SBAC / NEW SAT testing was to mislead and lie to parents about their rights, while at the same time, threatening that the state would withhold Title 1 federal funding that is supposed to be used to help poor children if a school district's opt out rate was greater than 5 percent.

In addition to lying and misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core SBAC tests, a disturbing number of school districts are unethically and immorally punishing students who have been opted out of the tests, while some districts are ordering students to «log - in» to the SBAC tests before the schools will honor the parents» directive that their child is not to participate in the tests.

It is the parents who are refusing to have their child participate in the testing and have therefore informed the school district that the child will be opting out of the test.

Following orders delivered by Malloy's Interim Commissioner of Education Dianna Wentzell, school superintendents are misleading parents into believing they do not have the right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC tests and harassing those who are stepping up and demanding that their children not participate in the testing.

Therefore, if a child has been opted out of the test and is not signing in to the test is not participating and can not remain in the testing room.

A two - stage recruitment procedure was used (figure 1) to ensure that students remained anonymous to researchers for future record linkage purposes: Principals (Head Teachers) provided active consent for their school to participate; subsequent child recruitment within participating schools was managed by school personnel using an opt - out consent procedure for parents and / or children.

Parent or child opt - outs from participation were received for 4.3 % of children, and MCS data obtained from 27 808 children (mean age 11.5 years, SD 0.5; 49.5 % female), representing 85.9 % of students at participating schools.

If you do not want your student to participate in comprehensive sexual health or HIV prevention education, please fill out the an «Opt - Out» form (downloadable below) and provide it to your child's 7th grade life science teacher, high school biology teacher or school's principal.

The vast majority of parents want their children to receive appropriate instruction and be given the information and skills they need to protect their sexual health, but parents / guardians also must be allowed the chance to opt out or exclude their children from participating in the program, if they wish.