Sentences with phrase «york kids each year»

«It's unconscionable that thousands of New York kids each year are turned away from homeless youth shelters because there aren't enough beds.

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What they would find is that after three seasons is that you couldn't run a team of 165 people as a 28 - year - old kid who's a fashion designer in New York.

About 35 years ago, power company employee had to stop water flowing into a river in Upstate New York, but, not knowing any better (kids deciding they don't need to know that»cause they'll never use it), the employees choose the two weeks that salmon swim upriver to spawn.

Kids love Maple Syrup and the New York State Maple Producers are always educating and entertaining children and families throughout the year.

Ultimately, after 10 years, Lee is most proud that the New York City Wine & Food Festival has raised more than $ 10 million to help end hunger with Food Bank For New York City and No Kid Hungry.

Billy Graham, 32 - year - old veteran welterweight contender, who came within one vote of winning title from Kid Gavilan in 1951, announced retirement in New York.

Hi — am thinking of a holiday in new york in the summer — 2 adults and 4 kids (aged 10,8,5,2)-- is it practical to get around new york — am guessing most taxis won't take 6 and is the subway practical with a 2 year old in a stroller?

«For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York.

Between the cuts to New York City's universal meal program and last year's Congressional failure to adequately fund the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, it's clear that we're a very long way away from school food expert Janet Poppendieck's utopian vision of school meals «free for all.»

Southwestern Day Care Center provides caring and dedicated child care and education services in Orchard Park, New York, for kids from six weeks to twelve years old.

Nestle is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University, and here she provides a concise but comprehensive overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

«I'm increasingly struck by the sense that lots of parents, educators and administrators feel that there is something missing in education — with low - income kids in particular — but really with kids from every background,» says the 45 - year - old author and journalist, coddling his herbal tea in an East Village café on a wintry New York morning.

York Montessori School has been a second home for our kids for a number of years.

Silly Scents Marker Maker, Kids love to get creative Read Our Review On This Must Have From The New York Toy Fair This Year

The most expensive states for preschool - age kids in a childcare center are Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin, with costs over $ 8,000 a year ($ 667 a month).

Dr. Rachel Klein, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 years.

The New York State Teacher of the Year Program is administered by the New York State Education Department and sponsored by New York State United Teachers (NYSUT); United Federation of Teachers (UFT); New York State Parents and Teachers Association (NYSPTA); New York State Association for School Curriculum Development (NYSASCD); New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA); School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS); New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE); New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (NYACTE); Voya Financial; the SMARTer Kids Foundation; SMART Technologies and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

«This is the state where I have been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ equality and for women's health and women's rights, including a woman's right to choose, and in the last 17 years, I have been traveling across this state fighting for better public schools for my kids but also for all of New York's kids,» Nixon said.

«It's estimated that if this legislation passed, the combination of the tax credit and the money from the Healthy Homes Anti-Lead program, we could eliminate lead poisoning in kids in upstate New York in 10 years,» Schumer said.

This year New York State is providing free entry for 4th grade students and their families to all state parks and historic sites through acceptance of the National Park Service's «Every - Kid - in - a-Park» Pass.

Every year, The Buffalo News prints special Kids Day editions of the paper to sell on street corners across Western New York.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

Last year, more than 105,000 New York City public school kids experienced homelessness at some point during the year, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.

The IDC resolution also supports the creation of a state DREAM Act that would give the college kids of undocumented immigrants access to state tuition assistance programs, funding for teacher centers, and Cuomo's push to spend up to $ 1 million on a memorial in New York City honoring «all victims of hate, intolerance, and violence» in the wake of a club shooting in Orlando last year.

«More than 83,000 New York City school kids experienced homelessness at some point in the past year and an average of 23,000 children sleep in the City's homeless shelters each night,» said Borough President KATZ.

For instance, we're building a partnership with the New York City Department of Education with the goal being that what we do is not limited to a festival each May but rather extends to activities throughout the year that will help get kids more excited about science and prepare them for the annual festival.

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We moved from New York to Florida when I was a kid, so the oranges and yellows of the beloved fall became the colours of blaring year - long sunshine.

Curry the Yorkie is going to a cowboy but unfortunately for me, I haven't been able to buy a costume due to budget constraints (trying to fly myself to Tokyo and New York in the next few months is a lot harder this time around than years passed since I live on my own and have rent to pay) but I did buy candy to pass out to the kids!

I like to have alots of fun, outgoing, happy all the time, i love life to the fulllest, and love making others happy.I'm 30 years of age, no kids, and just move back to New York city.looking to make new friends

Single, no kids, originally from New York and Ive been in Madison for about 3 years now... You can call me weird or whatever but i got this thing about SMILES... you could say i got ta a SMILE FETISH..

im laquan 28 years old from Brooklyn new York but I now llive n the charlotte area were I work at im single I don't smoke or drink I don't have no kids im focus n im lookin for someone that's focus as well so if u bout games or don't no what u want don't bother hittin me up bc I wont repond

Also, both Joey and his older sister Ellen Travolta had been professional actors in the New York area for several years before kid brother John hit it big with Saturday Night Fever.

Aside: Although this 16x9 - enhanced featurette claims that little is known of Billy the Kid prior to his mother's relocation to New Mexico and marriage to a miner named William Antrim, strong evidence suggests that Billy (born Henry McCarty) spent the first few years of his life in New York City, and that his birth father was killed in the Draft Riots, which were recently depicted in Gangs of New York.

His latest show, about a Jewish kid from New York who moves to the sticks after his parents divorce, centers on the thrilling, angst - ridden, and awkward years of adolescence and learning to accept yourself for who you are.

Jenkins also charts his path to success in a business he knew he wanted to be in since he was a kid and recounts those many years riding the train from Illinois to play bit roles in New York - based TV shows and films.

To Klein's credit, he eventually came to see the errors of his ways, and in his last years as chancellor he embraced the Core Knowledge program — a coherent, content - rich curriculum that is a model for what kids in New York, and nationwide, need if they are going to become strong readers.

Three years ago, chapters of Mustaches for Kids (M4K) in the city of New York and Charlotte, North Carolina, elected to raise money for public school projects posted on DonorsChoose.org.

«The reality is that our kids are in constant contact with the media,» says Daniel Rossi, director of the Midtown Manhattan campus of Satellite Academy, a four - year public high school with four New York City locations, who is an advocate for media literacy education.

When people hear that I taught language arts for 10 years in a New York county penitentiary, they assume it was a tough job because kids in jail are uninterested in learning.

From New York to Florida, organized «opt - out» groups are springing up to fight the testing culture with rallies and other protests, and an estimated 35,000 kids in New York refused to take the Common Core assessments this year.

Last year, 29 percent of New York City kids were considered proficient in English and 35 percent in math on the state's challenging Common Core — aligned exams.

Keeping Kids In School and Out of Court: Report and Recommendations from the New York City School - Justice Partnership Task Force In the 2011 - 12 school year, there were 69,694 suspensions and 2,548 arrests and summonses in the New York City public schools.

Even then, there would be more work ahead: This year, some 40,000 New York kids will end up on charter school waiting lists.

«There is the will in the city of Los Angeles, in Chicago and New York, to tie reform to more money, to... get the kind of flexibility that we need to innovate and set the highest standards for kids,» said Villaraigosa, who was recently chosen to chair this year's Democratic National Committee.

and in New York they are laying off teachers and closing schools (so how is opting - out helping) my kid will opt out and next year we should have every kid opt - out — the data we get from the first year will help us in getting rid of all this crap — and then what do we replace it with??

In New York's draft plan, which is due to the feds in September, the state lays out the current situation for every important thing they want to measure (e.g., how many Hispanic kids graduate each year), and what the five - year goal is to improve things.

It was the same for our kids,» said Watson, whose sons James and Terrell both graduated from Wright in the last few years, and now attend New York's Hofstra University and Mississippi's Jackson State University, respectively.

Achievement First has been running great schools serving low - income kids in New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island for 15 years.