Sentences with phrase «among city children»

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Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

When I experienced that cathedral and city as a child, I saw an ordered, peaceful, gentle England in which two things were entirely taken for granted among all classes: that the courts were just and that we were free people.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

Competition began among 750,000 children in 526 cities.

According to Robert Hall, professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, there was no statistical difference in growth, language development, vision or cognitive development among the children studied, although in most categories the breast - fed infants did show slightly better performance.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

Naming your child after a city is becoming increasingly popular, not only among celebrities, (hello Chicago West!)

A crass Facebook exchange among three lawyers of the Administration for Children's Services, the city's child welfare agency, and one from the Legal Aid Society, which represents many children and parents in court proceedings, is under sChildren's Services, the city's child welfare agency, and one from the Legal Aid Society, which represents many children and parents in court proceedings, is under schildren and parents in court proceedings, is under scrutiny.

The poverty situation is particularly dire in the Upstate cities and among children.

Nonetheless, state environmental officials downplayed residents» complaints and vehemently disputed local studies that found a link between elevated blood - lead levels among children and the water source switch, until, in October, Snyder conceded the situation had become a «public safety issue» and announced a $ 12m plan to transfer Flint back to its previous supply with the city of Detroit.

By the measure of shootings, Buffalo is among the most violent cities in the nation, and the ones who are sinking beneath that weight are our children.

Among the city's successes in the past year are the opening of both the Oishei Children's Hospital and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, both on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and the construction, still underway, of the Explore & More Children's Museum at Canalside.

On Wednesday morning, on the day before the Mayor was to unveil his budget, advocates that included representatives from Alianza Dominicana, Children's Aid Society, the Children Arts and Sciences Workshop, ACDP, Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI), Community League of the Heights (C.L.O.T.H.), the Police Athletic League (P.A.L.), and representatives from local New York City Councilmembers Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson, New York State Assemblymembers Guillermo Linares and Herman D. Farrell, among others, gathered in an early morning meeting to brain - storm about strategies to ward off the cuts.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's Fiscal Year 2016 executive budget, unveiled Thursday, allocates $ 100 million to fix roofs in 66 New York City Housing Authority buildings, a move health officials said will combat asthma among children in low - income families.

Among parents of children in the city's public schools, support for the plan following a description is just as strong (73 %), with just under half (49 %) backing it strongly.

Scott Stringer's first major audit of city schools has revealed evidence of collusion among the dairy companies that provide milk to school children, Mr. Stringer told reporters at a press conference this morning.

Among the five boroughs of New York City, Bronx children are tested at the lowest rate per capita, according to DOE statistics.

Among other things, the breakaway group of eight Democratic senators led by Sen. Jeff Klein of the Bronx is calling for early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, dedicating a portion of New York City sales taxes toward MTA repairs, tax relief for many New Yorkers, and protecting health insurance for children from poor families.

When it comes to graduation rates, Cash noted that starts in preschool and he wants to boost literacy among the youngest of city school children.

Over the past week the governor has outlined plans for free tuition at state colleges, child care tax credits and voting reforms, among others and over the past two days regional plans for New York City, Buffalo, the Hudson Valley and Long Island.

Stringer's audit says that the city has been placing «homeless families with children in shelters plagued by rodents, mold, peeling paint, and broken windows,» among other structural and maintenance problems.

The test scores confirm a devastating impact: After mothers left home to work in another city, mental development scores among their children declined significantly and socio - emotional indices «fell apart,» Rozelle says.

By the end of the day, about one hundred of the city's children would be dead, some laid out in a makeshift morgue, and he would wonder, when he found time to ponder such things, if any were among the graduates he had met.

Breastfeeding appears to be associated with decreased risk of overweight and obesity among school children in Japan, according to a study by Michiyo Yamakawa, M.H.Sc., of the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama City, Japan, and colleagues.

Cockroaches appear to be a significant contributor to asthma attacks among inner - city children in the United States.

According to Christopher Zimmerman, medical director of the New York City Health Department's Bureau of Immunization, the virus spread quickly among children who were not fully vaccinated, including those whose parents put off the shots because of concern about the autism - vaccine link.

The prevalence of peanut allergy among children in the United States has risen more than threefold, to 1.4 percent in 2010 from 0.4 percent in 1997, according to a study by food allergists at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

«Obvious Child» Between «Girls,» «Broad City» and movies like «Bridesmaids,» «The Heat» and «In A World,» it feels like female - driven comedy is finally getting a foothold among the packed field of Apatow imitators and the like, and the latest to impress in that mold is Gillian Robespierre «s impressive, warm directorial debut «Obvious Child,» which premiered at Sundance.

Giving students at failing schools a choice among other schools in their district simply shuffled children around the city.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.&raCity was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.&racity students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

Others are involved with parent - based community groups: the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (working to create a dialogue among parents on local education issues, including assignment processes for schools), the Black Ministerial Alliance (working to improve the quality of Boston public schools), and City Life / Vida Urbana (working with a group of Latina mothers advocating for their special - needs children).

On February 14, 2005, State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse, who had overseen the case from the beginning, awarded the city a staggering $ 5.6 billion more per year for its schools, a 43 percent increase to the city's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the councity a staggering $ 5.6 billion more per year for its schools, a 43 percent increase to the city's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the councity's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the counCity's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the country.

There is also some non-experimental evidence that an initiative in New York City under Mayor Bloomberg — which brought together a dozen city agencies to institute a pilot program that had many features considered best practices in truancy reduction — reduced absenteeism rates among poor children in participating schoCity under Mayor Bloomberg — which brought together a dozen city agencies to institute a pilot program that had many features considered best practices in truancy reduction — reduced absenteeism rates among poor children in participating schocity agencies to institute a pilot program that had many features considered best practices in truancy reduction — reduced absenteeism rates among poor children in participating schools.

This multi-part system can give rise to confusion and frustration, particularly among families trying to reconcile claims that they have unprecedented choice with the reality that their children may not have access to some of the city's most desired public schools.

Teachers will want to browse through the archive of research reports and articles on such topics as differentiating literacy instruction, how television impacts the development of reading comprehension and early literacy for inner - city children among others.

Her first book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City, analyzes youth culture among children of immigrants attending low - performing high schools in New York City and London.

She currently leads evaluations of child welfare interventions targeting parents for the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self - Sufficiency — Next Generation project, a digital writing and feedback intervention in New York City high schools called Drive to Write, and a smartphone application to promote father engagement that is part of the Building Bridges and Bonds study, among others.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

Over the past two years, health officials have recorded numerous outbreaks of measles, rubella, and whooping cough, especially among very young inner - city children.

The report underscores the importance of providing education to homeless children and youth and the need for increased coordination among city agencies and the DOE to provide services to these students....

Its scores on state tests are among the city's highest, and hundreds of parents — mostly low - income African - Americans and Latinos — vie to enroll their children through a lottery every year.

«For us, what's going on in Newark is not a triumph, it's a tragedy,» said Sharon Smith, who has three children in that city's public schools and was among about 40 parents and students who filled the 12th floor conference room at the American Enterprise Institute.

P.S. 15 is among the 45 schools named by the city on Monday that will pair up with one of 25 different support groups, including the Children's Aid Society, Good Shepherd Services, and Teachers College.

If the current homeless rate among families continues in New York City, one in seven school - aged children will be homeless at some point during elementary school.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

Sir Michael praised some schools in inner - city areas as among the best - performing, saying: «London is showing that all children can do well, including poor children, and what we need to do is replicate what's happening here elsewhere.