Sentences with phrase «because federal child»

That's because federal child nutrition standards are intentionally aligned with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs), and the current DGAs permit consuming up to half of one's daily fruit intake come from juice.

Not exact matches

Under federal law, the shooter shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

Under federal law, Kelley shouldn't have been able to buy a gun because he'd been convicted in military court of assaulting his spouse and their child while in the Air Force.

Because the current federal standards only prohibit «foods of minimal nutritional value» in cafeterias during mealtimes, children still have access to junk foods elsewhere on campus.

This act and subsequent revisions bar any agency involved in adoption that receives federal funding from discriminating because of race when considering adoption opportunities for children.

Children with learning disabilities can't simply be ignored or overlooked in public schools because federal law mandates that schools must take action to serve them.

Sept. 30, 2016 - All Sammy's Milk Baby Food powdered formula is recalled because it isn't manufactured according to federal regulations and has not been tested for Cronobacter, which can cause deadly infections in children.

It is not clear whether the child was also a patient at the hospital, because of federal privacy laws.

Senator Phil Boyle, a Long Island Republican, said the bill was necessary because the federal Food and Drug Administration was not moving quickly enough to regulate chemicals that could harm children.

«When I first ran for Congress, I left a 20 - year career as a federal prosecutor because I was frustrated with the inaction in Washington and knew that if I wanted to see real change for my children and for future generations that I needed to get off the sidelines and do something about it.

I ask because there are a zillion federal, state and local police departments, and presumably the FBI, tasked with tracking and arresting folks involved in child pornography.

Angle told a Nevada radio station in May that she wants to «go through to the elimination» of the Department of Education because «it's not the federal government's job to provide education for our children.»

According to the key developers of the MyPlate dietary guidelines, changes were made in the federal nutrition program because more than two - thirds of American adults and more than one - third of America's children are determined overweight or obese.

Especially around parenting issues — there are still child custody problems in states with progressive marijuana policies, because child custody laws can still be beholden to federal policy, and marijuana is a schedule I drug.

Most districts are especially cautious about Web access because they fear losing their federal E-rate telecommunications discount if they violate the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), Peltz said.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

Rhode Island had been part of a consortium of states organized by the Washington - based Council of Chief State School Officers to study the costs of implementing the federal No Child Left Behind Act, but it withdrew because of the high cost of conducting the study.

Because of this converging scientific consensus, the No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to demonstrate that they are using reading programs that have been tested for their efficacy through scientific studies in order to qualify for federal reading funds.

However, President Clinton has promised to veto the bill, which is closely tied to GOP plans for balancing the federal budget, because he said it includes «deep cuts that are tough on children.»

Lawyers familiar with the case said last week that because some 12 states have laws with provisions stronger than those of the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Law, P.L. 94 - 142, the ruling could have...

In a federal lawsuit filed Nov. 19, the three Brooklyn residents argue that their children's exclusion from the 15 - month course is illegal because of the June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court prohibiting districts from using students» race as a key factor in assigning students to schools.

The findings are noteworthy, researchers said, because they come as states are gearing up to comply with the federal testing requirements outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act.

And in a letter to be read at the Symposium, former President Carter noted that Richmond, the first director of the federal Head Start program, and the first Surgeon General to establish national health goals, «improved the lives of literally millions of children and adults in our country and around the world, and future generations will be healthier because of his work.»

Public schools expend considerable resources identifying children eligible for special services, both because they are under an obligation to provide those services and because they receive additional funds from federal and state governments if a child is identified as having a disability that affects their learning.

NCLB's supplemental services provisions are significant because they offer real options to some parents who previously had none and because of the precedent it sets: true Title I portability — the first time the federal government has formally established in law that «the money follows the child.»

Because he believes that poor children are disproportionately below average in academic ability, Murray's second test is Title I, a popular federal program whose goal is to upgrade the schools attended by children from low - income families.

The parents of a child with severe physical and mental handicaps have appealed a federal - court decision that is believed to be the first to declare a child ineligible to receive special - education services because he is not «capable of benefiting» from them.

Also, because of the anticipated approval of a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools and districts won't be judged as failing to meet adequate yearly progress this year, Johnson said.

Still, the district has faced a challenge in efforts to meet federal conditions for continued academic growth especially because the district has close to 2,800 students who have been classified as Exceptional Children (EC).

The term «proficiency» is key because the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates that 100 percent of students must be «proficient» under state standards by 2014 — a goal that has been universally described as impossible to reach.

Parents and children across the nation would be fortunate indeed if the Administration and Congress were to adopt a federal tax credit because it would facilitate access to a quality education for another 1 million students — most of whom will graduate and go on to college as the body of research into these programs clearly demonstrates.

Because the purpose of Title 1 is to provide additional support for children from poor and minority backgrounds, any use of the subsidies for general school operations (including for kids from the middle class) is a violation of federal law.

Because you can't build brighter futures for all kids, and then sit silently as an incoming president appoints bigots who will have quantifiable power over how the federal government treats its children and other citizens.

A federal district court in Iowa held that a state tax deduction for school expenses, including private school tuition, does not violate the Establishment Clause because it is available to parents regardless of whether their child attends a public, private or religious school, neither advances nor inhibits religion, and does not entangle the state with religion.

Like plans on paper that can falter in real life, the downfall of the old federal education law, called No Child Left Behind, came when thousands of schools in Illinois and elsewhere were considered failures because too many students flunked state exams.

Any talk of abandoning No Child Left Behind is foolish because NCLB is the continuation of a long trail of federal education legislation that traces back to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Which you support and argue for, because «we'll still be here trying to care for and educate our children as best we can», even though by your own admission you'd function a lot better with federal and state support instead of no support, or for profit charters filling in for support, yes?

Independent charters are not included in the California Office of Reform Education (CORE)'s statistics, because CORE's system was developed as part of a waiver its districts received from the federal government relieving them of some of the mandates of the No Child Left Behind law.

This is important because, unlike No Child (which was federal law passed by Congress, and thus, gave reform - minded governors and legislators a tool to leverage in driving their overhauls), the waivers have a questionable legal status.

Former superintendent John Deasy, who resigned on Oct. 16 amid controversy over billion - dollar technology blunders, had declared a ban on the law this past August, claiming the law didn't apply to Los Angeles Unified because the district had received a federal waiver exempting it from No Child Left Behind improvement goals in the temporary absence of statewide tests.

But Glazerman shelved it then because he thought the upcoming implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind act would make it obsolete.

That's because No Child Left Behind, the federal testing law, states that if fewer than 95 percent of students take the test, it can cause the school to be labeled «failing to make progress.»

Reaching every child is not a challenge simply because of federal policy.

Kevin Mills, manager of family and community affairs for Serving Our Children, said in a telephone interview that the organization is expecting to expand because of new federal resources.

Putting aside the fact that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Test is not a true mastery exam because it does not measure «grade - appropriate skills in reading, writing...,» the actual truth is that there is absolutely no federal or state law, regulation or policy that allows the state or local school district to punish a child (or parent) who opts their children out of the Common Core SBAC exam.

Without the federal oversight and state accountability inscribed in No Child Left Behind and its offspring the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA), my son's potential for academic growth could have been ignored because he wouldn't count in annual reports of student proficiency.

Of households that experience food insecurity, less than two - thirds participate in one of the main federal anti-hunger programs: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); the National School Lunch Program; or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).38 In part, this is because many food insecure households are not eligible for nutrition assistance or because certain barriers exist, such as the stigma associated with participating in programs designed to benefit low - income families.

The district selected Leopold for the site visit partly because of a marketing campaign to showcase the school, which has been hit with sanctions under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Even if an ILIT isn't being used as part of the estate plan, perhaps because there are no children or grandchildren, second to die life insurance is a good way to handle the burden of federal estate taxes.