Sentences with phrase «behalf of the children as»

If the plaintiff can show that the playground was actually dangerous, then the parent may sue on behalf of the child as his or her legal guardian.

It addresses decision - making on behalf of the children as well as logistics.

Not exact matches

On behalf of the Department of Education, the New York Law Department provided a statement defending the policy: «We view this as a victory for the City's school children and their families.

Pro-life advocates see themselves as acting on behalf of unborn children, who can not protect themselves.

In other words, who I become as a mother can filter into other arenas of life, including activism on behalf of other mothers and their children.

The Service of Holy Baptism, in the Book of Common Prayer, states this admirably when it requires that the sponsors in Baptism promise, on behalf of the child, that the newly baptized Christian shall «learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments,» and describes these, among other things, as being that which «a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health.»

Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to teach and control children, and to claim their respect and obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf of the parents.

Working tirelessly on behalf of children's safety issues for more than a decade, Pattie served as Community Outreach Director for the national child advocacy agency, Parents For Megan's Law, and is certified as both a C hild Visitation Monitor and Child Safety Educchild advocacy agency, Parents For Megan's Law, and is certified as both a C hild Visitation Monitor and Child Safety EducChild Safety Educator.

As working parents, we feel that doing research and striving to make the best decisions on behalf of our children takes far less time than parenting a chronically ill child.

Here at natural parenting advice, we regard newborn tests and procedures as our first opportunity to make decisions on behalf of our children.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

As we have honed our expertise in working on behalf of children who face obstacles to learning, we have seen that children with special needs need predictable and supportive environments to be able to improve their social and emotional skills.

When you donate on behalf of a particular child, your name may appear as a donor in association with a particular bracelet if you choose to make that information public by checking the appropriate field in the donation form.

She studied Psychology and English Literature at Durham University, and has worked all over the world, most notably mining opals in the Australian outback and with John Humphrys, as a volunteer, on behalf of his charity «The Kitchen Table Charities Trust», for whom she travelled to Madagascar to highlight the issues many children face there.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an op / ed posted to Medium on Wednesday urged fellow Democrats in Washington to exert some leverage and negotiate on behalf of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children, a community known as dreamers.

As a public figure who is charged with decision - making on behalf of our children, we demand that Carl Paladino be held to the same standard as our BPS students, and be immediately removed from the Buffalo Board of Education,» stated the BPTAs a public figure who is charged with decision - making on behalf of our children, we demand that Carl Paladino be held to the same standard as our BPS students, and be immediately removed from the Buffalo Board of Education,» stated the BPTas our BPS students, and be immediately removed from the Buffalo Board of Education,» stated the BPTO.

Both cited impressively long lists of credentials as attorneys working on behalf of abused and neglected children: Savona was a supervising attorney at the Ulster County Department of Social Services, while Riccardi worked in the Child Abuse Unit of the Manhattan Assistant District Attorney's Office and later became an Administrative Law judge.

«We've been trying to work through that as a board to continue to function and do what we need to do on behalf of the children of this district, and so we've done the best that we could given the circumstances,» said Seals - Nevergold.

«Today, the President called on Congress to take action and I am hopeful that as legislators, we can ake this opportunity to work in a bipartisan manner to enact a permanent solution on behalf of individuals brought to the U.S. illegally as children, while also enacting long - term reforms to both fix our broken immigration system and to secure our nation's borders,» Katko said.

Mr. Siano has worked as Special Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, prosecuting neglect cases on behalf of the Administration for Children's Services representing the city's at - risk cChildren's Services representing the city's at - risk childrenchildren.

«We view this request to suspend the current strike as an earnest effort on behalf of the city, its children and its workers.»

During his more than four decades in government, Commissioner Scoppetta put his remarkable intelligence and his considerable managerial and leadership experience to work on behalf of the people of this City, first as a prosecutor and then as a deputy mayor and later as the Commissioner who brought much needed reform to the Administration for Children's Services.

It's up to you, as a healthy adult, to take loving action on behalf of your inner child to bring about equilibrium.

As they organize on behalf of their children, 2013 will become the year of parent power.

It provides the additional individual support the child or young person needs in order to achieve their learning outcomes as set out in their EHC plan or statement of SEN. Parts of the personal SEN budget may be taken as a direct payment and used by parents on behalf of the child or by the young person themselves to purchase the additional and individual support set out in the EHC plan (for example, any assessed support which is not already provided by the school).

We are all better off as allies working on behalf of children and a better society than we are as rivals slandering and sabotaging one another's work.

The Mexican - American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Latino advocacy group, had sued on behalf of Lucresia Mayorga Santamaria, saying that two of the Dallas mother's children were discriminated against because they were assigned to English - as - a-second-language classes at Preston Hollow Elementary School based on their ethnicity, not their language...

Catheterizing a student's bladder in order to allow her to urinate is not a «related service» as defined under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, argued James W. Deatherage on behalf of the district in Irving Independent School District v. Tatro (Case No. 83 - 558).

She has earned herself the title of «One of the 100 most Powerful Women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 and was appointed as an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her work on behalf of underprivileged children in Britain.

On behalf of the children that attend our nation's public schools, the I Love Public Education campaign is a year - long effort to highlight why public schools are essential to developing the future generations that will maintain our country's status as a world leader.

We agree with President Bartlett that we must come together as a country and «do better» on behalf of America's children and America's public schools.

This swing in sentiment is not a total surprise; the work of educating children is complex, as many talented educators working hard each day on behalf of their students can attest.

«The leaders who came together to create the School Finance Research Collaborative are proud to have supported a comprehensive analysis of what it costs to educate every child, regardless of zip code or circumstance, and we hope policymakers will use it as a roadmap to take action on behalf of Michigan's students.»

To inspire and empower voters to advocate on behalf of Florida's children and their right to a high - quality public education as provided in Article IX, Section 1 of the Florida Constitution.

Jonathan also serves as the President of The Bonter Scholarship Committee, a collective focused on awarding $ 60,000 in college scholarships annually on behalf of the Orthopedic Institute for Children.

I began my journey on behalf of my son as most parents of children with special needs do, hopeful and naïve.

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

As school and community leaders, principals are in a pivotal position to advocate on behalf of children in poverty and to help others understand the full impact of poverty on a child's chances for success in school and life.

For students whose needs are not being met in public school, school choice programs, such as Education Scholarship Accounts, allow parents to withdraw their child from public school and utilize the state education funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, therapy, etc..

But at the very moment that the children of the land face certain defeat, parents, teachers, the teacher's union (known as the Hartford Federation of Teachers) and other public education advocates rally together to speak out on behalf of their children, the school, the importance of public education and what is right.

This powerful book serves as an invitation to action — on behalf of a brighter future for teachers, schools, and children — on behalf of a better tomorrow for our society.

As a parent, it is your right to refuse the tests on behalf of your child; you don't need to justify your decision to anyone.

As our new school year begins in just over a month, our vigilance on behalf of our children and their quality education in our schools, is our primary focus and concern.»

«As the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom continue efforts for the third year, the history of success is encouraging and underscores the role food plays in helping our children grow into healthy and well - educated young adults,» said Princess Moss, Secretary - Treasurer at the National Education Association, speaking on behalf of the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom.

IJ quickly mobilized to represent parents who have applied for scholarships for their children and filed a motion to intervene in the case on their behalf, as well as on behalf of the only scholarship - granting organization so far approved by the state to award scholarships.

What we need to do is to give parents the choice as to whether they want to take some portion of what is being spent on their behalf and use that to send their children to the school of their choice... Every child in Texas ought to have a choice»

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

During his long - time work on behalf of the child, and in addition to being a school leader, John has served as a Montessori elementary guide, a reading specialist, a district - level administrator for Hartford Public Schools, and now, the instructional leader of Hartford's second comprehensive public Montessori program.