Sentences with phrase «called on parents»

Wallace called on the parents of the 630,000 students in charter schools to get active in the campaign, including making what he called CPK — a «call per kid» to help get out the vote on Villaraigosa's behalf.

The President also called on parents to insist that states and school districts provide ways of showing how children are doing compared to national standards and international benchmarks.

AFP — May 27 — A Japanese government panel called on parents and schools to help limit the use of mobile phones by children to prevent them from accessing «harmful» information on websites.

Utah recently passed legislation to «legalize the 80s» and let kids play outside again without fear of CPS being called on the parents.

The force public relations officer said the suspects would soon be prosecuted and called on parents to monitor their wards.

Oladeji further called on the parents to have reading time at home as she urged companies in private sector in the state to build and donate libraries to shools and communities as part of their corporate social responsibility.

Announcing the results of the police campaign, Home Office minister Vernon Coaker called on parents and retailers to help in the government's plans to reduce under age drinking in the UK.

In related news: a survey of full - time working mothers and mommy bloggers conducted by a thermometer maker found that when their children got sick, 33 % of moms pretended to be sick so they could stay home with their child, 62 % of them called on parents or in - laws for child care, 57 % of them took unpaid leave to care for their child, and a distressing 34 % of them took the kid to school or day care anyway — where they could infect your child.

Bishops have called on parents, teachers and priests to strengthen the role of religion in education.

Cost is the first and perhaps highest barrier, since Bridge calls on parents to pay for tuition, lunch, and, in certain cases, school supplies.

In Katie Allison Grangu's book Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child, she calls on parents to trust what their instincts tell them: stating «Instead of feeling that you should put him down, rest assured that he is exactly where he needs to be.»

By calling on parents, I'd unwittingly made things worse, and now my kids no longer trusted me.

President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated the importance of education to the development of the country with a call on parents and guardians to make education of their wards a priority.

Pointing to more than $ 40 million owed to local schools in the 43rd Council District, including $ 4 million owed to his own alma maters P.S. 185 and J.H.S. 259, Brannan has mounted an online social media campaign calling on parents and educators to see education dollars owed to individual schools using a new database created by advocates.

But now the Working Families Party has also joined in calling on parents to opt out.

Two leading construction bodies are calling on parents, teachers and careers advisers to encourage their children and pupils to...

Two leading construction bodies are calling on parents, teachers and careers advisers to encourage their children and pupils to pursue a career in the UK construction industry.

The Institute is also calling on parents, carers and communities to actively and positively engage with their school principals and school leaders.

In a speech this evening at the National PTA Convention in Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he did.

Speakers opposed to the state's new public education policies whipped an audience of hundreds into a furor at Comsewogue High School on March 29, 2014 as Opt - Out supporters, preaching from the stage in the auditorium, vowed to «starve the beast» — calling on parents to have their children skip the rigorous standardized tests and deprive the school system of the data upon which the system depends.

The state is in the process of reviewing the standards, and until the assessments are age and developmentally appropriate, and not Common Core - aligned, Rudley said they will continue to call on parents to opt - out their children.

I've got a friend in New York who wants me to call on every parent in America to Opt Out of state mandated standardized tests which are, of course, the mother's milk of the No Child Left Untested federal testing feeding frenzy.

We are calling on parents, educators, students and community members to speak to your members of Congress to let them know that we will not accept funding cuts at our public schools.

A small but vocal group is calling on parents to withdraw their children from the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests.

March 15, 2018 — In light of yet another horrifying attack on innocent students, Parents Across America (PAA) calls on all parents to step up our efforts to protect our children, and demand our voices be heard and our actions respected.

Pennsylvania personal injury attorneys are calling on parents to stop using these cribs immediately.

They are calling on parents and students to keep their phone down and their eyes up to help prevent childhood pedestrian accidents.

Not exact matches

In an interview with The Toronto Star on Thursday, which took place during a phone call to his Ontario - based parents, Boyle said his family looked forward to rebuilding their lives.

It's called «Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science.»

To Carson, it made more sense to call on CEOs than to launch a massive direct - mail campaign to parents.

A review on the travel and parenting website WheresSharon.com called the ERGObaby ADAPT «comfortable to wear» and «easy to use.»

The Conflict: New York Times staffer Lisa Belkin authored a popular parenting blog on the newspaper's website called Motherlode before joining the Huffington Post in October.

After receiving many calls from children who lost their parents, FINRA released an alert, «Plan for Transition: What You Should Know About the Transfer of Brokerage Account Assets on Death.»

And with recent news of consolidation under a new parent company called Alphabet, many believe this could result in more clarity and transparency on Google's wide - range of businesses, and boost the stock price even more.

But Alcoa's core smelting and aluminum refining business was spun off last year from the parent company, now called Arconic (arnc)(It's at No. 228 on the Fortune 500.)

Lahren was critical of the law, also called Obamacare, but also acknowledged that she benefitted from a provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents» health plans.

GM and Lyft said they will work together to develop a network of self - driving cars that riders can call up on - demand, a vision of the future shared by the likes of Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick and Google - parent Alphabet Inc..

The New York Times recently highlighted the long - term impact difficult schedules can have on family wellness, in an article called: «A growing body of research suggests that a child's language and problem - solving skills may suffer as a result of their parents» problematic schedules, and that they may be more likely than other children to smoke and drink when they're older.»

Arty Straehla, the CEO of Mammoth (the parent company of Cobra), said in a conference call on Friday that Cobra does infrastructure repairs for utility companies across the Midwest.

Students, teachers and parents called for an increase in mental health services and more school counselors on Monday night during a discussion of gun violence held in Delray Beach.

Game publisher (and makers of the hit Call of Duty series) Activision is officially on its own again now that it has made the move to buy back $ 5.83 billion worth of stock from parent company Vivendi.

The office was so quiet after - hours that Elliott, then living with his parents, invited a high school girlfriend up one night to watch movies on a new technology called a Betamax machine.

Charles: Right, I think that's a huge demographic question that I haven't seen any really good statistics on because of course most of the boomers are still in their late 50s or 60s, early 70s and they're not yet to the point where the older generation like the boomer parents, the so - called silent generation, which has sold their houses or given them to their offspring, their adult children.

We follow a parenting / educational philosophy called radical unschooling which is very much based on gentle parenting and allowing your children the freedom to work out what their interests are and giving them freedom to learn in a connection partnership with their parents.

Made me want to hug my wife and daughter on the spot, and call my parents and siblings.

If my parents are «brave» it might be in their decision to go in the first place in answer a call God put on their heart.

We don't always get it right as church leaders, we don't always get it right as parents, but the big picture is as a family we're on this journey together — we've been called as a family to do this.

Also, since we rarely talk about parenting on this forum, I thought I'd ask if you have any favorite so - called «Mommy Blogs.»

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

I have had to encourage so many young men who have been verbally abused, to believe the truth about themselves and to stamp on the lies from parents and so called friends, they are now gloriously free and living their lives to the full.