Sentences with phrase «cent of school children»

Yet according to the government, less than 10 per cent of school children have access to outdoor learning.

This was a response to the figure that at the time only 10 per cent of school children had access to outdoor learning.

«Government schools are still the major provider of primary school education in Australia, followed by 19 per cent of school children who attend Catholic primary schools and 12 per cent who attend independent schools,» she said.

Not exact matches

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

From 1982 to 1985 the Reagan administration cut nearly 30 per cent of the budget for school nutrition programs, the Child Care food program and the Summer Food Program.

World Vision released a report on Thursday that revealed that 67 per cent of displaced children in southern Syria suffer violence at school and that nine in ten children were getting no support in school to deal with their emotional trauma and social isolation.

A Premier News Hour poll found 67 per cent of listeners would not stop their child from visiting a mosque for a school trip.

Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary school, who receive free school lunches and breakfasts during the school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.

With moral indignation he disclosed that members contributed an average of only 25 cents each to the church each week and that they sent their children to church school in a building that violated seventeen fire code regulations.

He argued: «Research suggests that if you take out the different school factors and you compare the achievements of children in the same school it would be as small as 0.02 per cent of the difference, so it's clearly not a geographical thing, it's a wide - spread issue across the board.»

Back in 2015, a survey commissioned by ITV revealed that 12 per cent of parents of primary school aged children admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe to get their child into a desirable faith school.

Oliver visited school kitchens and found they were dishing out poor - quality processed meat, usually with piles of french fries — at a cost of 65 cents per child per meal.

The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act will expand the number of children in school lunch programs by 115,000, increase the reimbursement rate to school districts for meals by six cents and replace the junk food available outside the cafeteria, such as in vending machines, with more healthful options.

It's the only anxiety disorder exclusive to childhood and the prevalence rate is about 4 per cent for school - aged children and 1.3 per cent of teens, Dr. Mendlowitz says.

Sentiments like these explain perfectly why the U.S. Senate, in approving a re-authorization of the Child Nutrition Act that fund school meals, could only find six additional cents to help support the perpetually underfunded school lunch.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

Note: The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week (and possibly even today) on the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the Senate bill that reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act and which will, if passed, increase school food funding by 6 cents per meal.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

Seventy - three per cent of parents agreed that pressures on schools to bring in Gove's reforms could harm their child's progress.

«If you can raise the meter for ten per cent of children in a school, you can do it for the other 90 per cent as well.»

Three years ago, when the public perception was of a normal «kinda» guy who took his children to school and made it home for bath - time, 36 per cent of women backed the Tories, compared to 31 per cent for Labour.

Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.

In areas where grammar schools were the norm, the 1998 regulations made under the Act provided for ballots to be triggered by 20 per cent of parents at all schools signing a petition, while in areas where grammar schools were less common, only parents of children at «feeder schools» would be allowed to vote.

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), Otiko Afisa Djaba, has disclosed that government has released an amount of GH cents 10,000,000 towards the settlement of outstanding debts of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).

Noting that the attacks by armed herdsmen predated the current administration, the governor said the recent attacks had displaced 170,000 people with children of school age constituting 60 per cent.

The inquiry, published today, followed figures released last night by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, which confirmed that 41,300 children were temporarily excluded from primary schools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent sinChildren, Schools and Families, which confirmed that 41,300 children were temporarily excluded from primary schools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent sincSchools and Families, which confirmed that 41,300 children were temporarily excluded from primary schools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent sinchildren were temporarily excluded from primary schools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent sincschools in 2007 - a rise of 10 per cent since 2004.

About 37 per cent of respondents aged 16 to 24 said they would prefer to send their children to an Islamic school, compared to 25 per cent of 45 to 54 - year - olds and 19 per cent of the over 55s.

Those 80 per cent of us who can't afford to pay for the education of our children twice - through fees as well as taxes - have no choice but state schooling.

«Approximately 10 - 15 per cent of primary school children suffer from developmental reading and spelling difficulties.

TS is a neurological disorder affecting around one per cent for all school - age children, who are affected by an evolving series of chronic physical and vocal tics which develop over time and become increasingly worse.

Many of the children said that, in the last month, they had been left out by classmates (41 per cent) and that they had been hit by other children at school (48 per cent).

However 4 per cent of children did not agree at all that they felt safe at home, 4 per cent did not agree that they felt safe at school, and 9 per cent did not agree at all that they felt safe when out and about in their neighbourhood.

Forty one per cent of schools are «less than satisfactory in this respect», and children's understanding of maths is «particularly weak in half of all schools».

In India today, 4 per cent of children never start school, 58 per cent don't complete primary school, and 90 per cent fail to finish high school.

50 cents for every pair of Monkee Genes manufactured in Bangladesh will be donated to a foundation which has already achieved building two schools for over 2,000 disadvantaged children in Bangladesh.

Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree that they would like their child's school to do more in teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent for Indian and other Asian parents.»

«Sixty nine per cent of all parents believe schools should do more to teach their child about social skills.

According to research published by children's mental health charity Place2B, in partnership with union NAHT, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), 34 per cent of counsellors and psychotherapists who work with children and young people said it was difficult to provide their services to schools.

In the ASG survey, 84 per cent of parents said they felt their child's school values their involvement in their child's learning and 83 per cent attend parent - teacher interviews and consultations.

Drawing from a sample of 1,450 parents, half of all respondents answered that they'd like to see photographs and videos on their child's school website, and 38 per cent wanted to see more pupil content.»

Similarly, the counsellors and psychotherapists currently working in schools said that common difficulties faced were «schools» understanding of counselling and psychotherapy for children» (57 per cent), followed by «expectations not being clear» (30 per cent).

In PTA UK's summer 2015 Parent Insights Survey, 85 per cent of those parents surveyed stated they want a say in education with 79 per cent wanting to actively support their child's school.

The findings from the research revealed a drop - off in healthy eating habits between primary and secondary school aged children, with 72 per cent of 7 — 8 - year olds likely to eat fruit daily and only 59 per cent of 13 — 14 - year olds likely to eat fruit daily.

In addition, the poll found that one in ten said they were required by their child's school to purchase computer equipment such as a tablet or laptop, and seven per cent said that the cost of equipment affected what subjects their child chose to study.

Only 2.5 per cent of grammar school pupils are eligible for FSM, compared to 13.2 per cent in all schools and the EPI found that grammar schools attract a larger number of high attaining non-FSM pupils from other areas, meaning there is a disproportionately large number of high attaining, non-disadvantaged children.

The success of the pilot areas, which reached 20,000 children, has seen the number of students who cycle to school at least once a week double to 10 per cent.

Other 2015 State of Our Schools Survey findings included: - 79 per cent of principals surveyed said they did not have enough funding for the needs of children with disability at their school.

A deeper dive into the data reveals that 71.7 per cent of 15 - year - olds in Australia are achieving baseline competency in reading, mathematics and science (2015) and 80 per cent of children are participating in organised learning one year before the start of compulsory schooling (2013/14).

Many become quickly oversubscribed despite not having the usual track record and, in a poll conducted for New Schools Network by Populus, 73 per cent of parents said they would consider sending their child to a new school.