Sentences with phrase «children at some of the schools»

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«Yesterday, a school filled with innocent children and caring teachers became the scene of terrible violence, hatred, and evil,» Trump said at the beginning of his address.

Her family was so poor that, as a child, Oprah was teased at school for wearing dresses made of potato sacks.

This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

«At a minimum we need a law that protects the privacy of our children in our public schools,» Abbott said.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

In spite of her busy schedule, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg drops her two young children off at school in the morning and leaves work by 5:30 p.m. to be at home with them.

CBA is seen as a stable part of life in the country of 24 million where most people have had a mortgage, insurance policy or regular savings account with CBA at some point - often starting with its famed «Dollarmites» deposit account for school children.

We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

«No child's life should be put at risk because a parent, school, or healthcare provider can not afford a simple, life - saving device because of a drug - maker's anti-competitive practices,» said Schneiderman in a statement.

Say you've got a preschooler at home and you're deciding whether to move to one of two places where you're child would attend different schools.

Not only does the ability to capture and recall knowledge make it more likely that a child will excel at school, but having rich, vivid memories of everyday experiences also help children make sense of the world and their place in it, enriching their experiences and building essential life skills.

The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

He maintained a punishing travel schedule, which included commitments to at least 18 outside organizations at various times, such as the board of Xerox (XRX), the U.S. - China Business Council, and the Business Round table, as well as personal interests, such as chairing the board of visitors at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (his two children are Duke alums).

Activities must be supervised, contribute to development of the child, not part of a regular school curriculum and ongoing (for example, five consecutive days at a camp).

Few are more at risk in that catastrophe than the children of eastern Aleppo; prevented from going to school or even hospital, as both are deemed too unsafe, they live under constant fear of attack.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

Gordon L. Flett, a psychology professor at York University in Toronto, says more than 50 percent of today's Western school - aged children exhibit the perfectionist traits hinted at above.

Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.

However, the business, which teaches grade - school children the basics of math, already had 852 location at the start of 2017.

Because ultimately, what the study proves is that we must increase the quantity and intensity of exercise both at schools and at home if we want our children to be more globally competitive.

After meeting Mycoskie while working at Neiman Marcus, Samuel Bistrian launched Roma Boots in 2010, matching each sale of rain boots with the donation of a pair — along with school supplies — to poor children in 25 countries, including his native Romania.

So if tuition at Big State College is currently $ 10,000 a year, a $ 5,000 contribution today will buy you 50 % of a year's tuition (or one semester's worth)-- whenever your child is ready to attend school and cash it in.

We're tired of living under the omnipresent threat of gun violence anywhere anytime, at our children's schools, at the mall, just driving around town, enough is enough!

Because children are increasingly digitally wired, parents and teachers are becoming aware of how difficult it is to extricate kids at home and in school from using screens.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

The work life balance enables me to take my children to school at 8 a.m. and pick them up again at 2:30 p.m., all while I am be able to share the rest of the day with them.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

«Xerox is the poster child for monopoly technology businesses that can not make the transition to a new generation of technology,» said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School.

But after a Bushmaster rifle was used in 2012 to kill 26 people, most of them young children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., public anger at Remington drove some investors to try to divest from the company.

More than 350 low - income children in the community receive free lunches at the park during the summer to ensure they have healthy meals while school is out of session.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Barron is the youngest of the president's five children, and is a sixth - grader at a private school in Maryland.

The Monarch School of New England, which serves children with special needs, had about 24 aging computers at its Rochester, N.H. campus, ranging from seven to 10 years old.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Through this program, approximately 1800 children receive 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, and 2 dinners at the end of each school week.

Right now, Christy Clark and her government are refusing to address the problem of water contamination in schools, and that refusal is putting children at risk,» said Rice.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

In addition to improving their quality of life by achieving work - life balance, 93 percent of working parents say that having a flexible work arrangement would increase their volunteerism at their children's schools or organized activities.

If private education is no longer funded for my two children at the avg of 7.5 K per child then we will be moving them to public school.

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

In January 2013, just weeks after 20 children and six adults were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., three dozen law enforcement officers gathered at the Johns Hopkins University for a series of informal discussions about...

Following the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead, Dick's suspended the sale of certain kinds of semiautomatic rifles.

Other projects include the restoration of the Cancer Society Centre, Senior Citizen Centre and St Andrew's Kirk Elderly Home in The Bahamas; the construction of a new multipurpose room at Petite Savanne Primary School in Dominica; and the provision of school supplies to children in St School in Dominica; and the provision of school supplies to children in St school supplies to children in St Lucia.

Mr. Satchu is on the Board of Directors of KGS - Alpha Capital Markets, the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Foundation where he is Chairman of the Governance and Nominating Committee (having served as Vice-Chairman of the Board from 2009 to 2011) and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

But after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the Obama administration tried to add some people to the background check system, by requiring the Social Security Administration to submit records of some beneficiaries with severe mental illness.

Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

I wish I didn't have a child of public school age at the moment.