Sentences with phrase «children for school at»

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation will spend more than $ 43 million over the next five years to help better prepare thousands of young children for school at eight sites throughout the country.

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

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.

Eating a meal at school makes a difference for children who are chronically hungry.

There's a high demand for babysitting and childcare services, whether it's regularly picking up and dropping off children at school for two - parent working families or accompanying a family on a trip as a childcare provider.

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).

Now parents are too frightened to send their children to school, and prefer for them to stay at home or even shelter underground to ensure they're protected if bombing begins.

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.

Employees and spouses alike can pursue high school equivalency degrees (G.E.D.'s) and other educational goals at the company's expense; children and grandchildren who need help for supplementary tutoring get it at a Sylvan or Huntington Learning Center.

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.

Chubb backs employees who want to volunteer, offering time to do everything from helping out at their child's school to spending weeks away with Habitat for Humanity.

That changed Friday when it drew a line in the sand, providing its alternative vision for protecting American children through armed security personnel at all schools.

Parents can request a deferment on repayment while their child is attending school at least half - time and for an additional six months after the child graduates.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Play is disappearing at home, at school and in communities, particularly for the 14 million children living in poverty.

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

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.

When two students killed 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999, some parents did not learn their children's fate for two days.

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...

Marie started her career working in a home for the elderly, later with adults and children with developmental disabilities, as a counsellor and family - support worker in Toronto, and once again at the School Board as an Early Childhood Educator working with children with disabilities.

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.

Amy & Rachel: We are involved in local youth sports associations, PTA organizations at our 6 children's schools, and in alumnae associations for our sororities.

At the very least, therefore, schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as good physical facilities as other schools.

he IS grasping at straws since the singel parent thing wasnt an issue... secondly... you apparently need to go to school and learn that there IS a difference between a woman and a man and that children benefit from BOTH... and hwo a man loves a woman as nature intended... its people like you who are reason for high divorce rates in USA, because they don tknow what love or marriage is..

Please LOOK up how many Christians died for being Christians in Nigeria this month — In one incident alone 28 children and one teacher were burned alive at their school.

The same picture was in art books in our school library as were many other artworks of nudes but I was written up for giving a child «porn»!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the same time in our culture, in movies, on TV and internet, these kids could see much more graphic stuff.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

CNN: Faithful prepare for Lent with pancake feast, race Tuesday at the Washington National Cathedral, school children alongside clergy competed in a pancake tossing relay race.

(CNN)-- As he waited with parents who feared that their kids were among the 20 children killed at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, Rabbi Shaul Praver said the main thing he could do for parents was to merely be present.

The following will be provided by Woldingham School: Sheets and duvet Towel (but not for use at the swimming pool) Medication Please label any medication with your child's name and the dose.

Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in school full - time to honor our commitments to family, work and school while simultaneously working to benefit our communities?

[12] This link has been encouraged by some groups as one which should be made with school children, for example see www.schools-out.org.uk/teachingpack/awholeschoolissue.htm which encourages schools to have «inclusions of oppression of gays and lesbians when looking at the Holocaust in history.»

The chief inspector of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) has warned that thousands of children are at risk in unregistered faith schools - whether, Christian, Jewish or Islamic.

Do you reward your child for doing a phenomenal job at school?

That being said, however, for at least the short - term future most American children will be attending public schools dominated by the myths of neutrality toward the differences that make the deepest difference.

9/11 — Ordinary people at work get attacked with planes Aurora - Ordinary people at a movie for entertainment Virgina Tech — Ordinary people at college to learn Newtown — Ordinary children in elementary school Boston — Ordinary athletes, their friends and family out to support them

Often the child from a low prestige family receives little encouragement at home for doing well at school.

I do not believe that young children should be encouraged to self - select a «gender» which may be different from their biological sex; or that everyone at school should adjust their behaviour to accommodate such a «transition»; or that people should be punished for lack of enthusiasm about it.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

Furthermore one can not invest in stocks and at the same fund a school for poor children.

For example, one church school has a social worker who, at the invitation of a teacher, visits that class to observe and work with a troubled child.

If you think volunteering at a program that improves neglected schools with paint, construction, etc. in our community, or donating to a program that purchases christmas gifts for children of convicts (a program our church participates in every year) and I could list more... then I have no words for you.

«In May 2011, Rhee spoke in favor of school choice alongside the Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker at an event hosted by the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice education organization founded and funded by Betsy DeVos.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

The vigil, which was attended by President Barack Obama, was a high - profile part of the healing process for the families of the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14.