Sentences with phrase «community goals for our children»

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Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

The goal of this community building is, of course, to establish a positive quality of life — economic, spiritual, educational — for black women, men, and children.

FXW is a close knit community where families get to know each other and work together to accomplish the same goal of creating a safe environment for our children and creating friendships for lifetime.

Families best served at SWS are those whose values are compatible with the culture of the school as an educational community, who share SWS's educational goals, and who seek the unique character of Waldorf Education for their children.

The goal of Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training is to make Prenatal and Birth Therapy available to the world community for children, adults, and especially for babies and new families with the highest possible integrity, efficiency and compassion.

The Academy's primary goal is to provide professionals with the foundation and tools needed to positively impact the youth sports experience for all children in their communities.

The Academy's primary goal is to provide professionals with a foundation and tools needed to positively impact the youth sports experience for all children in their communities.

LeBarre said the bond measure was approved because the school district worked with members of the community, discussing the need for resources to help boost their children's long - term success with improved nutrition and the plans for how the funds will be used to accomplish these goals.

The ways pediatricians can protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in their individual practices, hospitals, medical schools, and communities are delineated, and the central role of the pediatrician in coordinating breastfeeding management and providing a medical home for the child is emphasized.3 These recommendations are consistent with the goals and objectives of Healthy People 2010,4 the Department of Health and Human Services» HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding, 5 and the United States Breastfeeding Committee's Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda.6

They will be supported by their families, their health - care providers, their employers, and their communities to fulfill the infant feeding goals they have for their children, from day one.

The goal of the demonstration is meant to provide «solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families — recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.»

«Dr. Perry's goal is to inspire parents and educators to demand more for their children and community,» she said in an emailed statement.

Ghana's efforts to reach the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on maternal and child health may not have run very smoothly, but hope turned into joy for stakeholders when the Community Benefits Health (CBH) project was launched in the Upper West Region last Thursday.

The ultimate goal of Whetten's ongoing research is to develop what she describes is a «guidebook» for assessing various community dynamics and finding the best method for caring for the children.

While the focus of Children's on Quality is on internal quality initiatives, both podcasts share one common goal: to educate the community about pediatric health topics and how Nationwide Children's is striving to provide the best possible treatment for all kids.

For them, the goal was to provide a place that cared for the community's children with love, respect, and understandiFor them, the goal was to provide a place that cared for the community's children with love, respect, and understandifor the community's children with love, respect, and understanding.

For example, achieving and sustaining progress toward the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) will require more and better - quality research on the policy and community contexts of reform.

The Hemera Foundation created an Innovation Fund to support the Center on the Developing Child as it pursues its goal of catalyzing the design, implementation, testing and potential scaling of new or improved intervention strategies for families, communities and community systems.

«I leave the program recommitted to the reasons I entered education 17 or 18 years ago to begin with and more recommitted to my goal to provide opportunities to children,» he says, noting that striving for equity for children from underrepresented communities or communities that have not had access to higher education is at the heart of everything he does.

In the end, it is families, educators, and communities who need to set appropriate goals for individual children, not the state and certainly not the national government or organizations.

«At first, when we came to the training, we were told that we were supposed to set goals for the community, the parents, and the children, which we found really challenging,» she says.»

She knew it might be a long shot, but the work that was being done at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where she serves as CEO, was already in line with the goals of the initiative: creating educational opportunities for children in distressed communities by offering «cradle - to - college» services.

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In communities nationwide, board - superintendent conflict is a factor that makes it difficult for public schools to reach a common goal of giving America's children the best education in the world.

Our goal is to create opportunities for all children in Washington State to thrive in stable families, great schools, and strong communities.

We administer a statewide reading initiative for Florida's public schools, and among community groups and volunteer organizations that support them, with a goal of having every child able to read at or above grade level.

For generations, the public has trusted school boards to balance community goals and values with the needs of children.

Sarah Shad Johnson, a parent of children in Charleston County Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.»

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

The goal is to ensure that every district in the country not only tracks chronic absence data beginning in kindergarten or ideally earlier, but also partners with families and community agencies to intervene when attendance is a problem for children or particular schools.

«Dr. Perry's goal is to inspire parents and educators to demand more for their children and community.

Being culturally responsive means taking Dr. King's definition of education — «to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... to sift and weigh evidence... to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his / her life» — and embracing outcomes that matter for children and communities.

The community at KIPP Austin Comunidad are committed to providing a transformative educational experience for 100 % of our children with the goal of setting students on a path to and through the college of their choice.

WHEREAS, the so - called «reform» initiatives of Students First, rely on destructive anti-educator policies that do nothing for students but blame educators and their unions for the ills of society, make testing the goal of education, shatter communities by closing their public schools, and see public schools as potential profit centers and children as measureable commodities; and

Caring for America's children involves the cooperation of families, teachers and communities working together towards a common goal - creating happy, healthy, responsible and productive adults.

Each school will want to design ways to work with families and the community on behalf of the literacy goals for each child.

Goals of the Project: To assist in developing and establishing a systematic Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathway in Early Childhood Education at Shoshoni High School (SHS) and for the implementation of an on campus Child Care and Development Center to give high school students real world work - based learning opportunities, and a facility to serve the needs of the local community.

They will only go away when we focus on a complete collaborative effort that involves our parents, teachers, principals, business leaders, and local community members where we discuss what their goals and dreams are for the children in their schools.

2005 National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Community Service Award... presented to an individual or group that has made a contribution that benefits the development of gifts and talents in young people; the nature of the work generally characterizes the goals and values of the NAGC and education in a democracy, and affects the larger community, state, oCommunity Service Award... presented to an individual or group that has made a contribution that benefits the development of gifts and talents in young people; the nature of the work generally characterizes the goals and values of the NAGC and education in a democracy, and affects the larger community, state, ocommunity, state, or nation.

At Morris Jeff Community School, we are driven by two fundamental goals: building an institution of the highest academic caliber for our children and transforming public education in our city, and beyond.

Liz King, senior policy analyst and director of education policy for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said «All children deserve to be safe and treated fairly in schools, but that goal can not be achieved by undermining their civil rights or excluding their communities from conversations about their safety.

21st Century Community Learning Centers programs link professional development to identified, school - based goals and learning objectives and conduct joint training for both school - day and afterschool staff on relevant topics, such as how children and youth learn and develop, how to establish appropriate learning environments, and how to deliver crosscurricular content.

Just as there are standards for regular day classroom expectations, the Expanded Learning community realized that having those North Star goals about what high quality programming looked like from both a point of service and programmatic perspective were important to communicate how expanded learning programs contribute to children and youth's overall intellectual growth and development.

Nationally, TFA's goal is to end educational inequity, such that 95 % of children growing up in low - income communities graduate from high school prepared for success in college and career.

The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and the safe recovery of the child.

The Dumb Friends League offers seasonal camps for kids and teens in support of our goal to teach children and young adults the importance of treating animals in a humane way — a lesson that will benefit them and the animals in our community for a lifetime.

The Dumb Friends League offers volunteer opportunities for kids and teens in support of our goal to teach children and young adults the importance of treating animals in a humane way — a lesson that will benefit them and the animals in our community for a lifetime.

The Dumb Friends League offers events for kids and teens in support of our goal to teach children and young adults the importance of treating animals in a humane way — a lesson that will benefit them and the animals in our community for a lifetime.

Impacts of climate change are already being felt by many communities and ecosystems worldwide, and we need to mitigate those impacts to secure a better living for our children and generations after them,» and continues: «Our partnership with the LEGO Group is a showcase of how partnerships between businesses and NGO's can share important goals for protecting nature and our planet.