Sentences with phrase «day millions of children»

Unfortunately, every day millions of children in the United States attend dilapidated public schools with overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks and materials, harsh discipline policies and limited access to quality teaching and wraparound supports like school nurses, college counselors and afterschool programs.
Every school day millions of children eat lunches prepared by their schools.

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Or perhaps you saved Christmas for millions of parents who, thanks to you, actually got a chance to talk to their children on Christmas Day.
A photo of a young refugee child washed up on a European shore inspires millions of Facebook users to donate millions of dollars on the day the photo appears.
They spent 20 million dollars to build it while 42,000 children were dying every day from hunger and contaminated water for a piece of crap.
And in his annual Message for the World Day of Peace on 1 January 2009, Benedict XVI noted: «The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.»
When the holicost was happening and millions of children were asking for proof in the way of «Can I live another day or two?»
I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.
For while we argue about stroller brands and family size, millions of women are engaged in a different kind of mommy war, fighting with every decision of every day for the very survival and future of their children.
Children lose 272 million school days each year because of diseases related to unsafe water and poor hygiene; they lose 200 million years of school days because of worm - related illnesses, which can be held at bay with good sanitation practices.
All that was needed was a spark and within 90 days between 800,000 and a million people, many of them women, children and elderly were butchered by their neighbors and former friends.
How long will the Christians and people of the United States have to contemplate the incongruity of its government... as it supports with over a million dollars a day another government that represses, kills bishops, religious workers, children, men and women, violates human rights, closes itself to dialogue and obstructs the pastoral task of the churches?
Every day, millions of children die for lack of a cup of clean water or a little bread.
They could even have protested, in the face of Catholic attacks, that they were and are still major donors to a large third - world charity founded by Catholics, Mary's Meals (yes, it's that Mary), which feeds about half a million third - world children every day.
BRL Hardy was the poster child of the Australian wine industry in its halcyon days, with Mr Millar taking it from a $ 100 million company in 1992 to a $ 1.9 billion buyout bonanza for shareholders in 2003.
In the past all the proceeds were given to the player as a thank you for the service given, in this day and age with the massive salaries of the players they donate all proceeds from the testimonial and other special events through the year to charities of their choice, in Rooneys» case childrens charities, the estimated amount throughout the year is expected to be around # 5 million.
We've spent 14 days of the transfer window trying to negotiate peanuts for a player that MAY but equally MAY NOT be the next midfield beast we need meanwhile Man City have brought in Bony who is a player that we could have done with and probably could have got before he upped his value with Swansea, I hear people on here talking about Wanyama and we could have got him prior to his move to Southampton, there's talk of Dybala who will undoubtedly go to either Man united or cheski in the summer, we are missing a trick with virtually every player that is strengthening our opposition and we sit and quibble about # half a million for some unknown child from Warsaw.
In conjunction with May as Exercise is Medicine ® Month, «The World's Largest Exercise Class» is coming to children and schools around the world May 1, as millions of participants across the globe celebrate the 25th annual Project ACES ® Day beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1.
I hope I'm not exhausting you with posts about the new school meal regulations, but these rules impact the diets of millions of American children every day and seem worthy of in - depth discussion on any blog devoted to «kids and food.»
A. 7 million B. 9 million C. 11 million Family Quiz answer: 9 million American children will head off to 8,500 camps of every variety, from day camps to lakeside retreats to camps for would - be astronauts or tennis stars, according to the National Camp Association.
The results for the 2013 - 14 school year show an average of 11.2 million low - income children ate breakfast at school each day — an increase of 320,000 from SY 2012 - 13.
Separate from the EDF's study, the EPA has reported that more than 1 million children are consuming lead levels that exceed the FDA's limit of safe lead consumption of 6 micrograms per day.
If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.
We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times a day.
The Baby Carrier Original is based on the treasured classic from 1973 and over the years it has enabled millions of children and parents to enjoy that all - important closeness every single day.
Of course, there are fundamentals that stay the same, but if you think that children's TV used to be on for an hour a day and now there are multiple digital children's channels running 24/7, video games, apps, YouTube... there are a million things fighting for their attention and most kids won't ever have known any different.»
I just want to say, a million years ago when I packed my very first lunch box for my oldest child's first day of preschool, I followed the common advice to include a frozen juice box which would keep the whole thing cool yet be thawed enough to drink by lunchtime.
And on the other, millions of children are struggling with hunger every day.
Each day across the United States, more than 4 million children, many from low - income families, receive meals and snacks through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
One potential obstacle to the program is the refusal of many school districts to install salad bars for food - safety reasons and because of cumbersome USDA rules governing the federally subsidized school lunch program that feeds some 31 million U.S. school children every day.
The program, which are funded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), provided low - cost or free lunches to more than 31 million children each day in 2012 — according to a fact sheet on the department's website.
Sometimes it is due to the blurry capture of a running child, or the fact that I have already posted a million things that day.
Each day, the National School Lunch Program helps feed millions of children who might not eat otherwise.
Nationally, on an average day during the 2015 — 2016 school year, 12.1 million students eligible to receive free and reduced - price school meals participated in school breakfast, an increase of 3.7 percent, or nearly 433,000 children from the previous school year.
Some 13 million American children today spend all or some of their day in the care of someone other than a parent.
More than 31 million children in the United States participate in the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, each school day, 1 and a large number of students consume up to half of their daily calories at school.2 Yet, many schools were built decades ago and face challenges as they strive to serve foods that meet children's dietary needs.
Globally 2.6 million children died in the first month of life — approximately 7 000 newborn deaths every day with about 1 million dying on the first day and close to 1 million dying within the next 6 days.
The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs provide meals to tens of millions of children each day, accounting for up to one - half of those students» daily calories.
Obesity aside, this more recent study is a good reminder, even as we complain about the quality of school food across the board, that the NSLP is a critically important safety net for the 31 million American children who eat a free or reduced price lunch every single school day.
Every school day, federal child nutrition programs provide nutritious meals that are critical to the health and academic success of more than 30 million students nationwide.
The standards also increased the portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and required students to select at least 1 serving of fruits and / or vegetables.4 Because the National School Lunch Program reaches more than 31 million students each day in 99 % of US public schools and 83 % of private schools, the new standards have the potential to significantly and consistently affect the nutritional health of children.5
Every day, 32 million American children eat school lunches and breakfasts at schools partticipating in the National School Lunch Program, consuming some 4 billion meals per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
One potential obstacle to the program is the refusal of many school districts to install salad bars for sanitation reasons and because of cumbersome USDA rules governing the federally - subsidized school lunch program that feeds some 31 million U.S. school children every day.
Every day, millions of school children across the United States grab a lunch tray and get in line.
«With nearly 32 million children eating school lunch every day, these programs are critical to the health of our children.
Each day, more than 32 million children across the United States are served school lunch and more than 12 million children are served school breakfast through the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.
Of the 6.6 million deaths among children aged 28 days to five years: 1.7 million (26 %) are caused by diarrhoea.
This is no small matter, because, as the study points out, 30 million children receive meals at school each day and many of them rely on those meals for as much as half their calories.
Congress spent millions and years investigating the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and about a day discussing the deaths of 17 American children in a Florida school.
The pledge of # 50 million on a summer school for «the children who need it most» before they start secondary school sounds like one of those throwaway promises where politicians pledge money in return for a chance to control the day's headline.
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