Sentences with phrase «families over school breaks»

RocRead encourages students at every grade level to read with their families over school breaks and summer vacation.

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The children get two meals a day during the school year, and staff and teachers have provided additional food to help these families over weekends and breaks.

Often camps offer shorter school - year programming (such as a family weekend over spring break) so that you can get to know the camp before summer arrives.

We should not be leaving the fate of millions of families in rent regulated apartments in limbo over a tax break for hedge fund billionaires to send their kids to lavish prep schools.»

A film made in 39 days, but over the course of 12 years, that follows Mason, from ages 6 to 18 as he negotiates growing up, a broken home, new schools, first love, and blended families that don't always mix well.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

The faculty of Saklan Valley School in Moraga, California, has a long - standing custom of reading a book over the summer for professional development, but a new initiative by Head of School Jonathan Martin prompted all of its middle schoolers and their families to read one book during summer break.

In a piece entitled, «Democratic Political Infighting Over Education Harms Black Families,» which was published on The Root last month, Dr. Andre Perry claimed that our organization, Democrats for Education Reform, not only «attacked» Hillary Clinton — because our position on charter schools differs from that of the former secretary of state — but also that we have broken away from the Democratic Party's education platform.

Over the past year and a half, Families for Excellent Schools — using a variety of aliases — has spent nearly $ 1.5 million in a record - breaking effort to lobby and persuade Connecticut legislators to support Governor Dannel Malloy's unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory «education reform» initiatives.

As many families will be flying over their school break, most airports will also be at their busiest.

It's all well and good to advise that traveling during off season is the best way to score a cheaper vacation, though many travelers don't actually have a choice, and especially for families with children, it's impossible to avoid planning your travel over school holidays or during the Christmas and New Years break.

While starting a new school year can be an exciting time for everyone in the family, it also means that your children will, once again, be exposed to a host of dangers that were not an issue over the summer break.

Nearly 80 percent of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never - married families.Each year government spends over $ 200 billion on means - tested aid to families with children; three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage.