Sentences with phrase «include schoolchildren»

And he proposes expanding the state's human rights laws to include schoolchildren at public and private schools.

In Dallas and Fort Worth, thousands depend on public transportation, including schoolchildren.

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Other laws include stipulations for Qur «an literacy among schoolchildren and severe punishment for adultery, alcoholism, and gambling.

There are several curriculum - linked activities for schoolchildren to get their teeth into, including getting children to create a chart of meat - free food according to the alphabet in order to help them with their literacy, learning about meat - free diets around the world for geography, and designing a four - week MFM diet for design and technology.

Other politicians are taking part, including those from the veggie - friendly state of California, where LA has already joined Meat Free Monday, and schoolchildren at public schools have also recently done so.

If only fruits, vegetables, dairy products, protein foods, whole grain rich foods and combination foods are offered to schoolchildren, then we can rest assured that they will certainly be consuming a wide variety of nutrients, including the four nutrients of special concern: calcium, potassium, vitamin D, and fiber.

The facility, 523 S. Webster St., serves 100,000 visitors a year, including 40,000 schoolchildren.

Shedd Aquarium offers an array of sponsorship opportunities that include exposure to our 2 million annual guests, 26,000 member households and 196,000 visiting schoolchildren.

Jamie Oliver, British chef and cookbook author extraordinaire, recently started his own self - proclaimed «revolution» when he discovered the junk food included in schoolchildren's daily lunches here in the U.S:

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

The report also includes a study of schoolchildren aged 13 - 14 from four EU countries which found exposure to alcohol sports sponsorship through viewing a major football tournament was linked to 70 % increased chance of underage drinking.

The bill required a supermajority and only 12 Republicans voted for the act, which proposed giving as much as $ 7.4 billion to people who were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, including first responders, firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, EMTs, cleanup workers, area residents and schoolchildren.

Guests included actress Barbara Windsor, schoolchildren and charity fundraisers, young and old.

The Conference is a membership organization advocating for New York's urban school systems, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Yonkers and New York City, which make up 45 percent of the state's public schoolchildren.

Connecticut has passed some of the strictest gun laws in the country, including measures enacted after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, when a gunman killed 20 schoolchildren and six staff members before killing himself.

In addition to backpacks, the Coalition for the Homeless says other supplies that are much needed by schoolchildren include No. 2 pencils, composition books, pocket folders, calculators, one - inch binders and colored pencils.

We did this using a variety of methods, including experimental games, door - to - door surveys and questionnaires aimed at schoolchildren, and by observing the frequency of spontaneous prosocial acts such as people picking up and posting a stamped addressed envelope left on the sidewalk, or the extent to which people decorated their houses during Halloween or Christmas.

In order to place Classmates in the hands of schoolchildren, governments (including Portugal's, which has promised to install a half million PCs in its schools) have been subsidizing them to varying degrees.

A recent study of US schoolchildren found that general dairy intake including milks, yogurts, and cheese contributed to healthy iodine levels.

She has published several books and articles on the way Twain's interpretations of race should be taught to today's schoolchildren, including The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and «Uncle Tom: the Stereotype, the Man - Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.»

Anthologies of reading for schoolchildren now carefully select stories to include all the major ethnic and racial groups; to ensure that girls and women are portrayed in a positive, nonsexist manner; and to include at least one selection dealing with a disabled person.

Five schoolchildren were killed on May 31 in Greene County, N.C., when a tractor semi-trailer collided with four other vehicles, including a school bus carrying 28 students.

During the talks schoolchildren learned that some of the dangers of open water are not always obvious, including strong underwater currents and sudden changes in water depth.

Activities will include large - sale outreach programmes, such as a # 1 million investment from Shell in the interactive Tomorrow's Engineers Energy Quest programme for thousands of schoolchildren, a children's book on engineering from publisher Usborne, and behind the scenes tours for families.

LAST week's report on how Washington schoolchildren did on their statewide tests included some positive data on the promise of the state's charter schools, even as they are threatened by another lawsuit.

Parents of schoolchildren must be concerned about the impact of these budget cuts, which will likely increase class sizes and result in fewer teachers, counselors and instructional aides, including assistants for children with special needs.

Decades of research — including Grossman et al.'s 1997 study of violence prevention among elementary schoolchildren and a cost - benefit analysis of SEL in 2015 — document how SEL supports academic achievement, deserving, in fact, equal billing with academic outcomes (Vega, 2015).

An intimate crowd gathered to hear Trump's speech included about a dozen schoolchildren who were predominantly African American.

NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel said, «Voucher programs, including North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program, rob public schools of the scarce resources available to provide an education to the majority of America's schoolchildren.»

The analyses broadly laid out the «system» of schools in the city — including public, charter, and private schools — to delineate where Milwaukee schoolchildren are being educated, student demographics in the various types of schools, and the performance characteristics of those schools.

Today, the Senate Education Committee voted on similar measures that would affect Louisiana's public schoolchildren, including:

Designed to promote Polish culture to German schoolchildren, the comic included a profanity - laden story in which a modern - day Chopin goes to a concert at a prison with his skinhead friend.

Access & Ticket Information @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will offer interpretive materials and resources for the general public and for schoolchildren, including a visitor guide and map as well as program - related activities, talks, and public tours.

Visit remote villages for fascinating interactions including visits with schoolchildren, nuns, monks, and pottery makers.

More than 9,000 people, including more than 2,700 schoolchildren, participated in the BioBlitz and the concurrent Biodiversity Festival at Crissy Field.

The history of the Chrysler Museum includes stories of 19th century feminist visionaries and a mid-20th century penny drive by schoolchildren to buy a single Renoir that was about the size of a paperback book.

These will include working with artists and schoolchildren in Dingle, Co Kerry, events to celebrate ten years of partnership between the Arts Council and Údarás na Gaeltachta in Inis Oírr and Connemara and exhibitions in Thurles, Co Tipperary, Wexford and Letterkenny, Co Donegal.

Liverpool's fleet of Arriva buses will include three double - deckers transformed by artists, of which one will be designed by schoolchildren.

These include the much beloved fountains in Ghirardelli Square (1968) and outside the Grand Hyatt San Francisco (1973), the latter of which comprises hundreds of clay images molded by local schoolchildren, friends, and other artists cast in bronze.

Main sustainable development activities include organic agriculture and green tourism on the Desna river as well educational activities developed in the context of the «Desnianski Zori» ecological camp for schoolchildren.

Distractions may include an electronic device like a cell phone or a GPS, as well as disruptive individuals on board the bus such as loud schoolchildren or bus patrons.

In schoolchildren, parents and teachers completed questionnaires which included a modified Rutter questionnaire and an item on mental age; hyperactivity was assessed in the teacher questionnaire using 7 items from the Conners teacher rating scale.

One program focusing on increasing resilience and other positive emotions in schoolchildren resulted in enhanced student engagement and social skills, including empathy, cooperation, assertiveness, and self - control (Seligman et al., 2009).