Sentences with phrase «kids in a given population»

Proponents of this idea argue that raising the threshold would keep free meals from going to kids who aren't actually economically distressed, while critics charge that doing so would harm children legitimately in need of assistance because the 40 percent threshold doesn't come close to capturing all the impoverished kids in a given population.

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Given Europe's low birthrate and coming decline in the working - age population, «the kids are going to pay through the nose.»

If the autism rate is indeed one in 150, then a population of 100,000 will give us about 650 to 700 kids with autism, which will be about the largest collection of autistic children ever put together.

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.