Sentences with phrase «kids in the states spend»

We've reached the tragic point where 74 percent of kids in the States spend less time outside (< 30 minutes) than the two hours recommended daily for prison inmates.

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Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Parents must be honest and realistic with their kids during the application process about how much they will spend on college... MORE Parents need to encourage their high school seniors to investigate all options, including in - state schools which will cost a fraction of a private college which can save significantly on the cost of a bachelor's degree.

The mere $ 440,000.00 that trade groups spent lobbying against this bill would improve the quality of school lunches for every kid in my state for twelve years.

There was a moment, after we arrived in our new state, where I realized that both my kids had spent the entire day glued to the I - Pad and the TV while I unpacked.

The IDC resolution also supports the creation of a state DREAM Act that would give the college kids of undocumented immigrants access to state tuition assistance programs, funding for teacher centers, and Cuomo's push to spend up to $ 1 million on a memorial in New York City honoring «all victims of hate, intolerance, and violence» in the wake of a club shooting in Orlando last year.

«Our constituents know what Chris [Gibson] is about — he was raised in the Hudson Valley in a working class family, spent 24 years serving in the United States Army, and lives with his wife and kids around the corner from where he grew up in the small Village of Kinderhook,» said Gibson's spokeswoman Stephanie Valle.

I'm still in disbelief that it could work so instantaneously but then today I've spent the day cooking and eating the meal plan and kid you not I'm in almost a euphoric state in just the amazement that I'm not feeling like I'm dying today.

It's mainly numbers — numbers chosen by NIEER, to be sure, and none of them having to do with program results, just how many three - and four - year - old kids were enrolled in state - sponsored preschool programs (as defined by NIEER) in 2012 - 3, how much was spent on such programs, and how those figures differed from the previous year.

At that point, we hadn't yet passed a bill granting in - state tuition rates to undocumented kids who had spent most of their lives in Colorado schools, so there was no way he could afford college.

When you consider the fact that, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study, kids in the United States ages 8 - 18 spend an average of six hours or more using media each day, it becomes that much more urgent for educators to become fluent in digital literacy.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

On a parallel track, in the 1960s, federal officials recognized that states and local school districts were systematically spending less to educate poor kids compared to wealthier kids.

Arguing that post-recession budget cuts and Bush - era testing policies have prompted schools to cut art (in order to spend more time prepping kids for math and reading tests), they've come up with an idea: convince states to adopt new art standards — à la Common Core — to get schools to focus on art again.

Arguing that post-recession budget cuts and Bush - era testing policies have prompted schools to cut art (in order to spend more time prepping kids for math and reading tests), they've come up with an idea: convince states to adopt new art standards — à la Common -LSB-...]

One of the reasons why state standards have only been moderately successful in spurring improvements in student achievement is because they have rarely spend the time on choosing curricula that actually meets those standards (and in many cases, is useless in helping kids learn).

I've spent so many years reporting in Mississippi, which went for Trump, but more than 50 percent of kids in Mississippi attend rural schools and the state has one of the highest child poverty rates.

«States can adopt policies that leave huge swaths of kids without access to a free and appropriate education [and] many southern states would adopt the same strategy as Texas in order to reduce education spending.&States can adopt policies that leave huge swaths of kids without access to a free and appropriate education [and] many southern states would adopt the same strategy as Texas in order to reduce education spending.&states would adopt the same strategy as Texas in order to reduce education spending.»

We together can change what kids learn, how they are tested, and where the money in our state and localities is spent.

Since I spent much of my career seeing how the sausage gets made in the education sector, I try to keep a watchful eye on Tennessee's efforts to provide equitable education and accountability to low - income kids and students of color, especially as the state complies with the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Three times a year, I spent the six weeks preceding our state accountability test pulling specific «bubble» kids from electives and tutoring them in areas that had proved problematic on prior tests.

He knew a fair piece of central Pennsylvania, bits of western New York State, and most of the area around the Massaweipi Boy Scout Camp in West Virginia; where he had spent six days when he was a kid.

Families, states and the federal government all make big investments in our kids, as revealed by the steep costs of anticipated school supplies and the amount that's being spent per student by the government.

Born in Ethiopia, but spending most of her career in The United States where she settled as a kid, the artist Julie Mehretu is famous for her printmaking and painting with a strong note of abstraction.

«It's good to spend time in nature,» it states, encouraging parents to share the great outdoors with kids.

A study of six cultures found that kids in Kenya, Mexico, and the Philippines spent significantly more time doing kindnesses for others than did kids in Japan, India or the United States (Whiting and Whiting 1973).