Sentences with phrase «kids in this country»

We have millions of kids in this country who do not have just their basic needs met.
I don't know where you live, but I'm guessing you probably have homeless and runaway kids in your country and maybe even near where you live.
Here's the thing - I fully understand there are many kids in this country who go to school without a balanced meal for lunch.
Right now, there are 9 million kids in our country growing up without a mentor.
I would also love it if the series would result in more beds available nationwide for homeless and runaway kids in our country.
Purported to be the first animated series to teach math in East Africa and the first cartoon for kids in the country, its aim is to boost children's math skills.
But we all know that this mission continues on well after this week's celebrations subside, so I look forward to working alongside each one of you to ensure that more kids in this country get to realize the power of opportunity and have a better shot at a brighter future through education.
By 1986, Nintendo had already gained a valuable foothold in the American market, meaning the NES became the de facto console of choice for most kids in that country.
Earlier this week, though they didn't know it, the school kids in this country lost an ardent champion.
Two days after the election, I wrote an angst - ridden post sharing my fears about what a Trump victory may mean for hungry kids in this country.
Gold certification would not only mean some federal money for each school, it would help clean up the health image of Chicago schools, which serve some of the heaviest kids in the country.
Based in Uganda, my friend Sarah and her family are moving in a few months to start Krochet Kids in the country of Peru.
I am glad extended nursing is becoming more popular, now maybe kids in our country will be healthier
The Chief Executive Officer for Kaya Tour, Abeiku Aggrey Santana speaking at the airport on Sunday during the children «s departure disclosed that Dekortor and Nadia were carefully selected out of the numerous kids in the country.
At an event supporting Princess Katherine of Serbia's charity, Lifeline, which helps blind kids in her country, Paterson recalled his own experiences and cracked that, during his time in office, ««Saturday Night Live» made so much fun of me for being blind, I forgot I was black!»
But as part of a clinical trial led by Hall, she is one of the first kids in the country to receive a drug called GM - CSF that researchers hope will boost her immune system enough so that it can fight off potential infections.
In a mock advertisement published on Funny Or Die today, Nick Offerman teams up with the American Heart Association to skewer — and raise serious awareness of — the nutritional challenges facing kids in this country.
The fact that they make contact with a group of kids in another country automatically engages them,» said Hoole.
«I do not want to be sitting here 10 years from now at the age of 50 and the educational outcomes for poor minority kids in this country are no better off then when I started in this job at 21.
The students they take in are the poorest, most educationally vulnerable kids in the country,» she said.
There have been a set of studies done out of John Hopkins University that track student gains in learning over time, and they find that in general the slope of learning gains for low - income kids and more affluent kids in this country is pretty equivalent between September and June of every school year.
The most talented kids in the country aren't waiting around for the grownups in the ivory towers to get their act together.
We also can't go «zero waste» — we're a family with four kids in a country town on a budget and the plain fact is, we use products that have packaging.
«There are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that's not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood,» Obama says.
Although statistics vary, and probably no one knows the exact number of runaway and homeless youth in the USA who are living in the streets, alleys, canyons, beaches, parks, under bridges and any other place they can find, almost everyone agrees there are at least one million homeless and runaway kids in our country.
We've heard the statistics — how one third of all kids in this country are either overweight or obese.
Low - Carb Tip # 6: Replace drink boxes with water, but in a cool way Do you know 91 % of the kids in this country grab 10 % of their daily calories (209 calories) just from sugary drinks?
In July, Obama said she would «fight until the bitter end to make sure that every kid in this country continues to have the best nutrition that they can have.»
We love our little homesteading adventure that is raising our food and our kids in the country.
I'm proud of Jamie Oliver for his courage, and I'm proud of all the other people who sacrifice, take risks, and stand up for the kids in this country whose voices can not yet be heard.
She says that eventually, «I would miss my culture and family, and I want to raise my kids in my country
The hole that I'm talking about, is this hollow feeling that I have every single time I think about all of the human potential that's been wasted, all of the social injustice that's been created by not providing the highest possible quality of education to the kids in this country that need it most.
That it doesn't matter who your parents are or what color your skin is or what neighborhood you were born in — every kid in this country should get a fair shot at the American dream.
Now, kids in those countries have a better chance of being intellectually equipped for a modern, global economy than do kids in the United States.
«From an educator's perspective, every kid in the country deserves an experience like this one,» she says.
«We are proud to partner on the States Leading Campaign to showcase the progress underway in states today and share best practices among state leaders to ensure we continue to move education forward for all kids in this country
Funny that Rhee's job is to improve the traditional public schools, not the charter schools (which educate fewer than 5 percent of the kids in the country), though the whole discussion of the show was about the joy of charters.
First of all, we have a dramatically unequal allocation of wealth in the society, which is getting much worse... We need another War on Poverty... Because we have a quarter of our kids in the country, and more than half in the public schools of California, living in poverty.
Her column, «Kids in the Country» ran for nearly a year in the weekly paper.
«Every kid in this country now goes to school wondering if this day might be their last.
«Every kid in this country now goes to school wondering if this day might be their last,» says the march organizers» website.
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