Sentences with phrase «largest public children»

Dr. William Checkley, a disease control and epidemiology specialist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, found that wintertime admissions to the oral rehydration unit at the Children's Health Institute in Lima, the country's largest public children's hospital, doubled during the 1997 - 1998 El Niño.

A large public child care investment will provide resources to improve teacher pay across the board and reduce inequities that leave teachers in some early childhood settings, particularly child care programs, with comparatively lower pay.

Not exact matches

The company's 16,000 Realtor network has raised more than $ 20 million through the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, the largest public foundation in Canada committed to ending violence in the home, and providing support to the women and children who fall victim to it.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

The members of today's intense religious groups and not a few members of the larger public like to get even closer to home, rubbing texts like these into contemporary Christian consciousness: «Now great multitudes accompanied Jesus; and he turned and said to them, «If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he can not be my disciple»» (Luke 14:25 f.).

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents

Still, Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, the largest organization of Haredi Jews in the United States, sees the future differently: «There will be an economic crunch, and there already are many two - income families in the community, but no Haredi Jew is starving, or having fewer children because of economic restraints....

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Co-founders Abby Berman and Matt Sorum believe that it is morally and ethically incumbent upon the public - at - large to foster the creativity, hopes, dreams and imaginations of our children.

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Michelle's passion for breastfeeding advocacy began with her nursing in public incident at Target in 2011 which led to the largest nurse - in to date with over 6,000 moms who participated in nursing their children at Target stores all over the U.S. Michelle currently sits on the advocacy board for the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC), and is the Director of Activism for Best For Babes Foundation.

In addition, having the IMH Endorsement will inform prospective employers, peers, referral sources, families, and the public at large that an individual who is providing services to infants and their families meets standards that have been approved by a professional organization devoted to the optimal development of very young children.

Among the large allocations receiving the initial OK are $ 179,472 for the Naperville Exchange Club's Ribfest, $ 168,838 for the Jaycees» Last Fling, $ 150,000 to the Naperville Development Partnership for restaurant marketing, $ 150,000 for the DuPage Children's Museum debt, $ 146,494 for Riverwalk maintenance, $ 137,004 for the Naperville Municipal Band and $ 132,497 for Century Walk public art.

The required provision of baby changing facilities was a large step towards making public places more accessible for parents and in many countries there are now laws in place to protect the rights of a breastfeeding mother when feeding her child in public.

In California it's easy to drive and see a lot of schools to focus in on what kind of school a child likes (public vs private, large vs small, parochial vs non-religious).

If Arlington Heights agrees to rezone the property from business to public land use, Park District officials said they would first build a 15,000 - square - foot day - care center, large enough for up to 160 children, said Parks Director Allen Baker.

«We found small but meaningful differences in developmental outcomes between late preterm infants and full term groups, which if applied to larger populations, may have potentially significant long term public health implications,» says lead author Prachi Shah, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

Most parents choose something large and sturdy for their baby's first set of wheels, but as your child reaches their first birthday, you'll start to crave something a little sleeker and lighter, that can be stored more easily and collapsed for hopping on and off public transport.

Rosa Luxemburg stated in 1918 that: «Only somebody who performs some useful work for the public at large... can be entitled to receive from society the means for satisfying his needs», a rule from which «small children, the aged and sick are exempted».

Commenting on reports of the announcements the Prime Minister will make at a Downing Street Summit today about action proposed to be taken against certain public service workers, including teachers, who fail to report sexual abuse of children and young people, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK said: «No one can fail but to be shocked by the horrific abuse of young girls revealed by recent investigations, including the Report today on Oxfordshire.

A large number of public primary school children have yet to benefit from the free meal initiative government.

If public sector workers are given a bigger pay rise than the 1 % promised by the Government, it will lead to «debts ever larger for our children and our grandchildren to have to pay off», a senior minister said.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has launched an advertising campaign aimed at parents and the public, highlighting the impact of the Conservative - driven Government education policy on children and young people.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

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The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has marked 100 days to the General Election with the distribution of materials aimed at teachers, parents and the public emphasising the entitlements that our public education service should deliver for all children and young people.

That group makes up the largest proportion of parents in public schools, and they want their children to have a different upbringing than they did.

HARD TO MISREAD THIS MESSAGE — DeVos, in first visit to NYC schools, picks yeshivas, by POLITICO's Azi Paybarah, Eliza Shapiro and Caitlin Emma: U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos came to New York City, whose 1.1 million public school children represent the country's largest school district, and walked into an all - girls private yeshiva in Manhattan's tony Upper East Side.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

Poloncarz» proposal would add a new senior investigating public health sanitarian along with 5 investigating public health sanitarians, a registered nurse to provide case management for children with lower but still elevated blood lead levels, and a clerk to handle the large amounts of legal paperwork generated by these programs.

The world's largest general scientific conference offers technical sessions for registrants, featuring leading science luminaries, as well as free public lectures and hands - on fun for children.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

«While many state - funded preschool programs in the U.S. do not begin until age three or later, this study provides some of the first large - scale evidence that public early education for children as young as age one can be critical for children's language skills,» said Dearing.

However, the phenomenon is reminiscent of widely cited studies, for example, of members of the U.S. public who consistently support their own elected officials and the teachers of their children, while simultaneously voicing discontent with the larger contexts and systems in which the elected representatives and faculty are complicit.

«Eating foods with balanced energy and protein and multiple micronutrients would probably have a larger effect for many malnourished children,» said Evan Mayo - Wilson, the lead author based at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

With spanking a public health concern, this approach offers a simple way to reach a large audience to change attitudes and reduce parents» reliance on corporal punishment, said Holden, who was recently elected president of Dallas» oldest child abuse prevention agency, Family Compass.

Cost - benefit estimates based on older, intensive interventions, such as the Perry Preschool Program, as well as contemporary, large - scale public preschool programs, such as the Chicago Child - Parent Centers and Tulsa's preschool program, range from three to seven dollars saved (e.g., higher earnings) for participants for every dollar spent.

• Large - scale public preschool programs that are of high quality can have a substantial impact on children's early learning.

We found that large international NGOs and humanitarian organizations feel that their expertise and experience was going unrecognized and unappreciated by government actors, and that government actors sometimes view NGOs as competitors who were undermining their efforts to get as many children as possible into public schools.

As part of Boston's larger transition - to - school process, for example, the Boston Children's Museum co-hosts a Countdown to Kindergarten Celebration with Boston Public Schools each August.

Parents of school - age children are just as supportive (63 %) as the public at large.

An amendment to the No Child Left Behind Act authorizing the creation of single - sex public schools was sponsored by Republican senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, but the measure passed in large part due to the support of Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, a Wellesley College graduate grateful for her opportunity to attend one of the country's premier women's colleges.

On this question, the public divides almost exactly in twain: 39 % of respondents support, but 43 % oppose «the federal government providing additional money to school districts with large numbers of immigrant children.»

Therefore, today's leaders must continuously build bridges with the larger communities and be willing to collaborate with service providers in the public, private, and not - for - profit sectors to insure that the teaching, learning, and care of the «whole child» is at the center of the educational enterprise.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

In 71 of the nation's 100 largest cities, the percentage of public school teachers whose children attend private schools exceeds that of the general public, according to the study by the education analyst and consultant Denis P. Doyle.

Moe finds that a large number of parents are satisfied with the public schools to which they send their children.

When the opportunity arose, Canada, who had watched public schools fail for decades, jumped at the opportunity to deliver a great school to large numbers of poor children.

The gap between Catholic - school students and public - school students was largest among urban minority children.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.