Sentences with phrase «leave millions of children»

As part of the Jeremy Corbyn's new Labour Shadow Cabinet, Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has warned that scrapping universal school meals for infants will leave millions of children hungry.
«Twenty - five thousand (one - quarter of US principals) leave their schools each year, leaving millions of children's lives adversely affected.
Soon Haregwoin was caring for sixty children, running an unofficial orphanage and day school, and learning first - hand about her country's and her continent's greatest challenge: the AIDS pandemic that is leaving millions of children without parents to care for them.

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Although the world - renowned musician has amassed a $ 300 million fortune, he's taught his six children the importance of work ethic and succeeding on their own merits, and he's stated publicly that he won't leave them a penny because he thinks financial security ruins people.
But lifetime earnings will reach only 60 million yen if they leave the workforce after the birth of their first child and return as part - time workers after rearing their second.
Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.
In his new novel «The Leftovers» (St. Martin's), the bestselling author of «Little Children» and «Election» follows a group left behind after something called the «Sudden Departure,» a Rapture - like event in which millions of people suddenly vanished like smoke.
I left a couple million of my potential children on your daughters face last night... is that a form of birth control?
True, the money came largely from Father's father, who left a fifth of a million - dollar estate to each of his five children.
I knew I would never have that much to leave even one of my children, much less enough to give half a million to all three.
In Judaism one monstrous event has played a fundamental role: the unspeakable horror of the Holocaust, which brutally exterminated 6 million Jews — men, women and children — and left deep scars on the Jews who survived.
Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.
So when a tsunami wipes out 200,000 people and leaves millions homeless and creates 100,000 + orphaned children, that is somehow suppose to be for the good (the good of who)?
Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.
Outpouring of spontaneous generosity at 34th annual fundraiser sets new records 6/8/2014 — St. Helena, CA — The winning combination of renowned Napa Valley wine, talented chefs and stunning scenery inspired bidders from across the country and around the world to open their hearts and wallets, leaving behind $ 18.7 million for healthcare and children's education nonprofits.
Whenthe flames subsided, leaving Mickelson's property singed but his house spared, he decided to honor his commitment to the event and his desire to «educatemy children on a more global basis,» to say nothing of collecting areported $ 1 million appearance fee.
An Expert Panel on how the AHCA could affect Health Care in New York State ~ «The House of Representatives recently passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA)-- a bill that, if passed, will leave 2.7 million New Yorkers without health insurance and will roll back protections for women, children and anyone with preexisting conditions.
«Leaving Albany without passing an extension of mayoral control is the equivalent of turning your back on 1.1 million school children,» said Mayor de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein.
The proposed cuts, part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's expected 2013 executive budget, would take $ 170 million from after - school and child care programs, leaving nearly 50,000 students without those programs across the city.
«Leaving Albany without passing an extension of mayoral control is the equivalent of turning your back on 1.1 million school children,» said de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein.
The Winter Fuel Allowance, shortest NHS waiting times in history, crime down by a third, SureStart, devolution, civil partnerships, peace in Northern Ireland, half a million children out of poverty, maternity pay, paternity leave, the minimum wage — to name but a few.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew praised the vote by the three teacher members of the New York City Teachers» Retirement System to sell the $ 13.5 million pension fund holdings in publicly traded securities of gun and ammunition manufacturers as «the right thing to do» in the wake of the December school shootings that left 20 children and six adults dead in Newtown, Conn..
Low - income, working parents and the family child care providers who take care of their children were left with many questions after Mayor Michael Bloomberg on May 6 said he was restoring $ 40 million to the child care budget, which is only a partial restoration.
Two windfalls — the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act and the end of the huge National Children's Study — left NIH with an extra $ 150 million and a mandate to spend it on pediatric research.
Bringing «virtual dental homes» to schools, nursing homes and long - term care facilities can keep people healthy — reducing school absenteeism, lessening the need for parents to leave work to care for an ailing child, and helping to prevent suffering for millions of people who have no access to a dentist, a six - year study by University of the Pacific demonstrates.
Although paternity will be established for some children after they are discharged from the hospital, roughly three quarters of a million babies each year leave US hospitals with no legal father.
«Approximately 20 million children younger than 5 years of age worldwide are severely undernourished, leaving them extremely vulnerable to illness and premature death.
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He also starts checking off all the hopes and dreams his instantly loving parents had drawn up for him, while secretly shedding his leaves as part of an inevitable destination that provoked the traumatized children's reaction of this spoilerific viral video viewed over 3 million times.
The U.S. Department of Education has been awarding grants in the field since 1995; the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 established the new Partnership in Character Education Program, which gives $ 25 million annually to schools.
With 1.3 million children under performing in the UK (Ofsted, 2016) and 74 % of teachers considering leaving the profession due to unmanageable workloads (TES, 2016), it is clear that the current education system is facing some serious challenges.
It also says that families will be left almost # 450 worse off per child as a result of the Tories» plan to scrap free school meals for 1.7 million children.
The 2017 campaign is focused on education financing: World leaders have promised every child in the world a quality education but a key piece of the puzzle is not in place — the money to pay for this education — leaving the global picture with 263 million children missing out on school, and many of those in school are not learning.
Public school choice has exploded to include more than five million students, a number that will surely rise under the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
The Associated Press breathlessly reported the finding that, «Millions of at - risk students could fall through the cracks as the Education Department gives states permission to ignore parts of No Child Left Behind.»
On a chilly afternoon last week, hundreds of these advocates staged a protest outside the White House, imploring the president to reject welfare - reform legislation that they claim would leave millions of needy children out in the cold.
This shortfall leaves over 1.5 million children out of after - school programs, including more than 271,500 children in California alone.
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Overall, the poor quality of learning at primary level still has millions of children leaving school without basic skills.»
The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.
Under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA), the federal government provides millions of dollars annually to assist schools that have not met state academic goals.
Louisiana received more than $ 17 million through Race to the Top, and it has a waiver from No Child Left Behind, allowing the state to avoid some of the more onerous provisions of the law.
The 1.3 million - member American Federation of Teachers last week stepped into the cyber arena with a blog that is part of its campaign geared toward the scheduled 2007 reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.
When center - left officials and institutions (such as the NAACP) support arbitrary caps, they are dismissing the voices of three million current charter school students and their parents, and the one million more who want to enroll their child in a charter school, but due to high demand, were only able to get on a waiting list (this includes: 8,640 parents in Washington, D.C., 44,000 in New York, 34,000 in Massachusetts, and a whopping 158,000 in California).
Following the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, states paid millions of dollars annually to companies to develop and administer the standardized tests required under the law.
Under No Child Left Behind, states spent more than $ 600 million annually on standardized tests, with the vast majority of the money going to the private sector, according to a 2009 Government Accountability Office report.
Given the political climate and opportunities for change — the availability of stimulus funds (including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's commitment of $ 350 million in stimulus funding to support assessment work), the movement toward common standards, and the upcoming reauthorization of No Child Left Behind — we can bypass the debate between the two flawed options of either maintaining the status quo or returning to performance - based assessment systems of the 1990s.
Pressed for time, a small group of superintendents and officials from a coalition of nine California school districts, representing 1.1 million students, are on their way to D.C. to ensure that its No Child Left Behind waiver proposal is passed in time for the upcoming school year.
Lily Eskelsen García, who was Utah's 1989 Teacher of the Year, became president of the 3 million strong National Education Association last September, just as momentum to change the 2002 No Child Left Behind law began to build.
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