Sentences with phrase «many of its schoolchildren»

Obamaalso showed a «get - tough» strategy in his determination to pursue gun control after last month's massacre of schoolchildren by a gunman in Newtown, Connecticut.

Mr. Gourevitch is also right in believing that marching troops of schoolchildren through a horror show of what was done by awful people of what will seem to children a long way away and a long time ago is not necessarily a constructive purpose.

How powerful can the image of peace be in a country where, for example, half of its schoolchildren can not identify Adolf Hitler or Vietnam?

It is estimated that 90 per cent of the schoolchildren between 12 and 20 in the occupied territories have been arrested at least once.

New York's most populous borough has just announced that many of its schoolchildren will be tucking into a Meat Free Monday next year.

«Mrs. Obama's efforts to continue to strengthen school wellness make sense for the well - being of our schoolchildren,» said ABA President and CEO Susan Neely.

Scores of schoolchildren bandy about, some offering heartfelt attempts to «tag» one another in the game of the same name, others waiting their turn for hot dogs and Slushies.

The school system in England gave up on competitive sport but now professional clubs have taken over the coaching of schoolchildren and the dividends are paying off.

I find that damaging, tone deaf and indicative of a lack of concern for the health of schoolchildren.

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

Each morning, for example, groups of schoolchildren get in free, part of an agreement with the Chicago Park District, which, in turn, provides the Art Institute free rent and a modest operating subsidy.

When fast food companies, infamous for cutting corners at any cost, turn their noses up at a questionably safe ingredient that ends up on the lunch trays of schoolchildren, headlines are to be expected — and rightfully so.

The open letter asks the organization to «identify practical and long - term solutions that serve both the needs of school districts and the health of our schoolchildren,» rather than legislatively mandated waivers and rollbacks at the expense of our children's health.

In a presentation to the school board in January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

«There would be a number of schoolchildren who would want to go to this nature sanctuary,» he said.

This drop in the bucket allows our leaders in Washington to appear to be focusing on the nutritional needs of schoolchildren.

I also wanted to hear directly from workers who have the thankless job of serving millions of schoolchildren every day.

Regarding charter schools — Charter schools are supposed to act as laboratories, where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of experiments to find better ways to educate them.

AQE Executive Director Billy Easton heaped praise on Silver, calling him «one person who's not only been listening for as long as you can imagine to the needs of schoolchildren across the state, but has been reflecting that voice back and speaking it out in the halls of decision - making» and the «originator of pre-kindergarten.»

Ghana marks its 59th birthday today with a colourful national parade of schoolchildren and contingents of security personnel at the Independence Square in Accra to be addressed by President John Dramani Mahama.

In 2014, Governor Cuomo signed legislation to provide an additional $ 435 million to the Rochester Schools Modernization Program, a multi-phase capital initiative to provide the Rochester City School District with greater capability to meet the educational needs of its schoolchildren.

Neither do any of the other candidates, or for that matter any sensible civilian and certainly not millions of schoolchildren.

Thousands of parents have gotten a lesson this week, as the Mayor's «my way or the highway» approach has left thousands of schoolchildren stranded at curbs across the city by the school bus strike.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

This morning we launch our crowdfunder to help fund a legal challenge against racial profiling of schoolchildren https://t.co/Fv7G81cMj0

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

The report also includes a study of schoolchildren aged 13 - 14 from four EU countries which found exposure to alcohol sports sponsorship through viewing a major football tournament was linked to 70 % increased chance of underage drinking.

He toyed with his Blackberry throughout the session, for instance, and paid about as much attention as the army of schoolchildren who were ushered into the public gallery half way through.

While not confirming his intention outright, the education secretary indicated he wanted to see a new examination which would be taken by the vast majority of schoolchildren — recognising the best - performing «high - flyer» pupils while also acknowledging the «fluency» of lesser - able students.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the «sham» organization was supposed to provide training for parents of schoolchildren, but existed only on paper.

Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon's reply on the number of schoolchildren potentially affected is odd.

«Fifty of our schoolchildren and teachers were killed in a suicide attack yesterday (Monday) in Potiskum and we act as if it is normal.

The governor said the country should be mourning at the moment, following the killing of schoolchildren and teachers in Potiskum, Yobe State, on Monday by the Boko Haram sect.

Six school districts and parents of schoolchildren submitted a brief on Nov. 10 accusing Pennsylvania of violating its state constitution by skimping on education funding.

The education bond act, which will put iPads and laptops into the hands of schoolchildren, will now appear alongside Cuomo's name on the November ballot instead of a bond act that proposed spending more than twice the amount on sewers and clean water projects.

The campaign rolled out its first television spot, featuring jarring images of schoolchildren in flak jackets and combat helmets, to illustrate Ryan's support for an assault weapons ban, this week.

The hallways of the Capitol were noisy with protesters, advocates and even groups of schoolchildren on field trips with only two days left in the session.

IN 1995, a group of schoolchildren from Minnesota discovered that half of the frogs they found in a pond were deformed.

A new analysis of schoolchildren's drawings of scientists that reaches back decades shows that children today are less likely to draw the stereotypically nerdy guy with glasses.

After it all whooshed into the clouds without incident, hundreds of schoolchildren cheered exuberantly, and UP Aerospace was celebrating its eighth successful launch in four years.

The results of eye tests carried out as part of last year's annual survey of the health of schoolchildren were the worst on record, with the highest ever number of children having sight classed as «extremely poor».

Some see it as a form of broadcast «edutainment», giving thousands of schoolchildren access to star «superteachers».

Downstairs in the Field Museum's main hall, Sue, the biggest, most complete, and best - preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, was doing a good job of amazing, if not intimidating, that day's busloads of schoolchildren.

In order to place Classmates in the hands of schoolchildren, governments (including Portugal's, which has promised to install a half million PCs in its schools) have been subsidizing them to varying degrees.

At the end of the visit the sarpanch addresses a group of schoolchildren.

The number of schoolchildren not vaccinated against childhood diseases in Texas is growing rapidly, which means that the state may see its first measles outbreaks in the winter or spring of 2018, Hotez predicted in a recent article in PLOS Medicine.

The findings of one Japanese study that followed the immune system of two groups of schoolchildren (where one group was taking vitamin D supplementation, and the other group wasn't) suggest that lack of vitamin D can result in increased chances of catching influenza.

Synopsis: How the community of Newtown came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.

Thanks to some mistranslated Latin, generations of schoolchildren were brought up to believe that ancient Roman households contained a special room called a vomitorium, in which feasting nobles could purge themselves of the night's dinner and drinks, then go back to the table and help themselves to some more.

Thanks to some mistranslated Latin, generations of schoolchildren were brought up to believe that ancient Roman households contained a special room called a vomitorium, in which feasting nobles could purge themselves of the night's dinner and drinks, then go back to the table and -LSB-...]