Sentences with phrase «millions of children nationwide»

At Education Pioneers we invest in leaders because they embody our organization's founding belief that talented leaders and managers can scale successful solutions for the education sector to impact millions of children nationwide.

The School Food Plan, published last summer and backed by the Secretary of State for Education, sets out a clear list of actions needed to improve food provision for millions of children nationwide.

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More than 20 million children nationwide are expected to perform 2 billion acts of kindness during the 2018 Great Kindness Challenge.

With LGBT parents raising two million children nationwide (and with one - fifth of same - sex couples in Fort Lauderdale who have children), there is a -LSB-...]

In the 2016 — 2017 school year, the third year of its nationwide availability, community eligibility allowed 20,751 schools and 3,538 school districts to serve free breakfast and lunch to more than 9.7 million children.

Every school day, federal child nutrition programs provide nutritious meals that are critical to the health and academic success of more than 30 million students nationwide.

All proceeds benefit Camp Kesem and our nationwide network of free summer camps ensuring the organization's ability support more of the 5 + million children who have a parent with cancer, or who have lost a parent to cancer.

The authors of the new paper estimate that an additional 3 million guns were sold nationwide from December 2012 through April 2013, the 5 - month window immediately before and for several months after a lone gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook on 14 December.

Pia Glatz, M.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and coauthors conducted a nationwide study of more than 2 million children born in Sweden from 1973 through 1993 by using a variety of national health care databases, school achievement registries, and the military conscription register.

A team from The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital published the findings in a recent issue of PLOS Pathogens and has now received a $ 1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further the work.

Trauma is the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 14 years nationwide, and results in temporary or permanent disability for millions of infants and children annually.

Fueled by more than 25,000 volunteers, NASA Nationwide brings current NASA science and engineering into thousands of communities reaching millions of children, teachers, and adults across our nation.

Max Irons (WOMAN IN GOLD) and Samantha Barks (LES MISERABLES) lead the cast in this powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion, and survival at the time of the Holodomor, a nationwide famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions of men, women, and children.

The Fishers invested $ 15 million to form the KIPP Foundation, with a goal of replicating KIPP schools nationwide for the country's neediest children.

Though homeschooled children represent only 4 percent (about 2 million) of all school - age children nationwide, they are growing seven times faster than the number of children enrolling in grades K - 12.

The new provisions are an acknowledgment that multilingual America must do more to meet the language needs of a student subgroup — comprising 10 percent of school children nationwide and 22 percent, about 1.4 million students, in California — that has trailed in graduation rates, college admission and other key academic indicators.

«School choice has helped millions of students nationwide receive access to a quality education and we will remain committed to ensuring every child has access to a quality school of their parents» choice.»

The most recent estimates suggest that about 2 million students nationwide are home schooled, or more than 3 percent of all school - age children.

African American Homeschool Parents» Motivations for Homeschooling and Their Black Children's Academic Achievement, in the Journal of School Choice, by Brian D. Ray, Ph.D. 2.04 Million Homeschool Students in the United States in 2010 FREE to print out Gen2 Survey: A Spiritual and Educational Survey on Christian Millennials FREE to print out Academic Achievement and Demographic Traits of Homeschool Students: A Nationwide Study, 2010 FREE to print out Bibliography of Research: Selected Key International References FREE to print out

Nationwide, state - funded preschool program enrollment reached an all - time high, serving nearly 1.5 million children, 32 percent of 4 - year - olds and 5 percent of 3 - year - olds.

Parents For parents and guardians of the more than 6 million children with disabilities nationwide, The Promise of Special Education is a one - of - kind resource that educates on how school programs operate and why, in a readable and understandable format.

This year, millions of American students, parents, teachers, and educators will gather at more than 21,000 events nationwide to mark the impact that school choice brings to the lives of children and parents.

On behalf of our 12,000 pediatricians and the millions of children we serve nationwide, I thank Scholastic for this tremendous gift.»

To reach children and adults nationwide, American Humane Association is embarking on a year - long campaign starting with a national media tour, educational roadshow to schools with a traveling museum aboard its fleet of famed Red Star Rescue trucks that save animals in disasters, and a website www.Kindness100.org where readers can find a fascinating historical retrospective of «Be Kind to Animals Week,» a series of pre-K-5 curricula to teach children compassion in all areas of life, official downloadable proclamations for local, state and federal officials, and a Kindness 100 Pledge with four things people can do to improve the lives of millions — actually, billions — of animals.

To reach children and adults nationwide, American Humane invites everyone to visit www.Kindness100.org, where they can find a fascinating historical retrospective of «Be Kind to Animals Week,» a series of pre-K-5 curricula to teach children the value of compassion, and a pledge with four things people can do to improve the lives of millions — actually, billions — of animals.

Work undertaken by the CTO was critical in securing a $ 10 million NCI Program Project Grant to study childhood sarcomas, a joint effort among Nationwide Children's Hospital, the Wexner Medical Center and the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Nearly 10 million children are enrolled in daycare nationwide, and paying for this costs 12 percent of the monthly income among families that earn $ 1,200 to $ 2,999 per month, according to the Census Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In the 50 plus years since the national commitment began, Head Start has improved the lives of more than 32 million children and their families nationwide.

More than half a million children, or 42 percent of nationwide enrollment, were served in programs that met fewer than half of the quality benchmarks.

Last month, the Annie E. Casey Foundation recommended to state and local policymakers the adoption of policies that would help millions of children and families nationwide deal with the emotional and financial instability inflicted as a result of having an incarcerated parent, in the policy report A Shared Sentence: the......

California Early Head Start and other child care programs for infants and young children will receive a piece of the $ 500 million in federal funds designated for states» early education programs, plus some of the $ 330 million that private corporations and foundations have pledged to expand early learning nationwide.