Sentences with phrase «minimum standards for child»

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That includes the increased child tax credit, the doubled standard deduction, the estate tax cut, repeal of the alternative minimum tax, and even the tax break for pass - through business income.

Parents — and indeed all of us — would do well to question our seeming inability to ensure minimum standards of quality in a field so significant and basic as care for our children.

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Save the Children, IBFAN and others have called for the FTSE4Good criteria to be brought into line with minimum standards and the assessment procedures to be changed.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

He may not know that the World Health Organization recommends that children breastfeed until they are at least two years old as a minimum standard for health.

Full compliance of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions relating to infant and young child nutrition is the minimum standard for the marketing of infant formulas.

Perhaps new standards, as suggested by the Institute of Medicine and required under the pending Child Nutrition Act, would help — at least by lowering the minimum calorie requirements for schools meals.

Factors like the VAT increase and tax credit cuts will add 460,000 more children under the minimum standard for income in two years, the report claimed.

In light of the scandal of child benefit data being lost in 2007, the Government laid down minimum standards for data protection.

One telling sign is that the federal government does not impose minimum standards for gifted education, even though the No Child Left Behind law imposes all sorts of mandates to bring up the bottom.

While there are minimum legal standards and commensurate penalties for schools that get it completely wrong, the purpose of schools is education, so teaching children about risk, safety, health and welfare is a critical factor in delivering effective life education.

Another study, from the University of Colorado in December 2010, found that only 30 percent of virtual schools run by for - profit organizations met the minimum progress standards outlined by No Child Left Behind, compared with 54.9 percent of brick - and - mortar schools.

All employees should have access to a minimum standard of at least seven paid sickdays per year, and most teachers are covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which provides up to 12 weeks of job - protected leave to care for a new child, a seriously ill family member, or to recover from one's own serious illness.

The U.S. Department of Education has blocked an attempt by Pennsylvania's Education Secretary to evaluate state charter schools using a more lenient method for calculating AYP, the «adequate yearly progress» measurement that determines whether schools have met the minimum academic standards under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

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A recent decision from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has provided some useful guidance in connection with minimum security standards required for Internet of Things / web - connected devices, particularly those that collect personal information and data from children.

Notwithstanding the fact that the employee likely did not have the «right» to take the time off to care for his children under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000, the law is clear that: (a) the ESA establishes certain minimum standards only, and (b) the Human Rights Code does, very clearly, contemplate one's «family status» as a protected ground.

Learn about the recent Supreme Court ruling that raises the minimum education standards for children with disabilities and why the Center applauds the decision.

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Each work day 68 million children are in child care or school, where parents assume they are safe, yet the 28 states and DC lack minimum standards for protecting children in these facilities.

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Research shows that the proposed ratios / group size regulations for the youngest children (1 — 2 years) are below even minimum recommended quality standards.

Preliminary analyses of the ratio data collected for the study show that when ALL classrooms in child care settings are better than the minimum standard, children are safer.

Furthermore, Parents Building Solutions has been assessed by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) as a «Promising program» in their Communities for Children Evidence - Based Programs guide, which must meet a set of criteria that reflect a minimum standard for good quality programs for families and cChildren Evidence - Based Programs guide, which must meet a set of criteria that reflect a minimum standard for good quality programs for families and childrenchildren.

The inspectors working for Ofsted take account of how well the fostering service providers meet the national minimum standards under the five Every Child Matters Outcomes, and how well the service is managed.

Practice Guide for Locating and Involving Non-Custodial Parents, Alleged Fathers, and Relatives (PDF - 86 KB) Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services (2007) Provides minimum standards, guidance, and tools to help agencies identify, locate, and involve noncustodial parents, alleged fathers, and relatives as resources for children, especially children who have been removed from their homes.

Minimum Standards for Child - Placing Agencies (PDF - 347 KB) Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (2007) Provides minimum standards developed through the administrative procedure of the Texas Department of Family and Protective SeMinimum Standards for Child - Placing Agencies (PDF - 347 KB) Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (2007) Provides minimum standards developed through the administrative procedure of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Seminimum standards developed through the administrative procedure of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

Clinical parent - infant treatment practice is reviewed as an interdisciplinary and multiprofessional challenge and the necessity of adhering to minimum standards, beside adult psychiatric skills, of child psychiatric and developmental expertise in diagnostics and intervention for quality assurance.