Sentences with phrase «more children from»

After that we were able to adopt two more children from our own state.

With the assistance of the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, the researchers drew a probability sample of women ages 65 — 75 with two or more children from the greater Boston area.

Such a program would allow more children from troubled families to be raised by grandparents rather than being placed in state custody and foster homes.

The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, launched in May 2010, is a collaborative effort of funders, nonprofit partners, states and more than 140 communities across the nation to ensure that many more children from low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career and active citizenship.

The Ofsted report last week on children on the edge of care, confirmed what we know from advising thousands of families each year about the welfare and protection of their children, that early intervention and intensive support, can prevent more children from unnecessarily entering into care.

Their support will enable us to help rescue more children from the risk of violence and abuse on the streets.

Alimony payments are specifically meant to support a spouse or former spouse, while child support payments are specifically intended to support one or more children from a dissolved relationship or marriage.

We want to remove the restrictive regulations that are preventing more children from going to high - quality faith schools, and we want to end the ban on the opening of new grammar schools.

It is no surprise that targeted tax credits cover more children from low - income families than do targeted vouchers.

The research will look into «how best to ensure more children from disadvantaged families benefit from healthy meals and enrichment activities during the holidays, including through targeted pilots», Zahawi said.

KCC has said it is looking for better social mobility, allowing more children from all walks of life to get into grammar schools.

Nearly 4,000 more children from working - class and economically disadvantaged households will soon have further access to educational opportunities across the state, and we look forward to further expansions in the years to come.»

Conservative councillor Jenny Whittle said the authority will look at ways of getting more children from poorer backgrounds into the selective schools.

A series of recommendations have been announced in a bid to get more children from poorer backgrounds in to Kent grammar schools.

We want to see more children from disadvantaged families get into grammars - that's vital.»

The statement also said that Catholic schools educate more children from the most deprived areas with 20 % of pupils at Catholic secondary schools living in the most deprived areas compared with 17 % nationally.

Jenny Whittle, chairman of the council's grammar schools and social mobility select committee, said: «We can't impose our recommendations, but I really do believe that there is a spirit of co-operation and a real willingness to see more children from poorer backgrounds benefit from a selective education.»

We found that the sibling in the cohort with more children from troubled families has lower test scores and more disciplinary problems.

The recommendations in this Review come, as usual, from a panel of «experts» who have either never been classroom teachers at any time or have been away from the classroom long enough to forget what it is actually like to teach an inclusive class of 25 or more children from 9 am to 3.30 pm for five days a week.

«I support Queens Borough President Melinda Katz's efforts to bring more children from the Ravenswood are a better education.

He added, «Employing tablet technology allows our LPP staff to inspect more houses each month protecting more children from the hazards of lead - based paint.

The real goal seems to be to take more and more children from the public schools and put them into private schools and shrink the funds that would be available to the public schools that give all of America's children the chance to get ahead.

«If more children from deprived backgrounds aren't identified in the first placed, today's announcement will make little difference.»

Not exact matches

Children under 18 are also exempt from Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes, which is more free money.

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To date, the group has provided more than 3 million nutrition packets to children suffering from malnourishment.

As well, the poll showed that those with children ages four to 10 were much more likely to borrow money from friends and family (39 per cent) than couples with older children (28 per cent), likely showing they feel they need a larger cash flow or savings to feel comfortable at that stage in life.

Her husband went from hiding in the garage at kids» birthday parties to happily volunteering to take a dozen screaming children bowling, while Rosenfeld herself grew steadily more inward - looking.

American Securities has acquired Learning Care Group Inc., the second - largest child care center operator in North America with more than 900 locations, from Morgan Stanley Private Equity.

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Bickert told Reuters in an interview that the standards are constantly evolving, based in part on feedback from more than 100 outside organizations and experts in areas such as counter-terrorism and child exploitation.

The number of parents who treat their children unequally in wills more than doubled from 1995 to 2010, according to an October 2015 working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

We are now seeing more parents who make it to their child's soccer match, while continuing to sporadically work from their iPad during the game.

Eldest children also tend to have higher IQs and be more cautious and dutiful, the New York Times reports, and they often earn higher salaries, according to study from CareerBuilder.

More recently, he ended an Obama - era program that protected the so - called dreamers - children of immigrants who crossed the border illegally - from deportation.

Did you know that, according to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, more than 5,000 children die every day from diseases that could have been prevented simply by washing their hands?

Few are more at risk in that catastrophe than the children of eastern Aleppo; prevented from going to school or even hospital, as both are deemed too unsafe, they live under constant fear of attack.

More than 3,000 employees now do their jobs from home, and has a state - of - the - art child care center with 600 kids.

The company has particularly targeted this campaign at developing countries like India where, according to the World Health Organization, more than 1,000 children under five die from diarrhea every day — the highest rate in the world.

First, he reacted to population changes, then he shifted his product category from furniture to toys, because families with more than one child often used the same crib and high chair, but they kept buying new toys for new kids.

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

Since then, Rotary and its partners, including the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have immunized more than 2.5 billion children, reducing the incidence of polio by 99 percent and eradicating it from all but three countries.

These include spending over half household income on housing, sleeping two or more people per bedroom (excluding couples and same - gender children), being behind on the rent in the past year and / or living in a building that suffers from any two of: frequent elevator breakdowns, pests or broken entrance locks.

An accompanying press release from the university's media office explains the study comes from a «survey of more than 1,500 families with children living in rental high - rises built between 1950 and 1979,» a housing category that covers half of all rental units in metropolitan Toronto.

More than 160 million children in the world are stunted from malnutrition, he says.

Even more troubling was the fact that nearly half of respondents with children that could actually benefit from the plan drew blanks.

She's staying away from Rio while Rutherford competes but has also frozen his semen in case he becomes infected since the couple wants to have more children.

Songs from the show — including covers ranging from «Bootylicious» by Destiny's Child to Bill Withers's «Lean on Me» — have been downloaded more than 2.6 million times on iTunes.

Toms now produces 40 percent of its giving shoes in these countries; it has made child care, meals, and transportation to and from its facilities available so that more women can work.

In an effort to be a more family - friendly workplace, many companies grant mothers and fathers the freedom to leave the office earlier to pick up their children from school, attend their daughter's soccer game or watch their son's orchestra performance.