Sentences with phrase «more poor children»

We educate more poor children than any tested country — by far, in fact.

And this is a big issue because there are more poor children attending suburban district schools than ever.

If one cares about the future, reform of our education system is urgently needed because there are more poor children and English learners in the schools than ever before.Teacher Mary Jacobsen works hard and longs for improvement and less rancor: she is brave to write here.

These accomplishments are being attained even though the student population has become more difficult to educate with more poor children, children needing to learn English and others with special problems.

I would argue that enabling more poor children to attend religiously animated schools, via vouchers or tax credits, can play a much more beneficial role in their lives than you allowed at the end of your conversation with Mike Petrilli.

The Democrat - led House voted Thursday to send President Obama a bill that would enable more poor children to receive free meals at school, raise the nutritional quality of cafeteria fare and reduce the junk food and sugary beverages sold in school vending machines.

Not exact matches

Through its ministry, Operation Christmas Child, the organization delivers more than 8 million shoe box gifts to poor children in more than 100 countries each year.

In his State of the Union in July, he said the law will let poor people adequately care for their children, «eventually making [those children] more productive members of the labor force.»

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

As insufficient as provincial support for poor children may be, they enjoy on average 22 % more child welfare resources than on - reserve kids.

More than 400 million poor children worldwide are excluded from services like health care and education because they are girls, refugees, or disabled.

As a new benefit cap comes into force, a coalition of churches is warning poor children will be hit the... More

He does this with every post... you can tell when his temper is getting the best of him, he starts to misspell words and scream more... poor god - fearing child needs anger management and some education.

The money you get from other's through the government would do more good if used to provide food and clean water to poor children in undeveloped countries.

Smaller schools have proven to be more effective than larger schools, especially with poor children.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

It is more like gossip, peddled to a public far more interested in Paula Jones than in what cuts in food stamps are doing to poor children.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

«If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation,» she said, «it is not because God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise — in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.»

So believers in God bear children, make art or worship God because they feel called to do so — even if they realize they could be spending their time more «usefully» fighting hunger or building houses for the poor.

And her comparison between loving Christ and loving eating could not be more evangelical: you stop loving Christ if you make him into an idol so that he is no longer the God exposed in the flesh, born of poor and displaced parents, in a stable amid animals, dung and flies, who hung helpless on a cross and who promised to be among the hungry, the sick, the little ones of all ages, in every street child.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

No matter what organization he belongs to, there is no one who feeds more hungry, houses more poor, treats more sick, educates more children than the Catholic church and we've been doing it longer than any one else on the planet.

So, it's not bad enough I get heavily taxed and sit back and watch the poor have more children because they can and get paid for it but they want me to give to the poor?

Poor children are less healthy, less involved in school, more likely to drop out of school, more likely to get in trouble with the law, and much more likely to die prematurely.

According to his findings, children raised by homosexual parents are more likely than those raised by married heterosexual parents to suffer from poor impulse control, depression and suicidal thoughts.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

Poor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class pePoor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class pepoor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class peers.

Through their various mandates and mindsets, international institutions have put families and poor countries on the horns of a deadly dilemma: They can have social and political progress or they can have more than one or two children.

Children of single - parent families are far more likely even when they are not poor to do badly in school, get in trouble with the law, have poor mental and physical health, and have marital difficulties later in life.

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

The God who spared Nineveh, the God who in Jesus Christ told us that the last shall be first, has more respect for children than for armies, for animals than for buildings, for the poor whose lives are ruled by others than for those who boast of their power.

In addition to promising to accept children willingly from God, the Christian tradition requires would - be spouses to make four more vows: monogamy (you can only have one spouse at a time), exclusivity (you may only have relations with your spouse), indissolubility (permanence), and charity — to love one's spouse as an end in herself, and therefore for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, in good times and bad, and so on.

A magazine article disputed this assertion by pointing out that despite consuming 385 million gallons of beer per year (more than 20 gallons for every man, woman, and child), Australia ranked a poor seventh in per - capita beer consumption, behind the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Britain, and Belgium.

Research suggests that families who eat together more frequently lower the risk of incidents among their children, including alcoholism, truancy and poor school performance, Sarasin notes.

There is overwhelming evidence that our children are becoming more obese and it is incumbent upon us as a society to take every action possible to deal with the epidemic of poor nutrition and obesity.»

Children with vitamin A deficiency are more likely to suffer from poor health and premature death.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

Interestingly, if her relationship with her own father was poor, she will be more likely to support and relish a strong one between you and your child.

There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.

Children who grow up poor are more likely to smoke cigarettes than those from wealthier families, according to research.

Since minorities, you know — cause of years of prejudice and racism, are more likely to be poor and educated because of lack of educational funding and discrimination in the workforce and society, they're children won't fare much better.

Some of the more commonplace results of these shifts in your child's behavior include an increase in backtalk and complaining, increased moodiness, a poor attitude, and varying levels of rebellion.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children who grow up in poor families may have smaller brains than their more well - off peers, says a new study.

Poor parents use more «preventative» strategies — obedience, discipline, and conformity — in hopes of keeping children safe in a more chaotic and violent environment.

• The father - child relationship is especially important in disadvantaged families where children suffer more from a poor relationship with their father and benefit more when this is good (Dunn, 2004).

Calling one parent a hero to the exclusion of the other sets up an unhealthy and unnecessary divisiveness exactly at a time when more men are hands - on dads, when we're talking about more egalitarian partnerships and when even so - called poor «deadbeat dads» are actually finding meaningful ways to be involved in their children's lives.

In the newest generation of parents there are increasing numbers of higher earning mothers, and fathers willing to take on more of the care of children; in many couples both partners work full - time — but the childcare costs which hamper the poorest in entering the workforce also lead to difficulties for parents sustaining employment over time.