Sentences with phrase «number of kids who»

I can also provide plenty of data that indicates that from June through August of each year, the number of kids who die from swimming pool drownings increases.

We're very pleased to help companies like REW expand their philanthropic footprint and increase the number of kids who can go to camp.»

And while they're not a large number of kids who come into that last category, there are some who do.

According to the program, if the same number of kids who walked to school today was the same as the number of kids who walked to school in 1969, our country could cut more than 3 billion vehicles miles traveled every year.

It May Not Be the Number of Kids Who Have Suffered Serious Childhood Brain Injuries That Has Changed

My ultimate aim is that it should be made compulsory for children to use visibility bags or wear fluorescent jackets to school in the winter months to, hopefully, reduce the number of kids who get hit by cars.

«The investigation into who is reading YA books began when we noticed a disparity between the number of YA e-books being purchased and the relatively low number of kids who claim to read e-books,» said Kelly Gallagher, Vice-President of Bowker Market Research.

And it's not a small number of kids who require more.

Ruiz de Velasco explains, «California is unique in providing these schools, and there is evidence that they can provide an effective pathway to a diploma for a large number of kids who need special and supplemental services.

It has been shown to reduce racial disparity as well as the number of kids who are suspended for exhibiting threatening behavior.

«We'd like to figure out what it would take to expand the number of kids who could get to such a high - performing schools,» she said.

SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN CONTEXT: Kudos to John Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich for producing a lovely new piece about the number of kids who've been exposed to school gun violence since Columbine, and for considering my feedback that the story would be stronger if it gave readers some context (ie, a denominator) rather than just the raw number.

To go farther and faster in advancing the Career Readiness task - force recommendations, select states have received grant funding to increase the number of kids who are prepared to compete for high - skill jobs.

The number of kids who didn't take PARCC — 44,000 missed the English Language Arts component and 42,000 didn't take the math segment — represent about 4 percent of the more than 1 million students who were tested.

«One of the motivations is to reduce the number of kids who are eligible for EdChoice.»

It may make it more expensive to provide programs and preschools, reducing their availability and the number of kids who can benefit.

In a searing expose, reminiscent of the heyday of journalistic muckraking, the Houston Chronicle has assembled and published fairly persuasive evidence that the great state of Texas has placed a de facto cap of 8.5 percent on the number of kids who can be placed in special education.

Funding gifted education is thus left largely up to school districts, which are hard hit by falling property taxes and looking to cut budgets without reducing the number of kids who get over the minimum - proficiency bar.

It's a shame that the number of kids who will get to see «Song of the Sea» is a tiny fraction of those who've seen «The Lego Movie» or «Big Hero 6.»

«I was surprised by the number of kids who seem to be consuming a lot of alcohol.»

One of the by - products of this pandemonium is a 43 percent increase in the number of kids who've been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) over the past several years.

«If I want to maximize the number of kids who get a 65, there's a simple way to do it - teach less of the course.

«Are we really saying that in 2017 we have a party in government which doesn't want to have some metric way of reducing the number of kids who grow up in poverty?»

SH: Julie Abrera at School Nutrition Foundation was a big part of that, and she approached us based on our size and the number of kids who qualified for free / reduced meals, as well as looking at our participation rate at breakfast — it was obvious we could do a better job of getting kids participating in breakfast.

If the number of kids who are eligible for free meals is high enough — and if a high percentage of the student body meets the criteria for other social services — that school may be eligible for free universal breakfast and lunch for all students.

But looking at kids» TV programming, the disrespect shown to parents on TV, the number of kids who lie to their parents on TV is a lot higher than it was when I was a kid.

For instance, even if the chefs cook and donate free gourmet meals, they could end up losing money for the district by decreasing the number of kids who took the «official» school lunch, thus lowering the government meal reimbursement that goes to the district and to the caterer.

This makes average behavior, average academic performance or behavior look defective or deficient, and that increases the number of kids who get identified as having attention deficit disorder.

Not exact matches

Schulman hopes that, armed with new federal funding to tackle these challenges, states will step up and begin filling the gaping holes in the American child care system — smoothing out the child care cliff while also making it easier for families access care in the first place, increasing the number of American kids who spend their days playing, coloring, building, and singing in a safe, caring environment their parents can actually afford.

As a kid who went to church every day I can't tell you the number of times the daily readings said something really strange and perverse; why even keep it around?

The number of Christian women who have more than 2 kids is small.

However, you should really also add the percent of kids who ever have contact with a Catholic priest (maybe 25 %) and the relative number of contact hours (at most 20:1 compared to public schools).

Although statistics vary, and probably no one knows the exact number of runaway and homeless youth in the USA who are living in the streets, alleys, canyons, beaches, parks, under bridges and any other place they can find, almost everyone agrees there are at least one million homeless and runaway kids in our country.

You are assuming that that is the reason people don't have kids or have few, when the majority of people I know who limit their number of children or adopt or foster do so at least in part for society and the environment.

This is a really important number for kids with Type 1 diabetes who have to count carbs to dose the right amount of insulin.

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A twenty year old kid who has done nothing more than beat some opponents one on one and score a less than large number of goals versus a German world cup winner who sees passes very few players can see.

However, the numbers that count, as hockey continues the battle to establish itself as something more than NASCAR of the North, will be the ones that emerge over the next 20 years, when kids who watched the gold medal game start playing and become involved in the sport.

But as Bill Center, an SI correspondent who has been covering soccer for the San Diego Union since 1968, notes, «One of the first things said by the owners of the original San Diego Toros was, «When the kids playing soccer today grow up, soccer in the U.S. will become the Number One spectator sport.»

It seems that Jose Mourinho has already decided who is going to be his number one signing of the winter transfer window and that name is none other than Ryan Sessegnon, a young wonder - kid who currently plays in a lower division of English football at Championship level in Fulham.

The Unity Academy prospect, who was among the shining stars of the ill fated squad, dazzled a scout of QPR in Abuja who kept on asking about the kid in jersey number 11.

But it's evident that they have influenced a number of other newly divorced celebrity parents who are raising kids together to put aside their anger and differences and come together for their family.

It's true that more men are at home caring for the kids than ever before — there are about 2 million stay - at - home dads — but, and this is a big but, the largest number of stay - at - home fathers, 35 percent, are at home because of illness or disability, according to the Pew Research Center, not by choice, versus 73 percent of stay - at - home mothers, who either are choosing to be at home (presumably with the blessing of their partner) or who have had to opt out for any number of reasons (the cost of child care perhaps).

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

found that kids who slept less than the suggested daily number of hours tended to show «higher values of BMI, body fat, waist and hip circumferences and fat mass index... [they] were more sedentary... and spent more time watching TV.»

Set limits on the number and type of passengers, such as no more than two other people, and only the kids who live within a mile of home.

School Breakfast and Game On Grants Sponsor: Action for Healthy Kids Award Package: $ 500 - $ 3,000 Number of Awards: 1100 Who qualifies: Public K - 12 schools or school districts Application deadline: April 6, 2018 Full details, criteria, and application

[A Mom note: We have never had our kids open presents at a birthday party for many reasons, but since there are still a number of families who do, it's good to prepare kids for it if we know a particular family will do so.