Sentences with phrase «number of schoolchildren»

The declining number of schoolchildren has financially stressed school districts, even though total state spending has increased.

The number of schoolchildren arrested for racism has...

The number of schoolchildren not vaccinated against childhood diseases in Texas is growing rapidly, which means that the state may see its first measles outbreaks in the winter or spring of 2018, Hotez predicted in a recent article in PLOS Medicine.

Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon's reply on the number of schoolchildren potentially affected is odd.

«There would be a number of schoolchildren who would want to go to this nature sanctuary,» he said.

Regarding charter schools — Charter schools are supposed to act as laboratories, where small numbers of schoolchildren are subjects of experiments to find better ways to educate them.

Federal stimulus funds helped plug in gaps primarily by saving as many educators» jobs as possible — but it was still not enough money to keep pace with the growing numbers of schoolchildren coming into North Carolina classrooms, in particular with regard to classroom supplies.

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While a number of GOP senators voted for the SAFE Act in 2013, other Republican senators were opposed, and five years later, still want to repeal the measure, saying there are other ways to keep schoolchildren safe.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

The results of eye tests carried out as part of last year's annual survey of the health of schoolchildren were the worst on record, with the highest ever number of children having sight classed as «extremely poor».

This special report, «Joining Forces,» examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

It was notorious for many reasons: First, the court ordered enormous state and city expenditures, intending to attract white schoolchildren from the suburbs to the Kansas City schools so as to provide the minimum number of white children that proponents of desegregation considered necessary for a desegregated or «unitary» school.

But by this time, the state had approved charter schools, and substantial numbers of Kansas City's black schoolchildren were patronizing them.

The research shows that while the number of white non-British or Irish schoolchildren has increased by just over 1.2 per cent between 2011 - 15 overall, some areas have experienced an individual increase of up to 30 per cent.

Indeed, in those areas where we were able to adequately compare public and private provision, a large majority of schoolchildren are in private school, a significant number of them in unrecognized schools and not on the state's radar at all.

This special report examines examines the attempts by a small but growing number of districts and unions to work together to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers and, in turn, improve the achievement of schoolchildren.

Although most of the nation's 52 million schoolchildren are still on traditional schedules, about 2 million attend school year - round; they attend school the same number of days as students on traditional schedules, but they get shorter breaks throughout the year.

«We have priced children's tickets to ensure they are very affordable, and created a number of exciting initiatives such as our Bolt ticket for # 9.58 based on Usain's current 100m world record and our London schools offer for the World Para Athletics Championships, which gives 250,000 schoolchildren access to a special discounted package.

Although that's just a fraction of the country's 50 million schoolchildren, the numbers are growing fast, Patrick said.

While there are a number of important issues, we can't let education fall off the public policy radar and risk shortchanging our nation's 50 million public schoolchildren.

Fewer than half of American schoolchildren are white, and the number is much lower in urban school systems like Philadelphia.

Adolescent Outcome of Physically Abused Schoolchildren: NDACAN Dataset Number 117, User's Guide and Codebook (PDF - 1260 KB) Miller, Wach, & Salzinger (2008) Identifies important factors influencing the path from preadolescent abuse to adolescent outcomes and target possible points where intervention in childhood might avert some of abuse's costly individual and social consequences.