Sentences with phrase «numbers of parents across»

Significant numbers of parents across the country are declining standard immunizations for their children.

With the federal government yelping about the «high» number of parents across the nation who opted their children out of the destructive Common Core tests, the Malloy / Wyman Administration recently announced that they will punish school districts that «allowed» parents to fulfill their legal right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC testing.

Although these findings resonate with education activists and an increasing number of parents across the nation, they have fallen on deaf ears with leadership in our state, even while many other states have dropped their membership with the consortium or removed tying results to high stakes until such findings are substantiated.

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Chairman urges parents, children to enjoy the pool but «Pool Safely» over holiday WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Independence Day holiday approaches and families enjoy time together in pools across the country, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is sharing some sobering statistics on the number of drownings during previous July 4th holidays.

Some, including Stief, believe the number of disposable diaper - using parents has increased even more as the demand for diaper services across the country has declined, along with the corresponding number of available diaper services.

But Jeanette Deutermann, a North Bellmore parent and founder of Long Island Opt Out, said she was looking at numbers across the state and «we are much higher than we were last year at the end of day three.»

Thousands of parents and teachers descended on Foley Square to demand that de Blasio get behind charter school proponents» plans to increase the number of charter seats across the city to 200,000 by 2020.

Calling for an end to the unfair distribution of teacher quality across New York City public schools, StudentsFirstNY organizers and hundreds of New York City public school parents came together today to demand action to address the disproportionate number of unsatisfactory - rated teachers in schools with the highest needs.

I think that is a particularly important thing, since a number of parents and teachers across the state told me they're too long,» said Elia.

Over an 8 - year period, researchers manipulated the number of young that 186 parent birds across the Netherlands had to raise.

Across the nation, a growing number of parents, teachers, students, and organizations are questioning the tests» merits.

Across the country, a small but growing number of parents are doing the same thing.

A number of schools across London have set up «car - free zones» near their school gates, while others have «park and stride» spots where parents park a distance from the school gate and walk the rest of the way.

The recent mass immigration of thousands of displaced children together with their families to European countries, and their historical long march in the wake of a risk - laden and desperate journey across different countries and less - than - friendly seas in the hope to leave behind the miseries of war and move toward a better life that they are hoping to forge for themselves and their parents in their host countries, resonates with the life stories and conditions of the characters of a number of submissions this year.»

The numbers of parents paying by cash are similar across both stages of education, which suggests that all schools are moving away from it at the same rate - more than half of parents appear to have moved past cash, but only secondary schools have dedicated software as a clear alternative, perhaps suggesting that some primary schools do not fully understand the benefits of parental payment software.

Red State Or Blue State, Parents Want Good Education Options November 23, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in theParents Want Good Education Options November 23, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in theparents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the state.

«And over the course of those four years, parents have organized and passed this law in California... and passed this law in a number of states across the country to the point where almost 25 percent of American parents live in a state where there is a parent trigger.»

Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the state.

«Each time a new charter school is opened, students leave existing schools, both charter and DCPS, to attend the new charters, and our taxpayer dollars are spread thinner across a growing number of schools,» Suzanne Wells and Valerie Jablow, two D.C. Public Schools parents, wrote in an open letter to city education leaders urging more cooperative planning.

Despite the initial, widespread support for the Common Core, a significant number of parents, teachers, scholars, and policy - makers across the aisle are now opposed to the Common Core, though they generally oppose different aspects of the standards and their implementation.

«Traditionally, across the country, there is a significant drop from the number of parent volunteers at the elementary level to the number of parent volunteers at the junior - high / middle - school level,» Nicole Cicci Kazarian observes.

When it comes to the Common Core SBAC testing mania, a number of parents from across the state — along with students and teachers — have identified a significant number of school districts that are engaged in immoral, unethical and quite likely illegal efforts to undermine parental rights and bully and abuse children who have been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

After all, Sacramento bureaucrats created a dashboard that's supposed to help parents understand how schools and districts are performing across a number of measures.

Some programs offer as little as $ 2,500 for a year of tuition and other programs offer close to $ 30,000.29 The average tuition of private schools across the country is $ 10,740, which does not include any additional services.30 For nonreligious schools, that number is much higher — $ 21,810.31 In most cases, parents are responsible for paying the difference between the tuition costs and the amount provided by the voucher.

The program, operated in partnership with schools and parents across the state, offers over 100 middle and high school courses in the core content areas, world languages and electives as well as a number of AP courses.

It is currently not found in most of the big name retailers, but a numbers of smaller specialty shops across the country do carry the product, and the company website provides a handy store locator to allow curious pet parents to find the nearest Honest Kitchen retailer to them.

The initiative will see our certified instructors visit schools and colleges in the ten regions of Britain with the highest number of road traffic accidents for young drivers (aged 17 - 24), where we will be challenging parents and teachers to take mini mock driving tests to demonstrate the issues of road safety at schools across the country.

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For example, the distribution of implementation costs across a larger number of attendees (cost per family of # 399 when 13 parents attending) increases the likelihood that the programme would be cost - effective given a # 20 000 threshold from 36 % to 49 % — using a 5 - year time horizon; whereas a smaller number of attendees (cost per parent of # 865 when six parents attending) reduce the likelihood to 26 % with a 5 - year time horizon.

I work with individuals across the lifespan who want to work on a number of issues including anxiety, depression, life transition, stress, relationship issues, and parenting issues.

Founder of Triple P and director of The University of Queensland's Parenting and Family Support Centre Professor Matt Sanders said the development of the Triple P system of programs, designed to support large numbers of families across the population with varying degrees of needs, had gone a long way to destigmatise the notion of parentingParenting and Family Support Centre Professor Matt Sanders said the development of the Triple P system of programs, designed to support large numbers of families across the population with varying degrees of needs, had gone a long way to destigmatise the notion of parentingparenting support.

Having a system that can go to scale, encourages self - sufficiency, and can reach vast numbers of parents — as Triple P does — means the impact can be seen across the society - at - large.

Across the UK there are a number of charities and organisations that are experts in bullying and provide a great range of information, advice and help for parents and children on their websites.

With family breakdown regarded as one of the most central causes of poverty, the research adds to growing evidence that parenting programs have much to offer across a number of policy settings aimed at reducing income inequality and its effects.

As the study participants moved into adolescence, the number of parents who believed that they provided adequate supervision decreased across the sample, but it decreased less in the ex-poor than in the persistently poor group.

Counselors, parents, and STP teachers also rated children's improvement across a number of domains, including rule - following, relationships with peers and siblings, relationships with adults, and self - esteem, as well as overall improvement rate.

There are a number of Parent and baby or toddlers groups using PEEP across the area including: in NICHE in Knocknaheeny, in the Hut in Gurranabraher; in Before 5 in Churchfield and in Barnardos in Knocknaheeny.

Almost half of today's active duty forces are parents, and continuing hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan ensure that growing numbers of military families will experience repeated cycles of separation in a context of danger that may span across years of each family's development.

Children's average compliance levels across the parent directed play and clean - up situations were also calculated (i.e., ratio of number of complies to number of commands).

Depending on availabilities, parents may be referred to a learning together program based at a number of schools across the state.