Sentences with phrase «of military families who»

That was one of the other things that really catalyzed our work in this field was, when we looked at the proportion of military families who were out there, active - duty families with school age children and looked at where they were located state to state, base to base.

While popular with conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation that endorse school choice, Democrats argue the measure would sap funding for a majority of military families who attend public school.

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Wal - Mart — whose founding Walton family has a history of military service — always aims to honor those who have defended the country.

You talk about «against leadership» and it's hard not to think about the presidential campaign, in which the winner bashed this department, a man who dodged military service himself, disparaged the service of one of our most honored veterans, Sen. McCain, and engaged in a flamewar with a Gold Star family.

As part of that committment, this year Starbucks is dedicating a dozen Military Family Stores that are being run primarily by baristas who are veterans or military Military Family Stores that are being run primarily by baristas who are veterans or military military spouses.

With our combined commitment to the USO Transition 360 Alliance, we strive to help the nearly half a million service members and their military families who start the process of transitioning out of the military each year.»

An applicant must be an active duty military member, veteran who served honorably, member of the Reserves of National Guard, or be a Gold Star Family member.

I knew I had to have life balance to support my military husband, be able to take care of my children, and also keep my independence as a woman who can also financially contribute to the family.»

This effort is part of Starbucks ongoing commitment to creating pathways to opportunity for young people in Phoenix, which includes: the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative hiring fair last fall that helped 1,700 young people connect with jobs and resources needed to improve their lives; a revolutionary partnership with Arizona State University to establish the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, with 6,000 partners (employees) now completing their college degrees with full tuition reimbursement; and two Military Family stores (near Luke Air Force Base and Davis - Monthan Air Force Base) employing many baristas and managers who are veterans and military Military Family stores (near Luke Air Force Base and Davis - Monthan Air Force Base) employing many baristas and managers who are veterans and military military spouses.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

Families who move frequently because of work or the military or ministry, I will pray for you and love you forever.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

Schlafly again turned to the grassroots, galvanizing family - oriented, religious women to flood state legislative halls and remind the lawmakers that the ERA threatened to mandate unisex bathrooms, same - sex marriage, no - holds - barred abortion, drafting women into the military, and eliminating alimony for cast - off middle - aged wives who had devoted themselves to their homes instead of building careers.

Members of my family who died in WWII and are buried in military cemetaries have Stars of David on their graves.

Yvonne Staples was not as interested in singing as the rest of her family but she stepped in when her brother Pervis left for military service, said family friend Bill Carpenter, who is author of Uncloudy Day: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia.

Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.

«It was also important for us to find a franchise partner who understood the importance of giving back to the military and we knew that Walk - On's valued this and would work with us globally to meet the needs of soldiers and their families.

«The monies raised from the successful third straight year of our partnership will help us provide critical relief, resiliency and support programs for our veterans and military families who served and defended the freedoms we enjoy daily.»

Folds of Honor is a 501 (C)(3) nonprofit organization that provides educational scholarships to families of military men and women who have fallen or been disabled while on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.

A huge thank you to any of my readers who have served or are currently serving in the military and to their family as well, who have sacrificed along with them!

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

Offset those negative feelings by taking good care of yourself and getting extra support from relatives, friends, and other military families who've been in your shoes — particularly if you're finding it hard to give your kids the positive attention they need.

A study of military families, in which co-sleeping is common because fathers (and, nowadays, mothers) are often away from home for extended periods, found that children who had coslept as babies received higher evaluations of their comportment in school and exhibited fewer psychiatric problems.

While some are young people in long - distance relationships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (military families are a good example), many include women like me — divorced, middle - aged empty - nesters who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

While some are young people in long - distance relation - ships because of schooling or careers, or couples who want to live together but can't for various reasons (such as military families), many include middle - aged empty - nester divorcees who want nothing that resembles the married life we knew.

Provide eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of paid leave for their own serious illness; the serious illness of a child, parent, or spouse (including a domestic partner); the birth or adoption of a child; the injury of a family member who is in the military; or exigencies arising from a service member's deployment.

Williams, a Buffalo - area native who decided to raise his family of four children in Central New York after his military career, said he stands apart from Katko and the two declared Democratic candidates - Eric Kingson and Colleen Deacon - because of his experience taking on powerful special interests.

At 10 a.m., Tonko, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, OGS Commissioner RoAnn Destito, Sen. Neil Breslin, Assembly members John McDonald III and Patricia Fahy and others launch a fundraising effort for the Memorial Monument Project to honor families of those who died during military service, Vietnam Memorial in Lafayette Park, North Hawk and Washington Avenue, Albany.

WESLEY HILLS — The family and loved ones of Pomona Marine Sgt. Owen Lennon, who died in a military plane crash earlier this month, said their final goodbyes Friday.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (l.) hands military honors to the family of a Long Island soldier who was killed in Vietnam during an event at the Rosen Center.

The family has consequently advised all to desist from politicizing the death of their late son, who was commander of a military detachment to Denkyira - Obuasi.

The people who settled in the village around the fort were primarily family members of the soldiers and tradespeople who benefited from the purchasing power of the military.

Heroes of Military Medicine is presented by the Center for Public - Private Partnerships (CP3) at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine to honor outstanding contributions by individuals who have distinguished themselves through excellence and selfless dedication to advancing medicine and enhancing the lives and health of our nation's wounded, ill, and injured service members, veterans, and their families.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data from over 1,500 military families who were stationed at about 40 different military bases all around the world.

So already Christie's story is an amazing one - planning a home birth and also representing the community of women and families who experience pregnancies and births often without spouses or other family present because of active military duty.

I am a Lady who the Lord, lives life for a greater purpose, enjoys good wholesome fun, kinda shy, & have a family history of military men.

MilitaryCupid is one of the Cupid family of dating websites, and as you might have guessed, it's targeted at military personnel who are looking for love, and non-m...

Alongside the main protagonist, Noctis is joined by a military tactician Ignis Scienta, who can deftly handle a katana in battle, a melee fighter named Gladiolus Amicitia, gun - wielding Prompto Argentum, and head of the Royal Family Guards Cor Leonis.

Hunnam, rousing and physical, stars as Percy, a turn - of - the - 20th - century military man who embarks to South America to map Bolivia and cleanse his family name of scandal.

Call it War Dog — Max is the story of a dog trained to work with military units in Afghanistan, who finds a new life with family in the States after his handler is killed in action.

Murphy is a wide - eyed 18 - year - old from a military family who sees joining the Army as an early pit - stop on his eventual career path — something he does out of duty, but that will ultimately be a significant footnote in his life's story.

The film starts slow, taking in every painful detail of the family coping with Jonathan's death, from Michael's secret cruelty to a pet dog to the inept military personnel who arrive at the door, treating their son's death like a bureaucratic problem at worst, a heroic act of martyrdom at best.

In early 1963, he produced a report, titled «One - Third of a Nation,» that documented very high percentages of young black men in single - parent families who failed mental and physical tests for the military draft.

Another child started with the scale tipped pretty evenly: She was from a loving family but had a military mom who was away for long stretches of time.

Sandhurst School in Sandhurst, Berkshire is a secondary school with 120 staff and 1,100 students who come from all over Sandhurst, Crowthorne and Bracknell with a number of children drawn from local military families.

Furthermore, though there are benefits to having common standards in terms of cost savings (for taxpayers) and continuity (for students who move across state lines, including the children of military families), most of Common Core's upside stems from its rigor, not its sameness.

Some of Wheeler Middle's teachers are military wives who sympathize with kids from military families, Walje said, and those teachers believe in the potential of SEL curriculum to support those students.

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It's appropriate to think about how we can maybe modernize existing programs, the education programs for military families to transition them into choice - based policies at the end of the day, no matter what population it is, but it's critical for military families who move so much.

With every state enacting Common Core, students would get the same quality of curricula no matter where they are or go; this would be especially helpful to military families who often shift from state to state, as well as those who move from school to school within states.