Sentences with phrase «of schoolchildren not»

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.

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Mr. Gourevitch is also right in believing that marching troops of schoolchildren through a horror show of what was done by awful people of what will seem to children a long way away and a long time ago is not necessarily a constructive purpose.

Suburbia may also have fostered the absorption of the monetary value - standard; the question most frequently asked by thousands of wide - eyed schoolchildren visiting the traveling King Tut exhibit was not anything about that fabulous era, or what those people believed as they prepared for afterlife, but rather, «How much does it cost?»

How powerful can the image of peace be in a country where, for example, half of its schoolchildren can not identify Adolf Hitler or Vietnam?

Last off - season, when Umenyiora returned to Nigeria for the first timesince he left as a teen, the villagers made him an honorary chief — not for hisfootball achievements, but because of the 30 scholarships he endows each yearfor local schoolchildren.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

Regular spates of truanting, depression and aggression by British schoolchildren shows what serious damage can be done to a sensitive child when the environment is not appropriate.

School nutrition staff and public users must ensure that food is prepared safely and that shared use of kitchens does not endanger users or schoolchildren.

The pact doesn't resolve a longtime dispute between District 54 officials and officials of the Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg Park Districts over whether the cost of renovating playgrounds used primarily by schoolchildren should be shared or paid solely by the park district in question.

AQE Executive Director Billy Easton heaped praise on Silver, calling him «one person who's not only been listening for as long as you can imagine to the needs of schoolchildren across the state, but has been reflecting that voice back and speaking it out in the halls of decision - making» and the «originator of pre-kindergarten.»

But don't look to the U.S. Secretary of Education for guidance on which candidate would be best for the city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren.

Neither do any of the other candidates, or for that matter any sensible civilian and certainly not millions of schoolchildren.

Simon Cowell has called education secretary Michael Gove «stupid» for not seeing the «positive side» of his suggestion that schoolchildren should be lazy.

Governor Cuomo has questioned why more than 95 % of teachers last year were rated adequate or above average, when two thirds of schoolchildren in grades 3 to 8 were found in standardized tests not to be meeting the new requirements.

«The need to get the budget done is starting to overtake some of the issues, and we do not want to see the need to restore funding for our schoolchildren get lost in the mix.»

While not confirming his intention outright, the education secretary indicated he wanted to see a new examination which would be taken by the vast majority of schoolchildren — recognising the best - performing «high - flyer» pupils while also acknowledging the «fluency» of lesser - able students.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent, not - for - profit organization dedicated to raising resources and offering programs to support the success of Rochester's city schoolchildren.

Speaking to a group of reporters, the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Democrat of Manhattan, said, «I do want to remind you there are new schoolchildren in our schools, there are new people enrolling in Medicaid in an economic downturn,» adding, «all of which has driven projections of what spending should be that are real and defined and not made up.»

However, political conservatives are slightly more likely than either moderates or liberals to say that parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children — though seven - in - ten or more of all three ideology groups support requiring the MMR vaccine for all schoolchildren because of the potential health risk to others.

Downstairs in the Field Museum's main hall, Sue, the biggest, most complete, and best - preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, was doing a good job of amazing, if not intimidating, that day's busloads of schoolchildren.

The findings of one Japanese study that followed the immune system of two groups of schoolchildren (where one group was taking vitamin D supplementation, and the other group wasn't) suggest that lack of vitamin D can result in increased chances of catching influenza.

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

Schoolchildren taking U.S. History should know that the United States did not arise out of nowhere but that the country is a product of the original 13 colonies that moved doggedly and steadily westward.

As with the Opportunity Scholarship Program, the elimination of the Excellence Commission will not have a significant immediate effect on Florida schoolchildren.

Doctors still do not know the best way to diagnose or treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) although it affects approximately 3 to 5 percent of all American schoolchildren.

Back on March 13, 2011, retired Los Angeles school district teacher Doug Lasken and I wrote an opinion column for the San Francisco Chronicle about non-compliance with the Stull Act in Los Angeles and other California districts — so I could not be happier about this lawsuit, which may finally bring some justice for Los Angeles schoolchildren after years of the district's deliberate dodging of the law.

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.

During the talks schoolchildren learned that some of the dangers of open water are not always obvious, including strong underwater currents and sudden changes in water depth.

Substantial improvement in the education of American schoolchildren has to be based not on those rare individuals who are willing to do this, but on raising the level of competence of a workforce of millions.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

Indeed, when First News took 100 schoolchildren to Britain's Houses of Parliament for a special children's EU debate, the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow said to them: «This is a political debate and one person's idea of a fact is not, always, the same as anybody else's idea of what is a fact.

For millions of American schoolchildren, it is a nightmare from which they can not wake, a trial visited upon them each year when the law requires them to take reading tests with little preparation.

Let them then not pretend otherwise, despite all this talk by Randi Weingarten and Karen Lewis about the new CTU contract being in the best interest of Chicago's schoolchildren.

Today, at age 35, Stevens is on a quest to make those miracles available to millions of schoolchildren whose parents can't afford one - on - one therapy.

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent, not - for - profit organization dedicated to raising resources and offering programs to support the success of Rochester's city schoolchildren.

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.

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.

But you can't repay the schoolchildren who've seen five years of their educations disrupted by ever larger class sizes, fewer instructional days, and administrations struggling with cash flow management.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Teachers have not had enough training to improve literacy and numeracy among schoolchildren, according to the National Union of Teachers in Wales.

After citing the evidence of large gaps in achievement by low - income students and English learners, Liu wrote, «The schoolchildren who brought these actions (Robles - Wong and Campaign for Quality Education) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class education.

Improvements to literacy and numeracy among schoolchildren in Wales is not being met due to a «training deficit», according to the National Union of Teachers

This sort of divisive duplicity — paid for, by the way, by mandatory teacher dues — damages educators» reputations and hurts schoolchildren, particularly those not privileged enough to live in South Brunswick and West Babylon, Anti-testing sentiments will subside, but unions risk long - term damage to the reputations of their members.

In the same way, DeVos's denunciations of the federal government and her refusal to make even a tepid call - out to the value of the public education system, can't help but have an effect on the way some Americans feel about their neighborhood public schools, which educate the vast majority of the country's schoolchildren.

The Common Core does not appear to be in any danger in California, home to 1 in 8 of all public schoolchildren in the United States.

They have been spending vast amounts of time and money on union - busting strategy sessions with their lawyers, and not nearly enough time working with the PFT on how to restore programs and services to our schoolchildren.

And so far, they haven't expressed concern about other ideas Tennessee's teachers may be planting in the unsuspecting heads of our state's schoolchildren.

She also takes criticism for not involving key constituencies — such as families of schoolchildren.

A lot of Chicago parents with the resources to do so have followed Emanuel's lead: 17 % of schoolchildren in Chicago attend private schools, and so don't have to trouble themselves with whether or not their local public school has air conditioning, or a library (160 do not), or classes with 45 students.