Sentences with phrase «of schools for their children»

Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.

But in doing so the State must not interfere with parental responsibility, nor hamper the reasonable liberty of parents in their choice of a school for their children.

Their expectations of school for their children are generally no different.

Waldorf Academy Biography In 1986 a small group of parents in the downtown area of Toronto came together inspired by a vision of a new kind of school for their children — a Waldorf school.

There are many, many opportunities outside of schools for children to find and choose these [junk] foods.

Advocates like to say the first day of school is actually the 181st day of school for a child in a looping classroom.

She founded and was principal of a school for children with special needs in Singapore, and later founded and served as Executive Director of Live and Learn, the largest educational consulting firm in Singapore, an organization dedicated to training and supporting teachers to provide effective inclusion services.

Improving the quality of our schools for every child.

Parents create a list of the three top choices of schools for their children and a computer program determines which school their child will attend.

Kindergarten is the first and an important year of schooling for children.

To ensure that parents can make an informed choice of school for their children, charter and non-charter schools should publicly report their disaggregated discipline data annually, in keeping with ESSA's required annual state and district report cards.

growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

The evidence illustrates loss and damage around barriers and limits to adaptation: growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

Education campaigns are also needed about sexual abuse, the impact of alcohol and pornography, and on the importance of schooling for a child's future.

Manfred Döpfner received income as Head of the School for Child and Adolescent Behavior Therapy at the University of Cologne and royalties from treatment manuals, books and psychological tests published by Guilford, Hogrefe, Enke, Beltz, and Huber.

Not exact matches

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

According to the latest edition of «The Good Schools Guide,» Thomas's Battersea is «a big, busy, slightly chaotic school for cosmopolitan parents who want their children to have the best English education money can buy.»

It even wades into parenting and schooling: praising and rewarding our children for reaching solutions rather than for their effort, Tugend writes, stigmatizes mistakes from the earliest stages of socialization.

Her family was so poor that, as a child, Oprah was teased at school for wearing dresses made of potato sacks.

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

For older children, letting them feel in charge of creating and choosing potential solutions is an important skill to develop as they learn to navigate life, lessons and school.

Also based out of Jordan, Alhodhud's programs are fun and entertaining for young school children, while also helping them learn how to read.

«Parents and grandparents want to help their children or grandchildren pay for school, and the last thing they want is for them to be made worse off because of their own financial distress or death.»

«The whole reason for this company is to protect children in schools,» says the founder of Amulet Protective Technologies, which makes ballistic material that can be put into walls, doors, cubicle dividers, and office furniture to create bullet - stopping barriers in public spaces.

CBA is seen as a stable part of life in the country of 24 million where most people have had a mortgage, insurance policy or regular savings account with CBA at some point - often starting with its famed «Dollarmites» deposit account for school children.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

Typically, incoming presidents have allowed a grace period for politically appointed ambassadors to leave the country so that they have time to transition their children out of schools and prepare for life back in the US.

For example, 71 percent of businesses with 11 to 100 employees allow them to take time off from work for children's school activities, such as parent - teacher conferencFor example, 71 percent of businesses with 11 to 100 employees allow them to take time off from work for children's school activities, such as parent - teacher conferencfor children's school activities, such as parent - teacher conferences.

She was poised to retire from twenty years of teaching school when her adult children turned to her for help.

«Take, for instance, the undervaluation of female - dominated jobs like school teachers, who affect the long - term productivity of children as they grow up and become workers themselves,» Bahn tells Fortune.

As a working mother, I worry for the future of my children, of schools, and of business.

Activities must be supervised, contribute to development of the child, not part of a regular school curriculum and ongoing (for example, five consecutive days at a camp).

Instead of «snow days» my Minnesotan childhood was filled with «cold days» — the difference being that «cold days» are when it is literally unsafe to leave children outdoors waiting for the school bus.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

He explained that even when the children did go to school, the constant noise and threat of air strikes meant it was hard for them to focus anyway.

Last year, one such company, Dovden Investments, launched at least 35 lawsuits against Canadian organizations — including a school for gifted children in Alberta and a pair of individual developers of free public - transit apps — that ostensibly stole the obscure intellectual property in its portfolio.

But research violations — including inappropriate drug testing on children and falsified data — forced the school to repay a National Institute of Mental Health grant for a whopping $ 3.1 million.

With its state license for 116 students; lucrative tuition subsidies for single parents, available from North Carolina's Child Care Resources program; and expertise with children, from infants to after - schoolers (up to age 12), this business could advance as quickly as a 2 - year - old — if placed in the care of a growth - minded new owner.

Susan's children were off to school and out of respect for the family, we kept things quiet until they got home and could talk to their grandmother.

This account can be used for day care, after - school care, baby - sitting, or camp expenses for children under 13; it can also cover the costs of nursing or other care for employees» dependent parents.

That would require the center to increase the number of staff per student but also would permit charging higher fees than the current weekly rate of $ 115 per full - day child and $ 78 for after - schoolers.

For the record, a quick list of things that need to be done: Sell or rent your current house, find your new home, squat in temporary accommodation in between, pack and move, close out old utilities, set - up new utilities, update your health insurance and driver's license, ditto with banking and vehicle registration, deliver said vehicle to new location, ensure spouse and children have jobs and school / daycare placements, find childcare in between if necessary, settle everyone in.

Go for this card if you see lots of traveling in your future, whether it's because your child goes to boarding school or that you're planning on taking a vacation, Wallethub advised.

Greater attention to treating children with language disorders, such as stuttering, also drives demand for these professionals, about half of whom are employed by schools, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Turning our provincial school systems into providers of universal free child care for well - to - do families is a perversion of good public policy.

He's made giving back to the community an integral part of his business, starting in 2012 when he began offering free classes once a month to The Little Light House, a tuition - free school for children with special needs.

He also serves on the corporate advisory board for The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and is a member of the Board of the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum.

It's back - to - school time for kids across the United States, and while having time with my own children this summer was truly wonderful, I am happy to admit that I am eager to see them get back to their own work of being students.

The Alberta government's showpiece bill this fall explicitly prohibits schools from telling parents their children have joined a peer support club for LGBT students, and clarifies that existing notification policies about discussions of sexuality and religion don't go beyond class lessons.

No, for children across the country, this is the season of going back to school.