Sentences with phrase «paying elementary age children»

In fact, paying elementary age children to read books did as much to boost their ability as more popular approaches such as smaller class size, Head Start, and bonuses to teachers for working in at - risk schools, the study determined — and was much cheaper, too.

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Distinguishing the earlier Brady decision, the court noted that funds were paid to the transportation system administered by the board of education, not directly to individual schools, and benefits flowed «toward the safety and welfare of elementary age school children and not into the accounts of non-public schools.»

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

Older elementary school age children can be told that the insurance company hires people whose job it is to make sure that the bad things they're paying for really happened, to protect everyone from other people who would want to take something they're not entitled to.

When mothers worked in paid employment, elementary - school aged children's school achievement was higher than that of children whose families received traditional welfare.