Sentences with phrase «programs for thousands of children»

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A paper co-authored by University of Ottawa Professor Michael Wolfson, one of Canada's top researchers on income and equality issues, said there was much debate of Ottawa's new program this year allowing some income splitting for couples with children, but most people don't realize income splitting has long existed for thousands of professionals such as doctors and lawyers who have been able to funnel their incomes through private companies they create to hold their income.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

A leading local organization, the Rapids have participated in countless initiatives and causes, and annually raise tens of thousands of dollars for Kroenke Sports Charities, which supports underserved children and families in Colorado through educational and recreational programs, as well as appearances, donations, and service gifts.

Stanford's partnership with East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring has served thousands of children through its free after - school program for K - 12 students.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing — especially when it results in a stealthy government formula for raising lunch prices at the nation's schools that will cause hundreds of thousands of children — perhaps millions — to abandon the program.

After all, they were conscientiously following the highly detailed dictates of one of today's most popular child - care guides, a book that glowingly described itself in its own introduction as «an infant management program» that has «worked for thousands of parents and, when faithfully applied, will work wonderfully for you!»

Sharon also serves as the consulting instructor for Parent Trust for Washington Children «s childbirth education program serving thousands of families every year.

For over 100 years, the Police Athletic League (PAL) has sought to provide safe places to play and learn for thousands of children through PAL's Summer Playstreets Program — and its 2017 season in Manhattan has officially launchFor over 100 years, the Police Athletic League (PAL) has sought to provide safe places to play and learn for thousands of children through PAL's Summer Playstreets Program — and its 2017 season in Manhattan has officially launchfor thousands of children through PAL's Summer Playstreets Program — and its 2017 season in Manhattan has officially launched.

Practitioner for nine years and has helped thousands of children worldwide through her public education programs, conferences sessions, private consultations, her blog, web site and Facebook group.

Indiana's Choice Scholarship Program empowers thousands of families to choose the best K - 12 schools for their children — public, private or religious — just like state - funded college scholarship programs have done for decades.

And it means helping low - income families too, reinstating the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low - wage workers, expanding Medicaid, and reversing the decision to kick thousands of children off the child care subsidy program that allows parents to work or go back to school.

I am grateful to the thousands of software engineers whose work coding these various programs made possible for me to take stock of what a group of leaders around the world do as they work to create opportunities to educate all children.

For example, life - time earnings of some children increase by hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the economics benefits of these programs outweigh the costs by a factor of up to 16 (in some programs).

In fact, Office Depot offers special rebates to teachers, provides grants for teacher - determined projects on the order of the Donors Choose program, gives away thousands of backpacks every year to low - income children including students in Navajo Nation schools, and even supports Lady Gaga's anti-bullying efforts.

«The Louisiana Scholarship Program is transforming the lives of thousands of students across the state — allowing them to leave failing and underperforming schools and attend a school of their parents» choice,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Children.

«By dismissing the legal challenge to the scholarship program, Judge Reynolds affirmed that it is a valuable tool that can continue to change thousands of children's lives for the better, and our communities and our state along with them,» he said.

«School voucher programs are a lifeline for thousands of low - income families seeking a quality education for their children and schools should not be punished for opening their doors to these students,» said Alwood, Johnson's spokeswoman.

For more than a decade New Jersey's schools have served as a national model for providing high - quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low - income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3 - and 4 - year - olds by September 20For more than a decade New Jersey's schools have served as a national model for providing high - quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low - income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3 - and 4 - year - olds by September 20for providing high - quality early childhood education programs to thousands of low - income children, including an ambitious plan approved by the Legislature two years ago to reach even more 3 - and 4 - year - olds by September 2013.

This is great news for the tens of thousands of students who qualify for tax - credit scholarships — parents like Melissa Cogan, who used the program to cover homeschooling expenses for her two children, Hope and Hunter.

The resource, «Summer Learning Recruitment Guide,» is available online and in print and is based on the experiences of five large urban districts and their community partners that recruited thousands of children for voluntary summer learning programs.

The reality is Indiana's school choice programs offer thousands of Hoosier families an opportunity to find an education for their children that might better match their needs — and at lower cost than educating those children in public schools.

More important, we should not — can not — ignore the tens of thousands of families who elect to use and continue to use the Indiana school voucher program for the sake of their children's futures.

For those who do read e-books, Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited subscription program offers thousands of children's books for frFor those who do read e-books, Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited subscription program offers thousands of children's books for frfor free.

Mangan and Stephens receive 2016 Bechtel Fellowship David Shannon to open the 2016 ALSC National Institute Thousands to join free ALA Youth Media Awards webcast ALSC selects Meredith Steiner as 2016 Emerging Leader Esposito, Sexton, Shea and Wilson receive 2016 Penguin Young Readers Group Award ALSC offers ten Building STEAM with Día mini-grants ALSC now accepting applications for 2016 Bookapalooza Program New edition of Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries available ALSC enhances creativity programming in 79 libraries with Curiosity Creates Grants ALSC applauds American Academy of Pediatrics» screen time guidelines ALSC now accepting applications for 2016 ALSC / Candlewick Press «Light the Way» Grant Registration open for the 2016 ALSC National Institute More Great Websites for Kids selected by ALSC ALSC now accepting applications for 2016 Baker & Taylor Summer Reading Grant ALSC now accepting applications for 2016 Maureen Hayes Author / Illustrator Award $ 7,500 Curiosity Creates Grant from ALSC Babies Need Words Every Day to bridge the word gap ALSC now accepting applications for 2016 Penguin Young Readers Group Award ALSC now accepting applications for 2016 Bechtel Fellowship Santa Barbara Public Library System chosen as site for 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture ALSC names eight more Great Websites for Kids ALSC announces winners of 2015 Bound to Stay Bound Books, Melcher Scholarships Applications being sought for 2016 ALSC Bill Morris Seminar Orsburn elected 2016 - 2017 ALSC president ALSC Releases white paper: «Media Mentorship in Libraries Serving Youth» Libraries celebrate diversity, promote multicultural literacy ALSC releases 2015 Summer Reading list ALSC Invites E-book Submissions for the 2016 Mildred L. Batchelder Award The 2015 guide to the Newbery and Caldecott awards ALSC announces 2015 preconference speakers ALSC invites applications for 2016 Arbuthnot Lecture with Pat Mora ALSC names 2015 Notable Children's Books ALSC announces 2015 Notable Children's Recordings ALSC announces 2015 Notable Children's Videos Arizona, California libraries win 2015 Bookapalooza Program Melissa Sweet to keynote 2015 ALSC Charlemae Rollins President's Program Registration open for Spring 2015 ALSC online courses Tickets available for 2015 Arbuthnot Lecture featuring Brian Selznick ALSC to host Online Day of Diversity Forum ALSC Launches Advocacy Button Campaign Putnam County Library receives 2015 Light the Way grant American Library Association announces 2015 youth media award winners Live Oak Media wins 2015 Odyssey Award for «H.O.R.S.E..

The Humane Education program has reached thousands of school children with presentations on animals, their proper care and treatment, and respect for all living things.

For families in Thousand Oaks who are in need of support services and programs, Interface Children and Family Services provides the help they need to sort through family - based issues.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a Royal Commission into the torture and abuse of children in Northern Territory youth detention centres following horrific footage and revelations on ABC TV's Four Corners program.

In addition to improving access to high - quality programs for children, the proposal would save families thousands of dollars per year and facilitate child care arrangements that support financial security for working families.

The Sunshine Kids, headquartered in Houston, TX, provides a variety of programs and events, free of charge, for kids who are receiving cancer treatments in hospitals across North America.It has sent thousands of children with cancer to vacation and recreation areas throughout the country.