Sentences with phrase «relatively small number of children»

Shavar Jeffries, the president of Democrats for Education Reform, said there might be too much focus on school choice even in this environment, given the relatively small number of children choice programs serve.

Not that there are many complaints from pediatricians or parents of the relatively small number of children who develop uncommon cancers best treated with proton therapy.

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«Also I'm associated in the media and public with a number of people who have been accused, and in some cases pleaded guilty, to child abuse in a relatively small school within the same time.»

Publicity about latchkey kids has been plentiful in recent years, but the number of young children who must care for themselves after school because their parents work is relatively small, according to American Demographics magazine.

Youth, parents and coaches may have little or no awareness of the large number of calories contained in snacks and beverages commonly offered in youth sport settings or the relatively small number of calories children expend during sport.

The authors caution that their study was conducted in a country with strong social welfare supports and that while the sample overall was large, the number of children with many symptoms of ADHD was relatively small.

Among the challenges that set education apart from most sectors is the presence of a relatively small number of employees compared with a large number of non-employees, most of whom are children.

The movie Waiting for Superman chronicles the role of chance in determining the fate of a relatively small number of families trying to enroll their children in oversubscribed charter schools.

In the past, the numbers of children has been relatively small and has not been a big issue.

Some of the decisions are relatively small, such as which parent the children will be with on Labor Day in even numbered years versus odd numbered years.

The number of adults and children in the home showed statistically significant effects on maternal depression screens, although the magnitude of these effects was relatively small.

[103] Even across these jurisdictions, however, the numbers of child deaths are relatively small and five years» data (i.e. data that includes years in which the COAG Closing the Gap reform agenda was operating — effectively from July 2009 on) are not enough to reliably show change.