Sentences with phrase «school children live»

Today more than half of all public school children live below the poverty line.

Today, half the world's out - of - school children live in sub-Saharan Africa, with the gap largest for children and adolescents from the poorest households.

A lack of focus on the marginalized has left the poorest five times less likely to complete a full cycle of primary education than the richest and over a third of out of school children living in conflict affected zones.

«Conflict remains a steep barrier, with a high and growing proportion of out - of - school children living in conflict zones.

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«I believed I've extended a good service to the innocent people of North Korea who are deprived from seeing their parents who live miles away or can't call their children when they come back from school,» he said.

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.

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.

Each of these suggestions will not only create better leaders, but can help children perform better in school and develop better personal relationships throughout life.

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.

Along with expected benefits like health and life insurance, employees enjoy three free meals every day during their shift and no - interest student loans for employees, their spouses and children — which the company forgives if the student does well in school.

«No child's life should be put at risk because a parent, school, or healthcare provider can not afford a simple, life - saving device because of a drug - maker's anti-competitive practices,» said Schneiderman in a statement.

«Any child who leaves school by 2010 without real IT skills will be setting themselves up for a life in poverty,» he said.

Not only does the ability to capture and recall knowledge make it more likely that a child will excel at school, but having rich, vivid memories of everyday experiences also help children make sense of the world and their place in it, enriching their experiences and building essential life skills.

Elli Davis, a sales representative with Royal LePage in Toronto, says many foreigners buy condos for their children to live in while they attend school in Canada.

Few are more at risk in that catastrophe than the children of eastern Aleppo; prevented from going to school or even hospital, as both are deemed too unsafe, they live under constant fear of attack.

Because d.light estimates that each light improves the lives of five people, the company claims to have «empowered» more than 40.9 million lives, including more than 10 million school - age children.

With access to the food these benefits provide, experts say these children are more likely to do better in school, have better health and do better economically as adults than children that live in chronically food - insecure households.

Post-1980s, the state relied on hukou, or housing registration, to keep tabs on where people lived, worked, and sent their children to school.

We're tired of living under the omnipresent threat of gun violence anywhere anytime, at our children's schools, at the mall, just driving around town, enough is enough!

The work life balance enables me to take my children to school at 8 a.m. and pick them up again at 2:30 p.m., all while I am be able to share the rest of the day with them.

The editorial neglects to mention that Amazon wants enormous «tax incentives» so the deal would probably cost Baltimore more than it would benefit us — and by «Baltimore,» I mean those of us who live here, who use public services, who send our children to public schools.

Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.

On Sunday, their newly created nonprofit Americans4Class — Children's Lives and School Safety, is scheduled to launch its website, she said.

Of course, if you work in an area with an open enrollment, perhaps the parents would be happy to drive their children to the better schools and live a little farther away in order to have that extra room.

Play is disappearing at home, at school and in communities, particularly for the 14 million children living in poverty.

The first day of school, starting high school, graduation — these events are important milestones in not only your life but also the lives of your children and grandchildren.

In addition to improving their quality of life by achieving work - life balance, 93 percent of working parents say that having a flexible work arrangement would increase their volunteerism at their children's schools or organized activities.

PNC is committed to engaging with nonprofits to enhance educational opportunities, specifically through Grow Up Great, a $ 350 million initiative created in 2004 to help prepare children from birth to age 5 for success in school and life.

The ultimate dream of every Nigerian parent is to see their children pass through school, earn a degree, get a high paying job and live happily ever after.

Wealthy families start buying their children's way into elite colleges almost from the moment they are born: music lessons, sports equipment, foreign travel («enrichment» programs, to use the all - too - perfect term)-- most important, of course, private - school tuition or the costs of living in a place with top - tier public schools.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

Living in rich enclaves and sending their children to tony private schools, Yale Law School graduates are relatively unaffected.

Christians have voted to put their God's name on everyones money, add «Under God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

«They took a part of my soul, and it can never be replaced,» says this man of peace and nonviolence whose life has been devoted to the children and staff of a school for emotionally disturbed youngsters.

Seventy - two percent of all families with incomes over $ 50,000 have their children in private schools, public schools they specifically chose (e.g., magnet schools) or schools selected through a conscious choice about where to live.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

Chief education officer for the Church of England, Rev Jan Ainsworth, responds: «It also happens the other way — there are some church secondary schools in leafy suburbia, which through the church criteria have enabled children who live in deprived areas to go to those schools.

In this world, so full of fictitious forms of freedom that destroy the environment and the human being, let us learn true freedom by the power of the Holy Spirit; to build the school of freedom; to show others by our lives that we are free and how beautiful it is to be truly free with the true freedom of God's children.»

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

The very pluralism and agnosticism of the society they live in makes modern children keen and earnest questioners when they pass into the middle and senior schools.

Such a ministry is geared toward early help with minor emotional disturbances, crisis situations, parent - child relationships, and critical life experiences such as birth, death, illness, marriage, school, and work adjustment.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

But when the fears consistently interfere with normal activities — sleeping, going to school, doing the things required by the child's particular life stage, accomplishing the things he wants to accomplish — then help should be sought.

It isn't until I sit down and do my work again that I return to the rest of my life — homemaking, raising children, community, church, school, marriage, all of it — as my most true self.

She lives in a paralyzing state of «constant and fear» and it's forcing her to keep her children indoors and out of school.

Starting in 2000, parents are not required to send children to boarding schools, and today 75 percent of MKS live with their parents year - round.

This is something we teach as a life lesson to children in Sunday school.