Sentences with phrase «school kids across the country»

So for 50 million school kids across the country, the provision allowing parents to save for public or private or religious or parochial schools, that's in there.

High school kids across the country are getting the chance to make potentially thousands of new Facebook (s FB) friends.

Not exact matches

After careful consideration, Brad has decided to continue to make Kid President videos, write a book, and work to connect with schools across the country to empower students, teachers and families.

You think they want bunch of posts about how the commander in chimp let four U.S. Ambassadors die, or how he tanked our economy, or how he's giving a free pass to n1gger kids to misbehave in schools across the country?

CAULIPOWER proudly supports OneSun, a program creating edible gardens at underserved schools across the country to educate kids on where their food comes from, combat obesity and inspire a new generation to love and harvest vegetables.

This year, there are more than 4,200 schools in almost 600 school districts across the country where kids will be introduced to the game of golf along with character education.

If you really want to improve school meals, here are 10 effective ways to support the hard - working school nutrition HEROES who are reshaping local and national food systems, teaching kids about where food comes from, and feeding millions of children their best meals of the day — every day — in thousands of schools across our country.

I do know that if fuel costs go up to Europian highs it will cost too much to feed the kids school lunch the way they do now, because they wont be able to ship stuff across the country like they do now.

Thanks to the commitment of teachers, principals, parents and community leaders, along with No Kid Hungry's national and local partners across the country, 3 million more kids are eating school breakfast since 2010.

Overall, this has been great news for kids eating school lunch across the country.

«While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve.

Our support will enable FoodCorps to achieve its goals of providing hands - on nutrition education in schools, offering kids opportunities to try new, wholesome foods in the cafeteria, and creating a culture of healthy eating in nearly 650 schools across the country.

Even more important than the obvious accomplishment of bicycling across the country, I hope I can say that my visit was the precursor to constructive conversations about how schools can enact tangible change towards healthier kids.

As has been chronicled by nutrition, hunger, medical, national security, education and community organizations across the country, the bill is harmful to children's health, heaps administrative costs on schools, and plans to bury parents in more bureaucratic red tape, all while subsidizing well - off children at the expense of our less fortunate kids who need help.

Too many kids in my school district and across the country only drink milk at school.

All week long, schools across the country will take this opportunity to thank the hardworking school nutrition professionals who work hard to make their kids, their schools, and their communities healthier.

«I have lots of confidence in school chefs across the country who are working very hard to try to put delicious foods on the plates of kids.»

Schools across the country are celebrating the fifth annual Every Kid Healthy Week (EKHW) this week.

For every person who posts using «#realschoolfood» in October, our campaign sponsors, Made in Nature, Mamma Chia, Guckenheimer, Elevations and Quinn Snacks will donate $ 1 towards our healthy school food programming for kids across the country.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan also wants 200 new book clubs set up in schools across the country to encourage more kids to develop a love of reading.

Whether they can help shift eating norms across the country remains to be seen, but regardless millions of American kids will likely now get their healthiest meals of the day on a tray in their school cafeterias.

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

When telling adults that I was getting on a plane with middle schoolers to take them across the country to the mountains of southern Arizona, many asked the same worried questions: «How many kids are going?

Action for Healthy Kids is comprised of more than 50 education, health, fitness, and nutrition organizations forming our Partner Steering Committee that provides guidance to the 6,000 volunteers working across the country to make improvements in schools.

Organizations such as the Education Trust have identified hundreds of schools across the country where disadvantaged kids routinely buck the trend of underperformance.

Since then, we've morphed, expanded, shrunk, made mistakes, learned, and finally grown into a coed, nonprofit after - school program that serves 500 kids in and around Charleston, South Carolina, and we have plans to expand across the country.

The goal for Cristo Rey (part of the Cristo Rey Network which runs about 12 similar schools across the country) is to get kids off the streets and into college, as well as to have them start thinking about a professional career.

Sherpa Kids Australia is currently in 25 schools across the country, providing Out of School Care each month for more than 5,000 children from 3,000 families.

Sherpa Kids Australia is in over 30 schools across the country, which are owned and operated by more than a dozen franchisees.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

Reaching thousands of pupils across the country, Active Kids Do Better will help teachers to create active school environments and children to lead healthier lives.

Today, 43 states have charter - school laws, and approximately 3 million kids attend almost 7,000 charters across the country.

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

These kinds of quotas are being pushed across the country and charter schools are forced to spend too much of their time fighting off politically - motivated, turf - protecting policy hits that do nothing to help educate kids.

In the case of school absenteeism, many school systems across the country were lulled for a long time into a false sense of accomplishment by data suggesting that almost all the kids in their schools were in their seats.

Schools like those in Beverly City make me excited about the future for kids in New Jersey and across our country.

We think these schools, and likely hundreds of others, will be important to follow since there remains so little true innovation in high schools across the country where most kids are still just herded from one 50 - minute lecture block to the next for four years.

As a result of Minnich's leadership, state education agencies are now better positioned to support their schools and districts, to elevate teacher voice in decision - making and to offer career pathways to every kid across the country.

A recent study examined how much of the achievement gap in math between rich and poor 15 - year - old students can be attributed to what material the kids are learning in school, and it found, across 33 countries, that schools are teaching rich kids vastly different math content than poor kids.

Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books, and you can too!

«But however they talk about it, the fact remains that parents want strong public schools for their kids and for all kids, and I consider it to be my job to help cut through rhetoric that is intended to confuse, and make sure parents understand the true impacts of policies on students across the country.»

Those of us who conceived Parent Trigger three years ago, and have been working on its implementation in California and across the country since, applaud those legislators in Lansing who are joining parents in creating better schools for their kids.

In districts across the country — even ones in cities with some form of limited movement for kids — poor parents, typically those who are black or Hispanic, are forced to enroll their kids in underperforming schools when there are good ones nearby, sometimes just blocks away.

For educators in schools across the country, the question today is: Do I have the tools, conditions and support I need to help all kids thrive?

But I think it was inspiring to teachers across the country, and it showed the teachers, at least in one city, were not going to lie down and allow their kids to be in an overcrowded classroom with no arts, no library, and a lot of things they didn't have that Rahm Emmanuel's kids expect as part of their schooling.

Of course, we'd be able to tell a lot more about whether the improvements are real if we were comparing the scores of kids in New Orleans schools with other scores from across the country by having them take the same tests everyone else does.

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

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New York, NY (April 25, 2016)-- Across the country, there are schools serving hard - to - reach kids that knock it out of the park academically, performing far above average, and boasting vibrant cultures and strong family engagement.

As kids across the country return to school, the results of a new poll suggest it's adults who need a lesson on the Common Core State Standards, a set of end - of - grade expectations in math and English adopted by 44 states and the District of Columbia.