Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren who»

From the schoolchildren who donated their pennies to large corporations who gave millions, Americans from across the country and from all walks of life opened their pocketbooks and hearts.

A Bite 2 Go is a new program that provides weekend food supplies to schoolchildren who depend on free and reduced school meals as their main source of nutrition.

Of 240 schoolchildren who were assessed at 5 — 12 years of age, the parents of 218 children (91 %) and the teachers of 224 children (93 %) completed questionnaires.

25 of 33 preschool children and 81 of 107 schoolchildren who were identified as having a psychiatric disorder based on parent reports still had disorder 4 years later.

Schoolchildren who may have once or twice acted out in such a way as to prompt a psychometric evaluation could find themselves labeled, setting them on an inescapable track through the education system.

Their stories are inspiring — and hopefully motivational, especially for the balcony full of schoolchildren who attend the awards ceremony each year in San Francisco's Opera House.

This dual - function cardboard desk and backpack could help prevent problems of poor posture and eyesight for rural Indian schoolchildren who do not have a desk.

For the following persons Children / young people aged 16 or under, students of art schools, students of art history, school classes from Cantons BS / BL, schoolchildren who are researching projects or preparing course content, anyone accompanying a person with disabilities, teachers for the preparation of classes, journalists (with press card), staff of Basel Museums.

The superintendent of the Burlington Railroad added additional train routes to accommodate groups of schoolchildren who poured in from all over Nebraska to view the work.

Nearly 20 years after voting to restrict bilingual education in a state with more than 1 million schoolchildren who don't speak English as their first language, California voters appear poised to reverse that ban.

But there is no reason to turn our backs on parents who face agonizing decisions on how to provide comfort to their schoolchildren who get caught up in vicious and life - altering attacks.

With the prior agreement with Hartford Public Schools, the City and Connecticut set to expire in the 2014 - 15 school year, the ACLU has returned back to the negotiation table with the intention of drafting a balanced and innovative long - term agreement that further prioritizes integration and reaches the 59 percent of Hartford schoolchildren who remain in racially isolated schools.

After citing the evidence of large gaps in achievement by low - income students and English learners, Liu wrote, «The schoolchildren who brought these actions (Robles - Wong and Campaign for Quality Education) do not claim they are entitled to a world - class education.

But you can't repay the schoolchildren who've seen five years of their educations disrupted by ever larger class sizes, fewer instructional days, and administrations struggling with cash flow management.

An intimate crowd gathered to hear Trump's speech included about a dozen schoolchildren who were predominantly African American.

«The schoolchildren who brought these actions do not claim they are entitled to a world - class education.

Here we examine U.S. schoolchildren who all entered kindergarten at risk for severe reading difficulties.

Schoolchildren who washed their hands twice a day reduced their risk of developing the flu by 50 %, according to a 2011 study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Mattson believes it is flawed, pointing out that the studies supporting this idea were based on schoolchildren who usually ate breakfast; a decline in their academic performance might simply be due to the ill effects that occur when people begin fasting.

That's when Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, began studying schoolchildren who thrived despite severe hardship, such as neighborhood violence or parents with mental illness.

State Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing) joined Queens students last weekend in Flushing to protest cuts in the MTA's 2010 budget that will force schoolchildren who receive free MetroCards to start paying fares.

He toyed with his Blackberry throughout the session, for instance, and paid about as much attention as the army of schoolchildren who were ushered into the public gallery half way through.

«There would be a number of schoolchildren who would want to go to this nature sanctuary,» he said.

The program was developed specifically for suburban schoolchildren who typically carry their lunches to school rather than eat hot lunches in cafeterias.

Not exact matches

DENVER — Students from the metro Denver area held protests and walkouts Wednesday in solidarity with schoolchildren from across the country who are demanding stronger gun regulations and protections in schools.

Students from the metro Denver area held protests and walkouts Wednesday in solidarity with schoolchildren from across the country who are demanding stronger gun regulations and protections in schools.

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

As a result, schoolchildren in Turin will soon be learning how to eat with people and planet in mind, and will be growing up into adults who can spread the word still further.

Sen. Donne Trotter (D - Chicago) touted the ban as a way to provide healthy food to schoolchildren, particularly those who may be receiving their only hot meals at school.

Service organizations, schoolchildren, grandparents, retired people, veterans - anyone who has the time and heart to write - please participate in this patriotic morale - boosting campaign.

Our Healthy School Food venture brings award - winning, farm - to - school menus to low - income schoolchildren across DC, all while creating living - wage careers for unemployed adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.

A donation to the Annual Fund is an investment in your colleagues, and in the future of your profession; Foundation funds help educate and empower the men and women who feed America's schoolchildren every day.

I also wanted to hear directly from workers who have the thankless job of serving millions of schoolchildren every day.

AQE Executive Director Billy Easton heaped praise on Silver, calling him «one person who's not only been listening for as long as you can imagine to the needs of schoolchildren across the state, but has been reflecting that voice back and speaking it out in the halls of decision - making» and the «originator of pre-kindergarten.»

Schoolchildren from primary four to primary six are not among those who are enjoying the free meal.

New York City schoolchildren deserve a mayor who believes their needs are worth focusing on.

The bill required a supermajority and only 12 Republicans voted for the act, which proposed giving as much as $ 7.4 billion to people who were exposed to Ground Zero toxins, including first responders, firefighters, rescue workers, police officers, EMTs, cleanup workers, area residents and schoolchildren.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

New York's schoolchildren deserve a chancellor who makes them, not adult «stakeholders,» his priority.

You could even take a note from 1963 schoolchildren, who put big boxes over their heads to see a projection of an eclipse.

One writer who attended a performance in Northampton that was primarily for schoolchildren appreciated it more — thanks no doubt to a talk Clayton gave in advance.

Perhaps because I was raised on Mr. Wizard (into whose home random schoolchildren would wander and ask how a Pac - Man joystick worked), I appreciate anyone who shows the world how cool science can be.

A prospective study examined data on more than 300,000 Danish schoolchildren — born between 1930 - 1989 who were examined at ages 7, 10 and 13.

As an environmental activist in South Florida who gives speeches on sustainability to schoolchildren, he believes Curbelo's comments could be a watershed moment.

Analyzing survey data from almost 6,000 UK secondary schoolchildren (aged 11 - 16) from communities with traditionally low science engagement, the authors investigated who participates in science learning outside of the classroom.

For decades, schoolchildren have half - jokingly defined themselves by who or what they stuck on their schoolbooks and notepads.

Though the aforementioned schoolchildren have heard of John Brown and know that his body lies a-mouldering in the grave, probably none had heard of Newton Knight, a real character on whom this film is based, and whose heroism as a farmer who became a deserter (for good reasons) emerges when he becomes a freedom fighter.

Both Kheda Gazieva as Aminat, Ramasan's still beautiful but exhausted - looking mother and Aslan Elbiev as the ambivalent, mysterious Isa, who was wounded in the conflict (the actor really is missing some fingers which gives the character's dexterity as a handyman an added prurient fascination) are excellent, and the supporting cast of local neighbors, Austrian police officers, social workers and schoolchildren are perfectly cast too.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in our daily lives — search engines, social media, intelligent personal assistants such as Siri — and today's schoolchildren are a generation who will grow up with these AI technologies.

All elementary schoolchildren receive free lunch, she says, but girls who have an 80 percent or better attendance rate in a given month get an incentive: an extra sugar ration, a commodity in the camp.