Sentences with phrase «schoolchildren with»

But when he decided to become executive director of the Center for FaithJustice, an organization that provides schoolchildren with community service opportunities and education about poverty, he turned to his team to fill the gaps in their business.

It may be that when we read blogs we're like schoolchildren with a substitute teacher: we want what we're used to or we don't feel we have to pay attention.

California has broken its promise to millions of schoolchildren with an education system that is failing to teach students to read or write, advocates charged Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking a statewide right of «access to literacy.»

«It is crucial for a democratic society to provide all of its schoolchildren with fair access to an unsegregated education,» Ellen A. Peters, then chief justice of the state's High Court, wrote in the majority opinion in July 1996.

That's why Rep. Keith Ripp, R - Lodi, has introduced two bills to the Wisconsin Assembly aimed at helping schoolchildren with dyslexia.

«This year's CUBE Award winners have demonstrated strong leadership and measureable success in providing urban schoolchildren with the finest public education possible,» said NSBA Executive Director and CEO Thomas J. Gentzel.

For the people who really know about the issue — and can prove the value of providing all schoolchildren with good food — the proposal to make it free for them is a no - brainer.

Urban schoolchildren with asthma are less active than their peers, a tendency that persists regardless of the severity of their condition or whether medications are used to control the symptoms, an analysis has found.

Even better, it's «really terribly gross,» says Ruth Musgrave, director of WhaleTimes.org, a Web site that connects schoolchildren with deep - sea researchers and provides kid - friendly fact sheets on marine science.

«Studies have found that schoolchildren with stomach worms perform worse on standardized tests that their parasite - free peers,» said Binning.

So when I heard Shane McCracken give a presentation about «I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here,» an outreach program to connect schoolchildren with scientists, I asked to participate.

Tories and Liberal Democrats also had priorities in common which could provide «a strong basis for a strong government», said Mr Cameron, citing the scrapping of ID cards, enhanced funding of disadvantaged schoolchildren with a «pupil premium», support for low carbon industries and avoiding the National Insurance rise.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 04: U.S. first lady Michelle Obama jokes with schoolchildren with White House chef Sam Kass (L) after planting the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn of the White House April 4, 2013 in Washington, DC.

In both America and France recent federal changes in the school lunch program looks at a similar goal: provide schoolchildren with nutritious meals that they like to eat.

Old Sturbridge Village is committed to developing and offering quality programs for schoolchildren with a specific focus on youth from disadvantaged circumstances.

This week, stay tuned for breakfast centered interviews and special features highlighting the school and community's commitment to providing schoolchildren with a healthy, well - balanced meal that prepares them for a productive school day.

It's being used to help soldiers deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, to assist schoolchildren with attention difficulties and to bring stress relief from the hospital bed to the boardroom to the bedroom.

Not exact matches

In her book The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, Elaine N. Aron cites a study where researchers compared 480 schoolchildren in Shanghai with 296 schoolchildren in Canada to see what traits made kids most popular.

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.

Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

After 20 schoolchildren and six adults were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, the national debate over gun control has resumed with a fervor.

Leon Gersten (at the far left end of the third row back) with other schoolchildren in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

In 1586, when the theologians gathered for the meeting at Wittenberg, having had to come from Eisenach and Torgau because Luther was not well enough to go there, he lectured them like schoolchildren, himself almost intolerably overcome with irritation.

He had the fun of going round with a group of other schoolchildren singing from house to house — the traditional way of earning something to help defray living costs.

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.

There are several curriculum - linked activities for schoolchildren to get their teeth into, including getting children to create a chart of meat - free food according to the alphabet in order to help them with their literacy, learning about meat - free diets around the world for geography, and designing a four - week MFM diet for design and technology.

Providing schoolchildren in South Africa with meals packed in multilayer pouches designed to provide optimum nutrition at the start of the school day while minimising food waste.

Backpack Program, which sends fresh produce, healthy snacks and nutritious foods home with food - insecure public schoolchildren (kids whose main meals are eaten only when they're at school).

With the IAAF World Indoor Championships returning to her home city of Birmingham from March 1 - 4, the Olympic 400m bronze medallist marked the 100 days to go milestone by helping to launch a ticket campaign offering 100 local schoolchildren the chance to attend the Championships for free.

England trained in Kielce for the first time since arriving on Monday, with 300 local schoolchildren watching an open session on Tuesday.

Deci and Ryan and others have replicated this finding in studies with schoolchildren.

From the outset, they had two purposes: to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by the government as a result of price - support agreement with farmers, and to help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low - income schoolchildren.»

Four years later, the breakfast program had grown to serve 199 public elementary schools, and Esaian urged the school board to take it districtwide, crediting the program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

The extent of my experience with getting food allergy legislation introduced pertains to guidelines for Colorado food allergic schoolchildren.

The mission of the Partners is to increase breakfast consumption among schoolchildren and spark the academic and nutritional gains associated with the morning meal through the implementation of Breakfast in the Classroom programs.

A continuation of our partnership with DC Public Schools that began in 2010, DCCK will serve nearly 1,000 more low - income students, providing healthy, scratch - cooked meals to schoolchildren at 12 District schools in Ward 7.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches may be a lunchtime mainstay for many schoolchildren — along with other cafeteria fare of questionable nutrition and taste.

Each morning, for example, groups of schoolchildren get in free, part of an agreement with the Chicago Park District, which, in turn, provides the Art Institute free rent and a modest operating subsidy.

In a presentation to the school board in January 2011, CPS officials credited the breakfast program with improving the «intellectual, emotional, social and physical development» of schoolchildren from low - income families.

«Successful meal programs have made continuous innovation and collaboration with students their guiding principles, and they've worked to improve not just cafeteria menus but what schoolchildren are taught about food, with help from principals, teachers, and parents.»

In a country with widespread poverty, they've come up with a scheme so that not only is the meal provided free to 47 million schoolchildren, it's also fresh and delicious.

Her photographs of that food and her accompanying blog, Fed Up with Lunch, provided an eye - opening expose of the kinds of meals served to millions of American schoolchildren in lunch rooms around the country: mysterious, shrink - wrapped entrees, fried chicken patties, the ubiquitous square pizza and highly processed PBJ «sandwiches» that crumbled to the touch.

Visitors can talk with volunteers about activities such as giving tours to schoolchildren and other visitors; making floral arrangements and gardening; touring new exhibits; learning the opportunities for dressing up in costume to demonstrate 19th Century exhibits; or plying a hobby such as blacksmithing, printing or stone carving.

And while politicians curry favor with lobbyists, schoolchildren will pay the ultimate price, with their health.

Ghana marks its 59th birthday today with a colourful national parade of schoolchildren and contingents of security personnel at the Independence Square in Accra to be addressed by President John Dramani Mahama.

In 2014, Governor Cuomo signed legislation to provide an additional $ 435 million to the Rochester Schools Modernization Program, a multi-phase capital initiative to provide the Rochester City School District with greater capability to meet the educational needs of its schoolchildren.

Simons said Ceretto's main role will be working with schoolchildren.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.