Sentences with phrase «serving millions of children»

Low - cost programs serving millions of children and their families have provided quality care for years, and have, in their own way, contributed to the lives of congregations.

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Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

These resources equip School Nutrition Association Members to efficiently serve nutritious meals to millions of school children each year.

The lunch program in 2007 served more than 5 billion meals to more than 30 million children at a cost of $ 10.9 billion, a figure that includes breakfast and milk costs.

In the 2016 — 2017 school year, the third year of its nationwide availability, community eligibility allowed 20,751 schools and 3,538 school districts to serve free breakfast and lunch to more than 9.7 million children.

More than 31 million children in the United States participate in the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, each school day, 1 and a large number of students consume up to half of their daily calories at school.2 Yet, many schools were built decades ago and face challenges as they strive to serve foods that meet children's dietary needs.

By the 2000s, the program had grown to serve more than 32 million children, and breakfast and supper were added in areas where most of the children were low - income.

But one thing has remained unchanged - dominant, control - based parenting techniques of the past have served neither parent nor child and have, in fact, caused much damage to the emotional well - being of millions of families.

The standards also increased the portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and required students to select at least 1 serving of fruits and / or vegetables.4 Because the National School Lunch Program reaches more than 31 million students each day in 99 % of US public schools and 83 % of private schools, the new standards have the potential to significantly and consistently affect the nutritional health of children.5

The number of children and parents served by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program has increased nearly five-fold since 2012, and the number of home visits provided has increased more than five-fold, with more than 3.3 million home visits provided over the past five years.

I Camp Kesem to serve a portion of the millions of children who are affected by their parents cancer each year, and to provide these children with a loving, supportive community of campers who are experiencing the same feelings at home.

We serve children who have lost a parent to cancer, have a parent undergoing cancer treatment, or whose parent is a cancer survivor — an estimated population of over 5 million children in the United States.

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

Each day, more than 32 million children across the United States are served school lunch and more than 12 million children are served school breakfast through the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.

The school feeding programme which he said has increased enrollment by 30 percent, currently serves over 7 million school children, across 22 of Nigeria's 36 states, and continues to grow as more States sign up for it.

«As the son of blue collar workers and a lifetime educator, it is an honor to serve New York City's 1.1 million children as Schools Chancellor,» said Carranza.

The IDC would enhance the Facilitated Enrollment Child Care subsidy by increasing funding to $ 25 million and expanding eligibility to those within 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Line, which would increase access to a number of families, and serve approximately 2,571 additional children.

«I look forward to working with all of Hampshire County Council's Members in serving the county's 1.3 million residents over this next Administration period — delivering important public services; from education, roads, highways and social care for vulnerable children and adults, to access to the countryside and libraries.»

In a written explanation released this morning, Cuomo said the West Seneca site is in need of costly repairs and that the state already spent $ 5.1 million on a future psychiatric facility site in Buffalo that will serve both adults and children in separate facilities.

Middle School After - School Programs: The executive budget includes an unprecedented investment of $ 145 million in FY 2015 to fund 34,000 new seats to serve nearly 100,000 middle school children.

More Middle School After - School Programs: The executive budget includes an unprecedented investment of $ 145 million in FY 2015 to fund 34,000 new seats to serve nearly 100,000 middle school children.

It currently serves more than one million children below the poverty line, just under half of all eligible children, and it receives almost $ 8 billion in annual funding.

Together these programs serve more than a hundred million of the nation's most vulnerable people — low - income children and adults, people with disabilities, and older persons.

Unlike the experience of past immigrants, for today's millions of Hispanic children the public schools no longer serve as the mechanism for their assimilation as Americans.

Since 1993, he has headed the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education, with primary statutory responsibility for implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which serves 6 million children with disabilities across the United States.

The U.S. Department of Education released proposed regulations June 10 for the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that seek to give educators further guidance on how to serve the nation's 6.7 million children in special education.

«What concerns me about this downturn is that everyone is feeling the pain,» says Richard Bell, a member of the AIE advisory board and the executive director of Young Audiences, the nation's largest arts education program, serving 7 million children in 700 programs across 26 states.

«The School Breakfast Scorecard: 2000,» an annual report released by the Washington - based Food Research and Action Center, found that more than 71,000 schools offered the subsidized breakfasts and that the average number of poor children served daily rose to 6.3 million in 2000, almost double the 3.4 million served in 1990.

With a budget of $ 386.5 million this school year, it serves 635,000 children, ages 3 to 21, providing educational...

Community health centers that serve millions of poor children are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund cochildren are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund coChildren's Defense Fund concludes.

And, as the cofounder of Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than 3 million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products, he knows a little something about effective leadership, as well.

A House subcommittee approved a Republican welfare - reform bill last week that would give states most of the responsibility for administering aid programs serving millions of poor children and their families.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

Mexico's national education system currently serves 35 million children and President Enrique Peña Nieto's government has allocated a record investment of over $ 47 billion for education in 2014.

When it reached its zenith in the mid-1960s, the nation's Catholic K - 12 education system maintained more than 13,000 schools serving more than 5 million children — approximately 12 % of all American students.

In 2014, 31 of the largest school districts in America, serving nearly 8 million students, had provisions for parents to choose the public school their child would attend.

An estimated 173 million children, of whom 73 million are under the age of 10, work in hazardous situations or conditions, and 250,000 are serving as soldiers.

At their peak in 1964, Catholic schools enrolled approximately 5 million students and served about 52 percent of Catholic school - age children.

They are arguably more popular than ever, with a record 5,000 operating in 39 states and the District of Columbia, serving more than 1.5 million children.

Some of the biggest axes would fall on a $ 2.3 billion program for teacher training and class - size reduction, and a $ 1.2 billion after - school program, which serves nearly 2 million children, many of them poor.

Gone, for example, would be $ 1.2 billion for after school programs that serve 1.6 million children, most of whom are poor, and $ 2.1 billion for teacher training and class - size reduction.

According to a 2014 report by the Afterschool Alliance, after - school programs serve over 10 million children regularly - especially low - income students of color - and are growing each year; and summer learning programs draw one - third of American families.

These efforts are largely unstudied, however, and they are also small when set against the magnitude of the need, serving thousands of children at a time when close to 11 million children and teens in the U.S. live below 100 percent of the poverty level.

As the representative of principals who serve 33 million children in grades pre-kindergarten through 8, the Association seeks to:

Did you know that Forbes.com reports that the Department of Education has awarded almost $ 250 million in an effort to ensure that development of early education programs, preschool, continue to best serve children from low - and moderate - income families?

If recent growth trends continue, the sector could double in size by 2025, serving 4.6 million children and representing nearly 10 % of all public school students.

Most states also spend millions of dollars per year on preschool programs that are as yet too small to serve all the children who qualify for them.

The ABC program consists of two programs: the original ABC program, established in 1990 serves children from birth to age 5 with a variety of risk factors with annual funding of about $ 10 million.

«As the son of blue collar workers and a lifetime educator, it is an honor to serve New York City's 1.1 million children as Schools Chancellor,» Carranza says.

According to the report, A Matter of Equity: Preschool in America, of the approximately 4 million 4 - year olds in the United States, about 60 percent — or nearly 2.5 million - are not enrolled in publicly funded preschool programs, including state preschool programs, Head Start and programs serving children with disabilities.