Sentences with phrase «specific subgroups of children»

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While other studies have focused on caregiving within the home or between specific groups, such as middle - aged parents and young children, most have not looked at caregiving by subgroups of people, or a range of caregiving scenarios both inside and outside the home — for example, babysitting a friend's children or taking a niece or nephew out on weekends.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for a national voucher program, including any special education vouchers for military children and / or specific subgroups of students.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

The answer is likely «not much,» and that's true across America, both at the micro-level of your specific child and at the macro-level of schools, districts, and historically under - served subgroups like English Language Learners, students with disabilities, students of color, and students from economically - disadvantaged homes.

The answer is likely «not much,» and that's true across America, both at the micro-level of your specific child and at the macro-level of schools, districts and historically under - served subgroups like English - language learners, students with disabilities, students of color, and students from economically - disadvantaged homes.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for voucher programs, including any special education vouchers for military children or specific subgroups of students.

However, in Healthy Families Alaska, program children had higher Bayley scores at age two than controls, with 58 percent of intervention children and 48 percent of controls scoring in the normal range.101 In the Nurse - Family Partnership evaluations, some effects were observed within each of the three evaluations, but most effects were concentrated within specific subgroups of families.

An emerging body of literature24, 25 shows that a subgroup of chronically aggressive children exhibit marked difficulty processing social cues that signal the need to inhibit aggressive impulses.26 These findings have been attributed to reduced responding in specific neural architecture associated with stress responses and HPA axis regulation.

Moreover, hyperactivity of the ANS in subgroups of girls, and perhaps also in boys, should receive specific attention, as hyperactivity of the ANS in a sample of DBD - diagnosed children proved predictive for better treatment outcome [59, 60].