Sentences with phrase «third of the children needing»

According to the letter they sent to the White House, «mayors in eighty - six cities reported that only one - third of the children needing after - school care were receiving it.»

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Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.
This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.
The Annual Report by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills 2016/17 found that a third of independent Christian schools are inadequate or need improvement.
When one adds up the millions murdered by the communists, one also needs to count the Native Americans, black slaves and Third World children who have died because of Western policies.
That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»
Between 12 and 24 months, it can supply one third of your child's energy needs.6 Human milk is a nourishing food for as long as your child drinks it.
With one - third of all children in the United States suffering from some kind of serious health condition that requires life - long medication (diabetes, asthma, allergies, auto - immune disease) or lifestyle modifications (severe nut allergies, learning disorders) we view all routine newborn tests and procedures as potential contributors that need to be scrutinized.
School - age children need only about a third of their total daily calories from fat.
In the second year of life, the child gets up to one - third of their nutritional needs from breast milk.
It was a nice deal I could not pass and we needed a narrow but safe infant seat due to this being our third child and only having a five passenger car... all are still in some sort of car seat so space is limited!
And there was a study that came out on 2010 that showed that one - third of American families experience diaper need, meaning, they have to cut back on basic necessities like food, utilities, and child - care, in order to buy diapers because diapers can cost up to 3000 dollars for each child over the time you are diapering.
So after my second child we weren't sure that we are going to have a third, and I just kind of was home from work on the last that I was pumping and I just put it in our garage and I didn't clean anything because I was like «Oh I probably not going to need that again».
It can provide half or more of a child's energy needs between the ages of six and 12 months, and one third of energy needs between 12 and 24 months.
To make it worse, due to my significant hearing loss I can't hear any child in the third row of my van so I can frequently be found lip - reading in the rear view mirror while driving, trying to decipher whatever Urgent Need is at hand.
During the second year, a mother's milk can provide one - third or more of the calories and the protein that a child needs.
The direction gained a lot of support from some parts of the UK press, with headlines such as «Children grow up addicted to online porn sites: Third of 10 - year - olds have seen explicit images» [7] supporting the need for industry to do more to make this happen.
About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.
We need the assistance of a neutral third party to break the remaining logjams and establish a system with the primary goal of helping all New York City teachers develop and improve the instruction they provide our children
«At the moment, only about one third of children under the age of 15 who are in need of ART are likely to receive antiretroviral treatment, compared with two - thirds of adults,» says Dr. Marie - Renée B - Lajoie, from McGill's Dept. of Family Medicine, who led the research.
«Almost one - third of families of children with cancer have unmet basic needs during treatment: Study may underestimate extent of hardship.»
Based off of guidelines from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, children who attend full - time child care are to receive one - half to two - thirds of their daily nutritional needs while attending a child care facility, leaving about a third to one - half of their total calories to be consumed away from child care.
Syda - Productions / ShutterstockSleep has been a hot topic over the past few years, and with good reason: According to the National Institute of Health, more than one - third of adults don't get the recommended 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night, and evidence shows that even children and adolescents sleep less than needed.
Tully is a story about Marlo, who, after having her third child, falls into a pit of despair, overwhelmed by the special needs of her 5 - year - old while trying to address the relentless demands of a newborn.
The research also revealed over a third of Australian parents are getting little to no guidance when purchasing the correct device for their child, with nearly half «in the dark» when it comes to the technology needs of their children.
When it comes to improving the quality of education, the report notes four million more teachers are still needed to get all children into school and trained teachers are in short supply in one third of countries.
More than two - thirds of American children ages 6 to 17 lack the sustained supports needed to put them on track for adult success, according to a report scheduled for release this week.
For the third year in a row, the state legislature has level - funded the Special Needs Education Scholarship Account program leaving hundreds of children on a waiting list, waiting for another year, hoping to get a scholarship.
Third, because families are the primary source of support for children's learning and development, community schools prioritize reaching out to parents and other family members to see what resources they need — from books to visiting nurse programs to mobile libraries and workforce development opportunities — and encourage them to be involved in the life of the school.
About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.
Although the percentage of third graders reading Below Basic according to Connecticut's standardized tests declined from 65 percent in 2006 - 2007 to 46 percent in 2010 - 2011, far too many children attending Walsh aren't getting the high - quality instruction, curricula, and school leadership they need for long - term success.
This webinar provided participants an opportunity to identify the opportunities of SRCLP program to increase language and literacy skills of young children and improve practice of educators; share evidence - based research to improve reading comprehension of children preschool to third grade; and discuss considerations for state leaders in designing policy and professional learning to increase effectiveness of early language and literacy instruction, particularly for dual language learners, and children with special needs.
Pointing to an incident at P.S. 194, a traditional district school in the Harlem section of the Big Apple, where three children forced a third - grade schoolmate to perform a sexual offense — as well as the fact that one of her schools, Success Academy Harlem 5, had only one incident of reported violence compared to 92 at the traditional district school with which it shares space — Moskowitz also declares that suspensions are critical to helping teachers gain the support they need to manage their classrooms.
In a 2014 report, called «Opportunity Mississippi,» the governor wrote, «My «Third Grade Gate» literacy measure... will improve literacy achievement by ending social promotion of third grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this policy is fully implemented, we will gain a better understanding of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.&rThird Grade Gate» literacy measure... will improve literacy achievement by ending social promotion of third grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this policy is fully implemented, we will gain a better understanding of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.&rthird grade students who are not reading on grade level... As this policy is fully implemented, we will gain a better understanding of how many children are struggling with literacy, and we will in turn be able to prove the need for additional resources.»
A recent report from the Migration Policy Institute finds that California educates more than one - third of all US students designated as English Language Learners (ELLs) and focuses on the unique educational needs of students who are immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Aligned professional development: Recognizing the need to create shared expectations and understanding of child development and school readiness, states are using their professional learning systems as a core component of birth to third grade system building in a variety of ways.
The $ 290 million adds up to about a third of the $ 1 billion increase Head Start has estimated that it needs to provide full - day, full - year programs for all the children currently enrolled, which Head Start defines as 1,020 hours per year.
«The first one would be to have them get an individualized education that meets the needs of each student; the second was that we were drawn to a classical curriculum; and the third would be flexibility in time with family,» said Banks, a resident of Fredericksburg, Va., who added that her elementary - age children went back and forth between home education and Catholic school over the past few years before they settled on home education.
At the elementary level, DCPS and many other schools have groups of children rotating between stations in a single classroom, with each group spending a third of their time working at computers loaded with software geared to their needs.
DAY 2 — FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR CHILDREN BIRTH THROUGH THIRD GRADE: how to provide guidance to early learning staff in the use of assessment information to meet individual needs of children and improve practitioner / teacher practice and instCHILDREN BIRTH THROUGH THIRD GRADE: how to provide guidance to early learning staff in the use of assessment information to meet individual needs of children and improve practitioner / teacher practice and instchildren and improve practitioner / teacher practice and instruction.
Word from a practitioner in the field: «We see the devastating impact of the differences in preschool and early learning opportunities when children arrive to kindergarten: almost half of children entering kindergarten do not yet have the predictive skills they need to be successful and joyful readers by the end of third grade.
Senator Looney said that over 110,000 Connecticut families needed heating assistance help last year and that «nearly a third of those who received help were elderly, while 26 percent were disabled, and 24 percent had children under the age of five.»
To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.
Differences across counties in the timing of the rollout and in the magnitude of the state financial investments per child provide the variation in programs needed to estimate their effects on schooling outcomes in third grade.
I'm proud of the impact we've made, but we need to double - down on our efforts at a time when so many students are being targeted or unfairly treated because of their race, religion, gender, and nation of origin; when vital funding that helps disadvantaged children is at risk; and when proven solutions that can significantly increase the number of children who read by third grade and who graduate high school career or college ready still aren't in place across our nation.
Now more than ever, educators must understand the need to support a seamless continuum of learning for every child across prekindergarten through the third grade, typically age three to age 8.
The entire system would focus on ensuring children finish third grade with the skills they need to succeed in the next level of their education.
If you need seven seats or need the ability to fit three Isofix child seats in the car then the Q7's third row of seats becomes invaluable.
A third row of seating can be installed in the Range Rover Sport if one needs to be able to haul very young children from time to time.
While third rows are generally only the realm of small children, the second row in an SUV needs to be able to accommodate fully grown passengers and give them some breathing space, and the Pathfinder's amidships seating is a tight fit for those over 6 feet tall.
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