Sentences with phrase «vast majority of children»

Councillor Feryal Demirci, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, transport and parks, said: «I'm delighted that the majority of parents and local residents agree with our proposal to close Crondall Street during school pick ‑ up and drop ‑ off times.The vast majority of children in Hackney walk or cycle to school, but too many children still make the journey by car.»

«Exempt from passenger restraint laws, taxis pose risky rides for small children: Vast majority of children lack car safety seats while traveling in taxis.»

As Advocate concluded, «The overwhelming drive of the state education commissioner and the state Board of Education should be toward improving traditional public schools, which are responsible for educating the vast, vast majority of children in the state.

Since the vast majority of child - abduction cases involve someone a kid already knows, you might also adopt McBride's favorite safety mantra: «If anyone makes you feel sad, scared, or confused, you need to tell me right away.»

A Brainstorm TECH task force of leading educators, technologists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and investors will present their recommendations for addressing the persistent gap between the digital innovations in K — 12 education and what's actually available to the vast majority of children.

The reality of the situation is that the vast majority of the children in public schools in Saudi are muslim, and the statistic for non-muslims would be far less than 1 %.

The vast majority of child problems turn out to be temporary upsets or passing phases.

For example, the mothers of the vast majority of the children born out of wedlock are racial minority teen - agers who come from broken families living below the poverty level.

it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

And before anyone asks me where my extensive knowledge of every church in the world comes from — I am not every parent's child, but I know enough around me to know that the vast majority of children are truly loved and treated well.

In reality, the vast majority of children who are naturally weaned stop nursing somewhere between two and four years of age.

The vast majority of children are expected to have a healthy childhood.

And because cohabiting unions are much less stable than marriages, the vast majority of the children born to cohabiting couples will see their parents break up by the time they turn 15.

But before you insist your child would never cheat, be aware that the vast majority of children cheat at one time or another.

The vast majority of children simply grow out of it and never look back.

In reality, the vast majority of children enter the foster care system through no fault of their own.

WHO maintains, however, that breast milk remains the most appropriate liquid part of a progressively diversified diet for the vast majority of children between 6 and 24 months of age, once complementary feeding has begun.

The vast majority of children with «dairy issues» have dairy sensitivities as opposed to true dairy allergies.

Simply put, the vast majority of children's bodies are ready to wake up anytime between 6:00 - 7:00 am.

The vast majority of children served by the NSLP are receiving free or reduced priced lunches, and are predominantly black and Latino.

For the vast majority of children wetting the bed is simply an indication that their bladder control is slower to develop

This is something we believe the vast majority of children with a good education should be able to achieve.

The vast majority of children are well behaved, the department insisted.

«Universal credit will ensure that the vast majority of children will be lifted out of poverty if at least one parent works 35 hours a week at the minimum wage — or 24 hours if they are a lone parent,» he added.

And just as intriguingly, the vast majority of these children are now perfectly healthy, suggesting that once the placenta and its abnormal imprints are removed, the baby can catch up on growth.

The vast majority of children do not experience anything worse than short - lived redness or itching at the spot of the injection.

In addition, the vast majority of children who undergo fetal surgery are born prematurely and thus may be subject to higher rates of blindness, cerebral palsy, and brain hemorrhage.

The study also showed that over half of the children who reacted to milk did not have an IgE mediated allergy, whereas for the vast majority of children who reacted to egg and peanut, their reaction was IgE mediated.

«The 20 per cent option was a great way forward for the vast majority of children,» says John Lawrence, the association's deputy general secretary.

They found that the vast majority of the children, or 90 percent of them, were not involved in bullying, and among this group, about 12 percent had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder before age 30.

Something is obviously very, very wrong with the diet of the vast majority of children to cause such severe tooth decay at such a young age.

However, we remember that these women were not on synthetic hormones (ie: birth control), ate what they grew and raised themselves and / or raised locally, ate more real food, and were not overweight or obese like the vast majority of child bearing age women today (being overweight or obese can sometime cause infertility due to other issues).

You see, for thousands of years — the vast majority of children brought into this world were done so without the need for intervention and induction.

I did not enjoy the vast majority of the child actors, for they were not only unconvincing, but there were several times that they looked directly into the camera, thus breaking the immersion.

The vast majority of children in our sample, however, spent either none of those years or all three of those years in a single - parent family.

But it's not hard to fathom the potential appeal of such an approach in an affluent community, where the vast majority of children read at grade level, graduate, and attend college.

Most parents wrestling with these issues ultimately decide to enroll their child on schedule, as the vast majority of children are not redshirted.

For example, she says that there are so few private placements of special education students «not... because the law's processes for securing private placements are inadequate, but because the vast majority of children with disabilities can, and do, receive FAPE in the public schools.»

«It is hard to admit,» they wrote, «but it is abundantly clear that we will fail the vast majority of children in Denver if we try to run our schools the same old way.»

The study, The Lost Middle by GL Assessment, has found that the vast majority of children exhibit some type of definite verbal, quantitative or spatial reasoning bias.

For example, she says «only a small percentage of children with disabilities have [private] placements, and not, as Greene and Buck contend, because the law's processes for securing private placements are inadequate, but because the vast majority of children with disabilities can, and do, receive FAPE in the public schools.»

We know the vast majority of children today would rather be outside playing if only they were allowed, so why are we obsessed with controlling and dictating their play?

The vast majority of these children are closeted about their status to most people outside of their family.

«This investment is improving education: we have more teachers in Scottish classrooms, better quality school buildings and the vast majority of children in S3 achieving the minimum attainment level expected of them or better.

He said: «The vast majority of children have parents with a positive attitude towards mathematics and science.

What is new, or at least newly controversial, is the notion that that we need to prioritize the needs of the vast majority of children — the ones who come to school wanting to learn.

The vast majority of the children injured — 97 percent — are treated and released from the hospital on the same day.

Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner said: «The continued obsession with grammar schools will do nothing for the vast majority of children, and it is absurd for ministers to push ahead with plans to expand them when the evidence is clear that they do nothing to improve social mobility.»