Sentences with phrase «vast majority of children in»

The vast majority of children in care live in foster care and many of these children remain living with their foster care families when they reach 18 years with ongoing financial support and advice.

However, it is extremely disappointing that the House of Lords select committee has chosen to focus exclusively on adoption, which will not be an option for the vast majority of children in the care system.

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.

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.»

«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.

«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 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.

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 %.

Not exact matches

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 same applies to the husband's awareness of the unique self - esteem problems of women faced with changing sex roles, the continuing dual - standard in many areas, the increasing period of life after the children are raised and the problem of finding significance therein, and the preparation for creative widowhood which faces the vast majority of women in our culture.

The vast majority of the USA believes in that god but majority doesn't make something fact... almost every child believes in Santa at some point - does that mean Santa is real?

These forces are the stuff of everyday life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.

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.

Yes, there are children whose severe disabilities impede independent toileting, but the vast majority of kids go to Kindergarten in big boy or girl underwear.

Having children is almost always depicted as a joyous and wonderful time in a woman's life and for the vast majority of women, it is.

In the UK there are an estimated 160,000 children who have a parent (in the vast majority of cases, a father) in prisoIn the UK there are an estimated 160,000 children who have a parent (in the vast majority of cases, a father) in prisoin the vast majority of cases, a father) in prisoin prison.

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

I imagine that in the vast majority of such cases the doctor was acting on signs of a serious potential hazard to mother or child.

The vast majority of baby milk formula options available on the market are non-organic, which means they could potentially include worrying chemicals such as preservatives, corn syrup solids and artificial flavors, colors or sweeteners that you certainly would want to avoid as studies have shown an inconclusive potential to exacerbate hyperactivity in kids or affect a child's health; a potential that's not worth the risk.

That's because, in the vast majority of cases, it is more important to you for your child to be included than it is for the organization to reach out to your child.

Our role is to look after the interests of children when cases are referred to us by the courts and we acknowledge that in the vast majority of private law cases this will be best served by preserving children's relationships with both parents.

The vast majority of sack lunches that kids bring to school aren't properly cooled or refrigerated and could pose a health hazard to young children, a new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

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

But for the vast majority of people in the US, you just can't avoid getting in your car with your child.

The vast majority of single parents are women raising their children without the biological father in the home.

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of Kentucky voters, including parents with children in public schools, support the healthy school meal standards in effect nationwide, according to a poll released today by the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.

In the vast majority of states, the child's best interests are at the forefront of any custody order, although courts may differ on what that actually means.

The State Education Department today is expected to present the Board of Regents with regulations to conform with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind, under which the vast majority of NYC's transfer schools would be designated as «in need of improvement» and could be at risk of being closed.

«The vast majority of crimes committed by youth are misdemeanors and notably, under this proposal, the most serious crimes would continue to be handled in the criminal court system and all youth would be held accountable for their actions,» said Jennifer March, executive director of the Citizens» Committee for Children of New York.

Dozens of charter schools were closed for the morning; parents and children, the vast majority from Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy network, were handed matching oversize T - shirts, granola bars and water bottles, and encouraged to chant and dance for about two hours in a show of strength and enthusiasm.

«For the vast majority of renting parents, renting isn't a lifestyle choice, yet for many it's putting their children's education, happiness and wellbeing in jeopardy,» said Shelter's chief executive Campbell Robb.

«The vast majority of juvenile offenders are treated as children already in New York and it doesn't need to change,» he said, adding that prison is typically treated as a last resort unless they commit violent crimes that should not be treated as juvenile.

Unfortunately, in the vast majority of these cases, the children had files with Erie County's Child Protective Services and the department failed these children.

Mr Duncan Smith replied: «I have for some time believed the way tax credits operated distorted the system so there were far too many families not going into work, living in bigger and bigger houses, with larger families subsidised by the state when many others, the vast majority of families in Britain, make decisions about how many children they can have and the houses they can live in.

The mosquito - borne disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite kills more than 700,000 people every year, the vast majority of them African children, and no vaccine has ever shown efficacy in trials.

The vast majority of small children riding in taxis are not restrained in car safety seats, according to new research, even though there are tens of thousands of motor vehicle collisions involving taxis, limousines and car services each year.

In contrast to this picture, the vast majority of HIV - infected AIDS patients, both adults and children, display all the signs of chronic activation of the immune system.

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.

A study of children's habits in commuting to and from school discovered that, in the vast majority of cases, parents were the main decision makers in how the children traveled.

In animal models — and in one postmortem brain from a child who had been treated for a different disorder — Kurtzberg's team has found that donor cord blood can cross the blood - brain barrier that keeps the vast majority of molecules and cells out of the braiIn animal models — and in one postmortem brain from a child who had been treated for a different disorder — Kurtzberg's team has found that donor cord blood can cross the blood - brain barrier that keeps the vast majority of molecules and cells out of the braiin one postmortem brain from a child who had been treated for a different disorder — Kurtzberg's team has found that donor cord blood can cross the blood - brain barrier that keeps the vast majority of molecules and cells out of the brain.

The vast majority of malaria fatalities (85 - 90 %) occur in sub-Saharan Africa, primarily in pregnant women and children under the age of five [2, 3].

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.

Although more suitable for children, GKIDS's trio of French releases — A Cat in Paris (by Jean - Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol), Le Tableau (Jean - François Laguionie), and Tales of the Night (Michel Ocelot)-- display a level of collective sophistication and wit that's frankly absent from the vast majority of American animated features.

At the request of a court - appointed attorney for two of the children, the appellate court both overturned the juvenile court and took the broader step of ruling that home - schooling parents must have state teaching certification, leaving the vast majority in violation of the law.

The vast majority of schools taking part in the trial of Family Skills said that they would recommend it to other schools, highlighting that it provided a good opportunity to build home — school links and engage parents in their children's learning.

Thousands of our most able secondary age children are still not doing as well as they should in the non-selective state sector where the vast majority of them are educated.»

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.»

(And not only in education: a team at the NYU Medical Center recently reported that the vast majority of parents with obese kids actually believe their children are «about the right weight.»)