The program has grown from serving 30 to some 600 elementary school children.
Over half of all adult New Yorkers are either overweight or obese, and half of all elementary school children are unhealthily overweight.
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Obama called for the task force after last month's mass shooting in Newtown in which 27 people were killed -- 20 of them elementary school children.
They also throw a pre-Derby party around the race to help out a charity called Blessings in a Backpack, a program that feeds elementary school children on the weekend across 32 states and three countries.
Elementary school-age children were eating at some of the restaurants and no one was trying to escape, she said.
Outside the ruins of the Plaza Towers Elementary School where seven children died, the president greeted the principal and emergency workers who helped save the lives of many others.
At the Abundant Life Church in Moore, just a few blocks from the Plaza Towers Elementary School where seven children died in the May 20 tornado, Sunday school classrooms are overflowing with donated clothes and other used items.
When the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami struck on 11 March 2011, almost all the elementary and junior high school children in the small coastal town of Kamaishi survived.
The National Football League also announced that singer Jennifer Hudson would be performing America the Beautiful with the chorus from Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting in December.
The achievement gaps we see in elementary school and beyond begin before children enter kindergarten--the quality of child care and educational settings in the years preceding matter.
Giffords and Kelly have spoken out in the wake of last month's slaughter in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 27 people dead, 26 of them at Sandy Hook Elementary School -- including 20 children.
The state of preventative mental health care in the U.S. has been thrust onto the national scene in recent days, after the monstrous murder of 27 people including 20 children in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
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Last month the National Rifle Association called on communities to arm teachers or place armed guards in schools as a solution following a Newtown, Connecticut, shooting spree in which a 20-year-old gunman killed seven adults and 20 children at an elementary school.
While Alicia Keys and Jennifer Hudson (the latter singing with the choir from Sandy Hook Elementary, the Connecticut school where 20 children were killed in December) also will perform, Knowles will command the stage once the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens break for halftime.
The debate on gun violence in the US was rekindled earlier this month by the shootings at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 20 children and six adults dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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The landslide at Lilydale Regional Park swept over a group of children from Peter Hobart Elementary School in St.
She had the unique ability to help children in elementary and middle school recognize and develop their musical abilities and confidence.
There are worries, too, over the quality of education, with 43% of children dropping out of elementary school by their early teens, according to figures for 2007-2008.
At least 20 of the 51 victims of the storm were children caught in an elementary school in the eye of the storm, with a death toll expected to rise.
My work with Shoes for Orphan Souls, a Buckner International Program, started in 2000 when I was the Texas-Oklahoma District Chair for K-Kids, which is a Kiwanis-sponsored elementary school program that teaches leadership and empowers children to serve their communities.
Those lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School looked and behaved just like our own children look and behave.
As an elementary school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future.
The children were students at Peter Hobart Elementary School who were at the park by the Mississippi River on a field trip.
He said, I've had to import thousands of foreign teachers because they're all insisting that Korean children have to learn English in elementary school.
He wants the school day lengthened to seven hours for elementary children, for teachers to work 38 weeks a year, and to be able to introduce differentiated pay.
And, once again, the popular press has pointed the finger at video games and aggression as a motivating influence of the suspected shooter, Adam Lanza, held responsible for the killing of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
According to UNESCO and the World Bank, nearly 400 million elementary- and secondary-age children are not attending school.
Seven of the 10 dead children were found at the Plaza Towers Elementary School, which was leveled by the storm.
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There have been calls for gun law reform after 26 children and teachers died at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Mr Morgan's interview, on his nightly chat show, came five days after gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school.
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