Children look forward to school For the family's school-age children, returning to class at the new camp is helping with the uncertainty.
UNICEF backs government efforts to ensure Lebanese children return to school on time BEIRUT, 23 August 2006 - International donors have been urged to support the Lebanese government's efforts to ensure that the destruction and upheaval caused by the recent conflict does not prevent children returning to class for the new academic year.
As 50 million children return to classes across the nation, crippling increases in the price of fuel and food, coupled with the economic downturn, have left schools from California to Florida to Maine cutting costs.
About 5,600 children returned to class yesterday in three school districts in Pennsylvania, Washington State and Illinois, but strikes by nearly 6,000 public school teachers affecting more than 95,000 pupils continued in seven states.
B1 EDUCATION Teacher Shortage Persists New York City's 1.1 million public school children return to class on Thursday to face a worsening shortage of qualified teachers, even as tougher standards make the path to graduation more arduous.
A3 EDUCATION Mayor's Critics Are Ready Mayor Bloomberg's critics are poised to take stock of his education efforts as the city's 1.1 million public school children return to class today.
The children return to class and Ms. Friedman drives to the Syosset-Woodbury Community Park, where a new basketball court shaded by old oaks was dedicated to her husband last month.
New York City's 1.1 million public-school children return to class this week to face a worsening shortage of fully qualified teachers, even as tougher standards, including a newly required Regents mathematics exam, make the path toward graduation more arduous.
At Yeragera Higher Primary School, where Mani now studies, about 50 children have returned to classes since the recent campaign against child labour began.
