The reduction in foster care numbers partly reflects a comparison with unusually high numbers after the Izquierdo case.
The ebb and flow of foster care numbers is driven by everything from widely publicized incidents of child fatalities, like the Elisa Izquierdo case in New York City, which significantly drove up abuse reports, to crack cocaine addiction, which drove up foster care numbers to record levels in the early 1990's.
This may please free-market supporters of charter schools who have defined "strong" charter laws as those that foster large numbers of charter schools regardless of the quality of those schools.
Faer said many districts may have been hampered in creating concrete plans by the lack of data on their foster youth numbers.
If we are to foster significant numbers of new generations of globally competent students who aspire to gain or actually obtain international experiences and expertise, it will only be possible through technology-enabled educational experiences.
We've been married for eight months and together we foster a number of pets.
Botswana has been less interested in fostering tourist numbers than in moving from the bargain basement of safaris to the top end but, all the same, tourism revenues have grown from $300m in the 1990s to about $3 billion today.
Instead it promises to foster a number of different attributes, including "physical balance," oral expression and a sense of solidarity (meaning elite consciousness).
The effect of bimatoprost + timolol caused an intermediate reaction pattern among the other drugs, fostering higher numbers of goblet cells in the conjunctival epithelium, more than the other fixed combinations in this study.
SAN FRANCISCO — New York City's early-music scene has fostered a number of fine period-instrument ensembles in the recent past.
