Sentences with phrase «during the last school year in»

During the last school year in Boston, English - language learners made up 13 percent of the combined enrollments at 19 independently run charter schools, the analysis of state enrollment data found.

Not exact matches

If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

That means an estimation of all the tutoring, baby - sitting and piano lessons I was giving in high school, which as a rough guess were about $ 6,000 a year for four years, then the $ 1,000 - something I was making flipping burgers, working a cash register or waitressing during the first three years of college, and the $ 2,000 - odd I got during the last two years of business school.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

In the remote Nicaraguan community of Solentiname, a school of primitive painting developed during the last repressive years of the Somoza regime.

Last year St Columba's Lochside Mission and Outreach youth programme provided more than 150 lunches daily to local children after church staff learned that the 95 per cent of children in one local primary school, who receive free school lunches and breakfasts during the school term, were at risk of hunger during the summer holidays.

During the last week of December, from Dec. 28 - 30, a number of these schools will be host sites to the largest high school girls basketball tournament event in the country — the West Coast Jamboree, which in its 18th year will include more than 160 teams.

His under - 18 Team USA squad swept through its five games undefeated in the FIBA Americas this summer, and his high school DeMatha lost only four games during the regular season last year.

So presumably has the NCAA, which has punished your school only once during the last 15 years — in 1981, for major recruiting violations.

A high school state champion in the half mile, Shane didn't run cross-country during his freshman year at Wyoming, but he showed up last January in Sanchez's office.

Parents of campers in this program have seen their child happy in an active environment and have noted lasting improvements and a willingness to try new things during the school year.

During the coaches» panel last month, I proposed this question to the esteemed group and they all had the same answer: specialization in one position in the high school years will NOT increase your value as a recruit.

During his last year of law school, he immersed himself in the medical and legal issues involving concussions in sports.

The bad is that fewer than one in five children eligible for the program nationwide use it - 2 million a day last summer, compared with the 12 million who get free or reduced - price meals during the school year, according to federal estimates.

Now in 6th grade, Jessica made some good improvements during the last school year.

The Arizona - born chancellor's credentials include a masters in education; work at four school districts, including Houston during last year's Hurricane Harvey disaster; and he speaks both Spanish and English — a key during Mayor Bill de Blasio's search for replacing Carmen Fariña, the departing chancellor.

The cuts for school districts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment were closed by 50 percent, with the proviso the rest would be taken care of next year — a key campaign pledge for the conference during last year's elections

Maybe Governor Cuomo was in Washington during the last 4 years when school districs were cutting teachers and staff due to cuts in education funding.

The announcement came in the form of a series of changes Fariña proposed to the Department of Education's 2015 - 2019 Capital Plan, which also includes adding 7,000 seats to the city's schools to make room for Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed universal pre-K program and to help reduce class size, which rose consistently during the last six years of the Bloomberg administration.

During the upcoming session, charter groups will focus on boosting facilities funding and the state's per - pupil funding formula after notching a modest victory with a 50 - school increase in the statewide charter cap last year.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

Bing said he got involved in the issue during last year's budget process when his community school district seemed about to lose 19 percent of its teachers because of layoffs.

Buffalo Public Schools received close to $ 465 million in foundation aid during the last school year.

Some graduates, mainly engineers, go on to Ph.D. study after a DEA, which can often be obtained during the third and last year in the school.

Almost three decades later, during her last years in the classroom, math instruction had become a team effort, with her school's math instructors meeting often to discuss topics, sharing lesson plans, and developing common assessments to make sure everyone was on the same page.

The National Association for Research in Science Teaching last month recognized Dr. Philip Sadler, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for making «the most significant contribution» to research in science education during the past year.

During the decade we studied, Fort Worth made steady improvements toward equity in noncategorical funding across its schools, while Austin's allocations became less evenly distributed over the last five years in our study.

However, research we conducted last year amongst primary school teachers showed that seven in ten of participating teachers had not undertaken any professional development in «food» during the past two years.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), during the 2002 — 03 school year (the last data available), 36 percent of U.S. school districts (5,500 out of 15,040) had students enrolled in distance - education programs, and 38 percent of public high schools offered distance - education courses.

«Only one of the 201 schools that implemented a block schedule in Virginia during the last nine years has returned to a traditional schedule,» noted the authors of «What We've Learned About Block Scheduling.»

Some reasons are personal: Simone, whose school narrowly dodged state intervention last year, has seen fifth graders arrive on testing day angry about personal matters; others struggled to sit still during the test or broke down in tears under the pressure.

When Kimmelman was asked to serve on the John Glenn Commission last year, he came across a Life magazine article published during the 1950s about the crisis in education in our nation's schools.

When absenteeism increased last year in the Dallas Independent School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school year automatically receive a failing grade.

Last year, just for fun, the school held a mini workshop about how to do the hustle during an in - service day.

In the 2000 — 01 school year, during the last round of acute shortages, 40,000 California teachers were working on emergency credentials, the vast majority of them in high - minority and high - poverty schoolIn the 2000 — 01 school year, during the last round of acute shortages, 40,000 California teachers were working on emergency credentials, the vast majority of them in high - minority and high - poverty schoolin high - minority and high - poverty schools.

Tens of thousands of Illinois students — the most in recent history — sat out the state's standardized exams during the last school year as resistance to testing gained momentum nationwide, new state data show.

And, in fact, Nocera ignores most of the last 150 years of American history, during which time our public school system did rather well educating poor people.

The positive student achievement gains were announced during a new school year that has 78 new public charter schools opening their doors for the first time - a 15 percent increase in the number of new charter schools compared to last year.

Characterized by instability and lack of accountability, Milwaukee's voucher program has resulted in numerous stories like one last year in a local paper about a minister and his wife who accepted $ 2.3 million in taxpayer funding only to close their Lifeskills Academy abruptly during the school year.

The Legislature passed a charter school law during the last session that allows for the creation of five schools in the entire state next year, and a total of up to 45 charter schools over six years.

Running Deer, a special school for eight - to 16 - year - olds at risk of exclusion in Devon received a warning notice after it was rated «inadequate» during its first Ofsted inspection last September.

A private religious school receiving by far the largest payout from the state's new school voucher program was in financial trouble during the last school year, pleading for help from the public online to fund its $ 150,000 shortfall so the school could complete the 2013 - 14 school year.

Rayner also praised parents and unions involved in the campaign against real - terms school funding cuts, which brought the issue to the fore during last year's general election.

During that time, I've exclusively worked in public charter schools, including the last two years at Legacy Traditional School Peoria.

Last school year, 77 percent of Waddell's 462 students logged in to Achieve3000 after school, on weekends or during holidays, totaling 3,491 log - ins.

Her dismal performance Sunday night on 60 Minutes (including an inability to articulate the case for expanding public charter schools and other forms of family choice in education) demonstrates that she remains as willfully ignorant about education policy issues as she was during her confirmation hearing last year.

The preliminary decision addresses a ground - breaking court challenge to layoffs that devastated the staffs of three middle schools during job cuts over the last few years in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

A leading campaigner for the expansion of selection during David Cameron's tenure as prime minister, Brady became a prominent cheerleader for Theresa May's plans to open the first new grammar schools in decades when they were announced last year.

Like many other council - run schools in the city, the Beeches has expanded during the last five years and now takes 90 children into reception classes each year.

A «Do Not Enter» sign hangs on one of the classrooms at Red Apple Elementary School in Racine during state testing last year.