Sentences with phrase «education populations represent»

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Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

«Cutting Pell Grants and Medicaid funding without addressing the underlying causes of rising higher education and healthcare costs, simply represents a shift of costs to state and local governments who would be overburdened and unable to provide for vulnerable populations.»

The minister, who was represented by the permanent secretary in his education ministry, Mr Sunny Echonu added that based on the 2017 theme, the importance of information and communication technology was embedded in its ability to create greater access to information and communication among the undeserved population.

For example, the U.S. Department of Education recently reported that black children represent 14 % of the general school - aged population but 19 % of the special education poEducation recently reported that black children represent 14 % of the general school - aged population but 19 % of the special education poeducation population.

The figures from UCAS show that, of the fifth of the young English population from backgrounds with the lowest entry rate to higher education, 13.6 per cent entered university in 2016, which represents an increase of 0.1 percentage point.

But the federal anti-poverty program that funds the academic drive at Adelphi represents a model of education reform — spreading aid to states based on population and need — that is fast going out of fashion.

Education for English Language Learners: Promoting School Readiness and Early School Success — report, from the Migration Policy Institute profiles the population of young DLLs, who represent nearly one - third of all U.S. children under age 6, outlines their school readiness and patterns of achievement.

More than 40 percent of Oregon's student population is represented in this alliance through member school districts, education service districts, and organizations.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 4.85 million English language learners, or ELLs, were enrolled in public schools during the 2012 - 13 academic year, representing nearly 10 percent of the total K - 12 student population.17 Nearly one student in four speaks a language other than English at home — the same is true for only about one in eight teachers.18 Teaching also remains a female - dominated profession.

The Colorado Department of Education reports there are 66,163 students in Colorado identified as gifted (2014 - 2015), including gifted children with disabilities (twice - exceptional), gifted children from diverse populations and gifted children of low socio - economic backgrounds, representing approximately 7.7 % of the K - 12 public school population.

The Governor's bill allows charter schools to stop using an enrollment lottery if they get a waiver from the commissioner of education and use their new authority to recruit students from under - represented populations.

Attending were about 80 ministers of education from around the world, representing almost 90 percent of the world's population, so I was pretty excited to share our work from QISA with them.

Authentic alliance between MMC, Midlands Technical College, and the Midlands Education and Business Alliance (MEBA) Location on a college campus Dual credit opportunities at no cost to students Diverse student population representing several counties in the state Small classes Small environment (maximum of 135 students unless additional space becomes available) Daily tutoring time by students» individual teachers Implementation of a variety of instructional methods Class schedule (11:00 AM — 5:00 PM) Availability of all Midlands Tech facilities, including the media center, science labs, computer labs, auditorium, conference rooms Frequent, consistent, and immediate interventions Daily common planning time for teachers.

CEJ has called on the NYC Department of Education to ensure that school and district staff represent the diversity of the district's population, provide classes, curricula and resources designated to celebrate that diversity, cultivate a positive, culturally responsive culture in schools and champion increased parent engagement efforts that are culturally responsive and promote collaborative efforts to help students grow.

A solid majority of California's future college - age population will come from groups that have been historically under - represented in higher education — including Latinos and African Americans, and those who are low income or the first in their families to go to college.

As a professional working in both official languages day in and day out, I found a recent study conducted by the Institut de recherche en économie contemporaine and the Institut de recherche sur le français en Amérique particularly interesting: nearly 14 % of employees in Quebec's education, health and public sectors predominantly use English as a language of work and this, with Anglophones only representing 9 % of Quebec's population (the study was based on the 2006 census).

Individuals from both samples came from 15 schools which best represent the population in terms of geographical localization (five out of the six French - speaking geographical areas were represented), educational network (the three existing networks — that is, free subsidized education, officially subsidized education, and education organized by the Wallonia - Brussels federation — were represented) and socioeconomic index (low, moderate and high index2 were covered).

First, WLS respondents represent the non-Hispanic White population born around 1939 who graduated from a Wisconsin high school in 1957 (Sewell et al., 2004) and exclude individuals without a high school education, race / ethnic minorities, and immigrants.

Unshackled Potential: The Impact of Relationship Education on Incarcerated Populations represents..

Finally, the combined sample is weighted to represent the US population using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on age, gender, race, region, and education as noted above.