Sentences with phrase «public instruction estimates»

The NC Department of Public Instruction estimates the current statewide need at $ 8 billion for public school buildings over the next few years.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction estimates that more than 120,000 students and their families may be eligible to make use of the credits.

The state Department of Public Instruction estimated it handed out $ 130.7 million in vouchers during the 2010 - 11 school year.

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CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study estimates that between 7.5 and 14 percent of students in Milwaukee's voucher program have disabilities, a much higher rate than the one provided by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), which has stated, «about 1.6 percent of choice students have a disability.»

Drawing on different sources of data and various analytic methods, we estimate that anywhere between 7.5 and 14.6 percent of voucher students have disabilities that would land reported by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), a figure that gave rise to a lawsuit alleging discrimination by the MPCP program.

In a memo to schools, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi estimated the state can save at least $ 2 million a year if it develops its own test rather than go with the PARCC exam.

Rebecca Garland, chief academic officer for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, says the state could see a significant cost increase after adopting the Smarter Balanced assessment, which has been estimated to cost between $ 20 and $ 30 per student.

The lottery added an estimated 3.6 percent of funding to the $ 7.9 billion needed to run the state's public schools over the last year, according to the N.C. Department of Public Instrupublic schools over the last year, according to the N.C. Department of Public InstruPublic Instruction.

Given that the average suspension is conservatively put at 3.5 days, we estimate that U.S. public school children lost nearly 18 million days of instruction in just one school year because of exclusionary discipline.

But since that time, lawmakers have voted to increase the cap only slightly — it's up to today's 12.75 percent from 1993's 12.5 percent — despite the fact that the state's actual prevalence rate is estimated to be closer to 13.5 percent, according to Bill Hussey, director of the Exceptional Children division in the NC Department of Public Instruction.

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