Sentences with phrase «among public school students»

It's widely acknowledged that Milwaukee boasts one of the widest achievement gaps in the country among public school students.

Voucher school advocates said last year they expected demand among public school students to increase because the application window was longer than last year.

Anxiety is prevalent among public school students, as more and higher stakes are attached to these standardized tests.

Philadelphia, for instance, has only a 10 percent college graduation rate among its public school students, 40 percent of whom live in poverty, and 80 percent of whom are eligible for free school lunch.

September 29, 2015 - Tonight, as the Richmond City Council debates how to spend the $ 35 million in college scholarships provided by the «Richmond Promise,» at least 50 charter school supporters will demand that the funding be shared equally among all public school students, including charter students.

It uses an e-platform with customizable and adaptable lesson plans to address student underachievement and high repetition rates among public school students.

However, the study shows the decision to delay is becoming more common, with the number of «delayed entry» students increasing each year so that the proportion among all public school students almost doubled from 1.5 per cent in 2010 to 2.9 per cent in 2014.

He listed among his pet causes improving stubbornly poor test scores and college readiness among public school students, bolstering support for the NYPD, cutting business regulations and ameliorating the «national disgrace» of living conditions within the New York City Housing Authority.

Not exact matches

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

Over the next several months, amid signs that his emotional state was deteriorating, Cruz bounced among several Broward County public schools, including one for students with disabilities, before ending up at an adult education center to get his GED.

The survey spanned various racial, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic groups, and was conducted among public, private and parochial school students.

Connections Education counts more than 45,000 students among its accredited private and public schools.

What's more, these students were among the most disadvantaged in the New York City public school system.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

The condition is common among African - Americans like Beckwith, as well as Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans — groups that make up 91 percent of students in the Chicago Public Schools.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

Thanks to a grant from Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, George Wythe is among seven schools in the Richmond Public School District rolling out breakfast - in - the - classroom for its students.

This action was taken despite the fact that our state ranks fifth in the nation for obesity among high school students, and despite public comments reportedly opposing the TDA's plan by an astounding margin of 105 to 8.

The Harvard School of Public Health investigated the transition to healthier school lunches among students in grades 1 through 8 in four scSchool of Public Health investigated the transition to healthier school lunches among students in grades 1 through 8 in four scschool lunches among students in grades 1 through 8 in four schools.

Cuomo participated in an anti-gun violence «die in» demonstration with students from Leadership and Public Service High School in Lower Manhattan by laying on the ground in Zuccotti Park among the protestors.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

Gov. Cuomo also participated in the demonstration with students from Leadership and Public Service High School in Lower Manhattan by laying on the ground in Zuccotti Park among the protestors.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley reports whole child teams are in place in the Buffalo Public school district working to improve behavior among students.

Whole child teams are in place in the Buffalo Public school district working to improve behavior among students.

The Citizens Budget Commission has created an interactive map to enable taxpayers to see how much is spent per student and compare spending among public school districts.

Castorina has never run for public office before, but is well known among the Island's elected officials for his pro bono lawsuit filed against the city in 2010 to restore school buses for seventh and eighth grade students.

March 5: DNAinfo's Heather Holland reported on a public elementary school, P.S. 116, that stopped assigning traditional homework to its students and encouraged them to play, read and socialize with family instead, sparking outrage among some parents.

Modest improvements in the financial condition of some of New York's public schools are not keeping pace with growing needs among the students they serve, warns a new report released today by the New York State Council of School Superintendents.

Among other things, the rule requires states to identify low - performing schools for comprehensive or targeted support and improvement, and requires that each state's statewide plan use multiple indicators of student success that are the same for all public schools (including charter schools).

Turns out, a shrinking enrollment among the student body in Buffalo Public Schools does not equate to shrinking numbers of teachers and staff.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Free state college tuition for middle - class students, an expanded child care tax credit and $ 1 billion in new spending on public schools are among the highlights of a state budget proposal unveiled Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The city currently operates 80 Beacon centers in public schools across the five boroughs where students get after - school tutoring and help looking for jobs, among other services.

«New York's public schools need a leader who can reconcile opposing views among stakeholders over controversial issues, navigate the political complexities of the legislative process, and work with the Board of Regents to forge cogent policies that will make New York's education system student - focused.»

The data comes from the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a nationally representative survey that examines the prevalence of risky health behaviors among 9th - to 12th - grade public and private school students.

The KITPC outreach develops a series of scientific activities including public science lectures and science research group classes in order to popularize natural science, arouse interest in science and improve the scientific research abilities among the students and teachers of Universities and high schools.

Laurie Feldkamp, RN, a 30 - year nursing veteran in the Dearborn, Michigan, public schools, barely sits down from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., as she races among her eight schools and 4,000 students.

The first to examine the effects of financial incentives among urban public school students, it found that rewards can produce excellent results in closing the achievement gap — if they are tied to specific steps the students take rather than to grades or test results.

In 2014 — 15, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah were respectively ranked first, second, and third among states in the percentage of K — 12 public school students attending charter schools.

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But any state choosing this option would experience changes in how Title I funds get divided among and within its school districts — even if all poor students were to attend public schools.

Among this group of students they found that 9.1 percent were identified as disabled when attending a private school, but 14.6 percent were identified as disabled when attending Milwaukee's public schools.

According to parents, the disability rate among voucher students is 11.4 percent, as compared to 20.4 percent in the public schools.

The school was created through a public - private partnership among a number of organizations (PDF), with the intention of providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.

Our new findings demonstrate that, while segregation for blacks among all public schools has been increasing for nearly two decades, black students in charter schools are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in intensely segregated settings.

* Interestingly, among the 2,800 «private public schools,» we identified 79 charter schools that themselves qualify because they serve virtually no poor students.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

Among other findings, 61 percent said that high schools were not equipped to meet the needs of struggling students, and 65 percent said that a public high school diploma did not prepare graduates for the workforce.

Weighting the costs by the type of disabilities among students placed in private schools, we can estimate that the average privately placed student would have cost $ 15,117 if he had instead been served in a public school.

Charter schools have become a popular alternative to traditional public schools, with some 5,000 schools now serving more than 1.5 million students, and they have received considerable attention among researchers as a result.

By the 4th grade, public school children who score among the top 10 percent of students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are reading at least six grade levels above those in the bottom 10 percent.