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In addition, two of the schools did not provide data for analysis, thus reducing the number of elementary schools in the analysis to 11 schools.

«After days of analysis and numbers - crunching, the results are clear: While charter schools will see a boost next year, the new formula which will be put in place will prevent funding parity with other public school students,» said NECSN director Andrea Rogers.

The Niagara County Crime Analysis Center receives live feeds from two dozen fixed surveillance cameras operated by the city, as well as an undisclosed number of mobile cameras and about 200 cameras mounted at the city's public schools.

However, implementation of the regulation may require 54 million research animals and $ 9.5 billion ($ 13.4 billion) over the next 10 years, which represents 20 times the number of animals and six times the cost anticipated in previous estimates, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«This analysis suggests partial selection is not an effective way of increasing the number of good school places.»

Throughout our analyses, we adjust for three other family characteristics that may separately influence a child's educational attainment: mother's age at the child's birth, level of schooling the mother had completed when the child was 14 years old, and number of siblings born to the child's mother.

However, we plan to return to the question in subsequent analyses when we will have more variation in the number of years students attend charter schools.

The number of students in each lottery is relatively small, so my analysis combines data from all of the middle - school and all of the high - school lotteries.

BMA analysis also found that fewer schools in deprived areas offered the sciences as three individual GCSEs, and lower number of pupils study the qualifications at schools that do.

Until recently, only a small number of schools have had access to the high - powered geographical information system (GIS) software that enables detailed, layered mapping and analysis of data.

My primary data source for the following analysis is a table indicating the number of students who opted out of the math and ELA tests out in each school district this spring.

Of the public schools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools AssociatioOf the public schools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Assocschools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Associatioof students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Associatioof the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Assocschools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools AssocSchools Association.

In order to assess this possibility, we ran the analyses for high school graduation and college attendance again with an additional control for the total number of students attending the school.

In three short years, from the 1996 — 97 school year to that of 1999 — 2000, the final year of our analysis, the number of charter schools in operation in North Carolina rose from zero to 74.

Although a number of recent studies analyze the relationship between charter school attendance and student achievement, this is the first analysis of the impacts of charter school attendance on educational attainment.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

We retain in our analysis the small number of teachers who share a contract, each teaching only half of the school day.

We conduct this second analysis using all of the principals in our data, not just those in their first three years leading a school, because the numbers of schools with two principals observed in their first three years is quite small.

The statistical analysis relied exclusively on some crudely measured differences across schools, such as the number of days in the school year or the presence of a science lab.

We therefore reran our analysis, allowing for the effect of attending a charter school to vary with the number of years the charter school had been open.

Our analysis of competitive effects therefore investigates whether the effect of charter schools on traditional public schools varies with the number of nearby charter schools as well as with the distance to the nearest charter.

Because the statistical power of this experiment is driven by the number of school groups, not the number of individual students, we are unable to conduct subgroup analyses to reveal how seeing a play may differently affect subsets of students.

An obvious implication of this analysis is that federal policymakers seeking to expand families» access to a larger number of schools (and school types) might seek to accomplish this goal in part by helping families access schools which they are eligible to attend under existing choice policies.

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Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) information by the Press Association shows that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 per cent) witnessed a decline in the number of children given their first choice secondary school in comparison to the year before.

Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data reveals that in the past four years there has been an increase in the number of pupils with SEND who attend a specialist school, up from 5.6 per cent in 2012 to 8.5 per cent in 2016.

According to analysis conducted by School Dash, schools with a large number of caucasian immigrant children from the European Union outperform those without.

Statistical analysis has been published in a new report, which suggests there were huge disparities in the grades awarded to pupils, with a large number of independent schools coming forward to report problems, representing 30 per cent of the national entries.

There are a number of reasons: 1) student achievement probably wasn't used as the measure of teacher effectiveness; 2) before the advent of the modern computer, in the mid-1960s, some of the more sophisticated analyses were not feasible; 3) the structure and makeup of schools change, making the findings less applicable to the current situation; 4) most important, older studies may not control for critical variables, such as students» backgrounds or past achievement.

When we performed this analysis, we found, as other economists before us, that when the average number of years of schooling in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over subsequent decades.

The report analyses recent declines in numbers of young people studying computing at schools and the reasons for the declines.

SDP's analyses identified students at risk of dropping out of high school as early as ninth grade, allowing the district to identify schools with high numbers of students in need of intervention.

There are signs of significant progress: In just two years, the number of students without access to adequate bandwidth has been cut in half, according to a new analysis of E-rate application data by school - broadband advocacy group EducationSuperHighway.

When ELL students are not isolated in these low - achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of newly available standardized testing data for public schools in the five states with the largest numbers of ELL students.

However, when ELL students attended public schools with at least a minimum threshold number of white students, the gap between the math proficiency scores of white students and ELL students was considerably narrower, the Pew Hispanic Center analysis has found.

Reforms targeting governance and funding policies were also included in the analysis, such as the increase in the number of academies in England as part of moves to gives schools greater autonomy.

The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State - by - State Analysis ranks Washington D.C. in the number one spot, followed by Indiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Florida, Arizona, Rhode Island, Colorado and Missouri.

Faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Education are available to share their research, analysis, and perspective on a number of topics related to education news.

Three variables open to school influence were included in the NCES analysis: a) the student's absenteeism rate; b) number of books in the student's home; and c) availability of a computer in the student's home.

The analysis seeks to test a number of the most pressing questions about charter schools.

For our analysis we stratified school size (number of students) into quintiles.

We used poverty (the number of students receiving free or reduced - price lunches) and type of school (elementary and secondary) as control variables for all of our analyses because several studies examining community involvement specifically found them to be significant influences on parental involvement in schools.

Jon Andrews, EPI's director for school system and performance, said: «We are seeing an increasing number of schools spending more money than they have coming in and our analysis shows that increasing costs on staff are going to add to that pressure, even with the additional funding being delivered by the National Funding Formula.»

In sum, the analysis focuses on two groups of schools, one numbering nearly 2,000 and the other about 3,500, with profoundly different propensities toward suspending black students.

An analysis of pupil numbers by the BBC showed the equivalent of 11 new selective schools had been created since 2010 as existing schools had expanded.

Schools that enter large numbers of pupils into a fast - track ICT qualification could see Progress 8 scores drop if Ofqual or the DfE recalibrated grades to reflect more closely how pupils score in other GCSEs, a new analysis has claimed.

This data includes listings of schools in need of improvement as well as AYP information for every campus and district, analysis of the number of Title I districts and campuses that did not make AYP, an overview of appeals results, and a broad look at state results.

However, we believe it is still too early to provide a robust assessment of the progress and attainment of free school pupils due to the small number of free schools which currently have Key Stage 4 results available, especially as sensitivity analysis has indicated that the way schools and pupils are matched has a substantial effect on results.

Schools Week analysis of new data from the education unions shows that although there were 15,065 fewer people working in secondary schools in 2017 than in 2014, teachers are still teaching roughly the same numbers of pupils, despite a rise of almost 4,500 over the same Schools Week analysis of new data from the education unions shows that although there were 15,065 fewer people working in secondary schools in 2017 than in 2014, teachers are still teaching roughly the same numbers of pupils, despite a rise of almost 4,500 over the same schools in 2017 than in 2014, teachers are still teaching roughly the same numbers of pupils, despite a rise of almost 4,500 over the same period.

The EPI analysis, which is disputed by the government, also found a significant increase in the number of primary schools in deficit.