Sentences with phrase «applicants than the school»

Popular charter schools may get more applicants than the school's capacity.

A charter school is prohibited by law from discriminating in admissions and must accept every student who applies or hold a lottery if there are more applicants than the school can accommodate.

Not exact matches

Accepting just 3.7 percent of the nearly 3,000 applicants, the program boasts an acceptance rate that was more selective than Ivy League schools.

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

The school offers a high quality education at a more affordable price than comparable Princeton private schools, as well as generous tuition assistance to qualified applicants.

Public opposition hasn't stopped more than 350 applicants to the Upper West Success Academy charter school.

Downtown's crowded elementary schools have more applicants than seats for their kindergarten programs.

For the first time, the Spruce Street School has received more applicants than it can hold, with 89 applications for its 75 seats, the principal said.

The inaugural recipients were selected from more than 500 applicants by an external advisory board comprised of Mary Beckerle, CEO and director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, chair; Mary C. Boyce, dean of engineering, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University; Lei Lei, professor and dean of the Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University; Dusa McDuff, Kimmel Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University; and Juliana Rotich, co-founder and director of BRCK Inc..

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

It is only to say that some potential applicants might be more effective teachers than the alternatives that are currently available to public schools.

Instead, if a charter school in New York receives more applicants than it has places, it must enroll students based on a random lottery.

Using this proxy, we find that the applicants to charter schools are much more likely to be poor than is the average New York City student (93 percent versus 74 percent).

Presumably, the danger is that, in a moment of weakness, a school official otherwise will mistakenly hire such an applicant rather than an appropriately trained teacher.

Because there was intense interest from schools in the area in having school tours there were many more applicants for field trips than the museum could accommodate right away.

Nor did students with low initial levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience significantly different reading gains from the program than high achievers and non-SINI applicants.

Primary - school teacher - training programs receive many more applicants than there are spaces.

School administrators seeking to hire new teachers can not be confident that graduates of NCATE - accredited institutions are likely to be better teachers than other applicants.

Drawing on an evaluation of 3,000 applicants in the 2005 06 school year, MDRC concluded that after three years ChalleNGe cadets were more likely than members of the control group to earn a diploma or a GED and to enroll in college or in college courses.

If potential new applicants are less suited to school leadership positions than current leaders or are likely to «do harm,» why does Lasley presume that they will be hired over conventional candidates?

In our study, we overcome this challenge by exploiting a feature common to most charter schools: the lottery that schools use to admit students when they have more applicants than spaces.

Almost all the schools have far more applicants than they can accommodate.

While this amounts to a small proportion of total OneApp applicants, others who ranked fewer than eight schools and yet received a Main Round placement might have simply been fortunate.

Among charter high school applicants, lottery winners are 5 percentage points less likely to be Hispanic and about 6 percentage points more likely to be black than losers.

(In the current study, charter school applicants do in fact have higher than average test scores even before they enroll.

District rates for public high schools include only first - time filing applicants no older than 18.

Charter middle school applicants who were offered a spot at one of the schools to which they applied spent about a year longer attending a charter school than applicants who were not offered a spot.

Applicants may therefore be accepted or wait - listed at more than one school.

Among high school applicants, charter lottery winners are more likely to switch schools than losers, a marginally significant difference of 5 — 6 percentage points.

From a policy - maker's point of voew the important issue is not whether private schools out - perform government schools in the education of students who want out (voucher applicants), but whether choice systems as a whole perform better than systems which do not feature choice.

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

If there are more applicants than available voucher seats, the school must hold a lottery for equal priority students.

Each school holds a random lottery to determine admission if the number of student applicants is greater than the number of spaces available.

Charter schools must accept any student who applies, using a lottery if they have more applicants than spaces.

Charter schools that are open to any child are far more public than magnet and criteria - based schools that select based off of the highest test scores, best attendance, most talented interviewee, and most astonishing presentation by student applicants.

And so, in its second year of Opportunity Culture implementation in four schools, Project L.I.F.T. saw a strong uptick in both the quantity — more than 800 applications for 27 spots — and quality of applicants for teaching roles at schools that previously saw many positions go unfilled.

With far more applicants than spaces, selective schools will typically reject applicants who struggle to succeed in difficult courses.

When schools have more applicants than spaces, students who are not matched to the school are placed on the school's waitlist.

You may also find that colleges have very different testing requirements for home - schooled students than other applicants.

New York admits students to charter schools through a lottery system because there are far more applicants than available spaces.

If more students apply than there are available slots, only the 25 schools that receive the most applicants can participate.

After all, why would high - quality private schools with competitive admissions and more applicants than available places accept potentially less - prepared students who are only paying a fraction of the tuition paid by competitively admitted students?

In stark contrast, Finland has more people clamoring to become teachers than slots available in its schools or preparation programs, where just one in 10 applicants are accepted (Sahlberg, 2015).

(A charter school with fewer applicants than spaces available does not have to conduct a lottery.)

Schools with more applicants than spaces hold a lottery to randomly select students for enrollment.

Charter schools with more applicants than slots available select new students through a randomized process, such as a lottery - type drawing.

«Even the tests» sponsors admit that an applicant's high school record remains a better predictor of college performance than either exam is.»

The school is less selective than other Washington universities, accepting more than 80 % of applicants for admission.

In any given year, if there are fewer applicants than spaces available, Polaris Charter School will not conduct a lottery.

The school is fairly selective, with less than 60 % of applicants receiving admission to the school.