Sentences with phrase «average districts where»

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As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

To see both sides, Theroux meets with both the Milwaukee Police Department's homicide division as they patrol District 5 - where the homicide average is over 12 times the national average - and with families and local social activists in the area.

In Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, and Midtown's business district — where roughly 11 percent of all of the city's Airbnb listings were located in 2016 — monthly rents increased an average of $ 398 between 2009 and 2016.

(King's district, which covers the southern part of Nassau County, is the only one in the state where the average property tax deduction is higher than the average income tax deduction.)

Elsewhere, primary returns ranged from awful to almost average, showing 14 percent in the incredibly gerrymandered finger - shaped 101st Assembly District, where incumbent Claudia Tenney of Utica trounced Walden Mayor Brian Maher, to 9.8 percent in the new 51st Senate District race, in which veteran Jim Seward blasted challenger Jim Blake by a more than five - to - one margin.

In Queens, where Bloomberg won most districts except for parts of western Queens and all of southeast Queens, both candidates spent a little less than the city average to get their borough votes.

The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.

It estimates that expenditures average $ 6,680 per pupil, hardly more than 50 percent of the average actual expenditure level of $ 12,637 per pupil in the districts where respondents live.

For the indicator capturing the percent of students in districts where per - pupil expenditures reach or exceed the U.S. average, the corrected national value is 39.8 percent, with revised values lower than previously reported for 36 states.

Using data on contributions from NASRA and pension fund annual reports where necessary, and using weights based on the number of teachers employed in each state or district as reported in the NCES Common Core of Data, it is possible to compute average employer contribution rates for teachers.

More than 45 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts where spending equals or eclipses the national average.

In other words, these schools typically received 1 to 4 percent more than the district average, or $ 15,000 to $ 60,000 per school of 500 students in a district where the average school expenditure is $ 3,000 per pupil.

And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

Only 1 percent of students attend school in districts where spending equals or eclipses the national average.

In the 20 states where the AFT has succeeded in restricting the authority to grant charters to school districts, an average of 26 charter schools are open.

Where data was only available at the school level, district rates were calculated using a weighted average, using the number of students taking the test in each school as the weights.

The rankings describe where the average student in a district is achieving relative to the performance of students in the state, country, and average developed economy.

The methodology says that schools» growth was compared to «the average student growth of the state and the local school district where most of its students live.»

About half of the NAS schools in Cincinnati, Memphis, Miami, and Kentucky (the cities where RAND studied math performance) outperformed the district average in mathematics, while 50 percent or more of the schools in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, San Antonio, and Washington (the cities where RAND studied reading performance) improved in reading.

Traveling north, salaries rise steadily until one reaches the district's northern most school, Ingraham High School, where average teacher pay is $ 78,898.

Even in communities with average - sized school districts, where implementing a voucher program would be easier than in sparse districts, there are still significant barriers to implementing voucher programs that warrant further research, including logistical challenges.

Another 2,200 average school districts that have five to eight schools where vouchers may not work and risk harming existing schools» ability to serve millions of students

In the Piedmont City School District, where the elementary and secondary schools all begin morning classes at 7:50 a.m., high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors maintaining a «B» average may enroll in a virtual first period class.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

The researchers utilized a dataset of elementary schoolchildren from a large - scale urban district where the rates of chronic absenteeism were expected to be higher compared to the national average.

The trend is most pronounced in Salt Lake City School District, where the average west - side teacher is 3.4 years less experienced, and paid $ 3,331 less, than the average east - side instructor.

In Denver, 20 % of students are enrolled in orange and red schools: schools where, on average, nearly 90 % of the students are low - income and students of color, and where proficiency levels are, on average, 16 percentage points lower than the district average.

The new law also ensures that state charter schools are eligible for RESA (Regional Education Service Agency) services and membership; provides an increase in capital funds for brick and mortar state charter schools located in the boundaries of a local school district where the capital revenue (per student) exceeds the state average total capital (per student); increases per - student capital funding for virtual schools to offset certain technology costs; and provides a Department of Education and State Charter School Commission grant program for replicating high performing charter schools.

In 2016, average attendance at district schools climbed back up to 95 and 96 percent, except at Barrington High School where the attendance rate was 93.6 percent, according to the district.

These seven charter public schools not only beat the average state high school graduation rate, but they also exceeded the average rates of their local districts or the counties where they are located.

To arrive at the new figures, Abrams pored over teachers» contracts and bell schedules for a sampling of districts where the amount of instructional time is close to the national average — and accounted for days lost to standardized testing, professional development, and other reasons.

High - need districts (where over 55 percent of students are economically disadvantaged or English Learners) saw lower levels of achievement on average, with about 33 percent of students meeting the standards compared to about 60 percent for districts with fewer high - need students.

Magnolia Public Schools (MPS) reports outstanding gains in 2012 Academic Performance Index (API) scores for its 12 schools, with an average increase of 27 points, outpacing average district gains where the schools are located.

When I reflect on what the NAACP has helped Black people accomplish since its founding in 1909, I am surprised that NAACP might not support a high - quality charter school like ours, where my son and his peers are surpassing district and state grade - level averages across literacy and math after just one year.

Educators who favor dropping the system argue that in the best districts, where the students are highly competitive, the differences in grade - point average between the No. 1 and No. 20 or 25 students can be minuscule.

Each Center of Excellence enrolls a proportionate or higher number of students with disabilities relative to the district where the school is located, demonstrates an explicit commitment to developing exemplary programs with a focus on inclusion, and achieves higher - than - average outcomes for students with disabilities.

From where EdTrust sits, the uproar over the Florida plan (and similar plans like it) also ignores its contention that Cut the Gap in Half actually forces states, districts, and schools to work harder because they must improve achievement for poor and minority students at annual clips greater than the average rate.

[1] To represent the median rent, NCTQ uses the average Zillow Rent Index of the Median Rent List Price for a one bedroom apartment for the county where the district is located from 2011 to 2015.

That law relies more on absolute comparisons of test scores, so it sometimes seems as if Ben Franklin High School, which accepts only high - achieving students, is measured on the same yardstick as schools in the state - run Recovery School District, where the average student starts well below grade level.

Statewide on average, charter school students receive 75 cents on the dollar compared to students in district schools but the gap in funding is worse in Buffalo, where charter children only receive 60 cents on the dollar.

While the new managers of Philadelphia schools will operate with increased freedom from the central school district, they will also face demanding performance standards; under the plan, they can lose their contract for any school where a majority of students fails to reach the average score on state tests after three years.

In Georgia's District 3, which is where the crime happened, the average student loan debt exceeds the national average at $ 30,058.

But in the District of Columbia, where the average purchase price was just over $ 630,000, the average down payment was almost $ 110,000, or more than 17 %.

We measure this by comparing the average home prices in each neighbourhood to prices in the surrounding area, the metro district (where applicable) and the greater municipality.

You may opt for either Senggigi district, the most developed focal point of tourism highlights, or Gili Islands, the three enchanting mini-islands where a few available parties cater more than just the average all - night - long happy hours.

The BoM gives a max mean figure of +0.35 — yet if you check the 148 sites listed, you find the following: * the average anomaly comes out at around -0.2 C; * 95 sites out of the 148 are below average or average; * 27 out of the 38 districts were below average or average; * the gridded map shows areas above average where most of the sites within that are are actually below average (i.e. NW NSW).

Valley Oak District The most expensive neighborhood, Valley Oak District, was where our sample motorist found quotes averaging $ 1,740 a year.

Pharmacy techs earned the most in the District of Colombia, however, where the average annual salary was $ 40,560.

This will allow the average fan to use familiar and trustworthy stores where they can go to any nearby mall / shopping district to buy their desired similar clothing.

New York Times, 1/16/13 — Top civil rights groups release a new report citing extreme school discipline practices throughout Mississippi, such as school districts that suspend students at nine times the national average, and a school where students were handcuffed for infractions as minor as not wearing belts.