Sentences with phrase «average public school in the nation»

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areas.

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Graduation numbers are a controversial issue for New York state, which ranks below the national average in that area although its spending on public schools is among the nation's highest.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Warped opinions about our nation's public schools include: they are inferior to private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science; teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

For example, 36 percent of our high school students now attend a non-charter public school that exceeds the state average in reading and math — and let me proudly say that New Jersey always ranks among the top two or three states in the nation.

The federation's review of the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress, often called «the nation's report card,» found that charter - school students» average scores were lower in math and reading in the fourth and eighth grades than the nationwide public - school averages.

The nation's 3.2 million public school teachers earned $ 53,910 on average in 2008 - 09, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Seven years after Paul Vallas and the «education reformers» successfully destroyed the public education system in New Orleans and replaced it with charter schools, the average score for the standardized test known as ACT stands at 16.8, placing it among the very lowest cities in the nation.

So the average total per pupil spending in DC area private schools, some of the most elite private schools in the entire nation, is about $ 10,000 less than the comparable figure for DC public schools.

Students in the nation's virtual K - 12 charter schools — who take all of their classes via computer from home — learn significantly less on average than students at traditional public schools, a new study has found.

Public schools serving these students are not underperforming because they are underfunded, they are underperforming despite the fact that they are, on average, the best - funded districts in the nation.

But with the average student - to - school - counselor ratio in our nation's public schools fast approaching 500 - to - 1, counselors are stretched too thin to provide the necessary college advising to students struggling to map out their postsecondary plans.

Miles» report, which analyzed both state and national public school spending trends, pointed to numerous shortfalls in the state's school finance structure, including that North Carolina has the fifth lowest average teacher salary in the nation when adjusted for cost - of - living, and that the state's teachers earn only about 67 percent of the pay given to «similarly - educated, non-teachers.»

As an extension to our Average Student Loan Debt Per Graduate by School by State study, which shows the student loan debt per graduate from over 1,200 schools in the nation, we decided to rank the best and worst public schools, private schools, and all schools overall.