Bishop Sarah will be introduced to representatives from across the Diocese
of London at St Paul's Cathedral on Monday morning, before meeting staff and
students at the Urswick Secondary School in Hackney, where 70 per
cent of pupils are
eligible for Pupil Premium Funding.
... Whereas, nationally, only three in 100 Year 8 Indigenous
students are
eligible (on the basis
of their marks) to go to university when they finish school, 61 per
cent of TAI
students are currently on a Year 12 ATAR pathway.»
For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per
cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment
of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record
of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves
student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories
of students, those: (i)
eligible for free lunch; (ii)
eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient
of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean
students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams
of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2
of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk
of dropping out
of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out
of school; or (viii) other at - risk
students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups
of students.