Sentences with phrase «closed last academic year»

For another, Quitman's student population is rapidly changing: There was an influx of children with special needs when their school closed last academic year, and meanwhile some of the highest - performing students are being recruited away by well - regarded charter schools.

Not exact matches

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

Keith B. Geiger, the union's president from 1989 until last year, is close to being named the head of academic affairs at the U.S. Information Agency, a spokeswoman for the agency said last week.

The report provides data that indicate scholarship students are making academic progress and are closing the achievement gap with the statewide student average by almost half over the last five years, from 32 percentage points in 2011 to 18 percentage points in 2015.

And she stood by last year's closings, saying that each of those schools was an easier decision due to their lower academic performance.

Madison Prep's purpose — closing the academic achievement gap in Madison Schools — is a top priority of the United Way, which raised some $ 16 million in the community last year.

To wit, in the last seven years 21 charter schools have been closed by the state for academic, fiscal, or organizational reasons.

The analysis included results from 48 traditional CPS schools — almost all of them neighborhood schools — that the city closed after the last school year, citing poor academic performance, declining enrollment and the costs of maintaining aging buildings.

As a closing point, in Simonsohn's widely publicized discussions of academic fraud last year e.g. here, Simonsohn stated that compliant articles ought to disclose «failed» calculations, as well as the ones reported (see Simmons et al 2011 here.)

Swoopo, the crazy «entertainment shopping» site where users buy bids to compete against one another and lengthen the time until an auction closes, has spread to seven countries, facilitated 200,000 + transactions, and inspired tens of behavioral economics academic papers over the last 4.5 years.