Sentences with phrase «declining number of school districts»

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After adjusting for maternal IQ and education, characteristics of the home environment, school district, and number of siblings, the children who were exposed to greater than 5 parts arsenic per billion of household well water (WAs ≥ 5 μg / L) showed reductions in Full Scale, Working Memory, Perceptual Reasoning and Verbal Comprehension scores, losses of 5 - 6 points, considered a significant decline, that may translate to problems in school, according to Gail Wasserman, PhD, professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia, and the study's first author.

With the decline in enrollment has come a drop in revenues: state aid is based on the number of students attending a district's schools.

In most cases, it is politically impossible for school districts to proportionally decrease their number of employees as their student enrollment declines.

Addressing the complaint that a district's fixed costs do not decline in direct proportion to the number of students who exit the system, Spence stated, «I recognize that [public schools] have certain fixed costs,» although she noted that «essentially the districts are making a profit on students they don't educate.»

Enrollment numbers stagnate or decline in most of the nation's largest school districts, while the largest colleges get bigger.

In the past five years, the district has seen steady increases in both achievement and growth rates for students with disabilities and ELLs on state tests, and a steady decline in the number of «unsatisfactory» schools on state report cards.

The declining number of schoolchildren has financially stressed school districts, even though total state spending has increased.

In Chicago, the number of suspensions given in a school year declined after the district made changes to its student code of conduct in 2012, and began using less exclusionary discipline practices.