Sentences with phrase «decrease the enrollment of»

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Much of that decrease was due to enrollment by Georgians in private individual insurance plans sold either on new Obamacare government health exchanges or outside of those marketplaces.

Fuller's regional campus enrollment decreased by 30 percent over the past four years, with the slipping numbers hurting the sense of community at various locations as well as their financial viability, he said.

With the end of the draft and the yearly decreasing size of the 18 - year - old population, the inflated campus enrollments of the late «60s and early «70s quickly declined.

Like almost all institutions of higher education, these schools, whether university - related or denominational, are buffeted by inflation, a decrease of public support, and a drop in student enrollment.

As church membership has decreased, so has the relative percentage of active members, Sunday School enrollment, and optimism about the future of the church.

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

Because of enrollment decreases, four of these schools closed prior to the 2011 — 2012 school year.

It predicts that kindergarten classes will be smaller, following a trend of fewer housing sales and a 7.4 percent decrease in enrollment over the last 10 years.

Four variables assessed during TENOR I enrollment were significantly predictive of persistent VPC asthma: black race, current or past smoking status, corticosteroid course for worsening asthma in the previous three months and decreased post-bronchodilator forced expiratory flow in 1 second (FEV1).

Memphis was a sprawling Catholic diocese that had seen the number of its faithful increase by half, but its school enrollment decrease by almost a quarter.

As shown in Table 5 from the original report ---- a 100 student increase in enrollment was associated with a 28 - percent decrease in the likelihood of participation in the LSP.

But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

Sixty - three percent of all postsecondary institutions surveyed reported enrollment increases of 10 percent or more in such courses; 4 percent of the institutions reported decreases of 10 percent or more.

Without the promise to teachers of a guaranteed salary increment, enrollment in master's - level programs would undoubtedly decrease.

Public schools all over the nation — but especially in cities — are grappling with difficult problems of strikes, decreasing enrollment and increasing costs, as well as the perceived threat of tax credits for private - school tuition and voucher plans.

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

[29] By contrast, only 2 percent of participating private schools in Florida and Indiana planned to decrease their enrollment.

The tuition benefit decreases by 5 percent per year as the number of years of continuous enrollment declines, covering 65 percent of costs for those enrolling in 9th grade.

Among district schools within a half - mile and one - mile radius, charter school entry leads to significant decreases in general education enrollment of approximately 16 students per school, on average.

Although charter and non-charter gains during Rhee can be separated under NAEP, the Rhee administration closed a number of schools in DC during the 2007 - 09 period causing enrollment in charters to increase by half and enrollment in non-charter DC public schools to decrease by one quarter in only two years.

Gary schools posted billboards advertising a bump in state test scores this summer to try and stem the tide of decreasing enrollment.

Broward's School Board saw those numbers — and five straight years of district enrollment decreases — and declared it wants a piece of the action.

Perhaps even more surprisingly, the private school share of total enrollments has decreased over the past 15 years, from about 12 percent to 10 percent.

Since the creation of the achievement school district, four charter operators have pulled out of Memphis — at least two because they saw troubling enrollment decreases, said Hoyt.

During the same time period, enrollment in grades 9 through 12 is projected to increase by 15 percent or more in the District of Columbia and five states (North Dakota, Utah, Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming), but is projected to decrease by 10 percent or more in five states (New Hampshire, Connecticut, Michigan, Maine, and Vermont).

Enrollment declined during this period in the other 18 states, with decreases of 10 percent or more occurring in four states (Michigan, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont).

The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.

Other indicators of positive systemic change are: 29 % enrollment increase compared to five years ago; increase in graduation rate from 84.1 % (2012 accountability report) to 97.5 % (2015 accountability report); increase in attendance rate from 93.3 % (2012 accountability report) to 95.0 % (2015 accountability report); and a 22 % decrease in discipline referrals from 2011 - 2012 to 2014 - 2015.

In preK through grade 8, enrollment is projected to increase by 15 percent or more in the District of Columbia and three states (North Dakota, Utah, and Arizona), but is projected to decrease by 10 percent or more in three states (Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine).

Mississippi was one of eight states to actually see a decrease in enrollment from FY 1992 through FY 2015.

As a National Board Certified English teacher, she increased the enrollment of minority and nontraditional students in her AP Language and Composition classes and tripled her overall course enrollment within one year without a decrease in her students» test scores.

I differ on this point as to the weight of its contributing impact, because this one - time decrease in state funding for public education doesn't alter the fact that for the past 20 years in Texas, total annual public education funding from all sources — local, state, and federal — has increased by almost twice the sum of inflation and enrollment growth over that period, even after an adjustment for the growth in special education students.

About 41 percent of classroom seats are empty, and projections indicate a continued decrease in enrollment.

During this time period, enrollment decreased by three percent while the size of staff, both teachers and non-teachers increased by 15 percent.

In that plan, Evers sought hundreds of millions more in state spending and changes that would help school districts with high numbers of children living in poverty and mitigate school funding losses for districts experiencing enrollment decreases, among other measures.

«In future years, these barriers will be further exacerbated by declining enrollment in rural districts and the overall decrease in the number of college students entering teacher education programs,» the request said.

Those fears crescendoed when the school board voted one month before the May 16 election to support State Bill 808, which would have allowed school districts to close or reject charter schools if they could be considered a financial burden to the district, which has yet to decrease its staffing levels despite declining enrollment and is facing billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and projected budget deficits.

Public school enrollment overall has decreased by less than 1 percent, but total enrollment has increased 2.81 percent with the addition of voucher students supported by the state, according to figures from the Indiana Department of Education.

Our goals remain the same: increased rates of proficiency on state and national assessments, decreased achievement gaps, improved teacher effectiveness, increased graduation rates, and higher rates of college enrollment and success.

A report by the Learning Policy Institute found that enrollment in teacher preparation programs fell 35 percent between 2009 and 2014, a decrease of close to 240,000 potential teachers.

While the cost of living has increased, overall enrollment in public schools in California has been decreasing, meaning that the amount of special education funding going to localities has been growing slowly.

California, however, appears to be one of the only states now reporting an increase in teacher preparation enrollment, while others such as Tennessee, Oregon and Idaho have reported further decreases in the last three months.

Meanwhile, the recently released State of Preschool 2013 (PDF) report shows that total preK enrollment declined in 2012 — representing the first decline since tracking began 10 years ago — due to state preK funding decreases of more than $ 500 million during 2011 — 12.

And as for declining enrollment in private schools, private school consumption is decreasing, particularly in urban areas where children are being ruined by failing schools, because of economics, not school quality.

Kemple and Snipes (2000) found that enrollment in a career academy significantly decreased the dropout rate of at - risk students.

It is projected that by 2022, there will be a sixteen percent decrease in the enrollment of white students in public schools nationwide.

Funding for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), the state virtual school of Idaho, was significantly impacted in 2011 - 12 by changes brought about by SB1184, with significant funding decreases and the elimination of IDLA's state appropriation based on a student enrollment formula and some course fees.

These trends may reflect decreasing enrollment in teacher preparation programs over the past few years as well as high rates of attrition among teachers within their first five years.4 5 Turnover rates for new teachers have risen for the last two decades.

While enrollment numbers for Hispanics are increasing, enrollment numbers for other races and ethnicities has decreased over the last four years, according to data points graphed from USU's Office of Analysis, Assessment and Accreditation.