Sentences with phrase «decreased enrollment»

The district cited decreasing enrollment growth and increasing test scores in existing schools as reasons to stop creating new schools.

Together with historical accounts of the importance of Head Start in providing education for five - year - olds in the absence of state - funded kindergartens, these estimates strengthen support for the hypothesis that state funding for kindergartens decreased enrollment of African American five - year - olds in federally funded early education for the poor.

Instead, the increases in flagship enrollment appear to decrease enrollment at comparably ranked private institutions.

Both school corporations decided to pose their referenda due to decreasing enrollment numbers.

This is the district's second failed referenda to counter decreasing enrollment in recent years.

As part of the changes announced on Thursday, Mr. de Blasio will decrease the enrollment of a fourth charter school, American Dream Charter School in the South Bronx, to 75 students from 100 students.

The board earmarked $ 1.6 billion of the bond for construction, providing 20,000 new classroom seats in order to decrease enrollment at each of the district's 78 middle schools to 2,000.

Like many school districts in economically - depressed areas, job losses in and around Fayette County led not only to decreased enrollment in Connellsville Area School District, but decreased funding as well.

When McCoy first became the principal, Daughter of Zion Junior Academy was on the verge of closing due to decreased enrollment.

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.

According to the AEI survey, most private schools participating in school choice programs in Florida (59 percent) and Indiana (57 percent) reported that they were planning to increase their enrollment, but in Louisiana, 65 percent of LSP - accepting schools planned to maintain their current level of enrollment and 13 percent planned to decrease enrollment.

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

«He also criticized the state's generous reimbursement policy for school construction projects, especially in an age of decreasing enrollment.»

The threat of school closures discourages professionals and families from working with Renewal Schools, decreasing enrollments and teacher retention.