Sentences with phrase «decreased enrollment in»

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

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While some schools have seen a decrease in their enrollment, Sherbrooke can boast a 25 % increase over last year alone.
Over the past 17 years, Thunderbird has experienced a 75 % decrease in enrollment for its full - time MBA program.
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.
As another example, subsidized enrollment in the marketplaces might be lower than projected in the baseline, which would tend to decrease the budgetary savings under this policy.
Pearson has struggled with lagging textbook sales and decreased college enrollment while IBM needs to monetize its billion plus dollar investment in supercomputer Watson.
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.
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.
Those numbers have since dropped off and Rockland is looking at a 3 percent decrease in student district enrollment by 2020.
Meanwhile our neighboring district Briarcliff has seen a 16 % decrease in enrollment.
Enrollment numbers have decreased in both smaller districts in recent years and yet they continue to spend more on administrative costs per student than others.
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).
While enrollment in traditional charters also increased during this period, traditional public school enrollment decreased.
As the Boston Municipal Research Bureau has pointed out, even though Boston has seen its net Chapter 70 aid decrease by $ 56 million dollars from FY2011 to FY2015, in large part due to increased charter enrollment, its overall operating budget has increased by 23.4 percent.
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 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.
Despite the worry that enrollments would decrease once FLVS began receiving per - pupil funding because it would put the school in competition with some district funds, the opposite happened.
Without the promise to teachers of a guaranteed salary increment, enrollment in master's - level programs would undoubtedly decrease.
Public school enrollment has increased by 12 percent and private school enrollment in elementary and middle schools decreased by half.
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.
Instead, the increases in flagship enrollment appear to decrease enrollment at comparably ranked private institutions.
Washington — Americans will spend $ 230 billion for education during the 1983 - 84 school year — up from $ 215 billion this past year — while total enrollment in the nation's schools and colleges will decrease only slightly, according to the Education Department's annual «back - to - school» forecast.
Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates.
[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.
Over the past two plus decades, inflation adjusted per - student education spending in Mississippi has increased by 54 percent while teacher salaries and student enrollment have decreased by two and three percent, respectively.
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).
From October 2000 to October 2015, the enrollment rate for students ages 5 — 6, who are typically enrolled in kindergarten or grade 1, decreased from 96 to 94 percent, and the enrollment rate for students ages 7 — 13 decreased by less than 1 percentage point to 98 percent.
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.
However, in 18 other states, enrollment is projected to decrease in both grade ranges.
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 MaineIn 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 Mainein 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 Mainein three states (Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine).
New Mexico is projected to have an increase in enrollment in preK through grade 8, but a decrease in enrollment in grades 9 through 12; New York is projected to have a decrease in enrollment in preK through grade 8, but an increase in enrollment in grades 9 through 12.
Evers pointed to statistics showing enrollment in teacher - training programs has decreased each year since 2011, resulting in 2,000 fewer students preparing to become teachers in 2014 than in 2011.
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.
Over the past two plus decades, inflation adjusted per - student education spending in Mississippi has increased by 54 percent while teacher salaries have increased by just two percent and student enrollment has decreased by three percent.
The talk around the water cooler has changed over the years, but school administrators keep returning to the same issues - how do we comply with the ADA; how do we address increasing enrollment and decreasing dollars; should we contract services out or keep them in - house; how can we keep our students, faculty and facilities safe and secure; where does technology fit into our educational goals.
In fact, enrollment in the Greenville Public School District has decreased 35 percent over the past 15 years from more than 7,300 students to less than 4,900 this yeaIn fact, enrollment in the Greenville Public School District has decreased 35 percent over the past 15 years from more than 7,300 students to less than 4,900 this yeain the Greenville Public School District has decreased 35 percent over the past 15 years from more than 7,300 students to less than 4,900 this year.
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