But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools,
district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.
Not exact matches
Since the 2012 - 13 school year (SY),
districts nationwide have raised the nutritional quality of their offerings across these venues to better support children's health, readiness to learn, and lifelong eating habits.1 Multiple studies
show significant progress toward these goals: Kids are selecting more nutritious meals and eating more fruits and vegetables.2 (See
Figure 1.)
Figures from the
districts released Wednesday by the state Education Department, called the property tax report cards,
show budgeted spending growing by an average 2.36 percent in Nassau County and 2.33 percent in Suffolk County.
YNN's
figures show Democrats and Republicans in a dead heat (29 - 29), but four
districts are still in play and Republicans are leading most of them — making the GOP gitty there is a real chance they could take back control of the state Senate.
District - by - district figures extracted by Newsday from the state data released Tuesday night show a mixed picture on the
District - by -
district figures extracted by Newsday from the state data released Tuesday night show a mixed picture on the
district figures extracted by Newsday from the state data released Tuesday night
show a mixed picture on the Island.
The
figures this week
show 40 percent of the first
districts have submitted the proper paperwork.
New state
figures show the four year graduation rate in Rochester schools was up slightly last year, but not enough to please one
district leader.
Inside the courthouse, U.S.
District Judge Joan M. Azrack asked 51 potential jurors — one by one — about their jobs, what they do in their spare time, their favorite television
shows and which public
figures they admire.
The
figure was put forth recently by Richard Timbs of Bernard P. Donegan consulting firm, and it
showed that, compared to many
districts throughout the state, Onteora is in better financial shape and has a little wiggle room, but that eventually financial changes must be made in order to stop the bleeding.
Common Cause NY also released
figures showing Manhattan's eight new Council
districts will be «all packed to the maximum legal limit» while the Bronx's eight new Council
districts are less crowed.
There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of
districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see
Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar)
shows that few
districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.
As
shown in
Figure 1b, the share of students with autism is 0.2 percentage points smaller in charters than in
district schools in Denver and 1 percentage point smaller in New York City.
In fact, the
district data
show that higher spending per student is associated with a decrease in the percentage of courses taught by licensed teachers (see
Figure 1).
Figure 6
shows the relationship between
district poverty rate and maltreatment rate for each of the 542
districts in our sample.
Figure 5
shows referral rates across 25 large
districts in Michigan.
Figures released by the Chicago
district last month
show that of the 32,838 students in the 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades who were required to attend summer school this year, 13,308 — nearly 41 percent — didn't qualify for promotion to the next grade...
Figure 1
shows the range of per - pupil costs in
District 1: electives came at a cost of $ 512 per pupil versus $ 328 per math class, $ 434 per English class, and $ 564 per class in a foreign language.
The
district's graduation rate, which rose 6 percent in the most recent
figures, to 95 percent,
showed one of the greatest improvements in the region.
However, a comparison with other urban
districts in Illinois and the Midwest, such as Cincinnati, Gary, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and St. Louis, none of which created a similar accountability system during this period,
shows that Chicago's trend is unique (see
Figure 2).
Figure 2
shows the correlations between school - average social - emotional skills and key indicators of academic performance (GPA and state test scores) and student behavior (the percentage of students receiving suspensions and average absence rates) across CORE
district middle schools.
Washington state's recently released dropout
figures show an overall decline of a single percentage point, but the rate remains high in
districts statewide.
Individual states vary in their percentages of special education students.2
Figure 1
shows the percentages of students receiving special education services in the 50 states and the
District of Columbia in 2008 - 09.
But another
figure is more encouraging and
shows the Madison School
District isn't giving up on those who fall behind.
As
shown in studies by Leslie Papke and Joydeep Roy, and as confirmed in our report, the
districts that experienced higher funding per student
showed improvements in student achievement relative to school
districts that did not (
Figure 2 - 1 on page 8 of our report).
For example,
Figure 2
shows how a 6th grader used the bubble map to understand the story, «William Tell, the Archer and the Apple,» which her class in Brooklyn, New York's
District 13 had read.
In fact, enrollment
figures show that charter school students are just as diverse (racially and economically) as students who attend traditional
district schools.
We found little significant variation by
district type, except that more high - performance
districts than high - need
districts reported having a policy in place (98 % to 80 %), as
Figure 2
shows.5
Enrollment
figures released last month by the
district showed that while 19 of 87
district - run high schools are considered over capacity this year, another 35 are less than half full.
Our survey
shows that across all
district types the most common measures are test scores (94 %), math GPA (91 %), and teacher recommendations (87 %)(
Figure 4).
Faith leaders, business owners, mental health counselors and representatives from after - school programs join
district and school officials to
figure out how to support families so that children
show up at school.
As
Figure 2
shows, there should be a direct relationship among inputs, processes, outputs, and outcomes within state,
district, and school systems, as well as between each of them.
Figure 5
shows the percentage of black third - graders in
District 65 who scored above the 50th percentile in reading for the years indicated.
Figure 7 below
shows graduation rates for all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, and the nation since 2011.
School
district leaders and state education chiefs have been trying to
figure this out for years now, especially because research
shows that having a teacher from similar demographic backgrounds has social and academic benefits for students, most of whom are nonwhite.
Enrollment
figures show that charter school students are just as diverse (racially and economically) as students who attend traditional
district schools.
New state
figures show the four year graduation rate in Rochester schools was up slightly last year, but not enough to please one
district leader.
These
figures are significant because they
show how a student's contact with a Rocketship school is changing their achievement from what it would have been had the student remained in a
district school.
The one Rocketship school we examined, Southside Community Prep, whose suspension rate was higher than zero
shows clearly a difference between its rates and those of its surrounding
district (
Figure 5).
Selected Works from the Goss - Michael Collection Goss - Michael Foundation, Design
District April 13 — May 31 Presenting strong, accomplished female
figures in the international arts community, alongside highlighted works from the 2018 MTV RE: DEFINE Honoree, Tracey Emin, CBE, this
show is in support of, and reaction to, the courageous voices uplifting the message of widespread female disparity across all industries.
Modeling
shows that commercial entities could pay 15 to 20 percent more for each unit of electricity they purchase — but that
figure doesn't account for the change expected in the
District's energy mix.
On both charts I've
shown the Great Falls
District figures with a green line.
The BoM gives a max mean
figure of +0.35 — yet if you check the 148 sites listed, you find the following: * the average anomaly comes out at around -0.2 C; * 95 sites out of the 148 are below average or average; * 27 out of the 38
districts were below average or average; * the gridded map
shows areas above average where most of the sites within that are are actually below average (i.e. NW NSW).
Recent Tenth
District Federal Reserve Bank
figures have
shown the city's manufacturing sector entering recovery since mid-2011.