Sentences with phrase «dwindling enrollment»

The playing field to compete for students is not level, and nobody in the mayor's office or DOE is taking responsibility for it, preferring to leverage dwindling enrollments by school mergers, closures, and truncations without looking at key underlying problems.

Indiana's new voucher program that provides state - funded scholarships to private schools, the nation's broadest, is proving to be a boon for Roman Catholic schools that nationwide have been struggling against dwindling enrollment numbers for years.

Pauline Lipman, a professor of education policy studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said schools with dwindling enrollment get trapped in a cycle.

Could Global Village have survived in the face of dwindling enrollment due to factors including the recession and the growth of charter schools?

DPS also faces dwindling enrollment as families move outside Detroit.

The pace of public school closings has been increasing during the past decade, driven largely by dwindling enrollments in urban districts hit hard by budget pressures and competition from public charter schools.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

Recently, more religious leaders have promoted privatization programs as a way to save religious schools with dwindling enrollment.

Dolan (l.) has been a supporter of the bill, which has been stuck in the Assembly for several years, during a time when numerous Catholic schools have had to close because of dwindling enrollment.

The dwindling enrollment has already contributed to staff cuts across the region, with all of the Erie County districts seeing their staff numbers dip over the past decade, according to data from the New York State Education Department.

The few schools that remained were in the death grip of aging parish populations, increased costs (the number of nuns in Memphis had dropped from 160 to 80), and dwindling enrollment.

The middle school, which serves students in grades 6 — 8, had low scores on standardized achievement tests, an alarming level of bad behavior, and dwindling enrollment.

One of Anderson's most sweeping - and most controversial - reform initiatives was her decision to close a dozen schools with low test scores and dwindling enrollment and open eight schools with new principals, different teachers and more classroom resources.