Sentences with phrase «dwindling enrollments in»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 state joins dozens of others in which public higher education competes for dwindling state funding based on outcomes, not just enrollment.