Sentences with phrase «education officials estimated»

State Department of Education officials estimated that each absent student represents about $ 20 — or about $ 1,600 a day for the Ninth Street strikers.

More than 4,500 students, education officials estimated, could be eligible for state aid, at a cost of $ 27 million.

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Although there are no official statistics, experts in childbirth education estimate that in the United States, 1 percent of births are overseen by doulas.

Did the Tully Board of Education and district officials effectively manage the district's finances by ensuring that budget estimates and fund balances were reasonable?

A sharply worded report released June 23 takes states to task for calculating graduation rates in ways that it contends yield artificially low estimates of the nation's dropout problem — and it upbraids federal education officials for letting them do it.

Those groups hope to convince higher - education officials, members of Congress, and possibly the Administration that modifications in the current system can achieve the $ 4.2 billion in savings the Administration estimates would occur under a direct - loan system.

Graduation Rates - When asked to estimate the percent of ninth - graders who graduate within four years of entering ninth grade, Americans on average offer a pessimistic guess of 66 percent, 9 percent below the U.S. Department of Education's official national estimate.

Ironically, at a time when the system was winning praise, DoDEA officials planned to hire a consultant to spend 18 months studying the costs to maintain each U.S. school in each community, and the estimated cost of having a local education agency take over a school.

Just over 6 percent of the American 15 - yearolds sampled by PISA attended private schools, a figure that corresponds closely to official estimates of private enrollment at the secondary level from the U.S. Department of Education (see Figure 1).

State education officials did not offer an estimate.

Organizers estimated that about 500 researchers, parent and teacher activists, district officials, union leaders and education writers attended the conference.

She said a big obstacle was that Sen. Mike Hall, R - Putnam and chairman of the Finance Committee, likely was concerned about the expense the Department of Education estimated for repealing and replacing the standards and other related costs — originally at $ 168 million, despite confusion on the part of department officials and others over exactly what standards the bill would require to be ditched.

The well - publicized contradictions of official estimates led to a minor political explosion, particularly after the Education Trust (2003) attacked the accuracy of the states» reports to the Department of Education.

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education - technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead.

Education officials here estimate that they now enroll virtually all of the city's 3 - and 4 - year - olds in preschool programs for six hours each day.

At last week's Department of Education financial emergency board meeting, officials said an estimated $ 555,000 in terminal leave pay will go to school district staff no longer employed after June 30.

Indiana Department of Education officials have yet to come out with their own estimate of the voucher program's cost.

A council report said the estimated cost of the school — which will be run by the Harpenden Secondary Education Trust — is «relatively high» and Education Funding Agency (EFA) officials were said to be «concerned over their [EFA's] ability to gain capital approval».

GAO analyzed published and unpublished budget data covering Direct Loans made from fiscal years 1995 through 2015 and estimated to be made in 2016 and 2017; analyzed and tested Education's computer code used to estimate IDR plan costs; reviewed documentation related to Education's estimation approach; and interviewed officials at Education and other federal agencies.