Sentences with phrase «enrolls higher percentages of students»

The network enrolls higher percentages of students with disabilities and English language learners compared to the city and the state.

Massachusetts, Michigan, and Minnesota charter schools stand out in that they enroll a higher percentage of students of color than the average of all public schools in their respective states.

Not exact matches

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

Charters enroll almost as high a percentage of special education students as DPS - operated schools do — 10 vs. 11 percent.

A majority of the states in our sample have charter sectors that enroll a higher percentage of low - income students than their traditional public schools peers.

Researchers found that while charters across the country enroll higher percentages of low - income, black, and Latino students than traditional district schools, they enroll lower percentages of students with disabilities.

Public charter schools continue to enroll higher percentages of black and low - income students than DCPS, as well as the same percentage of students with disabilities, and higher percentages of our most disabled children.

In fact, compared to district schools nationally, charter schools enroll a higher percentage of low - income and minority students.

Charter schools continue to enroll higher percentages of black and low - income students than does DC Public Schools.

Figure 2 also shows that double - dosed students were 8.6 percentage points more likely to enroll in college within five years of starting high school, a nearly 30 percent increase over the base college enrollment rate of 29 percent.

In addition, in many districts that enroll high percentages of historically underserved students, standardized testing has led to teaching to the test and narrowing of the curriculum that has sapped the curiosity out of students.

Overall, charters enroll higher percentages of kids with «specific learning disabilities,» which is the most common classification (about half of all special ed students).

Three Michigan school districts enroll some of the highest percentages of charter - school students nationwide — Detroit, Flint and DeVos» home town of Grand Rapids, where she's expected to attend President elect - Donald Trump's rally Friday night, part of the latest leg of his «Thank You Tour.»

Theme may be important too; looking at the table above, we can see that the themes with the highest percentage of minority students, character education *, college prep, and career prep, enroll 48.5 %, 43.5 %, and 43.1 % Hartford students, respectively, while the themes with the lowest percentage of minority students, early childhood *, STEM, and arts, enroll 24.8 %, 35.7 %, and 39.4 % Hartford students respectively (weighted averages based on total school enrollment).

Danbury (25 %), Hartford (22 %), New London (22 %) and Windham (26 %) district schools enroll the highest percentages of ELL students.

In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than a comparison set of students attending traditional public high schools.

And for all students in U.S. public schools, the percentage of high school graduates who enroll in postsecondary institutions has remained essentially flat.

Meanwhile, compared to high - poverty districts, few, if any, Commonwealth charter schools enroll the same percentage of children from low - income families, children with special needs, or children learning English as a second language — the very students who struggle most with standardized MCAS tests.

Minnich said he anticipates that states may embrace additional indicators of a school's success — such as the percentage of a high school's students who not only enroll but also persist in college — as they devise systems to measure them.

The military high schools, JROTC, and Cadet programs enroll a disproportionately high percentage of students of color, reflecting the broader strategy to recruit African American and Latino males from low - income areas for first - responder positions in U.S. wars abroad.

Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, states are provided with funding to develop the technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in CTE programs.46 Currently, 12.5 million high school and college students are enrolled in CTE programs.47 These programs help keep students in school; the graduation rate of CTE students is about 90 percent, 15 percentage points higher than the national average.48 However, research on their effectiveness is still in the preliminary stages.49 The best and most effective CTE programs are linked to and supported by local business or industry; provide real - world experiences or work opportunities; give students tangible outcomes such as an industry credential or college credit; and create pathways for pursuing college or career after graduation.50

Apparently, Congress did not anticipate that a high percentage of PSLF participants would be graduate students who would rack up six - figure student - loan debt to enroll in expensive graduate programs: law school, MBA programs, etc..

«What's happening, as the American population becomes more diverse, is that the lawyer corps and judges are remaining predominantly white,» said John Nussbaumer, associate dean of Thomas M. Cooley Law School's campus in Auburn Hills, Mich., which enrolls an unusually high percentage of African - American students.