Sentences with phrase «estimates of the numbers of schools»

In the early stages I wasn't worried about getting precise estimates of the numbers of schools or the proportion of children in them, but rather wanted to see if such schools even existed.

DOJ and ED offer no estimate of the number of school districts that experience these problems, or the number of schools or students affected.

To date, governments have no firm estimates of the number of school - aged children across the Northern Territory who have no access to school education, and school staffing is allocated on the basis of school attendance rather than population estimates.

Not exact matches

The most recent estimates from local authorities put the number of home schooled children in the UK at more than 36,000 — a figure which has increased by 65 % over the past six years.

The commodity assistance is available to each State based on the estimated number of lunches that will be provided during the school year.

These schools represent approximately 55 % of the total number of schools in our district, with an estimated combined population of over 100,000 students, and the free meals will become available when our school year begins a week from today.

The number is half the estimated 20,000 public schools in Ghana, apart from the thousands of privately owned schools that may not have toilet facilities.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

«Different schools classify [employee postdocs] in different ways,» and NSF has only «rough estimates» of their numbers, says Lynda Carlson, director of the NSF's Division of Science Resources Statistics.

In the new work, David Lalloo, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, and colleagues from the University of Kelaniya used data from a nation - wide household survey conducted in Sri Lanka in 2013 and 2013 to estimate the number of snake bites and deaths from snake bites annually.

In this scenario, what might look like a lack of student achievement, using a conventional VAM estimate, could result from a school having a larger number of disadvantaged students.

Ian Clark, the COU president and CEO, admits that the original estimates could not account for the number of students wishing to accept the option to «fast - track» their studies during the transition period of secondary school reforms.

Physical inactivity contributes to an estimated 5.3 million deaths each year, similar to the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use and obesity, said James F. Sallis, PhD, UC San Diego School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health.

The actual number may be much higher because an estimated 300,000 Texan children are schooled at home, says Susan Wootton, an infectious disease pediatrician at the University of Texas in Houston; though the law requires these kids to be immunized too, parents don't need to submit proof of vaccination.

However, implementation of the regulation may require 54 million research animals and $ 9.5 billion ($ 13.4 billion) over the next 10 years, which represents 20 times the number of animals and six times the cost anticipated in previous estimates, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Consider the split - second calculations you make when you estimate the number of empty seats on the school bus or gauge the number of cookies in a cookie jar.

The estimated within - school reproduction rate, or number of new infections caused by an infected person, was 3.3, comparable to school - based outbreaks of other influenza strains.

The number of times he has actually been rejected from film school is currently unknown, but estimates have placed the number somewhere in the high 30s.

However, a school that relies more heavily on connected devices, such as a school that utilises tablets for class research, may have to estimate a much higher number of users.

Looking at high school graduates, a number of recent state and national reports — including a report from the United States Chamber of Commerce — estimate that in around half of all states, at least 40 percent of higher education students are taking remedial courses, a clear sign that many high school graduates are unprepared for post-secondary work.

Charter school attendance also appears to have a modest positive effect on reading scores, though this estimate falls short of statistical significance due to the relatively small number of students in our lottery sample.

«Although primary targets have been met, we remain concerned that the teacher supply model is under - estimating the number of new primary teachers that schools actually need.

(Almost all the African - American students came from schools with average test scores below the district mean; the few that did not had almost identical average impacts, but the number of available observations was too small to recover precise estimates.)

Based on responses from more than 1,200 elementary, middle, and high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, the survey numbers are estimates for all 79,000 public schools in the United States, extrapolated from the survey sample.

The database includes information about each student's classroom teacher in a given year, which allows us to estimate how much the student learned in that year and to connect that information to such professional characteristics as teacher certification, acquisition of a master's degree, teacher experience, teacher test performance, and the specific school of education the teacher had attended within Florida, if the teacher had attended one of the eleven schools for which adequate numbers of teacher observations were available.

The central problem with estimating peer effects in schools is that families, in a number of ways, can select their children's peers.

As Jon East explained in, «The estimating conference went even further, combining American Community Survey data from 2005 - 09 with private school enrollment data to make projections about the actual number of low - income students enrolled in each grade level in private schools in 2012.»

In making our estimates, we take into account differences between countries in their level of income, the average number of years students are in school, and population growth rates.

Jim Grant, author of several books on looping, says no figures exist for how many U.S. schools loop, but he estimates the number to be as low as 1,000.

Since 2005, it is estimated that the number of school business managers (SBM), as well as bursars, finance directors and finance officers has tripled in state - maintained schools.

High School Graduation Impacts versus ELA Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign for School Choice Programs Only

College Graduation Impacts versus Math Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign and Statistical Significance for School Choice Programs Only

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

College Graduation Impacts versus ELA Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign and Statistical Significance for School Choice Programs Only

College Enrollment Impacts versus Math Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign and Statistical Significance for School Choice Programs Only

High School Graduation Impacts versus Math Impacts: Number of Estimates by Sign for School Choice Programs Only

The number of home - schooled students was 850,000 in 1999; homeschooling groups now estimate that number has risen to around 2 million students.

While the small number of students entering charter schools in midstream grades, like grades 6 through 12, precludes our estimating effects for them, the resulting focus is on the whole desirable.

«When viewed in the context of the number of Generalist Classroom Teachers working in schools, the estimated total number of unfilled positions at the time of the survey (0.6 per cent) is quite low,» the report says.

There are currently estimated to be 721,000 tablets for use by pupils in classrooms across UK maintained schools and academies and a forecast that by the end of 2016 the number will have increased to over 946,000.

The 1.6 multiplier is an estimate of the ratio of the total number of students approved for free and reduced - price school lunches to the number of students approved for free meals without an application.

Enrollment in educator preparation programs has dropped by more than 70 percent over the last decade, and has fallen below the number of estimated hires by school districts around the state.

[xi] The small number of schools per state likely led to imprecision in the estimates in the national report.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

As of the spring of 2001, the Center for Education Reform estimated that 1,750 charter schools were educating about 520,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, more than seven times the number of students in all the public and private voucher programs combined.

«Any number should really be based on an estimate on the number of schools we need to meet place pressures, rather than plucked out of the air.

Nearly 70 percent of schools lack a high - speed Internet connection, and a disproportionate number of them are in poor urban and rural communities, according to estimates from the FCC.

Based on the number of pupils in year 3 to 6 not currently eligible for free school meals, and a take - up of 90 per cent in the pilot, the IFS estimates the extension of free meals to all primary pupils would cost around # 800 million a year.

The number of public non-charter schools for 2012 - 13 is an estimate, equal to the number from 2011 - 12.

Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.