Sentences with phrase «evacuee students»
So far, schools in Lafayette, located about 120 miles west of New Orleans, reportedly have registered 2,500 evacuee students and hired more than 100 teachers, while Shreveport, 350 miles northwest of the Crescent City, has enrolled 1,000 new students.
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After Hurricane Katrina, the median student evacuee was out of school for five weeks.
They found that the arrival of low - achieving evacuees dragged down the average performance of the Houston students and had a particularly negative impact on high - achieving Houston kids.
Meanwhile, high - achieving evacuees had a positive effect on local students.
Students enrolled in new schools, including the thousands who entered the Houston public schools (altogether an estimated 250,000 evacuees went to Houston), and teachers found new jobs.
For example, students who were exposed to Hurricane Katrina evacuees with significant behavior problems experienced short - term increases in school absences and discipline problems themselves.
A study by the RAND Corporation of students from Louisiana districts affected by the hurricane suggests that these two factors had a short - term net negative effect on evacuees» performance of 0.03 to 0.06 standard deviations.
Other research on these students by Dartmouth economist Bruce Sacerdote suggests that New Orleans evacuees experienced larger improvements in school quality than evacuees from other districts.