Sentences with phrase «for high enrollment»

A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

The findings led Sullivan to conclude in his report that the National School Lunch Program, meant to provide basic nutrition to needy students, was «ripe for fraud and abuse» because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

Promoted sales of the hotel's upgrade package to guests, consistently received honors for highest enrollments.

Not exact matches

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

Despite higher university enrollment, wages are falling for young Americans.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

This observation is underscored with a special pointedness in the 1979 report of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, titled Fair Practices in Higher Education and somewhat ominously subtitled «Rights and Responsibilities of Students and Their Colleges in a Period of Intensified Competition for Enrollments.»

The scarcity of students and of operating funds is a relatively recent phenomenon in private higher education, and it has followed upon a decade when there were burgeoning enrollments and high prosperity, presumably good times for institutional initiative.

Exceptions may be made for schools with very high enrollment numbers.

Enrollment in high school and youth football programs has generally been on the decline for a while.

Laura, 17, a starter for Hague High (enrollment, 38) since she was a seventh - grader, is the most prolific scorer (with 2,809 points) ever in girls» five - to - a-side basketball in North Dakota.

No longer will Batesville, whose enrollment of 589 will barely qualify it for the second - highest of the four new classes, be able to contemplate challenging the Ben Davises and Fort Wayne Northrops in the postseason.

Over the years schoolboy hoops has done as much as anything else to define the character of Indiana, but starting next season the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) will stage multiple state tournaments, one for each of four enrollment classifications.

Plus, the Southern Section has had the philosophy for many years of organizing its playoff divisions in all sports in which the highest divisions ««Pac - 5 for football, Open Division for boys and girls hoops, Division I for baseball, etc. ««contain the best competitive teams regardless of school enrollment.

«In seventh grade, the big worry is the ISAT score and attendance, and in eighth grade you sit for the selective enrollment exams for high school,» the Chicago mom says.

Exceptions may be made for schools with very high enrollment numbers.

The course has been taught for several years at the park district, with this year generating one of the highest enrollments at Recreation Park.

Enrollment for the 2002 - 03 school year is now being taken in the Science and Arts Academy, 1825 Miner St., an independent day school serving gifted children in preschool through junior high.

My friends are raising similarly amazing little munchkins, and yet, here we all are, waiting on pins and needles for the CPS computer to spit out a letter informing us if our kids made it into one of Chicago's selective enrollment high schools — about as likely as the Cubs winning the World Series.

Although the land purchase by a developer for homes means an increase in tax revenue for the park district and other government agencies, it also means an increase in enrollment in the already crowded Glenbard North High School and elementary schools in Community Consolidated School District 93.

Along with the party enrollment disadvantage for the GOP the current County Executive seems to be enjoying a high level of popularity.

«Now that the GEA is finally gone for good, state policymakers need to turn their attention to making sure the Foundation Aid formula operates as intended and drives additional resources to high need districts facing enrollment growth,» Borges said.

NY State of Health, the state's Obamacare exchange, has extended its enrollment deadline by three days for coverage beginning Feb. 1, in response to high consumer demand, as Congress seeks to undo the federal law that established the online market.

«In Abia State today, the highest enrollment for WAEC, we assessed Umuahia which is the capital, we did not go to a community like my community, we did not find 70 students enrolling for Physics in a school but in Chibok, a community, I first heard in my life when this incident happened, we saw 273.

They argue that the policy will reduce the demand for enrollment in private Senior High Schools.

In New York where residents pay the highest percentage of their annual wages on child care, Macy's associates and retail workers from the 34th Street Commercial Corridor were helped by a $ 500,000 allocation secured by the Independent Democratic Conference for the Facilitated Enrollment program.

Senior high school enrollment in Ghana for the 2014/2015 academic year stood at 804,974 students, made up of 275,733 in SHS 1, 274,609 in SHS 2 and 254,632 students in SHS 3 in both public and private schools.

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described as inaccurate, reports that the increased enrollment under the Free Senior High School policy is solely to blame for cases of congestion and infrastructure deficit being experienced in some schools.

«He has also been a leading voice for banning standardized tests for our youngest students, supported a three - year moratorium against the use of Common Core testing for student promotion and placement, and has backed giving the city and state Comptrollers the power to audit charters, particularly charter practices that limit the enrollment and retention of high - needs students.»

He has also smartly publicized the rent freeze and the SCRIE and DRIE programs, which now have the highest enrollments in their history; with the City Council, he has greatly increased funding for eviction prevention; and supported the right to counsel in housing court.

Haynes talked about the financial benefits the college provides the community including workforce development and concurrent enrollment programs for high school students.

Enrollments were highest when starting salaries for physics Ph.D. s compared favorably to salaries for other professionals, and lowest when physics salaries lagged behind those of other professionals.

Graduate enrollment in computer sciences, a field of special concern to many industrial leaders, rose for the fifth straight year, standing almost 20 % higher than in 1990 and some 130 % greater than in 1980.

For example, more recent studies have used even higher severity thresholds for enrollment, which would eliminate more than 90 percent of the STAR * D populatiFor example, more recent studies have used even higher severity thresholds for enrollment, which would eliminate more than 90 percent of the STAR * D populatifor enrollment, which would eliminate more than 90 percent of the STAR * D population.

In all, college enrollment is significantly higher for students from homes where newspapers, books or computers are available.

April 30, 2015 Clinical trial for guanabenz as treatment for Multiple Sclerosis begins enrollment Patients are now being enrolled in a clinical trial conducted to study guanabenz, an FDA - approved drug to treat high blood pressure, as a potential therapeutic to reduce loss of myelin in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.

Hawthorn University welcomes students who have graduated from high school or have earned a GED to be considered for enrollment to the Holistic Health Certificate program.

Hawthorn University welcomes students who have graduated from high school or have earned a GED to be considered for enrollment to the Nutrition Consultant program.

For one thing, there are the previously mentioned con artists — these people aren't reluctant to pay for a top - notch enrollment with a specific end goal to appear at the highest point of any pursuit, so ensure the individual you're going to contact is a confirmed client and not a digital scammFor one thing, there are the previously mentioned con artists — these people aren't reluctant to pay for a top - notch enrollment with a specific end goal to appear at the highest point of any pursuit, so ensure the individual you're going to contact is a confirmed client and not a digital scammfor a top - notch enrollment with a specific end goal to appear at the highest point of any pursuit, so ensure the individual you're going to contact is a confirmed client and not a digital scammer.

With a current enrollment of approximately Please Join Us — Community Meeting Discussing New High School Graduation Requirements for 2018 - 19.

High Tech High (Beauregard, 2015)-- Widely praised for improving test scores, no increase in college enrollment

[2] Focusing on public, non-selective institutions between 1990 and 2013, the authors use institution - level data on enrollments, degree completions, tuition prices, total revenues, and expenditures from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and augment this with data on how much state legislatures appropriate for higher education each year.

The report says that charter school enrollment shows patterns of a high level of minority segregation, which is particularly evident for black students.

New Research from Harvard Graduate School of Education Reveals Tax Credits» Goals Unachieved New research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education finds no evidence of increased college enrollment among students eligible for federal tax credits, despite the tax credit's primary purpose to increase access to higher education.

If, for example, drug - market activity is concentrated within a few schools, we might expect large differences in criminality in the high school years that diminish as enrollment in the chosen school ends and lottery winners and losers return to the same neighborhoods.

For high schools, there will also be a «Prepared for Success» component, based on factors such as dual - enrollment and AP and IB tesFor high schools, there will also be a «Prepared for Success» component, based on factors such as dual - enrollment and AP and IB tesfor Success» component, based on factors such as dual - enrollment and AP and IB tests.

But I do find some impacts on enrollment, grade progression, and grade attainment for high - risk youth.

Murnane (2013) finds that high school completion rates have been increasing since 1970 with larger increases for black and Hispanic students; Baum, Ma and Pavea (2013) find that postsecondary enrollment rates have been increasing since the 1980s, particularly for those from poor families.

«Given the particularly large impacts for Latinos, a group that tends to be underenrolled in preschool programs, efforts to increase the enrollment of Latino children in high - quality prekindergarten programs such as the one studied here may be beneficial,» Weiland added.