Sentences with phrase «for smaller enrollments»

We see three primary arguments against the funding of phantom students: First, by continuing to fund phantom students, states ensure that districts won't restructure expenditures for smaller enrollments.

But he wrangled with the unions over issues like rightsizing the teaching staff for a smaller enrollment.

Not exact matches

Even the smallest agency will be able to bring its expertise to a digital platform with accurate, up - to - date information, making open enrollment periods far less stressful for benefits managers and employees.

I said the 300k was small because for a school with our current enrollment it seems so.

But thanks to the fact that Salesian's enrollment this year was 19 over the 500 - student cutoff for California Interscholastic Federation Small School state bowl championship purposes, the Pride had to contend with Div.

Each year Hameline brings in some 75 students who think they are football players, a significant number for a small school (Wagner's full - time enrollment: 1,292, half of whom are women).

Tamir Goodman — an 11th grader and the point guard on the basketball team at Talmudical Academy, a small Jewish day school (enrollment 72) in nearby Pikesville, with classes from prekindergarten through 12th grade — is in his house, waiting for the Sabbath to end.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal... Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $ 30 (about $ 547 in 2015) a month ($ 25 of which had to be sent home to their families).

«As a Democrat, Deacon has a small edge in enrollment and the top of the ticket will certainly not be a liability for her campaign.

Any proposal to cut graduate enrollment, a summit participant told me, was rejected as too controversial for the current project, which focuses on undertaking goals small and unthreatening enough to be possibly attainable in the near future.

Pooling data across years and grades will include most students in accountability systems, but for lower enrollment populations, pooling across racial / ethnic groups may provide an opportunity to include students in accountability systems in cases where subgroup size is otherwise too small.

These include: «protection» clauses against declining enrollment; hold - harmless provisions for districts competing with charter schools; subsidies to small districts; and minimum categorical allocations.

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

Compared to the college enrollment rate of 37 % for those not offered, students at small schools are 7 % more likely to attend college and 6 % more likely to attend a four - year college.

The initial funding mechanism was designed for a small program, so the district was allowed to maintain total expenditures as enrollments dipped, through modest increases in property taxes.

It might be argued, for example, that the decline in MPS enrollment was too small to affect certain indivisible costs, such as the number of teachers or buildings that comprise the lion's share of the district's budget.

And it has an even smaller effect on the results for college enrollment, reducing the estimated effect of charter school attendance by only about 10 percent in both locations.

Perhaps the explanation is that the debt gap would be smaller if the students who account for the enrollment growth in graduate school among blacks, many of whom attended for - profit universities, had opted not to go to graduate school at all.

Maybe the media believes that for - profit enrollment and the debt gap are linked under the assumption that the debt gap would be smaller if black students who attended for - profit graduate schools attended other graduate schools instead.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

Dual - enrollment policies and participation patterns vary widely across states, and programs designed explicitly for advanced students are a small fraction of the total.

For example, the Gates Foundation's small school reforms were widely panned as a flop in early reviews relying on student test scores, but a number of later rigorous studies showed (sometimes substantial) positive effects on outcomes such as graduation and college enrollment.

Although American Catholic schools have never enrolled more than a small fraction of the national student population, as late as 1980 they accounted for almost 80 percent of enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?»

Smaller schools boosted college - going rates for black males by 11.3 percentage points, «a 36 percent increase relative to the enrollment rate of their control group counterparts.»

At the same time, New York opened a group of small high schools offering open enrollment and personalized attention for students, and it instituted a citywide choice policy.

The gap between the immediate college enrollment rates for students from high - income and low - income families was 14 percentage points smaller in 2016 (16 percentage points) than in 2000 (30 percentage points).

There was still, however, a small positive effect on four - year college enrollment for students who began FTC in elementary or middle school.

The enrollment changes highlight the need to keep class sizes small for English - language learners, said Judith Docca, the school board's vice president.

Topics discussed include petition filed by principals from high schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) on the district to apply for federal small learning community (SLC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, early college credit options through dual enrollment, dual credit offered by academies and views of student Mohamad Obaid on the same.

Reviewed strategies for enhancing students» high school and college outcomes include: 1) participation in rigorous curriculum; 2) small learning communities / small schools of choice; 3) career academies; 4) dual enrollment; 5) early college high schools; and 6) college and career counseling.

Interestingly, subsequent enrollments for smaller planned schools were shown to have been underestimated, whereas subsequent enrollments for schools planned as were shown to be overestimated.

True, the many benefits inherent to private education - selective enrollment, smaller classes, greater resources, greater autonomy - may make it seem as though considering independent schools» opportunities for transformation alongside those of their public counterparts is the proverbial comparison of apples and oranges.

Several board members were worried about whether the charter school could meet its proposed demographic makeup by having enrollment available districtwide through a lottery — what the current contract calls for — in lieu of limiting enrollment to a smaller geographical area.

His most recent book, co-authored with Halley Potter, «A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education,» examines two myth - busting strategies in a small but growing number of charter schools: promoting economic diversity in enrollment and amplifying teacher voice.

Kitchens said the formula could be improved for school districts with declining enrollment, increasing enrollment and small, rural school districts with spending levels capped at below $ 10,000 per student.

We find some small differences across charter types, but none of the charter school enrollment effects on test score growth for any cohort were positive among any of the three types examined.

In the recent debate in Alaska about small schools, superintendents have been able to use maps and summaries of data that we provided about enrollment characteristics, overall performance, and factors related to success in these schools to demonstrate that simply closing them for financial reasons may not be the best option.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

Given the size of the displacements this year due to budgetary reasons, drops in enrollment, school actions and relatively small number of vacancies for which schools are hiring, we felt it most important to offer this service and support to our recently displaced teachers as they have had a condensed time period to search for work compared to teachers displaced in prior years.

Over the screaming objection of the Teachers Union, Rudy spent boocou political capital for open enrollment, the forerunners of charters, high school kids going to college classrooms and even some small amounts of tax credits - deductions for the parents for education costs.

We look at all of these complex elements and we put them all together... low enrollment, low use, small grade size, it does create school design challenges for us.

In their view, dual enrollment is presumed to lead to a long list of positive outcomes for all participating youth, including increasing the academic rigor of the high school curriculum; helping low - achieving students meet high academic standards; providing more academic opportunities and electives in cash - strapped, small, or rural schools; reducing high school dropout rates and increasing student aspirations; helping students acclimate to college life; and reducing the cost of college for students.

We have put forth ideas such as small learning communities, early enrollment in college - level courses for credit, youth apprenticeships, charter schools, and online learning, but there are other innovative ideas that we should also explore.

A shortfall of up to two million teachers was projected in the early 1990s as student enrollments were expected to climb substantially and policymakers pressed for smaller class sizes.

Prior to Act 10, employees could negotiate with their employers to contribute some or all of any statute - mandated employee share of retirement benefits.42 The bill eliminated that option, forcing employees to pay half of retirement plan contributions — which totaled 5.8 percent of teachers» salary for the 2011 - 12 school year — once collective bargaining agreements expired.43 Act 10 also set minimum employee contributions for state health plan enrollment, while in the past, teachers could negotiate for their employers to cover a greater share of costs, potentially in exchange for smaller salary increases.44

Table 1 Charters with Highest Administrative Costs Per pupil Charter School Enrollment October 1, 2014 Report Administration / Pupil Kaizen Tempe 25 $ 7,554 Pinnacle Education - Tempe, Inc. 57 $ 7,283 SRPMIC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS 240 $ 7,102 Edkey, Inc. 64 $ 5,993 Deer Valley Charter School 29 $ 5,692 PS Charter School Inc. 71 $ 5,382 Lifelong Learning Research Institute Inc. 34 $ 5,378 SC Jensen Corporation 67 $ 5,060 Kaizen Skyview 51 $ 4,936 Eastpointe High School, Inc. 143 $ 4,874 Arizona Call - A-Teen Youth Resources, Inc. 78 $ 4,681 Intelli - School Charter High School 105 $ 4,348 StrengthBuilding Partners 42 $ 4,301 PAS Charter, Inc. 229 $ 4,139 Park View School, Inc. 228 $ 3,977 Institute for Transformatived Education, Inc. 62 $ 3,946 Madison Highland Prep 101 $ 3,646 Skyline Gila River Schools, LLC 106 $ 3,626 Kaizen EL Dorado 185 $ 3,604 Imagine Superst Elem 179 $ 3,568 Ha: San Educational Services 137 $ 3,454 Kaizen Ad U 49 $ 3,255 Edkey, Inc. 574 $ 3,165 Imagine Superst Mid 93 $ 3,081 Graysmark Schools Corporation 46 $ 3,077 Florence Crittenton Services of AZ 141 $ 3,050 Rising School 66 $ 3,041 Arizona Autism Charter Schools Inc. 87 $ 3,012 Victory High School, Inc. 20 $ 2,908 Foothill College Preparatory Academy 336 $ 2,833 Carpe Diem Collegiate High School 118 $ 2,811 Eagle South Mountain Charter, Inc. 106 $ 2,788 Concordia Charter School Inc 146 $ 2,786 Imagine Prep Surprise 248 $ 2,784 BASIS Phoenix 725 $ 2,747 E-Institute Charter Schools, Inc 800 $ 2,715 Pima County 106 $ 2,704 Genesis Academy 151 $ 2,692 BASIS Chandler 731 $ 2,681 The FARM at Mission Montessori 32 $ 2,680 Imagine Tempe 280 $ 2,659 Pace Preparatory Academy, Inc. 95 $ 2,607 Daisy Sonoran Davis Moth 193 $ 2,604 American Virtual Academy 3488 $ 2,595 Paramount Education Studies Inc 338 $ 2,586 Eagle South Mountain Charter, Inc. 127 $ 2,578 StarShine Academy 325 $ 2,576 Keystone Montessori Charter School, Inc. 228 $ 2,558 BASIS Peoria 746 $ 2,549 BASIS Prescott 369 $ 2,537 Many small charters have low administrative costs Sixteen of the 30 charters with the lowest administrative have less than 400 pupils.

Age appropriate and inquiry / project - based learning methods; dual enrollment classes; focused tutoring to less prepared students; increased learning opportunities; relevant professional development opportunities; faculty leadership opportunities; community outreach; small school environment; surveys each year (parent, student, faculty); striving for academic excellence; Charter Counts character education program implemented; teaching critical thinking skills.

When adjusting for enrollment and inflation, school funding has been cut in the following areas since leadership of the General Assembly switched hands in 2010 (a time period in which the state was already struggling to find resources as a result of the Great Recession): classroom teachers, instructional support personnel (counselors, nurses, librarians, etc.), school building administrators (principals and assistant principals), teacher assistants, transportation, low wealth schools, disadvantaged students, central office, limited English proficiency, academically gifted, small counties, driver training, and school technology.

I will cover some of these materials below, but in sum the changes in relation to Special Education and English Language Learners mostly concern schedules and professional development; the revised budget and enrollment model call for a slightly smaller school, lower (lead) teacher / student ratios, higher special education teacher ratios (and lower special education assistant ratios), designates Bilingual Resource Teacher and Specialist allocations (these were folded into other categories in the January version), a slightly smaller school, and a 5 year budget shortfall that increases from $ 58,681.36 to $ 516,157.01; the Data Update does little but relabel unrealistic «Goals» as «Aspirations.»

Our program — small by design — limits enrollment in graduate workshops to 10 - 15 students, which allows for an intimate and dynamic work environment, and full access to our award - winning faculty.