Sentences with phrase «half of public school students»

Fifty - five percent of public school students are in schools in which over 90 percent of all students are white or minority.

SPRINGFIELD — Thousands of public school students whose favorite meal is french fries and chicken nuggets might end up eating something else for lunch under legislation the state Senate passed Thursday to bans trans fats from Illinois schools that participate in the state lunch program.

Thousands of public school students whose favorite meal is french fries and chicken nuggets would eat something else for lunch under legislation the state Senate passed Thursday to ban trans fat from Illinois schools that participate in the state lunch program.

Last year, 76 percent of public school students in the city received free lunches and another 6 percent did not pay full price for their meals, according to CPS records.

Thousands of public school students whose favorite meal is french fries and chicken nuggets might end up eating something else for lunch under legislation the state Senate passed Thursday to bans trans fats from Illinois schools that participate in the state lunch program.

For many of the millions of public school students, that's not far off mark.

In our city, where three - fourths of public school students qualify for free and reduced - priced lunches, we have a special responsibility to make sure that each and every child receives the nutritious, delicious meals that will propel them to academic success.

CHICAGO — In his new book, «Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school students.

Once an icon of the Jewish community, Skokie since the 1980s has become something of a north - suburban United Nations, where 80 languages are spoken in the homes of its public school students.

According to the department, 80.2 percent of public school students graduated on time.

«New Yorkers defied expectations by rejecting a State Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

At the same time, minority students in the area make up nearly half of the public school student population.

Rosenthal is the chair of ParentJobsNet, a non-profit that helps parents of public school students join (or rejoin) the workplace.

Thirty - two percent of public school students between the ages of six and 12 across the state are either overweigh or obese.

«New York City public school parents are highly dissatisfied with the quality of education their children are receiving,» said Tenicka Boyd, StudentsFirstNY Director of Organizing and mother of a public school student in Brooklyn.

The number of public school students in the Adirondack Park decreased by a whopping 21 percent between 2003 and 2013.

The parents of public school students say 66 - year - old Cathie Black lacks the required educational experience or academic credentials to be even a teacher, much less direct the 80,000 teachers of 1.1 million students.

The announcement comes just days after the state announced more than half of its public school students are attending college tuition - free this year, in part due to the new Excelsior Scholarships.

Parents of public school students have grown distrustful of the board, whose meetings have at times devolved into shouting matches between members and the public.

Hundreds of public school students and parents have rallied at the New York state Capitol to urge lawmakers to boost school funding and reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education reforms.

Thanks to the fact that millions of Public School students were affected by Wunder's reviews, his importance, in the eyes of the movie companies, rose quickly.

But improving academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent between 1994 and...

As the number of students entering charters has grown steadily year by year, comprising in 2012 approximately 4.2 percent of public school students nationwide, the case for rethinking the capital requirements of the charter sector has become overwhelming.

In six major school districts (New Orleans, Louisiana; the District of Columbia; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Flint, Michigan; and Gary, Indiana), at least 30 percent of public school students are enrolled in public charter schools.

And, while it is not a charter school, it was the country's first state - wide Internet - based public high school and has enrolled hundreds of thousands of public school students since 1997.

Another 18 school districts enroll more than 20 percent of public school students in charter schools (see Figure 1).

(Watson, Louise and Ryan, Chris 2010) also found a higher proportion of public school students came from low socio - economic status backgrounds.

Finally, we asked why some states have a greater percentage of public school students enrolled in charter schools than other states.

In 2010, the law was amended to double the number of charter students permitted in the state's lowest - performing districts, from about 9 percent to 18 percent of public school students.

Contrary to what one might expect given the opposition — or at least hearty skepticism — of teachers unions to the charter school movement, districts with a greater union presence were more likely to have a charter school and to have a greater share of public school students enrolled in charter schools in 2003 — 04.

It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half of public school kids are «poor.»

In particular, OCR noted that ELL students make up 5 percent of public school students but only 2 percent of students in AP courses.

I attended public schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as a public university, and I am the parent of public school students.

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

Five years ago Peru's government equipped 800,000 of its public school students with low - cost laptops through the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

According to Arne Duncan, more than 35 percent of our public school students are black or Hispanic, less than 15 percent of teachers are black or Hispanic.

There are more than 4500 charter schools across the United States today, but in only a few cities do charter schools enroll a significant percentage of public school students.

In a number of cities, charters educate a significant proportion of public school students (see Figure 1).

Charter schools, the most popular of them, now enroll but 3 percent of all public school students.

Today it is estimated that nearly 6 % of public school students attend charters.

(With almost 60 percent of public school students now enrolled in charter schools, New Orleans has become a national model for their widespread use.)

While nearly 10 percent of all public school students are ELL, fewer than 2 percent of teachers are trained ELL instructors.

From where I sit, this interregnum would serve no higher purpose for the children of my state, and would be damaging to the current cohort of public school students, especially those entering the upper grades.

Students in other religious schools have an average score (1.2 tolerant responses) lower than that of public school students.

Nationwide, only 2 percent of public school students attend charters.

In 16 cities, more than 25 percent of public school students are enrolled in charter schools.

About half of the public school students in the U.S. attend schools in districts that have fewer than 10,000 students.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

As Andrew Mollison shows (features, p. 34), the Advanced Placement test is a good beginning, but until more than 10 percent of all public school students take that test, it is not going to have broad impact.