Sentences with phrase «high percentage of one's students»

Teachers of all races viewed schools with high percentages of students of color and low - income students as less likely to have family and community support.

We selected this course for its affordable tuition rate and high percentage of students receiving financial aid.

It's a question that we hear often, in a city with one of the nation's highest percentage of students attending public charter schools.

This year, a slightly higher percentage of students skipped the tests — 22 percent, compared to 20 percent in 2015.

In math, a relatively high percentage of its students routinely score well on state exams.

What's more, when asked about their gender preferences regarding managerial roles in traditionally female sectors, such as childcare, high percentages of the students said they preferred women in those roles.

We selected this program for is extremely affordable tuition rate and high percentage of students receiving financial aid.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Charter schools that achieve greater autonomy in special education as a Local Education Agency (LEA) for special education purposes, or through LEA - like arrangements, serve higher percentages of students with disabilities, including those with more severe needs.

Relative to most other states, California had high a percentage of students whose native language is not English — 13 % of the sample — and a high percentage of poor students, who constituted 25 % of the students tested.

Those districts have high percentages of students living in poverty and more than 80 percent of their black children are not proficient in reading and math as measured by state tests, according to DPI data.

The students involved in the project attend two Title 1 schools from Sparks, Nevada — Sparks Middle School and Sparks High School, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, Nevada.

Disturbingly, our neighbor to the north turns out twice as high a percentage of students at the advanced level in math as the United States.

Michigan had the 13th - highest average debt and 10th - highest percentage of students graduating with debt, so it's not a cheap place to attend school.

Thirty of the 56 leading economically developed countries have higher percentages of students scoring at the advanced level than the U.S., according a 2012 analysis of the PISA test.

Troubled by high percentages of students who are not ready for credit - bearing work when they enter community college — and low graduation rates for students who enter needing remediation — Tennessee is experimenting with a different approach.

To start unpacking the data, first we looked at the performance of just the low - income students by sorting all Oakland schools by their concentration of students in poverty — that is, those that had a very high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch..

The network enrolls higher percentages of students with disabilities and English language learners compared to the city and the state.

The military high schools, JROTC, and Cadet programs enroll a disproportionately high percentage of students of color, reflecting the broader strategy to recruit African American and Latino males from low - income areas for first - responder positions in U.S. wars abroad.

«Yet, with little notice, the United States is allowing a dangerously high percentage of students to disappear from the educational pipeline before graduating from high school.»

CPS, in fact, has a disproportionately high percentage of students categorized as learning disabled, and African - American students are more likely to be placed in special education than any other racial or ethnic group, state data show.

A significantly higher percentage of students in the traditionally structured algebra credit - recovery classes earned a grade of C or higher (44 percent) than in the online classes (about 30 percent).

Moreover, they do so while operating with similarly high percentages of students eligible for free / reduced lunch, similarly high student mobility rates, similar curriculum frameworks, and similar per - pupil expenditures.2

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• Student attendance grows at LAUSD: A slightly higher percentage of students within LAUSD enrolled in school compared to last year.

The district has created a tremendous demand for gifted education based on the ridiculously high percentage of its students that it calls gifted, yet they have done nothing to expand or improve the services and programs that they make available to gifted students.

All four schools were chosen for the grant because they have much higher percentages of students receiving subsidized lunches than the district average, and their test scores are also below Wake's average.

Greg and his team improved student attendance and redesigned the instructional program that resulted in a very high percentage of students testing well on the SAT.

Test scores show that high schools in impoverished cities are graduating high percentages of their students without the basic literacy and numeracy skills the schools promise,» Moukawsher wrote.

This designation indicates a low level of student academic performance and high percentages of students from low - income families and students who are English Language Learners.

In addition, the traditional schools have a slightly higher percentage of students who qualify for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program.»

Other options include lengthening of the school day and / or school year or more selective hiring and better training of teachers in those schools with high percentages of students in need of accelerated progress.

We have partnered with all types of schools, and we have special expertise working with underserved schools that serve high percentages of students with the most urgent needs: low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, or other challenges.

Other area schools with high percentages of students scoring fours or fives included Centennial High School in Howard County, South Carroll High, Liberty High and Manchester Valley High in Carroll County, Chesapeake Science Point in Anne Arundel County and Fallston High, C. Milton Wright High and North Harford High in Harford County.

We selected this course for its affordable tuition rates and high percentage of students receiving financial aid.

Troubled by high percentages of students who are not ready for credit - bearing work when they enter community college, Tennessee is experimenting with a different approach.

Green Dot cited the South L.A. school's underenrollment and low test scores, results Cook attributed to the relatively higher percentage of students learning English, a main emphasis of the school.

Tenures, on average, are shorter in larger districts and in districts with high percentages of students of color and low - income students.

An article about salary and bonus data at top business schools highlights Tuck as the school with the highest percentage of students receiving signing bonuses among those ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report.

We need to take the general ministry of the church, the ministry of Word and sacrament, to campuses where it is absent and where a high percentage of the students will not seek it out but may be receptive to it in their midst.

In addition we had a high percentage of students who qualified for free & reduced meals and selling a la carte foods was taking food off of the dinner table at home.

Having my superintendent and my board understanding the importance of breakfast, and promoting it, and making sure it was being implemented in my schools by each principal has really made a difference; I'm reaching a higher percentage of students than I was before.