Sentences with phrase «high percentages of students who»

The schools were selected based on the high percentages of students who are on the free / reduced lunch program and are in neighboring communities to HomeSmart brokerage offices.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom worked in conjunction with the Ohio Education Association, Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators, School Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast program.

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), drily noted that, compared to the international average, «we also have a higher percentage of students who score in the lowest performance levels... and a lower percentage of top math performers.»

The report examines graduation - rate data from the seven states with the highest percentage of students who are American Indian and Alaska...

Summit had the highest percentage of students who opted out, but it was not alone.

Seventy percent of districts in Colorado and small and rural, and those districts serve a high percentage of students who are English - language learners.

Through the West Virginia Department of Education's Summer Learning Reading and Math Challenge, the schools with the highest percentage of students who pledged to read over the summer could win their choice of reading programs, including Achieve3000.

The schools chosen for the project had a high percentage of ethnic minority students and a high percentage of students who qualified for free and reduced - price lunch.

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

Some schools develop new STEM or other specialized programs to attract parents, but the effect is that other schools have a high percentage of students who struggle academically and have disabilities.

The state tied for the 10th - highest percentage of students who graduate with college loan debt.

Permanent jobs after training are not guaranteed, but a high percentage of students who participate in articles of clerkship stay with the firms where they trained.

Not exact matches

The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

In North America and Europe, a large percentage of the people who read my site are High School and College students.

In a recent study, WalletHub examined 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 12 key metrics, including the percentage of adults and high school students who are obese and the percentage of people who are physically inactive.

If the number of kids who are eligible for free meals is high enough — and if a high percentage of the student body meets the criteria for other social services — that school may be eligible for free universal breakfast and lunch for all students.

According to the 2012 YRBS survey results, the percentage of D.C. high school students who are obese significantly decreased from 17 % in 2007 to 15 % in 2012.

And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.

The researchers found that the percentage of high school students who were enrolled in a STEM program or had earned a STEM degree 5 years after graduation dipped only slightly between 1972 and 2000, from 9.6 % to 8.3 %.

In her view, if an institution is starting with a really selective group of students (that is, those who come in with really good preparation as evidenced by high GPA and SAT scores) they should graduate a larger percentage of these students.

Although this specific survey was conducted only on college students, the high percentage of young adults who keep potential partners on hand has larger implications for our society as a whole.

Their statements were substantiated by the collected learning data, as well as the percentage of students who graduated to a higher course level compared to their peers in a regular class.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

With a high percentage of ELL students and families, WHEELS identifies volunteer translators among grades 9 - 12 students for those teachers who don't speak the home language of families.

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school quality.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey also found steadily declining percentages of high - school students who reported fighting or carrying weapons on school property during the 1990s.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

In just one year — from 2009 to 2010 — the percentage of Americans who think that high school students should be given credit for courses taken online has jumped from 42 percent to 52 percent.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

When asked what percentage of their students who might need counseling or treatment actually receive those services, only 7 percent of high school «mental - health professionals» surveyed said all such students do, and 31 percent reported that most do.

The department approved the graduation - rate formulas of all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, many of which didn't require tracking the percentage of students who graduated within four years of entering high school, the IG's office...

As we work with states in developing these systems, one of the key components is making sure the information is translatable for parents, that they can understand what percentage of students in that school who are mastering standards and achieving grade - level expectations and whether or not those students are going to be ready to graduate from high school and be successful in college.

To assess overall performance, we identify the percentage of students in the high school class of 2015 who are performing at proficient and advanced levels of achievement in math.

In a society where a high percentage of new jobs are in STEM fields, I have to provide students with opportunities to develop the practical science skills that prepare them for these types of positions — that help them become creative thinkers who are able to explore solutions from different perspectives.

Of particular significance in this study was the high percentage of culturally diverse and low income students who were unprepared for college - level reading, including 79 percent of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00Of particular significance in this study was the high percentage of culturally diverse and low income students who were unprepared for college - level reading, including 79 percent of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of culturally diverse and low income students who were unprepared for college - level reading, including 79 percent of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of black students, 67 percent of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of Hispanic students, and 33 percent of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,00of students from families with annual incomes below $ 30,000.

Indeed, when we calculate effects by the percentage of students at a high school who attend college, we find no evidence of effects on college choice in the schools with the lowest college - sending rates.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education found that students who were offered a voucher in the Washington, D.C., voucher lottery graduated high school at a rate 12 percentage points higher than students in the control group.

AYP measures take the form of minimum percentages of students overall, and in each designated demographic group, who must meet a proficient or higher level of achievement in reading and mathematics each year, plus graduation rates for high schools.

The graduation rate among students who actually used the voucher was 21 percentage points higher than that of the control group.

Participation in these types of programs can improve students» English language proficiency, which in turn has been associated with improved educational outcomes.1 The percentage of public school students in the United States who were ELLs was higher in fall 2015 (9.5 percent, or 4.8 million students) than in fall 2000 (8.1 percent, or 3.8 million students).2

Most recently, multiple analyses of the New York City Choice Scholarships Foundation program found that students who received scholarships as a result of a lottery had math scores that were five percentage points higher on average than the control group.

The percentage of low - income students and English Learners meeting the standards increased, but these increases were not at fast enough rates to close substantial achievement gaps with higher income students who are fluent in English.

KIPP defines attrition as the percentage of students who leave a school (for reasons other than completing the highest grade or transferring to another KIPP school) in one annual cycle between October 1 of 2015 and October 1 of 2016, which is the date that most states close their enrollment.