Sentences with phrase «in surrounding districts»

The district has a 97 percent attendance rate, and fewer than 1 percent of high school students drop out, a much lower rate than in surrounding districts with similar demographics.

They earn about 10 percent more than their counterparts in surrounding districts and can earn additional 10 percent bonuses if their students meet academic goals.

It is the hub for a large number of activities which take place in the surrounding districts.

While some suggest that these demographics indicate charter schools are contributing to the resegregation of public education, charter school advocates counter that charter enrollment resembles the demographic breakdown of traditional public schools in their surrounding districts and neighborhoods, and note that communities often intentionally establish charter schools to reach large numbers of underserved students (NAPCS, 2012).

To plug the hole, our board opted for a lose - lose proposition: Cut roughly 10 percent of the staff (i.e. twenty - two teachers) and increase the local tax levy by roughly 10 percent (more than double the increase on the ballot in surrounding districts and nearly three times what our state school - board association says is the average proposed increase across the state's 658 districts).

Economically the town depended much on the marketing of woad, the famous dye grown in the surrounding district, used for dyeing textiles and marketed to merchants who travelled through Erfurt to pick it up.

Suzanne Collins» «The Hunger Games» series, for example, alludes to vomitoriums when the lavish inhabitants of the Capitol — all with Latin names like Flavia and Octavia — imbibe a drink to make them vomit at parties so they can gorge themselves on more calories than citizens in the surrounding districts would see in months.

Highline Public Schools operates the school; enrollment is open to students in surrounding districts.

As we face the daunting task of reconstructing a quarter of HISD's schools, as well as many in surrounding districts, we must consider reconstruction in every sense.

Have fun fossicking for sapphire, crystal, ruby, garnet and other precious gems in the surrounding district, or enjoy seeing living Australian History in our Heritage listed town buildings and Beardies Museum.

As the Fordham report points out, an April 2007 exposé from the Rocky Mountain News revealed, «one - quarter of DPS students were attending non-DPS schools, including private schools and charter schools in surrounding districts.

What's not so good — and if there is a «burning issue» in my district, this is it — is the proposed 9.8 % local tax levy increase, more than double the increase on the ballot in surrounding districts and nearly three times what our state school board association says is the average proposed increase by the state's 658 districts.

For instance, a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found wide gaps between the percentages of students enrolled in special education in charter schools and in surrounding district schools.

Teachers are paid approximately 10 percent less than those in surrounding districts and the community has consistently voted against taxes for budget increases.

However, the district did come under scrutiny early in 2015, when Sandoval says a U.S. Department of Justice official visited the district because its ELL student - to - specialist ratio was higher than that in surrounding districts, without taking into account the added interventionists in each school.

In reality, however, the district is unlikely to seek any changes in teacher contracts that would make employment at MPS less attractive than in surrounding districts.

This might show that the schools that NHA operate are slightly higher achieving than the schools in the surrounding district.

The charters schools that NHA manages are, for the most part, more diverse than the public schools in the surrounding districts, and the students in the charter schools have done slightly better in testing than the students in the public schools.

The article also references the closure of the Rochester Leadership Academy Charter School (a school under the management of the NHA) due to poor academic performance; however, given that the schools we examined exhibited slightly better academic performance than the schools in their surrounding districts, it is hard to know which is the exception and which is the rule.