Sentences with phrase «income pupils»

Such «ready» schools provide a smooth transition for incoming pupils, offer high - quality instruction while they address individual needs, and commit to staff development, says the report.

Low - income pupils benefited even more, with their reading age improving by 5 additional months.

A leading education researcher wants a new tax on private tutoring services, to help «level the playing field» for lower - income pupils trying to get into grammar schools.

Half of low - income pupils go hungry at breakfast, and a further fifth eat breakfasts with little or no nutritional value.

The school conducts interviews and tests to check it can cater for incoming pupils; some pupils with special needs are referred to a local special school.

Low - income pupils benefited even more, with their reading age improving by 5 additional months in the same amount of time.

«For example, in an area with low proportions of lower income households, pupils might be expected to travel inappropriate distances in order to meet a selective school's quota of lower income pupils.»

Mr Trobe said the move would disadvantage schools with «a high number of incoming pupils whose Sats results are at a relatively low level.

Incoming pupils in the WPCP are included in the resident public school district's membership for state general aid purposes, but the resident district may not levy to backfill the aid reduction.

At a cost of just # 9 per pupil, the findings show that Accelerated Reader could be a particularly cost - effective method of improving the reading ability of weaker and low - income pupils at the important transition from primary to secondary school.

Sir Peter Lampl said: «One important reason why bright children from low and middle income pupils miss out on the best universities is that they don't take the right subjects at school.

Moreover, just as Facebook and MySpace attract different social classes, so wealthy students may gravitate toward certain virtual schools and courses, apart from low income pupils.

He amplified this theme in August 2001, asking, «What is the most efficient way to raise low - income pupils» achievement?

Whilst the frontline schools budget has been protected and policies such as the pupil premium allocate more funding to low income pupils, cuts to central services provided by local government will require schools to do more with less.

With programmes like Accelerated Reader showing particularly positive effects, especially for low - income pupils, we are confident that the results of today's reports will go some way in helping teachers to close their attainment gap.»

It is intended to help schools decide how best to spend the pupil premium - additional funds for low - income pupils.

In many cases, respondents in favour of massively widening access were «opposed to new selective schools in general, and said they would be supportive only if they were made available almost exclusively to lower income pupils», the report said.

Additional funding is provided for students with high needs, such as low - income pupils and English learners and foster youth.

Student achievement comes ecven while California's charter schools are educating a higher percentage of lower - income pupils and those with learning problems than public schools.