Sentences with phrase «increased over the school year»

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While some schools have seen a decrease in their enrollment, Sherbrooke can boast a 25 % increase over last year alone.

The new budget relies primarily on higher property taxes to increase school funding, raising more than $ 7 billion over four years and, the legislature hopes, finally complying with the Supreme Court order.

The provincial government has boosted school maintenance funding by more than $ 20 million over last year, and has increased the AFG for the first time since 2004/05.

The first budget of Premier Rachel Notley «s NDP government includes a 15 percent increase in capital spending over the next five years, with a goal to create jobs and tackle the province's aging and neglected hospitals, schools, roads and other public infrastructure.

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

The improvement for the Government comes after Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a $ 14.5 billion increase in education funding over six years in response to the Gonski Review into school funding.

And the number of good secondary - school players has increased markedly over the last 10 years.

Today the school has achieved university status, an undergraduate enrollment of 8,000 that is increasing at the rate of 22 % each year and a football team with a 34 - 10 record over the last five years.

Meanwhile, the difference between the SAT scores of wealthy and poor high school seniors has actually increased over the past 30 years, from a 90 - point gap (on an 800 - point scale) in the 1980s to a 125 - point gap today.

However, for this coming school year the USDA has approved a 1.3 % increase in the reimbursement rate — the lowest increase over the last five years.

According to information I learned from my school district, historically over the last five years the rates have increased annually by 2.5 % to 4.1 %.

«ACL Tears in School - Aged Children and Adolescents: Has There Been an Increased Incidence over the Last 20 Years?»

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that the number of school - related outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled over the last decade, and generally increased an average of 10 percent per year.

West Virginia came in first for the third year in a row, serving breakfast to 83.9 low - income children for every 100 who ate school lunch, while Nevada showed the largest increase over last year, growing their SBP participation by 26.5 percent.

DTN Political Correspondent Jerry Hagstrom reported yesterday (link requires subscription) that, «Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln on Wednesday unveiled a bill to reauthorize the child nutrition programs that would increase funding for school lunch and other programs by $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, with some of the money coming from the budget for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

Gradually increasing the paid lunch prices to levels that would begin to close the gap between paid meal revenues and free meal revenues would generate an estimated $ 2.6 billion in additional revenue for schools over ten years.

The most recent estimates from local authorities put the number of home schooled children in the UK at more than 36,000 — a figure which has increased by 65 % over the past six years.

We are really in a transformative moment here in school meals; this is the first serious upgrade in nutrition standards in over 15 years, and the first real increase in the reimbursement rate for a very long time.

About 95 percent of schools are reportedly meeting the standards, but GOP lawmakers backed by the School Nutrition Association (SNA) said the provisions have led to an increase in food waste and a dramatic decline in student participation over the last three years.

A national study of concussions reported by high school athletes shows a dramatic increase over the last few years.

Two elementary schools in North Carolina increased the achievement test scores of students from the 30th percentile to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

The evidence is compelling: Two elementary schools in North Carolina were able to increase the achievement - test scores of students from the 30th percentile up to the 83rd percentile over a three - year period.

«First, we're pleased that the Assembly included a seven - year extension of mayoral control, as well as an increase in school aid and funds for universal pre-K over the Executive Budget,» de Blasio said.

Touching on the initiatives undertaken by his government, he stated that the Free Senior High School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage.

On the one hand, the ANC have presided over 14 years of consecutive economic growth and totally defied those who predicted collapse; electricity now reaches 80 % of the population; 65 % of five year olds are enrolled at school, and social welfare assistance has increased four-fold.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, a rise of about 3 percent over last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

Over the past four years, school aid has grown at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent, while the Department of Health's Medicaid program has increased 3.3 percent annually on average.5 To maintain overall growth of about 2 percent per year in total state spending, all other spending growth has been held to only 1.0 percent per year on average.

The State Aid subcommittee's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full Board of Regents later Tuesday, would phase in, over three years, an annual increase of 7 percent on school funding, for a total of $ 2.1 billion more a year by the 2019 - 20 school year.

School districts in New York have struggled with fluctuating revenue over the past decade, including increases that averaged 1.3 percent over the last three years, according to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

While the Assembly bill introduced Friday would extend mayoral control over the schools for three years, the Senate has been pushing a one - year extender that would be tied to an increase in the number of city charter schools.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.

In ELA this year, the percentage of all test takers in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased over last year in each of the Big 5 City School Districts.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars or around 3 % from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

But a spokesman for the governor's budget office, Morris Peters, pointed out that Cuomo has presided over state budgets in recent years that have seen record increases in spending on schools.

Medical practitioners have seen the largest growth in real - terms wages over the last 30 years with a 153 % increase, along with lawyers (114 %), secondary school teachers (67 %) and accountants (60 %).

This has already led to an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage,» he added.

«Under Governor Cuomo, state education aid has increased by $ 6.2 billion or 32 percent over six years, about 70 percent of which goes straight to high - needs schools.

Cuomo convened the mandate relief council in 2011, and during his first three years in office has helped localities by capturing cost increases in the Medicaid program and taking over its administration from counties, giving school districts more flexibility in how they set up bus transportation and imposing a less - generous pension plan for newly hired workers.

State schools, including SUNY Plattsburgh, have seen tuition increase $ 300 each year, a total increase of 30 percent over the past half - decade (But one silver lining for the North Country: Students here have the lowest average debt load than anywhere in the state.)

He's said he'll recommend an increase in school aid by perhaps as much as five percent over last year, but he's also promised to not raise overall spending in the state budget above two percent.

He's said he'll recommend an increase in school aid, by perhaps as much as 5 percent over last year.

Governor Cuomo is proposing an increase in school aid of over three - quarters of a billion dollars, or around three percent from last year, but some say that's not enough to meet school districts» rising costs.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

The number of candidates who wrote the 2015 BECE represented an increase of 15,084 over last year's figure of 422,946 final - year junior high school (JHS) students who registered for the examination.

Legislative leaders are nearing an agreement that would increase oversight over Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo schools and provide $ 5 million a year to restore programs, but it does not include veto power over the school board, according to Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski.

They are, however, willing to allow state schools to increase tuition rates by two to three percent over a period of three to five years.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Over the years there has been a tremendous increase in the number of shifts (classes) of some programmes run by the school.

«Since Thursday, none of the insider chatter has increased the number available jobs for his constituents, eased local parents» anxiety over the upcoming school year, or dealt with our senior citizens» fright over the proposed closing of senior centers throughout our community,» Johnson said in a statement distributed by her campaign.