Sentences with phrase «kindergarten enrollment rate»

I measure the kindergarten enrollment rate with the state kindergarten - to - first - grade enrollment ratio, calculated from the federal Common Core of Data and earlier published data.

In the first year in which funding was available, the kindergarten enrollment rate in the typical state was about 15 percentage points higher than would have been the case in the absence of state funding.

Not exact matches

Given an enrollment rate of 26 percentage points across the observed cohorts, this estimate implies that state funding for kindergartens essentially eliminated enrollment of African American five - year - olds in Head Start (see Figure 4).

Instead, the gap begins primarily because of differences in enrollment rates of students who have a speech or language disability, many of whom receive services within district schools prior to kindergarten.

When we constructed a more limited Chance - for - Success Index that included only those indicators that signal education quality — pre-school and kindergarten enrollment, 4th — and 8th - grade proficiency scores, and high school graduation rates — we learned that the rankings of states changed a good deal.

From October 2000 to October 2015, the enrollment rate for students ages 5 — 6, who are typically enrolled in kindergarten or grade 1, decreased from 96 to 94 percent, and the enrollment rate for students ages 7 — 13 decreased by less than 1 percentage point to 98 percent.