Sentences with phrase «likely than district»

The gap grows as students progress through elementary grades, largely because charter schools are less likely than district schools to place students in special education — and less likely to keep them there.

Charter school teachers were also more likely than their district counterparts to cite a desire for a better salary and benefits package or dissatisfaction with the school as reasons for changing schools or leaving teaching altogether.

What the AFT fails to acknowledge is that charter schools are more likely than district schools to promote integration, since in most charter schools white and minority kids take the same courses, while in many district schools minority kids are placed into nonacademic tracks.

A large part (80 percent) of the growth in this gap over time is that charter schools are less likely than district schools to classify students as in need of special education services and more likely to declassify them....

Not exact matches

Advocates have portrayed the District of Columbia measure as a civil rights issue, saying studies have shown that African Americans are disproportionately more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than are people of other races.

If the Wilmette Park District were to sign a lease to operate Wilmette Harbor, it would likely increase mooring fees and provide additional storage spaces in light of more than $ 11.7 million in necessary repairs and improvements over the next 15 years.

And, just as you say, the good news is that some school districts are also following suit, so that kids who buy school lunch rather than bringing from home are more likely than ever to see whole fruit over canned, etc..

I take your point about the letter from Ray Cortines but I do still wonder whether the «new menu» (for which Jamie seems to take more than a bit of credit in the season finale) was already in the works before he came to L.A. My guess is still yes, just because there's likely to be considerable lag time in planning and procuring a new menu for a district of 700,000 kids.

And in rural areas, more people are likely to be found in a Wal - Mart parking lot on a weekend than in the business district of a small town.

Yes Madison just called a key platform of the Dems, student loan forgiveness, a wicked project] for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.

While there is likely a lot of truth to that, there is also a local backstory than enabled a serious Democratic candidate to emerge in a district where Republicans outnumber registered Democrats by more than 10,000 voters.

Former Gov. Martin O'Malley recently acknowledged during testimony in a gerrymandering lawsuit that his intent was to «create a district where people would be more likely to elect a Democrat than a Republican.»

Mr. Storobin performed strongly in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in last Tuesday's election, and, during the campaign, he touted his roots in Boro Park and Midwood, which will become the core of the new district, so he likely sees his electoral prospects differently than Mr. Brook - Krasny.

The union is trying to repeat that performance in the 107th District, where local members account for almost 5 percent of the registered vote — a large voting bloc for an election where turnout will likely be less than 20 percent of the electorate.

But rather than cleaving along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans — incumbents and challengers alike — came down on both sides of the issue depending on their states and districts, suggesting national party committees aren't likely to take up the vote in their national messaging.

Since millions of dollars will likely pour into the elections from outside sources and money can easily be transferred, these aggregate totals are more useful for determining each party's financial status than district - by - district breakdowns.

The focus on Israel is interesting, as the district is more heavily Asian - American than anything else, but foreign policy - minded Jewish voters are considered an electorally significant swing constituency and the race is likely to see more plenty more events held in front of Jewish congregations like today.

New York City Council District 23: Democrat Barry Grodenchik, a former assemblyman, will likely defeat Republican Joseph Colcannon in a district in which his party has a more than four - to - one enrollment adDistrict 23: Democrat Barry Grodenchik, a former assemblyman, will likely defeat Republican Joseph Colcannon in a district in which his party has a more than four - to - one enrollment addistrict in which his party has a more than four - to - one enrollment advantage.

Kavanagh's old Assembly district on Manhattan's east side will likely to be filled by another Democrat, with 53,720 active Democrats and fewer than 8,000 Republicans.

We will likely never see a better man than Maurice Hinchey in Congress in any Congressional District EVER.

And as every political junkie knows, open seats are much more likely to change party control than districts held by an incumbent.

Students In High Poverty Districts More Than Twice as Likely to be Taught by Non-Effective Teachers

So what that means is that if you're a voter in this district you are more likely to have heard from a super PAC than from me or my opponent.

@user1873 Generally speaking, Democrats are more likely to get elected in large cities than Republicans are, and if you look at a map, of districts and how they voted, the democratic districts tend to be the ones in or near large cities.

«It is likely that the Senate Republicans care more about protecting local issues like the property tax rebate, and K - 12 funding in their districts than a New York City tax on the wealthy,» said another source close to UPK NYC.

More than 600 teenage girls in the Buffalo will likely give birth this year, and not many of them will finish high school.Five years from now, their children will enter the Buffalo schools as some of the district's most at - risk students.

But one Staten Island Democratic source told the Observer that the candidate would depend on whether Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, opts to appoint a district attorney — likely a fellow Democrat — to keep the seat warm ahead of November, rather than allowing for the office's top - ranked prosecutor to serve as acting DA.

It grows in part because students enrolled in district elementary schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having an SLD than those enrolled in charter elementary schools.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

In both cities, students with existing IEPs are significantly and substantially more likely to remain in their kindergarten school if it is a charter than if it is a district school.

It grows in part because students enrolled in district schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having a specific learning disability in early elementary grades than are students enrolled in charter schools, and also because students without disabilities are more likely to enter charters in non-gateway grades than are students with disabilities.

One study found that career academy students from a large district who entered a local university were more likely to complete their bachelor's degrees than other students from that district.

In fact, students with disabilities are less likely to exit charter elementary schools than they are to exit district schools.

We also find that the students applying to charter schools in New York City are more likely to be black and eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch program than students in the public schools in the district.

In both cities, students enrolled in charter schools are significantly less likely (and in Denver, substantially less likely) to be newly classified as having an IEP than are students in district schools.

Living below the poverty line, Brittany is six times more likely to drop out of high school than her counterparts in suburban and wealthy districts.

Charter parents are also less likely to perceive serious problems in their children's schools than are district - school parents.

Districts with higher - than - predicted high - school dropout rates were, like states with high dropout rates, more likely to have charter schools and a greater share of students enrolled in charters.

Most notably, parents of charter - school students are more likely to be of minority background than are parents of either district - or private - school students (see Figure 1).

In sum, charter parents are more likely to identify serious problems with student behavior at their children's schools than are private - school parents, but less likely to do so than district - school parents.

The study also shows that students with disabilities are less likely to exit charter elementary schools than they are to exit district elementary schools.

District - school parents are generally more likely to say that various problems are either serious or very serious at their school than are private - school parents.

Gifted students in LUSD are far less likely to be economically disadvantaged and more likely to be white or Asian than other students in the district.

Charter Schools Do Not Appear to Discriminate Against Special Education Students Students with disabilities more likely to remain in charters than in district schools

As we expected, school districts with only secondary schools or both secondary and elementary schools were more likely to have a charter school in 2003 — 04 than districts with only elementary schools.

(Indeed, according to the EdNext results, «charter parents are 15 percentage points more likely to say they have communicated with the school about volunteering» than district - school parents.)

School and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving skills.

Students linked to a domestic violence case performed at lower levels academically and were more likely to have been involved in a disciplinary incident than other students in the district.

Second, although districts can already enlarge their course catalogs by signing agreements with outside providers — be they online providers or nearby community colleges, for example — the advantage of Course Access for districts is that it can gain them instant access to a much wider and more diverse range of providers than they would likely be able to cobble together themselves given the challenge of negotiating and managing contracts with a large number of vendors.

Students in district schools with three or more charter schools within a one - mile radius perform significantly better in math than students with just one charter in the neighborhood, and they are also significantly less likely to be retained.