Sentences with phrase «low attendance on»

Legislation would require the city to consider closing schools that have low attendance on holidays.

Our lowest attendance on a Sunday was 12 in my first year and our highest so far has been 96 this year.

I think with potentially lower attendance on the show, setting up meetings in advance might be more important than it has been in years before.

Not exact matches

With the sixth lowest attendance in the league, and second lowest ticket revenue per game, Keller believes Florida is high on the list to move.

You began by remarking on our low Sunday attendance.

Our initial study, based on attendance counts in Protestant churches in one Ohio county and Catholic churches in 18 dioceses, indicated a much lower rate of religious participation than the polls report.

So this week at bible study (on a Wednesday, low attendance, at the the building, reeking of boredom etc) we are studying evangelism and how to follow Jesus example.

When America declared war on Japan, the draft caused attendance on Notre Dame's campus to be critically low.

The Live game on TV and the weather contributed to the low attendance but on the Saturday after there was no such problems and we had a crowd of just over 7000

About the low attendance, he added: «It was a combination certainly of the weather conditions and the fact that we had a big disappointment on Sunday.

It was something of an underwhelming display from Roy Hodgson's England side, played in front of the lowest national team attendance at the new Wembley, with the home side managing just two shots on target in the entire match.

A new and very unwelcome low was witnessed off the pitch on 2 May when the home game against Wimbledon was watched by a crowd of only 23,368, the lowest Old Trafford attendance for eighteen years.

Public gatherings, often claimed by the media as reaching the tens of thousands, were cancelled on numerous occasions due to low attendance.

Revised numbers released to county legislators on Thursday lowered the projected attendance for 2019 - the amphitheater's fifth year - to 185,300.

Based on extremely low participation in the past, I believe changing the public hearings to the evening will increase the amount of speakers in attendance,» said Majority Leader Lorigo.

The region boasts a superior public education system — low student / teacher ratios of 12:1, high school attendance rates of 95 % (5 % absentee rate) and 88 % of the Capital District graduates go on to college.

But the result hasn't lived up to the racing association's hopes: while attendance at the track is up, overall gambling on races remains low.

In July, lower - than - projected attendance and revenues forced promoter Marc Albert to cancel the last three editions of his Wednesdays on the Water series at the harbor.

Gun owners generally attend church more often and report greater levels of religiosity, although those who find empowerment in the symbol of the gun are low on religious participation, such as worship attendance.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Also in attendance at the TCA on Thursday were Legion «s Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Rachel Keller, Jean Smart, Katie Aselton, Bill Irwin, Amber Midthunder, and Jeremie Harris, as well as Man Seeking Woman «s Jay Baruchel, Katie Findlay, and Britt Lower.

Whether it was the general disinterest in such a project or the fact that bad movie buzz had some effect on attendance, Underdog wound up easily being 2007's lowest - grossing release from Walt Disney Pictures, earning just more than half of its closest company, Bridge to Terabithia.

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Additionally, the letter condemned «unacceptably low» attendance and criticised the trust's work to tackle weak leadership, saying it has had little impact on improving performance in secondary academies.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

In our study, controlling for the amount of math coursework reduces the effects of accountability pressure on bachelor's degree receipt and earnings at age 25 to nearly zero, and lowers the impact on four - year college attendance by about 50 percent.

o To keep costs low, the system must rely primarily on existing data (such as student achievement, grade retention, attendance, graduation, college going and student log files from educational software providers).

To hit the target, the principal and his staff will need to find a solution to the problem of the Friday dip — whole school attendance on that day of the week is around 4 per cent lower than average.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

However, based on students» 8th - grade test scores and attendance rates, they enrolled higher concentrations of low - performing and chronically absent students.

These subgroup ratings weigh heavily in the overall performance rating for a school or district because the rating given by the state is based on the lowest performance on any single criterion (TAAS, dropout rate, attendance rate) for any subpopulation.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

In a study of her attendance zone, Ms. Orr found that, 50 years after the War on Poverty spawned a succession of programs aimed at expanding the pipeline of low - income students entering higher education, college - going remains an elusive goal for many.

For example, in my own work with several colleagues, which was partially funded by IES, we demonstrated that providing low - and moderate - income families with streamlined personal assistance to complete the federal college financial aid application had large effects on college attendance and persistence.

(HealthDay)-- U.S. children entering kindergarten do worse on tests when they're from poorer families with lower expectations and less focus on reading, computer use and preschool attendance, new research suggests.

One partnership produced critical evidence on the effectiveness of a low - cost strategy to modestly improve attendance.

These estimates are lower bounds on the predictive effect of an SD increase in the teacher factor (Gco) based directly on college attendance.

Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive effects for college attendance based on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.

In the U.S., student loan limits are too low to cover even tuition at the typical public four - year institution, let alone the non-tuition costs of attendance, and many students default on debts well below the maximum levels.

Depending on time and budget constraints, I would suggest running multiple instructor - led training sessions with lower numbers in attendance.

Curriculum - based exit exams substantially increased the college - attendance rates of students with low GPAs in 8th grade, but had no effect on students with high GPAs.

Opportunity scholarships (commonly referred to as vouchers) would be based on income and residence within the attendance zones of the lowest - performing 5 % of schools across the state.

All three schools have high attendance, low suspensions, exceed the district four - year graduation rate, and send high percentages of their graduates on to four - year colleges.

As a result, lawmakers there have included attendance as one of the educational goals that districts must report on and set goals to improve — especially for low income students, English learners and foster youth.

He explained that one reason attendance reports appear low is «because some teachers had been taking attendance on paper since the first day of school and had not yet transferred attendance from paper into MiSiS.»

Students with poor attendance in the month before taking the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress scored significantly lower on the test than their peers who had no absences in that time frame, a new analysis by Attendance Woattendance in the month before taking the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress scored significantly lower on the test than their peers who had no absences in that time frame, a new analysis by Attendance WoAttendance Works finds.

National averages on the 4th and 8th grade mathematics and reading tests were between 12 and 18 test - score points lower for students with poor attendance than for their peers who hadn't missed any school in the reporting period, the analysis found.

Particularly where summer learning is concerned, regular attendance and engagement are critical, according to the 2016 Rand Corporation study «Learning From Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low - Income Urban Youth.»

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

For example, one recent study (Attendance Works, 2014) found that missing three days of school in the month before taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress translated into fourth graders scoring a full grade level lower in reading on this test.