Sentences with phrase «lunch students»

His own experience as an English language learner and free and reduced price lunch student led him towards a passion for utilizing education as a driver for greater equity.

Just 29 percent of Florida's students read Below Basic on the 2011 NAEP, an 11 percent decline from nine years ago; 38 percent of its free - and reduced lunch students read Below Basic in 2011 versus 51 percent nine year ago.

I remember realizing I was one of the handful of free / reduced lunch students in AP Calculus in my high school, which is why I now constantly look at achievement gaps of under - represented subgroups.

It is a Title I School and the only five - star high school in Nevada that serves a free and reduced lunch student population of over 60 percent.

Twenty - five percent of the Sunshine State's fourth - graders read Below Basic on the 2013 NAEP, an 15 percent decline from 11 years ago; 34 percent of its free - and reduced lunch students read Below Basic in 2011 versus 51 percent 11 year ago.

The frailties of Chicago's food practices are on display at Pasteur Elementary School, 5825 S. Kostner Ave., where at a recent lunch each student was served a shrink - wrapped tray that held a single hot dog and three fried potato nuggets.

The selections are provided in addition to the government - subsidized lunches students can buy for about $ 1.50, depending on the school district.

Even then, even if you were to include the free breakfasts and lunches these students qualify for, it is still less than half of all meals and is not the only reason America has gotten fat.

$ 750,000 appropriation to NYC DOE for test prep targeting free and reduced - price lunch students in New York City.

Late last year I wrote about how the Upper West Side rezoning plan intended to desegregate a handful of elementary schools could end up resegregating them in a new way through the addition of a Gifted & Talented program to PS 191, currently serving over 70 % Black, Hispanic, and Free Lunch students.

And there is substantial research to support it — I suggest you review 90-90-90 schools... these are schools that have 90 % minority populations, 90 % free and reduced lunch student populations, and 90 % of students reaching proficiency on standardized tests!

Because many students bring lunches or eat off campus, I would guess that a sizable portion of actual school lunches sold go to free and reduced - price lunch students, limiting the amount of money the schools make from these lunches.

This represents a projected 40 percent drop in eligible high - school students who will abandon school meals, Wiggins said, because of the «consequential identification» of being a free - lunch student.

«NYC provides 60 percent of the State revenues, we have 53 percent of the State's Free and Reduced Price Lunch Students and 40 percent of students in the entire state.

The study is one of the first to examine the effects of public preschool on free / reduced lunch students and English Language Learners.

The percentage of schools with more than 40 percent subsidized - lunch students has doubled in six years.

One school increased school meals turnover by more than # 12,000 in the six months after starting to make little changes — such as buddy systems to help younger students feel more confident in the dining area, re-arranging tables to improve capacity and allowing packed lunch students to sit with school lunch students.

In an e-mail, a North Star representative disputed that characterization, arguing that many district students are inappropriately classified with special needs, and that North Star free - lunch students perform as well as reduced - lunch students.

As a teacher in a School - Wide Title 1 building with 53 % free and reduced lunch students, I began to wonder how we can encourage our students to participate in a summer reading program.

Many of these elementary schools are not doing an adequate job in serving some of the high needs students they enroll (e.g., minority students, ELL students, free / reduced lunch students).

Minority and free - reduced lunch students are extremely underrepresented in gifted programs nationwide.

Using information from Chetty et al's results and Gormley et al's results, I calculate that in Tulsa, the predicted effect of pre-k on adult earnings would be about one - fifth greater in dollars for reduced price lunch students than for free lunch students, and the predicted effect on adult earnings would be about one - fifth less in dollars for full price lunch students than for free lunch students.

The variance of effects across income groups imply that the «near poor» (the reduced price lunch students) have somewhat greater effects from pre-k than the «poor», but the non-poor (the full price lunch students) have somewhat smaller effects from pre-k than the poor.

In one study, he reports that the absolute test score increase in points tends to be similar for the free lunch and full - price lunch students, but higher for the reduced - price lunch students.

On the negative side, the study found a low percentage of minority students, reduced - price lunch students, special education students and English learners served by charters, as well as overall low math scores.

«I teach kindergarten in a school with growing numbers of free and reduced lunch students, as well as a diverse socio - economic population.

Gains were even higher for free and reduced - lunch students — 144 points.

The most recent report shows that in 2013 - 2014, cyber charter schools, compared to the national average, had higher percentages of white students and lower percentages of free and reduced lunch students.

«The failure to collect, report and monitor real - time data about student attendance renders our most at - risk children - including English learners, foster children and low - income free - and - reduced - price lunch students - invisible,» researchers said.

In Connecticut in 2012, 60 percent of charters graduated more African - American students than their host district, and 67 percent graduated more free - and reduced - priced lunch students than their host districts.

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These differences illustrate how Gulen can rightfully claim that it is serving «low - income students» — reduced lunch students are still classified as such — while also, in effect, not serving the most high - need students (free lunch students).