Sentences with phrase «majority of public high»

The vast majority of public high schools offer access to hands - on college experience with almost all (98 percent) offering career preparation.

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«The majority of venture capital (VC) comes from professionally - managed public or private firms who seek a high rate of return by (typically) investing in promising startup or young businesses that have a high potential for growth but are also high risk.»

«Fonterra can comfortably pursue both [higher milk prices and shareholder returns] because its milk price is rules - based and subject to oversight by a panel chaired by an independent director of Fonterra [and with a majority of its members being independent] coupled with oversight by NZ's competition regulator through a very public process,» he said.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

Cuomo told aides over the weekend that due to the high - profile criminal and civil investigations of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) that became public last week, he was shelving tentative plans to announce later this week right before a Waldorf - Astoria fund - raiser and a meeting of the Democratic Rural Conference.

While acknowledging the Governor's high popularity ratings, they noted that majorities of the public are opposed to key elements of his agenda, including giving tax breaks to millionaires and cutting healthcare and education spending.

The vast majority of contributions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign come from $ 10,000 contributions and higher, according to analysis released today by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

On individual policies I've seen Corbyn supporters taking succour from polls showing, for example, that a majority of the public support rail nationalisation or much higher taxes on the rich and drawing the conclusion that there is a public appetite for much more left wing policies.

Clegg has a 15,284 majority, although the seat includes a high number of public sector managers and students from the city's two universities and three teaching hospitals.

As the September 12 primary elections approach and campaigns kick into high gear, a vast majority of candidates for the city's elected offices will have their coffers bolstered by the Campaign Finance Board's (CFB) public matching funds program, which matches eligible donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio.

«A majority of New Yorkers are willing to bite the higher tax bullet if national expenditures on programs like Medicaid and food stamps are reduced,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

He did, however, lament the fact that a number of high - profile corruption inquiries — including those surrounding former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, former Speaker Sheldon Silver and allegations of Buffalo Billions bid - fixing — didn't become public until after last November's election.

In addition, public support for income redistribution through higher taxes on the wealthy has now reached historic peak levels: according to Gallup polls in 2013 and 2014, a majority (52 %) of Americans agree that the government should redistribute wealth through heavier taxes on the rich.

The majority of the patients reported using sunscreen, a number significantly higher than the general public.

The vast majority of the students in higher education are taken on by the 83 public universities, which are far from giving their graduates equal career chances.

Women have a higher success rate than men, and a majority were led by students, found scholars who wrote the study for The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that supports economics studies relevant to public policy.

Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the issue isn't as urgent as other concerns that many people have: «We need to be more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher on their priority list.»

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

Though the first public high school opened in Boston in 1821, for more than a hundred years, the majority of American teens were otherwise engaged.

The common sense of our present day — that the majority of students in American public schools ought to achieve at reasonably high levels — is unprecedented.

A substantial majority of the public (61 %) support the general concept of standards that are the same across the states — 20 percentage points higher than the share that supports «Common Core.»

The majority of the new students in higher education over the past several decades attend large public institutions, which have long since exhausted their economies of scale.

A majority of the states in our sample have charter sectors that enroll a higher percentage of low - income students than their traditional public schools peers.

Fully 69 percent of the public, and a solid majority of every subgroup, say that they «would be willing to have a child [of theirs] go through high school taking some academic courses over the Internet» (Q. 8).

A majority of St. Louis Public Schools students scored below proficient in math and English, but higher scores in the attendance and graduation - rate categories made up for poor results in academic achievement, Emily Stahly, a research assistant at the Show - Me Institute, found in an analysis earlier this year.

Although a majority of school administrators say the arts are a vital part of the public school curriculum, fewer than half the nation's high schools include them in graduation requirements, a federal survey has found.

Details are scarce, but in classic fashion, Malloy is targeting the majority of his new budget cuts on health care, human services, education and Connecticut's Public institutions of higher education.

To: Speaker Carl Heastie Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Catherine Nolan Majority Leader John Flanagan Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins Senate Education Committee Chair Carl L. Marcellino Governor Andrew Cuomo Educators for Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization of over 13,000 New York City public school educators, believes that a multi-measure system of student achievement and a fair system of teacher evaluation is essential to supporting, developing, and retaining high - quality educators.

From the data, we can conclude that the State of Illinois is home to a majority of the top 5 public high schools in America in 2018.

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

They never get around to explaining why, in California, 52 percent of students attending charters that serve a majority of high poverty kids are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide as opposed to just 26 percent of similar students attending traditional public schools.

How best to help 77,000 children at perpetually failing K - 12 public schools sharply divided the Florida House on Thursday, as the chamber's Republican majority pushed through a controversial $ 200 million spending plan to attract specialized, high - performing charter schools to Florida that would offer an alternative to — and potentially supplant the role of — struggling neighborhood schools.

examines the connections between neighborhood characteristics and boundary school enrollment rates among the District of Columbia's public school students, and finds there's only one pocket of the city where a majority of families in public school choose their in - boundary middle or high school.

If NYC is to meet the Mayor's worthy goal of «ensuring no child in the City goes to a school that does not provide a high - quality education,» then it must develop a new strategy for turning around traditional public schools, which will always serve the majority of city students.

A majority of Uptown public schools continued the improvement that has characterized New Orleans schools in recent years, with Lusher and Audubon charter schools both earning «A» grades and New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School improving its score by more than 30 percent.

Despite KIPP's efforts, the majority of public schools have not invested — or in many cases do not have the resourcesto offer this kind of assistance to every high school student as they prepare for college.

In this era of a new administration in Washington that has espoused many viewpoints fundamentally at odds with the values held by the vast majority of Californians, we look forward to working with you to ensure that California's public school system, including its vibrant charter school sector, continues to ensure that absolutely all students regardless of immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, class, faith, or disability may access high quality public school options.

Public school parents continue to have trust and confidence in teachers, and the majority of parents believe their child has substantially higher well - being because of the school he or she attends.

The majority of the Motor City's charter high schools underperform the city's traditional public schools, according to an analysis published Thursday by Detroit News.

«In a recent speech, Zuckerberg said he plans to «upgrade» the majority of about 25,000 public middle and high schools over the next decade.

Yet in national polls the vast majority of Americans have continually awarded high marks to their own schools, even while giving substantially lower marks to public schools across the board.

While some principals work in public magnet and charter schools or private religious and secular schools, the majority of elementary, middle, and high school principals are employed in public and private schools.

Switching perspective to that of the administrators and schools responsible for publishing information and advertising to families, a study that engaged the administrators of New Orleans public schools with particularly high and low rates of special education student enrollment demonstrated that the majority of administrators had taken no direct action to recruit special education students to their schools (Marcell, 2010).

But in the vast majority of states, simply attaining a high school diploma does not qualify students to attend a public university, according to a study released Monday by the Center for American Progress.

Use this link to add yours to the voices opposing it: http://p2a.co/kpToxWX By the way, U.S. News and World Report has released its 2017 rankings of America's public high schools, and for the first time ever, the majority of the schools in the top 10 are charters.

Use this link to add yours to the voices opposing it: http://p2a.co/kpToxWX By the way, U.S. News and World Report has released its 2017 rankings of America's public high schools, and for the first time ever, the majority of the schools in the... Read More

As we might expect of a well - funded, majority - white district, the Milford Public School District schools are high - performing.

I think it is also true, that «The Major Publishers» need to climb down from their high horse of literary snobbery and realise that the majority of the reading public, just want to a good tale, and not an over edited, over indulgent, wordy story based on a subject that most ordinary, averagely educated people can not, and have no desire to grasp!