Sentences with phrase «more school days»

Additionally, after - school activity participation was also associated with 60 percent lower odds of missing seven or more school days in a year.

More than 7 million students nationwide miss 15 or more school days per year.

And only 5.1 % of children missed 11 or more school days in the past year compared to 6.2 % nationally.

WE need more school days not less.

As more school days slip away, Hawaii lawmakers are offering millions of dollars to end the nation's shortest school year.

Aurora School District Superintendent Russ Bennett said he feels a need to have more school days earlier in the year just because of testing - even after his district earned all A grades on its 2013 - 14 state report card.

The organization defines chronic absenteeism as missing 10 percent or more school days for any reason, even illness, discipline, or excused absences.

More than seven million students nationwide missed 15 or more school days during the 2013 - 14 school year, the most recent federal data on chronic absenteeism show.

Our education system is broken — we need more school days, not less — Atheism is the answer!

«On average, one - third of homeless students are chronically absent, missing 20 or more school days in one year — the equivalent of one month of school,» the study concludes.

-- more science, more math, more art, more humanities, more social studies, more school days, more hours, more homework, more basics, more higher - order thinking, more lower - order thinking, more creativity, more everything.

We find that a 10 percent increase in school spending is associated with about 1.4 more school days, a 4 percent increase in base teacher salaries, and a 5.7 percent reduction in student - teacher ratios.

Then the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) decided to add a measure of chronic absenteeism — defined as the proportion of students missing 15 or more school days — in its 2013 - 14 Civil Rights Data Collection.

More than half of parents of school - aged children say that 16 or more school days are dedicated to test activities each year and 44 percent believe this is «too high,» which is double the number who say it is «too low.»

(Obama stressed the need for universal preschool and more school days each year, even though by his account we are underinvested in the K - 16 system already in place.)

They're having longer school days and more school days, because you know, our kids just need more time learning algebra.

Dave Moyer, speaking at the 2014 National Center for Education Statistics data conference on July 31, 2014, found that even at Hawaiian public schools where 95 percent of the students show up every day, chronic absenteeism can be a gigantic problem where as many as one in four kids — 25 percent — are missing 15 or more school days a year.

As this table shows, 27 states described chronic absence metric as missing 10 percent or more school days.

Now, a new analysis by the Read more about 1 in 4 Teachers Miss 10 or More School Days, Analysis Finds -LSB-...]

Of special concern are chronic absences among students in the early grades: 11 percent of PUSD kindergarteners missed the equivalent of 10 percent or more school days in 2015 - 2016.