Sentences with phrase «much larger number of school»

Nobody also provided the only opposition to a much larger number of school - board candidates running unopposed.

As we wrote not long after ESSA passed, a much larger number of schools could potentially qualify for the second category under the new law.

Not exact matches

And even with those schools added in, the south is still much larger in the number of schools.

To make sure that the closeness rankings didn't reflect a fundamental difference between types of friendships at large and small schools, Bahns and her colleagues adjusted for a number of other variables, including how long friends had known each other and how much time they spent together.

Historically, schools have often offered parking for big local events on a cash - per - car basis, but there are now a number of websites which allow you to rent out your spare spaces online - letting you access the much larger demand for parking outside of school hours, on weekends and during the holidays (as well as events), all year round.

Second, what would it take to create an environment in which much larger numbers of successful, stand - alone charter schools can form and thrive?

Similarly, young people with small support networks, who don't have a large number of adults and other people who they can rely on, who they feel close to... they have worse health problems, they are much more likely to be bullied at school [and they have a] much lower view of their whole lives than young people with larger support networks.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... Perhaps I shouldn't have been considering we are at a school of education, but I've been truly surprised by how much faculty prioritize our learning both of content and larger «life» concerns.

None of them were going to open the floodgates and let large numbers of low - income children into their schools, so I'm not sure that overall performance would be much better even with their participation.

Having a service offered to a large numbers of schools by the local authority is a much more efficient model.

Demand action to address systemic barriers that may be causing large numbers of students to miss too much school.

That said I do think there is a groundswell of opinion, including from conservatives, that the forcible conversion of large numbers of highly performing schools is not a good idea and the proposal to allow trusts not to have parent governors is likely to be dropped with much fanfare at some point.

The department proposed a rule that would require local school districts to give schools enrolling large numbers of poor children at least as much state and local money as other schools — thus prompting the letter.

Much as the schools needed this extra money, and some students need even more, Brown can't be remembered as the Education Governor while shorting the state's four - year colleges and universities (we'll get to that in a few weeks), which also are educating large numbers of disadvantaged students.

His Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which went into effect five years ago, provides more money to school districts with large numbers of poor and / or «English learner» students on the assumption that it will close the much - lamented «achievement gap» in learning.

Though anecdotal reports in California said teachers from disadvantaged schools fled when new positions opened up in other schools when class sizes were reduced, what the follow - up studies show is that after rising temporarily in all schools, teacher migration rates fell dramatically to much lower levels than before, most sharply in schools with large numbers of poor students.

Is it possible to have a school that does very well on writing, not so much on math or some other high school that has average ACT scores gets large numbers of kids into great colleges?

However, secondary schools will see a much larger increase, with the number of full - time equivalent pupils aged up to 15 years projected to increase by 320,000 (+11.4 per cent) by 2021 and to continue to grow until 2025.

While that might not seem like a large number, some students at North Carolina schools are leaving school with much more massive amounts of student loans.

This web site also says that the number of law school graduates that are not practicing lawyers is much larger than the ratio of one lawyer to each 300 citizens.

«So, right there, alongside the buyer, I pull up the two listings on my RPR app, go over each home's basic characteristics like number of bedrooms and square footage; and even get into upgrades, taxes, mortgage info, schools, area amenities and more, which paints a much larger picture for them.»