Sentences with phrase «number of public school»

66 (1) Where the number of public school pupils of compulsory school age residing in a district school area is fewer than ten and the board has ceased to operate a school, the Minister may declare the district school area board inactive as of the 31st day of December in any year.

And the number of public school science teachers is considerably less than 200,000.

To be sure, in addition to an increasing number of public school options, many white students and their parents also also opting out of the public school system altogether.

In the last decade, the number of public school districts that consider socioeconomic status in student assignment has grown from just a handful to more than 80 (Kahlenberg, 2012).

The Schools and Staffing Survey and the Teacher Follow - Up Survey, a nationally representative survey of teachers conducted every few years by the National Center for Education of the U.S. Department of Education, provides the estimates for: the number of public school teachers in random sample for each states in the 2007 - 08 school year (Column 2); the total public school teachers employed in each state in the 2007 — 08 school year (Column 3); and the total public school teachers in each state who left teaching between the 2007 — 08 and 2008 — 09 school years (Column 4).

The next chart adds an extra trend line to the one above: the number of public school employees divided by the number of students enrolled.

Sens. John Lehman and Jennifer Shilling wrote a bill to add a number of public school requirements to publicly funded private schools.

The number of public school students for every full - time teacher in California was 23.4 during the 2011 - 12 academic year, almost 50 percent above the national average of 16 students per teacher.

In that time, the number of public school students decreased from 858,205 to 854,419.

California, home to the largest number of public school students, stands to lose $ 263 million in funding that could pay for more than 3,600 teachers» salaries.

Over the past approximately 60 years or so, the number of public school employees per public school student has almost quadrupled.

Home to the largest number of public school students in the nation, California ranks at the bottom on measures of per student spending and academic performance.

Lee said that an increasing number of public school teachers are enthusiastic about reforming public schools because hagwons are hollowing out the purpose and value of the classroom.

In making this comparison, we must account for the fact that, while all of the private - sector professionals are covered by Social Security, a number of public school teachers are not.

During this same period, the number of public school teachers rose from 2.2 million to more than 3.1 million, several times the rate of increase of the students they serve, whose numbers edged up only slightly, from 44.8 million to 48.4 million.

But improving academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent between 1994 and...

The number of public school students in the Adirondack Park decreased by a whopping 21 percent between 2003 and 2013.

In the fall of 2019, Ventilla hopes to add a number of public schools as partners, he said.

McTaggart says an increasing number of public schools are looking for healthier, freshly prepared options, and that's exactly what Quest provides.

Traditional Waldorf schools are private, but the number of public schools inspired by Steiner's methods is growing, fueled in part by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and the charter school movement.

The MTC's work is not entirely original, though, and takes its lead from a number of public schools — most notably in New England — that have been rethinking traditional methods of assessing students for more than a decade.

But the small yet growing numbers of public school teachers who teach about religion say religious belief, at least among their students, is as shallow as it is wide.

Although the number of charter schools in North Carolina and the nation has grown rapidly over the past decade, they still represent only a fraction of the total number of public schools and are likely to remain so for a number of years.

But so do a large number of public schools.

For instance, Gallup has reported that, when asked how they would interpret the fact that «large numbers of public schools fail to meet the requirements established by the NCLB law,» just 43 % of respondents said they'd blame the public schools for the outcome.

Mass school closings occur when school districts decide to close large numbers of public schools in a community within a single year, citing a variety of reasons like «underutilization» or academic failure.

Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer more parents the opportunity to opt out of failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter schools.

The limit of 45 new charters over six years is good, but unlimited numbers of public schools could convert.

Cuomo is supporting plans to more closely link teacher evaluations to test scores, lift the state's cap on charter schools, and increase the number of public schools handed over to private management.

As a result of the minimum threshold requirements for reporting a group, the number of public schools reporting results for ELL test - takers is less than the number of public schools testing its ELL students:

Under Chancellor Joel Klein, the numbers of public school closings and new charter schools soared, while the high school student assignment system was overhauled to be driven by choice.

For a vast number of public schools, education has thus far not reflected the needs of the new, diverse majority in public schools, instead the Anglocentric curriculum still exists in «varying degrees in the nation's schools» (Banks, 2014).

Please consider joining the thousands of city workers, teachers and other volunteers who have helped with relief efforts, including at a number of the public schools in our region still being used as shelters.

Chicago residents have an increasing number of public schooling options for their children, consisting of magnet and charter schools in addition to their traditional neighborhood schools.

In May, the Government Accountability Office reported that the number of public schools serving primarily poor black and brown students had doubled nationwide.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Ms. Notley's candidacy has received a number of high profile endorsements, including those of fellow NDP MLA Deron Bilous, former NDP MLAs Barrie Chivers, Bob Hawkesworth and Jim Gurnett, former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling (who ran for the PCs in the 1997 federal election), former PC MLA Tom Sindlinger and former Edmonton Public School Board trustee Dave Colburn.

Consequently, Oral Roberts, Liberty, Bob Jones, and any number of others (including public state schools) may not have made the initial list of top 376 colleges.

Mormons do not run religious schools that take public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that is a practice approved by the Supreme Court in states with substantial numbers of parochial schools.

In a number of states, these agencies are dominated by teacher unions and public school advocates who have made it virtually impossible for some religions to operate schools in accordance with their religious principles.

However, you should really also add the percent of kids who ever have contact with a Catholic priest (maybe 25 %) and the relative number of contact hours (at most 20:1 compared to public schools).

After many years of successfully purging religion from public schools, I am surprised by the number of people reported as supporting its reintroduction.

In our public school district holiday observances are determined by the number of students that may be absent - thus the school not receiving state $.

Basically they are talking about taking on a number of roles: 1) Implementing their own programs separate from public schools.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

After hearing both sides or all sides (grandparents and the public school teacher occasionally appear, too), the director and audience offer a number of suggestions to try during the forthcoming week.

The standard method of theological education — a method practiced in the public schools and on through the university — is one of attending a certain number of classes, drafting some papers and, at the end of the term or course, writing the answers to some questions in order to indicate comprehension of the materials covered.

«Also I'm associated in the media and public with a number of people who have been accused, and in some cases pleaded guilty, to child abuse in a relatively small school within the same time.»

With every election cycle, the number of voters who grew up and went to school before there were national standards for public science education is decreasing.