Sentences with phrase «number of schools with»

While she was at the helm, suspensions in Focus schools measurably declined, and the number of schools with high chronic absenteeism rates dropped by more than 8 %.

That brings to 25 the number of schools with magnet programs set to be operating during the 2018 - 19 school years.

The tool also represents graphically where a school's performance is in comparison to a number of schools with similar contexts.

The School Board has approved eight new magnet programs since May, bringing the number of schools with such specialized offerings up to 25.

This suggests that there are a high number of schools with fewer than five ELLs tested.

Even though charter schools make up only 4 percent of the total number of schools with two years of API data, these four charter schools constituted 20 percent of the most improved California public schools.

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.

The number of schools with pupils enrolled on EBacc subjects more than doubled over the eighteen months from its introduction, which illustrates the profound influence of the EBacc on school behaviour.

The number of schools with low grades has increased again.

Though the administration touted last school year as the safest on record — with the de Blasio administration discussing the possibility of reducing the number of schools with metal detectors — the experience of students at Wildlife Conservation reveals a different story.

A third of existing state - funded schools are religious, as are a similar proportion of new Free Schools that are being approved, and now it seems that an increasing number of schools with no previous religious character are at risk of having one forced upon them.

School Nutrition Association is calling on USDA to turn this national mandate on meal prices into a pilot program in a limited number of schools with a report back to Congress before the provision becomes national policy.

The number of schools with extended lunch times increased a few years ago, he said, especially on the Northwest and Southwest Sides, where student population is booming.

The vast majority of registered faith schools in England have a Christian faith designation, but there are also a small number of schools with other faith designations - including Muslim, Jewish and Sikh.

While the number of schools with satellite campuses has remained around 95, the number of locations themselves has grown by about 20 percent over the past 10 years, from 254 to 305, according to ATS.

We conduct this second analysis using all of the principals in our data, not just those in their first three years leading a school, because the numbers of schools with two principals observed in their first three years is quite small.

Not exact matches

A comprehensive guide to Canada's 39 MBA school with data on average GMAT score, total enrolment, total number of faculty, percentage of female students, percentage of international students, standard degree length and tuition fees.

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 programs with the highest proportion of women, the highest number of foreign students, the top schools by instructor - student ratio and more.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

Rely on reputation and gut instinct and you'd probably name a familiar list of Ivy league and top - notch technical schools, but new numbers offer some suggestions that may surprise you (and offer campuses with less cutthroat competition from bigger companies).

Costa Rica offered a large number of available, educated workers, many with technical - school or college backgrounds.

The program is capped with a business trip abroad, where students meet and learn from local executives, tour businesses in a number of economic sectors, and participate in a consulting project with classmates and students from international host schools.

When the Kula Project first engaged with them in May of this year, they asked what their number one need is and the unanimous response was to have the funds to send their children to school.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

A growing number of Canadian business schools are implementing investing programs that buy and sell with real dollars, blurring — or eliminating — the divide between campus and Bay Street.

Increasing numbers of adolescents are becoming victims of this new form of violence... Like traditional forms of youth violence, electronic aggression is associated with emotional distress and conduct problems at school.»

Other schools with better - than - expected numbers include UC - Berkeley's Haas School and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

So along with the growing number of schools that offer degrees and programs in gaming, KontrolFreek aims to expand the idea of the «student - athlete» by offering scholarships that are over $ 2,000.

The five - time Grammy winner also discusses her education, her involvement with a number of different charitable initiatives and the idea behind the Jessye Norman School of the Arts.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

When Berkeley first agreed to offer an executive program in the early 2000s, the school decided on a partnership with Columbia because it was in the midst of a number of initiatives and administrators were concerned about stretching the school's resources.

The Haskayne Career Centre is working closely with our faculty partners to plan a number of events to engage with Haskayne School of Business students.

Significant support is given to the local primary school and Talison Lithium employees are involved in a number of joint environmental and community based projects with the school including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue prschool and Talison Lithium employees are involved in a number of joint environmental and community based projects with the school including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue prschool including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue prSchool's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue project.

For the budget year 2017, the state Division of Administrative Hearings docketed 244 appeals of Florida school board decisions, with the largest number of them being filed in South Florida.

Through a series of real - time broadcasts, brands such as U.S. sports nutrition company GNC, U.K. retailer Sainsbury's and Korean cosmetics maker Too Cool for School used everything from exercise routines to dance numbers to on - air makeovers to connect with consumers watching from home.

For this study, we analyzed student loan debt data from 1,138 schools in the United States, including student loan debt per borrower, proportion of graduates with student loan debt, and the number of borrowers from the Class of 2016.

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.

Small, faith - based schools with religiously motivated teachers are more likely to offer the special attention, loving intimacy and moral standards hat an increasing number of dysfunctional homes can not provide.

«Well, this is sort of our real address — we sort of live with my nan...» We must defend our schools with confidence and the knowledge that we are offering something that large numbers of people want.

The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

This description fits a number of Christian schools confronted today with rapidly changing sexual norms.

Recently it has been divided into two departments with the general department continuing the old system and a special department which is composed of faculties of theology, jurisprudence, and the Arabic language, to each of which is attached a number of primary and secondary schools.

The only exception is the three government schools for training judges and lawyers in the shari`a with the number of students limited to the positions to be filled.

A number of parents threatened the school with legal action over the summer after their children were prevented from beginning their second year of A-levels because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

During the 1990s, he points out, the average number of school shootings with multiple victims increased from two to five per year.

American Catholics to create a sort of parallel society in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the result that there are now over 6,800 Catholic schools (5 % of the national total); 630 hospitals (11 %) plus a similar number of smaller health facilities; and 244 colleges and universities.

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).