Sentences with phrase «numbers of immigrant students»

A more even distribution also relieves the pressure on schools and teachers when large numbers of immigrant students arrive over a short period of time.»

States can set aside up to 15 % for districts that experience a «significant increase» in the number of immigrant students.

And the decision could have a serious impact on a number of immigrant students in Wisconsin schools.

Drake has studied the belief systems of educators in a California district with a large number of immigrant students.

Not exact matches

Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

As Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang note in their book, Welcoming the Stranger, a large number of undocumented immigrants are Asian students who've allowed their student visas to expire.

A requirement that many individuals sign up anew to the electoral register is widely expected to lead to a drop in the number of lower - income voters in multiple - occupancy and rented accommodation — especially students and immigrants — on the rolls.

That already appeared a very difficult target to meet without this additional factor, though migration numbers have come down a little, including a fall in student migration, the largest category accounting for a third of immigrants to Britain (though not one that evokes much public concern).

Elected officials, activists, advocates and university students have a number of actions planned for this week to decry the president's policy dictates targeting Muslims and undocumented immigrants, as well as to provide support and guidance to impacted people.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

A number of differences, of course, distinguish today's science graduate students from the «huddled masses» of largely ill - educated immigrants of yesteryear.

Undoubtedly, most nations count large numbers of students whose immigrant or minority families do not share a common historical experience.

Many talented students in states with high numbers of illegal immigrants, like California and Texas, have struggled to get a college education...

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

Perhaps our problem is the number of students, compared with those in Europe, who come from immigrant and non-English-speaking homes and the number who come from minority groups still suffering the consequences of various kinds of deprivation.

Due in large part to the influx of immigrant families from a wide variety of nations, rural education is a rapid - growth industry, even as student numbers in urban and suburban schools are declining.

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

Teachers in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants — often find themselves dealing with a host of unexpected issues: immigrant students» unique socio - emotional needs, community conflict, a wider range of skills in English, lack of a common language for communication with parents, and more.

But the district, one of the largest in the country, has seen explosive growth in the number of poor and immigrant student it serves, and passage rates for students with limited English proficiency slipped.

Assigning students to classrooms based on performance and ability gained popularity in the mid-19th century, when public schools began enrolling large numbers of immigrant children with limited preparation or capacity for schooling compared with native children.

She has written extensively about the situations of immigrants and English - language learners in a number of settings, and she co-produced and directed Living Undocumented: High School, College, and Beyond, a documentary about the challenges that undocumented students face.

A number of studies have examined the effects of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of host communities, [3] and there have been several recent analyses of the effects of immigrants per se on the educational outcomes of incumbent students, though their conclusions have been mixed.

Some might try to comfort themselves by saying the problem is limited to large numbers of students from immigrant families, or to African American students and others who have suffered from discrimination.

Eighteen - year - old Sahmina Rahman, the U.S. - born daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, is one of a small number of South Asian high school students here who have joined protests against federal proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.

Those state - run schools are closed today, the immigrants to the United States say, and have been replaced by schools with a new agenda — one that teaches a small number of students a fundamentalist version of Islam.

Immigrants continue to arrive in LA's classrooms with no English skills, and the number of homeless students grew by 50 percent to over 17,000 last year.

According to the organizations's latest numbers, 70 percent of incoming teachers in the metro LA area, which includes LA Unified and other surrounding districts, identify as non-white; nearly half received federal Pell Grants, which are given to low income students; half are the first in their families to graduate from college, and 10 of the new teachers are recent immigrants who earned federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, which means they are eligible for employment.

Our leaders seek to solve the problem of the poor by blaming the teachers and schools that seek to serve them, calling the deepening levels of poverty an «excuse,» rewarding schools that keep out and push out the highest need students, and threatening those who work with new immigrant students still learning English and the growing number of those who are homeless, without health care and without food.

Leaders in the district of about 47,000 students expect to lose $ 832,808 in special education funding, $ 921,000 in Title I funding — which supports schools with a large number of low - income students — and $ 300,000 in funding for programs that improve teacher quality, immigrant education and assist the homeless, among others.

It would make sense to develop specific programs to help integrate new students at schools that receive large numbers of midyear transfers, as Cardozo has done for immigrant students.

Vancouver and Toronto have been designated high growth super cities with large numbers of immigrants with visas and foreign students arriving every month.