Sentences with phrase «numbers of students living»

The district was growing by 800 to 1,000 students a year, with increasing numbers of students living in poverty, homeless, or struggling with behavioral issues.

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

The advocates who spoke at the event encouraged Congress members and President Obama to protect Title 1 in ESEA, which provides extra funding to schools serving large numbers of students living in poverty.

At the end of the day, if this program is going to be successful, we need private schools that want to serve significant numbers of students living in poverty and that can provide a superior educational experience for them.

With a high number of students living below the poverty level, Ferrua had been giving a lot of thought to the connection between nutrition and education outlined in Jensen's writings.

The Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness has added the number of students living in shelters to its online interactive data tool, which is available at http://tinyurl.com/zpt9s64.

«A number of our students live in motels.»

In English language arts last year, 42 percent of the grade scored in the advanced category in a school whose scores are normally severely impacted by the high number of students living below the poverty line.

Teachers unions want a reduced emphasis on testing and more investment in public schools, including social services for the increasing number of students living in poverty.

A recent U.S. Department of Education study on school spending reported that in central cities - where greater numbers of students live in poverty and it costs more to educate them than non-poor students - schools must spend a greater portion of limited funds on instruction and less on repairing buildings or buying / repairing equipment, which has led to often - dangerous infrastructure conditions.

After all, we don't know how many students live in attendance zones of F schools but enrolled in private schools anyway — there are 63,500 students attending F schools, but likely a different number of students living in an F school's attendance zone.

School districts in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago have the highest number of students living at or below poverty.

Over the same period, the number of students living in on - campus dorms increased by a bit more than 600,000.

Not exact matches

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

A number of students — and some parents as well — spoke of intergenerational tensions over how to practice Islam, and indeed over how to understand the claims that Islam made on their lives.

According to the findings, 36 percent of U.S. college students don't have enough to eat and a similar number doesn't have somewhere secure to live.

One trend is the increasing number of students in institutions of higher learning who return to school or enroll for the first time later in life — a far cry from the typical stereotype of undergraduates.

When he thought about the decline in numbers at the University (Duke George had forbidden students living in Albertine Saxony to attend Wittenberg University), the rise of many reformers opposed to him, and so many other problems, it all seemed overwhelming.

A top student and football star in South Central L.A., Kitam Hamm is one of a growing number of high school athletes who face life - and - death decisions every day as they try to survive in gang - infested communities

In contrast to these well - adjusted students were the growing number of students on my campus whose parents had done too much of the work of life for them, such that the student was rather bewildered when confronted with choices, problems, or questions they were accustomed to Mom or Dad handling.

In order to put a student on the program the parent fills out an application providing the number of peoople who live in the household and how much income comes in.

It's avoidable, and there are a number of programs proven effective in reducing bullying behavior while also empowering students to take life's punches and keep going.

Recognizing that working long hours in a new and intensely challenging environment can also pose challenges to balancing work and home life, a number of programs are in place at Floating Hospital to help ease the transition from student to pediatric specialist.

There are a number of Healthy Living Grants available for schools, school districts, and students.

Students must live and work in New York for the number of years in which the aid is accepted or the grants become loans.

The policy in brief is giving students financial support upfront so that they can pay for their living costs while at university rather than giving them money to pay back a loan they can pay back over a number of years.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

Students receiving the free tuition will be required to live and work in New York after graduation for the same number of years that they benefited from the tuition grants.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

But teachers should be high paid, advocates argue, adding that more teachers are needed in New York given the high number of students in the state living in poverty, with special needs or learning to speak English.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

To better understand why our psyche responds so deeply, Christopher Krupenye, a Duke University graduate student in evolutionary anthropology, and his colleagues Alexandra Rosati of Yale University and Brian Hare of Duke gathered 40 of our closest living relatives — 23 chimpanzees and 17 bonobos — and offered them options for choosing food: either one or two fruits versus a constant number of peanuts.

«There is strong evidence that changes in colleges» quality - of - life and academic reputations affect both the number of applications that colleges receive and the characteristics of their next incoming classes of students,» said Reback.

Bienenstock led a campaign with Stanford's faculty senate and university trustees to eliminate a legal limit on the number of women students at the university, as part of efforts to promote diversity in the STEM workforce and other areas of public and professional life.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

Dr Susannah McLean, who conducted the research whilst a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, said: «Our findings suggest there will be a substantial number of frail, elderly people living with COPD in the coming years.

A large number of Lund University staff and students live in Malmö and commute to Lund.

In this work some of the large number of PhD students and postdocs of Professor Sir Peter Knight FRS present short reminiscences of scientific life and the time they have spent in the Theoretical Quantum Optics group at Imperial College that Peter had founded.

Gladstone touches the lives of budding scientists through a number of outreach programs, but its most considerable impact is on the large number of students who visit Gladstone every summer as part of the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC).

We continue to hear this time to time from a number of graduating students that how much the course has impacted their lives, from the food they ate, the places they visited, the intensive teachings they underwent and, the friends they made.

A great number of artists and students live here.

Though obvious from start to finish - it's little more than a Public Service Announcement - there are a few moments in this that are thought - provoking: how these starlets balance their «jobs» and personal relationships (Silguero's boyfriend is clearly bothered by her sleeping with so many other people), how they regard each other (none of them likes Belle Knox, the famous Duke student who turned to porn) and especially how they view the difference between «on - screen performing» and «real - life romance» (I found the scene of the one girl awkwardly trying to get a male waiter's number to be completely adorable).

This scheme offers income - assessed support for tuition fees and living costs for students aged 16 to 23 at a number of high quality private dance and drama schools

As our schools serve greater numbers of Hispanic students and fewer whites, for example, we should expect achievement to decline somewhat because Hispanic students, who are more likely to live in poverty, tend to perform at lower levels, on average, than whites.

One hundred and fifty years after shots fired at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, a growing number of teachers are digging directly into primary sources and using technology to help their students better understand the conflict and bring it to life.

The importance of substitutes in the lives of students is made more poignant by class - size reductions, which have increased the number of classes at different grade levels and increased the demand for substitute teachers.

Towards an adaptive education system in Australia says that, despite individual bright spots, overall student performance is declining in international tests, and an unacceptably high number of students are not ready for life after school.

Remote instruction: For schools with severely limited numbers of excellent teachers, like many rural and urban areas, bringing in great, live (though not in - person) teachers through videoconferencing, holographic technology, or other means could give students access to great interactive instruction they'd otherwise miss.

The differentiated activities packet contains a number of options to help your students develop their understanding of making healthy choices in their daily lives.

In Louisiana, we have seen many life - saving schools accept students using vouchers, just as we have seen a small number of fiscally or academically irresponsible schools accept such students.