Sentences with phrase «of declining enrollment»

The actions were agreed upon after officials stumbled onto an assortment of old and potentially - hazardous chemicals in a number of high schools that were being closed because of declining enrollment.

The district recommended the school close after years of declining enrollment, popularity and achievement.

The number of employees, teachers, administrators, and others has continually increased for four decades, except for the early 1980s period of declining enrollment and recession.

The issue of declining enrollment has been a hot topic in the past few months, especially with the charter school expansion plan that has been proposed.

And the threat of declining enrollment leaves those already struggling schools with fewer financial resources.

Following years of various turnaround efforts, the Newark school was closed in 2012 due to a combination of declining enrollment, dilapidated conditions and low academic performance.

Zimmer and others on the board want to rehire personnel, with the idea that to solve the long - term problem of declining enrollment — 3 to 3.5 percent a year, about half the number students leaving district schools for independent charters — it must bring back more teachers, counselors and librarians.

Outline your ideas for maintaining and improving our schools in this time of declining enrollment and how you would communicate your ideas to the community.

The point of the last piece, the subsidies, is to keep enough people in the pool of insured to avoid triggering a so - called death spiral of declining enrollment, a growing proportion of less healthy people and premium increases by insurers.

When it was selected to be closed because of declining enrollment in the district, the community bitterly objected.

«Some members [of the school board] believe that to build a new school, it is necessary to close an older school in an area of declining enrollment,» she added.

The Sunbury Daily Times reports that private schools in their area are bucking the national trend of declining enrollments for private schools, and growing their enrollments instead.

Richard Vladovic raised concerns about the ramifications of declining enrollment that the Broad plan would create.

Once ranked 872nd out of 875 Maryland schools, it suffered years of declining enrollment before it reversed course, beginning in 2010, thanks in part to SIG money.

Whether through large - scale media advertising or grassroots, political - style campaigns, these prominent school districts are showing that a shift in mindset can help stem the tide of declining enrollments.

That's because officials in Chicago Public Schools ignored demographic projections of declining enrollment and borrowed billions for construction anyway — while contributing nothing to teacher pension funds for a decade.

Carroll County's board of education has asked for a budget increase that would mitigate the effects of declining enrollment.

It allows principals to use job performance, instead of seniority, as the chief determinant when reducing staff because of declining enrollment or program changes.

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools.

A combination of declining enrollment, federal cuts in special education and this year's Federal sequestration has put a big pinch on big plans.

Since the crisis of RSD # 12 is also mirrored in RSD # 6 problem of declining enrollment, his observations are made more personal now that I live in the first district and teach in the second district.

As the new superintendent, Beutner will need to deal with the district's overall lackluster academic performance and a long - term budget deficit that comes at a time of declining enrollment, which itself is being aggravated by increasing charter - school competition.

At the local level, Amanda has assisted local school districts to develop school - based budgeting formulas; conducted salary competitiveness studies; addressed issues of declining enrollment; and determined the efficiency of facilities usage.

School district leaders planned to transform Westinghouse with single - sex classes and longer class periods, but the plan was so poorly executed that the school scrapped it just weeks after the 2011 - 2012 year began, kicking off a tumultuous period of declining enrollment and frequent principal and teacher turnover.

The 61,000 - square - foot North School, 999 Green Bay Rd., was closed in 1979 because of declining enrollment.

But Brian Sullivan and Jon Cofield were devastated when Arlington High School in Arlington Heights closed in 1984 because of declining enrollment.

English said the city's budget problems are not the fault of the teachers, but of declining enrollment, which means reduced state funding, and the need to rebuild aging schools.

A combination of declining enrollment, federal cuts in special education and this year's Federal sequestration...

After years of declining enrollment, public schools have grown by 11,000 pre-kindergarten to grade 12 students over the last five years.

But MPS closed Dover two years ago, because of declining enrollment.

This year, D.C. Public Schools is projecting 49,145 students, up from 47,548, a fourth year of increases after many years of declining enrollment.

San Antonio Independent School District will likely face a significant budget deficit because of declining enrollment, its superintendent said.

In Baltimore too, the school district has just recommended closing 6 city schools because of declining enrollment and poor academic performance.

The Detroit Free Press reported in a Jan. 15 article that 50 school districts and charter public schools ended 2012 - 13 in deficit «largely because of declining enrollment and the impact of state funding cuts.»

But he says the state has tied the hands of small schools that can't otherwise stay solvent because of declining enrollment.

(Colo.) About 2 percent of the nation's schools are closed every year either because of declining enrollment or the result of lingering academic problems.

At schools across the district, she assured parents that she would take their concerns back to district headquarters, where they would help shape an ambitious but practical plan to increase academic achievement and reverse years of declining enrollment.