Sentences with phrase «of its students attending»

Exclusive new research conducted by the NUS on behalf of Premier Foods has revealed that, despite record numbers of students attending university, dining on campus is not currently the top option when looking for meals.

In May 2010, the D.C. Council passed the Healthy Schools Act, a landmark law designed to improve the health and wellness of students attending D.C. public and public charter schools.

The new law requires public and private colleges to adopt a set of comprehensive procedures and guidelines, including a uniform definition of affirmative consent, a statewide amnesty policy, and expanded access to law enforcement to ensure the safety of all students attending colleges in New York State.

«Many of the students attending SexFactor, previously have not received any sex or relationships education.

According to a recent report from Complete College America, the vast majority of students attending public colleges do not graduate on time; in fact, the report found that only 19 percent of full - time students earn a bachelor's degree in four years.

Close to 89,000, or about 19 percent of those students attended 495 schools not affiliated with a religion.

This is a big plus for us, as an inordinate amount of our students attend NCCC.

The outcome of such complacency will be that the generation of students attending university now will have to pay for higher education twice: once in the form of their own loans, and once in the form of cleaning up the debts left by this I.O.U policy.

In the district only 30 percent of students attend public schools, but by law the district is required to provide transportation, books, and special education for all students in the district.

Dan Aug, a spokesman for Mr. Levy, said in a statement that he believed the tax should be handled on a town - by - town basis, since some towns have a larger percentage of students attending state community colleges outside their home county.

I pointed out that City taxpayers were charged $ 351,372 in 2010 to cover the costs of students attending community colleges in other counties.

Many of the students attending ERN are drawn from programs funded by NSF's Division of Human Resources Development, which provides several opportunities for underrepresented minorities, women, and people with disabilities to pursue research and education in STEM fields.

Thus, most of the students attending Continuing Education at Aalborg University are employed adults who attend a course or a complete program while being financed by their employer.

She says many of her students attend a private class every 12 weeks.

A few weeks ago, Chris and I were in New Orleans for Jazz Fest and one night, we bumped into a group of students attending prom at our hotel.

Thousands of students attend these schools, and even more have graduated from them.

The amount of students attending university in the United Kingdom is growing, too, and now millions of students are looking for an innovative way to get out from underneath the crushing weight of student loan debt.

Another group of students attend a special school for wizards and witches in the Harry Potter franchise.

Each data set includes information for the universe of students attending a charter or district school in the respective city.

About 49 percent of students attend a charter school that has a system of bonuses for successful teachers, and 17 percent of students attend a charter school whose teachers are unionized.

The number of students attending a cyber charter has steadily increased over the past five years, and this indicated that we needed to do a better job.

About 64 percent of students attend a charter school with a school year of 190 days or longer, and 20 percent attend a school with a school year of 200 days or longer.

About 55 percent of students attend a charter school with a day that lasts eight hours or longer, 67 percent attend one with an optional afterschool program, and about 57 percent attend one with Saturday school that is mandatory for all or at least some students (for instance, students who are struggling academically).

The performance of students attending small schools has been recorded as between 11 per cent and 34 per cent higher when compared to children in overcrowded schools; 15 per cent higher in mathematics scores and 4 per cent to 9 per cent higher points in reading scores.

Future First research shows alumni are vital in motivating students to succeed with 75 per cent of students attending a Future First led alumni session say they are inspired to work

But Nevada is first on that indicator only because 69 percent of its students attend the Clark County school system, which has one of the lowest per - pupil spending rates in Nevada, at $ 5,215 — the same as the statewide median.

The percentage of students attending a low - performing school has fallen by half, from 67 percent to 34 percent.

As the article explained, most of its students attend brick - and - mortar schools and take FLVS courses in addition to their traditional classes, but some attend FLVS full time.

Almost 97 percent of students attend schools in districts that spend at least the national average.

A relatively low percentage of students attend schools where officials report that absenteeism, tardiness, and lack of parent involvement are not problems at all or are minor problems.

Fewer than 1 percent of students attend schools in districts that spend at least the national average.

Almost 83 percent of students attend schools in districts spending at least the national average.

he letter said that African Americans receive about 35 percent of one - time suspensions and about 36 percent of expulsions, even though they account for only about 15 percent of students attending public schools.

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

In order to assess this possibility, we ran the analyses for high school graduation and college attendance again with an additional control for the total number of students attending the school.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

The share of students attending non-religious schools (the only group to have no significant effect on college enrollment) has only increased by two percentage points since 2010 (from 17 to 19 percent).

Even with a sample this large, the number of students attending other religious and secular private schools is still quite small (80 and 102 cases, respectively).

A few of my students attended Visitacion Valley Middle School, a school that has a well - established, in - school meditation program, and a few of them have done yoga, but most of them have never done any focused, intentional stress reduction.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

In particular, he runs four charter school campuses on Chicago's South Side that are graduating more than 90 percent of their students with 95 to 98 percent of those students attending college.

According to the report published last week by the U.S. Department of Education's main statistics branch, the number of students attending public elementary and secondary...

With the decline in enrollment has come a drop in revenues: state aid is based on the number of students attending a district's schools.

Are the differences among late entrants large enough to notably change the types of students attending KIPP relative to those in district schools?

In the nation's capital, 26 percent of students attend one of the city's 71 charter schools.

Sixty percent of students attend charter schools, and both charter and noncharter schools have autonomy over staffing and budgets.

Only 1 percent of students attend school in districts where spending equals or eclipses the national average.

KH: Over the past 10 years, the total number of students attending schools run by high - performing CMOs increased at least tenfold, from approximately 10,000 students in 2000 to more than 100,000 students today.

There are now 43 communities where at least 20 percent of the students attend charters, reports the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Two - thirds of city schools in 2004 were rated «Academically Unacceptable» under Louisiana's accountability standards; in 2010, about 4 in 10 rate that designation, and the percentage of students attending a low - performing school has fallen by half, from 67 percent to 34 percent.