Sentences with phrase «of public school students»

Another 18 school districts enroll more than 20 percent of public school students in charter schools (see Figure 1).

Twenty - eight communities had more than 10 percent of their public school students in charters during 2012 — 13.

With 56 percent of public school students attending system schools and 44 percent in charter schools, cooperation on creative approaches to common problems is in everyone's interest.

This bill would empower parents of public school students with special needs with the ability to choose new educational options for their children.

Given that a large majority of public school students attend schools that are determined by their neighborhood location, information about sorting across neighborhoods is warranted.

As measured by state math and reading exams, thousands of public school students enjoyed a modest academic benefit as a result of the program.

Finally, we asked why some states have a greater percentage of public school students enrolled in charter schools than other states.

Both measure the percent of public school students who attain a regular high school diploma within 4 years of starting 9th grade.

In other words, while the political fighting continues outside the classroom, Common Core is already the daily reality for millions of public school students in more than 40 states.

At the same time, minority students in the area make up nearly half of the public school student population.

All over the nation, in cities large and small, charter schools are growing steadily and serving a greater and greater share of public school students.

The portion of public school students attending charter schools is from 2014.

Against heavy opposition, I had pushed hard to begin statewide testing of our public school students.

Forty - eight percent of public school students participate in community service, compared with 59 percent of Catholic - school students.

In 16 states, one - third or more of all public school students are enrolled in rural school districts.

As a former teacher and current mother of public school students, I couldn't disagree more with such ideas.

«Rather than invest in what we know works in education, this proposal puts resources in strategies with mixed results at the expense of our public school students,» she said.

In striving to make it through the K - 12 system and on to higher education, this small but important portion of public school students faces special challenges.

Teen - parent centers will be set up in each of the city's 22 neighborhood high schools to serve the young children of public school students.

Instead of setting aside money for future retirees, political leaders opted to defer their responsibilities, borrowing against the next generation of public school students and taxpayers.

As student poverty has risen, so has student homelessness: almost 3 % of all public school students lack a stable home.

In order to calculate the district ‐ level impact of the program, it is necessary to know the marginal cost of a public school student.

Too little data exists to compare the academic outcomes of students with disabilities [and other participating students] to the outcomes of public school students.

As parents of public school students, we encourage you to be proactive in discussing your child's assessment data with their teachers.

A majority of public school students attend the 40 charter schools.

About half of public school students who make it to college must take remedial classes in reading, writing or math before they can do college - level work.

About half of public school students are enrolled in charter schools, and just 25 percent attend their in - boundary public school.

They first approved charter schools in the early 1990s and today approximately 15 percent of public school students attend one of the more than 600 charter schools in the state.

Millions of public school students now take classes online.

In that time, the number of public school students decreased from 858,205 to 854,419.

Chart comparing the percentage of Virginia public school eighth - grade students achieving at the proficient level or above in mathematics on the National Assessment of Educational Progress with the performance of public school students nationwide.

(In Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio, two of the most charter - concentrated cities up to now, only about a quarter of public school students attend charter schools.)

Chart comparing the percentage of Virginia public school eighth - grade students achieving at the proficient level or above in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress with the performance of public school students nationwide.

Los Angeles Unified has the tenth highest percentage of public school students enrolled in charter schools at eight percent.

SPRINGFIELD — Thousands of public school students whose favorite meal is french fries and chicken nuggets might end up eating something else for lunch under legislation the state Senate passed Thursday to bans trans fats from Illinois schools that participate in the state lunch program.

(Watson, Louise and Ryan, Chris 2010) also found a higher proportion of public school students came from low socio - economic status backgrounds.

Using information from a national sample of public and private school students collected in 2003 as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), ETS compared the test scores of public school students with those of students in all private schools, taken together.

For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the country when fully implemented.

post, In Connecticut, interdistrict magnet schools receive special funding BECAUSE they are supposed to «reduce, eliminate or prevent the racial, ethnic or economic isolation of public school students while offering a high - quality curriculum that supports educational improvement.»

In Connecticut, interdistrict magnet schools receive special funding BECAUSE they are supposed to «reduce, eliminate or prevent the racial, ethnic or economic isolation of public school students while offering a high - quality curriculum that supports educational improvement.»

Another example: official data for language arts released by the state of New York show in 31 percent of public school students scored proficient, down from about 55 percent in 2012 and 77 percent in 2009, when the state tests were easier.

Parents of public school students at Lorena Street Elementary School were furious that the school was forced to relinquish space to accommodate Extera 2, a charter school, because of Proposition 39 — a law approved in 2000 requiring districts to share unused facilities with independent schools.

According to the department, 80.2 percent of public school students graduated on time.

«New Yorkers defied expectations by rejecting a State Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.