Sentences with phrase «of public school students enrolled»

In the 2012 - 13 school year, 84 percent of New Orleans public school students attended charter schools... New Orleans [currently] leads the nation in the percentage of public school students enrolled in charter schools, with the next - highest percentages in Washington D.C. and Detroit (41 percent in each).

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

Contrary to what one might expect given the opposition — or at least hearty skepticism — of teachers unions to the charter school movement, districts with a greater union presence were more likely to have a charter school and to have a greater share of public school students enrolled in charter schools in 2003 — 04.

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

Not exact matches

While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

Interscholastic Athletics: Statute 13 -36-4 (2003) gives the school board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities AssociSchool Activities Association.

All public schools and private schools enrolling more than 60 % of students at public expense are required to adopt a policy on the management of head injuries that is consistent with the policy of the Commissioner.

Last year, the D.C. Health Department found that 43 percent of students enrolled in city public schools were overweight or obese.

(2014) Directs each local school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded from the public view to be designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.

Students enrolled in public pre-kindergarten programs in New York City are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

That number equals nearly 10 percent of the students enrolled in our City's public school system.

THE BRONX — State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz tried to block minority students from enrolling in a popular public elementary school — saying that he didn't want «outsiders» coming into the kindergarten in the tony area of Riverdale, according to a lawsuit filed by the school's assistant principal on Monday.

A study of 172 University of Texas students enrolled in a «responsible conduct of research» course, for example, found «no significant change» in attitudes after training, says Elizabeth Heitman of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

In six major school districts (New Orleans, Louisiana; the District of Columbia; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Flint, Michigan; and Gary, Indiana), at least 30 percent of public school students are enrolled in public charter schools.

And, while it is not a charter school, it was the country's first state - wide Internet - based public high school and has enrolled hundreds of thousands of public school students since 1997.

Launched in the fall of 2015, the Grand Rapids Public Museum School currently has 120 students in sixth and seventh grades, and will add a grade each year so it's fully enrolled as a 6 — 12 program by 2022.

The data also showed a continued increase in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students enrolled in ACT public schools.

The August 2017 census showed there were 46,566 students enrolled in Canberra public schools, an increase of 1,649 enrolments (3.7 per cent) since August 2016.

Wide Variation Across the Country: Overall, 55 % of public school districts reported students enrolled in distance education courses.

If the court claims that charters remove students from the «local control» of their district, how can a Washington student enrolled in a public school in Oregon be under the «local control» of its sending district?

The San Francisco Chronicle describes the case of a student with learning disabilities and an anxiety disorder whose parents «enrolled him in a $ 30,000 - a-year prep school in Maine — then sent the bill to their local public school district.»

Despite the rapid growth in the number of charter schools in the state, the 12,000 students enrolled in charters in 1999 — 2000 represented just 1 percent of North Carolina's 1.25 million public - school students.

For 90 percent of the 6,576 transfers in our database, the distance between the charter school where the student enrolled and the traditional public school the student attended the previous year is less than ten miles.

«The union, in my view, did not want to be blamed for not getting Race to the Top,» recalls Joel Klein, then chancellor of New York City's public schools, which enrolled almost half the K — 12 students in the state.

The difference in the rate of achievement growth between students enrolled in charter schools and students in traditional public schools is substantial.

Compared with traditional public schools, charter schools in North Carolina enrolled a larger percentage of black students and lower percentages of Hispanic and white students.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), during the 2002 — 03 school year (the last data available), 36 percent of U.S. school districts (5,500 out of 15,040) had students enrolled in distance - education programs, and 38 percent of public high schools offered distance - education courses.

(With almost 60 percent of public school students now enrolled in charter schools, New Orleans has become a national model for their widespread use.)

In 16 cities, more than 25 percent of public school students are enrolled in charter schools.

Louisiana appears on track to enact a private - school - voucher plan for New Orleans that borrows from choice programs elsewhere in several respects, from its focus on a single city and its means - testing of families to its targeting of students enrolled in low - performing public schools.

CREDO controlled for the unique characteristics of students enrolled in virtual charter schools by comparing their performance to a «virtual twin,» a student with the same demographic characteristics and similar prior achievement enrolled in a traditional public school.

By the spring of 2006 there were nearly 20,000 students enrolled in private schools, three - quarters the prestorm figure, but well above the number that were back in public school (see Figure 3).

They concluded that students enrolled in Detroit charter schools were significantly outpacing a demographically similar set of matched students who remained in traditional Detroit public schools.

All students who enrolled in a charter school were matched to a Chicago Public Schools record, as were 73 percent of the charter school applicants who applied but did not enroll.

This past year, 45 students enrolled in the course, including students from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard School of Public Health, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Today, more than 1 million students are enrolled in public charter schools in the 41 states (and the District of Columbia) that have charter laws, with almost 4,000 charter schools in all.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

The plan involves private schools enrolling the waitlisted students with the possibility of receiving public funding in the spring.

The city's Public Charter School Board reported Thursday that the city's 57 charter schools enrolled 27,953 students this fall, or about 38 % of total public school enrolPublic Charter School Board reported Thursday that the city's 57 charter schools enrolled 27,953 students this fall, or about 38 % of total public school enrolSchool Board reported Thursday that the city's 57 charter schools enrolled 27,953 students this fall, or about 38 % of total public school enrolpublic school enrolschool enrollment.

With 19 percent of its public - school students enrolled in charter schools, Arizona was the state with the highest percentage of charter - school students in 2014.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, students with disabilities «do not have an individual entitlement to services they would receive if they were enrolled in a public school.

Not all students are so fortunate, as West discovered last spring when he released a study that explored the achievement and dropout rates of students enrolled in grades three through 10 in Florida's public schools.

There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most teachers have responsibility for no more than 50 students (this on a per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).

It is relatively large — enrolling nearly half of the city's public school students — and high performing.

With 93 percent of its public - school students attending charter schools, New Orleans has the largest share of students enrolled in charters of any U.S. city.

The school district accountability groups for each grade level will include all students enrolled in a public school in the district or placed out of the district for educational services by the district committee on special education or a district official.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

However, when compared to traditional public schools, a higher percentage of charter schools enrolled more than 20 percent of students with disabilities.

Students are eligible if their family income is no more than 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($ 61,500 for a family of four in 2017 — 18) and they either (1) attended a public school designated as C, D, F or T in the previous year, (2) are entering kindergarten or (3) were enrolled at a public school in the Recovery School Disschool designated as C, D, F or T in the previous year, (2) are entering kindergarten or (3) were enrolled at a public school in the Recovery School Disschool in the Recovery School DisSchool District.