Sentences with phrase «of schoolchildren attend»

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

In the United States (where some 13 percent of schoolchildren attend private or charter schools), independent schools are predominantly religious.

In terms of total student enrollment in the slum areas of the three zones, with 918 schools, 76 percent of all schoolchildren attended either recognized or unrecognized private schools, with roughly the same percentage of children in the unrecognized private schools as in government schools (see Figure 1).

And a new study from the Southern Education Foundation reports that low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation's public schools.

Low - income students are now a majority of schoolchildren attending public schools in the United States.

Not exact matches

With the IAAF World Indoor Championships returning to her home city of Birmingham from March 1 - 4, the Olympic 400m bronze medallist marked the 100 days to go milestone by helping to launch a ticket campaign offering 100 local schoolchildren the chance to attend the Championships for free.

Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.

About the same share of 8th graders attend schools where music and visual - arts instruction are offered as a decade ago — a proportion that accounts for only about half the nation's schoolchildren at that age.

Although most of the nation's 52 million schoolchildren are still on traditional schedules, about 2 million attend school year - round; they attend school the same number of days as students on traditional schedules, but they get shorter breaks throughout the year.

This Education Week special report is all about the concrete — and equally crucial — topic of school facilities and what it takes to assure that the nation's 56 million schoolchildren have a modern, fully - equipped, well - maintained school to attend, and a place where all that theory and educator experience can be put into practice.

In total, 7 % of schoolchildren were educated in the independent sector, while 14 % of sixth - formers - those aged 16 and over - attended an ISC school, the council said.

Elementary Students Experience Their First Opera A partnership with the Opera, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Department of Transportation and City Councilwoman Jan Perry's office offers schoolchildren the opportunity to attend the performance.

«The scholarship program serves as a lifeline to thousands of Louisiana schoolchildren from low - income families who would otherwise have to attend an underperforming public school.»

These efforts have resulted in substantial gains — more than 1,600 Hartford students now take part in Open Choice, over 5400 Hartford Students and over 8000 suburban students attend 37 regional magnet schools and now 42 percent of Hartford schoolchildren are attending integrated schools.

A lot of Chicago parents with the resources to do so have followed Emanuel's lead: 17 % of schoolchildren in Chicago attend private schools, and so don't have to trouble themselves with whether or not their local public school has air conditioning, or a library (160 do not), or classes with 45 students.

The vast majority of U.S. schoolchildren attend traditional public schools.

Their stories are inspiring — and hopefully motivational, especially for the balcony full of schoolchildren who attend the awards ceremony each year in San Francisco's Opera House.

These findings reflect those of a study conducted in Finland among schoolchildren, which found that children with widespread pain reported more emotional and behavioural problems than those without pain, and showed that tiredness during the day was a risk factor for the persistence of pain.18 Furthermore, a recent study of children aged 3 — 17 years attending a medical practice in Australia found that children experiencing frequent abdominal pain were more likely to be anxious and experience sleep disturbances when compared to children with no abdominal pain.19