Sentences with phrase «of students in public schools»

For the first time in history, the majority of students in public schools qualified for the free and reduced lunch program.

Some two thirds of students in public schools have the option of changing school buildings within their districts or neighboring districts.

The final budget will change some elements of Common Core, but will keep intact, for now, teacher evaluations tied partly to standardized test results of students in public schools.

Most of the students in the public schools are black or Latino.

Thus, if your child is one of the 90 % of students in public schools seeking great science instruction, it might be hard to find real science classes.

In 2013, 21 states reported that the majority of students in their public schools came from low - income families.

By way of sharpest contrast, in our urban areas, less than 20 percent of the students in the public schools will leave school as functional literates.

The 10 identified areas, which are actually clusters of neighborhoods in most cases and do not include all portions of the communities, but are rather «pockets of low opportunity» identified by GPSN, are also broken down into categories of need based on the number of students in public schools with a 2013 API of less than 750, which is a benchmark used by LA Unified to measure performance.

DeVos needs to be replaced with someone who is in touch with the real needs of students in our public schools.

The national results are based on a representative sample of students in both public schools and nonpublic schools.

Tuition vouchers and similar plans make the playing field more unlevel by continuing to permit private schools to cast aside the immutable rights of students in public schools even when they accept public funding.

The government's free secondary education policy should have been targeted at deprived families and areas instead of the blanket coverage of all students in public schools, the Vice President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers, Angel Carbonu, has said.

Black students make up just 15 % of students in public schools across the US.

Hispanic / Latino students make up biggest ethnic subgroup in Oakland — 45 % of students in public schools citywide.

The percentage of students in public schools who belong to a racial or ethnic minority group increased from 22 percent in 1972 to 43 percent in 2006, with a corresponding decrease from 78 percent to 57 percent in the percentage of white students enrolled (Planty et al., 2008).

Fewer than a third of students in public schools passed the new tests, officials reported.

The 2015 Oregon Legislature enacted House Bill 4002 that directed the Department of Education (ODE) and the Chief Education Office (CEdO) to develop a statewide education plan to address chronic absences of students in the public schools

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Blacks and Hispanics represented less that 14 percent of teachers in 2012 at a time when the two populations approached half of all students in public schools.

I believe the future of America's education system is bright, as bright as the possible future of each student in our public schools.

As the enrollment of students in public school choice programs has increased, so has the number of teachers working in interdistrict magnet and charter schools.

Today the majority of students in public schools in the country's West and South are students of color.

While 41 percent of students in public schools are Hispanic and 25 percent are black, 60 percent of teachers are white, according to the city's Education Department.

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

Crowdfunding sites used by teachers should have mechanisms for protecting student privacy, as well as a privacy policy tailored to the unique needs of students in public schools.

The national results are based on a representative sample of students in public schools, private schools, Bureau of Indian Education schools, and Department of Defense schools.

Classnotes Podcast (October 30, 2014) Federal law and court rulings have taken steps to protect the civil rights of students in our public schools.

Racial and ethnic minority students make up the majority of students in public schools, especially in urban areas.

Just 10 % of seats at those schools were offered to black and Hispanic kids, who make up nearly 70 % of students in the public schools.

It's important to note that those studies don't compare all of the students in public schools to all of the students in private schools.

Even though minority children now make up a majority of students in public schools.»

Even though students of color now make up a majority of students in public schools, teachers remain disproportionally female (75 percent) and white (83 percent).

Suburbs are diversifying and the ratio of white students to black and Hispanic students is shrinking; students of color are now the majority of students in public schools.

According to recent studies, more than 50 % of students in public school are students of color.

While scientists estimate that between 5 and 12 percent of children in the United States have dyslexia, just 4.5 percent of students in public schools are diagnosed with a «specific learning disability,» a category that includes dyslexia and other learning disabilities, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.