Sentences with phrase «of the public school student population»

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

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white.

Not exact matches

(I'd left a public high school with a total population of 1,000 and would later step into an enormous human ant bed crawling with 4,600 students.)

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Some of those that are religious are certainly not Christian, and to display Christian icons in public schools is not only unfair to the students, but to the population as a whole.

That while they are only 17 percent of the public school population, they represent 35.6 percent of students who experienced corporal punishment, 37.4 percent of all students suspended and 37.9 percent of all students expelled.

BCPS has a student population of more than 225,000 students at nearly 230 traditional public schools.

There is an entire population of twice - exceptional students who struggle to have their needs met in a public school setting.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

There are currently 216 charter schools in the city serving 106,600 students, or 10 percent of the public - school population.

The dispute is complicated by the fact the public school population is increasingly made up of low - income families, immigrants who do not speak English and students with disabilities.

The board has been accused of financially starving the public schools that serve a significant number of African - American students of Haitian background as well as a growing Hispanic population.

Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York City public schools reduce class size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

The eight schools are all college preparatory schools of choice — public and public charters — with student populations ranging from 300 to 600.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

At the Atlanta public school where she also worked as an instructional specialist, she was surprised by the lack of intentional education about race, even though the student population was 100 percent African American.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

For years, online education served a small percentage of the public school population — for course make - ups, for students unable to go to school, and for prodigies pursuing their passions in athletics or music.

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

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.

A wide cultural and geographic chasm separates Mobile, Ala., a Gulf Coast city where 86 public schools serve some 65,000 students, and the Lower Kuskokwim River region of Alaska, an Ohio - size tract of wilderness where 22 of the 23 communities have only one small school apiece, with student populations ranging from 10 to 190.

It is therefore important to consider how the 5,746 «switchers» included in our final analysis, those who attended both a charter school and a traditional public school in North Carolina between grades 4 and 8, differ from the state's full population of 8,745 charter school students in these grades.

«Many multicultural students experience intense culture shock when they come to college,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Josephine Kim, a national certified counselor whose research and clinical experience with multicultural populations span residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

«I do want to thank you for acknowledging the situation in Albany, but going to the heart of what's real, we have 10 charter schools in Albany with a total public school population of 10,500 students.

Yet in 2011, nearly 6,000 charters were serving approximately 2 million students, about 4 percent of the U.S. public - school population.

ERIC summarizes the findings of that study: «The population studied consisted of 88 first grade students at a Chicago public school, instructed in either a small class of 17 students or a large class of 27 students.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

American Indian and Alaska Native communities are often remotely located throughout the U.S. with the largest populations of K — 12 students — as a percent of total K — 12 student population in the state — being served in public schools in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Alaska.

What is the prevalence of child maltreatment investigations (for abuse or neglect) in the public school population by the time students reach third grade?

While charter schools still serve less than 5 percent of the public school population, in a dozen population centers charters now enroll more than 20 percent of public school students.

Their small sample of schools was further stretched so as to compare private versus public sponsorship, elementary versus middle schools (the sample included no high schools), and higher - versus lower - income student populations.

In a new study presented at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts academic achievement gains of students.

Only a small fraction of low - income public - school students in New York, Dayton, and D.C. were offered vouchers, and these students made up a small share of the cities» private - school populations.

«Our school population has a majority of its students coming from challenged social and environmental backgrounds, so they need much more than what the average public school can provide for them given the legal mandates of what must be taught in these schools,» Johnson explains.

For public schools, following their lead would mean paying closer attention to that segment of the population who are not the parents of current students, the general tax - paying public, who provide the majority of support for the schools.

In 2000, WHEA became the state's first charter public high school and now has a student population of 131, a staff of 15, including eight teachers, and about 15 volunteer mentors.

States with the largest populations of American Indians and Alaska Natives collectively: California, Oklahoma, and Arizona Public school enrollment: Just over 600,000 Native students, or 1.1 percent of the nation's total pre-K-12 enrollment, attend public schools nationwide; that includes nearly 42,000 students in federal Bureau of Indian Education, or BIE, scPublic school enrollment: Just over 600,000 Native students, or 1.1 percent of the nation's total pre-K-12 enrollment, attend public schools nationwide; that includes nearly 42,000 students in federal Bureau of Indian Education, or BIE, scpublic schools nationwide; that includes nearly 42,000 students in federal Bureau of Indian Education, or BIE, schools.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation, with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — over 10 percent of the state's public - school population (see Figure 2).

Latino students are the fastest - growing population in America's public schools; by 2020, fully a quarter of public school students are expected to be Latino.

Unlike New York City's public school system where African - Americans and Hispanics comprise 70 percent of the population, only 3 percent of the students at Hunter College High School are Black and 1 percent Hisschool system where African - Americans and Hispanics comprise 70 percent of the population, only 3 percent of the students at Hunter College High School are Black and 1 percent HisSchool are Black and 1 percent Hispanic.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scSchool Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter scschool recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

Hispanic students are the fastest - growing population nationally in public schools, said Pedro Noguera, an education professor at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences.

Newark Public Schools has 64 schools, 7,000 employees, and a student population of 37,444 — and it is the largest school system in New Schools has 64 schools, 7,000 employees, and a student population of 37,444 — and it is the largest school system in New schools, 7,000 employees, and a student population of 37,444 — and it is the largest school system in New Jersey.

For the purposes of our analysis, scores were standardized by subject, grade, and year to have mean zero and unit variance in the population of students attending Massachusetts public schools.

After all, if students are assigned to the public school that is closest to where they live there can not be a meaningful imbalance between the demographics of the student population of a school and that of the catchment area for that school (other than as a result of differential use of private schools and quirks in how the catchment area is identified).