Sentences with phrase «of their public school students in»

Last year, 76 percent of public school students in the city received free lunches and another 6 percent did not pay full price for their meals, according to CPS records.

«New York City public school parents are highly dissatisfied with the quality of education their children are receiving,» said Tenicka Boyd, StudentsFirstNY Director of Organizing and mother of a public school student in Brooklyn.

The number of public school students in the Adirondack Park decreased by a whopping 21 percent between 2003 and 2013.

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

It might be the most common mistake in education writing and policy analysis today: declaring that a majority of public school students in the U.S. hail from «low income» families — or, even worse, that half of public school kids are «poor.»

About half of the public school students in the U.S. attend schools in districts that have fewer than 10,000 students.

Much has changed since the fledgling Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), 14 New York City community school boards, and 23 individual parents and their children lodged the initial complaint charging the State of New York with denying «thousands of public school students in the City of New York their constitutional rights to equal educational opportunities.»

We first limited our attention to the 92 percent of public school students in the state attending schools with a private competitor within a five - mile radius.

At the start of each school year, parents of public school students in New York City receive a 28 - page pamphlet titled Citywide Standards of Discipline and Intervention Measures: The Discipline Code and Bill of Student Rights and Responsibilities, K — 12.

Overnight, New Orleans, with nearly 70 percent of public school students in schools of choice, had become one of the most chartered cities in America.

For example, 62 percent of public school students in our sample believed that, if faced with long - term suspension or expulsion, they were legally entitled to at least one of the following: a formal disciplinary hearing, opportunity to be represented by legal counsel, opportunity to confront and cross-examine witnesses bringing the charges, or opportunity to call witnesses to provide alternative versions of the incident.

Before Hurricane Katrina decimated the city and most of its schools in 2005, 64 percent of public school students in New Orleans attended a school designated as «failing.»

Participation in these types of programs can improve students» English language proficiency, which in turn has been associated with improved educational outcomes.1 The percentage of public school students in the United States who were ELLs was higher in fall 2015 (9.5 percent, or 4.8 million students) than in fall 2000 (8.1 percent, or 3.8 million students).2

While the National Center for Education Statistics does not release the exact number of students given the reading test, Best said it was between 3,600 and 4,200 students, a very small percentage of the tens of thousands of public school students in the state who are taking the Maryland School Assessments.

Home to the largest number of public school students in the nation, California ranks at the bottom on measures of per student spending and academic performance.

Dozens of cities educate more than one in five of their public school students in charter schools.

While the majority of public school students in the United States are now people of color, school leadership positions have yet to diversify.

With respect to grades K — 8, the Institute says, «the percentage of public school students in Orleans Parish at and above basic has increased 15 percentage points since 2009.

About 25 percent of public school students in Newark attend charters; that is expected to grow to 40 percent by 2018.

Charters, which now teach 43 percent of all public school students in the District, perform at a somewhat better rate than the DCPS system.

A report on rural schools looking at data from the 2013 - 14 school year found that more than 20 percent of all public school students in the United States are enrolled in rural school districts, which is over 9.7 million students.

And, about 9 percent of all public school students in Broward attended charter schools, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Kelly Edington, head of the Idaho Virtual Academy, released a statement sharing that virtual schools serve only about one percent of public school students in the state (1.7 or so), and pointed to the new federal guidelines requiring a four - year cohort graduation calculation as the reason for the overall drop in graduation rates from previous years.

The mayor said the additional schools would mean that charter school students could number 100,000 — 10 percent of all public school students in the city by 2013.

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.

Across the states, the population of public school students in special education ranged from less than 10 % to 19 %.

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About 3 percent of public school students in the state did not take the Badger Exam last year, most of them pupils whose parents opted them out of it.

Over the 20 years that followed, public charter school enrollment continued to grow, and charters accounted for 47 percent of all public school students in school year 2017 - 18.

Three - quarters of public school students in the District of Columbia attend a school other than their in - boundary [1] school.

The results showed that 51.2 percent of public school students in grades three through eight were proficient or advanced in English language arts and fewer than half, 43.7 percent, were proficient or advanced in math, according to the state Department of Public Instruction.

Three - quarters of public school students in the District attend a school other than the in - boundary school in their neighborhood, where...

65 — percentage of public school students in North Carolina who would be eligible for voucher in the second year of proposal from Rep. Paul Stam (Ibid)

Three - quarters of public school students in the District attend a school other than the in - boundary school in their neighborhood, where they have a right to attend.

However, 20 % of the public school students in Oakland are being left out of the bond.

According to the 2013 report, 53 and 50 percent of all public school students in the South and West, respectively, are low - income, followed by 44 percent in the Midwest and 40 percent in the Northeast.

When it was chosen for this study, it had grown to be authorizer of 120 charter schools and 46 % of public school students in the district were attending charter schools.

Nationally, the report found that at least one in five students now attends a public charter school in 43 communities across the country, up from 32 last year, and that 12 urban communities now enroll at least 30 percent of their public school students in charter schools, a jump from seven urban communities last year.

Just before he became state superintendent, only 4.6 percent of public school students in Louisiana earned AP credit — near the bottom of the states — compared with 26.4 percent in Maryland, tops in the nation.

Parents of public school students in a number of Connecticut school districts continue to report that there are superintendents and principals who are not only misleading parents about their fundamental and inalienable right to refuse to have their child participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) tests and / or the NEW SAT, but are actually telling parents that it is «illegal» for them to opt their child or children out of these tests.

According to the most current figure from the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=96), the percentage of public school students in the United States who were English Language Learners (ELLs) was higher in the school year 2011 — 12 (9.1 %, or an estimated 4.4 million students) than it was in 2002 — 03 (8.7 %, or an estimated 4.1 million students).

Research sample includes 10 percent of public school students in member states; all schools may participate on a voluntary basis.

Hence, what is in store for Connecticut parents, according to Pelto, is what has already occurred in New York State where Pelto indicates «that only 31 percent of all public school students in New York State got a «passing score» on the math and English language arts Common Core tests.»

It is true that, over the past few years, the number of charter schools in Oakland has increased dramatically to serve more than 25 % of public school students in the district.

Founders Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin began by redefining what was possible for a classroom of public school students in Houston.

Since MA was ranked first in student achievement, and also because 96 % of public school students in MA attend normal public schools, voters were generally positive toward the MA education system.

[17] Since MA was ranked first in student achievement, and also because 96 % of public school students in MA attend normal public schools, voters were generally positive toward the MA education system.

The results in Racine, which is in the first year of hosting a voucher program, indicate 61.5 percent of the public school students in that district were proficient or advanced in math compared to 50.8 percent for students in that city's private school choice program.

Not exact matches

The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»