Sentences with phrase «on average school districts»

As you can see, on average school districts rated «A» and «B» spend significantly less than school districts rated «C» and «D.» There were no school districts rated....

As you can see, on average school districts rated «A» and «B» spend significantly less than school districts rated «C» and «D.» There were no school districts rated «F» last year.

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But for Jamie Oliver to never once mention to the Food Revolution audience that Carpinteria is operating with outside assistance and, presumably, a significantly larger budget than the average school district is, to my mind, an omission that borders on the unethical.

[24] Since the federal reimbursement for a free meal is $ 2.68 (see Table 1), the revenue generated by each paid meal in these districts falls 61 cents short in elementary schools and 27 cents short in high schools, on average.

[23] When combined with the 27 cent federal reimbursement for most paid lunches, this means these districts are collecting, on average, $ 2.07 for each paid lunch in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schools.

That's how much the average school district has to spend directly on food.

Cherokee County School District students for the second consecutive year exceeded State averages on the 2016 Georgia Milestones End - of - Grade and End - of - Course tests, which are used to assess the mastery of Georgia Performance Standards.

Southern was selected for the grant based on the number of students that qualify for free or reduced priced meals, average daily participation in the school breakfast program, and district and school - level support.

School board officials said The Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 requires them to change pricing because the law states that schools must charge on average no less for paid student meals than the district receives in federal free meal reimbursement.

School spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18 school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of distSchool spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18 school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of distschool year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of distschool taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of districts.

With inflation virtually flat, the cap for school districts was on average 0.12 percent.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

I don't believe, if you look at the way we've allocated it, about a 2 percent reduction to health care, about a 3 percent reduction in education, 2.7 percent, actually, to school districts statewide on average, a 10 percent cut to state government.

Though school districts across the state are, on average, facing a 3.4 percent increase in their tax levies, Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted that most can live within his proposed 2 percent cap.

The increase in projected levies — both the county averages and the district - by - district figures — was calculated by Newsday, based on numbers provided to the state by 123 of the Island's 124 school districts.

The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and coSchool of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and coschool districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

That's why we have an increased emphasis on workable solutions for average educators and administrators in typical budget - crunched classrooms and school districts.

The average respondent estimated that their local school district spent $ 6,189 on each student and that a teacher in their state earned $ 36,063 annually.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

On average, teachers who move between districts after no more than two years at a school improve their salaries, though just barely.

We find that when a district increases per - pupil school spending by $ 100 due to reforms, spending on instruction increases by about $ 70, spending on support services increases by roughly $ 40, spending on capital increases by about $ 10, while there are reductions in other kinds of school spending, on average.

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

Also, children in yoga were significantly more physically fit than the school district average, based on scores from the annual California Physical Fitness Test.

Not far away, in another affluent, suburban school district in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an average of $ 63,000 per student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79 students with a variety of classifications, including learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

In a 2015 report, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that the average charter - school student in the Bay Area attained significantly more growth in reading and math than similar students in nearby district schools — and that this difference increased the longer he or she stayed in a charter school.

Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

Mr. Mickelson wrote in his Feb. 14 veto message to the legislature that he was rejecting the measure because it would have required that report cards be issued on a district basis, with school reports averaged so that there was one each for elementary, middle, and high schools.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

Viewed as a group, schools managed by our CMOs achieve rates of proficiency on state assessments in reading and math that average about 9 percentage points higher than those of schools in their local districts (see Figure 2).

When we asked respondents to estimate per pupil spending in their local school district, the average response in 2016 was $ 7,020, little more than 50 % of the actual per pupil expenditure of $ 12,440, on average, in the districts in which respondents lived.

On average, the cumulative attrition rate at KIPP is 34 percent, compared with 34 percent in the comparison middle - school group and 36 percent in the district as a whole.

Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below the district average).

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), which maintains a database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, reports that the contracts give their teachers, on average, 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

Within KIPP schools, students in early grades have lower entering achievement levels, on average, than those in later grades, a pattern that is not evident at district schools.

Charter schools enroll about 10 percent of Michigan students and 53 percent of students in Detroit, and while they outperform district schools, on average, it is a low bar of comparison.

It is also based on the argument that the contracting firms will benefit from economies of scale that are unavailable to the average school district in the United States.

Christy Moustris, who oversees the two dozen academies and pathway programs in Elk Grove Unified School District, says those focused on themes like health sciences require more expensive equipment than, say, a business academy, but, on average, Moustris estimates the need as follows:

After two years in the program, two of the three schools advanced from «well below average» to «well above the district average» on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

Charter schools in the NewSchools» portfolio achieve proficiency rates in reading and math that are about 9 percentage points higher, on average, than those achieved by schools in their host districts.

From 1997 to 1999, 60 percent of Pennsylvania school districts with above - average scores on the state's accountability exams had below - average spending, the report says.

On the other hand, nearly a third of all school districts with above - average spending had below - average...

To isolate the effects of an SFJ on districts within each poverty quartile, we focus on changes in spending over time within specific school districts after taking into account changes from year to year in average education spending across all of the nation's school districts.

In 2009 — 10, they had, on average, an additional $ 2,800 per student to spend as they saw fit, compared to district schools: $ 9,300 in flexible dollars, or 65 percent of the total funds per student.

That path is a limited replication of No Excuses schools that rely on a very unusual labor pool (young, often work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more charters that, on average, aren't different in performance from district schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.