Sentences with phrase «overall public school population»

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More than 90 percent of New Orleans public school students attend a charter school, with the RSD overseeing 70 percent of the city's overall K — 12 student population.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

Overall, charter high schools, like charter elementary and middle schools serve different populations of students than their public school counterparts (See here).

«We now have 11 more communities that enroll at least 20 percent of their overall student population in public charter schools.»

While Heritage has only nine students open enrolled from Sheridan, 20 percent of Littleton Public Schools» overall population is composed of students from other districts.

Although some CMOs have been criticized for self - selecting students unrepresentative of the overall communities in which they live (Frankenberg and Siegel - Hawley 2013), Rocketship generally still serves populations similar to its surrounding public school districts.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.