Sentences with phrase «participation of a number of schools»

that have thwarted the participation of a number of schools, slamming the schoolhouse door on those most in need

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In 2014, more than 1 in 5 U.S. children lived in food insecure households, a number which underscores the importance of expanding participation in school breakfast.

The report also examines the impact of select trends and policies on program participation and compares the number of schools offering the School Breakfast Program to the number of schools operating the National School Lunch Program.

In the best of times, the Jamie Oliver school lunches were never quite as popular with English students and participation continued to fall below numbers before the healthier changes he introduced.

Monthly school meal participation was calculated as the mean number of daily meals served divided by student enrollment.

Participation in the school lunch program was calculated for each month of the study by dividing the mean number of daily meals served each month by student enrollment.

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.

SH: Julie Abrera at School Nutrition Foundation was a big part of that, and she approached us based on our size and the number of kids who qualified for free / reduced meals, as well as looking at our participation rate at breakfast — it was obvious we could do a better job of getting kids participating in breakfast.

The report measures participation in the Summer Nutrition Programs by comparing the number of children receiving summer meals to the number of children receiving school lunch during the regular school year.

At the other end of the economic spectrum, there are some schools which, because they have very low numbers of low income students, choose to forego participation in the Federal school meals programs altogether and just run their own meal program under their own rules.

Each affiliated fair may send a pre-determined number of projects to the Intel ISEF (as factored by participation and high school population) to compete in 22 different categories.

Students at Banded Peak School engaged in a number of curriculum - based activities to prepare for their participation in the program.

From 2006 on, the average number of distributed diaries was 100,000 per year and 60 % of Japanese schools repeated their participation in Green Lane Diary.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Only 20 percent of the young people start working there with a high school diploma; within two years post participation, the number jumps to 80 percent.

PAI is the professions own provider of professional development and runs a number of major national schools programs on diversity, community participation, health promotion and international and national leadership in Australia.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

One of the things we have is a participation map and of course schools can register but often they hear about The Daily Mile not from our website, and so the participation map is not an accurate reflection of numbers.

Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan have large numbers of charter schools and allow for flexibility regarding state plan participation.

Although student participation has decreased to 30 during the current school year, the number of volunteers willing to walk the routes with the students has increased.

None of them were going to open the floodgates and let large numbers of low - income children into their schools, so I'm not sure that overall performance would be much better even with their participation.

That's why GreatSchools ratings in a growing number of states and cities includes data about student academic progress over time, high school graduation rates, and college readiness including SAT / ACT performance and participation.

Course participation rates are calculated by dividing number of students taking an AP course (from the 2011 - 12 and 2013 - 14 OCR CRDC) by grade 9 - 12 enrollment (from the 2011 - 12 and 2013 - 14 CCD School Universe Survey).

While nonparticipating schools cited a number of concerns that were major factors in their decision not to participate, concerns about possible future regulations were the most cited across all three states, followed by concerns about the effect of participation on schools» independence, character, or identity.

The latter part, called the quality - adjusted AP participation rate, is the number of 12th - grade students in the 2014 - 2015 academic year who took and passed — received an AP score of 3 or higher — at least one AP test before or during their senior year, divided by the number of 12th - graders at that school.

Outputs: Staffing Allocations / Offerings / Activities (central and school site based) Number of and participation:

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science claschools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science claSchools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

Our referral numbers decreased dramatically, tardies decreased, and there was an overall increase in participation among teachers in the hallways between class periods... Having teachers put forth their opinions and thoughts on how we handle school procedures has given them a sense of ownership in helping create a safe / civil environment for our students where learning can take place.»

Participating schools must meet requirements regarding the number of voucher - funded students enrolled in the school and other participation - related statutory regulations.

It is unlikely that Louisiana's other two school choice programs — special needs program (342 students participating in 2015 - 2016) and tax credit scholarship program (781 students participating in 2015 - 2016)-- have a major impact on participation by private schools due to the relatively small number of students participating in these programs

[20] Though access, as measured as the number of transit stops per square mile in the neighborhoods, seems to be different in high and low boundary participation neighborhoods, these differences are not statistically significant for the two groups of schools.

The articles that follow provide concrete, detailed lessons from research and best practice about how to make afterschool and summer programming more effective in a number of key areas that help young people to be more successful in school and to graduate from high school — the first rung in the ladder leading to full participation in 21st century economic and civic life.

A number of recent state legislative efforts highlight the importance of course rigor in preparing students for college and beyond.1 In addition, the State Board of Education has approved a preliminary college and career readiness indicator, which leans heavily on student participation and performance in rigorous courses, such as a — g courses, advanced placement exams, International Baccalaureate courses, and dual enrollment in high school and college courses.2

Based on participation rate criteria, results are reported for various student populations only when sufficient numbers of students and adequate school representation are present.

They examined a variety of factors, such as student gender, age, health, socioeconomic status, education of parents, whether the school was urban or suburban, the number of years of experience among teachers, the school's average test performance and the rate of free - or reduced - price lunch program participation.

Topics addressed include the obligation of schools to recommend programs and services based on student need regardless of availability in the building, funding, staffing, space and other considerations; the role of School Implementation Teams (SITs); participation in IEP team meetings; Chapter 408 requirements and a number of issues related to integrated co-teaching services.

Early college participation is soaring in the state of Maine: Over the past five years, the number of high school enrollees in Maine's community colleges report has increased by 71 percent.

In Florida, Bailey found, participation in dual enrollment was positively associated with students» success in earning a high school diploma, enrolling in college, earning higher college grades, and earning greater numbers of college credits, and these relationships were particularly strong for low - income students and males.

To confirm this connection, it would be helpful to study trends in AP participation as the number of AP courses offered at each school has changed, and in many cases, increased, over time.

As illustrated by Figure 2, participation in AP coursework is highly varied across both the comprehensive and interdistrict magnets school, and it seems like there could be a relationship between the status as an interdistrict magnet school, the number of AP classes offered, and higher rates of AP participation.

The data suggest that status as an interdistrict magnet school could foster higher rates of participation in AP coursework, especially when larger numbers of AP classes are offered.

In our first iteration, we are limiting participation to a small number of schools.

The feedback raises a number of other issues, including: participation by young people who leave school to join CDEP; the involvement of non-Indigenous people in CDEP; CDEP participants» entitlements; and how CDEP can best encourage people to move into non-CDEP jobs.

Healthy child development is the foundation for human capital and the basis for future community and economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4, 5

A number of factors have been associated with poor school attendance, including low socioeconomic status and low levels of parental education.1 3 In Australia, Indigenous young people have been identified to have significantly worse attendance and school retention when compared with non-Indigenous children, and it has been suggested that this is a key driver of the gap in academic outcomes between non-Indigenous and Indigenous young people.6 — 8 In addition Moore and McArthur9 identified that maternal and family risks, such as family instability, mental illness and drug and alcohol issues, are associated with reduced child participation in school.

KidsMatter has seen a big growth in the number of schools wishing to begin participation in Queensland.

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

Poor mental health contributes to the crisis of family violence, anti-social behaviour, substance misuse, confrontation with the legal system, low participation in schooling and employment that are seen in a significant number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.