Sentences with phrase «percent at all other public schools»

Across Massachusetts, students with special needs made up 14 percent of the enrollment at all charter schools in 2015, compared with 16 percent at all other public schools, according to state data.

Not exact matches

«At the same time obesity is epidemic nationwide, and 40 percent of the city's public school children are either overweight or obese, so we are appropriately concerned in making sure that our work to solve one problem doesn't inadvertently exacerbate the other,» she said.

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

During the same year, 85 percent of public schools documented that at least one violent crime, theft, or other kind of crime occurred on their campuses.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

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.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Or, looking at that from the other side, well over 90 percent of the Black students in the Milwaukee public schools are not taught to read proficiently and of those, 96 percent of the male Black students in Milwaukee are not taught to read proficiently.

At the time, state data showed that, among Indiana schools with more than 90 percent of students receiving free or reduced price lunch, Christel House had higher test scores than every other charter school and all but a handful of traditional public schools.

«And we're doing it in a way that isn't necessarily at the expense of other educational cuts,» Tillis said, emphasizing that the House doesn't include severe cuts included in the Senate's plan, which would offer teachers an eleven percent raise but would also eliminate second and third grade teacher assistants from the classroom, cut the Department of Public Instruction by 30 percent, and reduce the number of badly needed school nurses around the state, among other cuts.

After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 4.85 million English language learners, or ELLs, were enrolled in public schools during the 2012 - 13 academic year, representing nearly 10 percent of the total K - 12 student population.17 Nearly one student in four speaks a language other than English at home — the same is true for only about one in eight teachers.18 Teaching also remains a female - dominated profession.

Graduates are more racially diverse than other new teachers in Boston Public Schools; they are also more likely to teach in STEM fields and to remain teaching in the district through their fifth year, which is when data show that teachers tend to be at or close to their peak effectiveness.27 Like the Boston Teacher Residency, the Relay Teaching Residency, founded in 2007 and supported by Relay Graduate School of Education, is a two - year program that provides residents with a structured, gradual on - ramp into the profession, along with a master's degree.28 Ninety - two percent of employing school leaders affirmed their satisfaction with the performance of their teachers who were enrolled at ReSchool of Education, is a two - year program that provides residents with a structured, gradual on - ramp into the profession, along with a master's degree.28 Ninety - two percent of employing school leaders affirmed their satisfaction with the performance of their teachers who were enrolled at Reschool leaders affirmed their satisfaction with the performance of their teachers who were enrolled at Relay.29

Other schools with high percentages of college - ready Latino grads are six charters: Summit Preparatory in Redwood City at 90 percent; KIPP San Jose Collegiate at 83 percent, Aspire East Palo Alto Phoenix at 62 percent, Downtown College Preparatory at 49 percent, Leadership Public Schools - San Jose at 46 percent and Latino College Preparatory at 39 pschools with high percentages of college - ready Latino grads are six charters: Summit Preparatory in Redwood City at 90 percent; KIPP San Jose Collegiate at 83 percent, Aspire East Palo Alto Phoenix at 62 percent, Downtown College Preparatory at 49 percent, Leadership Public Schools - San Jose at 46 percent and Latino College Preparatory at 39 pSchools - San Jose at 46 percent and Latino College Preparatory at 39 percent.

Knowledge of the new standards that California and 44 other states have adopted has grown in California, with 56 percent of respondents overall and 65 percent of public school parents now saying they know at least a little about Common Core; that compares with only 45 percent of parents a year ago.

BTR graduates are more racially diverse than other new teachers in Boston Public Schools; they are also more likely to teach in science, technology, engineering, and math fields and to remain teaching in the district through their fifth year — when data show teachers tend to be at or close to their peak effectiveness.72 Eighty - seven percent of all BTR graduates are still teaching, and 90 percent are still working in the field of education.73

NYPA will also install more than 125 megawatts of solar capacity on schools and other public buildings by 2020, achieving a 300 percent increase in distributed solar projects at public facilities statewide.

While nobody in Alabama is challenging the legality of the spending — the bill allowed for up to 18 percent of funds to be earmarked for other purposes, such as public safety — some educators bristle at the fact that four times as much education money is being spent per inmate as per public school student.