Sentences with phrase «percent more time in school»

Uncommon Schools, Achievement First, Harlem Children's Zone, and KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) provide as much as 60 percent more time in school than regular public schools do.

So they run Saturday and summer classes, and a long school day, which means the KIPP children spend 50 or 60 percent more time in school than the typical public - school student in this country.

Not exact matches

School: The KMC group spent about 23 percent more time in preschool and had less than half the rate of school absenteeism compared to the control School: The KMC group spent about 23 percent more time in preschool and had less than half the rate of school absenteeism compared to the control school absenteeism compared to the control group.

In fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of AmericIn fact, school - related anxiety affects 2 to 5 percent of school - age children, but it's much more common in times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of Americin times of transition: when a child starts kindergarten, middle school or high school, according to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.

Proposed school tax hikes on Long Island are dropping below 2 percent on average for the first time in more than 40 years — reflecting the impact of low inflation and state «cap» restrictions entering their third year of enforcement.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says that approximately 53 percent of full - time SUNY and CUNY in - state students, more than 210,000 New York residents, are going to school tuition - free thanks to the addition of students receiving the Excelsior Scholarship.

Within the last two years, schools have enjoyed an average 6 percent increase, more than any other sector receiving state funding and three times the average overall increase in the state budget.

Comptroller Scott Stringer said today his office has not received more than 70 percent of the city's contracts with new universal pre-kindergarten service providers — leaving him little time to review them before school starts in eight days.

While indoor tanning has decreased among high school students, about 20 percent of females engaged in indoor tanning at least once during 2013 and about 10 percent of girls frequently engaged in the practice by using an indoor tanning device 10 or more times during the year, according to a research letter published online by JAMA Dermatology.

Surprisingly, it is not just high school athletes suffering concussions; athletes ages 12 to 15 make up almost half (47 percent) of the sports - related concussions seen in the ER, a statistic made even more disturbing by the knowledge that younger children with concussions take a longer time to recover than older children.

The delay in school start time was associated with a significant (29 minute) increase in sleep duration on school nights, with the percentage of students receiving eight or more hours of sleep on a school night jumping from 18 to 44 percent.

More than 95 percent of FLVS students are part - time students who take their other courses in another school.

In a 2006 poll conducted by the Josephson Institute's Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, 60 percent of the 35,000 high school students polled admitted to cheating during a test at school within the past twelve months, and 35 percent of students said they'd cheated two or more times.

Over the past two decades, chartered schools got more and more stage time, breaking into nearly every state and growing to capture larger market shares in America's cities: 10, 15, 20, 30 percent in some areas.

School administrators report that it is very difficult or impossible to fill elementary teaching positions about 6 percent of the time, while positions in math, physical sciences, and special education are difficult or impossible to fill more than 30 percent of the time.

If just one - tenth of one - percent of these funds find their way into charter school development projects, that would mean $ 6 billion in new capital going towards charter construction — nearly three times the amount of investment that the NMTC program spurred over more than a decade.

Despite educating more than 3.2 million students, the annual rate of charter school growth has reached an all - time - low — a 1 percent increase in charter schools during the 2017 - 18 school year.

A large part (80 percent) of the growth in this gap over time is that charter schools are less likely than district schools to classify students as in need of special education services and more likely to declassify them....

In Los Angeles — where the schools scramble for space and time to operate 2,600 classes serving 103,000 adults, 500 percent more than they served last May — one adult - learning center...

At the same time, however, students in the comparison schools were somewhat more likely to stay in their 9th - grade school through the end of 12th grade: we found an increase of 2.6 percentage points, to 44.5 percent from 41.9 percent.

Students in the schools in this sample are more likely to have married parents (70.7 percent versus 61.7 percent statewide with third grade test scores), less likely to have fathers absent at the time of birth (9.8 percent versus 15.2 percent statewide), less likely to have Medicaid - funded births (a proxy for poverty at the time of birth, 37.7 percent versus 48.8 percent statewide), and have relatively better educated mothers (13.1 years of maternal education at the time of the child's birth, versus 12.5 years on average statewide).

Many non-Catholic private schools had refused to participate in the study, so the researchers focused on Catholic schools, which at the time still represented more than 60 percent of private school enrollment.

Police statistics offer one answer: Juvenile crime peaks between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Education department data offer another: 31 percent of high - school seniors watched three or more hours of television every weekday in 2004, the last time the department ran the numbers, up from 9 percent in 1992.

During the 2011 to 2012 time span, 35 percent of Chicago's 681 schools failed food inspection at least once for reasons such as no hot water in bathroom sinks, food kept at unsafe temperatures, and more than two hundred rodent droppings found in food service areas.

More than half of the high - school football players in Minnesota are injured at some time during a season, and 31 percent are injured seriously enough to keep them on the sidelines for a week or mMore than half of the high - school football players in Minnesota are injured at some time during a season, and 31 percent are injured seriously enough to keep them on the sidelines for a week or moremore.

Students from families with incomes in the lowest 20 percent of the population are five times more likely to quit high school than are students living in families with incomes in the top 20 percent.

Attending a Boston charter school makes special education students 1.4 times more likely to score proficient or higher on their standardized tests, resulting in a 30 percent reduction of the special education achievement gap.

Despite educating more than 3.2 million students, the annual rate of charter school growth has reached an all - time low: a 1 percent increase in charter schools during the 2017 - 18 school year.

In 2004, teachers and parents at five of seven public schools voted (by margins greater than 70 percent) to convert to charter schools so we'd have more control locally.Since that time, we have made great strides.

Last time around, the school board — with the same 5 - 2 pro-union majority it has now — approved a 10 percent raise for teachers, which was more than the union was asking for and in spite of the district's projected deficits.

According to one recent UFT survey of its members, «more than 80 percent of the respondents said students in their schools lost learning time as a result of other disruptive students.»

For example, AltSchool is a micro-school network in San Francisco with tuition that is 10 to 15 percent cheaper than the average for other private schools in the city --- and it hopes to scale its model such that the price falls over time to the point that it is only marginally more than the cost of educating a public school student.

For the first time, more than 90 percent of the new recruits in the four branches of the armed services — the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines — are high - school graduates, said Lawrence J. Korb, assistant secretary of defense for manpower, reserve affairs, and logistics, who is in charge of personnel.

Using data from the Department of Education, the education advocacy group StudentsFirst wrote in a blog post that 32 percent of ATR teachers were in the pool due to a legal or disciplinary case; 25 percent had been in the pool for six years or more; and the percentage of teachers in the ATR who were found by evaluators to be «Ineffective» or «Unsatisfactory» was 12 times that for the overall teaching force for the 2014 - 15 school year.

SPI Torlakson reported proudly in October that for the first time more than half of California schools - 53 percent - scored at or above the state's target of 800 on the API.

In Virginia, more than 90 percent of students who entered high school four years ago graduated on time in 2015, according to state data released TuesdaIn Virginia, more than 90 percent of students who entered high school four years ago graduated on time in 2015, according to state data released Tuesdain 2015, according to state data released Tuesday.

Seventy - one percent of California children suspended in 2009 - 2010 were suspended two or more times during the school year, according to the Civil Rights Project's analysis of U.S. Department of Education's civil rights data.

As a result, our scholars spend approximately 25 percent more time at school than their peers in traditional public schools.

That exposes pupils to 60 percent more instructional time than they would receive in a traditional public school.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly stricIn addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly stricin dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly stricin increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

In the 2003 — 2004 school year, 5.5 million school - age children were English language learners (Leos, 2004)-- up nearly 100 percent from a decade earlier, although total enrollment increased only slightly more than 10 percent during that time (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition, 2002).

A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, released June 25, found an average of 64 percent of U.S. teachers work in schools where more than 30 percent of the students come from poor households and they have far less time for daily preparation and collaboration.

One in four New Haven Public Schools students in the lower grades is absent more than 10 percent of the time, Harries and others said Tuesday night.

Principals in high - minority schools were much more likely to report decreases in instructional time devoted to languages (29 percent) than were principals in low - minority schools (9 percent).

Some states have embraced full - time virtual schools: In Pennsylvania more than 30,000 students are enrolled in virtual charter schools that have a graduation rate of only 48 percenIn Pennsylvania more than 30,000 students are enrolled in virtual charter schools that have a graduation rate of only 48 percenin virtual charter schools that have a graduation rate of only 48 percent.

In middle and high schools, when students spend every other day in a digital / homework lab, teachers can teach 50 percent more students, for more pay, without increasing class sizes, and gain 5 to 15 hours of planning time weeklIn middle and high schools, when students spend every other day in a digital / homework lab, teachers can teach 50 percent more students, for more pay, without increasing class sizes, and gain 5 to 15 hours of planning time weeklin a digital / homework lab, teachers can teach 50 percent more students, for more pay, without increasing class sizes, and gain 5 to 15 hours of planning time weekly.

In the 2017 — 18 school year, students are eligible if they are incoming, first - time students in grades K — 4 from families with income no more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($ 49,200 for a family of four in 2017 — 18In the 2017 — 18 school year, students are eligible if they are incoming, first - time students in grades K — 4 from families with income no more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($ 49,200 for a family of four in 2017 — 18in grades K — 4 from families with income no more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($ 49,200 for a family of four in 2017 — 18in 2017 — 18).

But while nearly 70 percent of teachers say they have no interest in becoming a principal, more than half expressed interest in teaching part - time while also taking on additional roles or responsibilities in their school or district.

With early childhood education, 39 percent more children in poverty would be ready for school at age 5, 19 percent less students would need special education interventions, and 21 percent more impoverished students would graduate high school on time.

Teachers have been calling attention to the problem of overtesting in public schools for years, and this weekend the Obama administration finally responded by releasing a plan to reduce testing, saying no more than two percent of classroom instruction time should be spent on tests.