Sentences with phrase «percent of a given school»

Enrollment in the WPCP voucher program in 2016 - 17 remains limited to 1 percent of a given school district's student population.

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In 2009, 67 percent of Americans said «my school education is giving / has given me skills and know - how to enable me to run a business.»

The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been criticised by Muslim and secular leaders for choosing Judaism instead of Islam, given that the latter is the second largest religion in the UK after Christianity, and that Muslim children can form up to 90 percent of the student body in some Catholic schools in Britain.

Hall gave out bonuses to the staff when a school met 70 percent of its targets.

In the U.S., black girls are 16 percent of girls enrolled in K - 12 schools, but they receive 45 percent of suspensions served out of school given to girls, according to research.

Noting that more than 10 percent of New York City school students are Muslim, he suggests that the public school calendar grant the Islamic community the same holiday leisure as it already gives to Christian and Jewish students.

About 10 percent of all school - age kids skip breakfast, and by the time kids enter adolescence, as many as 30 percent have completely given up the first meal of the day, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Only about 50 percent of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by 22 years of age, versus approximately 90 percent of women who had not given birth during adolescence.

One - hundred percent of the proceeds from the Popcorn that Gives Back kit ($ 14) goes to Urban Sprouts, a non-profit dedicated to providing edible gardens and nutrition education to students in under - served San Francisco schools.

Researchers at Christchurch School of Medicine in New Zealand tested 413 children — 37 percent who had been breast - fed for four months or longer and 73 percent who had been given expressed breast milk.

Given the low rate of inflation in recent years, school districts and local governments have chaffed under caps that have been largely under 1 percent allowances.

Fifty - nine percent of residents in Nassau, Suffolk and other suburban counties gave schools in their communities grades of either A or B, compared with 37 percent of New York City residents.

Sixty - four percent of 5,832 eligible public school teachers were given tenure by the city in the 2014 - 15 school year, up from 60 % the previous year.

Silver says Cuomo's proposal, which relies on the cooperation of local governments and schools to keep spending under two percent in the first year, and to consolidate services in the second year, might not give a tax break to everyone.

State officials say the law gives the executives the option of inviting representatives of school districts, which account for nearly 70 percent of the property tax levy, and other taxing jurisdictions to take part in the process.

Exclusions, mainly related to pension costs, give schools the flexibility to increase the district tax levy by upwards of 4 percent in a given year.

That's 10 percent of the total number of days in a given school year.

However, pollster Steve Greenberg says that when given the specific wording of the amendment on the ballot in November and asked whether they would vote yes or no to approve an amendment to «allow the Legislature to authorize up to seven casinos in New York State for the legislated purposes of promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes through revenues generated,» 55 percent said yes they would approve it, compared to 42 percent who say no they would not.

«They wanted to make sure they were going to get a donation when they give to public schools and private schools of their choice and they would get a 90 percent tax credit at the taxpayers» expense,» said Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education.

Cuomo's idea is to give a free ride at SUNY schools for students who are in the top 10 percent of their class and study STEM.

Only 44 percent of respondents approved of the job City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is doing, and even less — 39 percent — give Schools Chancellor Joel Klein the thumbs up.

«The bottom line, the state request that Rochester give 69 percent of its tax levy to its school district, that means that 31 percent is left for critical city services, and to be frank, it's just not fair.»

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

Mayor Bloomberg has given about 60 percent of the city charters free space in existing school buildings in an unusual strategy to boost their growth, but critics believe the arrangement gives charters an unfair advantage.

She noted Rochester gives $ 119 million to its school district which represents roughly 68 percent of the taxes it collects.

Silver says Cuomo's proposal, which relies on the cooperation of local governments and schools to keep spending under 2 percent in the first year, and to consolidate services in the second year, might not give a tax break to everyone.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

Given that Rockland County has the third highest property taxes in the nation in, of which school taxes represent more than 70 percent, a tax levy increase of 3.62 percent is simply unacceptable and will only make things worse for our North Rockland residents and businesses.

But turnout in community school board elections was very low, usually well below 10 percent of eligible voters, giving groups like the teachers» union outsize sway.

Other budget provisions: The budget agreement also includes: an expansion of the state's Tuition Assistance Program for college students and their families; a 12 percent increase in aid to cities and local governments; a $ 3.8 billion transportation bond act; an increase of $ 1.1 billion in aid to schools; and an expansion of the EPIC program, which gives seniors access to reduced - rate prescription drugs.

WILLSBORO — Willsboro Central School teacher Ashley Hooper gave her students a challenge in October: If 60 percent of the class achieved mastery on the Living Environment Regents Exam, she would allow them to cut her long hair.

During the 2011 - 12 school board elections in Bridgeport, for example, large national donors gave 66 percent of all contributions.

And in the 2013 Los Angeles school board elections, large national donors gave 48 percent of all contributions.

«If given to all approximately 1.5 million nursing home residents, a one percent drop in hospitalizations would translate to thousands fewer being hospitalized,» said Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH, lead author of the study, Director of the Center for Geriatrics and Palliative Care at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and on faculty at both the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and adjunct at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The Human Contract is so overloaded with clumsily delivered exposition that it's easy to imagine Pinkett Smith giving Clarke a 300 - page rundown of his character's backstory, with the caveat, «Only about 5 percent of this actually makes it into the film, but for instance, the fact that your character wouldn't pay for his high - school girlfriend's abortion informs several later scenes on a subliminal level.»

Just 5 percent give private schools a «D» or an «F,» as compared to 16 percent giving one of those low grades to local public schools and 23 percent giving those grades to the nation's schools.

According to results from the 2010 EdNext - PEPG Survey released in this issue («Meeting of the Minds»), only 18 percent think the schools deserve an «A» or a «B,» while 25 percent assign them either a «D» or an «F.» These are the worst grades the U. S. public has given its schools since it was first asked to grade them back in 1981.

Despite the rhetoric dominating the national media, which gives the impression that our schools are struggling and that educator quality is to blame, 71 percent of parents give the school their oldest child attends an «A» or «B» (these numbers drop substantially when it comes to the national level, perhaps because of the media's rhetoric — a mere 18 percent give the nation's schools as a whole an «A» or a «B»).

Of the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those markOf the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those markof A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those markof the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those marks.

If you've never heard of 20 percent time or the «Genius Hour» movement, this cute hand - animated video by Chris Kesler, the founder of GeniusHour.com, will give you a good overview of what makes an effective school - based 20 percent time project.

So successful has Roxbury Latin been that it now has one of the largest endowments of any private secondary school (over $ 140 million), «an outlandish amount of money for just 290 boys,» says Phil Thornton, director of development at the school, who points out that over 50 percent of alumni give to the alumni fund.

Principals in Tennessee judged 98 percent of teachers to be «at expectations» or better last school year, while evaluators in Georgia gave good reviews to 94 percent of teachers taking part in a pilot evaluation program.

Simply by giving up the extra payment for the master's degree, school districts in Florida could save better than 3 percent of their teaching personnel costs without losing any of their classroom effectiveness.

A school with a WSI of 0.7 receives 70 percent of what we predict the school would be allocated, given its student population, if all the schools in the district received the same amount for each student of each type enrolled in the school.

The proposal by the Alliance for Children's Educational Excellence would give parents $ 2,750 in state funds — 75 percent of per - pupil state school aid — to enroll a child in a private school.

Noting that fewer than 1 percent of the students eligible to transfer under the law did so in the 2003 - 04 school year, the GAO found that districts often do not give parents reliable information about their educational options until after the school year has started.

In a 2010 PDK / Gallup poll, only 18 percent of Americans surveyed graded our public schools nationally at an «A» or «B.» By contrast, 77 percent of public school parents gave their oldest child's school an A or B, a percentage that grew by eight points over the prior five years.

Given that only 1.48 percent of special education students are privately placed nationally, the experience with McKay suggests a pent - up demand for private schooling among the disabled.

Given recent school - related political conflicts in Wisconsin, it is of interest that only 42 percent of that state's white students are proficient in math, a rate no better than the nation as a whole.