Sentences with phrase «percent of public school»

In Kansas City, Mo., for example, charter schools account for 30 percent of public school enrollment.

The results in Racine, which is in the first year of hosting a voucher program, indicate 61.5 percent of the public school students in that district were proficient or advanced in math compared to 50.8 percent for students in that city's private school choice program.

New York City — where 43 percent of public school students come from homes in which the primary language is not English — is creating a centralized office to routinely translate school information into eight languages.

Nationally, 33 percent of public school eighth graders achieved at the proficient level or above.

In New Mexico, 66 percent of public school students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — meaning only Mississippi serves a higher percentage of poor students in its public schools.

Nationwide, only 40 percent of public school fourth - grade students achieved at or above the proficient level in mathematics, with eight percent achieving advanced scores.

A Center for American Progress Survey revealed that a whopping 82 percent of public school teachers are white, in contrast to 17 percent composed of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans (Dilworth & Coleman, 2014).

The state's English Learner population accounts for nearly 10 percent of the public school population and 16 percent of Chicago Public Schools students.

«The latest compilation from the US Department of Education (from 2010 - 2011) reports that about 13 percent of public school enrollment consists of students served by special education programs.

Nationwide, 31 percent of public school students achieved at or above the proficient level on the 2011 science test.

Statewide, charter school students comprise 3 percent of public school enrollment.)

Fifty - seven percent of public school parents would give their local school an A or B grade while only 19 percent of public school parents give the nation's schools an A or B — most parents would give the nation's schools a C grade.

This is only 40 percent of public school per - student spending.

«Despite the fact that charter schools in Chicago enroll 10 percent of public school students, they represent 60 percent of the highest performing schools based on high school ACT performance, one predictor of future college success.

And only 31 percent of public school parents expressed that they would excuse their child from taking a test.

Students of color make up 35 percent of the public school population, yet just 15 percent of teachers in the state identify as persons of color.

Sixty - two percent of public school parents give public schools in their own communities an A or B grade (The percentage dips to 45 % with nonparents).

It says that if the parents of 51 percent of a public school's students sign a petition (the «trigger»), that petition will result in one of four options: firing the principal, bringing in an entirely new staff, closing the school, or handing over the school to a charter school operator.

In East Chicago, about 98 percent of public school students receive free or reduced - priced lunch.

The numbers are stark: Black students represent 15.5 percent of all public school students, but make up about 39 percent of students suspended from school, according to the report.

60 percent of Americans, 62 percent of public school parents, and 76 percent of Republicans oppose having the teachers in their «community use the Common Core State Standards» to guide what they teach (PDK / Gallup 2014, p. 12, table 3).

Trendline's new sample of districts covers the policies that govern workplaces for approximately 20 percent of public school teachers.

Hence, what is in store for Connecticut parents, according to Pelto, is what has already occurred in New York State where Pelto indicates «that only 31 percent of all public school students in New York State got a «passing score» on the math and English language arts Common Core tests.»

Statewide defined benefit pension plans, which today serve 90 percent of public school teachers, were originally justified on the grounds that pension plans were ideally suited to the needs of long - term female employees.

The Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is rigged to fail up to 70 percent of all public school children and up to 90 percent of children who have special education needs or face English Language barriers.

In order to be included in the study, states needed to have at least one percent of their public school students served by charter schools and have participated in the Center for Research on Education Outcomes» 2013 National Charter School Study.

In 2011, the National Center for Education released survey results revealing that 84 percent of public school teachers were white.

Forty - nine percent of public school parents and 46 percent of all of those asked said they were somewhat confident this would happen.

The LSU survey found that 58 percent of public school parents support for providing vouchers to -LSB-...]

Hispanics have passed whites as the largest ethnic group in Texas schools, making up almost 51 percent of public school enrollment.

Nearly 49 percent of local public school students and 78 percent of public school students statewide reached that mark.

Research sample includes 10 percent of public school students in member states; all schools may participate on a voluntary basis.

In Connecticut the Common Core SBAC test is designed (rigged) to label more than 60 percent of all public school students as failures and the way the test is scored will mean the failure rate will likely exceed 90 percent for students who need special education services or aren't fluent in the English language.

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.

A recent study from the U.S. Department of Education discovered about 94 percent of public school teachers spent their money on classroom supplies without reimbursement during the 2014 - 2015 school year.

In 43 states and DC, nearly 2.9 million students now attend charter schools — representing more than 6 percent of all public school students nationwide.

In Philadelphia, approximately 40 percent of all public school students are now being diverted into charter schools.

As explained by Steve Suitts of the Southern Education Foundation, 51 percent of public school students now come from low - income families, and when one group becomes the majority of our students, they define the future.

Nationwide, 53 percent of public school teachers spent 1 to 8 hours on professional development activities for education technology and 18 percent spent 9 to 16 hours on an annual basis (National Center for Education Statistics, 2009).

Students of color make up about 43 percent of the public school enrollment, but only about 17 percent of teachers are non-White.

Half of likely voters (49 %) and 57 percent of public school parents are at least somewhat confident.

With 56 percent of public school students attending system schools and 44 percent in charter schools, cooperation on creative approaches to common problems is in everyone's interest.

In 2014, the percentage of students of color exceeded the percentage of white students in U.S. public schools for the first time.13 Meanwhile, 84 percent of all public school teachers identify as white.14 While this disparity occurs in classrooms across the country, the diversity gap is especially pronounced in many urban school districts.15 In Boston, for example, there is one Hispanic teacher for every 52 Hispanic students, and one black teacher for every 22 black students.

An analysis of National Center for Education Statistics by the University of Arizona's López and Olson found that 46 percent of charter school teachers in Louisiana reported plans to leave, compared to 6 percent of public school teachers.

The schools are especially popular in Colorado, Washington, Ohio and Arizona, where 4 percent of public school students attend cyber-schools full - time.

Blacks represent about 90 percent of the public school population.

Despite their enormous growth, charters still educate only about 5 percent of public school students.

Just before he became state superintendent, only 4.6 percent of public school students in Louisiana earned AP credit — near the bottom of the states — compared with 26.4 percent in Maryland, tops in the nation.

Nationally, the report found that at least one in five students now attends a public charter school in 43 communities across the country, up from 32 last year, and that 12 urban communities now enroll at least 30 percent of their public school students in charter schools, a jump from seven urban communities last year.

Today, the 6 percent of public school students served by charters in the United States falls far short of that, but growth estimates project charter school enrollment of between 20 and 40 percent over the next two decades (Kingsland as cited in Mead, LiBetti Mitchel, & Rotherham, 2015).