Sentences with phrase «percent of public school students»

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.

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

«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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

For all of the attention given to charter school reform by the media, philanthropists, politicians, researchers, and other interest groups, the schools serve only 6 percent of public school students nationwide.

Charter school students in Georgia outperformed their traditional school counterparts in reading, but not math, and overall, only 4 percent of public school students attend charters.

For national overviews, try USA Today (Hurricane Irma: 8.5 million students lost school time), the NYT (Under academic scrutiny, Houston schools seek a quick recovery from Harvey), or The 74 (Ten Percent of All Public School Students Missing Class on Tuesday as 6 States Continue to Cope With Irma), or NPR (Houston Public Schools Open After Delays From Hurricane Harvey).

Immigrant students account for 30 percent of public school students living below the poverty line.

According to the 2013 report, 53 and 50 percent of all public school students in the South and West, respectively, are low - income, followed by 44 percent in the Midwest and 40 percent in the Northeast.

Boys were two - thirds of those disciplined, though they accounted for just 50 percent of all public school students.

In New York City last year, 29 percent of public school students passed the state reading tests, and 35 percent passed the math tests.

The other 73 percent applied through a lottery to attend a school other than their in - boundary option, which breaks down across different options (aside from in - boundary) as follows: 46 percent of public school students attended a public charter school, 21 percent attended an out - of - boundary DCPS school, and the remaining 6 percent attended other DCPS schools [1](Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), 2017).

Meanwhile, black students make up 16 percent of public school students, numbering about 7.7 million.

But boundary participation rates, or the percent of public school students who attend their in - boundary school, vary widely across the city and are extremely high in several adjoining neighborhoods.

Nationally, just 55.9 percent of public school students scored a 3, 4, or 5 on AP exams in 2016, College Board noted.

They first approved charter schools in the early 1990s and today approximately 15 percent of public school students attend one of the more than 600 charter schools in the state.

In New Orleans, 89 percent of public school students are black and many of the white teacher newcomers have struggled to connect with students.»

The results showed that 51.2 percent of public school students in grades three through eight were proficient or advanced in English language arts and fewer than half, 43.7 percent, were proficient or advanced in math, according to the state Department of Public Instruction.

There are about 5 million English language learners across the country, or about 9 percent of all public school students, and their numbers are rising.

In school year 2016 - 17 (the year of focus for our study), 27 percent of public school students attended their in - boundary school, and 73 percent attended a school other than their in - boundary option.

Over the 20 years that followed, public charter school enrollment continued to grow, and charters accounted for 47 percent of all public school students in school year 2017 - 18.

[27] About 20 percent of all public school students do not appear in the dataset because the group who live in a neighborhood and attend one school is smaller than 10 students.

Citywide, 46 percent of all public school students attended public charter schools in school year 2016 - 17.

About 3 percent of public school students in the state did not take the Badger Exam last year, most of them pupils whose parents opted them out of it.

Based on the findings, only one - third of people who are most likely to attend public schools are positive on what has transpired (approximately 85 percent of public school students are black).

For the «diverse adverse,» there are charters such as Old Town Academy, whose students are 65 percent white and 6 percent poor, in a district where only 23 percent of the public school students are white and 61 percent receive subsidized lunch.

The U.S. Department of Education (2016) reports that English learners are the fastest - growing population in our nation's schools, currently comprising 10 percent of public school students.

Under No Child Left Behind, 100 percent of public school students were supposed to be proficient in English and math by 2014 — a goal that most education officials dismiss as unrealistic.

In D.C., for example, where 43 percent of public school students attend charter schools, admission is open to students from across the city.

Most of the buzz about the city's reforms focuses on the banishment of organized labor and the proliferation of charter schools, which enroll nearly 80 percent of public school students, up from 1.5 percent pre-Katrina.

While 50 percent of public school students are Black, Latino or Asian, 84 percent of all public school teachers are White.

More than 40 percent of public school students attend a charter school in the city, making it second only to New Orleans in terms of charter penetration.

In eight large school districts in California, charter schools educate at least 10 percent of the public school students.