Sentences with phrase «percent of school»

These figures have a direct effect for high schools, constituting 25 percent of the school performance score that determines over time whether charter schools stay open.

Forty percent of school districts with alternative schools provide counseling services only in regular schools.

That means they missed at least 10 percent of the school year, or 18 days, an average of about two absences a month.

Few School Districts Have Anti-Bullying Policies Protecting LGBT Students HuffPost: Of the 70 percent of school districts that do have anti-bullying policies, fewer than half explicitly outline protections for students who get bullied because of their sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation.

The measure would direct state education officials to give priority to applications in the lowest - performing 25 percent of school districts and those with long waiting lists for charter seats.

The fast - growing field of online learning, in which over 4 million K — 12 students1 and over 75 percent of school districts nationwide2 are utilizing some form of online learning, has the potential to transform the nation's education system into a student - centric one that allows each child to reach her human potential.

A different graduation statistic accounts for an additional 25 percent of a school's score.

If the expansions continue as planned, 38 percent of the school district's budget would be redirected to charter schools by 2018 - 19, according to the ELC.

[24] If, for example, 62.5 percent of a school's students are categorized as Identified Students, the school would be reimbursed at a rate of 100 percent from the USDA (62.5 X 1.6 = 100).

Teachers massively overestimated the role of the federal government in education, guessing it spent 30 percent of all school funding.

The average American teacher spends less than 20 percent of school time outside the classroom — about seven hours per week — according to... read more

Further, a recent survey conducted by the Education Week Research Center (2017) found that 65 percent of school and district leaders have avoided political activities out of concern that they might create problems with their jobs.

Yet in 2009 - 2010, 57 percent of Marshall students with learning disabilities spent more than 20 percent of the school day in separate classes, according to a Catalyst Chicago analysis of data from CPS.

In fact, an August 2008 survey conducted by NASN found that 72 percent of school nurses have students in their schools with a known history of severe allergies or prior use of epinephrine — which is the first - response drug for a severe allergic reaction — whose parents have not provided the school with auto - injectable epinephrine for their child.

Among 657 Playworks partner schools across the country surveyed in Spring 2017, 95 percent of school staff reported an improvement in overall school climate; 97 percent witnessed an increase in the number of students engaged in healthy play during recess; and teachers reported an average of 19 recovered learning hours in the classroom.

The survey showed that 86 percent of school leaders believe that the government -LSB-...]

New Orleans presents the opportunity to study an urban school system where charter schools comprise more than 90 percent of school campuses and total student enrollment.

The survey showed that 86 percent of school leaders believe that the government is underfunding the additional needs of children, causing major financial pressures.

It turns out that social - emotional learning helps to reduce chronic absenteeism (when students miss more than 10 percent of the school year).

Twenty - three percent of school - age kids volunteer their time for myriad causes, according to the youth organization Do Something.

K — 12 schooling already employs a large number of school - based personnel who are not teachers; support staff (including aides, librarians, guidance counselors, and so forth) account for about 30 percent of school employees.

Over 60 percent of school fires are started deliberately and each year in England and Wales more than 1,300 schools suffer fires large enough to be attended by the fire and rescue service with costs estimated at over # 60million.

Assuming the child is more aware and more sensitivity (which means they will be different from most of the population since the number of gifted kids ranges about 6 percent of school - aged children) then it is paramount that we educate these students about themselves and the differences.

In the United States today, minority students make up nearly 40 percent of school enrollment.

Students in classrooms across the United States spend an estimated 85 percent of their school day on assignments that require reading texts.

The survey, conducted in February, found that 21 percent of school - age children in those households were either not attending school, or had missed 10 or more...

The goal is to grow the school to 524 students, at which point work - study revenue would account for 51 percent of the school's budget.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a «condition of the brain that makes it difficult for children to control their behavior,» affects an estimated 4 to 12 percent of all school - age children — about three times more boys than girls.

About 45 percent of school leaders use Medicaid to expand mental - and physical - health services in their districts.

More than half of all secondary school students are excited about using mobile devices to help them learn; only 15 percent of school leaders support this idea.

This is only 1 - 3 percent of the school year, depending on grade level.

The reality is that, while some 96 percent of school boards are elected (according to data collected by Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute), these elections are usually low - turnout, low - interest affairs in which the vast majority of ordinary citizens play no role at all.

The bleak forecasts are fueling talk of pink slips and program cuts, especially in many urban and poor rural school systems where federal money pays for nearly 20 percent of school budgets.

Nationally, property taxes still account for 30 percent of all school revenue.

With 85 percent of a school's grade based on test scores — and 60 percent of the total based on test score growth — the report cards, for good or for ill, left little room for doubt that testing was king.

In recent years, 86 percent of the school's 8th graders passed the state's writing test, above the statewide average of 62 percent and better than the public schools of wealthy Greenwich.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.

About 30 percent of school districts are increasing their software spending, according to a 2015 report from EdNET Insight.

On the average, money from Washington makes up about 6 percent of school spending.

The network has grown from one school to 41 in a decade, making it larger than 95 percent of school districts across the country.

Ratings should be provided by officials who supervise principals, contributing 10 percent of a school's composite accountability score.»

Ten percent of the school year — or about 18 days — seems to be a tipping point.

Eighty percent of school expenditures are salaries — so most of the cuts we are seeing now are teachers.

Since some 80 percent of school - district budgets are absorbed in personnel costs, local school boards, when pressed fiscally, quite naturally give consideration to personnel cutbacks and salary freezes.

Attendance records showed that Terrell and Norris's oldest child, a middle schooler, missed 14 percent of his school days in September 2009, 45 percent in October, 50 percent in November, and 71 percent in December.

Five years into Common Core implementation, 90 percent of school districts report that they are still struggling to find the materials they need to meet the new standards.

Nationwide, less than 1 percent of the school - age population is participating.

As late as 1972, only 14 percent of school districts had a majority of unionized teachers with a collectively bargained wage agreement.

Her conclusion: $ 43 per pupil in savings, or about one - half percent of school budgets.

In the college town where he was living, an astonishing 47 percent of the school district's 721 teachers were absent more than 10 days during the school year, according to data the district reported to the U.S. Department of Education for a 2009 — 10 study.