Sentences with phrase «percent of schoolchildren»

If an estimated 15 percent of schoolchildren get into a fight in a school year, then such a reduction in aggression would translate into 8 percent, approximately half of the baseline rate.

* About 10 percent of schoolchildren in the United States go to private schools, according to 2013 - 2014 data, the latest available, with 38 percent of these enrolled in Catholic schools.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

Given the facts that student needs are rising — poverty rates across Wisconsin have been rapidly increasing, with about 40 percent of schoolchildren now eligible for free or reduced lunch — while financial support for schools at both the state and federal level is falling, they have a tall order in front of them.

If an estimated 15 percent of schoolchildren get into a fight in a school year, then such a reduction in aggression would translate into 8 percent, approximately half of the baseline rate.

Each year, between 10 and 20 percent of schoolchildren in the United States are exposed to domestic violence.

In terms of total student enrollment in the slum areas of the three zones, with 918 schools, 76 percent of all schoolchildren attended either recognized or unrecognized private schools, with roughly the same percentage of children in the unrecognized private schools as in government schools (see Figure 1).

In the United States (where some 13 percent of schoolchildren attend private or charter schools), independent schools are predominantly religious.

Not exact matches

The study estimated that 15 percent of the country's fifty million public schoolchildren will be abused by a school employee.

Subsidize bariatric surgery for the fattest 5 percent of America's schoolchildren?

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the condition affects 4 to 12 percent of U.S. schoolchildren.

But since my bleeding - heart liberal appeals are likely to be lost on you, I'll instead appeal your pragmatism: More than 35 percent of Texas schoolchildren are overweight or obese.

Our camps reach over 11,000 children and their families from 76 percent of cities and towns in Massachusetts, and we offer programs serving schoolchildren in 62 percent of the state's cities and towns.

The Conference is a membership organization advocating for New York's urban school systems, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Yonkers and New York City, which make up 45 percent of the state's public schoolchildren.

«We believe that up to 5 percent of American schoolchildren may have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

One Japanese study demonstrated that feeding 1,200 units of vitamin D per day to schoolchildren in the winter months slashed their risk of contracting the influenza A infection by roughly 40 percent.

Those districts contain almost 5.2 million students or more than 10 percent of the country's schoolchildren.

Doctors still do not know the best way to diagnose or treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) although it affects approximately 3 to 5 percent of all American schoolchildren.

Indeed, the city's fiscal disadvantage in 1993 was clear to everyone: its schoolchildren received some 12 percent fewer dollars than their counterparts elsewhere in the state; 11.8 percent of the city's teachers were uncertified, compared with 7.3 percent statewide; the city's students had 1 computer for every 19 students, compared with 1 for every 13 students statewide; there was 1 guidance counselor for every 700 city students, compared with 1 per 350 students in the rest of the state; there were 16.5 library books per pupil in the state, but only 10.4 in the city.

Keeping classrooms fully staffed is especially hard in remote, rural districts, which educate 2 percent of the nation's schoolchildren.

In a study measuring the physical activity of 453 schoolchildren in Massachusetts, only 15 percent of students achieved the CDC - recommended 60 minutes of daily MVPA throughout the day, and only 8 percent met the recommendation of 30 minutes of MVPA...

In a study measuring the physical activity of 453 schoolchildren in Massachusetts, only 15 percent of students achieved the CDC - recommended 60 minutes of daily MVPA throughout the day, and only 8 percent met the recommendation of 30 minutes of MVPA during school.

Within a year of the law's passage, the percentage of schoolchildren fully immunized jumped from 90.2 percent to 95.66 percent.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

With the prior agreement with Hartford Public Schools, the City and Connecticut set to expire in the 2014 - 15 school year, the ACLU has returned back to the negotiation table with the intention of drafting a balanced and innovative long - term agreement that further prioritizes integration and reaches the 59 percent of Hartford schoolchildren who remain in racially isolated schools.

These efforts have resulted in substantial gains — more than 1,600 Hartford students now take part in Open Choice, over 5400 Hartford Students and over 8000 suburban students attend 37 regional magnet schools and now 42 percent of Hartford schoolchildren are attending integrated schools.

The Southern Education Foundation also reported that, «In 40 of the 50 states, low income students comprised no less than 40 percent of all public schoolchildren.

Among Chicago schoolchildren in sixth through 12th grades, about 8 percent lack any kind of internet at home, according to a 2013 report by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.

In 1911, immigration officials found that 77 percent of Italian immigrant schoolchildren were at least one grade behind.

There are estimates that roughly 1.8 percent of US schoolchildren are affected with head lice each year.