Sentences with phrase «percent of the alternative programs»

Asked about the fact that only 13 percent of alternative programs are charter - run, Golden noted that charters only make up 6 percent of schools nationwide.

Teachers in the residency program spend an average of about 1,300 hours in the classroom in student teaching, more than the average number completed in nearly 90 percent of the alternative programs in the state.

Nationwide, only 4 percent of alternative programs offer college - level work; Phoenix has had several years in which every graduate went on to post-secondary education.

Not exact matches

Thirty percent of the traditionally trained teachers, 10 to 15 percent of teachers prepared in five - year teacher preparation programs, and 60 percent of those prepared in truncated alternative programs leave the profession by their third year.

More than 60 percent of teachers who started jobs in low - income schools via the alternative - preparation program Teach For America were still teaching two years later, a report says.

Since the cost of replacing a teacher is estimated at 30 percent of salary and benefits, a high - quality mentoring program offers a far less expensive alternative.

Only six percent (6 %) of first - career entrants in New Jersey received certification through an alternative certification program.

Five of the six New York City high schools participating in Project S.M.A.R.T. (School Mediator Alternative Resolution Team) had a 45 to 70 percent reduction in suspensions for fighting during the program's first year of operation.

Alternative routes to licensure outside of higher education: According to a 2010 U.S. Department of Education report, 8 percent of teacher preparation programs were designated as «alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit orgAlternative routes to licensure outside of higher education: According to a 2010 U.S. Department of Education report, 8 percent of teacher preparation programs were designated as «alternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit orgalternative, not based in institutions of higher education,» provided instead by for - profit or nonprofit organizations.

The vast majority of alternative programs — 87 percent — are run by traditional school districts not charters.

Michael McKibben of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) reports that ethnic minorities compose 46 percent of those entering alternative programs; 27 percent are males who want to teach in elementary schools - three times the normal rate.

Only 21 percent of districts post job openings on websites of alternative certification / preparation programs.

In addition, it's an unfortunate consequence of the inflexible, high accountability targets many states set (like a 95 percent student attendance rate even for programs serving chronic truants) that when an alternative school opens its doors to students like Ed and Dario, the school itself risks sanctions.

The California Teacher Corps, which represents the state's 70 alternative certification programs, has reported that after five years, more than 80 percent of teachers coming from alternative programs are still on the job.

Thirty - five percent of U.S. teachers report having first had careers outside of education, and more than two in five entered the classroom through an alternative preparation program, according to a 2010 survey by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in Princeton, N.J.

The number of alternative programs nationwide has skyrocketed, rising from 70 programs in the 2000 - 2001 school year to 658 in 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Education, and these programs now make up 31 percent of all teacher preparation programs in the nation.

No more than 10 percent of the state's funds can be spent on state activities, such as reforming special education and regular education teacher certification (including recertification) or licensing requirements and carrying out programs that establish, expand, or improve alternative routes for state certification of special education teachers.

Among alternative preparation programs 36 percent of those enrolled pursuing special education credentials; 29 percent elementary education; 17 percent science and math; and about 5 percent in English, world languages and social sciences.

Federal data from the 2009 — 10 academic year indicate that 12 percent of individuals enrolled in teacher preparation programs were in alternative programs.94

As of three working days before school starts for kids, officials said, 27 percent of 1,650 new teachers were from alternative education programs.

One of them last year — it was in the 2007 State of the Union, he announced the 20 - in - 10 program, which is to reduce traditional gasoline use; replace it — replace 20 percent of it with renewable or alternative fuels within 10 years.