Sentences with phrase «percent regular education students»

The student body is 40 percent regular education students and 60 percent special ed, with a broad range of needs — from learning and emotional disabilities to physical and mental impairments.

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Landry's Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) scores have improved over the past five years: In 1999, the school's language arts passing rate was 83 percent, while in 2003, the regular education students, after summer testing, achieved a 96.9 percent rate of success.

Between 1994 and 2004, the percentage of students with disabilities spending 80 percent or more of the school day in a regular classroom showed an overall increase of 5 percent, which shows that our nations schools are moving in the right direction but still have a long way to go to ensure a quality education for an increasingly diverse student population.

Parents whose children have special needs are much less likely than parents of students in regular education to say their child is in a school that was their first or second choice (58 percent versus 74 percent).

State will pay 90 percent of the share of districts» costs for special - education students that exceed regular per - pupil expenditures, up from 82 percent.

As a result of evolving legislation and educational initiatives, today more than 95 percent of students with physical, emotional, learning, cognitive, visual, and hearing disabilities receive some or all of their education in regular classrooms.

Moreover, while the state funds special education at two to five times that of regular student funding for perfectly legitimate reasons, ELLs receive only 10 percent more — under a formula unchanged for 31 years.

The Wisconsin proposal, however, is limited to children who are scoring in the top 5 percent of standardized tests or have been identified «by an education official» as being gifted and talented «if a student demonstrates evidence of high - performance capability in intellectual, creative, artistic, leadership or specific academic areas and needs services or activities not ordinarily provided in a regular school program.»

* High - poverty elementary schools were primarily regular schools (98 percent); special education schools (schools that serve children with disabilities) and alternative schools (schools that serve students at risk for school failure) each made up 1 percent or less of high - poverty elementary schools.

However, from the U.S. Department of Education's 16th Annual Report on Implementation of the IDEA (data from the 1991 - 1992 school year), it appears that about 35 percent of students with disabilities are attending school in regular classes.