Sentences with phrase «percent safety of students»
Sadly, we have learned from national incidents that no school or school system can guarantee 100 percent safety of students and staff 100 percent of the time, but I want to reassure our community that safety is our number one priority.
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For example, including a school safety measure that looks at the percent of expulsions at a school might force educators into creating a dangerous school environment because expelling or suspending students would affect the school's accountability designation.
Law enforcement already has a significant presence in U.S. schools — roughly 24 percent of public elementary schools and 42 percent of public high schools have sworn police officers, but these officers have not effectively improved student safety.
A survey of Georgia private school parents in 2013 found the top five reasons why parents chose a private school for their children were all related to school climate and classroom management: better student discipline (50.9 percent), better learning environment (50.8 percent), smaller class sizes (48.9 percent), improved student safety (46.8 percent) and more individual attention for their children (39.3 percent).
According to Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a 1999 survey found that about 13 percent of students ages 12 — 18 at school during the past six months had been called a derogatory word related to their race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, or sexual orientation.
Not surprisingly, responses also differed by grade level, with perceptions of safety decreasing as grade level increased: 88 percent of elementary school parents, 70 percent of middle school parents, and 63 percent of parents of high school students felt that their child's school was safe.
While nobody in Alabama is challenging the legality of the spending — the bill allowed for up to 18 percent of funds to be earmarked for other purposes, such as public safety — some educators bristle at the fact that four times as much education money is being spent per inmate as per public school student.