Sentences with phrase «percent transferred to a school»

Only 22 percent transferred to a school in the top half.

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The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

Fourteen percent of the high school students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Rschool students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Rschool with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress RSchool Progress Report.

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four - year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four - year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score.

Under the terms of the bill, teachers and principals with five or more years of experience and five or more years of satisfactory or above performance ratings would also would receive 10 - percent annual increases if they opted to transfer or remain in a low - performing school.

Less than 5 percent (and by some estimates, as low as 1 percent) of eligible students choose to leave their «failing» school to transfer to a school that made AYP.

Noting that fewer than 1 percent of the students eligible to transfer under the law did so in the 2003 - 04 school year, the GAO found that districts often do not give parents reliable information about their educational options until after the school year has started.

Recently, Glazerman et al. reported that even after being offered a $ 20,000 bonus to move to a high - need school in their district, only 3.5 percent of middle school teachers in the top quintile of effectiveness and 7 percent of similarly ranked elementary teachers were willing to transfer.

An analysis I did for my newspaper, the New York Daily News, compared all 6,979 transfers in the city for 2003 - 04 with the official building capacity of the receiving schools the previous school year and found that nearly 60 percent of those transfers went to schools with more than enough room to spare.

This is no small matter, as the U.S. poverty rate in 2003 was just 8.1 percent if those items are included, 23 percent less than the officially reported 10.5 percent poverty rate for that year (which fails to take into account food stamps, Medicaid, school lunch programs, earned income credits, and other cash transfers).

Washington — About 5 percent of the students currently attending public schools would be likely to transfer to private schools if a tuition tax credit of $ 250 were available, according to a Congressionally mandated study of private schools.

For instance, numerous surveys have found that students and parents who transferred from district schools to charter schools thought the charters were safer, friendlier, and more effective, often by margins of more than 50 percent (see Figure 1).

In all, about 7 percent of the district's students will be transferred to other schools to comply with state orders that it be racially balanced by Sept. 1,...

Transferring from a 100 percent black student body to one that is 85 percent is only a «marginal improvement,» says Professor Wolf, who supports school choice.

States that permit students in comprehensive support schools to transfer to another school must ensure that the receiving school is higher - performing — that is, that it is not (1) among the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools in the state or (1) a high school with graduation rates below 67 percent.

On Monday, the New York Department of Education considered what to do about transfer schools that fail to graduate 67 percent of their students in six years or less.

A survey of students who are transferring to non-district schools found that 36 percent said they were leaving to go to schools with dual language programs and 30 percent went to schools that have an International Baccalaureate program.

Researchers found that teachers who were extended were more than 50 percent more likely to transfer to another school within the district or to exit teaching in the district than otherwise similar teachers who were granted tenure.

Forty - one states, Washington D.C. and a group of eight districts in California have been let out of some of the No Child Left Behind law's biggest requirements — getting 100 percent of students to proficiency in math and reading by the end of this school year, paying for tutors for students at low - performing schools and allowing students to transfer to other schools.

In addition to a robust tax base, 43 percent of Wiseburn's elementary and middle school students have opted into the district through inter-district transfers, meaning they have parents proactive enough to go through the process of obtaining permission from both their home district and Wiseburn.

If passed into law, the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools could be transferred to a statewide «Achievement School District.»

Schools in Program Improvement must continue to notify parents annually that they can transfer their children to another school, and they must continue to set aside 20 percent of Title I money for student tutoring and transporting students to schools of their Schools in Program Improvement must continue to notify parents annually that they can transfer their children to another school, and they must continue to set aside 20 percent of Title I money for student tutoring and transporting students to schools of their schools of their choice.

So Wilson's wife coordinated with the deputy mayor of education, Jennifer Niles, to transfer his daughter to Woodrow Wilson High School, popular in the district, which has 22 percent of its students meeting expectations in math and 54 percent in reading.

Because more than 90 percent of school revenues come from state and local sources, lawmakers worried that districts would play a shell game with new Title I funds — transferring a dollar of local resources to rich schools from poor ones for every new federal dollar earmarked for poor schools that arrived.

The sending public school keeps the remaining 20 percent of state funding, in addition to any local or federal money associated with the cost of educating the transferring student.

He testified that 22 percent of new teachers in California leave the profession after four years and that the percentage of teachers who transfer out of high - poverty schools is twice that from low - poverty schools, He said 20 percent of new principals in urban school districts leave after just two years and pointed to the Oakland Unified School District as an extreme: There, he said, 44 percent of new principals leave the field after just two - school districts leave after just two years and pointed to the Oakland Unified School District as an extreme: There, he said, 44 percent of new principals leave the field after just two - School District as an extreme: There, he said, 44 percent of new principals leave the field after just two - years.

Astonishingly, more than 25 percent of the transfer students moved to another school that was also on the city's probation list of failing schools.

Since then, he's further made his mark on the legislation through successful amendments that would allow states to develop their own turnaround models for the lowest - performing schools and permit students in each state's bottom 5 percent of schools to transfer to other schools.

The lowest 5 percent of underperforming schools statewide will be transferred to the EAS.

According to the district's preliminary data sheet, 14.5 percent of students at Wexler / Grant last school year transferred in after Oct. 1.

56 percent of Tennessee Promise students who entered college in 2015 had graduated, transferred to a four - year university or remained in school two...

He had been transferred from another Paterson school and was promoted from grade to grade even though he scored in the lowest 2 percent of fifth - graders nationwide.

And just 1 percent of students had transferred to other schools under NCLB's mandated choice option.

However, if you transfer credits toward the completion of a comparable program at another institution and do not receive a closed school loan discharge of the loans attributable to your closed school's program of study, those loans will continue to count toward your 150 - percent subsidized loan usage period and your annual and aggregate loan limits.

If the funds are not used, they can be transferred to another beneficiary, used for private elementary or high school, or cashed out with a 10 percent tax penalty.