Sentences with phrase «proportion of public school students»

As enrollments have increased, a higher proportion of public school students are deciding to attend a school other than their in - boundary school.

In a number of cities, charters educate a significant proportion of public school students (see Figure 1).

(Watson, Louise and Ryan, Chris 2010) also found a higher proportion of public school students came from low socio - economic status backgrounds.

Not exact matches

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Most of those private schools rely on public money, since large proportions of their students receive federal financial aid.

However, the study shows the decision to delay is becoming more common, with the number of «delayed entry» students increasing each year so that the proportion among all public school students almost doubled from 1.5 per cent in 2010 to 2.9 per cent in 2014.

Despite serving a substantially greater proportion of students from low - income families and minorities than district schools, a higher percentage of CMU schools (86 percent) made AYP in 2010 - 11 than did public schools statewide (79 percent).

[7] In terms of the proportion of students receiving free - or reduced - price lunch, both magnet and charter schools are less impoverished than traditional public schools in their same districts in most states (exceptions include Nevada for both magnets and charters and Florida and North Carolina for magnets only).

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

About one - third of charter school students were eligible for free and reduced price lunch, which is about the same proportion as in all public schools.

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locSchools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locschools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to local aid.

Two new national reports paint a grim picture of unfair and inequitable funding of public education across states, with schools serving the highest proportion of impoverished students most often on the losing end.

The public schools in which ELL test - takers are concentrated have, on average, a substantially greater proportion of students qualifying for free or reduced - price school lunches.

A high proportion of minority students taking part in school - choice programs isn't a surprise, given that many are located in urban districts with stressed public schools.

Lastly, the National Education Association points out that moving students from public to private schools harms school districts because they can not reduce their fixed facilities and transportation costs in proportion to the number of students who leave.

Charter schools serve a small but growing proportion of U.S. public school students, but they are an increasingly signficant — and often innovative — part of the national education landscape.

Addressing the complaint that a district's fixed costs do not decline in direct proportion to the number of students who exit the system, Spence stated, «I recognize that [public schools] have certain fixed costs,» although she noted that «essentially the districts are making a profit on students they don't educate.»

And they might merit a public policy response, such as extra funding for schools with a large proportion of male students, or even affirmative action for boys at schools like Banneker (something that's being contemplated by Muriel Bowser and Kaya Henderson's Empowering Males of Color initiative).

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

It's noteworthy that these highly publicized policies to provide public support for private schools have not led to major increases in the proportions of students enrolling in private schools, according to the national data cited above.

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

The network was recognized last year with the prestigious Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, an annual award that singles out high - performing charter networks that serve large proportions of low - income students and students of color.

The performance composite score for a school is the proportion of students» scores on state end - of course and end - of - grade assessments that are at or above proficiency, according to the Department of Public Instruction's website.

In Cedar Springs Public Schools, Cedar Springs Middle School saw a dramatic increase in the percentage of 7th and 8th graders passing all their core courses in the past four years as the proportion of students with satisfactory attendance (fewer than 10 absences) rose from 77 to 87 percent.

The hypersegregated Stamford charter schools contain larger proportions of Black and Latinx students, those eligible for free / reduced price meals, and those with disabilities compared to the local Stamford public school district.

For our analysis, we calculated public charter school participation rates for each in - boundary neighborhood, or the proportion of students living within an in - boundary neighborhood who attend public charter schools anywhere in the city.

The findings highlight schools that enroll a higher or lower proportion of in - boundary students compared to schools in neighborhoods with similar characteristics, and identifies neighborhood characteristics of areas where families are most likely to send their children to public charter schools.

We learned that Texas public charter schools continue to serve higher proportions of students who are economically disadvantaged, African American, and / or Hispanic.

The neighborhood public schools have greater proportions of students who are poor and who need special education services.

Charters serve proportions of students with disabilities at rates close to traditional public schools: 12.55 percent in traditional public schools compared to 10.42 percent in charter schools.

Overall comparison of scores of New York City public schools and charter schools therefore, mask the impact on scores that results from different proportions and types of students.

In 2005, New York's mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, held a news conference at Public School 33 in the Bronx to celebrate an astonishing 49 - point jump in the proportion of fourth grade students there who met state standards in reading.

the proportion of scholarship students who switched (or were likely to switch) out of public schools vs. those who already were in (or were likely to attend) private schools even without the assistance of the scholarship

Nationally, 16 percent of public - school students are black, but the proportion of black teachers is less than half that: only 7 percent of the nation's teaching force.

The fact that a nontrivial proportion of public schools did not test any ELL students might be because some public schools do not have any ELL students enrolled.

We have the third largest public school district, the largest parochial school district, and a substantial proportion of students in charter schools.

For instance, Florida, which serves a large proportion of Hispanic students in its public schools, posts narrower gaps in performance between white and Hispanic students in some grades and subjects.

However, Kentucky's public schools also serve fewer minority students as a proportion of the total student population.

In the 2007 - 08 school year, each campus had a higher proportion of students meeting or exceeding state standards in reading, mathematics, and science than students in the regular Chicago public schools.

During the intervening years, national and state tests have generally shown steady improvement, even as the proportion of English learners and minority students rose and funding for public schools fell.