Sentences with phrase «proportion than all state schools»

He quoted figures hailed by the DfE earlier in the year which said three - quarters of the first free schools were rated good or outstanding - which a spokesman pointed out was a significantly higher proportion than all state schools.

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In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

Theresa May's government has fewer women than Gordon Brown's had a decade ago and the proportion of ministers who attended state schools has fallen to less than half.

[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).

Magnet schools have higher proportions of black and Hispanic students than TPS in eight of the twelve states, and charters have more black and Hispanic students than TPS in six of the ten states where those analyses can be run (again, these are controlling for district fixed effects).

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.

In Northeastern states like New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, more than half of black students attend schools with more than 90 percent minority students, a proportion that is higher than in any other region, including the South.

Rather than presenting performance as the proportion of students who have met the minimum - proficiency cut score, states could present the average (mean) score of students within the school and the average performance of each subgroup of students.

While nationally 30 percent of urban children read at grade level in fourth grade, Pennsylvania's urban schools successfully teach only 19 percent of their students to read proficiently in primary school, while the state's suburban schools teach more than half of their students to read well — approximately the same proportion left functionally illiterate in fourth grade by the state's urban schools.

In these countries, the standards are much more demanding than the Common Core State Standards because they have a far lower proportion of the population studying mathematics in upper secondary school.

This year, only five states earned a grade of «A.» Likewise, grades in the category «Life Chances for Students» are lower than they would have been a decade ago, due to rising proportions of students living in poverty and increased racial isolation in schools.

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.

It also found that a smaller proportion of selective secondary schools had a religious character than state - funded mainstream secondaries.

In the United States, new teachers only make an average of about $ 36,000, and the average salary for all teachers is just over $ 58,000 — which, in today's dollars, is lower than the average salary during the 1989 - 1990 school year.63 Teachers make 60 percent of what similarly educated professionals earn, much lower than the proportion in other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.64 Partly as a result of low teacher pay, young people are avoiding the teaching profession, excellent teachers are staying away from high - need schools, the teaching profession is not as diverse as it needs to be, and far too many great educators leave the profession altogether.65

The proportion was significantly higher than those who received the special measure in state schools where the figure is fewer than one in eight.