Sentences with phrase «public school population in»

Charter school enrollment in the District, which made up a scant 5 percent of the total public school population in 1998, has broken the 40 percent mark, according to preliminary figures released Monday.

Looking at students in grades 4 - 8, the researchers found that the regular public school population in North Carolina has become less white over the past 15 years (from 64.1 percent white to 53 percent white), while the charter school population has grown more white (from 58.5 percent white to 62.2 percent white).

Black students make up over 30 % of the public school population in New York City, while Black teachers make up only slightly more than 19 % of the teacher population (Albert Shanker Institute, 2016).

So far about 93,000 schoolchildren, more than half the total public school population in Maine, are eating Let's Go!

Not exact matches

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

I was pleased to see the PCs move away from that short - sighted approach during their final years in government and that the NDP has continued to invest in building the type of public infrastructure — schools, hospitals, roads and public transit — that Alberta's growing population will need.

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Bibles in every motel room God on our money Prayer before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Laws that prevent non-christians from holding public office Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in the Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Bible School and «Repent or go to He.ll» Federally recognized christian holiday Radioevangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be christian National day of prayer God in the National Anthem Weekday christian education for elementary students.

Bibles in every motel room God on our money Moments of silence (prayer) before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in The Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Brainwashing School (VBS) for your children Federally recognized Christian holiday Radioeveangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be Christian National day of prayer God in the National Anthem

Some of those that are religious are certainly not Christian, and to display Christian icons in public schools is not only unfair to the students, but to the population as a whole.

In areas with a predominantly Jewish population, Protestant youths resented their own minority status in the public schoolIn areas with a predominantly Jewish population, Protestant youths resented their own minority status in the public schoolin the public schools.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Longing to work with a more varied population, she then worked in a public school in New Jersey.

There is an entire population of twice - exceptional students who struggle to have their needs met in a public school setting.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

At the same time, minority students in the area make up nearly half of the public school student population.

There are currently 216 charter schools in the city serving 106,600 students, or 10 percent of the public - school population.

Buffalo Public Schools have added so many immigrants to the student population, the district now has 84 languages spoken in the hallways and 125 teachers have been added to work with these students.

At the same time, public schools in poorer districts are being asked to do more and more to help address the broader social and economic problems manifesting themselves among school populations.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Speaking about the consultant's study predicting further decline in the population of Clarkstown's public schools, the Journal News reported: «The reality is, this report can not define the future of Clarkstown,» said parent Sean Magee, of Congers, a former school board candidate.

«Of all racial groups, American Indian adolescents had the highest rates for using many substances of abuse, and for depression, suicidal thoughts, and attempted suicide,» said Subica, an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine.

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

«Our findings support recommendations of increasing the intake of a variety of nuts, as part of healthy dietary patterns, to reduce the risk of chronic disease in the general populations,» said Marta Guasch - Ferre, PhD, lead author of the study and research fellow at the department of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In late May, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health panel estimated it will cost six southern states where the virus is expected to first impact the United States more than $ 2 billion in medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's populatioIn late May, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health panel estimated it will cost six southern states where the virus is expected to first impact the United States more than $ 2 billion in medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's populatioin medical care and lost wages, an economic model that assumes the virus will infect only 2 % of the region's population.

In the United States, more than 25 percent of the population was affected by the extremely virulent influenza A H1N1 virus, forcing schools, theaters and public places to close.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

First - generation college students, pupils from public (as opposed to elite private) high schools, and students from financially disadvantaged families are all underrepresented in the undergraduate population.

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

These limitations «suggest that the ability to estimate population trends in caloric intake and generate public policy relevant to diet - health relationships is extremely limited,» said Archer, who conducted the study with colleagues at the Arnold School.

«Zika is just another example of how populations that reside in these urban slum communities are ignored, neglected and invisible,» said study author Lee Riley, a professor in the Berkeley School of Public Health, who has spent nearly 25 years studying urban slums in Brazil.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead author.

«Quebec introduced an insurance - based drug coverage system 20 years ago that was supposed to save taxpayers money,» said Steve Morgan, a professor in the school of population and public health at UBC and lead author of the study.

He developed an outreach program to educate the South Asian community about diabetes risk and preventive measures during a recent Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program sponsored by the School of Public Health at the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation, an organization based in Hillsborough that promotes wellness among New Jersey's South Asian population.

Liu and co-author Yun - Xin Fu, Ph.D., Betty Wheless Trotter Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at UTHealth School of Public Health, examined genomes from nine populations including European, African and Asian ancestries.

There are some methods out there to determine population size, but this new model can provide a more detailed picture,» said Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D., lead author and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health.

«This would be a great time to create separated bike and rail lanes,» said Kay Teschke, a professor in UBC's school of population and public health.

«We found evidence reduced levels of circulating testosterone were associated with increased phthalate exposure in several key populations, including boys ages 6 - 12, and men and women ages 40 - 60,» said one of the study's authors, John D. Meeker, MS, ScD, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI.

«The database has allowed us to assess the national burden of HIV infection through vertical transmission throughout the HIV / AIDS epidemic and to identify the populations at greatest risk,» said Joel Singer, professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, who is presenting at IAS 2015.

«Those taking intermediate - acting insulin were more likely to gain weight,» said Dr. Tricco, who has a PhD in population health and is also an assistant professor in the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

Matthew Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Bristol's School of Social and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, said: «Scaling up HCV treatment is critical to the prevention of HCV in the population to support and enhance traditional harm reduction measures — opiate substitution treatment and needle exchange.

Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»

The Georgia Cancer Center's partners in the ongoing minority NCORP include Georgia's Morehouse School of Medicine, DeKalb Medical Center, University Cancer and Blood Center LLC, the Georgia Southern University Jiann - Ping Hsu College of Public Health and Phoebe Cancer Center, which all help serve significant minority populations.

Barlow, an associate scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a leader in behavioral and mental health research, has devoted more than 25 years to addressing health disparities among American Indian populations.

Saturday, Oct. 21, 9:15 - 9:30 a.m., Room 220B, South Building Platform Presentation: Epigenetic modifications of innate immunity genes impact early - stage non-small cell lung cancer survival: An integrative analysis of epigenome and transcriptome in Caucasian population R. Zhang, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, et al

Just go for a variety of types,» says Emily Oken, MD, associate professor in the department of population medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health.

«What happens to 19 people on a metabolic ward may not apply to the general population out in the real world who are trying to lose weight,» says Lydia Bazzano, MD, PhD, professor in nutrition research at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Chicago Public Schools recently guaranteed $ 4.5 million of a $ 5.5 million letter of credit for Perspectives Charter School, a charter school serving a diverse, low - income population in grades 6 - 12 in downtown ChSchool, a charter school serving a diverse, low - income population in grades 6 - 12 in downtown Chschool serving a diverse, low - income population in grades 6 - 12 in downtown Chicago.

Traditional public schools and charter schools located in areas with significant Hispanic populations provide the same level of Spanish - language translation for school materials.