Sentences with phrase «public school students fall»

In 2013, for the first time, more than half of the USA's public school students fell below the federal government's poverty threshold.

Thousands of young Buffalo Public Schools students fell further behind in key literacy benchmarks as they progressed through the district's early grades, according to a study from 2006 to 2011 ordered by a former superintendent.

The vast majority of Chicago Public Schools students fell below those averages as well.

Not exact matches

«We respectfully ask all parents to acknowledge that students need to be in class every day to benefit from the education they are guaranteed and to avoid falling behind in school and life,» Albuquerque Public Schools principals wrote in a letter to parents, USA Today reports.

For the first time, a majority of the country's public school students — 51 percent of them, to be precise — fell below the federal government's threshold for being «low income,» meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

This past fall, Willingboro Township Public Schools in New Jersey sent a letter to families, threatening to dump students» lunches in the trash if they were delinquent in payments.

NYC workers assigned to help homeless students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the public school system, to miss enormous amounts of school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

NEW YORK — Twenty city public schools will implement longer school days for thousands of high - need students across the city as part of a pilot program this fall, the Department of Education and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday.

Amid calls for more integration in New York City's public schools, 19 schools will give priority in admissions for next fall to low - income students or English language learners, joining seven already in a «diversity in admissions» pilot project.

«Last fall, 43 student teachers protesting the attack on Mexican public schools were arrested and then found murdered,» said Magee.

MIDTOWN — The city could be forced to shell out nearly $ 44 million in private school tuition after failing to place thousands of kindergarten students with special needs in public schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de Bpublic schools for next fall, according to a new report by Public Advocate Bill de BPublic Advocate Bill de Blasio.

With the beginning of the school year only a little more than a month away, thousands of New York City public school students remain unsure whether they'll be promoted to the next grade in the fall.

Starting in the fall, incoming students will not attend Fowler High School, but the Public Service Leadership Academy.

In the case of the Senate, however, the consequences of inaction will fall most heavily on New York City's public school students, and that should be avoided at all costs.

Launched in the fall of 2015, the Grand Rapids Public Museum School currently has 120 students in sixth and seventh grades, and will add a grade each year so it's fully enrolled as a 6 — 12 program by 2022.

Every school day, more than 7,200 students fall through the cracks of America's public high schools.

In a study of 90 English language learners in a Southern California public school system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the baschool system, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the baSchool of Education Professor Nonie Lesaux, along with then - doctoral students Michael Kieffer and Amy Crosson, took a closer look at why these children fall behind, and how new instructional strategies might redress the balance.

In the fall, for example, New York City's public schools — «the country's largest school district, with 1.1 million students — encouraged teaching cursive to elementary school students.»

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

In the fall of 1980, when a group of senior education scholars was coming to NORC to critique the first drafts of «Public and Private Schools» and the other reports emanating from the «High School and Beyond» baseline data, Coleman told his graduate students that we were expected to attend the sessions and the associated luncheon.

A pronounced increase in Hispanic and Asian public - school enrollment and consequent decline in the white enrollment share, not a pattern of resegregation, has driven the fall in the exposure of black students to white schoolmates.

Public and private school students stepped into their classrooms this fall 52.7 million strong, surpassing last fall's enrollment by a half - million students, according to a study released last week by the U.S. Department of Education.

This fall, more than 10,000 Chicago public school students faced retention as the school district implemented a program to eliminate social promotion and enforce consistent standards of achievement.

A «hack your wheelchair» studio came about because of a suggestion from Mohammed Sayed, a student who transferred to NuVu last fall from a nearby public high school.

All girls from across the country are invited to apply for the fall or spring semester of their sophomore year, and the school includes students from public and independent schools, as well as those who are homeschooled.

Their success has also been replicable: There are now seven international schools in Seattle Public Schools (an eighth will open in fall 2013), and in six of the seven, students outperform district comparison groups on stateschools in Seattle Public Schools (an eighth will open in fall 2013), and in six of the seven, students outperform district comparison groups on stateSchools (an eighth will open in fall 2013), and in six of the seven, students outperform district comparison groups on state tests.

Using updated national numbers from the federal government, as of fall 2007 there were 67,729 disabled students ages 6 through 21 who were being educated in private schools at parental request and public expense.

The recent report by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley on the «baby boom echo» describes an unparalleled enrollment increase in the public schools: Last fall, school enrollment reached 51.7 million students, more than the 51.3 million record set by the baby boomers 25 years ago.

A student starting public school in New Orleans in the fall of 2005 had little reason to be hopeful about her education.

New York City will open three new specialized public high schools for top students in the fall, the first expansion in more than three decades of the city's competitive - admission school program.

In a new study presented at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts academic achievement gains of students.

For the first time, all 61,000 students in the San Antonio public schools this fall can eat their morning and midday meals at school without spending a dime, regardless of their families» incomes.

The city's Public Charter School Board reported Thursday that the city's 57 charter schools enrolled 27,953 students this fall, or about 38 % of total public school enrolPublic Charter School Board reported Thursday that the city's 57 charter schools enrolled 27,953 students this fall, or about 38 % of total public school enrolSchool Board reported Thursday that the city's 57 charter schools enrolled 27,953 students this fall, or about 38 % of total public school enrolpublic school enrolschool enrollment.

Parochial schools are less likely to fall into the public - school habit of «structuring inequities»: public schools offer students the chance to take weaker academic courses while Catholic school courses are «largely determined by the school.»

Increasingly, schools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fallschools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, FallSchools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fall 2017).

Julia Stevens, a current master's student in the Teacher Education Program who took Donaldson Gramling's class in the fall, felt that same pressure at her public high school.

The National Association for Single Sex Public Education projects that, in fall 2008, roughly 400 public schools will offer students at least some opportunity for single - sex education, and a quarter of these schools will enroll only boys or Public Education projects that, in fall 2008, roughly 400 public schools will offer students at least some opportunity for single - sex education, and a quarter of these schools will enroll only boys or public schools will offer students at least some opportunity for single - sex education, and a quarter of these schools will enroll only boys or girls.

With an average score of 258, DC students attending DCPS regular public schools fall roughly around the national average for sixth graders in 2015 (students nationally scored 281 on average in 2015).

Of the panoply of reforms now being implemented in California schools, the one affecting the state's youngest public school students passed almost unnoticed this fall.

This funding gap, coupled with the fact that traditional districts often control access to public school buildings, means that many charter operators fall back on a «patchwork of solutions» to cover their operating costs, find adequate school facilities, and transport students.

Participation in these types of programs can improve students» English language proficiency, which in turn has been associated with improved educational outcomes.1 The percentage of public school students in the United States who were ELLs was higher in fall 2015 (9.5 percent, or 4.8 million students) than in fall 2000 (8.1 percent, or 3.8 million students).2

Despite years of education reform efforts, many urban public schools are falling short, unable to raise student achievement.

For example, AltSchool is a micro-school network in San Francisco with tuition that is 10 to 15 percent cheaper than the average for other private schools in the city --- and it hopes to scale its model such that the price falls over time to the point that it is only marginally more than the cost of educating a public school student.

In fact, they argue that «students who enter public middle schools in New York City fall behind their peers in K — 8 schools.»

After Lynchburg (Virginia) City Public Schools officials learned in fall 2007 that a middle - school student had MRSA, school officials cleaned desks and common areas and alerted parents about the causes of the infection and ways to stop transmission, said Anne Bond - Gentry, the districts coordinator of student services.

But public school students will have to wait until at least fall to find out if they will have to earn the more prestigious and rigorous regents» diploma or whether local diplomas will be acceptable beyond the next four years.

The use of private bus companies to transport public school students has drawn public criticism and state scrutiny in two Utah districts this fall.