Sentences with phrase «public student population»

The charter movement has since expanded to include 43 states plus the District of Columbia, and over 2.5 million students — or about 5 percent of the total K - 12 public student population.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

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Still, Skyrocketing college costs, cuts to public funding for higher education, stagnant incomes and the growth in the college - going population are largely to blame for the uptick in outstanding student loans over the past decade.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

(I'd left a public high school with a total population of 1,000 and would later step into an enormous human ant bed crawling with 4,600 students.)

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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.

That while they are only 17 percent of the public school population, they represent 35.6 percent of students who experienced corporal punishment, 37.4 percent of all students suspended and 37.9 percent of all students expelled.

BCPS has a student population of more than 225,000 students at nearly 230 traditional public schools.

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.

The dispute is complicated by the fact the public school population is increasingly made up of low - income families, immigrants who do not speak English and students with disabilities.

The board has been accused of financially starving the public schools that serve a significant number of African - American students of Haitian background as well as a growing Hispanic population.

Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York City public schools reduce class size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.

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.

«Public health efforts are needed to raise university administration and student population awareness of the harms that indoor tanning poses to young adults in order to increase demand for policy - related action.

The eight schools are all college preparatory schools of choice — public and public charters — with student populations ranging from 300 to 600.

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.

Similarly, academic institutions have praised the value of a diverse student and faculty population for enhancing public education.

For example, New York, with the 10th largest student population enrolled at its four research - intensive public universities, has enjoyed a 72 % increase in per - student funding from the state.

As a consequence, the number of students receiving the public study allowance has dropped from nearly 40 % of the student population to only 15 %.

Approximately 150 people — including Kobe University's students and faculty members, and public participants — attended and listened to the lecture of the President, who leads the country which has the greatest population and a strong economic power in Europe.

For sixteen years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations throughout the world, including Baltimore City Public School students, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools and other various venues throughout the nation and throughout the world.

A 2012 UCLA student film written and directed by Alethea C. Avramis, this fun and charming short is set in a small, secluded Greek village whose mayor (Manolos Sormainis) scrambles to raise the population back up to 35 to prevent its public services from being shut off.

«Many multicultural students experience intense culture shock when they come to college,» observes HGSE lecturer Josephine Kim, a National Certified Counselor whose research and clinical experience with multicultural populations span residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools.

Here, I look forward to continuing to collaborate with esteemed colleagues and talented students, conducting research to inform setting - level interventions and public policy to support academically vulnerable populations.»

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

Critics pointed out, justifiably, that we had not adequately controlled for initial differences in the student populations as they entered either public or private schools.

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school.

At the Atlanta public school where she also worked as an instructional specialist, she was surprised by the lack of intentional education about race, even though the student population was 100 percent African American.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

Among the study population of charter 8th graders, students who attended a charter high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar students who attended a traditional public high school (see Figure 1).

For years, online education served a small percentage of the public school population — for course make - ups, for students unable to go to school, and for prodigies pursuing their passions in athletics or music.

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

July 14, 2016 — Under former superintendent Cami Anderson, Newark Public Schools spent more per - pupil than any other district in the nation — a whopping $ 25,000 — but failed to improve achievement for its predominately minority student population.

A wide cultural and geographic chasm separates Mobile, Ala., a Gulf Coast city where 86 public schools serve some 65,000 students, and the Lower Kuskokwim River region of Alaska, an Ohio - size tract of wilderness where 22 of the 23 communities have only one small school apiece, with student populations ranging from 10 to 190.

It is therefore important to consider how the 5,746 «switchers» included in our final analysis, those who attended both a charter school and a traditional public school in North Carolina between grades 4 and 8, differ from the state's full population of 8,745 charter school students in these grades.

«Many multicultural students experience intense culture shock when they come to college,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Josephine Kim, a national certified counselor whose research and clinical experience with multicultural populations span residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

«I do want to thank you for acknowledging the situation in Albany, but going to the heart of what's real, we have 10 charter schools in Albany with a total public school population of 10,500 students.

ELLs are the fastest - growing student population with approximately six million currently enrolled in public schools (TESOL International Association).

Yet in 2011, nearly 6,000 charters were serving approximately 2 million students, about 4 percent of the U.S. public - school population.

ERIC summarizes the findings of that study: «The population studied consisted of 88 first grade students at a Chicago public school, instructed in either a small class of 17 students or a large class of 27 students.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

American Indian and Alaska Native communities are often remotely located throughout the U.S. with the largest populations of K — 12 students — as a percent of total K — 12 student population in the state — being served in public schools in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Alaska.