Sentences with phrase «pupils than other schools»

But Schools Week's own analysis of the exclusion data has found that free schools are actually more likely to exclude pupils than other schools.

Not exact matches

The standards for «school food other than lunch» apply to all food and drink provided to pupils during an extended school day (up to 6 pm).

«New York public schools now spend more per pupil than any other state and 87 percent above the national average.»

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

In England, almost one in five primary school pupils speak a language other than English at home.

As you may already be aware, social interventions which hitherto were funded by donors in the NPP era such as the School Feeding Programme (for less than 500,000 pupils) and other social protection interventions, are now fully funded by our Government,» he said.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

The Public Account Committee, highlighted where differences in school funding resulted in «some schools receive about # 3,000 a year more than others per disadvantaged pupil».

In other words, these schools typically received 1 to 4 percent more than the district average, or $ 15,000 to $ 60,000 per school of 500 students in a district where the average school expenditure is $ 3,000 per pupil.

Tablets were also found to greatly improve independent learning, with 100 per cent of pupils reporting that their tablets helped them to do research for school work, and 88 per cent reporting that tablets enabled them to work at their own pace and not worry if others are working faster or slower than them in lessons.

Researchers from the University of the West of England found that pupils in Food for Life schools were twice as likely to eat five or more portions of fruit and vegetables per day than those in other schools and significantly more fruit and vegetables at home.

The Coleman Report, released in the summer of 1966, found that the family backgrounds of the student body had a greater influence on student achievement than did school resources, and that «a pupil's achievement is strongly related to the educational backgrounds and aspirations of other students in the school.»

Aim of lesson was to build on work we have already done on who Mandela is to consider what forgiveness is, who he forgave, why we might need forgiveness etc. «Tasks» document includes a starter activity (a tick sheet task getting pupils to consider a time when they have felt angry), 2 story scenarios (one with lower reading age than the other and a 3rd with sentence starters for pupils with lower literacy levels) about forgiveness in context of school life with questions, table for card sort and an exit ticket plenary... all ready to print and use!

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 study of 300 schools which increased their EBacc entry rates between 2010 and 2013 found that pupils» average attainment in GCSE English and maths increased following the curriculum changes and that pupils at these schools were also less likely to have left education after the age of 16, than peers at other schools.

Schools with the highest number of children with free school meals are facing higher cuts in funding per pupil than others

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

The union's final point is to make sure that schools are supported by health and social care services to allow schools to fulfil their role to promote pupil wellbeing rather than making up for cuts to other services.

The schools vary widely in funding levels and other resources, from those that can barely make ends meet on per - pupil allotments that are lower than other high schools in the area to a few schools that amass large budgets from multiple sources and boast extraordinary technology and staffing.

Stating that allowing parents to use their 529 savings for K - 12 tuition «will erode the tax base that funds public schools» when it will benefit many middle class New Yorkers already taking a 2018 hit with lost state and local deduction opportunities; when the real world state budget impact is demonstrably negligible; and in a state that already spends more per public school pupil than any other — is simply poor public education.

Researchers spoke to more than 2,000 secondary school pupils aged 11 to 16 years old and found that more than a third (36 per cent) were willing to do «whatever it takes to look good» and that nearly two thirds (63 per cent) said what other people think of their looks is important to them.

Was it right that her children should have limited access to speech therapy and music programs simply because their school received $ 1,000 less per pupil each year than other public schools?

Meanwhile, per - pupil spending reached $ 13,355 in 2002 - 03, compared with a national average of less than $ 10,000 a year, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics, although, unlike other school systems, the District figures include the equivalent of both state - level and local education spending.

According to a report by the Education Policy Institute, it is not yet possible to conclude whether free schools are more effective in improving pupil attainment than other schools.

Schools in London (72 per cent) were significantly more likely than those in other regions (54 - 62 per cent) to say that school sport contributed to integration within the school (e.g. the integration of different cultures, and pupils with disabilities).

Because recessions may affect student outcomes through channels other than school budgets (such as parental employment or neighborhood crime), the Shores and Steinberg result likely reflects all ill - effects of the recession rather than those through reduced per - pupil spending per se.

The authors admit that per - pupil funding in the two charter schools was higher than in other Chicago public schools.

Alternatively, the school day itself could be staggered, with some pupils starting and finishing later than others.

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

New elementary school teachers who were well - prepared in preservice programs to teach reading expressed greater confidence in their knowledge and skills, fostered richer literacy environments in their classrooms, and helped their pupils achieve higher levels of reading comprehension than did other teachers, according to the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction.

States may report certain information required on online school report cards at a later point in time than other metrics, such as per - pupil expenditure data (which lag due to the fiscal calendar).

Educators and social workers, rather than for - profit management firms like Edison Schools, dominate the Arizona market, most likely because per - pupil funding in Arizona is too low to attract the for - profits, in contrast to that in other states, like Massachusetts and Michigan.

Provide independent listeners including older pupils and adults other than school staff to whom victims of bullying may turn.

«By introducing a progress measure, we will ensure schools are fairly judged on the performance of all their pupils rather than focusing entirely on attainment, which created a perverse incentive for schools to focus on some children at the expense of others.»

More than half (54 %) of head teachers in schools with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem», compared with a third (33 %) of those in other schools, they found.

Eligible schools must be able to demonstrate that pupils who are in receipt of free school meals have lower progression rates to higher education than other pupils who are not in receipt of free school meals.

Previous Sutton Trust research has shown that disadvantaged children are much less likely than other pupils to attend grammar schools.

New York State spends more per pupil than any other state in the nation, and there is great variety in how school districts raise revenue to support spending.

Previous research by the Sutton Trust has shown that children from the poorest homes are much less likely than any other pupils to attend a grammar school, even after allowing for location and prior attainment.

That means every pupil at the school achieved, on average, a grade higher than an average pupil in other schools with the same prior attainment.

This means that other schools in selective areas are taking more than their fair share of the poorest and chronically poor pupils.

In fact Ofsted analysis showed that many academies were performing worse than other local authority schools, while a Sutton Trust report in 2014 warned that they were worse for disadvantaged pupils.

But this research, based on the detailed results of nearly 550,000 pupils, suggests once the ability and social background of pupils is taken into account, grammar schools are no more or less effective than other schools.

According to Edge's new research, students are entered for 8.1 GCSE exams on average, and although schools are free to offer subjects outside the «core» EBacc areas, it leaves pupils with «very limited space for anything other than this narrow academic diet».

One of the burning questions that friends and foes of free schools often ask is whether pupils who go to free schools do better than similar pupils who go to other schools?

The plan would cut Walker's proposed per - pupil funding increase and target more money to school districts that spend less than most others, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo prepared for Nygren and obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.

Since the relationship was established with Lodge Park more than a year ago, pupils from both schools have benefitted from the partnership in activities including Combined Cadet Force (CCF), music, mathematics, history, sciences and sport, amongst other things.

The government claims it is collecting the data to help schools to cope better with pupils with first languages other than English, but privacy campaigners have warned that any agreement not to share the new data with other departments is «in effect, worthless» because it is not backed up by legislation.

And why do some schools have much larger per pupil spending gains than others?

(Schools with mobile pupils of at least 10 per cent get cash, but only for pupils that join in any month other than August of September).