Sentences with phrase «rates at neighborhood schools»

Since then, I'm proud to report that tests scores and graduation rates at neighborhood schools are increasing and the dropout rate is down.

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Of course a 50 percent placement rate for aspiring principals is no small accomplishment, and there has been undeniable progress in getting fellows hired at neighborhood schools.

For instance, at Manley Career Academy — a neighborhood high school which hosts several Umoja services — the graduation rate has risen from 50 percent in 1988 to 75 percent in 2009.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

The improved rate at Woodson in a low - income neighborhood in Northeast Washington puts the school above the citywide average and just five points shy of the graduation rate for Woodrow Wilson High School, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part ofschool above the citywide average and just five points shy of the graduation rate for Woodrow Wilson High School, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part ofSchool, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part ofschool, located in an affluent part of town.

Years ago, a science teacher at Boston's Greater Egleston Community High School, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure ouSchool, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure ouschool situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure out why.

The report investigates how boundary participation rates in these neighborhoods vary with the neighborhood's characteristics (such as race and ethnicity, household income, access to transit, safety, and proximity to charter schools) separately at the elementary school level and at the middle and high school level.

Looking at race, elementary school neighborhoods with low African American populations are likely to have higher boundary participation rates than neighborhoods with high African American populations.

How about a statement insisting that charters accept English language learners and students with disabilities at the same rate as the neighborhood public school?

In Washington, D.C., charter schools expelled students at 72 times the rate of neighborhood schools.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

Chicago Public Schools divides areas of the city into one of four socio - economic tiers by looking at each area's median income, education level, home - ownership rates, single - parent family rates, rates of English - speaking, and neighborhood school performance.

ExED provides funding for short - term loans at very low interest rates to help charter schools in low - income Los Angeles neighborhoods secure permanent, affordable facilities.

A study performed by the California Policy Center revealed that Alliance schools have a 91.5 percent graduation rate compared to LAUSD's 84.1 percent weighted average at schools within the same neighborhoods.

In every major city in the United States, public schools are closing in disenfranchised neighborhoods at a precipitous rate.