Sentences with phrase «rates than schools»

Schools with more students qualifying for free and reduced price meals, a proxy for poverty, have higher African - American suspension rates than schools in wealthier communities.

Students from high schools with a larger number of low income students (more than 50 % eligible for free or reduced price lunch) had lower college enrollment rates than schools with mostly higher income students, regardless of the minority or geographic category that the school fell into.

Additionally, schools that had a larger share of FTC students and were therefore more financially dependent on the FTC program had a smaller positive effect on low - income students» college - going rates than schools with a smaller percentage of FTC students.

Do you have a school in your district that is beating the odds, recording higher attendance rates than schools with similar student populations?

Speaking at the National Association of Head Teachers» annual conference, schools minister David Laws has said that Ofsted's inspection system make it easier for schools to gain a «Good» or «Outstanding» rating than schools that are in «challenging circumstances».

In some cases, the dashboard gives schools with lower overall performance better ratings than schools with higher achieving students.

Not exact matches

Accepting just 3.7 percent of the nearly 3,000 applicants, the program boasts an acceptance rate that was more selective than Ivy League schools.

As tuition rates continue to rise and colleges suffer painful funding cuts, football Bowl Subdivision schools spend more than $ 91,000 per athlete.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

Below, find eight US schools that are even more selective than some of the Ivies, according to statistics provided on the class of 2020 * admission rates from school websites or admissions offices directly.

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

Stanford's admission rate is lower than every Ivy League school's.

While the unemployment rate for recent military veterans is higher than the national average, recruiters from plum post-biz school gigs are actively courting many vets who opt for an MBA.

What was being provided in some cases, was little better than eating gruel, with Boulder Valley seeing an 85 percent rejection rate of their school lunches!

CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

That would require the center to increase the number of staff per student but also would permit charging higher fees than the current weekly rate of $ 115 per full - day child and $ 78 for after - schoolers.

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

Half of the teachers in Palm Beach County schools get the highest rating on their performance evaluations — a bigger percentage than anywhere else in South Florida.

To find a high - ranked school offering one of these executive MBAs for under six - figures, you have to reach down to the No. 9th ranked University of Texas at Austin which has an EMBA program for a bargain rate of $ 80,169 — less than half the cost of either Wharton program (See the full list of the top 50 Executive MBA programs in North America on the next page).

For the 2017 - 2018 school year, the interest rate on PLUS Loans — 7.00 % — is much higher than on other types.

For that reason, the school tax rate is higher in Burlington than in much of the state, at 1.6358 %.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

Others, like Ethan Mollick of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, say that the overall failure rate of Kickstarters is pretty low, that scam rates are even lower, and that crowdfunding does far more good for innovation than bad.

At any rate, the school counselor's moral reasoning on homosexuality wasn't any muddier than Williamson's.

Oddly enough, the rate of women reporting more than 100 partners declines from 4 percent among the high school graduates to one percent among college graduates but increases to 8 percent among postgraduate women.

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

The dropout rates are strikingly lower in Catholic schools than public schools, even in the case of those at special risk of dropping out.

Researchers from Aston Medical School in Birmingham looked at more than 900,000 patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and found marriage led to higher survival rates.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

In a recent article on FoxNews.com, Parents Television Council president Tim Winter comments on a 2004 study from the Harvard School of Public Health showing evidence that today's movies contain significantly more violence, sex and profanity than movies of the same rating a decade ago.

They are more learned than we are, more fortunate, more highly endowed, more charming, more influential; they get what we aspire to but miss; they are promoted more swiftly in the business office, are rated higher in the school, are praised more in the market - place.

America's Test Kitchen is well - known for its top - rated television shows with more than 4 million weekly public television viewers, bestselling cookbooks, magazines, websites, and cooking school.

The tiny Presbyterian school, highly rated academically for more than 125 years, was unbeaten in 12 league games and was the obvious choice to represent the conference against Providence in Philadelphia on March 8, the first step toward a possible NCAA championship.

Back and forth across the Carolinas and Virginias, where college basketball rates higher than barbecue, the schools of the Southern Conference torment each other with diabolic defenses, home - court advantages and 6 - foot 11 - inch carpetbaggers.

The Bears checked in with a 48 percent GSR for the 2002 - 05 entering classes — the lowest rate in the pac - 12 and lower than any school in the Southeastern Conference.

The Chiefs» graduation rate since 1988 is 27 %, and according to a report by Juli Rhoden of Oklahoma City's KTOK radio, over that same period no more than 10 % of the school's black players have earned their diplomas.

The study found that concussions were the most common injury, accounting for three in ten of all cheerleading injuries (followed by ligament sprains, muscle strains and fractures), but that concussion rates were significantly lower in cheerleading (2.2 per 10,000 athlete - exposures) than all other high school sports combined (3.8 per 10,000 exposures) and all other girls» sports combined (2.7 per 10,000 exposures).

The study's authors offered several possible explanations for the concussion rate in female middle school soccer players four times higher than in the most recent study of female high school soccer players.

Female soccer players playing elite or select soccer before high school sustained concussions at a rate higher than their high school and college counterparts, most continued to play despite experiencing symptoms, and less than half sought medical attention, a first - of - its - kind study finds.

%) than soccer, where attendance by a doctor was rare (3.0 %), this despite the fact that statistics show that soccer, both boys» and especially girls, have concussion rates among the highest of all high school sports.

Many of the schools we serve are private schools, and the public districts we do serve have Free and Reduced rates below 10 % [i.e, fewer than 10 % of the kids qualify for free or reduced price lunch.]

Feedback from more than 200 participants involved in the pilot has been overwhelmingly positive, with 94 % rating the resource as «excellent» or «good» and just under two thirds (65 %) intending to make a change to their school food culture as a result.

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports — including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball.

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

Not rated yet I was 18 years old when I had my first child and had just graduated High School not more than a week before.

Those from non-traditional education environments matriculate in colleges and attain a four - year degree at much higher rates than their counterparts from public and even private schools.

More American high schoolers are graduating than ever, with this year's graduation rate reaching a record 81 percent.

The bill, a priority for the president and first lady Michelle Obama, would boost spending on child nutrition $ 4.5 billion over 10 years and raise federal reimbursements for school lunches more than the inflation rate for the first time since 1973.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»