Sentences with phrase «reduce average pupil»

It would require hiring an additional 145,000 teachers, on top of standard hiring needs, to reduce average pupil - teacher ratios from the current 16 - to - 1 to pre-recession ratios of 15.3 to 1.

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Nearly 750 pupils signed up for free or reduced - price meals, the district reported, and now the district serves an average of only two alternate lunches a day at each of the system's 87 schools.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

The manifesto also proposed a large increase in public spending on education, which would allow for the school leaving age to be increased to 18 and reduce average class sizes to 19 pupils.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

One such solution could be to reduce the amount of waste that schools are producing, especially given that the average secondary pupil produces 22 kg of waste per year.

Witness also its finding that it is particularly important to reduce class sizes in states that begin with high average pupil - teacher ratios.

Examining 277 separate studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

He examined 277 different studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

Lower - attaining pupils make uneven progress, particularly in mathematics, and absence, although reducing, remained above the national average.

He added that there was a risk that pupils in areas with large numbers of selective places, more grammar schools would «reduce the results achieved by poorer children» on average.

It found that although pupils in grammar schools have higher average attainment at KS4, this is only because their schools cherry - picked them in the first place, as demonstrated by the fact that grammar schools do not drive up overall results in their areas, nor reduce the poverty gap.