Sentences with phrase «reduced price lunch»

Nearly 47 % of schools where more than three - quarters of the student population receives free or reduced price lunch require uniforms.

LA Unified has 77 percent of its students who quality for free or reduced price lunch, and 26 percent who are English learners.

The prevailing wealth of the student body is even more overwhelming than its whiteness — only roughly 5 % of students receive Free and Reduced Price Lunch -LRB-

The prevailing wealth of the student body is even more overwhelming than its whiteness — only roughly 5 % of students receive Free and Reduced Price Lunch (Figure 6).

In Idaho 34 percent of the state's charter students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch, while 42 percent of district school students are eligible.

For example, the most recent annual report from the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives states that 89 percent of the students attending public schools in New Orleans during the 2012 - 2013 school year were black and that 82 percent of all students qualified for free or reduced price lunch, a common measure of poverty.

The school has a diverse student population with 45 % qualifying for free or reduced price lunch.

Charter students are more likely to be eligible for free and reduced price lunch than traditional DOE students, though charters serve smaller populations of English Language Learners and special education students.

(Criticism of free and reduced price lunch is that it may be inaccurate and it is self — reported.

The recommendation is based on aggregate evaluation data generated during the application process, considering the following key elements: (1) the quality of the proposed program as measured against the criteria contained in the charter school application; (2) the substantive issues surrounding the overall feasibility and reasonableness of the application in terms of the likelihood of the opening and operation of a successful, high quality public school; (3) the degree of public support for the proposed school; and (4) the CSDE's recommendation that the SBE give preference to the applicant due to its commitment to: (a) serving students who receive free or reduced price lunch; (b) partnering with FamilyUrban Schools of Excellence, Inc., an organization with a record of operating high - quality public schools in Connecticut; (c) serving students from the Dixwell / Newhallville community, an underserved, high - need area of New Haven; and (d) operating in New Haven, a Priority School District.

Children who live in deeper poverty (eg, free vs. reduced price lunch) have additional needs that may increase the cost of educating them.

Connecticut students who are eligible for these programs are generally referred to as being eligible for free and reduced price lunch, or «FRPL.»

«When [schools] take up CEP, they have to switch their poverty measure from the free and reduced price lunch application to something else.

We serve more than 1300 students, 85 % of whom are qualified for the federal free and reduced price lunch program.

This table shows the percentage of SJUSD students who qualify for free and reduced price lunch and who are English learners in the 2014 - 15 school year, broken down by the three regions of the district's attendance area.

We use panel data in Washington State to study the extent to which teacher assignments between fourth and eighth grade explain gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students — as defined by underrepresented minority status (URM) and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL)-- in their eighth grade math test scores and high school course taking.

If the socio - economic status of its students is factored into the ratings, however, Reo's grade moves up to an A. That's because 87 percent of the school's 189 students are «economically disadvantaged,» which means they qualify for a free or reduced price lunch.

Over half of the 2013 honorees serve a student body more than 40 percent of which is eligible for free and reduced price lunch.

A recent analysis examined 2013 NAEP scores among states after adjusting for various demographic characteristics of each states» student population, such as eligibility for free and reduced price lunch, status as ELLs, and other factors.

Currently, Connecticut identifies low - income students based on students» eligibility for free and reduced price lunch, or «FRPL.»

Dean noted that nearly 3 of every 4 MNPS students qualifies for free or reduced price lunch.

68 % of students in her district qualify for free and reduced price lunch.

How many students already attend F schools and qualify for free or reduced price lunch?

Synergy Charter Academy is high - performing, even though it is a high - minority and high - poverty campus where 99 % of its students are Latino and African American, 57 % of students are English Learners, and 88 % of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

Charter students who were eligible for free and reduced price lunch, a frequent measure of poverty, were only 0.02 SDs below non-poor students in math.

Dept. of Education School - Level Data, Spring 2011 ISTEP + Exam; School - Level Free and Reduced Price Lunch Data

The bill expands eligibility for charters to receive facilities grants from a 70 % free or reduced price lunch threshold to 60 %.

«You can't tell for a teacher's classroom by the way the value - added scores turned out whether she had zero percent students on free and reduced price lunch or 100 percent.»

According to the Nebraska Department of Education, 45 percent of children in Nebraska are eligible for free or reduced price lunch, which is the indicator schools use to measure poverty.

At least 75 percent of students at the schools also qualify for free or reduced price lunch.

31 % of the students in the district are eligible for free or reduced price lunch and four schools have a population where 50 % or more of the student population is eligible for free or reduced priced meals.

To start unpacking the data, first we looked at the performance of just the low - income students by sorting all Oakland schools by their concentration of students in poverty — that is, those that had a very high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch..

Overall throughout the district, 40 % of the school population is eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

Remember than we are defining Low - Income schools as schools with 80 % or higher free or reduced price lunch.

Counting Low - income Students Low - income students continue to be identified — for purposes of allocating additional funding through a low - income student weight and a concentrated poverty weight — in the new ECS formula based on whether they are eligible for the free and reduced price meals program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, known in Connecticut as free and reduced price lunch (FRPL).

Data for subgroups, such as children qualifying for free and reduced price lunch, children with disabilities, and children who are learning English, show lower performance at Whitney than for similar children statewide, and Whitney's overall test based performance and growth measured by tests is much lower than state averages.

Federally - and state - funded free and reduced price lunch programs — and the breakfast that nearly 50 percent of New Jersey schools also serve — are essential to our children's well - being.

Not only do we manage 31 Chicago Public Schools on the city's west and south sides serving 17,000 students (whom 93 % qualify for free or reduced price lunch), but we also created and manage the first and most prolific teacher residency program in the nation.

In the early 1990s, the average Latino and black student attended a school where roughly a third of students were low income (as measured by free and reduced price lunch eligibility), but now attend schools where low income students account for nearly two - thirds of their classmates.

Demographics: In Georgia, as the percentage of African American and Free and Reduced Price Lunch (FRPL) students in a school increases and the percentage of White students decreases, school performance decreases.

This information included proximity of home from schools and how many students require free or reduced price lunch.

The Colorado Department of Education is proposing new District and School Performance Frameworks that use a «combined subgroup» that aggregates performance results of English learners, students of color, students with disabilities, and students eligible for free / reduced price lunch.

At Achievement First Bridgeport Academy, only 66 % are eligible for free / reduced price lunch, 6 % are English Language Learners, only 6 % come from homes where English is not the primary language and only 8 % receive special education services.

Eighty - two percent of the district's students were eligible for free or reduced price lunch programs.

A low poverty school has 25 % or less of students eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch (FRPL).

Many EQUITAS ACADEMY families are eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

This course is designed to help future and current teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse elementary school students to (1) understand, develop, and implement a range of effective, practical strategies for assessing and documenting the academic achievement of their students, including English Learners, students with identified / unidentified exceptionalities, and students eligible for free or reduced price lunch (TPEs 1.1, 2.2, 3.5, 4.4, and 5.1 - 5.8); (2) develop the skills and habits of mind necessary to use assessment results to plan effective instruction for every student (TPEs 3.5, 4.4, and 5.1 - 5.8); (3) learn how to present and discuss assessment results with other education professionals and with students» parents (TPEs 1.2, 2.6, 3.2, 4.5, 5.1 - 5.8).

In Bridgeport Schools, 98.4 % are eligible for free / reduced price lunch, 13.6 % are English Language Learners, 40.4 % come from homes where English is not the primary language and 12.4 % receive special education services.

This small school of approximately 100 students in Grades 9 and 10 serves a disadvantaged population (73 % of its students qualify for free or reduced price lunch) using an academically rigorous curriculum and state - of - the - art technology.