Sentences with phrase «school accepts less»

The school accepts less than 5 % of applicants, highlighting the need and desire for such options.

Not exact matches

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.

As a culture we have accepted this (more or less) and therefore it would not make sense to now add a holiday for another religion when these people have spent so much time and effort to remove all religion from school.

A famous study by Dale and Krueger compared students who attended prestigious universities to others who were accepted, but who chose to attend different, less prestigious schools.

Research has shown that kids who have a diverse set of friendships, such as friends from school, church, sports and so on will not only be more accepting of others, but they also are less likely to be bullied.

And every year, one group of kids who remember the old less healthy food graduates out, to be replaced by a new group of incoming K students who have no expectations for what school food «should» taste like, and are most likely to accept whatever is offered.

And while some schools mean business when it comes to only accepting children who can use the potty, others are less strict and some programs will even help you train.

MacLachlan noted that some departments will accept candidates from top schools who aren't exact matches, but they usually don't accept similar candidates from less prestigious schools.

Hiding behind an «open - access mission» is no excuse for accepting young peoplewho are reading and doing math at a middle school level and have little or no chance of getting beyond remedial education, much less completing a bona fide postsecondary credential.

But after getting to know some gay students from less - accepting school communities, he came to understand the significance of these organizations.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

Douglas County requires that sectarian schools accepting vouchers must let students opt out of religious services, making any distinction between religious status and use less relevant.

Moreover, schools wishing to admit students selectively rather than accepting all comers may participate in a donation rebate program that generates less revenue than vouchers while also involving less regulation and less interaction with the state.

Based on ratings from the organization GreatSchools, the schools participating in the Louisiana voucher program were not of lesser quality than those that did not participate, though the voucher - accepting schools did charge lower tuition.

Students in integrated schools are more tolerant and less prejudiced, measured by the tendency to accept and connect with people of other races versus holding them at a distance and turning them into negative stereotypes.

Superintendent White's plan would allow schools to enroll students on the waiting list if the schools agree in writing to accept a potential «worst - case scenario» of a nominal payment from the state of less than $ 100 per child for the year.

After all, if the standards are a necessary part of holding schools that accept taxpayer money accountable for using that money to teach kids things we all agree they should learn, that would be no less true for private schools that accept taxpayer money than it would be for public schools that do.

Years ago teachers would accept a position in a private school for less money simply because they felt that the teaching environment was friendlier and more preferential.

After all, why would high - quality private schools with competitive admissions and more applicants than available places accept potentially less - prepared students who are only paying a fraction of the tuition paid by competitively admitted students?

The waiting list is being trimmed down as schools agree to accept a potential «worst - case scenario» of a nominal payment from the state of less than $ 100 per child for the year.

In schools, this means that parents that do not act in a socially acceptable manner are not easily accepted in the school community, and their children receive less attention than those of more «appropriate» parents [x].

If constituents are willing to accept less - than - perfectly - integrated schools in the interest of better serving different constituencies and drawing on teacher strengths, it will be crucial to monitor those schools for resource equity and academic quality and to provide students with frequent opportunities to interact meaningfully with students from the other learning communities.

For the most part, teachers at parochial schools earn less, as it has generally been accepted that they teach at these schools for spiritual rewards, in addition to earning a living.

The citizenry does want schools back under local control but we won't accept anything less than a total transformation of the day - to - day operation of New Orleans education system.

I am sure this penalty in the current law was made law only after it was found that anything less than a legal consequence wouldn't assure that some parents would accept their legal responsibility of making sure their children attend school.

The school is less selective than other Washington universities, accepting more than 80 % of applicants for admission.

Next will accept applications for enrollment from students who have totaled 1 year or less of high school experience.

Malloy met twice with Democratic legislative leaders overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, and sources said the governor indicated he would not accept anything less than the funding level he proposed for charter schools.

Tax credits command support from a larger coalition of conservatives, free market advocates, and private schools than do vouchers, in large part for the same reason they are more legally viable: they are not government funds and pose less danger to the autonomy of private schools that accept them.

So the SBOE and Pryor have moved CT schools towards less accountability in general (as I believe, but perhaps am not correct, that TFAs are accepted throughout the state) and in the most noteworthy case of Paul Vallas» lack of certification.

These are the students, some as young as middle school, who already know that they are education shopping, not hoping to be accepted as much as their lesser - achieving counterparts.

A recent survey of school teachers in the U.S. found that although two - thirds of them accepted a major human role in recent global warming, less than half were aware of the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists.

Lysaght and Barry Currier, the managing director of the section, both stressed that under the proposed change the council could direct any school to require an admissions test as «remedial action» if, for instance, a low bar passage rate, attrition or other facts suggested a school was accepting less capable students.

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine note that proteinuria, a long accepted indicator of heart disease risk, has far less impact on blacks than it does on whites.

Children with mothers who had high depressive symptomatology when the child entered school were less accepted by their peers in second grade than children of mothers with lower levels of depressive symptomatology.

«In my own experience in Portland, my clients are willing to pay more for a home — or accept less in terms of square footage and amenities — in exchange for proximity to shopping, entertainment, work and school.»