Sentences with phrase «school enrollment decreased»

While enrollment in traditional charters also increased during this period, traditional public school enrollment decreased.

Memphis was a sprawling Catholic diocese that had seen the number of its faithful increase by half, but its school enrollment decrease by almost a quarter.

Aside from this, however, is the question of alternative explanations for school enrollment decreases.

Not exact matches

While some schools have seen a decrease in their enrollment, Sherbrooke can boast a 25 % increase over last year alone.

Like almost all institutions of higher education, these schools, whether university - related or denominational, are buffeted by inflation, a decrease of public support, and a drop in student enrollment.

As church membership has decreased, so has the relative percentage of active members, Sunday School enrollment, and optimism about the future of the church.

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

Because of enrollment decreases, four of these schools closed prior to the 2011 — 2012 school year.

As a result, even as net district school funding decreases due to charter enrollment, total per - pupil funding effectively increases.

But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

But in a new article for Education Next, «Desegregation Since the Coleman Report: Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.

Despite the worry that enrollments would decrease once FLVS began receiving per - pupil funding because it would put the school in competition with some district funds, the opposite happened.

Public school enrollment has increased by 12 percent and private school enrollment in elementary and middle schools decreased by half.

Public schools all over the nation — but especially in cities — are grappling with difficult problems of strikes, decreasing enrollment and increasing costs, as well as the perceived threat of tax credits for private - school tuition and voucher plans.

In most cases, it is politically impossible for school districts to proportionally decrease their number of employees as their student enrollment declines.

Washington — Americans will spend $ 230 billion for education during the 1983 - 84 school year — up from $ 215 billion this past year — while total enrollment in the nation's schools and colleges will decrease only slightly, according to the Education Department's annual «back - to - school» forecast.

Following that logic, if schools expenses don't decrease when students leave, then they shouldn't increase when enrollment increases.

[29] By contrast, only 2 percent of participating private schools in Florida and Indiana planned to decrease their enrollment.

Among district schools within a half - mile and one - mile radius, charter school entry leads to significant decreases in general education enrollment of approximately 16 students per school, on average.

Indeed, NCES data shows that the country's total private school enrollment has been decreasing since 2005.

Although charter and non-charter gains during Rhee can be separated under NAEP, the Rhee administration closed a number of schools in DC during the 2007 - 09 period causing enrollment in charters to increase by half and enrollment in non-charter DC public schools to decrease by one quarter in only two years.

Gary schools posted billboards advertising a bump in state test scores this summer to try and stem the tide of decreasing enrollment.

Broward's School Board saw those numbers — and five straight years of district enrollment decreases — and declared it wants a piece of the action.

Perhaps even more surprisingly, the private school share of total enrollments has decreased over the past 15 years, from about 12 percent to 10 percent.

Since the creation of the achievement school district, four charter operators have pulled out of Memphis — at least two because they saw troubling enrollment decreases, said Hoyt.

The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.

Further, she said, «attending the Promise Academy increased on - time high school graduation and college enrollment and decreased teen pregnancy for young women and incarceration for young men.»

The talk around the water cooler has changed over the years, but school administrators keep returning to the same issues - how do we comply with the ADA; how do we address increasing enrollment and decreasing dollars; should we contract services out or keep them in - house; how can we keep our students, faculty and facilities safe and secure; where does technology fit into our educational goals.

In fact, enrollment in the Greenville Public School District has decreased 35 percent over the past 15 years from more than 7,300 students to less than 4,900 this year.

In that plan, Evers sought hundreds of millions more in state spending and changes that would help school districts with high numbers of children living in poverty and mitigate school funding losses for districts experiencing enrollment decreases, among other measures.

Those fears crescendoed when the school board voted one month before the May 16 election to support State Bill 808, which would have allowed school districts to close or reject charter schools if they could be considered a financial burden to the district, which has yet to decrease its staffing levels despite declining enrollment and is facing billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and projected budget deficits.

During this same period, kindergarten enrollment decreased for Newark's district schools, but increased dramatically for its charter schools.

Both school corporations decided to pose their referenda due to decreasing enrollment numbers.

Public school enrollment overall has decreased by less than 1 percent, but total enrollment has increased 2.81 percent with the addition of voucher students supported by the state, according to figures from the Indiana Department of Education.

While the cost of living has increased, overall enrollment in public schools in California has been decreasing, meaning that the amount of special education funding going to localities has been growing slowly.

Even after vouchers supporting «segregation academies» were deemed unconstitutional, research showed that increases in private school enrollment were accompanied by decreased support for investments in public education.

And as for declining enrollment in private schools, private school consumption is decreasing, particularly in urban areas where children are being ruined by failing schools, because of economics, not school quality.

The one exception was Washington, D.C., where the voucher funds come from a separate source and therefore a decrease in district school enrollment does not affect their funding.

Studies have shown that while decreased student enrollment does reduce some public school costs, other costs remain fixed.

It is projected that by 2022, there will be a sixteen percent decrease in the enrollment of white students in public schools nationwide.

Funding for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), the state virtual school of Idaho, was significantly impacted in 2011 - 12 by changes brought about by SB1184, with significant funding decreases and the elimination of IDLA's state appropriation based on a student enrollment formula and some course fees.

These include: 1) a substantial decrease in student enrollment; 2) the curtailment or alteration of an educational program as a result of substantial decline in enrollment or to conform with standards of organization and education as required by law or recommended by the state Department of Education; 3) consolidation of schools or districts, or 4) the reorganization of a school district.

Like many school districts in economically - depressed areas, job losses in and around Fayette County led not only to decreased enrollment in Connellsville Area School District, but decreased funding asschool districts in economically - depressed areas, job losses in and around Fayette County led not only to decreased enrollment in Connellsville Area School District, but decreased funding asSchool District, but decreased funding as well.

The enrollment of traditional (LAUSD) schools in HP has decreased by 32 % since 2004.

«He also criticized the state's generous reimbursement policy for school construction projects, especially in an age of decreasing enrollment.»

The program has failed because, although «Renewal» schools received a lot of funding and resources, their enrollments and teacher quality have decreased.

The threat of school closures discourages professionals and families from working with Renewal Schools, decreasing enrollments and teacher retention.

First, it will compare recent trends in the decrease of school enrollment alongside increasing school choice options, in order to confirm or deny their correlation.

The threat of school closures has transformed Renewal School culture to the point where enrollments have decreased, school administrators have quit, and schools have tweaked data to meet benchmarks and avoid closchool closures has transformed Renewal School culture to the point where enrollments have decreased, school administrators have quit, and schools have tweaked data to meet benchmarks and avoid cloSchool culture to the point where enrollments have decreased, school administrators have quit, and schools have tweaked data to meet benchmarks and avoid closchool administrators have quit, and schools have tweaked data to meet benchmarks and avoid closures.

In the 2014 - 15 school year, there was indeed a 3.4 % decrease in enrollment in Chicago Catholic high schools, compared to a 3.0 % decrease in its surrounding Cook County suburbs and 1.2 % increase in the handful of schools in the northern Lake County suburbs (Archdiocese of Chicago, 2015b, p. 81).