Sentences with phrase «school enrollment using»

I have examined long - term trends for private school enrollment using two data sets.

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Indus Action is using vHelp to run a helpline in Delhi for guiding parents on EWS enrollments in schools.

One could hardly think of a suggestion more incompatible with the mindset of liberals in general, and liberal New York Jews in particular, than providing educational vouchers that could be used to subsidize enrollment at parochial schools.

To be precise, competitive equity is simply a different method used to determine which playoff divisions each team is placed, and in most cases, replaces a school's enrollment total.

It's doubtful that the NorCal sections would have a school with as large of an enrollment as Montebello in Division IV or Division V, but using competitive equity you also wouldn't have a school like Stagg - Stockton being in Div.

In addition, two studies using stratified random sampling found that a high - quality home visiting program positively impacted school readiness through better parenting practices, increased reading to children at home, and a greater likelihood of enrollment in preschool programs.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

Ironically, the Ritter team reanalysis used district boundary lines in an effort to justify the charters» segregated enrollments — even though charter schools are often not constrained by those boundaries.

I use national school - level enrollment data by race / ethnicity to show how many students in different subgroups are covered under different pooling approaches.

Among the roadblocks to the wider use of dual enrollment are seat - time and mandatory - attendance laws, which states passed a century ago, often under pressure from labor unions, to keep young people in school and out of the competition for jobs.

• Among students using the voucher to attend a private elementary school (most students attended Catholic schools), the estimated impact on full - time college enrollment was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 %.

These enrollment patterns highlight the fact that the effects of voucher use reported above do not amount to a comparison between «school choice» and «no school choice.»

Winters notes that the special education gap in kindergarten is much smaller in Denver than in New York City, possibly because Denver uses a universal enrollment system in which charter schools participate, while in New York City families must apply to individual charter schools.

School districts faced with declining enrollments could avoid layoffs by using a popular Canadian program that allows teachers to defer part of their annual salaries to fund a year off with pay.

DPS's new SchoolChoice enrollment system minimizes favoritism, fosters integration, and increases demand for high quality schools by using the same process to place students in most schools, including charters and district - operated schools.

In the absence of full - time virtual schools, teachers unions and other opponents use their resources to attack blended - learning charters, even though the latter do not differ in legal structure, brick - and - mortar presence, or enrollment practices from other charter schools.

When it is assumed that 30 percent of voucher - using families would have chosen private schools, the resulting enrollments imply a noticeable slowdown of the long - term downward trends, a result that seems possible, but not at all compelling.

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.

Meanwhile, estimates of the effect of attending a charter high school on college enrollment are even larger using the restricted sample than with the original sample that includes schools offering both 8th and 9th grade.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Education for the years 1968, 1980, 1988, 2000, and 2012, Rivkin documents how public school enrollment patterns have changed over time.

Last year, 42 percent of parents who used Newark's centralized enrollment system listed a charter school as their first choice.

The House bill, HR 7, would allow 80 percent of funds from the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to flow directly to local school districts using a formula that is based on a district's number of Chapter 1 students, number of handicapped students, and overall enrollment.

Presenting some new and revised data released since its first report a year ago, the panel of governors, Bush Administration officials, and members of Congress reported positive trends in high school completion rates, Advanced Placement course enrollments, and student drug and alcohol use.

If an African American student used the scholarship to attend private school for any amount of time, the estimated impact on college enrollment was 9 percentage points, a 24 percent increase over the college enrollment rate among comparable African American students assigned to the control group (see Figure 1).

PCSB employs a cloud - based system for collecting and making available public documents; enrollment specialists work with students displaced by school closures; a recent internal reorganization better develops and deploys functional expertise; and the use of social media disseminates key school information.

We found that that college enrollments for low - income, African American students who used a voucher to go to private elementary school increased by24 percent.

Matthew Chingos and I have just released a study that for the first time makes use of data from a randomized field trial to identify the impact of school vouchers on college enrollments.

Northeast Tennessee College and Career - Ready Consortium: Use dual - enrollment, online, and Advanced Placement to improve college readiness in 29 rural high schools

Often, enrollment for magnet schools is regulated in a variety of ways to ensure schools remain racially balanced, usually through the use of admissions criteria, first - come, first - served applications, lotteries and / or percentage set - asides for neighborhood residents.

Instead of providing money based solely on enrollment, districts that use weighted funding formulas attempt to calculate how much it takes to educate a child with certain needs, such as special education services or remedial help, and then distribute money to schools based on the numbers of students with those needs.

This study explores families» experiences choosing and enrolling in schools using the new Camden Enrollment, and provides recommendations for improvements to the system.

Chronic absenteeism rates are calculated by dividing the number of students absent for 15 or more days in the school year by total enrollment, using data from the 2013 - 14 OCR CRDC.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

It pledged the use of other resources in order to «encourage all schools to achieve an African - American enrollment equivalent to the average district - wide African - American enrollment at the school's respective elementary, middle or high school level.»

Omaha's Learning Community is an example of this, whereby 11 school districts (Omaha Public Schools plus 10 suburban districts) across two counties participate in open enrollment, and magnet schools are used to encourage two - way transfer of students between urban and suburban disSchools plus 10 suburban districts) across two counties participate in open enrollment, and magnet schools are used to encourage two - way transfer of students between urban and suburban disschools are used to encourage two - way transfer of students between urban and suburban districts.

The former teacher, Kenneth Williams, also reported to school district authorities that the school's staff sometimes used personal vehicles to drive students to school on days when the state was counting attendance to increase enrollment numbers, and therefore, payments from the district.

Alternatively, LEAs may use the number of Identified Students multiplied by 1.6 as the share of the school's enrollment that are from low - income families for all schools, whether or not they participate in the Community Eligibility Provision, assuring comparable treatment of all schools.

Administrators can use video newsletters to reach out to parents and students, share school or district events or fundraisers on social media, or make recruitment videos to boost enrollment.

The report used data from the National Center for Education Statistics to track students» post-secondary enrollment for several years after high school graduation.

Our study uses administrative records to measure the college enrollment patterns of participants in the first two lotteries who are now old enough to potentially have graduated from high school and enrolled in college.

The 2014 - 15 display of the scatterplot uses enrollment and estimated FRL rates from the 2013 - 14 CCD School Universe Survey because the 2014 - 15 survey was not yet available.

This year, 87 % of students who attended a closing school and used the enrollment system received on of their top three choices for the next school year.

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A secondary school operating a schoolwide program may use title I - A funds to operate dual or concurrent enrollment programs that address the needs of low - achieving secondary school students.

Under the new rules for the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, a federal initiative that provides money to states, states will be able to use enrollment data from the federal school lunch program...

The board strongly recommended, but did not require, the use of themed magnet programs to draw white and Asian - American students to the 750 - student school, whose enrollment is now...

ECCI dimensions that capture administrative processes that are not likely to be known or used by parents are excluded from the present research, e.g., whether the district has a policy for closing schools with declining enrollments.

College enrollment is measured using data on CPS high - school graduates from the National Student Clearinghouse.

The state legislators may use declining enrollments at public schools as an argument for lowering state's contributions to public education.

College - readiness indicators for «on - track» and «highly qualified» students were analyzed for school districts in Nassau County, NY using logistic regression to determine if there is a relationship with the desired outcome of college enrollment and persistence into a second year.