Sentences with phrase «school population»

Compare this to a public school population of more than 50 million children.

Its population — primarily composed of recent Chinese, Korean, and Iranian immigrants — is transient, with 40 to 60 new students a year in a total school population of around 220.

Their proportion of low - income youngsters nearly matches the wider high school population.

In fact, the charter school population has more than doubled since 2008.

In a whole - school magnet, the entire school population is there by choice.

In effect, around 1 percent of the primary school population receives gifted instruction.

What is the prevalence of child maltreatment investigations (for abuse or neglect) in the public school population by the time students reach third grade?

As you think about the indicators, which of them seem important to supporting the success of each student in academically diverse school populations?

Other metropolitan areas have less than 1 percent of their elementary school populations enrolled in such schools.

The focus on equity is greater now because school populations are becoming more diverse and school systems are struggling to cater for the wider range of student backgrounds and learning needs.

Many school populations include students who transfer in from elsewhere throughout the year.

Students might create graphs to show specific school population information in their own school.

The largest growth in the charter - school population came from students who are poor, black and Hispanic.

The growth of individual students from year to year and percentages of the total school population meeting standards is reported.

The program's enrollment numbers are significantly different than the traditional school population, where African - American students make up about 25 percent of enrollment and white students account for almost 49 percent.

And, just in case you were wondering, that's about three quarters of the total public school population.

Anytime, you roll a program out to the entire school population, you better be ready for some things to go wrong.

For years, the law has pushed schools and districts to provide students access to the same academic curriculum available to the general school population.

The shortage of places in primary schools reflects a growth in the birth rate - with some areas facing an increase of 25 % or above in the primary school population.

Their numbers are on the rise in most states and are expected to grow to 40 percent of the nation's school population by 2030.

The results of surveys with students and families indicated the need to become more familiar with the concerns of the diverse school population that included a significant proportion of low socio - economic families.

In some metropolitan areas, up to 15 percent of the elementary school population is enrolled in private schools where the tuition is about two - thirds of the per - pupil expenditure.

Mrs. Mahama said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), report in the year 2015, indicated that sub-Saharan Africaremains the home to the largest out of school population of children in the world and although Ghana continue to face its our own challenges, it had achieved universal enrolment of children in primary school.

In fact, federally funded CSR models on average serve school populations with a poverty rate of about 70 %.

American can no longer afford economically, much less, morally, to have one out of every two black, Latino, and American Indian children struggling with literacy — especially when minorities make up the majority of enrollment in the southern and western states of the union (and large portions of school populations in the rest of the nation).

Viewed in relation to Ohio's public school population as a whole, students in EdChoice are highly disadvantaged — not surprising, given eligibility rules that require participants to have attended a low - achieving public school.

The current findings build on earlier work by the same researchers, showing that dietary supplementation with Omega - 3 DHA improved both reading progress and behaviour in children from the general school population who were behind on their reading.

The findings are based on the most recent available data, namely January 2013 figures for school populations and the 2011 Census for local area populations.

As the number of poor kids moves from 51 to 55 percent or more [of the overall school population], it'll be more difficult to reach a political consensus on a strategy to help them.»

This issue of ASCD Express explores how poverty affects learning, meeting the needs of changing school populations, and the practices that make schools equitable for all.

Those more serious problems can then be identified and help can be provided in a non-stigmatising way, with the whole school population supporting those with greater needs.

The 1997 study, which surveyed 6,990 sixth - through eighth - graders out of a total BIA middle school population of 8,932, showed that by age 11, 36 percent of students had smoked a cigarette, 26 percent had their first alcoholic drink, 18 percent had smoked marijuana, and 5 percent had had sexual intercourse.

For example, the north London authority of Brent faces a primary school population increase of more than 25 % by 2015.

Parts (1) and (2) of my model suggest that proper selection criteria and valid and reliable selection methods will yield a group of high - potential entry - level female and diverse lawyers in roughly the same proportion as the overall law school population.

At the same time, public schools in poorer districts are being asked to do more and more to help address the broader social and economic problems manifesting themselves among school populations.

Meanwhile, nearly two million children today are home - schooled and the private school population hovers around five million.

The pressure to build Mark Robinson, Scape Group chief executive, comments: «As the growth of the primary school population gathers pace, the pressure on school places will soon transfer to the secondary population, requiring a new wave of advanced school building.

It made clear that UNO's ability to repay was based on school population.

Given that the targeted school population for charters is almost all low - income minorities, the contrast seen during school visits can be startling: black and brown students who are taught by white teachers.

The research by SOS, funded by The Daniel Tanner Foundation, has included demographic studies of charter school populations compared with the mainstream public school system.

In today's ENR: Education Interim Committee takes up Utah's expected school population growth.

Opponents make a point, however, that there are economies of scale by containing the current school population within existing physical buildings.

In her home state of Michigan, charter schools have been responsible in part for a steep rise in the alternative school population.

Also, while Gov. Malloy may support a lot of troubling school reforms, the State of Connecticut seems to have looked out for its special needs school population and early childhood education.