Sentences with phrase «school population came»

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

Not exact matches

It's worth noting that these complaints tend to come from parents at schools in which the free / reduced lunch population is low — most of these children are eating breakfast at home anyway, and the inconveniences and lost instructional time seem to outweigh any benefits of the program.

So while there's clearly room for improvement in Greene, it feels unfair to compare it to a county which places an unusually high value on exceptional school food, has a student population better conditioned to accept such food, and has affluent parents who can pay the higher price tag that comes with it.

Apart from the argument that we have a moral duty to help those who wish to come to this country (which you may or may not accept), there is an economic case in favour of immigration in that the economy benefits from the availability of cheap labour, and there is a case against in that growth in population especially in the crowded South - East creates a lot of pressure on infrastructure such as housing, transport, hospitals, and schools (and the growth in population is largely due to immigration).

This success is coming against the backdrop of wild and unjustifiable allegations that persons in military uniforms have been going around secondary and primary schools forcefully injecting students with monkey pox vaccines with a view to reducing the population in the South - South and South - East.

When it comes to actually addressing whatever overcrowding those revised methods predict, the ideas get more controversial: The Council recommends the city use eminent domain to seize potential school sites where necessary, and consider redrawing school zones and district lines to balance population between schools that have too many kids and those with empty seats.

But with the rush came runaway population growth, severe housing and school shortages, crime and other disruptions in what had been mostly empty agricultural country.

«Many multicultural students experience intense culture shock when they come to college,» observes HGSE lecturer Josephine Kim, a National Certified Counselor whose research and clinical experience with multicultural populations span residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

Second, before coming to D.C., I had spent much of my career working with high - performing school systems serving disadvantaged populations; so I thought a lot about enabling excellence.

If that is the case, studying New York City students, who arguably come from less advantaged backgrounds than, say, the students in New York City suburbs, may have led us to find a larger middle - school effect than had we followed a more - affluent student population.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

Citing her own state's example, Wagner says, for instance, that students coming to Minnesota from Somalia 20 years ago presented more basic EL needs, but Minnesota's newer population of Somali immigrants tend to have a very conservative approach to education, which affects how schools can involve students in art and music activities.

«Here They Come, Ready or Not,» an Education Week special report published May 14, 1986, presented a detailed demographic portrait of the changing school - age population.

«Many multicultural students experience intense culture shock when they come to college,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Josephine Kim, a national certified counselor whose research and clinical experience with multicultural populations span residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools.

Since then, test scores have shot up — a major accomplishment for a student population that is 60 percent low - income and 22 percent refugee and that comes to school speaking 28 different languages.

As the former administrator of a secondary school serving an inner - city African - American population, I have often wondered whether Mr. Yette's predictions might not be coming true — in most cases with the help of the intended victims themselves.

For instance, just 35 percent of teachers in schools with large minority student populations say their school is «very good» when it comes to having a safe and respectful atmosphere, compared with 68 percent of teachers in schools with few minority students.

Today, nearly 20 percent of NYC's school population, some 200,000 students, «are being served by schools that came into existence during the Bloomberg administration,» according to Brookings.

Additional district demographic information, including the proportion of the population aged 5 to 17 and the proportion of school - aged children living in poverty, comes from the U.S. Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for most years.

«Our school population has a majority of its students coming from challenged social and environmental backgrounds, so they need much more than what the average public school can provide for them given the legal mandates of what must be taught in these schools,» Johnson explains.

Even with a school - within - a-school environment and low student - teacher ratio, teaching a «rough and tumble» population when he'd come from a school where, he says, «students stood up when a teacher walked into the room» was challenging to say the least.

Schools that report very high and very low scores may report future scores that come closer to the average for the whole population.

The paper outlines the steps school districts can take to better manage their laptop populations as they expand one - to - one learning programs and come to rely more heavily on easily stolen, difficult to track mobile computers.

A report by the Australian Council for Educational Research shows a promising outlook for employment growth over the coming years, with a spike in demand for secondary teachers expected from 2018 due to a large number of high - school teachers reaching retirement and a growing population of school students [1].

Such a diverse population, with students coming to school with varying preparation, may handicap U.S. performance relative to that of other countries.

One proposal comes from the Education Trust, which has a 17 - year track record of commitment to school reform.The Ed Trust proposes that parents of children in Title I schools, those that have a disadvantaged population and are the main recipients of federal funds, be vested with a private right of action «to enforce their rights under the law.»

This population comes to school thinking that «I'm not here to learn, I'm here to eat me some breakfast, get away from the chaos that's at my house, and just chill out for a couple of hours.»

School leaders must reconsider their priorities and their responsibilities when it comes to vulnerable children of color, and they must make every effort to meet the needs of this often - neglected student population.

I would further resign myself to concluding that 17 - year - olds across all three major racial sub-groups have shown little to no improvement in terms of NAEP scores over the last 30 + years, which suggests that public high schools are not doing a more effective job with a student population that has, over time, come to school less - prepared to be academically successful.

To me, that suggests (but does not prove) that public elementary and middle schools have done an increasingly effective job with a student population that has, over time, come to school less - prepared to be academically successful.

«The majority of our students are Hispanic, and a small student population are African - Americans, underserved and socially and economically disadvantaged coming from traditional schools that may have not been able to meet their needs as we do here at Mohan,» Riley said.

That figure comes from a survey of a post-school-age population, includes private school alumni, lumps regular diplomas together with GEDs, and overlooks people who live in prisons and other institutions.

They will come to know the community in which the school population is located by conducting a neighborhood walk with someone who knows the community well (described in detail below).

Here is the bottom line, if we sign up to work in a school or environment where the population has been historically underserved, we need to come to the table having honestly answered these questions.

Our purpose was to give a school time to show results, and because we want charter management organizations or education management organizations to come to the state to work with our hard - to - serve population.

Withrow said large portions of the student population at the Tennessee school were «set up for failure» by coming into the virtual school already performing below grade levels.

The report comes at a time when the minority student population has increased substantially, resulting in a majority - minority student population in the nation's schools.

«We looked at better schools with similar student populations and emulated them,» said Stein, who came to Manual from an elite private school.

Sargent, who came to the technical school with no computer experience, faced going to Rocky Mountain High School — student population 2,100 — in ninth school with no computer experience, faced going to Rocky Mountain High School — student population 2,100 — in ninth School — student population 2,100 — in ninth grade.

Over time, Minnesota would come to host some 30 charter schools focused on students from specific ethnic or immigrant groups, such as Somali, Ethiopian, Hmong, and Latino populations.37

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligSchools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligschools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

Stengle added that APS is projecting that northwest Arlington's student population will continue growing rapidly in the coming years, which could put even more of a strain on Nottingham if it remains a neighborhood school.

The narrow, basic - skills - focused curriculum that currently prevails in many schools, especially those serving disadvantaged populations, doesn't serve that purpose, Pope says: «Kids don't come to school to be told how poorly they read and how poorly they do in math.»

The proposal would mean that a majority of students at both schools — Frederick Douglass and Leesburg elementaries — would come from impoverished households and about half of each school's population would be English - language learners.

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools serves a diverse student population of over 83,000, 72 percent of which are economically disadvantaged and approximately 20 percent coming from non-English language backgrounds.

So, the public schools in urban areas, where the increased population of test - takers is coming from, are doing good work in challenging students to learn.

Moskowitz's meeting with Trump came as something of a surprise to New York City's education community, given her long history as a Democrat and the overwhelmingly minority population of her 41 charter schools.

I personally student taught in a school for a semester where our student population was almost all living in some type of poverty.Students would come to school without coats in the winter, without food and proper everyday hygenie.

In addition, the dollars coming from the state's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) targeted student population funds — the dollars intended to be the most equitable — disproportionately favor high schools in LA Unified.