Sentences with phrase «school populations in»

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).

More can be done to follow the trends and understand the impact of the growing charter school populations in rural communities like Bingham County, Idaho.

The national average of students who qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — the best indicator of socioeconomic status — is 50 percent; 26 almost all these schools served school populations in which less than one - third of students were eligible for free or reduced - price lunches.

As school populations in the United States grow increasingly diverse, the month of December becomes synonymous with another «d» word: Dilemma.

The school population in question was primarily Hispanic and apparently oatmeal isn't commonly eaten in that community; the school's principal actually called the official later that day to complain about the breakfast and the fact that children went hungry that morning.

So far about 93,000 schoolchildren, more than half the total public school population in Maine, are eating Let's Go!

The number of students known to be home - educated varied between 0.09 % and 0.42 % of the total school population in the areas that were surveyed, and there was no hope, at the end of the study, of procuring better data.

Annual figures from the Department for Education have revealed that the school population in England increased by 121,000 since last year, meaning that pupil numbers have risen for seven successive years.

According to figures from the Department for Education (DfE), the school population in England has increased by 121,000 since last year.

Social mobility was a key theme of Education Select Committee's evidence check on grammar schools held on 8 November and statistics quoted suggested that only 2.5 per cent of pupils in grammar schools are on free school meals, compared to an average of nine per cent of the school population in the same areas.

Black students make up over 30 % of the public school population in New York City, while Black teachers make up only slightly more than 19 % of the teacher population (Albert Shanker Institute, 2016).

Those sixty charters account for 20 % of the charter school population in Los Angeles, but also account for 66 % of the unduplicated suspensions at charter schools.

Looking at students in grades 4 - 8, the researchers found that the regular public school population in North Carolina has become less white over the past 15 years (from 64.1 percent white to 53 percent white), while the charter school population has grown more white (from 58.5 percent white to 62.2 percent white).

Charter school enrollment in the District, which made up a scant 5 percent of the total public school population in 1998, has broken the 40 percent mark, according to preliminary figures released Monday.

Take the time to analyze the school population in detail.

Before the data are analyzed, responses from the groups of students assessed are assigned sampling weights to ensure that their representation in NAEP results matches their actual percentage of the school population in the grades assessed.

Groups of schools were chosen whose student race / ethnicities, poverty statuses, and school sizes were compatible across districts and stages of RCCP implementation, and that represented the public elementary school population in New York City.

METHODS: A 2 - year, longitudinal, panel study was performed with a general elementary and secondary school population in Singapore, including 3034 children in grades 3 (N = 743), 4 (N = 711), 7 (N = 916), and 8 (N = 664).

Not exact matches

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

«More than half the population is ambiverted,» according to Wharton School professor Adam Grant, Elizabeth Bernstein has reported in the WSJ.

«Conversely, if the population is becoming younger, a greater percentage of the population may enroll in high school or college; yet this tells us nothing about employment opportunities for those who want to work.»

You'll find that same spirit in Emory's Isabel Lowell, who launched a clinic for transgender patients during B - school to help this often underserved population.

Shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, 89 % of the U.S. population, including 84 % of gun owners and 74 % of NRA members, supported universal background checks.

The school has increased its student population to more than 1,000 MBA students in four years and expects to boost enrollment to 1,400 students in 2016.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

The Student Athlete Commerce Association (SACA) is a new club in Haskayne, representing the student athlete population of the business school.

If the environment was better then the next project manager in my position might actually be able to hire the programmers they need, because half the population might have considered it as a possible career when they were in high school.

The Role of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaSchool Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaschool completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populations.

The Victorian government has unleashed a record $ 13.7 billion infrastructure spending spree in Tuesday's budget ahead of this year's state election, mostly across road, rail, hospitals and schools to meet the state's booming population.

He talks about Klein's $ 1.3 billion reduction in infrastructure spending from 1994 to 1997 and his $ 18.9 billion spending on infrastructure from 1998 to 2006 without any reference to the need for even more infrastructure because (1) Klein failed to maintain schools, roads and hospitals (in fact he blew the hospitals up) and (2) Alberta's population ballooned by 500,000 during that period.

More evidence: In 2014, the Open University Business School asked a cross section of the population to answer questions currently on the financial education syllabus.

I was pleased to see the PCs move away from that short - sighted approach during their final years in government and that the NDP has continued to invest in building the type of public infrastructure — schools, hospitals, roads and public transit — that Alberta's growing population will need.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

«I'd like to see more education in schools where there's a large Pakistani Muslim population — to counter those messages that «girls who don't cover their hair are slags, so we can assault them.»

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced training.

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

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When large segments of the population, like the children in a school system, for example, are tested, it is found that their abilities are distributed fairly consistently along what has been called the normal, or bell - shaped curve.

In addition, schools should be able to gauge the particular needs of their student populations on a case by case basis to determine which dates are ideal for scheduling major academic programs in the first placIn addition, schools should be able to gauge the particular needs of their student populations on a case by case basis to determine which dates are ideal for scheduling major academic programs in the first placin the first place.

Bibles in every motel room God on our money Moments of silence (prayer) before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for being christian Churches every 6 blocks in every city over 100,000 Christian bookstores in every town over 12,000 God in The Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Brainwashing School (VBS) for your children Federally recognized Christian holiday Radioeveangelists 24/7 Religious organizations are tax free 75 % of the population claims to be Christian National day of prayer God in the National Anthem

Also I know of rual school districts that take the first day of hunting season off because they know alot of kids will not be in so why cant the NYC schools do that for days they know their good sized population of Muslim kids wont be in?

I live and teach and in community that has a 40 % Muslim population, and our schools take off both Muslim and Christian holidays.

The American population is far too diverse to accommodate everyone's specific needs and American schools can't make exceptions in certain areas so it would fit the needs of a specific group of people.

In my school we had off for Jewish holidays as well as Christian because of the large populations of both groups represented in the areIn my school we had off for Jewish holidays as well as Christian because of the large populations of both groups represented in the arein the area.

Then, beginning in the early 1980s, the railroad literally removed its tracks, the community — except for the county school bus garage and three churches — was abandoned, and there was a flight to Richmond and Raleigh (the county population was literally cut in half, and many farms lay fallow to this day).

Planning for both of these meetings, within the UN bureaucracy and among the thousands of NGO activists who participate in UN-sponsored programs, was dominated by strident doomsayers and hard - core population controllers of the Garrett Hardin / Paul Ehrlich («the battle to feed all humanity is over») school.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risIn the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

There are only 26 Caucasian children in a student population of 11,000 in the elementary schools that serve this district of the Bronx.