Sentences with phrase «school populations with»

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

«These microapartments were really the private sector's vehicle into some other segments of the school populations with residential needs,» said Jay Brotman, a partner at Svigals.

A nearby Air Force base leavens the school population with 28 percent military kids.

With respect to that first question: If Iowa identifies 8.42 percent of the school population with an SLD and Kentucky finds 2.04 percent eligible in in this category (as of 2009 - 10 as stated in another recent study released by the Fordham Institute), then something is amiss with the definition, or the standardization of the assessment procedures, or the manner of interpretation of the guidelines for eligibility, or all three.

Not exact matches

The school targets marketing toward diverse populations, whether it's women, international students, or those with particular backgrounds.

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.

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.

That said, families with children seem more determined to return than others; while the post-wildfire population dropped about 17 per cent, public school enrolment fell only by about five per cent this year.

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.

(I'd left a public high school with a total population of 1,000 and would later step into an enormous human ant bed crawling with 4,600 students.)

While some proponents advocate a flat monetary settlement to every descendant of a slave, others seek a social or political settlement — a percentage of the U.S. budget that would be allotted to improving schools with large minority populations, for example, or set aside for job training programs.

They tend to withdraw into gated communities, with private security guards and «enclaves of good schools, excellent health care, and first - rate infrastructures — all the while scoffing at almost all functions of government, thus cutting off the supply of taxes for most public undertakings — leaving much of the rest of the population behind.»

It has been estimated that toward the close of the Middle Ages, England and Wales, with a population of about two and a half million, had 400 grammar schools - a rather better provision than in Victorian England.

(i) the question of gay rights — funny I agree with gay rights, must be a political debate at its heart (ii) a wonan's right to choose — funny I agree with this, see above thought (iii) teaching evolution in school — again I agree (iv) my ability to buy a glass of wine on Sunday — definitely politics here (v) immunizing teens against HPV — got my kids immunized, not even politics here (vi) population control — this is religions fault??? no this is cultural (vii) assisted suicide at end of life — agree with that, still have my religion (viii) global warmning — agree it needs to get fixed, doesn't have anything to do with religion

Using high school level science, explain to us how 4 breeding pair of humans, with 5 members sharing much of the same genetic material, can provide enough genetic diversity for the population to continue.

In areas with a predominantly Jewish population, Protestant youths resented their own minority status in the public schools.

Contextual Spirituality: In Bolivia, where over 99 % percent of the population identifies themselves as either «Christian» or «Catholic» World Vision staff is free to partner with local churches (of various denominations) to help host Bible schools and faith - related activities.

If a theological sketch of the idea of a theological school is a utopian exercise, the community it describes is less an ideal city than a crossroads hamlet with an overwhelmingly white male population.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

With the addition of Oregon, NICA now has the infrastructure in place to serve just over 60 % of the country's population; we are well on our way towards fulfilling our mission of providing every American teenager the opportunity to participate in NICA programming through a school or community based cycling team.»

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

Finally, it was very important to find a school with a diverse student population and a global perspective.

Longing to work with a more varied population, she then worked in a public school in New Jersey.

The Dallas Independent School District sits in the heart of a large, diverse and dynamic region with a metropolitan population of 6.5 million people in the 12 counties in North Central Texas.

Now, as Waldorf - methods schools enter the public arena, a broader population of children will benefit from and succeed with this exceptional child - centered educational experience.

In a district with 22,000 students (67 percent eligible for free or reduced meals) located in a population - boom town (4th fastest growth in the US), everything starts in a 12,000 square foot central production facility where nearly 100 percent of the district's meals are prepared from scratch and sent out in bulk to schools.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

During this time, I had the opportunity to work in several leadership roles, partner with many programs working with diverse populations, and attend midwifery school.

If you work in a North Carolina school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast, The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom can help.

In doing so, Boston is taking advantage of the «community eligibility option» in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010, which allows schools with relatively high populations of socioeconomically disadvantaged students (40 % or more) to do away with individual paperwork filings and simply provide free meals to all.

The school has three lunch periods, but with 2,500 students will only be able to seat 19 percent of the student population at a time.

The study notes that there are limitations to the sample of students used in the study — with all of them attending privileged, high - performing schools — but they said they felt it was worthwhile to investigate the stresses of homework on this population of students.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

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.

For years, the Park District has teamed with area schools to use their gymnasiums for programming space, but as the city's population has swelled, park programs have been relegated to increasingly cramped quarters.

Lucan tells us that he held a «coffee talk» to educate the school population about healthy choices, and perhaps he did approach the group with the requisite sensitivity and empathy when he explained why Go - Gurt isn't actually a great snack choice.

Your child will be exposed ONLY to children with his particular diagnosis, which means he will be quite isolated from the general population (this is true to some degree even if the school is eager to take your child on «outings» into the community).

These drinks seemed like a good compromise at the time, given that we were dealing with a student population who had believed since 6th grade that getting soda at school was their «right.»

Do you work in a Missouri school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

School officials concede it's not ideal but say they have no other option as they try to feed growing student populations with limited cafeteria capacity.

The number of schools with extended lunch times increased a few years ago, he said, especially on the Northwest and Southwest Sides, where student population is booming.

Do you work in a Nebraska school or district with a high free - and - reduced rate student population, but you're struggling to achieve good participation at school breakfast?

These schools represent approximately 55 % of the total number of schools in our district, with an estimated combined population of over 100,000 students, and the free meals will become available when our school year begins a week from today.

The county will partner with Catholic Health Services, UB's Dental School and Lakeshore Mental Health to provide much - needed primary, dental, and mental health services to an underserved population.

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

Incidentally, this very Basic School, with a population of about 700 pupils, is the alma mater of the incumbent Member of Parliament and also the two aspirants contesting for the seat on NPP and NDC ticket.

Buffalo Public Schools have added so many immigrants to the student population, the district now has 84 languages spoken in the hallways and 125 teachers have been added to work with these students.

The student population in all New York schools is going down — it corresponds with overall population declines in New York state.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Israel over the weekend, where he spoke at the Annual Conference of Mayors, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visited recent terror attack victims, and made several other stops, including at the Western Wall and at a school educating a diverse student population.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.