Sentences with phrase «schools than the previous year»

The latest scores, for 2013 - 14, were lower for most schools than the previous year.

Not exact matches

Foreign students contributed $ 24 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2012 - 2013 school year, 12 % more than the previous year, according to trade group NAFSA, the Association of International Educators.

«There are more cases of imported yellow fever [from travelers] in the past two years than in the previous 20 years,» said Duane Gubler, a leading researcher of mosquito - borne diseases at Duke - NUS Medical School.

Government figures reveal that 339,000 state school pupils were excluded in England in 2015/16 - twelve per cent more than the previous year.

We're down to the last couple of weeks of the school year, and I have to admit that it seems like it's been crazier this year than in any of the previous 16 school years that I have completed (sixteen!!!

That's because of a rule that prohibits prospective athletes from signing more than one national letter of intent per year, even if it's in a different sport and the previous school properly released the athlete from the agreement.

Not only are there social pressures and additional obligations such as sports or after - school jobs, but the academic requirements are much more rigorous than previous years.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

This year's class of 30 school nutrition professionals is the second to complete the training; in its first year after the new scratch cooking program started the district served 38,000 more breakfasts, 106,000 more lunches, and 9,000 more dinners than it did the previous year.

More than two - thirds of high school students in Ontario used alcohol at least once over the previous year.

433,000 More low - income students participated in the School Breakfast Program in the 2015 - 2016 school year than during the previousSchool Breakfast Program in the 2015 - 2016 school year than during the previousschool year than during the previous year.

Participant characteristics: all enrolled in WIC program; mean age 23.1 years; 87 % African Americans; 26.5 % with less than high school education; 79.6 % single; 17.4 % not employed or in school; 26.6 % caesarean births; 50.6 % first time mothers; 32.3 % with previous breastfeeding experience

The Education Minister, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang says the results released by for the 2016 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is better than previous years, but still not encouraging.

«Since President Buhari took office, schools in Borno State, shut for more than one year under the previous government, have reopened.

The Assembly has proposed a spending plan that would provide $ 25 billion in total school aid, about $ 1.8 billion more than the previous year, but that budget was not supported by the senate or Gov. Cuomo.

Rather than needle the mayor by demanding reports or his attendance at hearings, as Republicans did in previous years, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, attached a different condition to mayoral control: actions favoring charter schools.

Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.And that figure doesn't represent the full extent of resources put into the races, since some candidates have neglected to file their final financial reports and others failed to report ca...

Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.

In a 2001 study sociologist Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School and his associates found that more than half of people with panic attacks or severe depression used some form of alternative therapy, including herbs, during the previous year, usually without medical supervision.

A minority of parents also had less favorable views on vaccines, with 7 percent perceiving less safety, 5 percent perceiving fewer benefits and 6 percent saying they were less supportive of school and daycare entry requirements than the previous year.

One - third of parents also reported being more supportive of school and daycare entry requirements for vaccination than they were the previous year.

People tend to marry later in life than previous generations, so when they decide to settle down, they may no longer have access to the social communities of their younger years, such as college, universities, night - clubs, raves and evenings on the town with school friends.

Notably, high school students performed more poorly on the test than any previous year.

When we look at these opinions in more detail it is the primary schools that are more optimistic about future funding than secondary schools, but both record less optimism than in previous years.

The enrollment growth rate of Bay Area charter schools peaked in 2012 - 2013, with more than 18 percent additional students enrolled than in the previous year.

New schools continue to open each year, but the rate slowed considerably from its peak in 2012 — 13, when more than 18 percent additional students enrolled compared to the previous year.

For example, in an end - of - year survey, 26 out of 27 parents responded that their child was more engaged in school this year than in previous years.

It stipulated that a teacher coming into the system from any other school district (either public or private) could not be given salary credit for more than five years of previous teaching experience.

For 90 percent of the 6,576 transfers in our database, the distance between the charter school where the student enrolled and the traditional public school the student attended the previous year is less than ten miles.

ditional public school the student attended the previous year is less than ten miles.

The number of trainees who are training in schools rather than on a university course has also increased, with 2016 - 17 seeing a rise of five per cent to 56 per cent from the previous year.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

The reductions in state education aid — coupled with cuts approved in two special sessions last year — mean districts will receive about 5 percent less in 2008 - 09 than they did in the previous school year.

An analysis I did for my newspaper, the New York Daily News, compared all 6,979 transfers in the city for 2003 - 04 with the official building capacity of the receiving schools the previous school year and found that nearly 60 percent of those transfers went to schools with more than enough room to spare.

It also noted that enrollment at Intermediate School 192 in the Bronx grew to 1,370, an increase of more than 13 percent from the 1,211 the previous year.

While this can be informed by previous budgets and what other schools are spending, it's important that you base your budget on the year that lies ahead rather than your existing or previous financial plans.

There is a combination of reasons why this is the case; it is believed that many teachers are feeling pressured for their students to perform to qualify for school funding, and some parents are more eager for their children to obtain high grades than they have been in previous years.

If VA estimates capture teachers» true impact on their students, students entering grade 4 in that school should have higher year - end test scores than those of the previous cohort.

Estimated teacher hires for the 2015 — 16 school year increased by 25 percent from 2014 - 15, while preliminary credentials issued to fully prepared new teachers increased by less than 1 percent in the previous year, and enrollment in UC and CSU teacher preparation programs increased by only about 3.8 percent.

Students are eligible if their family income is no more than 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($ 61,500 for a family of four in 2017 — 18) and they either (1) attended a public school designated as C, D, F or T in the previous year, (2) are entering kindergarten or (3) were enrolled at a public school in the Recovery School Disschool designated as C, D, F or T in the previous year, (2) are entering kindergarten or (3) were enrolled at a public school in the Recovery School Disschool in the Recovery School DisSchool District.

According to a study of lottery data, students who apply to charter schools, on average, scored higher in the previous year than the students who didn't submit an application.

While millennials in the U.S. have attended more years of school than previous generations, their skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving are lower than those of previous generations and of their peers in other nations.

• Newark Public Schools has completely redesigned the way it hires, evaluates and supports its instructional staff • Over the past 5 years, NPS has filed nearly 140 tenure charges (compared to less than 10 over the entire previous decade).

Because measures of test - score growth are less stable over time than measures of test - score levels, we average the points awarded to each school based on levels and growth over the previous three years.

For example, the open enrollment system that was implemented in Charlotte - Mecklenburg in 2002 provided assignment priorities in its lotteries to students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch applying to schools where less than half of the previous year's school population was eligible for free or reduced - price lunch.

That's a more than 15 percent increase from the previous year's charter school enrollment in Florida, according to the Alliance's data.

Schools Week revealed in July that more than 50 free schools had postponed opening in the previous two years, mostly over issues with finding a suitablSchools Week revealed in July that more than 50 free schools had postponed opening in the previous two years, mostly over issues with finding a suitablschools had postponed opening in the previous two years, mostly over issues with finding a suitable site.

While this budget is better than it has been in previous years, it still subscribes to a model of school funding that at its core doesn't believe all schools deserve the same opportunities and resources.»

In the 2014 - 15 school year, teachers in NT3 states and districts represented more than one - third of the total national candidate population, a 50 percent increase from the previous year.

In this brief examining absences in September and later schools attendance, we found the September absences predicted later chronic absence, missing more than 20 days a year) after controlling for student demographic characteristics, service receipt, and attendance the previous school year (2011 - 12).