Sentences with phrase «schools with a high percentage»

An article about salary and bonus data at top business schools highlights Tuck as the school with the highest percentage of students receiving signing bonuses among those ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report.

Learn how the Community Eligible Option (CEO) works to provide universal free meals in schools with high percentages of low - income students, while reducing administrative requirements and increasing participation.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Farina declined to speak with reporters Monday but during her appearance before the Assembly committee she spoke of the city's efforts to care for homeless students, including putting libraries in some shelters and food pantries and laundry services in schools with high percentages of homeless.

Students in schools with high percentages of students of color were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with low percentages of students of color.

According to a published settlement agreement, the investigation found that schools with higher percentages of black students established stricter punishment for discipline incidents.

So investigators went looking for systemic discrimination, and in their view found it: «Schools with higher percentages of black students established stricter punishment for discipline incidents.»

However, both parents and the general public give lower grades to schools with a high percentage of students from poor families.

Since 1998 our union has asked its members what they thought about incentives for «teaching at schools with the highest percentage of high - need students.»

The schools most likely to have low attainment, low gain, and low closing - the - gap scores were schools with high percentages of white working class males.

I am not an ELL teacher, but I do work at a school with a high percentage of students for whom English is not a first language.

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.

The schools with the highest percentage of students of color experienced the most significant declines in school climate.

LEAs may choose to provide higher grants per child from a low - income family to schools with higher percentages of such students.

Other area schools with high percentages of students scoring fours or fives included Centennial High School in Howard County, South Carroll High, Liberty High and Manchester Valley High in Carroll County, Chesapeake Science Point in Anne Arundel County and Fallston High, C. Milton Wright High and North Harford High in Harford County.

In this case, the CEP schools in the first two groups would all be capped at a 100 percent low - income student percentage for school selection, but higher grants per low - income child would be provided to schools with a higher percentage of Identified Students.

While many LEAs allocate the same amount of Title I funds per student from a low - income family to each school chosen to participate in the program, others allocate higher amounts per low - income student to schools with higher percentages of such students.

Of the vetoed funding, more than $ 250 million had been earmarked to lower class sizes in urban areas and help schools with high percentages of at - risk students.

The DCL's concluding section on remedies makes it clear that OCR expects states to spend more money on schools with high percentages of black and Hispanic children.

There is some evidence, however, that African American students transferring to charters are more likely to end up in schools with higher percentages of students of their own race, a finding that is consistent with prior results in North Carolina (Bifulco and Ladd, 2007).

Three school characteristics stood out as associated with higher rates: middle schools (as opposed to elementary or K - 8 schools), large schools (especially if enrollment exceeds 1,300 students), and schools with a higher percentage of African - American enrollment (that pattern is seen in schools with greater than 16 percent African - American enrollment).

Using the data, we created «Alternative GCSE Tables», pictured right, to show the ten schools with the highest percentage of disadvantaged pupils achieving the five GCSE benchmark.

The effects of the reform on the teacher workforce have been particularly meaningful in schools with higher percentages of black students because they were more likely to have teachers extended rather than granted tenure.

View an interactive map of NYC schools with the highest percentages of «Unsatisfactory» teachers.

And urban schools with high percentages of minorities badly lag their suburban counterparts.

School divisions target the Title I funds they receive to public schools with the highest percentages of children from low - income families.

RACE: Students in schools with high percentages of black and Hispanic students were almost four times as likely to be taught by a U-rated teacher as students in schools with far fewer students of color.

Title I school — A school with a high percentage of disadvantaged students making it eligible for participation in federal Title I programs.

This finding is particularly important given that schools with higher percentages of low - income students, lower performing schools, or schools with predominantly minority students more often report difficulty finding and keeping principals.

The high school with the highest percentage of 9th graders on track to graduate is Ferris High School at 81.7 percent for all students.

The schools with the highest percentage of seniors taking the SAT were Harbor Teacher Prep Academy with 94.3 percent, Foshay Learning Center (92.7), LACES (90.2), Contreras Learning Center (85.1) and 32nd / USC Performing Arts Magnet (84).

But The News» analysis shows that schools with a high percentage of top - ranked teachers also score well on other measures.

This problem persists in high school: Only 29 percent of schools with the highest percentage of black and Latino students offer calculus, compared with 55 percent of schools with the lowest percentage of black and Hispanic students.

The observation at the RSCO fair that white families migrated toward the more niche - themed schools makes sense considering the actual enrollment in these schools (although, it is interesting to observe that they cited those families as «predominantly white» even though the schools with the highest percentage of non-minority students are still all over 50 % black and Latino).

Taking the growth percentiles as a valid measure of teaching would have you believe that the distribution of ineffective teachers in New Jersey just happens to directly concentrate into schools with high percentages of students in poverty and low overall proficiency levels on standardized tests.

The idea is to allow schools with high percentages of low - income children to offer free meals for all, instead of collecting individual applications for free and reduced price meals.

Other options include lengthening of the school day and / or school year or more selective hiring and better training of teachers in those schools with high percentages of students in need of accelerated progress.

Title I is government program that provides funding for school with a high percentage of low socioeconomic students.

Other schools with high percentages of college - ready Latino grads are six charters: Summit Preparatory in Redwood City at 90 percent; KIPP San Jose Collegiate at 83 percent, Aspire East Palo Alto Phoenix at 62 percent, Downtown College Preparatory at 49 percent, Leadership Public Schools - San Jose at 46 percent and Latino College Preparatory at 39 percent.

«Effective Schools» are high achieving schools with a high percentage of their students from low - income families and a high percentage being children of a color other than white.

Following the summer break, the department will recognize the top 10 schools with the highest percentage of participation.

Title 1 funding provides financial assistance to schools with a high percentage of children from low - income families to ensure that all students meet state academic standards.

Title IA is a federally funded program providing financial assistance to local educational agencies and schools with a high percentage of children from low income families to help ensure that all children meet state academic standards.

Yet a StateImpact Indiana analysis of results from the state's standardized test released Tuesday also show passage rates among charter schools with high percentages of low - income students are slightly worse than passage rates in public schools, as the graph after the jump shows.

Through the West Virginia Department of Education's Summer Learning Reading and Math Challenge, the schools with the highest percentage of students who pledged to read over the summer could win their choice of reading programs, including Achieve3000.

Compared to high - poverty schools and schools with high percentages of students of color, wealthier schools and those with lower percentages of students of color offer more rigorous coursework.

Schools with high percentages of minority students and urban schools are harder to staff, and teachers tend to leave these schools when more attractive opportunities become available.

For example, in one school with a high percentage of students whose families are immigrants from Mexico, teams ask parents to plan celebrations for holidays like Day of the Dead.

Schools with a high percentage of bright children and few disadvantaged pupils were more likely to be rated good or outstanding.

These conditions are more widespread in low performing schools with high percentages of minority populations (Loeb, Darling - Hammond & Luczak, 2005) and where induction programs are less common (Darling - Hammond et al., 2009).