Sentences with phrase «serve less students»

Data is manipulated to make it seem that schools improve, when, in reality, they serve less students with few benchmark improvements.

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However, community colleges in both countries serve many students who are less prepared for postsecondary education, and would presumably have lower rates of completion if they were to attend four - year programs.

Share Our Strength reported that 500 Illinois teachers said serving Breakfast After the Bell takes less than 15 minutes and three out of four of them see students coming to school hungry at least once per month.

High school students could buy 20 - ounce servings of various calorie - free beverages, and 12 - ounce servings of drinks that have 75 calories or less but not during lunch or breakfast.

But chef Paul Boundas says he serves his scratch - cooked meals to about 4,500 private school students — including about 300 at Holy Trinity — every day for even less than that modest amount.

Therefore I will serve my students approx. 1.35 million less milks next school year.

However, the healthier our menus get, the less students we serve!

New York has one of the lowest school breakfast participation rates in the country, with less than 40 percent of low - income students taking advantage of the meals, which can include yogurt, fruits, juices and breakfast cereals served with low - fat milk.

Lunches brought from home contained more sodium (1,110 vs less than or equal to 640 mg for elementary and 1,003 vs. less than or equal to 710 mg for middle school students) and fewer servings of fruit (0.33 cup for elementary and 0.29 cup for middle school students vs. 0.50 cup per the NSLP guidelines).

With the soy - enhanced food items, students are receiving better servings of nutrients and less cholesterol and fat, so says the soy industry.

Nevertheless, it serves all students if we consider how to introduce the changes in information acquisition and application to make the transition less stressful.

However, this represents less than 1 percent of the bond package, when charter schools account for 4.5 percent of California's public schools and serve about 2.5 percent of the state's K - 12 public school students.

[16] It's less troubling for those who view special education as stigmatizing and punitive, even for students who are appropriately identified — and indeed, we have little understanding of how well or poorly special education serves its students.

It may be that private schools are able to create a more or less consistently safe environment, whereas charter schools, concentrated in areas that serve disadvantaged students, vary substantially in this regard.

It is therefore counterproductive, if not tragic, that schools serving high concentrations of poor students are less likely to offer extracurricular activities.

Opponents often accuse charter schools of serving a less - needy student population.

The real question isn't whether we should pay all teachers more or less; it's how to pay the right teachers more, in a way that serves students and maximizes the bang we get for the educational buck.

The sweet spot for Rosetta Stone Korea is in serving students who are in Grades 1 to 4 because they are young enough that the parents are less focused on how the language learning will prepare students for the suneung, or the College Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Still, they serve less than one - tenth of the district's students.

This is not surprising in some ways, given problems in current educational practice: we tend to provide less funding, have fewer outstanding teachers and principals, and require less rigorous coursework in schools that serve lower - income students.

A Fordham Institute study found that on average charters receive $ 1,800 less per student than traditional public schools, despite serving more disadvantaged students.

Consistent with these concerns, we find that Texas schools with a high proportion of low - income students are more likely to have first - year principals and less likely to have principals who have been at the school at least six years than those serving a less - disadvantaged population.

That sector deals with adults and, hence, has been less prone to regulation than K — 12 education, but it has nonetheless become increasingly subject to federal controls, including through accreditation and a Sword of Damocles — separation from student aid — hanging over institutions that, regardless of the mix of students they serve, do not meet federal performance metrics.

This commitment rightly serves to equalize expectations between more - and less - privileged students and has reaped untold good by encouraging underserved students to achieve academic excellence.

Our results indicate that while the pilot evaluation system led to large short - term, positive effects on school reading performance, these effects were concentrated in schools that, on average, served higher - achieving and less - disadvantaged students.

In addition, less - advantaged schools with, on average, harder - to - serve student populations, may require additional supports for these kinds of interventions to generate improvements in student learning similar to those of more - advantaged schools.

While charter schools still serve less than 5 percent of the public school population, in a dozen population centers charters now enroll more than 20 percent of public school students.

Furthermore, when federal investigators come knocking, you must demonstrate to them that (a) your discipline policy serves an educational purpose and (b) there's no better approach that could have a less adverse impact on students.

; and a small number (4,638) of charter schools that — despite steady growth — still serve less than 3 percent of the nation's students.

«That makes sense from a disruptive innovation perspective, in the sense that you start with the less - complicated use cases before improving the model such that you can reach harder - to - serve students.

Conversely, about 5 percent of charter schools are dedicated to serving students with special needs or at - risk students, whereas less than 1 percent of magnet schools do the same.

Similarly, there could be unobserved differences between students whose teachers rely more and less heavily on lecturing if, for example, teachers in schools serving low - income students adopt different practices than teachers in other types of schools.

Charter school principals are more diverse than principals of district schools, but far less diverse than the students they serve.

KIPP, the nationwide network of charter schools and one of the great success stories of the charter movement, has 125 schools serving 41,000 students, making it less than one - twentieth the size of the New York City Department of Education.

Right now we have over 5,000 schools that are getting on average $ 440,000 less from their district even though they are serving high - needs students.

«But,» he writes, «schools serving more students of color are less likely to offer advanced courses and gifted and talented programs than schools serving mostly white populations, and students of color are less likely than their white peers to be enrolled in those courses and programs within schools that have those offerings.»

JOHN B. KING JR: Unfortunately, the history here is that in many school districts, we see that there are schools serving high - needs students where even the entire student population is in poverty, and they're actually spending 25 to 30 percent less than a school 10 blocks away that serves largely affluent students.

Chiefs for Change (CFC), a coalition of over two dozen state and district education chiefs, serving 5.3 million students and 330,000 teachers, and dedicated to excellence and equity for all students, urge Congress to fund the Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants) at no less than $ 2.055 billion, the FY 2017 appropriation.

Teachers in states with these laws were less likely to display visual support for LGBTQ students, such as «Safe Space» posters, and less likely to serve as GSA advisors.

In the private sector, special education tends to be handled much less formally, inasmuch as schools are ordinarily not required to follow formal procedures in diagnosing or serving students with special educational needs.

Charter schools serve a higher percentage of black and Hispanic students than district schools do, and while charter schools boast greater percentages of black and Hispanic principals than district schools, these charter - school leaders overall are far less diverse than the students they serve (see Figure 4).

If Edison, which now works in various ways in nearly 1,000 schools and serves more than 300,000 students, were a public school district, I would be one of the longest - serving heads of a major school system in the United States (average tenure for the superintendent of a major system is less than four years).

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

Put more money into the classroom and spend less on bureaucracy by merging redundant school districts and shining a spotlight on waste, unfunded mandates and programs that don't serve the goal of stronger student achievement.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

Less than 10 years old, the school serves 244 students in grades Pre-K through 8 and is widely regarded as one of the best schools in Washington D.C..

In fact, charter high schools serve about 17 % less children from poverty [eligible for FREE lunch] than do many of the public high schools from which charters take students.

Connecticut charter schools also tend to serve less needy, therefore less expensive - to - educate, students than their district counterparts.

However, even with the funding «following the student,» charter public schools receive less funding for each student than a school district would if it were to serve the same student.