Sentences with phrase «student in the state»

Just 4 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts that spend at least the national average per student.

The records include every public school student in the state from 1991 to 2011, so many of those students are now in their 20s and early 30s.

We are grateful for the opportunity to have had an engaging discussion with an audience who is invested in the future of school choice for students in our state.

The program is capped at 5 percent of students in the state with special needs, or approximately 13,000 students.

And they are the only public students in the state who are penalized in this way.

Further, there is a correlation between the % of students in a state taking a college entrance exam and the states overall ranking vs. other states.

Today, 69 percent of all community college students in the state take at least one remedial course.

She pointed to new latitude for schools in meeting the law's requirement for 95 percent participation by students in state testing.

That figure still falls below the national average, but almost 29 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts that spend at least the national average per pupil.

The national reading and mathematics assessments are taken every two years by representative samples of fourth - and eighth - grade students in each state and nationwide.

Just over 20 percent of eighth - grade black students in the state were considered proficient or advanced in 2011.

But independent evidence shows just the opposite is true: students in states without high - stakes tests perform better than those in states with them.

This is mainly because schools want to attract students in their state as they are more likely to stick around and use their skills to benefit the state.

The charter will receive $ 9,000 per student in state funding and will pay for college courses and textbooks.

A $ 2.5 billion data center transforms the learning experiences of a rural community's students in a state where schools are struggling.

Together, these efforts will strengthen our existing early education programs, and expand quality access to more students in the state.

42 percent of eighth - graders score proficient or above in math, and 12 percent of high school students in the state do not graduate on time.

Students at this school are making more academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.

For economically advantaged students in the state, the average was 62 percent basic or above and 35 percent proficient.

This works out to 750 minutes per week, far exceeding the amount of differentiated instructional services received by most gifted students in this state.

It is clear that poor and Latino students in this state are not receiving the education or resources that they need to succeed in school.

Such a plan would enable students in the state's worst performing schools to escape them with a voucher that they could use to attend a private school.

I saw C and D students all of the sudden do very, very well and become some of the best math students in the state.

At the movement's peak, about one of every five students in the state opted not to take standardized tests.

By contrast, the typical student in a state with no accountability system could expect to experience only a 0.7 percent gain in mathematics proficiency, a statistically significant difference.

Even then the school or district plays an integral role in counseling and enrolling students in the state virtual school.

Instead it is necessary to know the specific paths of resources to the individual students in the state and to incorporate that information into the statistical analysis.

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The goal: to better prepare students for college and careers and ensure that students in all states learn the same academic concepts.

And while there are 15,000 new students in the state just since 2014, there are 700 fewer teachers.

Members of the military assigned to the state temporarily, and students in the state temporarily, don't have to obtain a state driver's license.

About 59 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts whose spending is at or above the national average.

Education reform in the trenches: Increased academic course taking in high schools with lower achieving students in states with higher graduation requirements.

Note that an A or a B does not indicate a relatively high performance by students in the state.

They are schools whose students deserve as welcoming and safe a school facility as any other student in this state.

Black students in the state have narrowed the gap in only one subject in the past 20 years.

«There are students in our state without the opportunity to learn,» he said.

About 24 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts with spending at or above the national average.

Students at this school are making far more academic progress given where they were last year, compared to similar students in the state.

Initial test scores of students at charter schools are usually well below those of the average public - school student in the state in which the charter school is located.

The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) tests representative samples of students in the states on a variety of subjects.

About half of low - income students in the state live in more suburban districts and even in the wealthiest districts still fail at two to three times the rate of non-disadvantaged students.

Dozens of NYC Parents, Legislators Call on Albany to Fight for Public Charter Students in State Budget

«Brookhaven Innovation Academy, Liberty Tech Charter School and Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School will provide students in this state with high - quality public choice opportunities in addition to what is provided by their local school districts,» said SCSC Deputy Director Gregg Stevens.

This isn't the case for the law as a whole; the administration has shown remarkable courage in withholding administrative funds from states for various infractions, such as not testing new elementary school teachers before they enter the classroom (as required under the law's «highly qualified teachers» provision) or failing to include English language learners or special education students in the state's assessment system.

When it comes to educational challenges, the nation's 12.1 million Hispanic schoolchildren face plenty: language, poverty, lower - than - average graduation rates for high school and college, and, more recently, a wave of laws targeting illegal immigrants that has made school seem like less of a safe haven for Hispanic students in some states.

Connecticut also does much better than other states on the spending index, ranking fourth on that comparative measure, which takes into account both how many students in the state have funding at or above the national average and how far the rest fall below the average.