Sentences with phrase «students by family income»

For example, over 70 percent of the district and school level data fields about students by family income were masked.

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Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

Free Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers free field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

Scholarships are granted to 501c3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

Discounted Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

This important bill would support low - income children and families by removing the reduced - price school meal fee for over 45,000 Maryland students.

Today's report found financial assistance for low - income families had not met expectations but that this was partly reflected by «unfamiliarity on the part of some eligible students with their entitlement under the new system».

«The measures laid out by the government last week will inevitably hit new students from middle income families at a time when they are struggling to cope with the impact of the credit crunch,» Mr Streeting said.

That number would rise by 22,000 students this fall, when the state's new Excelsior Scholarship program kicks in for SUNY students whose families earn less than $ 100,000, and by 32,000 when the income cap is raised to $ 125,000 in 2019, Mujica said.

But, that number is based only on a calculation by SUNY of students already in the system — or at least who were in the 2014 - 15 academic year — and who met the program's eligibility of family incomes under $ 125,000 and carrying 15 credits per semester.

«The new scholarship may contribute to a modest increase in overall enrollment, but we believe it is more likely these funds will supplant tuition dollars already paid by students from middle - income families,» said Moody's Associate Managing Director Susan Fitzgerald.

A Tuition Assistance Program award of up to $ 5,500 for qualifying students with the rest of tuition payments waived by the State University of New York for students with family incomes up to $ 100,000 in the first year rising to $ 125,000 by the third year.

Other skeptics have noted lower - income students, families falling under the $ 30,000 threshold, would not benefit because their tuition is already covered by state and federal aid, including Pell Grants.

The final measures passed Sunday by the Senate provide for the flow of funds to state agencies, money to be sent to school districts, public college tuition to be cut or raised for students depending on their family incomes, and non-fiscal matters, including the legalization of ride - hailing upstate.

The dispute is complicated by the fact the public school population is increasingly made up of low - income families, immigrants who do not speak English and students with disabilities.

As for other issues, the budget also will allow SUNY campuses to raise tuition by $ 200 per year over the next five years for students whose family incomes are above $ 100,000.

Barron worries the proposal won't help students from low - income families whose tuition is already covered by federal and state grants but who struggle to pay other expenses such as rent, transportation and food.

«Many of the people hardest hit by dyslexia are minority students and those from low - income families,» Shaywitz said, even though the condition affects all population segments and languages.

Many universities, for example, have publicized their efforts to increase admissions for low - SES students by raising the family income level that qualifies for financial aid or even tuition - free admission.

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

• Two recently published studies (by Addo, Houle, and Simon and Grinstein - Weiss et al.) use national survey data to show that black students hold substantially more debt by age 25 compared to their white counterparts, and that disparities are evident even after controlling for family income and wealth, indicating that differences in postsecondary and labor market experiences contribute to the debt gap.

New research by Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier and Maczuga once again finds that when you take other student characteristics — notably family income and achievement — into account, racial and ethnic minority students are less likely to be identified for special education than white students.

(By disadvantaged,» I mean students whose families have less education and income, two factors that are closely related to student educational outcomes.)

In «A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement,» published in 2002 by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Anne T. Henderson and Karen Mapp reviewed years of research on parent involvement, and their conclusions are unequivocal: When parents are involved in school, students of all backgrounds and income levels do better.

The extent of our current crisis is clear when we have less than 1 in 10 students from low - income families graduating from college by age 24.

But it could appeal to large numbers of students and be offered at such a low cost that it could be affordable even to low - income families without needing public subsidy or adoption by the public school system.

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.

In the year prior to entering a KIPP school, 80 percent of the KIPP students are from low - income families, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school breakfast and lunch (FRPL); 96 percent are either black or Hispanic; 7 percent are English language learners; and 7 percent receive special education services (see Figure 1a).

One of former governor Angus King's reasons for supporting the initiative was to level the playing field by providing computers and Internet access to students from low - income families.

«Disparities in Student Discipline by Race and Family Income.»

We compare the test scores of students in each of the seven categories, taking into account differences in the students» socioeconomic characteristics, including parent schooling, self - reported household income, the number of non-school books in the home, and the quality of the peer groups (calculated by averaging family background and home resources for all students in the classroom).

Consider the following passage from Ladd's essay: The «logical policy response [to low performance by students from low - income families]... would be to pursue policies to reduce the incidence of poverty....

Nonetheless, our results indicate that private school competition, brought about by the creation of scholarships for students from low - income families, is likely to have positive effects on the performance of traditional public schools.

This, they argued, could be achieved by abolishing tuition, first for students in the lower 70 percent of family income, and then to all students.

If reducing poverty and lifting student achievement are the goals, dollars would be better allocated by cutting the taxes on earned income paid by two - parent, working families with children.

When they calculate the simple correlation between income and math achievement, Helen Ladd's approach, they find that a $ 4,000 increment (a 50 percent increase in the $ 8,000 average income reported by the families in this study) in the income of the poor family will lift student achievement by 20 percent of a standard deviation (close to a year's worth of learning in the middle years of schooling), a substantial impact that seems to support the Broader, Bolder claims.

Financial aid spending by the federal government includes about $ 35 billion in Pell Grants, which provide students from low - income families up to $ 5,645 per year to defray college expenses.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone students faring better than their peers on nearly all.

Minority students from low - income families who take part in early - intervention programs in high school have a better chance than comparable nonparticipants of enrolling in a postsecondary institution, concludes a report by the Washington - based Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.

The 2012 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that after taking all grants and scholarships into account, attending one year of community college runs dependent students from low - income families more than $ 8,000 in tuition, fees, and living costs (see the green «Net price of attendance» bars in Figure 2).

What is clear, however, is that both Catholic schools and voucher programs for low - income families show stronger effects on students» educational attainment than on their achievement as measured by standardized tests.

We identified low - income students by combining student data from the College Board and ACT with data from an array of sources that allow us to estimate whether a student comes from a low - income family.

A significant body of literature also points to differences in access to reading materials by students from low - income families in comparison to their more affluent peers (Allington & McGill - Franzen, 2008).

The number of students who have felt unwelcome or rejected by a particular group because of their academic ability, athletic ability, beliefs, ethnicity, family income, gender, hobbies / interests, home neighborhood, primary language spoken, musical interest, personal appearance, race, sexual orientation, or style.

The higher prices charged by private colleges, on average, would seem to make it more difficult for them to recruit and retain students from low - income families.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, families and teachers in school districts that serve low - income students and students of color struggle to understand how to address the highly punitive, push - out climate of overtesting brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act, the ESEA's last reauthorization.

As they explain in the podcast, they were intrigued by data showing that students» reading scores are much more correlated with their family's income than math scores are.

For example, programs that target low - income families directly or indirectly (by virtue of being based in urban areas) will enroll low - income students.