Sentences with phrase «students during the last school year»

More than 500 students in Madison schools have opted out of taking Wisconsin's new state test — up from 87 students during the last school year.

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If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

Student repayment option of 10 years after the five years of minimum interest - only or $ 25 payments during college or grad school (so it could be a total of 15 years of repayment, the last 10 of which must be full principal and interest payments)

This study found that «the achievement advantage of white over minority students... increases in public schools during the last two years of schooling, whereas the minority gap actually decreases in Catholic schools.»

According to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), during the 2002 — 03 school year (the last data available), 36 percent of U.S. school districts (5,500 out of 15,040) had students enrolled in distance - education programs, and 38 percent of public high schools offered distance - education courses.

When absenteeism increased last year in the Dallas Independent School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing School District, resulting in the loss of more than $ 1 million in state aid, school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school officials drafted a new policy requiring that any student who misses more than 10 classes during the school year automatically receive a failing school year automatically receive a failing grade.

During study hall the last week of school with testing done ~ and less assignments for the students to work on ~ I often asked if anyone wished to cut out «fresh» letters for next year's bulletin boards.

As part of last years» national commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Boar's head, three students from Chatsmore who visited the battlefields of Somme and Ypres shared their experiences with Arts Award students, who used this INSET to develop their own resources to cascade to primary school students during workshops.

Tens of thousands of Illinois students — the most in recent history — sat out the state's standardized exams during the last school year as resistance to testing gained momentum nationwide, new state data show.

During the last four years of her tenure, special education student proficiency on state reading and math assessments increased between 13 and 34 points at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

The AP program has evolved quite far from its roots — winning the cold war and alleviating the boredom of superbly educated students who had been exposed to virtually identical courses during their last year of prep school and their first year of college.

The positive student achievement gains were announced during a new school year that has 78 new public charter schools opening their doors for the first time - a 15 percent increase in the number of new charter schools compared to last year.

Last school year, 77 percent of Waddell's 462 students logged in to Achieve3000 after school, on weekends or during holidays, totaling 3,491 log - ins.

Although we tend to think of students dropping out during their last years of high school, many have that trajectory set long before that.

During the last 12 weeks of the school year, Smarter Balanced administers a summative assessment consisting of a computer - adaptive test and a set of non-adaptive performance tasks that require students to use multiple Common Core skills.

Last month, during a hearing before California lawmakers on the need to reform remedial education — the system that aims to ready underprepared students for college - level work — a student testified that because his test scores required him to take one year's worth of remedial education, he would have to scramble to figure out how to pay another year's rent, school fees, and transportation.

The number of students using vouchers to attend private schools grew from 22,439 during the 2011 - 12 school year to 29,609 last school year, according to the DPI.

Lawmakers threw out the model state officials used to calculate last year's grades during the last legislative session, rejecting the notion that state officials should compare a student's academic growth to the growth of her peers in determining a school's grade.

Nationwide, about 65 percent of public high schools reported offering opportunities for students to participate in work - based learning during the 2007 - 08 school year, the last year data on the topic was collected by the National Center for Education Statistics.

For instance, if students acquire a genuine love of learning during their school years, they'll most likely continue learning long after they've said goodbye to their last classroom.

In this March 30, 2016 photo, students hold signs in favor of opting out of state assessments during a visit by New York Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to the William Street School in Lancaster, N.Y. New York last year saw the highest rate of opt - outs in the country as parents protested the volume of testing and the high - stakes consequences.

Embracing the last two years of secondary education, the IB Diploma curriculum incorporates standards that assume a high level of student achievement during prior years of schooling.

Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) offers students the opportunity for community service and mandates that each diploma candidate complete a minimum of 150 CAS hours during the last two years of high school.

During his last two years as a classroom teacher, his students achieved 90/90/90 status and in 2009 Justin was recognized as his school's Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

During the last school year, 307 students were kicked out of charter schools, which have a total enrollment of about 50,000.

In total, according to a recent piece in the Star - Ledger, the Lakewood Board spent $ 33,837,924 for special education for 1,254 students classified as «special needs» during this last school year.

CEP expanded nationwide last year and, according to a letter from the U.S. secretaries of agriculture and education, the program provided meals to more than 6 million students during the 2014 — 15 school year.

Larry described Engaging Schools» Schoolwide Discipline and Student Support work and observed, «During the last four years or so there has been a real sea change in the understanding among educators and many in the community about the extent and impact of exclusionary and disproportional discipline.»

This is a great activity for you to have your students assemble and color during the last week of school when you are busy with the many tasks that teachers have to complete at the end of the school year.

But during the last year, ever since the Mayor meekly crawled to Albany to beg for a one - year extension, the sticking point in negotiations over the renewal of mayoral control has been the urgency of expanding NYC's public charter school sector, de Blasio's favorite whipping boy, which now serves one out of ten students in NYC, most of them poor and of color.

Students and staff were allowed to «try the gym out» during the last few weeks of the school year.

That's why the California Department of Education sent letters to nearly 250 schools last month — including more than half of the schools in San Francisco Unified — asking them to re-check their attendance records after they submitted data to the state showing every one of their students had perfect attendance during the 2016 - 17 school year.

A Globe review of state monitoring reports shows the schools built generally positive climates during the last school year, receiving mid - to high - range marks for student behavior.

At the Education Writers Association's 69th National Seminar in Boston last week, several leading journalists predicted that school finance (e.g., funding equity and adequacy), race (e.g., school integration, school discipline), state accountability systems under the new Every Student Succeeds Act, and implementation of the Common Core State Standards would receive the most coverage during the 2016 - 17 school year.

If Detroit's public school district had maintained the enrollment level it had just five years ago, the city's schools would have collected an extra $ 275 million from the state in per student foundation grants during this last school year.

During the last two years of high school, each student will receive relevant, real - life work experience in the field of computer science.

During the last 20 years, she has worked in elementary, middle, and high schools both nationally and internationally, with students, administrators, parents, teachers and support staff.

Twenty - one percent of Hispanic students were absent last year, up from 18 percent during the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years.

Educators also have special promotional tools and items that can be shared with their students during these last few days of the current school year in the Summer Reading Activity Kit.

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Knowing that he intended to focus his practice on family law, he concentrated his studies in that area as much as possible, serving as the President of the Student Family Law Association and liaison to the Dallas Bar Association's Family Law Section during his last year of school.

PARKLAND, Fla. - A 15 - year - old student who was shot five times during last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is credited with saving the lives of at least 20 other students.

During the shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the 15 - year - old used his body to block a classroom door, saving the lives of numerous students.

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According to statistics compiled by child advocacy organization Rhode Island Kids Count, 26 % of high school students said they had consumed alcohol within the last 30 days during the 2015 - 16 school year and 13 % admitted to binge drinking.

This internship takes place during the last year of high school, and it targeted for students with ASD who want to enter the workforce and enjoy a professional career.