Sentences with phrase «students in certain years»

Winters looks at data on all elementary - school students in certain years from New York City's and Denver's charter and district schools.

In this study, I examine data on all elementary - school students in certain years in New York City and Denver, Colorado, to estimate the relative importance of various factors that appear to be contributing to a special education gap.

Not exact matches

The way the university is constructed is indicative of its fragmentation: many first year students live in one part of the campus, virtually devoid of contact with the rest of the student population; some the colleges within the university have their own dormitories, which also contain classrooms and faculty offices; many of the dormitories house only students with certain majors and contain the classrooms and faculty offices of those disciplines.

That is why students are allowed a certain number of absences per year: in case of sickness and for any other reason a student would want to be absent.

Abdul - Jabbar says he started thinking about coaching a few years ago when the Philadelphia 76ers brought him in to work with then rookie center Shawn Bradley, and he saw that his student, though eager to learn, «didn't know certain things that every pivot man should have tattooed on the back of his arm.»

When fully phased - in, Excelsior will cover tuition to CUNY and the SUNY for students from households making up to $ 125,000 a year in 2019, provided they meet certain requirements.

The governor noted this year's education budget provides «$ 1 billion more» in state education funding than last year — including money for the state's new free tuition program for New York students hailing from families that meet certain income criteria.

Slated for elimination under the bill is the Lifetime Learning Credit, which allows eligible students enrolled in certain institutions to claim a tax reduction of up to $ 2,000 each tax year to offset tuition and related expenses for undergraduate, graduate and professional degree courses.

«Usually, when researchers want a mouse or other animal model to express fluorescent proteins in certain cells, they need to develop genetically modified animals that can take months to years to make and characterize,» says former graduate student and first author Ken Chan (PhD» 17).

«The presence of certain bacteria in women with overactive bladder may contribute to OAB symptoms,» said Evann Hilt, lead investigator and second - year master's student, Loyola University Chicago.

The sequence of study proceeds from an engagement with engineering and scientific fundamentals, along with humanities and social sciences, toward an increasingly focused training in the third and fourth years designed to give students mastery of certain principles and arts central to engineering and applied science.

I am certain that as a student in exercise science 35 years ago, never once did I aspire to write a blog about constipation.

Achievement; growth; social studies in certain grades; growth of students; on - track high school graduation for 9th graders; progress in English - language proficiency; four -, five -, and six - year cohort graduation rates

In short order, he declared that students whose scores did not reach a certain level on standardized tests would be required to go to summer school and could be held back a year.

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

As the country's economy grows and disrupts the economies of more developed countries — from 2000 to 2007 Vietnam's economy was the darling of many foreign investors before turning back in certain respects, but it is still projected to grow over 5 percent this year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit — there will be a corresponding need to upgrade its workforce and educate more students to prepare them for a knowledge economy.

If you imagine each of the students in a class with some kind of a handheld computing device, which is not farfetched today — maybe it was five years ago but it's not today — and you imagine a teacher is, for example, teaching a principle in physics and asks the students to predict what would happen to the trajectory of a ball if you're rotating around in a circle and let loose the ball at a certain position.

«It's a system based on a number of components, it goes on all year long, and it culminates in certain kinds of tasks that demonstrate what students can do.»

Earlier versions of the legislation rated schools according to their year - to - year improvements in the share of their students who achieve a certain proficiency level.

The argument that all students need to be ready for college has its supporters, fueled in no small part by a certain guy who moved into that big white house on Pennsylvania Avenue earlier this year.

I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.

In the new five - year program, students will be able to take courses for a longer period of time each year, possibly spending double class periods in certain subjectIn the new five - year program, students will be able to take courses for a longer period of time each year, possibly spending double class periods in certain subjectin certain subjects.

She was not certain how many students completed high school in three years.

To overcome the financial barriers we have a range of strategies: we advertise our trips three years in advance along with our suggestions as to the most beneficial (language trips, outdoor education trips and trips linked specifically to their GCSEs) so that parents can prioritise accordingly; we reduce the costs for pupil premium students by using the additional money given to us by the government; we are flexible with payment plans; we allow in - school fundraising for certain trips; and we keep supplemental costs (for example kit and transport) very low by doing our own fundraising for those items.

for the 2005 - 2006 school year and prior school years, a score for certain limited English proficient students pursuant to subparagraph (14)(viii) of this subdivision, in lieu of the State assessment in English language arts, that shows level 2 growth on the NYSESLAT;

In certain situations, an eligible student can receive up to 150 percent of his or her scheduled Pell Grant award for an award year.

With the income - based repayment program introduced during Duncan's tenure, student loan payments are being reduced for college graduates in low - paying jobs, and loans will be forgiven after 10 years for persons in certain public service occupations, such as teachers, police officers and firefighters.

That law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, says that in order to get certain kinds of federal education funding, states must test their students every year in grades three through eight and once in high school.

These involve recent LEA boundary changes that have not yet been incorporated into the Census database for LEAs (which usually takes two to three years), charter schools that are treated as separate LEAs under the laws of some states but are not in the Census LEA database (because they are not based on exclusive geographical boundaries), and some special purpose LEAs that provide particular educational services (such as vocational and technical education or education for certain students with disabilities) to multiple «regular» LEAs in certain states.

Indeed, in a certain sense, special ed vouchers have already existed nationwide for some 35 years under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, which allows special ed students to attend private school at public expense.

By November 2005, students had already made certain decisions about that academic year, such as what courses to enroll in for fall 2005.

By shading each of the dates a certain colour (e.g. green represents a day when both students and staff are present at school)- the model will calculate how many of each day are present in the academic year.

Some of these schools are adding significant numbers of new students and new grades each year, and there are limitations in both the state data due to redaction rules that impact certain grades and subjects, and the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) data, since we don't test all grades in every school.

A bill to allow more charter schools for certain groups of students — such as minorities or those with disabilities — to open each year was scuttled as the Idaho Legislature focused mostly on regular public schools, which face the worst budget year for public education in the state's history.

State political leaders are maneuvering to scuttle or at least modify the use of the Common Core in Louisiana, so it's not certain that the standards that the students are being asked to meet this year will even be around next year.

The Illinois State Board of Education has launched an investigation into why so many kids in certain districts skipped state exams last year — which may include questioning parents and even students after several hundred schools failed test participation requirements.

While, overall, SOL scores at year - round schools were similar to scores in traditional calendar schools, SOL scores of certain student subgroups were more likely to improve at a faster rate at year - round schools.

The effectiveness of schools has been measured by the number of grades students achieve in certain examinations and the stakes have become higher each year.

It is true that the new standards are more rigorous than the old, and that in some cases students have to perform certain math skills a year earlier than they formerly had to learn them.

Even in places with a few years of experience using new systems, there is not enough data to tell for certain if student achievement is improving as a result of the evaluations.

Over the next year, we will have a once - in - a-generation opportunity to shape our school system to ensure that it more equitably serves students like Marco and Jayson, but whether we will succeed in doing so is far from certain.

Nevada issues a Non-Renewable License (3 years) to novice teachers who have certain deficiencies in coursework, testing, or student teaching.

And after years of struggling to meet academic goals set by the state, the district has seen student achievement improve in certain measures — almost all grade levels showed positive growth in reading and math on 2015 - 16 state tests.

A bus schedule for certain students from Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland, 2014 - 15 school year.

Chronic absenteeism and truancy costs school districts millions of dollars each year in lost income, and disproportionately increases the likelihood that certain groups of students will drop out.

Chapter 28, Sections 28.002 (Required Curriculum, 28.0021 (Personal Financial Literacy), 28.0023 (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Instruction), 28.005 (Language of Instruction), 28.0051 (Dual Language Immersion Program), 28.006 (Reading Diagnosis), 28.016 (Instruction in High School, College, and Career Preparation), 28.0211 (Satisfactory Performance on Assessment Instruments Required; Accelerated Instruction), 28.0213 (Intensive Program of Instruction), 28.0217 (Accelerated Instruction for High School Students), 28.025 (High School Diploma and Certificate; Academic Achievement Record) 28.0254 (Posthumous High School Diploma for Certain Students), 28.0255) Three - Year High School Diploma Pilot Program), 28.0258 (High School Diploma Awarded on Basis of Individual Graduation Committee Review), 28.0259 (Reporting Requirements for Students Graduating Based on Individual Graduation Committee Review Process) and 28.026 (Notice of Requirements for Automatic College Admission and Financial Aide);

Under current law, there is a mechanism for California to intervene in districts that fail to meet performance goals for certain student groups in three out of four consecutive years.

Upon passage, HB 1335 would allow the parent or guardian of a special needs or certain at - risk students, such as children in foster care or the homeless, to receive 90 percent of what the state spends each year per student. . .

For the 2015 - 2016 school year, more than 78,000 students enrolled in charter schools and school choice programs, including the Louisiana Scholarship Program, Tuition Donation Rebate Program, and the School Choice Program for Certain Students with Exceptionstudents enrolled in charter schools and school choice programs, including the Louisiana Scholarship Program, Tuition Donation Rebate Program, and the School Choice Program for Certain Students with ExceptionStudents with Exceptionalities.

Many of those evaluations — in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the states of Florida, Minnesota, and Louisiana — reported a modest increase or neutral impact on student achievement and graduation rates.9 The findings of some of these studies, however, have more recently been called into question as methodological flaws were discovered when adding additional years or replicating the study.10 As a result, recent voucher program evaluations employ more rigorous research methods such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs and refine their use of certain variables.