Sentences with phrase «students in the state»

The Eccles School of Business hosts many annual business competitions, most of which are open to any university of college student in the state of Utah.

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.

Nonetheless, Illinois Senate Bill 1351 would provide important, baseline consumer protections for students in this state.

The figure is their calculation of what each Florida student is worth to the Republican senator; they came up with it by dividing the amount the National Rifle Association has spent to support Rubio's campaigns, $ 3.3 million, by the 3.1 million public and private students in the state.

Long is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia and St. Anne's Belfield School to give two seven - year scholarships to middle school students in the state.

He found a detailed database in North Carolina that tracked the performance of every single ninth - grade student in the state between 2005 and 2012 — a total of 537,241 students.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress praised the change, saying parents and students in their states worried about strict limits.

For the new study, they compared the gap in obesity prevalence between students in states with strict lunch standards in 2006 and 2007 - before the new regulations took place - to states with less restrictive regulations.

We are looking to further develop this section to better serve current and future athletic training students in the state of New Hampshire.

We are a professional membership association for athletic trainers and athletic training students in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

[T] hey came up with it by dividing the amount the National Rifle Association has spent to support Rubio's campaigns, $ 3.3 million, by the 3.1 million public and private students in the state.

«The sport was primarily conceptualised by the government to give a new social orientation to students in the state as part of its educational transformation.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

Korn said: «Judge Lynch identified some of the key issues with the tax cap — that it undermines local control and exacerbates the already inequity in funding that negatively impacts the poorest and vulnerable students in the state.»

High Achievement New York, a business - backed group that is supportive of the Common Core standards, is pointing to the «opt - in» rates of students in the state's urban areas.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recently passed sexual assault prevention legislation, «Enough is Enough,» aims to further protect more than a million college students in the state of New York from sexual assault with comprehensive and uniform procedures and guidelines, according to the official website of New York state.

An Osun State High Court on Friday granted female Muslim students in the state, the right to wear hijab in public schools.

Apparently, this is part of a broader investigation into the for - profit education industry by the AG's office, which is reportedly opening investigations into at least five education companies that operate or have students in the state.

The Common Core standards were created by nonprofit organizations, including the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, in an attempt to better prepare students in each state for college and post-high school careers.

«We will not do something that denies opportunity to students in this state,» he told reporters.

He urged the NANS leadership in the state to enhance good working relationship between public office holders and students in the state.

But teachers should be high paid, advocates argue, adding that more teachers are needed in New York given the high number of students in the state living in poverty, with special needs or learning to speak English.

Students in New York need more options to find success, and today's action by the Board of Regents will ensure that students in our state will have a new way to graduate with a Regents diploma and find a successful career.

«We have a common agenda to support education and the students in the state and I think that's really important,» Elia said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo publicly disagreed with Trump's move, and has said he will have the department of education reaffirm that the rights of transgender students in the state have not changed.

The Kogi Renaissance Group, KRS, has slammed the state governor, Yahayah Bello for threatening to treat students in the state as kidnappers and criminals.

But in the English exams even students in the state's wealthiest schools saw scores slip a bit, from an average of 52 percent in 2013 passing to 49 percent this year.

President Barack Obama proposed a free Associates Degree for community college students in his State of the Union address last night.

The new research uses the 2015 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which queried public and private high school students in every state and Washington, D.C..

Improving neuroscience education and literacy, particularly for students in the state of Georgia;

In other words, the average student in a state without accountability would have performed at the 53rd percentile of achievement had that student been in a state with an accountability system, all other things being equal.

As a result, NAEP never collected in its long - term trend assessment a representative sample of students for any specific state, and the median number of tested students in each state was very small.

In early January, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York announced his intention to make a public college education tuition - free for most students in the state.

Many states need to revamp their policies for including limited - English - proficient students in state tests and accountability systems if they want to continue receiving all of their federal Title I aid, according to the Department of Education.

As mentioned, receiving an A does not indicate that a high percentage of students in a state are proficient.

Factors other than school quality could help to explain high levels of achievement of charter school students in these states — including the ability of parents to close underperforming schools.

More than 45 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts where spending equals or eclipses the national average.

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

Almost 97 percent of students in the state are in districts that spend at least the national per - pupil average.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

Faced with the highest high school dropout, foreclosure, and unemployment rates in this country, only one out of 10 students in the state of Nevada will earn bachelor's degrees.

Many states have set the bar so low for children who are learning English that students in those states could leave high school without being taught to read or write the language, yet their schools would face no consequences under federal education law.

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.

According to California's state accountability results, the average student in Beverly Hills is at the 76th percentile in math achievement relative to other students in the state.

NCLB dramatically expanded the law's scope by requiring that states introduce school - accountability systems that applied to all public schools and students in the state.

This pattern suggests that NCLB generated more meaningful improvements in the achievement of black students in states where public schools served larger numbers of black students.

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.

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.

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

Less than a month into their legislative session, Florida lawmakers are knee - deep in debate over a plan to provide taxpayer - financed tuition vouchers to students in the state's most academically troubled schools.