Sentences with phrase «than public school students in»

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Not exact matches

While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

If he were to refinance his student loan with SoFi, which recently raised a whopping $ 1 billion in funding from Softbank to help make student loans even cheaper, I'm sure he could get lower than 5 % because he went to William & Mary, Columbia for his Master's in Public Health, Yale for Medical School, and Cornell for his residency!

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...

Sprint 1Million Project is helping more than 700 high school students from Puerto Rico who were displaced after Hurricane Maria and are now enrolled in Orange County Public Schools.

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Private school students, teachers and administrators all report fewer racial problems than in public schools.

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

but still Faith based Parochial school students often test higher in math and science than those in public schools.

From Men in Blazers: America SCORES is non-profit organization that promotes football and poetry with students at more than 175 public and charter schools across North America.

In 2010, more than a tenth of all public high school students nationwide were suspended at least once.

Second largest in the nation, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, at over 900 schools, and 187 public charter schools.

In partnership with Chicago Public Schools, the company offers free tickets to more than 5,000 Chicago - area low - income students each season.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

adolescent homeschooled students slept an average of 90 minutes more per night than public and private school students, who were in class an average of 18 minutes before homeschooled children even awoke.

CHICAGO — In his new book, «Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school students.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

The report also shows that American Indian students, who account for less than 2 percent of the student population statewide, received more than one - third of all corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools, although most of that disparity was driven by one school district, Robeson County.

According to the report, which contains data that school districts are now required to submit to the Department of Public Instruction, more than one in every five uses of corporal punishment in North Carolina was applied to a student with disabilities during the 2010 - 2011 school year.

The standards also increased the portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and required students to select at least 1 serving of fruits and / or vegetables.4 Because the National School Lunch Program reaches more than 31 million students each day in 99 % of US public schools and 83 % of private schools, the new standards have the potential to significantly and consistently affect the nutritional health of children.5

In the 2017 - 2018 school year, more than 90,000 students spread across 100 public schools in Prince William County received a truckload of brand new microscopes and science kitIn the 2017 - 2018 school year, more than 90,000 students spread across 100 public schools in Prince William County received a truckload of brand new microscopes and science kitin Prince William County received a truckload of brand new microscopes and science kits.

In 2013, for the first time, more than half of the USA's public school students fell below the federal government's poverty threshold.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

But while so many in the media and the glitterati are agog about charters, let's not forget that more than 95 percent of our students are in the regular public schools.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

BY ANDY HUMM Out gay City Councilmember Daniel Dromm of Queens, on October 30, presided over a hearing of the Committee on Education he chairs that heard more than six hours of testimony on bullying in the city public schools, with representatives from the Department of Education (DOE) on the defensive and students and advocates -LSB-...]

In fact, she says that they are required to select from a lottery system and actually bounce fewer students from school than ordinary public schools.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

More than half of Long Island students eligible to take the state Common Core test in English Language Arts refused to take the exam this week, according to a Newsday survey of public school districts ending Thursday, the third and final day of the assessment.

Taxpayer - funded charter schools should not have the right to choose to educate fewer high - needs students than public schools and then point to how successful they are in comparison.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for policies to increase school attendance of homeless children, following an audit that found more than half of students in shelters were chronically absent from public schools.

Students from Maple West Elementary School in Williamsville and King Center Charter School in Buffalo participated in the second annual «Bullying Stops Here» announcement at the downtown Central Library this morning where more than a dozen human service organizations joined forces with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System for a community - wide, month - long anti-bullying awareness initiative.

When a student in a Syracuse or Rochester public school walks into a classroom, they are more likely than not to have a white teacher.

The announcement comes just days after the state announced more than half of its public school students are attending college tuition - free this year, in part due to the new Excelsior Scholarships.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Voters in New York City put much more faith in the UFT than in Mayor Michael Bloomberg when it comes to protecting public school students» interests, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Feb. 8.

And after 10 years of so - called school reforms and massive infusions of money, less than half the students in city public schools are considered proficient readers.

«By working together and recognizing their shared responsibility to all Los Angeles public school students, United Teachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

With the beginning of the school year only a little more than a month away, thousands of New York City public school students remain unsure whether they'll be promoted to the next grade in the fall.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew urged New York City to embark next September on a long - term initiative that will lower class size in the public schools to no more than 15 students in kindergarten through third grade.

The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.