Sentences with phrase «than schools in»

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «For too long a group of coasting schools, many in leafy areas with more advantages than schools in disadvantaged communities, have fallen beneath the radar.

Although we do receive funds from the state, we receive less funding than schools in our local school district.

The schools in West Sussex say they receive # 1,800 less in per pupil funding than schools in inner London.

Schools in which leaders and teachers believe that their work is the fundamental cause of student achievement perform significantly better than schools in which leaders attribute student achievement primarily to student demographic characteristics.

Schools with more students qualifying for free and reduced price meals, a proxy for poverty, have higher African - American suspension rates than schools in wealthier communities.

Schools in the highest ELL achievement quintile had approximately 70 percent more ELL students meet or exceed 10th grade TAKS (all tests), 25 percent more ELL students participate in advanced courses, 25 percent more ELL students who were college ready (both math and English) and 25 percent more ELL students graduate from high school than schools in the bottom ELL achievement quintile.

While spending millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prevent children in underfunded school districts from having their day in court, the Malloy administration has aggressively expanded privately run charter schools and funded them at levels higher than schools in our poorest districts receive.

Without a doubt, the schools with scores demonstrating under 20 % proficiency on the SBAC spent more time on test prep than the schools in affluent districts with higher SBAC scores.

In Detroit schools, only 25 % of students graduate high school, and out of those who graduate only half have basic literacy skills, despite education being as well funded as most schools in Western Europe, and being better funded than schools in all but the most wealthy local suburbs.

In other words, schools serving students that tend to score lower, such as low - income and minority students, are compared to schools serving similar student bodies rather than all schools in the state.

A similar thing can be said about principals working in rural areas, where we have seen that schools have less qualified and less experienced teachers than schools in urban areas.

Even after adjusting for observed demographic differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the schools themselves in causing differences in academic performance between public and private schools.

But Denver schools appear to have adjusted far better to the more demanding, Common Core aligned PARCC tests than schools in the rest of the state.

The study, which is scheduled to be published next year, «shows how an often - discussed phenomenon — that schools serving poor children get less qualified teachers than schools in the same district serving more advantaged children — is hard - wired...

The report from IPPR found that secondary schools in the north receive on average # 1,300 less per pupil than schools in London.

There are more churches than schools in the U.S.A. (300k) and Americans donate $ 88 billion a year in tithings.

While Chicago is singled out in the study as one of the six cities with the most incidents from 1990 to 2013, Chicago schools are not any more dangerous than schools in other large cities.

Schools in low - income communities have less money than schools in wealthier ones.

That's right, Cal's GSR was lower than every school in the SEC.

The Bears checked in with a 48 percent GSR for the 2002 - 05 entering classes — the lowest rate in the pac - 12 and lower than any school in the Southeastern Conference.

Despite its reputation as a refuge for «nerds,» Stuyvesant also fields more athletic teams than any school in the city, including a successful football program.

The bill would also have required that pupils who transfer into the district be enrolled in a school with an Academic Performance Index score that is higher than the school in which the pupil was previously enrolled.

Not exact matches

The schools that would be taxed have at least 500 students and more than $ 500,000 in endowment per student.

The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

Trump's move comes less than a week after a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left 17 people dead.

With 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a spot.

Today, the patented system is used in more than 5,000 schools districts, therapy centers, hospitals and homes in the United States and Canada.

I will take a candidate who comes in everyday eager to learn and grow than an MBA from an Ivy League school.

The current cohort at the University of Alberta's MBA in natural resources, energy and environment is 10 % larger than the previous one, while the school's Fort McMurray MBA for oilsands workers is up nearly 35 %.

Resource extraction companies are recognizing that helping people in local communities to become entrepreneurs is better than funding local schools or health centres.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

The oldest law school in Canada, McGill, ranks just under U of T. Its highly regarded law journal is cited by The Supreme Court of Canada more often than any other university - affiliated journal, and McGill law graduates regularly make up a quarter of The Supreme Court's annual clerkships.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

«Strategic alliances are definitely becoming crucial in building businesses of all kinds and at an earlier stage than ever before,» says Gene Slowinski, director of strategic - alliance studies at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Management.

At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

• Pearson, a U.K. - based educational materials provider, is in talks with a consortium of Asian private equity houses to sell its English - language school unit for more than $ 350 million, according to the Financial Times.

Nowhere is this more true than in the schools.

President Donald Trump on Thursday called for action after the horrific school shooting in Florida the day before that left at least 17 people dead and more than a dozen injured.

Ronald Burt is a sociologist in the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business who for more than 30 years has studied the phenomenon of «structural holes,» i.e., gaps within organizations.

A serial entrepreneur who founded his first company in high school, Smith says he knew better than to «[spill] the money ahead of the customers.»

In reality, the average person would be far better off getting a degree than leaving school the second a half - decent business idea comes to mind.

Social: AFRIpads reaches more than 300,000 African women, helping them stay in school and be productive during their monthly periods.

Sales of school - and college - related items — all those backpacks and binders, tablets and smartphones — brought in more than US$ 80 billion in the U.S. last year.

You'll learn the origin of McDonald's Filet - O - Fish, Harvard Business School's curriculum circa 1910, and that even back in the 1970s, CEOs rarely had more than nine minutes of time to themselves.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.