Sentences with phrase «time than private school»

Elementary public school teachers spend more time than private school teachers on core subjects.

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• 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.

, teachers in private schools were more than three times as likely as public school teachers to say they are «highly satisfied» with their jobs.

At the same time, Kitchens was more than ably supported by athletic director Bob Wilson, who is the best athletic director I've ever worked for in a public school (I only make that distinction because I don't want to upset my present, private school, athletic director).

Wow, a black mother sends her son to a private school rather than to a school in Hackney (which at the time, I recall, had a reputation for failing black, male students).

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

Private schools were somewhat less likely than public schools to provide such time, the report says.

Although the evaluation found no impact on student math performance, the estimated reading impact of using a scholarship to attend a private school for any length of time during the three - year evaluation period was a statistically significant gain of more than 5 scale points.

Some students returned to a home - school or private school environment, some went to FLVS full time (a more affordable option from the state's perspective than a traditional public school), and some went to traditional public school.

Many non-Catholic private schools had refused to participate in the study, so the researchers focused on Catholic schools, which at the time still represented more than 60 percent of private school enrollment.

Private school fees have increased by 21 per cent over the past five years, four times faster than average earnings and 8 per cent above inflation, according to research from Lloyds Bank Private Banking.

In the fall, 870 students in kindergarten through 3rd grade whose families earned less than two and a half times the federal poverty level and who would otherwise attend some of the worst schools in the city received vouchers worth up to $ 6,000 to attend private schools of their choice.

In that time, he won praise for uniting education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening more than 100 new schools, expanding after - school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public - private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

Indeed, there are nearly three times as many K - 12 students in private schools than in public charters.

For example, AltSchool is a micro-school network in San Francisco with tuition that is 10 to 15 percent cheaper than the average for other private schools in the city --- and it hopes to scale its model such that the price falls over time to the point that it is only marginally more than the cost of educating a public school student.

As of the spring of 2001, the Center for Education Reform estimated that 1,750 charter schools were educating about 520,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, more than seven times the number of students in all the public and private voucher programs combined.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

The fact that teaching jobs were shed after these recessions were officially over should not be surprising, given that school budgets are set, teacher contracts are made, and federal and state funding are allocated ahead of time, causing the public - school sector to respond to tough economic times more slowly than the private sector.

«Teacher Retirement Benefits: Even in economically tough times, costs are higher than ever,» by Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky This study documents the growing gap between high employer pension costs for public school teachers and lower employer pension costs for private sector managers and professionals.

«Many times, students might be under the impression that private schools are always more expensive than state schools because they look at the sticker price,» McGill said.

In fact, a pupil attending a private prep school is ten times more likely to enter a grammar than a pupil on free school meals.

Mills has worked for the DNPE for more than 25 years, spending his time reviewing the compliance records of both private and home schools and conducting site visits.

In 2014, the state moved to terminate an underperforming private school from the Milwaukee voucher program that had operated for almost four years without accreditation — and received more than $ 1 million in taxpayer money during that time.

Please don't hesitate to have a quick word with us in the mornings before lining - up time, if ever you need to; if you'd like a longer or private discussion we would be more than happy to arrange a meeting after school.

She's taking on that responsibility at a time when education policy is even more intensely politicized than usual, as President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have sought to promote parents» access to charter schools, private - school vouchers and other alternatives to public schools.

The Sunday Times has featured King's Maths School in Lambeth, where performance of pupils at King's Maths School is better than that at many private schools, which charge up to # 30,000 a year.

And in general, pupils from private schools were 22 times more likely to go to a top university than those who had been on free school meals, the Trust said.

The private school spent at the time about 2.5 X more per kid than the public school he attended.

The numbers do lump private school teachers and public school teachers together in one category, and they do not include other education employees, but they do confirm in 2014 what occurred for the first time in 2013: There are more non-union teachers than union teachers in the United States.

Girls from top private schools three times more likely to suffer from drug or alcohol addictions in later life than their less affluent peers

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

This from a team that brought in Paul Vallas, the $ 229,000, part - time, «education reformer extraordinaire,» superintendent of schools, whose primary claim to fame, upon arrival in Bridgeport, was to sign more than $ 12 million in no - bid contracts, including contracts hiring many «consultants» who actually worked for his private consulting company, The Vallas Group.

Rather than devote the time and resources to help the Milner School succeed, Malloy's Commissioner of Education gave the school, the students and millions of taxpayer dollars to a private entity that has no experience teaching bi-lingual stuSchool succeed, Malloy's Commissioner of Education gave the school, the students and millions of taxpayer dollars to a private entity that has no experience teaching bi-lingual stuschool, the students and millions of taxpayer dollars to a private entity that has no experience teaching bi-lingual students.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

As in the 2010 evaluation, the researchers found that private schools offer less instructional time than public schools.

At the time the Fund Education Now brief was written, the voucher was worth about $ 4,500, far less than the cost of the private or religious schools available to the children of Jeb Bush and other elites.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

I put myself through four years of college at a private university (at the time I thought it was a better education than a state school, but now I realize there isn't much difference in the real world unless we're talking about Yale or Harvard or something!).

At the time of application, the amount of educational debt based on loans from commercial and government lending institutions, as well as university or other private institutional loans associated with law school and undergraduate educational debts must be greater than or equal to the amount of the LRAP grant.

Educating them to incur fewer expenses, rather than going to expensive private schools, wasting time on unnecessary classes or goofing off, will help focus their attention on what college means for their future and will have a significant impact.

Often times, private institutions will be more expensive than bigger, public schools, making financial aid all the more important.

Because law degrees take less time to complete than medical or dental school degrees, more private student loan lenders offer students options for financing their law school education.

Home schooling is a lot of work, but it works a lot better, most of the time, than public or private schooling, because you can't beat tutoring.

Pupils from 10 leading private and grammar schools are 100 times more likely to apply for prestigious law firm graduate schemes than those educated at the bottom 10 % of schools, according to new analysis sponsored by Clifford Chance (CC).

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

First, there are far too many lawyers (a situation worsening every Spring) for all of them to make a decent living in private practice anyway (I can hear the howls over that, but it is true, thanks to the law schools graduating students at a rate five times greater than population growth for years now, and never failing anyone they admit to first year.

These two groups are over ten times more likely to have a private education than the general population, where 7 % attend independent schools.

Most of the time, private schools have greater flexibility where they can accept and my focus on the applicant's resume than those who just plainly teach music education.

With Suri now based full time in New York City, where Holmes enrolled her inManhattan's private Avenues school, she has far less flexibility to visit him on set than under her previous home - school arrangement.