Sentences with phrase «while increasing the number of schools»

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

While an increasing number of schools have begun to adopt some of the changes promoted by the emerging middle - level - school reform movement — such as hands - on, experiential curricula and increased parental involvement — many have not yet embraced such changes, NMSA leaders said.

The Millburn Township Board of Education is proposing to eliminate school library media specialist positions while increasing the number of schools in its proposed budget for the upcoming 2017/2018 school year (Consolidated Budget FY 2017 - 18, page 11).

While increasing the number of schools that we service in Vermont and beyond is important, equally important is sustaining relationships with schools we already serve to support continued innovation.

The Millburn Township Board of Education is proposing to eliminate school library media specialist positions while increasing the number of schools in its proposed budget for the upcoming 2017/2018 school year (Consolidated Budget FY 2017 - 18, page 11).

Not exact matches

While not increasing in numbers of recent decades, they have grown in public awareness through aggressive moralizing on issues like abortion and school prayer.

While the Assembly bill introduced Friday would extend mayoral control over the schools for three years, the Senate has been pushing a one - year extender that would be tied to an increase in the number of city charter schools.

Earlier yesterday, AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes complained that the Senate last week passed legislation with «record speed» to boost the number of charter schools statewide to 460 from 200, while labor's agenda to increase unemployment insurance and overhaul the state's economic development programs remains in limbo.

If the Government continues to increase the number and type of «faith» schools and while failing to take action, so will their children and their children's children.»

By the end of May, state lawmakers reached a deal to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run and usually not unionized, to 460 statewide, up from 200, while also increasing state oversight of them.

State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has said he will not support renewing mayoral control unless the number of charter schools are increased, an approach Cuomo has endorsed, while Assembly Leader Carl Heastie's conference packaged the renewal with several tax proposals.

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

Increasing the numbers of volunteer healthcare professionals on the ground in West Africa can help prevent the spread of Ebola as well as a secondary health crisis while starting to rebuild the public health infrastructure in West Africa, said Lisa Cooper, who is a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Liberian expatriate.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

While research has shown that the increased roll out of 1:1 mobile devices could have the potential to improve learning outcomes and help schools to better take advantage of the connected world we now live in, the successful implementation does face a number of barriers.

WASHINGTON — While most of the debate in Congress over President Clinton's deficit - reduction proposal focused on the plan's controversial tax increases and spending cuts, the omnibus package also contained a number of provisions affecting children, students, and schools.

Compared with 2000, the proportion of 2003 Blue Ribbon public schools that performed well or in the middle tier on state tests increased, while the number of low - performing schools dropped.

While Catholic schools were closing, the number of charter schools was increasing, and various states were setting up voucher programs for low - income students to attend (some) private schools.

Nationally, the average number of high school credits earned in career and technical education dropped notably between 1990 and 2009, while those earned in almost every other major subject area increased.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

Lacey's involvement in a number of research projects related to the sustainability of school leadership in Australian schools has led her to devise a strategy to increase leadership capacity to sustain peak performance while assisting school leaders to develop balance in their lives.

Rise in orders Looking ahead to the 2014/15 academic year, an increasing number of schools indicate funding will be in - line with the recent past, while 13 per cent of primary and eight per cent of secondary schools say it will increase.

While there has been a gradual increase in the number of school - based health clinics, which provide preventive and remedial care and even crisis interventions, clinics serve only a small minority of students, and few states and districts have policies in place to help them scale up and become sustainable.

While the number of school - based health clinics has gradually increased, they still provide only a small minority of students remedial and preventive care.

«While we are disappointed, we are glad they are focused on deepening their efforts with existing Oakland public schools — increasing the number of schools served, expanding to additional grade levels, and offering a summer training,» said David Silver, director of education for Schaaf.

The research also found that while there had been a steady increase in the number of sponsored academies, i.e. struggling schools forced to convert, between 2006 and 2012, there has more recently been a dramatic decline.

In addition, the dropout rate remained steady between 1995 (15.5 percent) and 2000 (15.2 percent), while the number of high - school graduates increased from 14,818 to 16,195.

Brazil introduced an aggressive conditional cash - transfer program (Bolsa Escola) that increased primary and secondary school attendance and reduced dropout rates, while Chile implemented a number of compensatory programs that improved student achievement in the lowest - performing and most - disadvantaged schools.

The bureau also found that while the number of white private - school students declined by 37 percent, or 2.2 million students, between 1964 and 1979, the number of black students in private schools increased by one - third, or 87,000 students.

Moreover, Florida schools are the most likely to plan to increase the number of choice students they enroll, while Louisiana schools are the most likely to decrease that number.

The bill expands the number and range of demographic categories for enrollment and retention compliance, and increases the number of compliance check points, while evidence from the current system proves that the idea of requiring schools to meet thresholds based on averages doesn't work.

According to the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the number of K - 12 students in the U.S. increased by 96 percent between 1950 and 2009, while the number of full - time school employees increased by 386 percent.

DfE figures show that the percentage of qualified teachers (those with Qualified Teacher Status) in all state funded schools was 95.1 per cent in 2015; a decrease from 95.5 per cent in 2014 while the total number of teachers without QTS increased over the same period from 20.3 thousand full time equivalent staff (FTE) or 4.5 per cent in 2014 to 22.5 thousand FTEs or 4.9 per cent in 2015.

While racial achievement gaps in education have remained stubbornly large, segregation has been increasing steadily, creating a growing number of apartheid schools that serve almost exclusively students of color from low - income families.

From 1992 through 2009, the number of students in Mississippi public schools decreased by two percent, while the non-teaching staff increased by 24 percent.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

While nearly all (96.6 %) library / media centers have computers, the number of computers per schools drops substantially as school poverty increases to the highest level — from 22 to 14 computers.

While we can tinker with policies and review enrollment forms, until we ensure that charter schools are prepared to offer quality programs and held accountable for failing to provide quality programs, we will most likely continue to see increasing numbers of OCR investigations and corrective action plans.

The report shows that as a country we have greatly increased education spending and the number of non-teachers on payrolls at district school, while test scores and teacher salaries have remained stagnant at best.

The report also finds that more than half the states increased their high school graduation rates, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 23 percent since 2002, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

While the LAUSD school board has not eliminated the possibility of a true ban on social promotion, in the meantime it is beefing up efforts to increase the number of interventions available for students passed along based on age.

In addition, the Tri-Valley Herald wrote a story on the increasing number of charter petitions in the Livermore area, while the Orange County Register discussed the continued the journey of a bilingual charter school making its case to open next school year.

«While district public schools still continue to serve the majority of Hispanic students, an increasing number of Hispanic families...

The number of students with moderate to severe disabilities at the nearly 100 charters has increased from 1.2 percent in 2010 - 11 to 2.1 percent this past school year, while the percentage of special education students in traditional district schools with moderate to severe disabilities has risen to 4.72 percent from 3.63 percent five years ago.

While his numbers are correct — the 2016 - 2017 school portion of property tax bills will increase by 6.2 % — his reasoning is flawed.

While Democratic Party centrists in Clinton's mold have been some of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for charter schools, Clinton's comments come as many within the Democratic Party are pushing back against so - called education reformers who want to dismantle teacher protections and increase the number of charter schools.

Meanwhile, what would we do if one 4th grade class in Meriden has a 7 percent drop in the number of Latino students and sees a 5 percent increase in the number of students at CMT goal, while the same sized class in an elementary school across town has a 10 percent increase in the number of Latino students and the number at goal in that class drops by 2 percent?

«I think our track record is pretty good,» Evers said, citing decreased suspensions and expulsions, increased number of students taking college - level courses while still in high school and modest increases in reading proficiency.

While Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's budget fails to properly fund public schools in Connecticut it does provide for an increase in the number of privately run charter schools.