Sentences with phrase «with small enrollments»

To offset the impact on schools with small enrollments, HISD budget managers have proposed increasing subsidies to small schools by about $ 11 million, to $ 18.7 million.

Not exact matches

Even the smallest agency will be able to bring its expertise to a digital platform with accurate, up - to - date information, making open enrollment periods far less stressful for benefits managers and employees.

I said the 300k was small because for a school with our current enrollment it seems so.

But thanks to the fact that Salesian's enrollment this year was 19 over the 500 - student cutoff for California Interscholastic Federation Small School state bowl championship purposes, the Pride had to contend with Div.

>> The other aspect of competitive - equity divisions that has the potential to be the most messy is when a school with a massive enrollment advantage gets to play another with small town style enrollment in a state final.

Tamir Goodman — an 11th grader and the point guard on the basketball team at Talmudical Academy, a small Jewish day school (enrollment 72) in nearby Pikesville, with classes from prekindergarten through 12th grade — is in his house, waiting for the Sabbath to end.

Democrats have an enrollment edge in the 8th SD — 81,923 active voters to 74,551 with 48,693 «blanks» or small - i independents, according to the state Board of Elections.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal... Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000; in nine years 3 million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a small wage of $ 30 (about $ 547 in 2015) a month ($ 25 of which had to be sent home to their families).

Dadey said he wants a strong Republican candidate with the ability to hold the seat in a presidential election year, which favors Democrats and their small enrollment advantage in the district.

School officials said they expected enrollment to grow with students who move into the city, but the number will still likely be far smaller than in past years.

Faced with declining enrollment and rising costs, some small liberal arts colleges have added professional and vocational majors, a decision University of Iowa researchers say has strengthened rather than undermined the mission of the schools.

Like Baltimore City, Somerset County also has about a third of its children eligible, but is much smaller, with total enrollment just shy of 3,000.

If n is too small, statistical reliability is at risk; if n is too big, too few schools and students are held accountable, as those with subgroup enrollments less than n do not participate in the accountability system.

Ten years ago, SNHU was a small accounting college struggling with declining enrollment and money woes.

These include: «protection» clauses against declining enrollment; hold - harmless provisions for districts competing with charter schools; subsidies to small districts; and minimum categorical allocations.

With the new open - enrollment system, educators believed they could capitalize on the Small Schools of Choice reform.

(Reliable information for the small number of students attending schools in districts with enrollment below 300 is unavailable for the years prior to 2000.)

But he wrangled with the unions over issues like rightsizing the teaching staff for a smaller enrollment.

MPCP started in fiscal year 1991 as a small initiative, capped at 1 percent of MPS enrollment, with a few hundred students from low - income families who chose to attend secular private schools.

Media reports often emphasize the growth in students with autism but their numbers remain very small, less than 0.3 percent of enrollment.

Figure 2 also shows that schools with smaller percentages of their students on scholarships have larger positive impacts on college enrollment rates.

The effect of FTC participation is concentrated in community colleges, with smaller and not consistently significant effects of enrollment in four - year universities.

Research has shown that beyond very small schools and school districts, there are few opportunities for economies of scale in education because most of the costs increase with enrollments and are not fixed costs that decline with additional clients.

While the plan has resulted in replacing failing and low - enrollment schools with charter schools and smaller campuses, it has also led to a surge in violence that has increasingly turned deadly, many activists, parents and students say.

With an enrollment of only 10 students, McGowan says they purposely keep the number small so students can focus intensely on their own research and receive in - depth feedback from classmates.

The true nature of market forces shows up as smaller charters are muscled out by large networks, whose business models require that they expand enrollment, favor locations with more generous public per - pupil reimbursements, and reduce exposure to expenses associated with working in distressed areas, such as a greater concentration of high - need students and high insurance costs.

We avoided schools with low mobility rates among students, enrollments less than 350, or grade ranges smaller than K - 5.

Their area of expertise is restructuring school district budgets so dollars follow students, which potentially destabilizes smaller schools and schools with declining enrollment.

School officials said they expected enrollment to grow with students who move into the city, but the number will still likely be far smaller than in past years.

His most recent book, co-authored with Halley Potter, «A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education,» examines two myth - busting strategies in a small but growing number of charter schools: promoting economic diversity in enrollment and amplifying teacher voice.

Kitchens said the formula could be improved for school districts with declining enrollment, increasing enrollment and small, rural school districts with spending levels capped at below $ 10,000 per student.

As enrollments decline, schools with empty, small, self - contained classrooms may consider dividing the middle classroom to make the two adjacent classrooms larger.

Losses in enrollment coupled with cuts in funding cause significant financial stress on small districts.

In districts with low enrollment, fixed costs are spread across fewer pupils, and class sizes in required courses may be so small as to further increase per pupil costs.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

Small districts had enrollments in the bottom quartile (with less than about 3000 students) and large districts in the top quartile (with more than about 20,000 students).

NIEER's State Preschool Yearbook is the only national report on state - funded preschool programs with detailed information on enrollment, funding, teacher qualifications, and other policies related to quality, such as the presence of a qualified teacher and assistant, small class size, and low teacher - to - student ratio.

The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the implementation of SLCs and activities to improve student academic achievement in large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students.

Prior to Act 10, employees could negotiate with their employers to contribute some or all of any statute - mandated employee share of retirement benefits.42 The bill eliminated that option, forcing employees to pay half of retirement plan contributions — which totaled 5.8 percent of teachers» salary for the 2011 - 12 school year — once collective bargaining agreements expired.43 Act 10 also set minimum employee contributions for state health plan enrollment, while in the past, teachers could negotiate for their employers to cover a greater share of costs, potentially in exchange for smaller salary increases.44

PPIC also said that the state needs to develop new ways to protect small school districts from the extraordinary costs associated with an unexpected enrollment of one or two SWDs.

However, I regularly see teachers with small class sizes who don't differentiate instruction, and teachers with very large enrollments who do.

Table 1 Charters with Highest Administrative Costs Per pupil Charter School Enrollment October 1, 2014 Report Administration / Pupil Kaizen Tempe 25 $ 7,554 Pinnacle Education - Tempe, Inc. 57 $ 7,283 SRPMIC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS 240 $ 7,102 Edkey, Inc. 64 $ 5,993 Deer Valley Charter School 29 $ 5,692 PS Charter School Inc. 71 $ 5,382 Lifelong Learning Research Institute Inc. 34 $ 5,378 SC Jensen Corporation 67 $ 5,060 Kaizen Skyview 51 $ 4,936 Eastpointe High School, Inc. 143 $ 4,874 Arizona Call - A-Teen Youth Resources, Inc. 78 $ 4,681 Intelli - School Charter High School 105 $ 4,348 StrengthBuilding Partners 42 $ 4,301 PAS Charter, Inc. 229 $ 4,139 Park View School, Inc. 228 $ 3,977 Institute for Transformatived Education, Inc. 62 $ 3,946 Madison Highland Prep 101 $ 3,646 Skyline Gila River Schools, LLC 106 $ 3,626 Kaizen EL Dorado 185 $ 3,604 Imagine Superst Elem 179 $ 3,568 Ha: San Educational Services 137 $ 3,454 Kaizen Ad U 49 $ 3,255 Edkey, Inc. 574 $ 3,165 Imagine Superst Mid 93 $ 3,081 Graysmark Schools Corporation 46 $ 3,077 Florence Crittenton Services of AZ 141 $ 3,050 Rising School 66 $ 3,041 Arizona Autism Charter Schools Inc. 87 $ 3,012 Victory High School, Inc. 20 $ 2,908 Foothill College Preparatory Academy 336 $ 2,833 Carpe Diem Collegiate High School 118 $ 2,811 Eagle South Mountain Charter, Inc. 106 $ 2,788 Concordia Charter School Inc 146 $ 2,786 Imagine Prep Surprise 248 $ 2,784 BASIS Phoenix 725 $ 2,747 E-Institute Charter Schools, Inc 800 $ 2,715 Pima County 106 $ 2,704 Genesis Academy 151 $ 2,692 BASIS Chandler 731 $ 2,681 The FARM at Mission Montessori 32 $ 2,680 Imagine Tempe 280 $ 2,659 Pace Preparatory Academy, Inc. 95 $ 2,607 Daisy Sonoran Davis Moth 193 $ 2,604 American Virtual Academy 3488 $ 2,595 Paramount Education Studies Inc 338 $ 2,586 Eagle South Mountain Charter, Inc. 127 $ 2,578 StarShine Academy 325 $ 2,576 Keystone Montessori Charter School, Inc. 228 $ 2,558 BASIS Peoria 746 $ 2,549 BASIS Prescott 369 $ 2,537 Many small charters have low administrative costs Sixteen of the 30 charters with the lowest administrative have less than 400 pupils.

(from Inside Higher Ed) Enrollment struggles and competitive pressures compel more independent schools, along with small colleges, to consider online learning as a key differentiator.

Newark's middle school students stay in their elementary schools through eighth grade, and high schools tend to be small and specialized, with enrollment determined by an application process, not by neighborhood.

Originally designed as a small program to help low - income borrowers, it has gone from having 25,000 people enrolled in 2012 to 431,000 today with enrollment continuing to increase.

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