Sentences with phrase «years of declining enrollment»

This year, D.C. Public Schools is projecting 49,145 students, up from 47,548, a fourth year of increases after many years of declining enrollment.

After years of declining enrollment, public schools have grown by 11,000 pre-kindergarten to grade 12 students over the last five years.

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools.

Not exact matches

Over the past 10 years, the hiring of teachers and non-teaching staff has continued unabated even though student enrollment has declined.

As of March 31, the law covered 11.1 million people; an Oct. 13 S&P Global Ratings report predicted that enrollment next year will range from an 8 percent decline to a 4 percent gain.

With the end of the draft and the yearly decreasing size of the 18 - year - old population, the inflated campus enrollments of the late «60s and early «70s quickly declined.

Ten certified teaching positions will be cut at the end of the school year at Glen Ellyn Community Consolidated School District 89 due to budget constraints and declining enrollment officials said.

As a result of a free college tuition program, at least some of Tennessee's four - year colleges have faced declining enrollment, as more students use community college as a steppingstone to a four - year degree.

That's by far the largest such decline of any state in a year that saw nationwide enrollment in private ACA plans grow by 8.5 percent.

Haynes says what is driving the enrollment decline are restrictions on financial aid, increased competition from four - year State schools, the effects of an improving economy, and media coverage questioning the value of higher education.

The Kingston City School District has received bids on three of their former elementary schools, two of which were shuttered over the past two years as part of a comprehensive redistricting plan which sought to address declining student enrollment.

Enrollment, meanwhile, has risen in recent years, after four decades of decline, and more affluent families are putting their students in the city's public schools, a sign of growing confidence in a DCPS education.

For the 2010 - 11 school year, a 10 - percentage - point increase in charter enrollment is associated with a decline of 16 percentage points in minority students» exposure to non-minority students.

When district enrollment declines year over year, the allocation is made on the basis of the previous year's average daily attendance.

Indiana's diploma to 10th - grade enrollment ratio declined from 78 percent in the five - year period before implementation of the graduation test in 2000 to 77 percent in 2001.

School districts faced with declining enrollments could avoid layoffs by using a popular Canadian program that allows teachers to defer part of their annual salaries to fund a year off with pay.

This suggests that the average effect of FTC participation may decline, if the pattern of college enrollment effects from prior years persists.

Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

Last week, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced its plan to close another five schools at the end of this year, citing declining enrollment and financial challenges.

In fact, since the pace of the enrollment decline has slackened in the charter era (2,000 of 9,000 schools — 22 percent — have closed in the last 20 years) one might argue that charters have served as a wakeup call for Catholics.

On top of the turnover in leadership, the district is grappling with the need to close or consolidate schools given declining enrollment while juggling a $ 30 million budget shortfall over the next year.

Tidewater Community College is one of many two - year institutions around the country that are shedding employees as they cope with broad enrollment declines.

The tuition benefit decreases by 5 percent per year as the number of years of continuous enrollment declines, covering 65 percent of costs for those enrolling in 9th grade.

These efforts have paid off in stable enrollments and budgets, after several years of decline.

The base grant calcs will still use ADA the way the old system did — which will give declining enrollment districts the choice of using current year or prior year ADA, I believe.

The launch of a new Teaching Fellows program will help address a years - long decline in teacher education enrollment by targeting hard - to - staff STEM subjects, special education and low - performing schools.

A number of states have seen steep drops in enrollment in teacher preparation programs in recent years, and the declines are particularly stark in California.

In a report drawn from a convening of school district superintendents, charter leaders, school finance experts, and other education experts in Houston earlier this year, CRPE recommends that urban districts and charter schools collaborate to solve the problems associated with declining enrollment so that all students can have access to a high - quality education.

«We are in a time now where the entire district is seeing declining enrollment,» Ramos said on the first day of the new school year on Tuesday.

The percentage of incoming ninth - grade students who test below basic or far below basic in math has increased sharply in recent years; more ninth - grade students need special education services; and enrollment in the freshmen class has been declining.

Newly released data show that the numbers both of enrollments in — and completers of — teacher - preparation programs continued to decline through 2014, but not as sharply as a few years before that.

Following years of various turnaround efforts, the Newark school was closed in 2012 due to a combination of declining enrollment, dilapidated conditions and low academic performance.

A combination of declining enrollment, federal cuts in special education and this year's Federal sequestration has put a big pinch on big plans.

During the same years, Mississippi has seen declining public school enrollment, fewer people entering the teaching profession, and the explosion of standardized testing in schools.

School district leaders planned to transform Westinghouse with single - sex classes and longer class periods, but the plan was so poorly executed that the school scrapped it just weeks after the 2011 - 2012 year began, kicking off a tumultuous period of declining enrollment and frequent principal and teacher turnover.

«It is clear that the decline in enrollment in teacher preparation programs that our state has experienced in recent years is part of a larger regional and national trend impacting the teaching profession,» the study notes.

NAEP score gains are preferable to losses, but just a few years ago in 2015, 57 percent of Mississippians rated public schools a C, D, or F. Public school enrollment has been declining for years.

A combination of declining enrollment, federal cuts in special education and this year's Federal sequestration...

«In future years, these barriers will be further exacerbated by declining enrollment in rural districts and the overall decrease in the number of college students entering teacher education programs,» the request said.

After years of decline, public school enrollment has been increasing in the District since school year 2009 - 10.

As the district has lost 133,000 students since 2006, data show the biggest consistent declines in enrollment outside of high school over the past 10 years occur when students enter sixth grade.

The cost of offering financial aid to fill seats has also skyrocketed as enrollment has declined; nearly a quarter of private - school students get financial aid, compared to 17 percent 10 years ago, and the average grant has grown by nearly 25 percent, the National Association of Independent Schools reports.

Looking closer at one of Idaho's rural communities, Bingham County in eastern Idaho has seen stagnant or declining enrollment in its district - run public schools over the last three years (Table 1).

Over an 11 - year period, enrollments have declined by 74 percent, from a high of 77,700 in 2001 - 02.

Housed on the second floor of a sprawling brick building on Hoyt Street, M.S. 442 was 14 years old and struggling with low test scores and declining enrollment.

Of the 100 largest districts in 2008 - 09, only 10 reported enrollment declines from 1988 to 1998, and the steepest enrollment decline over those 10 years was 4.58 percent in Atlanta.

Forty - eight of the 100 largest public school systems in the United States in 2008 - 09 reported enrollment declines compared with the previous year's numbers.

While families attend the city's elementary schools, total public school enrollments decline in D.C. beginning in the middle school years, which could be related to the lack of a predictable education path from elementary to high school.

But MPS closed Dover two years ago, because of declining enrollment.

Darling - Hammond said some of the enrollment declines are related to years of teacher layoffs due to the state's budget crisis.