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Texas Education Agency, 2017
This annual report provides information for the 2015-16 school year on grade-level retention in the Texas public school system. Data on retention are provided by student characteristics, including grade level; race/ethnicity; gender; degree of English proficiency; and economic, at-risk, immigrant, migrant, and overage statuses. Data also are…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Public Schools, Student Characteristics, Instructional Program Divisions
Paeplow, Colleen – Wake County Public School System, 2013
The Wake County Public School System's (WCPSS) retention rate has declined for the fifth year in a row. The vast majority of WCPSS' students are promoted to the next grade level at the end of each school year. In 2011-12, only 3.4% of WCPSS students were retained in grade. While only a small percentage of students are retained each year, this…
Descriptors: Student Promotion, School Holding Power, Public Schools, Counties
Cook, Rose; Rutt, Simon; Sims, David – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2014
The interaction between deprivation and education is a critical relationship with profound implications for a country's economic prosperity and the social mobility of its citizens. This is highlighted by the Welsh Government which states that: "A good education is critical to better life chances and a commitment to achieving this has been an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educationally Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Texas Education Agency, 2014
This annual report provides information for the 2012-13 school year on grade-level retention in the Texas public school system. Data on retention are provided by student characteristics, including grade level; race/ethnicity; gender; degree of English proficiency; and economic, at-risk, immigrant, migrant, and overage statuses. Data also are…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Public Schools, Student Characteristics, Instructional Program Divisions

Galenson, David W. – American Journal of Education, 1997
Investigates whether 19th-century children of immigrants living in ethnic ghettos were less likely to attend school than their peers who lived elsewhere. It considers the sources of the relationship between neighborhood of residence and school attendance in Boston (Massachusetts) and Chicago (Illinois) by examining the structure of their markets…
Descriptors: Attendance, Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment
Institute for Puerto Rican Policy, New York, NY. – 1992
This pamphlet offers a profile of the Puerto Rican community and other Latinos in New York City based on recent census statistics. Noting the continued low socioeconomic conditions of this population, the pamphlet also points out recent gains in political representation. A discussion of population changes from 1980 to 1990 in New York City…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Status, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Partnership for Hope, Inc., San Antonio, TX. – 1991
This publication offers a portrait of poverty in San Antonio (Texas) based on an analysis of available statistical data and focusing on health, education, employment, housing, and human services. Five chapters each contain statistics regarding poverty in the United States, Texas, and San Antonio. Each chapter also begins with true stories about…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Health Needs
Kids Count in Michigan, Lansing. – 1994
This Michigan Kids Count data book for 1994 describes the condition of children in each of Michigan's 83 counties. The first part of the report presents discussions of economic security, housing, child care, education, and health care, addressing the state and national experience for families and children, critical issues, and policies and…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Health, Children, Counties
Kids Count in Michigan, Lansing. – 1996
This Michigan Kids Count data book for 1996 describes the condition of children in each of Michigan's 83 counties. The first section of the report explores the status of the children in five areas of child well-being: (1) Economic Security; (2) Child Health; (3) Child Safety; (4) Teen Transition; and (5) Education. The discussion presents an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Children
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
A study was done of how Chapter 1 remedial educational services are being provided to private sectarian school students. Federal court ruling had determined that sectarian schools could not receive such funds directly, but that public schools must provide the services to students in sectarian schools. As a consequence, local public schools have…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation, Economically Disadvantaged
Ramirez, Elizabeth Weiser – 1993
This fact sheet on Hispanic American education in the United States in 1993 offers information on families, spending, school to work transitions, and education at preschool through college levels. The Hispanic population is growing much faster than the rest of the population, and by 1990 it comprised 9 percent of the national population. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Rate, Economically Disadvantaged
Puma, Michael J.; And Others – 1993
This publication is the first interim report from the Congressionally Mandated Study of Educational Growth and Opportunity (Prospects), and describes students' characteristics and the schools they attend. Prospects is designed to evaluate the short- and long-term consequences of Chapter 1 program participation by following for 5 years large…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Kids Count in Michigan, Lansing. – 1995
This Michigan Kids Count data book for 1995 describes the condition of children in each of Michigan's 83 counties. The first part of the report explores the status of the children in five areas of child well-being: (1) Economic Security; (2) Child Health; (3) Child Safety; (4) Teens at Risk; and (5) Education. The discussion presents an overview…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Children
Anderson, Judith – 1993
This working paper examines funding to U.S. school districts and public schools in accordance with Chapter 1 of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended in 1988. The report discusses the background of the legislation, describes its provisions, and presents results from the Schools and Staffing Survey conducted in…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Olinger, Betty; Partee, Teresa – 1994
The 1989 census data for the state of Kentucky reveals that African American children are more than twice as likely to be poor as White children, three times more likely to grow up in a single parent family than White children, and twice as likely as White children to live in a home that is rented as opposed to owned. The data also show that the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Child Health, Community Action
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