Sentence examples for more eligible students from inspiring English sources

In a reversal, New York City school officials on Wednesday said they would continue their sibling-preference policy for gifted and talented programs that have more eligible students than seats.

The policy ends the sibling preference for gifted and talented programs that have more eligible students than seats, a situation that has become common as more 4-year-olds have scored high on the admissions tests in recent years.

But on Wednesday, officials announced that they were extending application deadlines so more eligible students could receive the grants this year.

Last fall, more than 22,000 eligible students were turned away, a continuing legacy of more than $1 billion in budget cuts that resulted in steep reductions in classes and other programs during the state's fiscal crisis.

The failure of Congress and the administration to increase Pell grants and to prevent the reduction of grants to more than a million eligible students is bad public policy.

Based on a survey that included 60% of Long Island school districts, Newsday estimated that 58,000 out of a potential 115,000 test-takers in third through eighth grade, a little more than half the eligible students, sat out the tests.

A "school entry" is a group of four or more individual entries received from eligible students who attend the same school.

In many local school districts more than half of the eligible students sat out on recent England and Math tests.

New Jersey is among 38 states with at least some state-funded preschool programs and has one of the most extensive in serving more than a quarter of all eligible students.

The lower the EFC the poorer a student is and the more eligible they become for grant aid and subsidized loans.

But without more state money, colleges are struggling to find room for eligible students.