Word: cents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report said that rich suburban school districts were siphoning away the Cleveland system's tax base, and that Cleveland's scanty teacher force could barely man the classrooms. It said that the city needed a better "vocational-education" system, since only 30 per cent of its high school graduates even went to college. Using the jargon of the early sixties, it said that schools in "culturally-deprived" areas needed special help, since the "culturally-deprived" homes in Cleveland's ghettoes were "not able to do their vital part" in educating children...
...formulas PACE prescribed for repairing Cleveland schools were hard for Clevelanders to take. At a time when the city's annual school budget was about $130 million, PACE estimated that all its proposed reforms would cost another $56 million--almost 45 per cent of the total school budget...
...past years, between 85 and 90 per cent of the girls accepted here have come, while this year, the figure will probably be somewhere between 75 and 80 per cent. The decline represents about 30 girls. The Harvard yield (the number of students who accept) will probably be no more than one per cent away from the normal 85 per cent...
...students have decided, however, to ask that the Government faculty decrease the influence the essay will have on the final grade--50 per cent in the past--instead of eliminating the exam altogether...
Ross cited parental loss or separation or a household move as the determining factor in 76 per cent of the suicides threatened or attempted by children and adolescents, noting that problems which an adult would regard as minor might seem insurmountable to adolescents...