Sentences with phrase «even wealthy districts»

Even wealthy districts like Piedmont are worried.

Even the wealthiest districts must contribute no more to the foundation formula than 27 percent of the foundation amount.

Even wealthier districts paying higher salaries can not easily find math, science, special education and bilingual teachers, who are in especially scarce supply.

Not exact matches

The Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) has created a widening gap between Syracuse and the wealthier school districts in New York, even though was implemented in the 2010 - 11 school year during the recession in order to alleviate the hole in the New York state budget, according to New York State United Teachers, a teachers» union in the state.

It should be a budget imperative for a state as wealthy as ours, even if it means irritating high - resource school districts which won't do as well, and the Republicans who love them.

It cites increases in teacher salaries, a shift in school funding from local property taxes to state taxes, and a reduction in the disparities between poor and wealthy districts as financing changes that were successful «even in the first year.»

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per student.

They even outperformed their peers in the largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district, where 84 percent of third - graders passed.

In a 2015 Washington Post report, it was stated that for the second year in a row, the school's students showed positive testing results, with their third - graders showing a 95 % passing rate in math, even outperforming the 84 % passing rate of third - grader peers from the «largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district».

Wealthy families can send their kids to prestigious prep schools like Choate, Loomis, or Hotchkiss while families who don't have the same resources are often relegated to the district schools in their cities and towns, even if they're not working for their kids.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

About 80 percent of KIPP students in 15 states and the District have family incomes low enough to qualify for federal lunch subsidies, and they are all of the hormone - addled middle school age that makes even teachers at wealthy private schools tremble.

The research seems to indicate, says Tuck, that if schools in the poorest, mostly white districts are better resourced than even schools in the wealthiest, high - minority districts, there would seem to be factors beyond funding formulas and district property taxes in play.

Wealthy districts» ability to raise more revenue at comparable or even lower tax rates has two impacts — wealthy districts are able to outspend poorer districts with comparable or lower tax rates, and homes of similar values are taxed at a higher rate in poorer school disWealthy districts» ability to raise more revenue at comparable or even lower tax rates has two impacts — wealthy districts are able to outspend poorer districts with comparable or lower tax rates, and homes of similar values are taxed at a higher rate in poorer school diswealthy districts are able to outspend poorer districts with comparable or lower tax rates, and homes of similar values are taxed at a higher rate in poorer school districts.

In some cases, wealthier towns got even more funding as poorer districts lost state funds, a point made painfully clear by the judge.

Unfortunately, carryover effects of prior funding decisions still require the use of hold harmless clauses to ensure that many school districts (including a mixture of wealthy and average wealth districts) continue to receive a least as much state and local revenue as was provided in prior sessions, even when those amounts were inequitable.

About half of low - income students in the state live in more suburban districts and even in the wealthiest districts still fail at two to three times the rate of non-disadvantaged students.

The program supplements local districts» income, meaning districts in impoverished areas can get extra funding to get on an even footing with districts that have a larger or wealthier tax base.

But he says concerns about worsening pay gaps between wealthy and poor counties may be well - founded, even if states adopt a similar approach to lawmakers in Tennessee and several other southern states, which implemented minimum pay requirements for districts.

And while life in town is certainly cozy — and a visit to the Historic District on Main Street can delight the senses (even as it depletes the pocket book)-- even wealthy central Marylanders are not immune to life's risks.