Sentences with phrase «less wealthy schools»

Because less wealthy schools rely more heavily on state aid, Cuomo's cuts would affect them more.

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And do they come from more or less wealthy background with parents who will be able to support them and the school?

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

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«amount of man - hours employed in the production of goods consumed» So, a person with a private tutor that puts in fewer hoursis less wealthy than a a person who goes to public school that has multiple teachers / administrators / etc.

The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

But Rick Timbs, executive director of the East Syracuse - based Statewide School Finance Consortium, argues that the adjustments are minor, and the basic inequities that have plagued less wealthy Upstate districts for years are still in force.

The fear is that it could be the tipping point for relatively mobile wealthier people to move their primary residence elsewhere, leaving the state with less revenue to fund schools.

Currently, school funding is tailored to particular areas, with wealthier counties typically receiving less than the most deprived inner - city councils.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

The head of the state's school administrators» association said $ 14.2 million in state aid specifically targeted to less wealthy...

Gov. Edward T. Schafer of North Dakota last week signed into law a school - finance measure that shifts some state funding from property - wealthy school districts to those less able to raise money through property taxes.

Less than two years ago, when the retired publisher Walter H. Annenberg announced his plans to give $ 500 million to America's public schools, one of his hopes was that other foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals would join his philanthropic crusade for education.

This creates the illusion of spending more on poor schools and less on wealthy schools than is actually being spent.

Drawing from Department for Education (DfE) data, Teach First found that pupils who receive free school meals (FSM) were less likely than their wealthier counterparts to become an apprentice in every area of England.

As for grammar schools, there is the stigma that these institutions are reserved for the children of the wealthy and middle class, with statistics that reflect that children from working class backgrounds are far less likely to obtain a place.

Research by the Sutton Trust in 2014 showed that pupils eligible for free school meals who scored in the top 10 per cent nationally at the end of primary school were significantly less likely to be entered for the EBacc, compared to their wealthier peers who achieved the same level aged 11.

On a parallel track, in the 1960s, federal officials recognized that states and local school districts were systematically spending less to educate poor kids compared to wealthier kids.

Nearly two decades ago, a landmark study found that by age 3, the children of wealthier professionals have heard words millions more times than those of less educated parents, giving them a distinct advantage in school and suggesting the need for increased investment in prekindergarten programs.

A Black student in a district with below - average property wealth (less than $ 6,363 per pupil) has an adequacy level of 61 %, but his peer in a wealthier school district is only a bit better at 69 %.

Poorer schools struggle with fewer resources and less experienced faculty members than wealthier districts, making it harder for students to keep up, let alone excel.

First, wealthier counties are able to spend more on schools while simultaneously making less taxing effort.

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.

As shown below, despite taxing 11 cents less than their counterparts, the top 5 percent of property - wealthy school districts in the state access over $ 1,100 more per WADA than the bottom 5 percent.

Often more progressive and with less emphasis on standardized tests, unzoned schools are popular with a wealthier, more educated parent demographic.

In my last post, I made this argument: it seems unfair to me that schools that are wealthier, whiter and with less English learners seem to do better on the Core Index Score, the new measurement for LAUSD schools.

Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect the programs and students in their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less minority counterparts.

School leaders in affluent areas are able to call on support from wealthier parents to provide funding for better facilities, unlike leaders in less advantaged schools, where «parents aren't in a position to help financially».

The Education Law Center argues that it's an important factor because when wealthy families opt out of public education, schools are left with higher concentrations of poor children, and there is less political will to boost funds for public schools.

Local school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing less - affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund schools in parts of the state where population is growing.

The aim is to reverse a trend in which bright poor pupils are overtaken in school by less able wealthier children.

«We are worried that increased competition for school places will further exacerbate the social segregation in schools, with wealthier parents able to buy properties closest to favoured schools and children from poorer families being squeezed out and concentrated in the less popular schools.

So schools with a physical location in wealthier areas like metro Atlanta could probably receive the state average funding while those in lower - income areas would likely be eligible for less.

This followed an earlier study from the department finding that «many high - poverty schools receive less than their fair share of state and local funding... leav (ing) students in high - poverty schools with fewer resources than schools attended by their wealthier peers.»

We eliminated, for instance, Title 1 status because these days, sad to say, the percentage of poor kids a school needs to qualify (I think it's less than 40 percent) means some pretty wealthy schools like Wayzata's and Edina's get Title 1 funding.

Furthermore, because many of these schools serve wealthier populations, their success is actually less impressive.

The elimination of the SALT deduction would create enormous pressure for additional tax relief from wealthier communities and shrink the revenue available for their own schools via property taxes and for less wealthy communities via state aid packages.

It would make their former schools wealthier and less diverse.

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

In Pennsylvania, for example, high - poverty school districts spend 33 percent less per pupil than wealthier districts in the state.114

School districts serving communities where property is worth less simply can not generate the same level of revenue at the same tax rate as wealthier communities.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

There is also the fear that with poverty comes crime and other problems less prevalent in wealthy areas, not to mention fears of higher tax burdens, sagging schools, and the like.

The least wealthy families have less than half the chance of the wealthiest of sending a child to a top - rated school, according to analysis from the teacher training group.

He said parents sending their children to private school were not the «uber wealthy» and a fifth of these families had incomes less than # 50,000 per year.

Teachers in high - poverty schools report fewer computers and less training on how to use technology with students compared to their colleagues in wealthier districts — leading to decreased confidence for these teachers when it comes to using educational technology.

«We know that many pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to receive the same high - quality advice and guidance than their wealthier peers, which makes it harder for them to make informed decisions about their future,» she told Schools Week.

In approximately 1,500 school districts across the country, there are about 5,700 Title I — or poor — schools that receive, on average, $ 440,000 less per year than wealthier schools.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.