Sentences with phrase «most affluent parents»

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But one of the complaints I most often hear from parents at more affluent schools is that their kids are «double - dipping» at breakfast, eating a full meal at home and then eating some or all of the school meal as well.

Single - sex schools are primarily private and most often a choice made by more affluent and better - educated parents.

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not get to benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

Unfortunately, we could not locate financial data for every PTA, so we could not identify PTA revenues for all of the most affluent and highest - poverty schools.51 Based on available information, however, we expect that, with more financial information, the total PTA revenue for the most affluent schools would be even higher, and students at the highest - poverty schools still would receive minimal parent contributions.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

In both districts, schools serving the most affluent students received tens of thousands of dollars in additional funding each year from parents, while the highest - poverty schools received very little, if anything, from their PTAs.

In 2013 - 14, for example, the 10 most affluent schools in Portland raised at least $ 750,000, while the 10 highest - poverty schools received very little money in parent donations.

Montgomery County's policy ensures that parent dollars do not exacerbate these inequities, but it does not address deeper staffing disparities that frequently occur between the most affluent and the least affluent schools.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

But the way affluent parents raise their kids equips them to do better in school: by the time they enter kindergarten, the skills and knowledge of the most affluent children far exceed those possessed by their low - income peers.

The number one financial concern for affluent Gen X parents is how to pay for college, yet most advisors have never been taught how to do it the right way.

The study reported in these papers was conducted in a relatively affluent population and it is not clear whether the results are generalisable across the country, especially in severely deprived areas where the problems of parenting and child mental health are most prevalent.