Sentences with phrase «affluent boarding school»

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Doing so, it seems to me, would result in terrible disparities between affluent and poor schools, or schools where the administration / school board choses to make nutrition a priority and those where it takes a back seat.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

Not far away, in another affluent, suburban school district in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an average of $ 63,000 per student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79 students with a variety of classifications, including learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»

Board members are typically highly educated, affluent, civic - minded, and well informed about the characteristics of their schools.

He acknowledged that the board is frustrated that few schools have applied and that the more affluent schools with heavy parent involvement have raced to ask for independence.

In addition, a school serving low - income students of color is overseen by a nonelected board whose president lives not in Milwaukee but in an affluent white suburb, and who does not have an educational background but is head of the chamber of commerce.

With School Choice on the rise, there are online schools and homeschooling for starters, or boarding schools for the more affluent.

Some Loudoun parents told the school board that economic integration also has had benefits for the county's affluent and middle - class students.

Through examining course offerings at high schools in 12 cities (and at three elementary schools in Chicago), the report, demonstrates that, 64 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, black and brown students are still denied «access to inspiration» in comparison with their white, more affluent peers.

Tasked with redrawing enrollment boundaries in fast - growing Loudoun County to ease overcrowding, some school board members have suggested doing away with the practice of dispersing students from a cluster of high - density Leesburg apartment complexes to several affluent schools, some up to three miles away.

While the district is advocating for the A-F ratings, board members want to ensure that the system does not favor affluent school districts.