Sentences with phrase «affluent school»

She has worked in at - risk as well as affluent school communities.

As the principal at a more affluent school explains, «Health care is expensive for the middle class, too!»

Some work in more affluent school districts and have greater autonomy to create individual programs, yet still are accountable for students» learning and their performance on high - stakes achievement tests.

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

Adrienne Hill is a public education administrator with nearly 20 years of experience in both inner city and affluent school systems on the east coast.

I enjoyed teaching English to little children in CA, but if I had to teach under the present conditions, I'd go back to the affluent school and stay there.

When the state legislature meets each year, there's always a school fund equalization push coming from representatives of some less affluent school districts throughout the state.

In 23 states, state and local governments are together spending less per pupil in the poorest school districts than they are in the most affluent school districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need schools at an even further disadvantage.

Last year, the school lost 10 students to a nearby, more affluent school.

Why racial achievement gaps were so pronounced in affluent school districts is a puzzling question raised by the data.

Even in the most affluent school districts, 7.5 % of Black boys had been given an out - of - school suspension compared to 1.8 % of White boys.

With regard to teacher retention, district leaders in interviews with APA noted that they face a consistent trend where, after several years of teaching in the district, new teachers gain valuable training, coaching, and experience but then many leave SAISD for teaching jobs in surrounding, more affluent school districts.

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.

Why would a teacher want to teach in a school surrounded by poverty and have the cards stacked against them, when they can teach in an affluent school and have immediate success?

The result: «these invisible walls often concentrate education dollars within affluent school districts, and ensure that low - income students are kept on the outside.»

That's only three percent less than the ten most affluent school districts across The Golden State.

Students in low - income schools are more likely to be given an «A» for work that would receive a «C» in a more affluent school, according to «Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups: Lessons from Schools and Districts on the Performance Frontier,» an Education Trust study released last November.

He has successfully worked in both high poverty and affluent school districts and has earned a reputation as a «Transformation Schools» leader.

Yet the more affluent school divisions will consistently receive A's and B's on the new rating scale.

Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the most affluent school districts in the United States and considered a model for its simultaneous pursuit of equity and excellence, approved its first charter school in July 2011, but the sledding is still rough for those trying to open a second charter school.

The plans of both candidates offer a smorgasbord of remedies to close the achievement gap between poor and affluent school districts, including approaches to help schools close the digital divide.

Where a school with minimal resources may use cameras with fisheye lenses, a more affluent school will have state - of - the - art color cameras with superior optics.

Certainly dilapidated schools appear worse on the surface, but at the same time they don't exercise the same degree of scrutiny that often exists at a more affluent school.

For example, security firms that offer drug sniffing dogs market their services to inspect the lockers of students in the more affluent school districts.

But even at Piney Branch, which benefits from the vast resources of a huge, affluent school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, it sure seems rickety, held with lots of duct tape and chewing gum, and subject to collapse without just the right staff and parent support.

But this nearly exclusive focus on improving the education of the poor has concealed the sub-par education being provided in many of our most affluent school districts.

I live in a fairly affluent school district, but there are still many families in need right near me.

This move will create a two - tier school lunch program, forcing less affluent school districts to purchase the less expensive, pink slime beef.

The less affluent school started issuing report cards for the seven qualities in an attempt to improve them.

This reimbursement money may make a small percentage of an affluent school's lunch program or almost all of the funding for schools in high - poverty areas.

«We started coveting the underdog role because we knew we weren't a private or affluent school with unlimited resources,» Fulwiler said.

«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»

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.

Not only do they utilize farm to school grants but even maximize that by getting the produce deemed not pretty enough for sale to more affluent schools and stores.

While the program continues to generate a lot controversy in more affluent schools (lost class time, sanitation issues and concerns about the nutritional quality of the food), our Food Services department has said that in poorer schools the program has been enthusiastically welcomed by principals who are seeing increased attendance, reduced tardiness and fewer discipline problems.

The report also describes how the black / Latino schools are shortchanged in funding; teacher experience (the most experienced teachers move to the more affluent schools as soon as possible.)

The surprise is that Clinton, which routinely smacks down affluent schools in these competitions, is not full of college - bound kids from fancy neighborhoods; it is full of everyday kids whose parents work in blue - collar jobs.

Many middle and high school students (predominantly in middle class and affluent schools) are assigned four to eight hours of homework a night.

[Also] students in affluent schools are overwhelmingly more likely to have had that basis in their education than students in disadvantaged schools.

Affluent schools may be able to get away with a more relaxed approach.

And if the affluent schools and poor schools are in different school districts, there's no legal problem.

«I don't think these things don't happen in more affluent schools, but this was like a daily thing,» she says.

In more affluent schools, parents are likely to oppose measures that increase the focus on standardized test scores at the cost of student satisfaction.

In contrast, less than 7 percent of the poorest performers in more - affluent schools become principals at other schools.

«We are plenty in technological resources to enhance our education, yet the lack of equity and amount of resources that kids have in America is amazing,» he said, citing the vast difference between technology use in poor and affluent schools.

I suspect many people assume that's already happening, especially in affluent schools.

01, feels this is particularly critical at less affluent schools like the ones she has worked at in Boston, Cambridge, Mass., and Los Angeles as a literacy coach.

Critics claim that it is mainly the more affluent schools that offer computer science courses, thus denying those who attend poorer schools the chance to learn necessary skills.

Unsurprisingly, in time, the positions at these affluent schools become coveted by tired and underappreciated educators.

Or that nationally, low - income students in more affluent schools are two years ahead of low - income students in high poverty schools.