Sentences with phrase «affluent schools around»

Although a vocal minority of parents whose children tend to be enrolled in more affluent schools around the country have refused to let their kids take the Common Core tests, no Sylvanie Williams families have opted out.

Not exact matches

The difference between affluent and poor students is around three years of schooling, it equates to about three years of schooling in each maths, science and reading literacy — that is really, very concerning.

Schools in poorer communities around the state nearly all finished lower than their counterparts in affluent suburbs, regardless of academic methods.

MARTIN: Before we let you go, is part of the play here on these new regulations is that if affluent schools realize they might lose something, that that might create some urgency around making sure that less affluent kids get what they need - is that part of the logic of this?

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

This isn't just wishful thinking; all around the country, affluent families are choosing to send their children to racially and socio - economically integrated schools, in places like Cambridge and Berkeley, but also in less likely spots such as Alexandria, Virginia; Stapleton, Colorado; and Miraloma Park, California.

The schools are designed around the belief that low - income students can achieve at the same academic levels as their more affluent peers when given access to similar opportunities and resources.

Out of the 300 largest cities (based on school - age population), about 500 schools (or around 4 percent) have students from low - income families who are outperforming their peers from more affluent backgrounds, according to the group's 2017 Education Equality Index.

So, it is infuriating that there are those who expect Black parents to disregard this reality and «stay put» while the affluent and privileged shop around for schools that meet their children's needs.

For example, the Gulf news newspaper mentioned in a recent article an incident which occurred in the United Arab Emirates, Sharjah: «The «Death Room» gang, which consisted of three people of unknown nationalities and two Pakistanis -LSB-...] the gang loitered around expensive schools and targeted children from affluent families.»