Sentences with phrase «affluent schools even»

A race to opulence characterizes affluent schools even as other schools scramble to provide basic supplies.

Not exact matches

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

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.

Because while I don't want my kid eating Go - Gurt either, I do have a lot of sympathy for school personnel and for parents — even these more affluent, private school parents — who believe they are providing healthy snacks when they select applesauce, yogurt and crackers over the many other options out there.

There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the student body by dint of having students from affluent, well educated, stable families will perform very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.

That school's going to get better and better, and people from the city, even people in affluent neighborhoods like where I live, are going to look at that and say, «I want a school like that.

District 4 parents have even gone so far as to accuse the school of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more affluent ones from other districts via a manipulated waitlist.

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.

Affluent respondents were less willing to spend more for their district schools, but even among them a clear majority (52 percent) preferred an increase in expenditures.

In the NCLB era, schools could narrow the proficiency gap by helping students reach a relatively low bar, even if more affluent students were achieving well over that bar.

The new federal expansion of tax - favored 529 savings plans to include tuition for private schools, a move that constitutes reverse targeting to the affluent, has even less justification.

JOHN B. KING JR: Unfortunately, the history here is that in many school districts, we see that there are schools serving high - needs students where even the entire student population is in poverty, and they're actually spending 25 to 30 percent less than a school 10 blocks away that serves largely affluent students.

«When the Best is Mediocre: Developed countries far outperform our most affluent suburbs,» by Jay Greene and Josh McGee The first - ever comparison of math performance in virtually every school district in the United States finds that even the most elite suburban school districts produce results that are mediocre when compared to those of international peers.

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

In fact, I believe low - income students who have fewer opportunities outside of school need integrated learning that builds academic, social, and emotional skills even more than their more affluent peers.

Even the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy think tank that advocates school - choice, said of the amendment, «This provision will help a relative handful of affluent families who are already choosing private schools.

It is so successful that even affluent Montgomery County, which usually resists departures from its highly rated public school programs, is trying to get KIPP to put a school in one of its low - income neighborhoods.

And even more, White and affluent families who audaciously criticize families for choosing to look for better school options, haven't opted into those same schools.

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.

Given that financial data was not available for every PTA, we could not identify PTA revenues for every one of the top 10 or bottom 10 schools.63 With more financial information, it is likely that overall PTA revenues for the most affluent schools would be even higher.

Many other measures evaluate the performance, or growth, of all students in a school, and thus a school can still be highly rated if affluent students perform well, even if low - income students do not perform well at that same school.

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.

She also dragged out the tired argument that the gap between rich and poor will be exacerbated by «giving a public subsidy to affluent families that choose elite private schools, which are unlikely to admit students who struggle academically or can not afford tuition even with a voucher.»

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.

However, they're usually only ever attached to schools or educational programmes in particularly affluent areas — and are hardly ever spoken about when thinking of kids in extremely rural locations where kids might not even go to school.

Even in schools, technological innovation tends to trickle down from the affluent to the disadvantaged.

The Granby Education Foundation, a nonprofit supporting education in the town, provided a $ 2,000 grant to launch the space, a common funding pattern across the region, where school budgets are strapped, even in more affluent towns.

«There is a big disconnect between perceptions of high school quality and the reality of college preparation, and that stems even to those who come from middle - class and affluent backgrounds.»

Even in many affluent districts the year in year out starvation of school funding negatively impacted elective programs, counselors, librarians, nurses, and other key services provided by classified personnel.

For example, in high school I started a successful mobile car detailing business as a summer job to cater to affluent individuals in our town, even though I didn't even consider myself a car enthusiast.

Yes, a relatively affluent city like Newton is blessed to have the resources to invite visiting scientists and other guests into the schools, and even pay us a small stipend for our visits (after we are first vetted by our school department's Creative Arts and Sciences Council).

At the same time, Americans are more likely to live in the suburbs today than they were in 2000, and even the young, affluent ones drawn to cities tend to move once their kids reach school age, Kolko's research shows.