Sentences with phrase «as wealthier schools»

The issue that divided them so deeply was whether or not school districts need to make sure that schools serving children from low - income families get at least as much state and local funding as wealthier schools.

Not exact matches

«According to a study from researchers at Harvard Business School, the University of Mannheim, and Yale University, wealthy individuals report that having three to four times as much money would give them a perfect» 10» score on happiness — regardless of how much wealth they already have,» reports the release.

A child of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Cherny says he watched his mom and dad — who worked as a school counselor and a teamster, respectively — struggle with a banking system that largely catered to the wealthy.

Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

As a single mom, Lorelai is forced to humble herself before her wealthy parents in order to fund Rory's education at an exclusive private school.

We might as well expect public schools for the indigent to weaken the standard of private education among the wealthy; or asylums for the deaf and blind, to make Possessors of perfect eyes and ears careless of their safety and indifferent to their preservation; or humanity towards the aged and the suffering to promote idleness and improvidence among the young and healthy... as to imagine that asylums for inebriates will promote and increase drunkenness.

The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

(Note that BYU's financial picture is fuzzier, because it's backed by a wealthy church and doesn't face the same disclosure requirements as most other schools.)

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

«I am worried that the proposals could lead to pupils from poorer areas being disadvantaged as popular schools expand, and wealthier and better informed parents are able to set up their own schools,» Mr Salter said.

The independent expenditure effort was heavily supported by charter school supporters like Paul Singer, a wealthy hedge - fund manager and investor who supports charter school expansion, as well Daniel Loeb, a director at Success Academy and Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official who is married to former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a critic of teacher tenure.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

On one side are powerful and wealthy figures who see our public schools as a potential source of profit.

On the same day as upstate protests, UFT members on March 24 picketed the offices of Republican senators Andrew Lanza on Staten Island and Marty Golden in Bay Ridge to tell them that our public schools — not wealthy charter chains — need their support.

West Genesee doesn't have the extras that wealthier Downstate districts enjoy, such as Long Island's Syosset schools, where kindergartners learn Russian and high schoolers can be trained by Metropolitan Opera coaches.

By school too as atm wealthy schools in big cities send to get more per pupil than schools like the one where my husband works which is very deprived, but in a rural county.

The ad depicts Nixon taking care of her son at home with her wife, Christine Marinoni, walking him to school with shots of wealthier and poorer parts of the city, as well as footage of her walking through the streets and waiting for the subway.

While they may bill themselves as «reformers,» the wealthy elite don't want to address the real reason why some students in some of our schools are struggling — and that's poverty.»

Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

NYC Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio has released the second video in as many days in his official campaign to convince Albany to give him the power to tax wealthy city residents and use the revenue to fund universal pre-kindergarten and after - school programs.

Right now Republicans are in danger of being shut out of that general election thanks to Cox and state legislator Travis Allen splitting the GOP vote, even as Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom steadily leads the field and fellow Democrat and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa surfs a wave of TV ads paid for by wealthy charter school supporters.

The schools affiliated with networks, known as CMOs, make up the wealthiest and most influential half.

It should be a budget imperative for a state as wealthy as ours, even if it means irritating high - resource school districts which won't do as well, and the Republicans who love them.

City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered a semi-apology Monday for tweeting a story that cast Upper West Side parents opposed to a school desegregation plan as little more than wealthy white racists.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

I was lucky enough to be raised in an affluent suburb, St. Charles, but as with most wealthy communities, not too far away, there are school districts that are severely underfunded.

They looked down on the lives of the wealthy as vapid and vain, while still using the privilege that wealth brought them at every opportunity: from funding 100 percent of Rory's four years of prep school and four years at Yale, to financing The Dragonfly Inn, to months - long trips to Europe.

The woman behind the scandal involving Bash's mother, Annette Hargrove, Kathryn is now married to the wealthy Pascal Barrett and spearheads an inspiring youth rehabilitation movement, as well as being involved in a local private school.

Now in her 20s herself (though now, ironically, playing a teen), Gellar exudes a captivatingly carniverous carnality as Kathryn Merteuil, a bored, insanely wealthy NY prep school student for whom selfish psychosexual mindgames provide the ultimate thrill.

The film never really divulges just how or why Halsey became a public school teacher, which would seem a nearly impossible place to meet a wealthy adult bachelor, as if it were a job one just stumbles into until something better comes along.

The Extra Man (R for sexuality) Unlikely - buddies comedy about a disgraced, cross-dressing, prep school teacher (Paul Dano) who moves from Princeton to NYC where he shares an apartment with a college professor (Kevin Kline) who spends his evenings as an escort for wealthy widows.

Texas» approach of funneling money from wealthy districts to poor ones as a way to equalize school spending is likely to be severely curtailed in whatever school finance plan emerges from the session, according to sources in the state.

It cites increases in teacher salaries, a shift in school funding from local property taxes to state taxes, and a reduction in the disparities between poor and wealthy districts as financing changes that were successful «even in the first year.»

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per stSchool, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per stschool districts spend per student.

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

The study examined 15 year - olds educated in both private and state schools and found that they were approximately six months behind pupils in Asia and wealthy parts of North America and Europe, with pupils in Shanghai being as much as three years further ahead in maths.

As O'Brien notes, a system of school choice would sever the ties between housing and education, which is a policy that could keep «many people from becoming cash - poor and wealthy — a precarious thing — in the first place.»

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

As for grammar schools, there is the stigma that these institutions are reserved for the children of the wealthy and middle class, with statistics that reflect that children from working class backgrounds are far less likely to obtain a place.

The mayor, who campaigned on a promise to charge wealthy charters rent, blasted the Bloomberg administration's stance on co-locating charters as «abhorrent,» hours after he reversed a plan that would have allowed three of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies to expand into traditional public schools.

Not only does Rocketship outperform nearby schools, but its schools also outperform wealthier California school districts, such as the Palo Alto Unified School Disschool districts, such as the Palo Alto Unified School DisSchool District.

Her so - called evidence that the school is cooking its books is that Randolph's ACT scores are far below the state average, as if such comparisons to wealthy districts somehow disqualify Randolph's impressive year - over-year improvement in most areas.

They argue that it is unfair to expect students at schools in impoverished areas to perform as well as those in wealthy areas, and withholding additional funding for schools in need will stagnate performance levels.

In Detroit schools, only 25 % of students graduate high school, and out of those who graduate only half have basic literacy skills, despite education being as well funded as most schools in Western Europe, and being better funded than schools in all but the most wealthy local suburbs.

Chile's voucher program has led to widespread socio - economic stratification and a decline in public school enrollment, all while making little to no impact on student achievement.63 The program's design essentially creates three school systems: public schools attended mostly by the lowest - income students; voucher - subsidized private schools attended by more middle - class students, as they can charge additional fees or tuition; and nonsubsidized private schools attended by the wealthiest students.

Many of these revisions will help close the equity gap of over $ 1,000 per student between the wealthiest and poorest school districts that is inherent in Texas's continuing over-reliance on disparate property tax values across the state, as noted in the chart below.

But new voucher programs made them available to wealthy students as well, even those who already had access to excellent public schools.

In 2002, Dick DeVos addressed the Heritage Foundation, emphasizing the need for his audience (wealthy, white conservative donors and activists) to remain behind the scenes and have other faces as the public advocates of school choice.

Although it is not clear how much of this was donated specifically from parents, as wealthy individuals and companies also donated to the charity, called West London Free School Foundation Trust.