Sentences with phrase «benefit poor school districts»

He also proposed cutting business taxes and spending billions on property tax relief that he says would particularly benefit poor school districts.

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Miner and de Blasio said many poor school districts, including Syracuse and New York City, would benefit from the change.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

With public schools, he wants to change the way funds are distributed so that districts with concentrations of poor and English learning students receive greater funding, although there is some controversy that not all such districts will benefit as described.

It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to help integrate public schools racially and socioeconomically, whether poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their district school counterparts.

Not the educators; not the suburban parents who are complaining about the «out - of - control testing regime»; but those students, mainly poor and minority, who are the most vulnerable, many of whom will be «tracked» into less rigorous vocational curriculum pathways in ways that benefit school district graduation rates and ratings and the educator bonuses that follow.