Sentences with phrase «better than the poorest districts»

Indeed, if anything, the results indicate that the most affluent districts fare better than the poorest districts, in terms of total funding, when Democrats are in power, although this difference is not statistically significant.

Not exact matches

Concerned that varying education programs are creating «two Connecticuts, one for the rich and one for the poor,» the state's department of education is studying whether wealthy districts offer substantially better programs than poorer ones.

The district's distinctive aim of going from good to great, rather than from poor to passable, is remarkable in the annals of contemporary school reform.

In L.A., however, where most charters serve poor and minority students — and appear to be doing a better job of it than many of their district - school counterparts — there is more at stake.

Even students in the poorest districts appear to do better in a competitive system, as exists in the Boston area, than they do in areas in which one or two districts dominate a metropolitan area, like Miami.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

Poor schools can see what resources they're entitled to and use their fair share of these funds in ways that will better serve their kids, rather than standing last in line for what the district has to offer.

The research seems to indicate, says Tuck, that if schools in the poorest, mostly white districts are better resourced than even schools in the wealthiest, high - minority districts, there would seem to be factors beyond funding formulas and district property taxes in play.

If state law requires students to be taught for six hours a day, for example, a district couldn't use Title I funds to teach poor children for the sixth hour, because that would leave them no better off than before.

But in many cases, suburban districts are doing only marginally better than big city peers in improving student achievement, and doing terribly by kids from poor and minority backgrounds.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

The article also references the closure of the Rochester Leadership Academy Charter School (a school under the management of the NHA) due to poor academic performance; however, given that the schools we examined exhibited slightly better academic performance than the schools in their surrounding districts, it is hard to know which is the exception and which is the rule.