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By Lucas Rodgers Daily Local News (Chester County) Last year Pennsylvania had the highest public school funding gap in the country between rich school districts and poor school districts, according to data from the United States Department of Education.

Not exact matches

Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education said «the gap between rich and poor school districts is growing under Gov. Cuomo.»

He also joined Paladino is calling for education reform, declaring the disparity between schools in rich and poor districts «the civil rights issue of our time.»

«The gap in per student funding between the poorest 20 percent and richest 20 percent of school districts is $ 8,733 and has grown over the course of Cuomo's tenure.»

We want the gap between rich and poor school districts to close and all school and educators be treated fairly.»

«Governor Cuomo's policies have caused the spending gap between rich and poor school districts to grow 24 percent to a record setting $ 9,923 per pupil,» said Jasmine Gripper, AQE's legislative director, in a statement after the budget passed.

Despite Cuomo's comments about the differences between rich and poor districts, his address brought a lukewarm response from the Alliance for Quality Education, which focuses on the wealth disparities among schools.

While the court's 7 - to - 2 decision to invalidate the system was widely expected across Texas in recent weeks, the justices surprised observers by voting 5 to 4 to allow the legislature to wait until next year's regular session to come up with another solution to the problem of funding disparities between rich and poor school districts.

Taking a new tack toward resolving Michigan's long - running dispute over school - finance equity, Gov. John M. Engler has announced a plan to help close the gap between rich and poor districts by making better - off systems bear more of the burden of school - employee retirement costs.

Our current school funding system often bolsters school district boundaries between rich and poor, holding resources in wealthy communities and keeping low - income students from accessing broader opportunities.

The gulf between North Carolina's richest and poorest school districts is widening despite an effort by the legislature to close the gap, a recent study of local school finance says.

But it wasn't until she was in college and read Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, the Jonathan Kozol book that exposed dramatic disparities in the quality of education between rich and poor communities, that she realized her calling was to be a business administrator in a diverse school district.

As noted above, SB 2145 makes strong, necessary improvement in bringing greater equity between property - poor and property - rich school districts.

Local school districts rely heavily on the revenue that comes from local property taxes, creating funding disparities between rich and poor districts.

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is being dropped by half of Massachusetts school districts in favour of a new test (PARCC) which the Commissioner of the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said would «help the state reduce the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, white and minority, by giving teachers better information about which kids need extra support».

There, facing a school funding lawsuit, the legislature passed a sweeping act in 1993 that evened out school funding between rich and poor districts, but also set high standards for achievement and created a high - school graduation test requirement.

Lawmakers were working under a June 30 deadline set by the high court to enact a constitutional school funding formula that addresses disparities between rich and poor districts.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

Heavy reliance on local revenues for school funding exacerbated inequities in per pupil funding between property - rich and property - poor districts.

Some education analysts argue that mixing the student bodies of these two schools may be a vital factor in improving education, and a handful of districts and private schools have begun enacting so - called «economic integration» policies that seek to create income - diverse schools, complete with rich kids, poor kids and everyone in between.

But the solutions to our district's problems are not — and never have been — to privatize our precious community resources, to facilitate playdates between rich and poor students, or to remake our neighborhood schools as nexuses of gentrification and displacement in our rapidly changing city.

In fact, funding disparities between North Carolina's rich and poor school districts have only grown since the late»90s.

In Massachusetts, the Legislature increased school spending by $ 10 billion over time and sharply reduced the funding gaps between rich and poor districts.

That includes, according to Till and other critics, yawning pay gaps between rich and poor counties and uncertainty for school district leaders now tasked with negotiating scores of contracts with essential administration, critics say.

Some suggested that, with districts presumably having to negotiate scores of contracts with school personnel, it would exacerbate pay inequities between rich and poor counties and spur more employment complaints or lawsuits.

They go to professional development for school librarians, and to help provide equity between poor and rich districts» book budgets.