Sentences with phrase «by wealthier districts»

The state's chief of schools is proposing to «level the playing field» among school districts by giving extra money to schools in rural areas who have trouble matching salaries offered by wealthier districts.

He cited the explanation given by a wealthy district for its request to back out of a cross-busing plan with a poor district: The wealthy district did not want to integrate with the poor district because of the latter's «old and dilapidated buildings, lack of adequate equipment and materials, [and] lack of science programs.»

Not exact matches

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

Early on the Pubs (who spent almost $ 12M in this district most donated by the wealthy beneficiaries of that tax cut) pushed the tax cut.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

«With the conceded disparate funding, compounded by the fact that taxpayers within the poorer school districts end up subsidizing, at least in part, the tax credits granted to taxpayers within the wealthier districts, I find that plaintiffs have stated a viable equal protection claim,» Lynch wrote.

Stefanik defeated a wealthy Democrat, Aaron Woolf, by more than 20 points in a district the president carried just a couple years ago.

Military veteran Rachel Reddick was trounced by wealthy philanthropist Scott Wallace in Pennsylvania's 1st District.

Democrats are haunted by the 2014 loss of Sean Eldridge, the wealthy husband of Facebook CEO Chris Hughes, who never recovered from the perception that he was out of touch with the district.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

A close analysis of unofficial results from the NYC Board of Elections by DailyKos blogger «brooklynbadboy» finds that Zephyr Teachout won some of the city's wealthiest state assembly districts while Governor Andrew Cuomo won some of its poorest.

Supporting wealthy «outside - the - district» candidates is the Democratic party allowing themselves to be sucked in by the conservative agenda of «might makes right.»

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

Additionally, Imperiale wants to prevent hyper - development in District 1, and believes that Council Member Chin has «sold out» communities within the district by favoring wealthy developers over everyday constDistrict 1, and believes that Council Member Chin has «sold out» communities within the district by favoring wealthy developers over everyday constdistrict by favoring wealthy developers over everyday constituents.

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.

Amid a fiscal crisis, taxes rose, and school aid was cut through a program called the Gap Elimination Adjustment that focused most on wealthier, suburban districts generally represented by Republicans.

For too long the 10th district has been represented by someone who cares only about the wealthy while ignoring the issues impacting working - class residents.

Elsewhere, the victory by wealthy allergist Steve Kagen (D) in the open 8th District seat in Wisconsin will likely save the DCCC from spending heavily from its own coffers to win the race.

For too long the 10th district has been represented by someone who cares only about the wealthy elite while ignoring the issues impacting working - class residents.

East Aurora is considered a wealthier district by the state, he said, and that means its state aid reimbursements are often less than surrounding districts.

Dr. Tisch said she believed that the anger about the standards was stoked by the state teachers» union, which fought the evaluation system, and noted that most of those who opted out came from wealthier suburban districts.

Cuomo in January proposed a tweak that would boost the total amount by 1 percent, or $ 428 million, but critics have said that his plan funnels money to more wealthy districts, thus depriving rural, poor districts — including those in the Adirondack Park — both their rightful share and relief for taxpayers.

They use less than one - third the amount of water used by residents of wealthier districts, but pay four or five times as much for the water.

She and her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) hunt for squirrels to survive — her preferred weapon is a bow and arrow — while hoping not to hear their names called in the Hunger Games, in which a young girl and boy from each district are picked by lottery for an annual, televised death match — killing each other for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful.

Synopsis: When incumbent Congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major gaffe, two wealthy CEOs decide to try to gain influence in their district by putting up a rival candidate.

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Study Shows That Wealthy Suburban School Districts Are Only Mediocre by International Standards

Palo Alto, Calif — In 1967, John Serrano Sr. was told by his son's school principal that the boy, then 6 years old, was considered nearly gifted, but could receive a decent education only if the family moved out of East Los Angeles to a wealthier school district.

The 5 - to - 2 decision last month marked a victory for wealthy school districts that were alarmed by a 1991 decision by a district court that disparities between wealthy and poor districts should be erased.

In Texas, for example, the most recent school - funding overhaul was financed largely by forcing wealthy districts to raise their property - tax rates and then distributing the proceeds among their poorer neighbors.

School - finance reforms passed last year by Wisconsin lawmakers in an effort to reduce the gap between wealthy and poor school districts could have the opposite effect.

While federal assistance has an ameliorating effect on the difference in school budgets between wealthy and poor districts, the District Court rejected an argument made by the State in that court that it should consider the effect of the federal grant in assessing the discrimination claim.

Teachers now seek raises by moving to wealthier districts.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

The flow of private donations to largely small districts serving wealthy parents will continue despite the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula championed by Gov. Jerry Brown and approved by the Legislature in June.

By and large, the nation's wealthiest PTAs are found in high - income school districts or in high - income schools within lower - income districts.

Pennsylvania has the largest funding gap between wealthy and low - income school districts of any state in the country, a problem exacerbated by the current impasse in the state budget fight.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

We have found ways to make wealthy enclaves the north star of districts, either by creating zones in economically homogeneous neighborhoods or by using selective admissions tests.

When Rodriguez v. San Antonio ISD was filed, students in poorer districts received only two - thirds of the state funding that was received by students living in wealthier districts.

The state was joined by Montgomery County, the wealthiest district in the state, and hired noted economist Eric Hanushek to testify that money doesn't make a difference in student outcomes.

Nearly 9 in 10 respondents said it was a problem for public schools in low - income communities to have fewer qualified teachers than public schools in wealthier areas, and a majority felt that shortages should not be resolved by recruiting individuals who are not fully prepared — the very thing many districts have been forced to do in response to deep shortages across the state.

In one section she says, «With a tax base bolstered by one of Detroit's wealthiest suburbs, Bloomfield Hills High is the kind of public - school districts elsewhere would only dream of having.

West County is not a wealthy district, yet our residents have proven their commitment to our district by supporting increased WCCUSD costs year over year.

In some cases, wealthier towns got even more funding as poorer districts lost state funds, a point made painfully clear by the judge.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

According to a supplement to this year's «Is School Funding Fair: A National Report Card,» issued by the Education Law Center (my employer) and Rutgers, Connecticut is the only state consistently among the five wealthiest states to have districts on the list of America's «most financially disadvantaged school districts.»

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18