Sentences with phrase «considering wealthier school»

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Congress is considering a proposed $ 13 million study which would analyze the benefits of a free school breakfast for all students — in low - income and wealthy neighborhoods alike.

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

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.

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.

The elimination of these deductions, along with new incentives for wealthier parents to consider private schools, could be detrimental to the public schooling system as it could trigger the flight of wealth and upper - middle class families.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

The study arrives as legislators consider an override of Governor Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, which would rewrite the school funding formula to drive more dollars to the state's neediest districts and begin to close funding gaps between low - income and wealthier students.

In some cases, these schools exceed state averages in both English and math, which is significant considering the state average is pulled up by wealthier, high - performing districts.