Sentences with phrase «districts than poor ones»

Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school districts than poor ones.

Not exact matches

«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.

In fact, one such group, funded in part by the hedge funder currently trying to murder Argentina for fun and profit, is spending more than three times the poors entire budget in just one sleepy upstate Senate district.

What about those states at the bottom of Education Trust's spectrum, the ones that spend considerably less on poor districts than on rich ones?

Part of the answer is in the question: states that spend considerably more on poor districts than rich ones can be ranked very low by Education Week because the McLoone Index is measuring the cost of increasing the spending on rich districts toward that on poor ones.

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.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

Nevada is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

Wealthy school districts in Connecticut typically spent $ 1,227 more per student than poorer ones during the 1981 - 82 school year, according to a recent state report.

But Oklahoma is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

The technology gap in public education is narrowing, with one computer for every 5.3 students in America's poorest districts — less than half a student behind the national average.

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 NCLB law gives parents the choice to withdraw their students and send them elsewhere, rather than address the concentration of low - performing minority students — typically poor ones — that did not have the resources to get find their way to more distant schools in their own districts.

For instance, at Cleveland's George Washington Carver Elementary School, located in one of that city's poorest neighborhoods, 73 percent of the fourth graders passed the state reading test — a big jump from previous years and more than double the school district average.

Because more than 90 percent of school revenues come from state and local sources, lawmakers worried that districts would play a shell game with new Title I funds — transferring a dollar of local resources to rich schools from poor ones for every new federal dollar earmarked for poor schools that arrived.

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

Probationary teachers with more than one poor observation would be given limited support and then terminated if they do not improve It's time for districts to take advantage of this time period to weed out ineffective teachers.»

Ohio's «2011 - 12 value - added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value - added results than those that serve more - affluent ones.»

Barbourville, Ky., the poorest school district, spends less than one - third that amount.

One way it has done this is to establish schools in poor districts, which may receive more funding than rich ones in some states.