Sentences with phrase «districts with the highest concentrations»

School social workers can help increase school breakfast participation by encouraging schools in their district to implement a breakfast after the bell program and to offer breakfast for free to all students (particularly in schools or school districts with high concentrations of students certified for free and reduced - price school meals).

School nurses can help increase student nutritional intake through school breakfast participation by encouraging their school (s) to implement a breakfast after the bell program and to offer nutritious breakfasts at no cost to all students, particularly in schools or school districts with high concentrations of students certified for free and reduced - price school meals.

By concentrating black votes in Rangel's district to protect his seat, the likelihood also becomes greater that legislators will end up with a new majority Latino district with a high concentration of Dominicans, whose numbers have grown 40 percent in the city over the past ten years.

The upshot, per the article, is that «children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.»

The measure would show that school districts with high concentrations of students from low - income families receive more state and local revenue than districts with low concentrations of students from low - income families.

While federal cuts to education would cause all districts to either reduce services or compensate for deficits with state or local dollars, Trump's proposed budget would have the most severe impact on districts with high concentrations of poverty and other challenges.

Most egregiously, the bill proposed by Chairman Alexander eliminates the targeting of federal dollars to schools and districts with the highest concentrations of low - income students.

Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown created the Local Control Funding Formula, which allows school districts with high concentrations of low - income students, English learners and foster youth to allocate millions of state funds.

Brown's Local Control Funding Formula, centerpiece of his budget plan for education, is designed to feed more money to districts with high concentrations of disadvantaged students.

Children in the school districts with the highest concentrations of poverty score an average of more than four grade levels below children in the richest districts.

Governor Jerry Brown's funding formula would give extra money to districts with a higher concentration of low - income students and English language learners.

If there was any one reason why Brown initiated LCFF with the Supplemental and Concentration grants included it was so districts with high concentrations of challenged students would be better served.

The portability amendment would have slowed states to allocate Title I funds to districts based on the number of poor students who attend, but the White House criticized the idea saying that 25 percent of school districts with high concentrations of poverty, above 25 percent, would lose as much as $ 700 million in federal funds while low - poverty districts would gain as much as $ 470 million.

I set out to answer what I thought were a few simple questions: How much money has the state invested in the biggest districts with the highest concentrations of disadvantaged students?

However, this year, as with past Public Policy Institute surveys, 70 percent of respondents said they agreed with the funding formula's key purpose, steering extra dollars to school districts with higher concentrations of low - income students and English learners.

We hope that lawmakers — especially those who represent districts with a high concentration of charters — listen to their constituents and level the playing field once and for all.»

Millar said Georgia needs to amend its formula to give more money to school districts with high concentrations of students in poverty.

Since the program is federally funded, most districts with high concentrations of low - income children can feed all students at little or no extra cost, significantly leveraging the considerable investment New Jersey makes in public education.

Additional monies - known as concentration grants - would also be provided to districts with high concentrations of disadvantaged students.

Not exact matches

In poorer districts, the high concentration of children living in poverty means students come to school with added baggage - hunger, housing instability, exposure to crime and violence - that can affect how well they do in the classroom.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

A recent Education Law Center report found that in 2013, 18 states provided essentially the same funding to districts with high and low concentrations of disadvantaged students.

The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

To supplement the Basic Grant, the Concentration Grant was added in 1978 as part of an effort to focus funds on districts with higher numbers of low - income students.

For example, districts that allow school choice through a common application have high schools with higher black concentrations than their catchment areas, but lower white concentrations than their catchment areas.

But his proposals as a congressman to cut Medicaid's federal funding could affect school districts, especially those with a higher concentration of low - income students.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

Legislative district 24 has our highest concentration of public charter schools with nearly 50 percent, while legislative district 27 has the highest concentration of public charter school students, nearly 29 percent.

One study of 83 school districts found that «the districts with the fewest applicants were those with the most challenging working conditions, higher concentrations of poor and minority students, and lower salaries for principals.»

Across the district, schools with higher concentrations of poverty are more likely to have teachers with less experience, according to a State Journal analysis of Madison School Distridistrict, schools with higher concentrations of poverty are more likely to have teachers with less experience, according to a State Journal analysis of Madison School DistrictDistrict data.

School district funding is divided into three categories: Basic grants given for all students, with different levels based on grade span; supplemental grants for students in poverty, English learners and foster children, called high - needs students; concentration grants for school districts with more than 55 percent of high - needs students.

Last year's opt out movement had the highest concentrations in suburban districts in Long Island and upstate New York where there was a collaboration of experienced educators with parents and students.

We have school districts with few needy children, and those with high concentrations of children living in poverty, English language learners and students with disabilities.

Those conversations, he explains, led to a tightly coordinated effort between the district, the United Way of Greenville County, and other community partners to tackle poor attendance, raise academic achievement, and boost graduation rates in the White Horse Road community, a section of the county with the highest concentrations of poverty.

And, under the Local Control Funding Formula, districts receive additional dollars for each English learner, low - income, homeless and foster child they enroll: 20 percent per student and more dollars in districts with large concentrations of high - needs students.

WISH so far has a high concentration of students with special needs and ethnic diversity and shows test scores higher than the district average.

In addition, RIDE manages a number of federal grants and programs that provide funds to school districts for such programs as aid for schools with high poverty concentrations, the education of students with disabilities, and school breakfast and lunch programs.

A new report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, co-written with researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC), makes the case that charter schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County are «directly and indirectly undermining» district efforts to redesign student assignment boundaries to break up high concentrations of racial segregation.

This left some districts — Edgewood and San Antonio ISDs, for example — with high concentrations of minority students and low property values, Drennon said.

It is against the law in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to drive a vehicle while legally drunk, with a blood alcohol concentration BAC of.08 or higher.

Some parents at the school with the highest concentration of Native kids are frustrated with the school district.