Sentences with phrase «education than poorer districts»

Wealthier schools in the state spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer districts.

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Indeed, in Education Week «s own dataset, 40 states spend more in the poorest quartile of districts than in the richest.

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.

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.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

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.

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.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department of Education is expanding two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.

The data is very clear, AF students are less poor than students in the district schools, they have less English as a second language needs, they go home to schools where English is usually the primary language and they have less special education needs.

More than half of Illinois state education dollars go to districts regardless of their wealth, shortchanging poor districts that have students with greater needs.

All AF schools enroll fewer poor, ELL and Special Education students than the districts from which they draw.

Poorer districts couldn't fill the hole, and more than 20,000 education jobs were lost.

However, data from the State Department of Education reveals that about 90 percent of Connecticut's charters serve a less needy population than their host districts: fewer poor children, fewer English Language Learners or fewer students with disabilities, with most having a combination of two or three of these categories.

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

Rubin co-authored a report in October showing that charter schools in New Jersey educate significantly smaller percentages of poor students, special education students and students from non-English speaking families than the public school districts in which they are located.

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

«A petition drive is a poor way to make drastic changes within a school setting,» said Kristen Fisher, president of the Anaheim Elementary Education Association, a union representing more than 800 teachers in California's Anaheim City School District.