Sentences with phrase «ensure affluent districts»

Grouping all the subgroups together, she said, will ensure affluent districts are still held accountable for the success of their high - need students.

Not exact matches

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).

Driver wants to ensure that her students are afforded all the opportunities that are available in other more affluent districts.

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

This weighted formula ensures that poorer, smaller, under - resourced districts receive a greater share of Title I funds than large, highly affluent districts.

The result: «these invisible walls often concentrate education dollars within affluent school districts, and ensure that low - income students are kept on the outside.»

While the district is advocating for the A-F ratings, board members want to ensure that the system does not favor affluent school districts.