In California, these shortages are impacting districts serving low - income and English learner students the hardest, but
even affluent districts are struggling to recruit and retain high - quality teachers,» said Linda Darling - Hammond, President and CEO of LPI and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
Not exact matches
Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park
District programs are offered
even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more
affluent areas of Chicago.
While many
affluent suburban
districts have lower achievement than we might expect, some
districts are producing very high achievement
even when compared with that of students in other developed countries.
District 4 parents have
even gone so far as to accuse the school of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more
affluent ones from other
districts via a manipulated waitlist.
Affluent respondents were less willing to spend more for their
district schools, but
even among them a clear majority (52 percent) preferred an increase in expenditures.
JOHN B. KING JR: Unfortunately, the history here is that in many school
districts, we see that there are schools serving high - needs students where
even the entire student population is in poverty, and they're actually spending 25 to 30 percent less than a school 10 blocks away that serves largely
affluent students.
«When the Best is Mediocre: Developed countries far outperform our most
affluent suburbs,» by Jay Greene and Josh McGee The first - ever comparison of math performance in virtually every school
district in the United States finds that
even the most elite suburban school
districts produce results that are mediocre when compared to those of international peers.
Even if
districts successfully implement policies to redistribute parent dollars and reduce funding inequities, they might still risk broader disengagement by
affluent parents.
In fact, according to an analysis by Urban Institute, students in Colorado's poorest
districts receive only an additional $ 401 per student relative to more
affluent districts, a ratio that has remained relatively unchanged for the past 20 years
even as we get smarter about the impacts of income inequality and stratification across society.
Even in the most
affluent school
districts, 7.5 % of Black boys had been given an out - of - school suspension compared to 1.8 % of White boys.
In 23 states, state and local governments are together spending less per pupil in the poorest school
districts than they are in the most
affluent school
districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need schools at an
even further disadvantage.
Even homogeneous,
affluent districts were bound to fail.
Even in many
affluent districts the year in year out starvation of school funding negatively impacted elective programs, counselors, librarians, nurses, and other key services provided by classified personnel.