Sentences with phrase «even affluent districts»

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.