Sentences with phrase «favor wealthier school»

Cities in New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania generally feel the worst financial squeeze, according to the Education Law Center's school funding fairness report, because their local funding sources favor wealthier school districts over needier areas — and because they sometimes spend more money than necessary in affluent suburbs.

Districts created all sorts of policies and practices that favored the wealthier schools.

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She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time,» and she said Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools than on the state's poorest schools.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

The Cuomo - backed legislation failed to pass last session, with those opposed citing a complexity of reasons including the idea that giving resources to privately run schools undermines public schools and the legislation would unfairly favor the wealthy.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, said the additional school aid would flow through both the foundation aid formula — which favors urban districts — and to alleviate the gap elimination adjustment, which would benefit wealthier, suburban districts.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

Opponents have said the idea of giving resources to privately - run schools undermines public schools, and the legislation would unfairly favor the wealthy.

She calls it the «major civil rights issue of our time», and she says Cuomo is furthering policies that favor spending more money on New York's wealthy, predominately white schools, than on the state's poorest schools.

Among the rare schools where such opportunities exist, a study from the journal Educational Policy shows participation to favor students who are wealthy and white.

Leaders of two French - immersion public charter schools in Uptown New Orleans, Audubon Charter School and Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans, both made efforts this week to dispute allegations that their admissions procedures favor students from wealthy families.