Sentences with phrase «few wealthy students»

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Backed by some of Chile's wealthiest investors, Idea Factory has set up a few locations throughout Santiago to give inventors a place to work and to provide students and budding entrepreneurs with access to classes and influential leaders.

«We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few,» the group wrote in a letter to the lawmaker.

Worse, it creates a stigma around cafeteria meals if only poor students eat them, while wealthier students grab a few slices of pizza from the student activities sale table.

He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.

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While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

First - generation, low - income students disproportionately wind up at campuses with the fewest resources; their wealthier counterparts, at the best.

Poorer schools struggle with fewer resources and less experienced faculty members than wealthier districts, making it harder for students to keep up, let alone excel.

On average, the wealthiest districts educate fewer economically disadvantaged, students of color and English learners than the poorest districts.

Once again, I was one of few students who wasn't white or Asian and, as I was now noticing, wealthy.

IUPUI has found the students who take at least 15 credits per semester tend to be wealthier, have fewer outside commitments, and are more academically prepared than those who take 12, and are more likely to be female and live on campus.

We know that fewer low - income students graduate from high school than their wealthier peers.

This followed an earlier study from the department finding that «many high - poverty schools receive less than their fair share of state and local funding... leav (ing) students in high - poverty schools with fewer resources than schools attended by their wealthier peers.»

Another interesting study reported by USA Today a few short years ago suggests that students coming from wealthier households are more likely to have recess in schools.

High - quality preschool improves students» social, cognitive and developmental readiness for kindergarten, putting them on track to long - term success in school.5 The benefits are especially critical for low - income students, who typically hear 30 million fewer words spoken than their wealthier peers by age 2 and face an uphill battle to early literacy and math proficiency throughout their education.6

However, Connecticut is one of the few states with higher student - teacher ratios in poorer districts as compared to their wealthy districts.

In 23 states, students in the poorest districts receive fewer dollars per pupil than students in wealthier districts.

Teachers in high - poverty schools report fewer computers and less training on how to use technology with students compared to their colleagues in wealthier districts — leading to decreased confidence for these teachers when it comes to using educational technology.

Because wealthy families tend to live in communities with larger tax bases and fewer needs, their children's schools have typically spent much more per student than have schools in poor districts.

Students from wealthy families usually face few barriers to obtaining such information.

Most multimedia features minority students, and the website is available in 100 languages, suggesting that Rocketship makes few attempts to subtly select for wealthier, whiter students (Rocketship Schools 2017a).

Now, I've narrowed down my process to a few key indicators and then just look for the same patterns that have made my students and I so wealthy.

Cooper Union School of Art senior Casey Gollan, who is among the students occupying the Peter Cooper Suite, has said in a telephone interview that historically, the school's finances were backed by the philanthropy of a wealthy few and clever real estate investments.