Sentences with phrase «from wealthier districts»

All students are more likely to enroll in top - tier colleges when they come from wealthier districts.

Last month, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed sweeping changes in the state's school financing formula that would dramatically shift education funding from wealthier districts to poorer ones.

Texas» approach of funneling money from wealthy districts to poor ones as a way to equalize school spending is likely to be severely curtailed in whatever school finance plan emerges from the session, according to sources in the state.

A low - income student enrolling in college is five times as likely to enroll at a top school if s / he comes from a wealthy district rather than a poor district;

The root of the current fight comes from failings in the current «revenue - sharing» requirement that shifts some property tax revenues from wealthy districts to their lower - income neighbors that are willing to tax at the same or greater tax rate.

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A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

Kozol interviewed a parent from a wealthy school district in Ohio.

From the very poor to the ridiculously wealthy... How can I maintain my efficiency as a large district, and cater to the wide spectrum of taste diversity while -LCB- insert any reformer's agenda platform here -RCB-, and stay in my tiny little budget?

When he voted for that bill he said to the people of his district I approve borrowing more money from foreigners to hand it over to the wealthy so we can have an excuse to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security after November!

«From the pending ethics investigation against him to his decision to ignore his district in favor of his wealthy donors, people were fed up with Chris Collins and his cronies,» Zellner said.

As The NYT reported today, the coalition of wealthy business types, which seemed strikingly similar to the Committee to Save New York when it was first announced earlier this year, are mobilizing an effort on removing money from politics with mailers in swing legislative districts.

The FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office and the Manhattan District Attorney were looking into whether NYPD brass received gifts and expensive trips in exchange for favors from wealthy businessmen with ties to the mayor.

Democrats are haunted by the 2014 loss of Sean Eldridge, the wealthy husband of Facebook CEO Chris Hughes, who never recovered from the perception that he was out of touch with the district.

A close analysis of unofficial results from the NYC Board of Elections by DailyKos blogger «brooklynbadboy» finds that Zephyr Teachout won some of the city's wealthiest state assembly districts while Governor Andrew Cuomo won some of its poorest.

Harvey Weisenberg, the longtime assemblyman for the 20th district — which includes everything from the wealthy Five Towns to impoverished North Park — was retiring, and he encouraged Kaminsky to run in 2014.

HARLEM — State Senate candidate Robert Jackson is criticizing a $ 100,000 donation from a wealthy, conservative Republican to a campaign committee supporting Marisol Alcantara, Adriano Espaillat's handpicked successor to fill his 31st District seat.

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.

They will vote on May 20 and will likely determine the next member of Congress from the heavily Democratic district, which begins in the working - class segment of northeast Philadelphia and fans out into the wealthy Montgomery County suburbs.

Elsewhere, the victory by wealthy allergist Steve Kagen (D) in the open 8th District seat in Wisconsin will likely save the DCCC from spending heavily from its own coffers to win the race.

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.

Koppell, if he runs, would be counting on some of the wealthy Democrats to vote against Klein for the failure of comprehensive campaign finance and ethics reform, which stalled thanks to a lack of support from Andrew Cuomo and Klein's Republican partners in the Senate, and on Hispanics in the district who are, in Koppell's words, «very disappointed at the way he failed to get the Dream Act through.»

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

Dr. Tisch said she believed that the anger about the standards was stoked by the state teachers» union, which fought the evaluation system, and noted that most of those who opted out came from wealthier suburban districts.

The district also includes students from both low - income and wealthy households and also is one of the nation's most desegregated systems, a product of a 1970s court - order merging of city and suburban districts to further desegregation.

She and her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) hunt for squirrels to survive — her preferred weapon is a bow and arrow — while hoping not to hear their names called in the Hunger Games, in which a young girl and boy from each district are picked by lottery for an annual, televised death match — killing each other for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful.

The script also explores the disparity between the McFarland runners and their competitors from much wealthier school districts.

are struggling with them in wealthy and in middle - and low - income schools; in rural, suburban, and urban districts; in magnet, regular, district, charter, parochial, and independent schools; along the coasts, in the American heartland, from south to north, and everywhere in between.»

It cites increases in teacher salaries, a shift in school funding from local property taxes to state taxes, and a reduction in the disparities between poor and wealthy districts as financing changes that were successful «even in the first year.»

The Sequoia Union High School District in Redwood City, California (one of the wealthiest in the state), filed suit in May 2002 in San Mateo County Superior Court to stop Aurora Charter High School from receiving its fair share — either in the form of rent money or buildings — of the $ 88 million bond measure that Sequoia passed in 2001.

Gov. Edward T. Schafer of North Dakota last week signed into law a school - finance measure that shifts some state funding from property - wealthy school districts to those less able to raise money through property taxes.

Last fall, the conflict between charter and district schools intensified after someone leaked a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to raise up to $ 490 million from foundations and wealthy individuals to double the number of charter schools in the city, with the goal of enrolling about half the students in the district within eight years.

All but the wealthiest districts receive their funding entirely from the state rather than from local taxes, a consequence of the 1978 Proposition 13 tax initiative that left local authorities with little ability to raise revenues.

are struggling with them in wealthy and in middle - and low - income schools; in rural, suburban, and urban districts; in magnet, regular, district, charter, parochial, and independent schools; along the coasts, in the American heartland, from south to north, and...

Wealthy districts that get additional funding from their taxpayers aren't likely to want to share it with out - of - district kids.

His diocese, which covers 40 schools in three counties that run the gamut from wealthy to downright impoverished, recently centralized all operations under three professionals experienced in doing all the things required to run a healthy school district: marketing, financial management and fundraising.

Our current school funding system often bolsters school district boundaries between rich and poor, holding resources in wealthy communities and keeping low - income students from accessing broader opportunities.

Increased expenditure, Ryan argues, is a poor substitute for integration: It «take [s] as given — either as a matter of strategy or necessity — that poor and minority districts will remain separate from white and wealthier ones....

Until three years ago, Beloit, a relatively wealthy district in north central6Kansas, didn't receive one penny from the state through the equalization formula.

In a 2015 Washington Post report, it was stated that for the second year in a row, the school's students showed positive testing results, with their third - graders showing a 95 % passing rate in math, even outperforming the 84 % passing rate of third - grader peers from the «largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district».

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

That's a big jump up from the Fs that North Carolina once garnered in this category during the 2000s — but that B grade only comes as a result of the state's recent move to slash funding for the wealthy districts and keeping funding levels for poorer areas stagnant.

Unfortunately, when we looked at the data from California's 20 largest districts, it wasn't clear that poor schools were getting more funding than wealthier schools.

Given the ability and willingness of many wealthy districts to raise more local revenues, it is time for the State to properly account for district wealth and reallocate state resources from high - wealth to low - wealth districts.

Further, the Court found that inadequate funding from the state is leading to inequalities and disparities between wealthy and poor school districts, because some districts are only able to raise a fraction of the money through local levies as other districts, despite having a higher local levy tax rate.

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

This is a terrible disservice to magnet families, who will be on the hook for anywhere from $ 1000 to $ 2500 each year for poorer families, and $ 3000 to $ 6000 for wealthier families depending on which district operates the school and how much it gets for each student from the state's basic magnet subsidy.

While about 40 percent of Wiseburn students come from families with incomes low enough to qualify them for free and reduced - price lunch, in one important way, Wiseburn is a wealthy district.

Both agreed that the Legislature should address educators» retirement and health insurance issues and criticized the so - called «Robin Hood» system of distributing revenue from wealthier school districts to poorer ones.

But because the money to build most schools came from property taxes, wealthier districts could more easily raise the substantial amount of funding needed to build and renovate school facilities.

«There's some core principles that all the leaders here believe in — making sure that we continue to provide resources to the poorest school districts and not creating a situation where we can suddenly shift dollars from... poorer districts to wealthy districts, or alternatively, that education aid suddenly can start going to sport stadiums or tax cuts at the state level,» Obama said in remarks to the media after the meeting.