Sentences with phrase «funded than their peers»

Exploring income shows us that student groups in districts with more low - income students tend to be less funded than their peers in districts with fewer low - income students.

Connecticut's education funding system is broken — with charter school students receiving on average $ 4,000 less in funding than their peers in district schools.

And for TPSB to claim those families deserve less funding than their peers in the district's system is discriminatory.

«Policies and practices put in place by city leaders a number of years ago have yielded greater equity over time, although charter students continue to receive less public funding than their peers in district schools,» he said.

Not exact matches

For instance, women - run companies are far more likely to get funding through peer investing than through traditional funds.

While a fund with higher than average fees isn't necessarily bad, its manager will have to do better than his peers to deliver a comparable return on investment.

The fund has beaten more than 75 % of its peers over the past three, five, 10, and 15 years.

iShares Core ETFs have outperformed more than 75 % of their mutual fund peers on average over the past 10 years1

Once the momentum of this flow of money gets into full speed, public fund managers search for ways to produce returns that are better than their peers, so the window begins to open for IPOs.

Historically, early - stage venture returns for small funds — defined as those with less than $ 250 million of committed capital — have outpaced those of their larger peers.

And 93 % of our funds have performed better than their peer - group averages over the last 10 years.

A recent poll conducted on behalf of RBCsup ® / sup finds that students who receive less than one - quarter of their funding from parents feel more confident in their financial decision making and are more likely to make and stick to a budget compared to their peers who receive more financial support from their parents.

A company that has taken on lots of debt to fund expansion will likely have a better P / E ratio than its peers as the money it is borrowing doesn't reduce earnings.

XLE pulls its stocks from the S&P 500 rather than the total market, so its portfolio is somewhat smaller than that of peer funds, and it favors large - caps.

Listed companies are larger and better connected than their unlisted peers, and often have access to state - bank funding, so the mounting backlog hits smaller outfits hardest.

Specifically, STORE Capital retains a larger than average proportion (most peers retain just 10 % to 20 %) of AFFO to fund growth.

Peer - to - peer (P2P) lending, also known as crowdlending, is similar to bank loans in that borrowers receive funding and are required to make regular monthly repayments with interest, but the funds are raised through a crowd of investors rather than a bPeer - to - peer (P2P) lending, also known as crowdlending, is similar to bank loans in that borrowers receive funding and are required to make regular monthly repayments with interest, but the funds are raised through a crowd of investors rather than a bpeer (P2P) lending, also known as crowdlending, is similar to bank loans in that borrowers receive funding and are required to make regular monthly repayments with interest, but the funds are raised through a crowd of investors rather than a bank.

Republican Council members, a decided minority in the city, traditionally bring home less in discretionary funds than their Democratic peers.

In «From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review,» the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high - risk research and chance discovery.

He published more than 20 papers in peer - reviewed journals and won additional funding from KAUST in internal competitions designed to keep faculty members» grant - writing skills sharp.

But P. Kay Lund, director of the NIH Division of Biomedical Research Workforce in the Office of Extramural Research, and Misty Heggeness, a labor economist in the same division, note in a joint statement to Science Careers that the detected impact of newly received NIH funding on mobility is «minimal» and less than that of children's ages and peer environment quality.

Simonov said the inability of financial experts to make better investment decisions than their untrained peers is likely due to a lack of talent and the fact that succeeding in the mutual fund market is an extremely difficult task.

She published more than 180 peer review papers, is funded by several granting agencies, including the Michael J Fox Foundation, and sits on several national and international review panels.

Professor Prakash's research work is well funded and has been exceptionally productive, groundbreaking and successful with more than 660 peer - reviewed scientific publications, 11 books and over 40 patents and patent applications.

He has received more than 70 grant - years of peer - reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers.

Over the course of his career, he has served on grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, actively participated in the development of national and international nutrition policy, authored over 300 research papers, has been awarded more than seventy grant - years of peer - reviewed research funding and given hundreds of lectures around the world.

For example the research revealed that second graders in RF schools actually spent less time reading than peers in schools without RF funding, for the sake of what was described as «high quality» instruction.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

By exploring districts» racial makeups, we see that across the board, Illinois has historically funded student groups in majority - White school districts better than their peers in districts with more students of color.

Across the board, student groups in poorer districts are less resourced than peers in wealthier districts and will receive more new funding as a result.

Higher needs populations of students as defined in Vincent v. Voight (FRL, SpN, ELL) are at a greater funding and spending disadvantage than their more affluent peers since 2004.

On average, Arizona charter students are funding about $ 1,100 less than their average district peer.

In the third of a five - part series, John Dickens looks at who exactly is benefiting as schools receive more than # 6bn of pupil premium funding and questions if is really closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers

Wisconsin's private voucher and public charter schools receive, on average, $ 2,200 less in per pupil funding than their public school peers.

One such study was released this April, showing that students in the only federally funded voucher program, in Washington, D.C., performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate.

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.»

For example, African American children born in poverty who participated in early childhood education programs had higher graduation rates, higher adult earnings, and fewer arrests than their peers.102 A similar study found that students who participated in early intervention programs maintained higher high school GPAs, were two times more likely to have attended a four - year college, and were more likely to hold a job than their peers.103 Furthermore, research finds that participation in state - funded preschool programs improves children's language, literacy, and mathematical skills.104

If you see a fund with higher returns than its peers then you must check that where are these returns coming from.

Prosper is a peer - to - peer lending service, which provides a different type of funding for loans than those that traditional financial institutions offer.

The fund trails more than 80 % of its peers over pretty much every trailing measurement period.

Hard to know whether that will help: over the five years under its current management, the fund has been a lot more volatile (bigger maximum drawdown but much faster recovery) and more profitable than its peers; the question is whether, in uncertain times, investors will buy that combo — even after the generous cost reduction.

In fact, 93 % of Vanguard mutual funds performed better than their peer - group averages over the past 10 years.

Quantum's fund, despite having significant cash holdings, has managed to deliver a performance at par or sometimes better than its peers.

Also, the Sharpe ratio (3 year) is 1.4 which is better than peers and indicates that the fund has better risk - adjusted performance and also indicates that higher returns do not come with an excess of additional risk.

The risk metrics for the fund is healthy with standard deviation at 3.36 that is better than peers having similar profile.

The fund is up an average of 9 % a year over five years, better than 99 % of its foreign large - value peers... The goal is to offer investors broad exposure to international markets, but in a portfolio that doesn't simply mimic its benchmark, the MSCI EAFE Index.

The Value Fund (blue) not only returned more than twice what their global equity peers made, but also essential brushed aside the market collapse at the end of the 1990s bubble and the stagnation of «the lost decade.»

* And 93 % of our mutual funds performed better than their peer - group averages over the past 10 years.

Portfolio allocations show the fund to be more small - cap oriented than its peers, with a 15 - 22 per cent allocation to Small - Cap Stocks.

Even though the fund suffered a smaller decline in 2008 than its peer world allocation funds did -LRB--20.6 vs. -29 % per Morningstar), it significantly declined against its reference portfolio of ETFs.