Sentences with phrase «greater than its poorest district»
Dallas County's most affluent district, Highland Park ISD, has a tax base that is more than thirteen times greater than its poorest district, Mesquite ISD.
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They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.
The district's distinctive aim of going from good to great, rather than from poor to passable, is remarkable in the annals of contemporary school reform.
This weighted formula ensures that poorer, smaller, under - resourced districts receive a greater share of Title I funds than large, highly affluent districts.
So for these districts and their respective states, especially those in the Beltway where Hess and Petrilli live, there is greater motivation to eviscerate the accountability provisions (and go back to ignoring poor and minority kids) than to get rid of the compliance rules that actually get in the way of systemic reform.
As noted in the chart below, the wealthiest decile (10 percent) of districts have property values greater than $ 1 million per weighted student compared to the poorest decile.
More than half of Illinois state education dollars go to districts regardless of their wealth, shortchanging poor districts that have students with greater needs.
From where EdTrust sits, the uproar over the Florida plan (and similar plans like it) also ignores its contention that Cut the Gap in Half actually forces states, districts, and schools to work harder because they must improve achievement for poor and minority students at annual clips greater than the average rate.
Until now, the Malloy administration's primary mechanism to try and force parents to have their children participate in the SBAC / NEW SAT testing was to mislead and lie to parents about their rights, while at the same time, threatening that the state would withhold Title 1 federal funding that is supposed to be used to help poor children if a school district's opt out rate was greater than 5 percent.