Sentences with phrase «higher poverty districts»

Students In High Poverty Districts More Than Twice as Likely to be Taught by Non-Effective Teachers

Holyoke Public Schools is the lowest performing school and highest poverty district in Massachusetts.

NEA's poll revealed that just 23 percent of all their members and members in high poverty districts believe their districts are well prepared to implement the new standards.

Often these high poverty districts neighbor wealthier school systems where children have access to greater resources.

Another important part of the equation involves «progressive» school funding policies, with sufficiently high funding levels and higher rates of funding for high poverty districts.

In 1998, in New Jersey's school funding case, called «Abbott,» the state's highest court ruled that preschool is an essential component of a constitutionally adequate education and mandated universal full - day preschool for 3 - and 4 - year - olds in the 31 highest poverty districts in the state.

I believe Congress and the state of California need to take a hard look at the challenges that high poverty districts like Oakland face, because our District is hardly unique.

Baker acknowledges the controversy over whether reducing class sizes actually improves student outcomes, but asserts that classes should not be allowed to increase beyond 30 kids in a class in high poverty districts.

if they can't read to learn by third grade and absorb new information from text, which is true for a significant portion of the population — in high poverty districts you're looking at anywhere between 80 and 97 percent of students, right.

Holtz: Yes, I believe the current state funding formula is «adequate;» however, I believe we could focus more of our efforts within the current funding formula on rural transportation costs along with additional support for our high poverty districts.

«For a high poverty district like Greenville, MAEP underfunding is devastating,» said Matt Williams, of the Mississippi Center for Justice.

I teach in a racially diverse, high poverty district in the western part of the state, just outside of Pittsburgh.

825 in the U.S. — meaning the highest poverty districts received on average $ 825 less per student than the lowest poverty districts.

For example, in Jennings, Missouri, Superintendent Tiffany Anderson successfully turned around a racially isolated, high poverty district by adopting a holistic approach that «[used] the tools of the school district to alleviate the barriers poverty creates.»

In these high poverty districts, is a greater proportion of the state allocated money reserved for standardized testing?

With regards to other sources of local revenue, the lowest - poverty districts receive $ 871 per student, compared to $ 562 per student in the highest poverty districts, further contributing to the inequality.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

Extending that average to the national statistic on principal turnover (22 %) results in «$ 36 million on just hiring costs, not on - boarding, and not training» for high poverty districts nationwide.

Not exact matches

The option became available to high - poverty schools and school districts in all states in the 2014 - 2015 school year.

The area represents the highest concentration of poverty in our district and these students typically qualify for a free, nutritious lunch during the school year.

The Community Eligibility Program (CEP) is a meal service option for schools and school districts in low - income areas — allowing the nation's highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without the burden of collecting household applications.

In August 2015, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a joint letter to the School Superintendents Association announcing that the CEP is expanding to allow all high - poverty school districts to offer free lunch and breakfast to students without requiring their families to submit applications.

Last year, state lawmakers voted to fund every district more equally, whether it's in an affluent suburb or a high - poverty community.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.

The money is going to districts with higher levels of poverty.

Nearly half of rural districts are now considered «high need,» due to decreasing family incomes and rural poverty.

The district encompasses Syracuse University, a burgeoning downtown and some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city.

And while he and Rumore agreed that the city's high poverty rate creates particular challenges for schools and that increased funding is necessary for a turnaround, Quinn said the district needs to «get its act together» before asking for any more money.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

Lavine, focusing on education policy, said improved school districts and graduation rates would help prevent crime and reduce the city's high rate of poverty.

As our report suggests, we need more education funding in high needs districts and a serious investment of state funds in combatting child poverty if we are to improve graduation rates.

Instead, he proposed lowering the levels of poverty and updating Census data used to calculate aid for each school district, changes that he argues would drive more aid to high - needs districts.

The critical report is part of the Alliance for Quality Education's multi-year campaign to get billions more in school aid for districts like Utica that suffer from high poverty rates.

Districts in fiscal stress are more likely to have a high level of poverty and low graduation rates according to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

In poorer districts, the high concentration of children living in poverty means students come to school with added baggage - hunger, housing instability, exposure to crime and violence - that can affect how well they do in the classroom.

Last year, NYU's Furman Center found Community District 3 (LES, East Village, Chinatown) had the second highest number of seniors living below the poverty line in the entire city.

During his initial primary campaign for District 4's council seat last year, Greene focused on Syracuse's high poverty rate and the city's school dDistrict 4's council seat last year, Greene focused on Syracuse's high poverty rate and the city's school districtdistrict.

It punishes students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts simply because the students live in segregated poverty,» Hawkins continued.

The business officials agreed that enrollment is down overall, but «high need» districts with lots of kids in poverty or those who don't speak English are seeing an increase, which also helps push up overall costs.

Under one plan that has been discussed by members, districts would start off with the same - sized pot, with extra money then going to districts with the highest levels of poverty.

«Cuomo's test - punish - privatize - and - segregate policy is using high - stakes testing to label students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts as failing.

The situation is especially dire for neighborhoods in the 19th district, where communities like East New York face higher rates of unemployment and poverty, Smitherman said.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

The FBI might make an example of DC, but if DC is in fact doing what many high - poverty districts are doing throughout the country, is it fair to punish it disproportionately?

Our version of PBL did work to improve achievement as compared to business - as - usual instruction in high - poverty, low - performing school districts.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

In high - poverty districts coast to coast, standards for graduation have declined.

Under portability and absent formula changes, a district with a high child poverty count would continue to generate higher Title I allocations per eligible child, but would be forced to share these gains with other districts across its state.