Sentences with phrase «improve needy schools»

The report's main author, Grattan school education program director Peter Goss, says the indexation gap frees up money to use to improve needy schools and lift the quality of teachers.

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Indeed, the governor — in both his annual State of the State speech and a policy book released later in the day — sounded warnings about the importance of lifting the neediest New Yorkers out of poverty through comprehensive education programs that address academics while also battling hunger, improving mental health and providing after - school care.

Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to «summer school» to dive into professional development and to learn from their peers about what's working — and what's not — to improve education for needy students at priority schools.

While some of these proposals offer higher compensation or other financial incentives for educators to work in the neediest schools, others reward high - level performance focused on improved student achievement and other identified criteria.

The idea is to give schools with the largest numbers of needy students more money and also more autonomy over spending, in the hopes of reducing inequities and improving achievement.

And Monday DeVos praised virtual schools as a choice method, despite evidence that virtual (online only) schools do not seem to improve test scores or graduation rates — especially for the neediest children.

, despite evidence that virtual (online only) schools do not seem to improve test scores or graduation rates — especially for the neediest children.

While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.

The report further remarked that national education policies, including the expansion of charter schools, ignore race and poverty and have «consistently failed» to meet the goal of improving education for our neediest children.

Draining more money from impoverished school districts will not improve education for Connecticut's neediest children.

In other words, the State Board of Education has come up with an anti-accountability accountability plan — one that would make it difficult for Californians to figure out which students and what schools are improving; to know whether schools deemed as improving have actually improved; and to assess how well districts are doing with the state's neediest students, its 1.4 million English - language learners.