Sentences with phrase «in affluent districts»

But I have not seen concerted attention to the schools and teachers serving poor kids to make sure they get the extra resources they need to implement the Common Core as effectively as it will be in affluent districts.

Lawmakers send additional money to poor districts, but just because their students don't do as well as those in affluent districts doesn't mean that the money was wasted.

Without a doubt, the schools with scores demonstrating under 20 % proficiency on the SBAC spent more time on test prep than the schools in affluent districts with higher SBAC scores.

Not exact matches

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

The site of Park 51 is a commercial district with almost no residential housing in the area and the stuff that is there are affluent types.

Just to be sure, Holgate had visited a Chinese fortune teller in Chatswood — an affluent business district in Sydney's lower north shore.

We heard from directors and managers working in districts of every size and socioeconomic makeup, and in schools large and small, disadvantaged and affluent we heard many of the same issues and concerns echoed.

We do have a several districts on the NSLP, and most of them, admittedly, are in more affluent areas with none more than 10 % of the students qualifying for free & reduced meals.

For affluent suburbs like Glencoe, free housing helps attract top talent to head their park districts and allows those employees to live in town, leaders say.

Also on Thursday, Daley said he believes that Park District programs are offered even - handedly throughout the city despite a Tribune study that concluded teenagers in poor neighborhoods are provided fewer offerings than teens in more affluent areas of Chicago.

-LSB-...] districts fortunate enough to have the assistance of groups like WITS in New York City, or with affluent populations able to pay higher meal prices, better food is more achievable.

Unlike a large urban district like my own, where close to 90 % of children qualify for free / reduced price lunch, in these affluent areas only a handful of children are economically disadvantaged.

I live in a fairly affluent school district, but there are still many families in need right near me.

If this district is very affluent, then the Food Service department is not getting very much money in federal reimbursement.

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

The two Republicans who will be running on both the GOP and the new party lines against incumbent Democratic Assembly members are Rebecca Harary, challenging Dan Quart in the affluent Silk Stocking District on the East Side, and Jon Kostakopoulos, challenging Rebecca Seawright, whose East Side district is just to the north of District on the East Side, and Jon Kostakopoulos, challenging Rebecca Seawright, whose East Side district is just to the north of district is just to the north of Quart's.

In the more affluent parts of the district, Times penetration is strong, but those votes were going to likely go to Mr. Jeffries anyway.

Just under 300,000 in population, predominantly white, rural and lower income, the 46th Senate district cobbled together farming communities, depressed industrial towns and affluent Albany suburbs.

The existing Foundation Aid Formula does not properly calculate the local contribution and has too many floors, ceilings, phase - ins, and add - ons that distort the final aid distribution, driving too much funding to wealthy districts.5 The Executive Budget imposes an additional calculation on top of the existing distributions and increases funding to all districts including those that are affluent and not in need of further State support.

According to the Citizens Budget Commission, most of the $ 1.4 million education increase in this year's budget is allocated outside Foundation Aid formulas; and as a result, affluent districts benefit proportionately more than the neediest districts.

The residencies of contender Mervyn Dymally and Wright were questioned because both of them owned homes in the district as well as in more affluent areas outside of the district.

The Assembly district, roping in several affluent northern Brooklyn neighborhoods, overlaps with Mr. de Blasio's old City Council district, where he remains enormously popular.

In Minnesota, Democrats are close to landing a prized recruit to run against Representative Erik Paulsen in an affluent Minneapolis suburban district that Mrs. Clinton carried by nearly 10 percentage pointIn Minnesota, Democrats are close to landing a prized recruit to run against Representative Erik Paulsen in an affluent Minneapolis suburban district that Mrs. Clinton carried by nearly 10 percentage pointin an affluent Minneapolis suburban district that Mrs. Clinton carried by nearly 10 percentage points.

The district, suburban in character, is one of the most diverse in the city, with a booming South Asian population and traditionally affluent Jewish and Italian - American communities.

«We knew that some of the more affluent areas in Erie County have quality coverage, but there are still many homes and businesses within our County relying on slow Internet speeds that simply can't meet 21st century technological requirements,» added Erie County Legislator Patrick B. Burke (7th District).

In 2016, Ms. Killian lost to Mr. Latimer by more than 10,000 votes in the district, which covers about a third of Westchester, extending from Yonkers to the affluent town of BedforIn 2016, Ms. Killian lost to Mr. Latimer by more than 10,000 votes in the district, which covers about a third of Westchester, extending from Yonkers to the affluent town of Bedforin the district, which covers about a third of Westchester, extending from Yonkers to the affluent town of Bedford.

Democrats view the seventh district, which includes Rice University and affluent neighborhoods on Houston's west side, as a ripe target because it went narrowly for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 after previously supporting Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain by large margins in the 2012 and 2008 presidential contests, respectively.

I was lucky enough to be raised in an affluent suburb, St. Charles, but as with most wealthy communities, not too far away, there are school districts that are severely underfunded.

During my 17 years as a high school principal I have worked in districts that were rural economically disadvantaged as well as affluent suburban.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing enabled affluent districts to spend more per student.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

While many affluent suburban districts have lower achievement than we might expect, some districts are producing very high achievement even when compared with that of students in other developed countries.

First, relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, with opt - out less common in the disadvantaged districts that are often the target of reform efforts.

But state accountability systems and the desire to rationalize the lack of quality options have encouraged the elites to compare their affluent suburban districts to the large urban ones in their state.

But this nearly exclusive focus on improving the education of the poor has concealed the sub-par education being provided in many of our most affluent school districts.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

And if the affluent schools and poor schools are in different school districts, there's no legal problem.

Problems exist in large urban districts and in low - income rural areas, elites often concede, but they have convinced themselves that at least their own children are receiving an excellent education in their affluent suburban districts.

Not far away, in another affluent, suburban school district in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an average of $ 63,000 per student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79 students with a variety of classifications, including learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»

Unfortunately, student achievement in many affluent suburban districts is worse than parents may think, especially when compared with student achievement in other developed countries.

State accountability systems emphasize in - state comparisons between suburban and urban districts, which give impressions of relatively high achievement in more affluent suburban districts.

A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.

Do opt - outs tend to be concentrated among relatively affluent districts, or are they most common in schools that have historically performed poorly on state tests?

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

The district, located in the heart of Silicon Valley's seemingly affluent electronics center, had filed for bankruptcy last May under Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Act, stating that it could not pay $ 10 million in salary raises it had agreed to in three - year contracts signed two years ago with its two employee unions.

There are an endless number of interesting stories that could be told with this information, but the one that really stood out to us is that achievement in many of our affluent suburban public school districts barely keeps pace with that of the average student in a developed country.

One in 4 middle schools in the Duke study were among those with the highest absence rates, but that dropped to 1 in 12 among middle schools serving the district's most affluent students.

District 4 parents have even gone so far as to accuse the school of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more affluent ones from other districts via a manipulated waitlist.

WASHINGTON — Black and Hispanic students in an affluent Maryland school district fall behind their white and Asian peers in mathematics as early as the 3rd grade, and the gap widens steadily through the elementary grades, a new study concludes.