Not exact matches
The comparability requirement in ESEA is the mechanism through which the federal government can ensure that the public education offered to poor
students is at
least as well resourced as that offered to their more
affluent peers.
In Montgomery County, for example, the PTAs of the 10 most
affluent schools raised at
least $ 700,000 in 2014, or an average of $ 170 per
student, and the PTAs of Anne Arundel County's 10 most
affluent schools raised at
least $ 240,000, or an average of $ 100 per
student.
Although 69 % of
students who applied for the DC vouchers lived in wards 1, 5, 7, and 8 (the
least affluent areas of the city), only 40 % of DC voucher schools are located there.
At
least among those completing a bachelor's degree, however,
student borrowers are not increasingly from less
affluent circumstances.