Sentences with phrase «less affluent districts»

But they have helped create a two - tier education system — one in which affluent parents can help their schools weather state budget crises and maintain programs less affluent districts can only dream about.

Not exact matches

When Taylor left SMMUSD, he was eager to apply his salad bar model to a school district that was three times larger and far less affluent.

This move will create a two - tier school lunch program, forcing less affluent school districts to purchase the less expensive, pink slime beef.

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.

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 2).

Affluent respondents were less willing to spend more for their district schools, but even among them a clear majority (52 percent) preferred an increase in expenditures.

The majority of these schools are in more affluent districts, where parents have college degrees and encourage their sons and their daughters to do well academically, or in less advantaged communities where the community itself has rallied behind educational goals.

JOHN B. KING JR: Unfortunately, the history here is that in many school districts, we see that there are schools serving high - needs students where even the entire student population is in poverty, and they're actually spending 25 to 30 percent less than a school 10 blocks away that serves largely affluent students.

A majority of the more affluent districts are receiving thousands less per student and many can not make up the difference in donations.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

The district includes one school in less - affluent Highwood, where students are predominantly Hispanic and low - income, and post the lowest passing rates on state tests in the district.

Though she later told JCI she was sympathetic to the idea of the state's need to take additional measures to help teachers rated in less affluent, urban districts such as Jersey City, which tend to have tougher classroom environments, parent Gina Po told the round - table it really can't let them off the hook.

That's only three percent less than the ten most affluent school districts across The Golden State.

The Per Pupil Revenue Limit (PPRL) analysis shows that districts of higher poverty have significantly lower PPRL, and therefore less ability to receive aid and levy appropriate taxes to fund public education than more affluent districts.

California's statewide effort created a voracious appetite for new educators, diluting teacher quality and encouraging well - off districts to strip - mine teachers from less affluent communities.

The appeal for a fair funding formula that accounts for the growth of mostly urban districts that are less affluent and more diverse is the strongest call yet to fix a problem that started three decades ago.

Local school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing less - affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund schools in parts of the state where population is growing.

In 23 states, state and local governments are together spending less per pupil in the poorest school districts than they are in the most affluent school districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need schools at an even further disadvantage.

When the state legislature meets each year, there's always a school fund equalization push coming from representatives of some less affluent school districts throughout the state.

While this gives it one of the highest general fund budgets of any school system in the state, several districts that are from far less affluent communities are not far from that funding level.

And we will begin to redress some of the profound inequalities that exist today... Cities in California typically are spending much less right now — before this kicks in — than affluent districts.

The Orinda case drew special attention when it became public last fall, in part because the district had hired a private investigator to visit the child's other, less affluent neighborhood about 20 miles away.

But that doesn't mean that districts are spending equally in all schools: The neediest schools tend to employ teachers with less experience than more affluent schools, and less - experienced teachers earn lower salaries.

While the overall demographics are different, Anderson said, the districts are similar in that both include affluent and less - affluent areas.