Sentences with phrase «less affluent school»

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.

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

The less affluent school started issuing report cards for the seven qualities in an attempt to improve them.

01, feels this is particularly critical at less affluent schools like the ones she has worked at in Boston, Cambridge, Mass., and Los Angeles as a literacy coach.

As a result, schools with minimal donations — usually less affluent schools — have fewer resources to supplement clubs, sports, or equipment.

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

Not exact matches

Ryan says many of the young men he works with are already marginalised, from ethnicminority groups or less affluent backgrounds; some may have come from families with a history of abuse or mental health issues, or have been in trouble at school.

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.

The net effect of this not - thought - through policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some of the best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries of this scholarships, and children of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.

«Schools in less affluent communities may not have the resources to offer vision screenings.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadSchools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

«Because, as a result, children from low - income families are less likely to attend schools with children from affluent families, and this ultimately isolates the poor kids.»

Buchanan said that Prime Minister Theresa May was «knocking at an open door», as independent schools are already delivering substantial programmes to improve state education and create places for less affluent pupils in their schools.

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).

So, again, you're starting off with this gap when they start school — you've got your affluent kids and your disadvantaged kids, one of whom has far more exposure to literacy, books, learning, all of those things, and the other has far less, and that's reflected in the results completely.

If that is the case, studying New York City students, who arguably come from less advantaged backgrounds than, say, the students in New York City suburbs, may have led us to find a larger middle - school effect than had we followed a more - affluent student population.

White flight to more affluent suburban schools made integration less likely.

In contrast, less than 7 percent of the poorest performers in more - affluent schools become principals at other schools.

But the goal of most state private school choice programs is to draw children from less affluent families into good quality, tuition based private schools.

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 views about teachers unions held by the affluent are more negative, with no less than 56 percent saying unions have a negative impact on their schools.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

The reports demonstrate that federal accountability rules have derailed state reforms and assessment strategies, that the requirements have no common meaning across state lines, and that the sanctions fall especially hard on minority and integrated schools, asking for much less progress from affluent suburban schools.

But less affluent families» choices are too often limited to the schools in the high - poverty neighborhoods where they can afford to live.

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.

In fact, groups of less - affluent students out - performed groups of more - affluent students on standardized tests in the eighth grade if they attended a smaller school

The new federal expansion of tax - favored 529 savings plans to include tuition for private schools, a move that constitutes reverse targeting to the affluent, has even less justification.

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.

MARTIN: Before we let you go, is part of the play here on these new regulations is that if affluent schools realize they might lose something, that that might create some urgency around making sure that less affluent kids get what they need - is that part of the logic of this?

The less affluent one spends more on its schools but posts low test scores on the state assessment.

This isn't just wishful thinking; all around the country, affluent families are choosing to send their children to racially and socio - economically integrated schools, in places like Cambridge and Berkeley, but also in less likely spots such as Alexandria, Virginia; Stapleton, Colorado; and Miraloma Park, California.

To combat what they refer to as the summer school achievement gap, the story explains, educators in less affluent areas are trying to create more summer programs that are not remedial.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

Disadvantaged students generally grow up in less verbal home environments, often with less access to enrichment activities.16 They enter formal schooling academically behind their more affluent peers.

While the millions of dollars parents raise is equivalent to less than 1 percent of total school spending, the concentration of these dollars in affluent schools results in considerable advantages for a small portion of already advantaged students.9

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.

In more than half of the states, there are hundreds of high - poverty schools that receive less funding than schools that serve more - affluent students.

Leaders in the school said the primary was receiving less funding than others because it was in a relatively affluent area.

School leaders in affluent areas are able to call on support from wealthier parents to provide funding for better facilities, unlike leaders in less advantaged schools, where «parents aren't in a position to help financially».

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.

Last year the gap between richer and poorer students reached a record high, with pupils eligible for free school meals — a long term indicator of poverty — said to be less than half as likely to go on to higher education than their most affluent peers.

Independent schools chair argues the private sector already contributes significantly to charity by supporting less affluent families in education

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

Teachers in schools in the most deprived areas work on average 3.6 hours less per week than teachers in schools based in the most affluent areas, the report found.

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.

On the institutional side, they note that schools dominated by affluent students have more elaborate and better - kept facilities, better - educated and effective teachers, less teacher turnover, more capable principals, and a richer variety of academically demanding courses and extracurricular offerings.

Children from low - income families begin kindergarten with less preparation for school than the children of the affluent, they attend schools which face greater challenges with fewer resources, and they score lower on standardized tests.