Sentences with phrase «less than poor districts»

Rich districts may choose to spend more than their foundation budget out of locally generated funds, but on average they still spend less than poor districts do.

Not exact matches

What about those states at the bottom of Education Trust's spectrum, the ones that spend considerably less on poor districts than on rich ones?

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).

The study, which is scheduled to be published next year, «shows how an often - discussed phenomenon — that schools serving poor children get less qualified teachers than schools in the same district serving more advantaged children — is hard - wired...

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

The technology gap in public education is narrowing, with one computer for every 5.3 students in America's poorest districts — less than half a student behind the national average.

Thus it might not matter how much urban districts spend, because as long as they spend less than other districts they will get the same poor - quality teachers.

Across the board, student groups in poorer districts are less resourced than peers in wealthier districts and will receive more new funding as a result.

Poorer schools struggle with fewer resources and less experienced faculty members than wealthier districts, making it harder for students to keep up, let alone excel.

Charter high schools serve less LEP students than those even served by New Jersey's high schools in the wealthiest communities, let alone the districts located in the poorest communities, yet charter high school operate in communities with high percentages of LEP students.

The data is very clear, AF students are less poor than students in the district schools, they have less English as a second language needs, they go home to schools where English is usually the primary language and they have less special education needs.

After running the numbers, we found that the poorest districts in California actually receive $ 620 less per pupil than the wealthiest districts.

Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect the programs and students in their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less minority counterparts.

It said that the District's poor and minority students are still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

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.

Stier says that the poorest 25 percent of school districts in the state are still educating students with $ 104 less per student than before the recessionary budget cuts hit.

It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to help integrate public schools racially and socioeconomically, whether poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their district school counterparts.

The ECS Formula — which was originally designed to be fair — is $ 800,000,000 million underfunded meaning urban and poorer districts get far less than they are supposed to get.

However, data from the State Department of Education reveals that about 90 percent of Connecticut's charters serve a less needy population than their host districts: fewer poor children, fewer English Language Learners or fewer students with disabilities, with most having a combination of two or three of these categories.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

Barbourville, Ky., the poorest school district, spends less than one - third that amount.

«There are many relatively high - poverty school districts where students appear to be learning at a faster rate than kids in other, less poor districts,» said lead researcher Sean Reardon.

In approximately 1,500 school districts across the country, there are about 5,700 Title I — or poor — schools that receive, on average, $ 440,000 less per year than wealthier schools.