Sentences with phrase «less wealthy students»

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The schools in the Syracuse City School District have about $ 11,000 less funding for each student than wealthier schools in the state, according to a WSKG news article.

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

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.

A Black student in a district with below - average property wealth (less than $ 6,363 per pupil) has an adequacy level of 61 %, but his peer in a wealthier school district is only a bit better at 69 %.

Wealthy children entering kindergarten are now roughly eight months ahead of poor students in childhood development, one month less than in 1998.

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.

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.

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

Students First is freely spending the millions of dollars that the Waltons and other wealthy conservative «reformers» are pouring out to influence the move toward privatization and less local control here and across the country.

But that's less about discipline and more about making sure our students have access to clothing that wealthier kids aren't differentiated from less wealthy kids by virtue of what clothes they can afford and those sorts of things.

This followed an earlier study from the department finding that «many high - poverty schools receive less than their fair share of state and local funding... leav (ing) students in high - poverty schools with fewer resources than schools attended by their wealthier peers.»

Usually, wealthier students receive more funding; poor students, less.

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

There is no evidence to support the belief that including SBAC scores in teacher evaluations will lessen the differences in learning outcomes between the state's wealthier and less - advantaged students.

And federal datashows that minority students» teachers on average have less experience than the teachers of their wealthier peers.

«What is likely happening is that private colleges are seeking out high - paying wealthy students even when they're less academically qualified than low - income students.»

In another Albany chamber that same morning, a court prepared to hear the opening argument in a long - running education finance case, Maisto v. New York, that contends students from poorer communities are getting much less in per pupil spending — several thousands less — than their wealthier peers.

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

Elon University decided it had a responsibility to help more local students whose families had no history of college attendance — and less hope of gaining acceptance and financial aid than wealthier students — pursue college.

Teachers in high - poverty schools report fewer computers and less training on how to use technology with students compared to their colleagues in wealthier districts — leading to decreased confidence for these teachers when it comes to using educational technology.

«Studies have found that students from low - income families lose ground academically over the summer, and also are less likely than students from wealthier families to have access to enriching, non-academic experiences,» said Lucas Held of The Wallace Foundation, which released the guide in partnership with Crosby Marketing Communications of Annapolis, Md. «Many of these parents and students aren't used to thinking of summer as an opportunity for learning, so it was important to listen to them and to market voluntary summer learning opportunities in ways that would appeal to them and to their children.»

Students from low - income families are vastly less likely to attend top colleges than wealthier Americans with similar academic ability.

The sad fact is that low income students are significantly less likely to graduate from college than their wealthier counterparts.

Wealthier borrowers also rely less heavily on student debt to finance college, according to left - leaning think tank Demos.

With less student debt to worry about, it's no surprise wealthier millennial families carry a larger share of mortgage debt.

In contrast, the wealthiest cohort carries about $ 2,000 less in student loan debt, on average, and this constitutes just about 4.6 % of total debt.

First - generation law students may be less wealthy than their peers whose parents are professionals.

Less wealthy Ontario students would be forced out altogether.

This is the right of all Australian children, and in a country as wealthy as ours, remote Indigenous students should receive no less.

Education is the right of all Australian children and, in a country as wealthy as ours, remote Indigenous students should receive no less.

Oh boy... I can really relate @Michael Ouvrard with your story of being a relatively well - paid but less than wealthy pharmacist PhD... I have a PhD as well and have grown to absolutely hate my college professor job (surly students, constant, long, boring meetings, rude colleagues, too many nights away from wonderful family on useless conference travel, very little money in my bank account at the end of the month!!).