Sentences with phrase «lower than the poorer districts»

This allows those wealthier communities to tax much lower than the poorer districts while generating much more revenue for their students.

Not exact matches

Part of the answer is in the question: states that spend considerably more on poor districts than rich ones can be ranked very low by Education Week because the McLoone Index is measuring the cost of increasing the spending on rich districts toward that on poor ones.

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.

A low - income student enrolling in college is five times as likely to enroll at a top school if s / he comes from a wealthy district rather than a poor district;

The NCLB law gives parents the choice to withdraw their students and send them elsewhere, rather than address the concentration of low - performing minority students — typically poor ones — that did not have the resources to get find their way to more distant schools in their own districts.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

In total, the poorest school districts would lose more than $ 675 million, while the lowest - poverty districts would gain more than $ 440 million.

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.

Ohio's «2011 - 12 value - added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value - added results than those that serve more - affluent ones.»

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

For instance, a national comparison of per - student funding levels from state and local sources among districts serving low - versus - high percentages of poor students found that in 20 states, districts serving wealthier students received more funding on average than those serving poorer students.

That's just slightly higher than the 22 percent Algebra 1 course - taking rate for middle - schoolers in nearby D.C. Public Schools and lower than the 43 percent rate for kids in Alexandria's district, both of which serve mostly poor and minority populations.

«These results could easily indicate nothing other than the simple fact that charter schools are typically asked to serve problematic students in low - performing districts with many poor, minority children.»

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.