Sentences with phrase «mean wealthier districts»

He says a larger solution may mean wealthier districts have to give up some of their aid to poorer schools.

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«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that poor school districts get more state aid than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.

East Aurora is considered a wealthier district by the state, he said, and that means its state aid reimbursements are often less than surrounding districts.

It should be a budget imperative for a state as wealthy as ours, even if it means irritating high - resource school districts which won't do as well, and the Republicans who love them.

Equity: Arkansas has a positive wealth - neutrality score, meaning that, on average, property - wealthy districts have slightly more revenue than poor districts do.

The state's score is positive, meaning that, on average, wealthy districts in the state have more revenue than do property - poor districts.

Nevada is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

On the contrary, local - control arguments have been most successful in court when the states themselves have wielded them as a means of resisting new obligations, such as equalizing spending between wealthy and poor districts.

But Oklahoma is one of only 10 states with negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, property - poor districts actually have more state and local revenue for education than wealthy districts do.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

I am more cynical, Linda174 — shortly after the Ed Reform - Lite bill passed in Connecticut, Pryor was murmuring that, soon enough, high - performing districts (meaning wealthier ones) would have the onus to test lifted.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to move to their preferred public school district or to send their children to a non-public school.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to send their child to a school of their choice or move to a different district when their assigned public school fails to meet their child's needs.

The program supplements local districts» income, meaning districts in impoverished areas can get extra funding to get on an even footing with districts that have a larger or wealthier tax base.

The seven settled worlds have developed to accommodate this huge leap in expertise, giving the wealthy and highly effective the means to cheat demise by shifting between our bodies, whereas miring the much less privileged in rundown districts...

The seven settled worlds have developed to accommodate this large leap in know - how, giving the wealthy and highly effective the means to cheat dying by shifting between our bodies, whereas miring the much less privileged in rundown districts full...