Sentences with phrase «means schools in poor districts»

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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.

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However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

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).

The administration would devote $ 1 billion in Title I dollars meant for poor children to a new grant program (called Furthering Options for Children to Unlock Success, or FOCUS) for school districts that agree to allow students to choose which public school they attend — and take their federal, state and local dollars with them.

Test scores are increasingly used to sell real estate, which means property in high - scoring districts is bid up, making those schools harder for poor or moderate - income people to access.

This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.

Poor families tend to move a lot, and the Milwaukee district tries to keep students in the same school, even if it means extra buses.

Demond Means, a Milwaukee Public Schools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce ThSchools graduate who heads one of the state's highest - performing school systems, has been tapped to lead — at least for now — a Milwaukee turnaround district mandated by the Legislature in hopes of turning around some of the city's poorest - performing schools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thschools, County Executive Chris Abele is expected to announce Thursday.

The judge decided that because Connecticut does not have «rational» and «verifiable» high school standards, meaning standards measured by a high school exit exam, Connecticut diplomas for students in poor districts are «patronizing and illusory.»