Sentences with phrase «more affluent families»

And the assessment shows that white voucher students from more affluent families do better — just as in public school.

Drawing in more affluent families also makes test scores look good and provides a more reliable and muscular political constituency.

The same should hold true for more affluent families choosing to opt out of the annual assessment.

Can charter pioneers deliver the education that more affluent families expect?

More affluent families used area rugs to hang over their windows like curtains, and still others covered their cupboards with these beautiful and intricate creations.

These positive effects are seen most notably seen among low - income children, but gains are also demonstrated among children from more affluent families.

By drawing more affluent families towards 529 accounts, the latest reform is almost certain to make the overall impact even more regressive, unless states change their tax treatment.

Preschool programs are particularly successful in giving children from vulnerable families a boost, putting them on even footing with more affluent families as they prepare to start school.

The city's many impoverished African American and Hispanic students continue to lag far behind their white counterparts, who typically live in much more affluent families.

It also found that more affluent families tend to live closer to good schools, with a family living next to a school rated «Inadequate» by Ofsted is over 60 per cent more likely to be poor than one living next to an «Outstanding» school.

Even some charter schools — which don't have «in boundary» families — may face kindred challenges as they gain popularity among more affluent families.

«The question I keep returning to, as firm believer in education equity, is a simple one: Are you comfortable allowing more affluent families to choose their schools while denying poorer families similar opportunities?»

Charter schools have been seen as a way to give parents in low - income areas a choice in schooling much like what more affluent families have always had by moving into a better school district or putting their children in a private school.

As the charter community expands to include more affluent families, charter critics predict that charters also will shift their emphasis away from helping those most in need to maximizing the freedom of choice for all families, including a large middle class.

It added: «Our research shows that this proximity rule strongly favours children from more affluent family backgrounds.

As four - year - olds, the children from low - income families have academic skills that lag far behind those of the relatively few children from more affluent families who attend BPS schools.

Scores may rise as affluent families begin sending their kids to a low - performing neighborhood school, and those rising scores in turn attract more affluent families.

But if DC officials want to keep more affluent families in the District, they'll need to figure out a way to make high - quality school pathways more convenient and predictable for them as well.

Moreover, moderate - income families appear to be willing to adopt energy - efficient and energy - saving habits: They take public transit at two to four times the rate of more affluent families.

Alternatively, while young children living in more affluent families still can experience early childhood adversity, their families have more resources available to provide stability and support and make other investments in their children.

Study limitations include the fact that an observational study can not show cause and effect, and study participants were mostly from more affluent families so findings may not be generalizable to socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

Even before the TCJA reforms, the benefits of 529 plans were greatest for more affluent families.

Parent fundraising tends to exacerbate inequity, since schools with more affluent families are able to raise much more per student.

Children from more affluent families from state schools were almost four times as likely as young people from low - income families (3.8 times) to go on to join a higher - tariff university in 2016.

«In Nova Scotia, with access to universal health care, children with epilepsy who come from either a poor or more affluent family have a similar clinical course and long - term seizure outcome of childhood epilepsy.

They represented the more affluent families in town.

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

Enrollment, meanwhile, has risen in recent years, after four decades of decline, and more affluent families are putting their students in the city's public schools, a sign of growing confidence in a DCPS education.

Prior to the policy change, the state tax benefits of 529 plans flowed largely to more affluent families.

Second, 529 accounts are almost by definition likely to be more valuable to more affluent families.

Later, as the program was amended, more affluent families were enticed to poorer schools via the broader educational options offered.

At the same time, as made clear by previous graphs, more affluent families are spending more on center - based in absolute terms.

In other words, the financial pain of purchasing daycare and preschool services is less for more affluent compared to less affluent families, whereas the absolute price of the service is higher for more affluent families, with likely impacts on quality.

Both counties are criticised for an «unacceptably wide» gap between the achievements of young people who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those from more affluent families.

The first displays the well - known relationship between family income and student achievement: Students from more affluent families have higher average achievement levels.

Likewise, the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, which I do not depict in a graph, is heavily tilted towards more affluent families: The top quintile of income receives 35 percent of the total expenditure whereas the lowest quintile receives 1 percent.

The others are «choice» schools located in more affluent areas or target students from more affluent families.

If anything, children from poor families generally need extra assistance to do as well as students from more affluent families.

Quite often, public schools of choice are to low - income families what private schools are to more affluent families, Swagerty says, adding that she loves the fact that charters give low - income families the option to «make smart decisions about what's best for their children.»

But new government analysis shows a majority of selective school places go to more affluent families.

In non-selective secondary schools, there are 35 % of pupils from these «ordinary» families, and 32 % from more affluent families, a much lower proportion than in grammars.

In response to a legislative proposal creating such a program, a spokesman for the governor said «This voucher mechanism is concerning because it shifts public funds away from public schools, and it does so in a way that gives larger vouchers to more affluent families.»

This year's NAEP results show persistent achievement gaps between students of color and from low income families and their peers who are White or from more affluent families.

Research shows that teachers of color help close achievement gaps for students of color and are highly rated by students of all races — a fact that is all the more relevant in light of persistent gaps between students of color and students from low income families and their peers who are White or from more affluent families.

Accordingly, preschool programs can help to reduce the educational gap between children from vulnerable and more affluent families.