Sentences with phrase «most affluent school»

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.

Even in the most affluent school districts, 7.5 % of Black boys had been given an out - of - school suspension compared to 1.8 % of White boys.

That's only three percent less than the ten most affluent school districts across The Golden State.

Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the most affluent school districts in the United States and considered a model for its simultaneous pursuit of equity and excellence, approved its first charter school in July 2011, but the sledding is still rough for those trying to open a second charter school.

But this nearly exclusive focus on improving the education of the poor has concealed the sub-par education being provided in many of our most affluent school districts.

This further NUT / CPAG research ranks schools according to the three most common measures of deprivation and shows that whatever deprivation measure is used, the schools with the most deprived students lose considerably more than the most affluent schools.

Unfortunately, we could not locate financial data for every PTA, so we could not identify PTA revenues for all of the most affluent and highest - poverty schools.51 Based on available information, however, we expect that, with more financial information, the total PTA revenue for the most affluent schools would be even higher, and students at the highest - poverty schools still would receive minimal parent contributions.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

In 2013 - 14, for example, the 10 most affluent schools in Portland raised at least $ 750,000, while the 10 highest - poverty schools received very little money in parent donations.

In fiscal year 2013 - 14, the nation's 50 richest PTAs raised and spent $ 43 million dollars for the nation's most affluent schools.

In Montgomery County, for example, the PTAs of the 10 most affluent schools raised at least $ 700,000 in 2014, or an average of $ 170 per student, and the PTAs of Anne Arundel County's 10 most affluent schools raised at least $ 240,000, or an average of $ 100 per student.

Given that financial data was not available for every PTA, we could not identify PTA revenues for every one of the top 10 or bottom 10 schools.63 With more financial information, it is likely that overall PTA revenues for the most affluent schools would be even higher.

Not exact matches

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But one of the complaints I most often hear from parents at more affluent schools is that their kids are «double - dipping» at breakfast, eating a full meal at home and then eating some or all of the school meal as well.

The report also describes how the black / Latino schools are shortchanged in funding; teacher experience (the most experienced teachers move to the more affluent schools as soon as possible.)

However, an analysis of the 32 free schools set to open in the next academic year shows 13 are in the most affluent half of England with only two in the 10 % most deprived areas and 10 in the 20 % most deprived areas, as ranked by the government's English Indices of Multiple Deprivation, 2010.

Education secretary Michael Gove has been accused of creating schoolsfor the middle classes after it was revealed that more than a third of his «free schools» will open in the most affluent areas.

I was lucky enough to be raised in an affluent suburb, St. Charles, but as with most wealthy communities, not too far away, there are school districts that are severely underfunded.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

Also in these ranks: leaders like former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (Milton Academy and Harvard), former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (St. Albans and UPenn) and, of course, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, the lone public school graduate among these (Northern Valley Regional in affluent Bergen County and Stanford), who has also been the most vocal supporter of school choice.

Do opt - outs tend to be concentrated among relatively affluent districts, or are they most common in schools that have historically performed poorly on state tests?

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

One in 4 middle schools in the Duke study were among those with the highest absence rates, but that dropped to 1 in 12 among middle schools serving the district's most affluent students.

But the goal of most state private school choice programs is to draw children from less affluent families into good quality, tuition based private schools.

Most affluent Americans remain optimistic about the schools in their local community.

Although set in an affluent area of Preston, a high proportion of Corpus Christi Catholic Sports College students come from the most deprived local areas, with 33 per cent on free school meals.

Single - sex schools are primarily private and most often a choice made by more affluent and better - educated parents.

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not get to benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

The research examined the incidence of inequality in education and found four per cent of teachers in the most deprived primary schools did not specialise in the subject they taught, compared to two per cent in more affluent areas.

Here are students in one of the nation's most affluent districts and most successful high schools, yet in Robbins's telling they are on the verge of falling apart.

• Contrary to popular belief, the best teachers were not concentrated in schools in the most affluent neighborhoods, nor were the weakest instructors bunched in poor areas.

The greater focus on student growth versus mere proficiency in most states should make it somewhat likelier for high - poverty schools to get decent grades, but it could also result in many schools in affluent suburbs getting mediocre marks.

«When the Best is Mediocre: Developed countries far outperform our most affluent suburbs,» by Jay Greene and Josh McGee The first - ever comparison of math performance in virtually every school district in the United States finds that even the most elite suburban school districts produce results that are mediocre when compared to those of international peers.

Most often, more affluent students are zoned to schools filled with the affluent peers in their neighborhood, and lower - income students are zoned to schools with students of similar backgrounds.

The reason why Academy MATs do not want to take on these schools, that compete with other schools serving more affluent postcodes that produce higher mean CATs score intakes, is because in most cases they know they can do no better than the existing heads and teachers.

In extreme cases, however, attendance zones are deliberately drawn to exclude poor students from affluent schools.60 However, gerrymandering attendance zones is far less common than drawing zones that merely reflect the characteristics of the local area.61 Most school assignment systems sort students based on their place of residence, mimicking patterns of housing segregation.

Despite the prohibition, the most affluent families in Montgomery County still provided hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to enrich their children's school experiences.

Thirty of the fifty - three voucher schools were located in the four most affluent wards.

In both districts, schools serving the most affluent students received tens of thousands of dollars in additional funding each year from parents, while the highest - poverty schools received very little, if anything, from their PTAs.

It's time we set the record straight: Charter schools are doing important work to raise the level of performance for children who need it the most and to close the achievement gap between our inner - city students and those in our more affluent communities.

By providing resources to schools without factoring in the role of outside dollars, Washington allows the most affluent students and their schools to receive more money than the students and schools who have the highest need.

Montgomery County's policy ensures that parent dollars do not exacerbate these inequities, but it does not address deeper staffing disparities that frequently occur between the most affluent and the least affluent schools.

Last year the gap between richer and poorer students reached a record high, with pupils eligible for free school meals — a long term indicator of poverty — said to be less than half as likely to go on to higher education than their most affluent peers.

Teachers in schools in the most deprived areas work on average 3.6 hours less per week than teachers in schools based in the most affluent areas, the report found.

The same analysis for secondary schools shows grammar schools, academically selective at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some grammar school advocates say they are.

For instance, the most affluent district in Denver, district # 1 in SE, has many distinguished elementary schools but most of the high school graduates from SE Denver require remedial classes when entering college.

Nearly two dozen states, including both red and blue states, spend more in their poorest schools than they spend in their most affluent.

While there always have been inequalities among the nation's public schools, the gap in spending between public schools in the poorest and most - affluent communities has grown during the past decade.

«Most important,» Thorpe added, «we have to make sure that quality teaching is as prevalent in schools serving poor communities as it is in more affluent ones.